1751267
submission
Klootzak writes:
103 years after he proposed the Mass-energy equivilence formula Einstein's theory has finally been proven.
The famous E=mc2 equation has long been considered "common knowledge", however it's only been proven recently by French, German and Hungarian Physicists utilizing some of the worlds most powerful supercomputers. This research has now proved the effects of both the E=mc2 formula and time dilation which were hypothesised in Einstin's theory of relativity.
1748761
submission
Klootzak writes:
iiNet — the ISP mentioned in the "ridiculous trials" of Australian's Net Filter is being sued 'for allowing piracy'.
Peter Coroneos (Chief executive of the Internet Industry Association) is quoted saying: "This is a very important test case for the internet industry in Australia, It will test the effect of the safe harbour provisions that were introduced with the US free trade agreement, which provides immunity for ISPs in certain circumstances such as transmission, hosting, caching and referencing activities."
Lets hope this doesn't affect iiNet's ability to discredit the Government's trial of the Net Filter. (Incidentally, Kudos to Asher Moses of The Age for some good journalism — he also wrote the original "ridiculous trials" article).
1721837
submission
Klootzak writes:
Michael Malone, head of Australia's largest ISP iiNet announced today that his company would sign up to the Government's live trials of the Great Firewall of Australia. In an Article published by The Age Mr Malone is quoted calling Stephen Conroy "The worst Communications Minister we've had in the 15 years since the [internet] industry has existed."
Despite at first giving the impression that iiNet is rolling over like a good Government puppy the article quotes Mr Malone saying that the reasons for participating in this trial is to show how unfeasible and stupid it is — Quoted from the article: "Every time a kid manages to get through this filter, we'll be publicizing it and every time it blocks legitimate content, we'll be publicizing it."
Lets hope that in typical fashion of Government-instigated Internet-Filtering that this stupid idea is just as useless, inefficient and ineffectual as the last one, and that the Australian Government realizes this before wasting more taxpayer dollars on it (seeing as the first attempt only cost taxpayers $84,000,000).
