Comment Re:Of course! (Score 5, Funny) 305
And organic produce is easier to digest than inorganic.
Comment You should never stop learning (Score 5, Insightful) 260
If that comes in the form of a graduate degree, so be it.
As long as you keep learning
As long as you keep learning
Comment Re:I want to believe (Score 1) 193
Training is popular in Oz because of the "training guarantee" law enacted by the Hawke govternment a couple of decades ago.
The training guarantee rules went out the window some time ago. There is no longer a tax incentive to provide training for staff.
Comment Re:Good Riddance (Score 1) 796
Just to be pedantic, its not the tax office, its Austrac - the Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre
http://austrac.gov.au/
Comment Re:Groan (Score 1) 443
You must be new here
Comment Re:It was the blurst of times. (Score 5, Funny) 197
Get enough of them together and it will be like watching a Shakespeare play
Comment Re:Time to encrypt everything. (Score 1) 280
Actually one word or, acronym to be precise, the DMCA.
As far as I know, the laws applicable in the USA do not apply to the rest of the world...
Yet!
Comment Re:Just take it at birth like in the USSA (Score 1) 141
Only if you are born in a hospital. If you are born at home, you can tell the doctor to fuck off when he says he needs to take genetic samples.
And if you can talk very soon after you are born, then your genetic material would be worth studying
Comment Re:Finally, some sense (Score 1) 229
... "Heaven knows I'm miserable @#%^H!*( NO CARRIER
Shit, are people still listening to The Smiths in the future?
I'm afraid, Very afraid. I am listening to my portable music playing device while I read this. As soon as I got to this part of the thread, who should come out of the earphones but The Smiths singing Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now.
Comment What we need (Score 1, Insightful) 125
What we need is for the Australian Government to adequately fund CSIRO so they do not have to raise money via lawsuits.
The clever country indeed.
Submission + - Real answers to the question (itwire.com)
WirePosted writes: "A friend said to me recently that "Firefox is for the home, Internet Explorer is for the office." His comments reflect commonly found stigma and fears that free and open source software — and Linux too — are not suitable for a business environment. Let me set the record straight, giving real feedback from companies who have made the switch and don't look back."
Submission + - Xena: Archive software using open formats
solferino writes: "The National Archives of Australia has released Xena under GPL2. Xena detects the file format of digital objects and, where necessary, converts these objects into open formats. They define an open standard as 1) Full specification available without restriction, 2) Community developed, 3) Multiple implementations and 4) No licensing constraints. The list of file formats they detect and convert includes MS Word docs (converted to ODF). Their aim, as befits an archive, is the long term preservation of digital records."
Submission + - National Archives of Australia releases Xena 4.0 (sourceforge.net)
digipres writes: "The National Archives of Australia has had a long commitment to open standards, believing that standards based formats offer the best opportunity for the long term preservation of digital information. Their Xena digital preservation software is free and open source, and the version 4.0 release coincides with the publishing of the new Xena web site at http://xena.sourceforge.net/
Is this how you would treat records that must be understood 500 years from now?"
Is this how you would treat records that must be understood 500 years from now?"
