I totally agree that this is much more important than most people think.
I've been training hard (swimming) for the last 4 weeks. So far i've lost 0.6kg total weight, which is below my expectations. However, I also have been taking bodyfat measurements, which show that I've actually gained 1.4kg of muscle, and lost 2kg of fat.
As sticking with a routine is really about mentality, it really helps to know that you're making progress.
Firstly, Conroy is a Senator at the *Federal* level. This law was a *State* laws, meaning Conroy would not directly be able to introduce legislation to change these laws.
Secondly, crossing the state border to get around state laws is not hypocritical unless he actually supported those same laws. Nor is it Illegal.
But most importantly, despite being a Federal Senator, Conroy prompted a review of surrogacy laws which led to those laws being changed for the better.
So while Conroy may be a fool (Internet filtering, Copyright Cops etc.), he is not a hypocrite.
High water usage is also a significant problem with Coal and Nuclear power.
The first google result i get is between 1.5 and 46.2 gal/kWh. A typical 500-megawatt coal-fired power plant draws about 8.3 billion litres of water each year.
I'd hardly say consulting the people who are behind the standards are the best ones to get an honest view of its stability, completeness, and real-world support.
That's why it is troubling to see the people behind OOXML editing and inserting FUD into the ODF article.
No marijuana is not harmless, but the fact that I'm sitting here smoking it while watching TV *is* harmless
If you weren't so high, you would have realised that you're actually at your computer, commenting on slashdot.
Futurama in HD! Because cartoons look so much better at 1080p?
I'm pretty sure this story is about how DRM does work. It keeps people from copying the movie in full HD resolution, without getting in the way of 90% of consumers.
Analysis of Video Disc Market, December 2008:
5% Bluray owners: Pissed off at DRM
2% HDDVD early adopters: Pissed off at DRM
1% Linux users: Pissed off at BD+ DRM
2% Slashdot readers: Pissed off at all DRM
50% DVD owners: DRM cracked, happy
40% piratebay downloaders: no DRM, happy
Openoffice Impress is fine for displaying presentations.
There is excellent 3G support in recent Linux distributions, such as Ubuntu 8.10 and Fedora 10.
Why the nation of the Boston Tea Party is even considering it?
Why is the nation of McCarthyism even considering it?
Steven Fielding was elected in 2004 not by the people (he only received 2% of the vote), but by a c*ckup by the major political parties. Essentially Labor tried to engineer a preference swap with Family First to protect its third candidate, which backfired and elected Fielding. From wikipedia:
Fielding was elected to represent Victoria in the Senate at the 2004 federal election. He is the first representative of Family First to be elected to the Federal Parliament. Since he polled less than 2% of the popular vote, Fielding's election was not expected. Like many Senators he gained a quota under the Senate's proportional representation system by receiving preferences from other parties (see Australian electoral system). The Australian Democrats and the Australian Labor Party agreed to swap preferences with Family First. But Fielding benefited from the larger-than-expected surplus of Liberal preferences, and stayed in the count long enough to receive Democrat and Labor preferences, defeating the Australian Greens' candidate David Risstrom for the last Senate place in Victoria.
Anthony Green gives a more detailed analysis.
'Very easy' if you are a cryptographer, but very difficult in practice. The computer hardware costs would be high and ISPs do not have the technical expertise required. Furthermore, while snooping on plaintext connections just requires listening to the traffic as it passes, a MITM attack requires actively meddling with the data and pretending to be somebody else. This is far too much of a legal risk for any legitimate business like an ISP.
In the Australian trials for Internet censorship software, 5 of the 6 filters had the ability to filter HTTPS traffic by performing a MITM attack.
This forgery would be evident, unless the filter had access to a trusted signing key.
Mozilla's decision to show strong warnings for self-signed certificates is justified, because if the certificates were accepted blindly, governments/attackers would easily be able to hijack HTTPS by forging "self-signed" certificates.
Disraeli was pretty close: actually, there are Lies, Damn lies, Statistics, Benchmarks, and Delivery dates.
