Comment Re:"Sherlock Holmes was the Conan Doyle family cur (Score 1) 290
I suspect there are more than a few exorcists on
Submission + - Australian Internet Filtering Scheme Gets Green Li (theage.com.au)
An anonymous reader writes: Yes, folks, it's true: the Australian Government, on the back of the technical trials, has declared that it will be introducing legislation to make Internet filtering mandatory for all Australian ISPs. Watch the speed of Australian 'net access slow significantly; innocent websites get blocked; and the bad guys accessing the stuff they want regardless. Sigh. Anybody have a good job going in New Zealand, by any chance?
Submission + - Australian Gov introduces mandatory ISP filtering (computerworld.com.au)
Sharky2009 writes: The Australia Government will introduce legislative amendments to the Broadcasting Services Act to require all ISPs to block Refused Classification (RC)-rated material hosted on overseas servers. The introduction of mandatory ISP-level filtering follows the release of the Enex TestLab report which trialed the viability of ISP-level filtering among nine Australian ISPs.
Submission + - Great Barrier Firewall to go ahead in Australia (dbcde.gov.au)
An anonymous reader writes: The Federal Government has detailed its plan to require internet service providers (ISPs) in Australia to block a list of banned material.
When Parliament resumes next year the Government plans to introduce amendments that will require ISPs to block banned material on overseas servers.
Broadband and Communications Minister Senator Stephen Conroy says some internet content is simply not suitable in a civilised society.
He says the Government will not determine what is blacklisted on the internet in Australia, rather an independent body will determine what sites are rated as RC for refused classification.
When Parliament resumes next year the Government plans to introduce amendments that will require ISPs to block banned material on overseas servers.
Broadband and Communications Minister Senator Stephen Conroy says some internet content is simply not suitable in a civilised society.
He says the Government will not determine what is blacklisted on the internet in Australia, rather an independent body will determine what sites are rated as RC for refused classification.
Comment Re:Clarity? (Score 4, Funny) 364
You mean Pubuntu. May not want a brown color scheme on that one.
Comment Re:Security... (Score 1) 344
Bad car analogy. Ignoring the tautology at the end, the computer user is more analogous to your taxi driver who does care. If you just want to be a passenger who doesn't want or need to know anything other than where they want to go, you hire the taxi driver (or perhaps a chauffeur). Now, I'm not saying that software shouldn't be made better, more secure, to do what you want, and be harder to accidentally scatter your guts over the road while killing innocent bystanders, but it's never going to be perfect, so if you want to drive yourself and not be a menace to yourself and others, some basic awareness is going to be needed. Don't like it? Take the bus.
Comment Re:Veiled Threat (Score 2, Informative) 275
Indeed, you must be new here. The correct response is to go to the previous story, copy and paste some +5 comments, and rake in the karma.
Comment Re:Obvious choice (Score 1) 481
Penguins either have to live in Antarctica or Africa, depending on species, and neither climate much appeals to me.
Ah, but these are demon penguins and that changes everything. We're talking about prinnies, right? Who wouldn't want to be able to shoud, "Dood!" and then inflict massive stabbity death? A starter video to begin your exploration of the awesomeness that is prinny.
Comment Re:you're wrong. (Score 1) 406
The big flaw I see here is that someone doing the coercion could insist that they choose A or B before the person who cast the vote has a chance to lock out the real vote. In that case the coercer has a 50% chance of seeing the real vote instead of the vote for Kodos. This is better than the coercer being able to see the true vote 100% of the time, but it is far worse than the coercer not being able to see the vote at all.
Comment Re:Are these the same people... (Score 1) 567
I have actually used that on a metal track before -- I dumped the guitar track out of ProTools, converted it to 32 kbps MP3, then brought it back in on top of the nice crystal clear drums and bass for a song intro -- it made for a pretty cool effect (think phaser>bitcruncher as inserts) but certainly not one that I would use often.
Do you have a link for listening or purchasing?
Comment Are these the same people... (Score 4, Informative) 567
Are these the same people who prefer MP3 Sizzle?
Comment Re:Great! Now I can be fingerprinted passively! (Score 1) 103
Yes, two international trips earlier this year. Flying out of and then back into the US each time. Not once were my fingerprints taken as far as I know. As far as I know they only subject foreigners to that. Mod parent FUD.
Submission + - NASA Scientists Levitate Mice (yahoo.com) 1
sterlingda writes: "Scientists working on behalf of NASA built a device to simulate variable levels of gravity. It consists of a superconducting magnet that generates a field powerful enough to levitate the water inside living animals. Experiments are being run to test how they respond to microgravity, both physically and psychologically."
Submission + - Apple Open Sources Grand Central Dispatch (macosforge.org)
bonch writes: "Apple has open sourced libdispatch, also known as Grand Central Dispatch. Kernel support is not required, but performance optimizations Apple made for supporting GCD are visible in xnu. Block support in C is required and is currently available in LLVM (note that Apple has submitted their implementation of C blocks for standardization)"
Submission + - Having a hard time with halo 3? Why not sue Bungie (tgdaily.com)
drukawski writes: Gamer, distraught over repeated tea bagings, has decided to sue Microsoft and Bungie. His claim is that Halo 3 isn't compatible with the X-box 360. No word yet on if his blanket wrapped 360 kept in an unventilated closet has anything to do with the issue.
