So has Facebook apparently. The first article has the timestamp: "July 6, 2011: 8:55 AM ET"
The point the author of the second article, some two years later, seems to be making is that they actually trust their employees.
Well apparently that's sort-of the idea. From TFA:
"We're proposing that the fourth dimension is time and that over time static objects will transform and adapt," he told the BBC.
Nick Xenophon has gone a little bit past having "lost interest" previously stating his opposition to the filter. He has also stated he isn't convinced the trial should go ahead in its current form:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/02/27/2503830.htm?site=local
"But I think the means of doing it really are very problematic and when ISP after ISP [are] saying that this won't work, it will slow down the internet for everyone, and it won't deal with the issue of the peer to peer networks that paedophiles use, then I think we really need to rethink this."
More importantly though, you seem to be under the impression that Conroy doesn't understand the political problem here. The last sentence from the above article states it quite nicely:
"A spokesman for Senator Conroy says the Minister is still looking into whether the filter would require legislation, or could be implemented through another means."
He's very aware that this isn't going to get through the legislative process. There are obviously other agendas involved that prevent common sense prevailing.
As already mentioned a couple of times, psion is still in business but they got out of the consumer market. They bought teklogix and only do industrial stuff these days (www.psion.com)
Having said that, I've read about this in a couple of places now and they apparently still provide support and accessories for the netBook and netBook pro so their actions do seem reasonable.
The netBook was their top of the line model at the time. They weren't really in the "organiser" class any more though as they distinctly resembled the netbooks of today. The psion series 7 was their flagship device in the former category, the netBook was a sub-notebook running Windows CE.
I would have really liked one at the time but they were astonishingly expensive.
He's like a function -- he returns a value, in the form of his opinion. It's up to you to cast it into a void or not. -- Phil Lapsley
