Category Archives: Links
Posted by Delicious on 6 September 2010 – 12:02 am
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Interesting email about Bill Gates having trouble downloading Movie Maker form the Microsoft.com site. Fun with Microsoft Update. And other complaints.
Parliamentary officials say a report allegedly exposing Labor MP Paul McLeay and Christian Democrat Fred Nile as having accessed online pornography is flawed, and does not identify the minister or the MP directly.
People are having a laugh about Paul McLeay and Fred Nile being caught surfing the net on government computers. But isn't this an example of problems with dataretention? Leaked reports, leaked logs, much the same thing?
But the sign said, signal bus driver | Leefe rates the world… Misinterpretation of the bus stop sign? (tags:
Posted by Delicious on 27 August 2010 – 12:03 am
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Revolution of the thinking voter turns politics green – Sorry but I'm not convinced a hung parliament is a terrible thing. It may end up being a good thing. I see it as the revolt of thinking voters against an election campaign that was aimed almost exclusively at unthinking voters.
KERRY O’Brien was correct on Saturday night, just as he was in 2007, when he accidentally declared: ‘‘A win for the ABC.’’ He meant to say ‘‘the ALP’’ but he was right; his employer was yet again the network most Australians turned to for election results and analysis.
After more than two years of negotiations, Australia and 10 countries formulating a landmark copyright agreement are hopeful of a resolution by next month. The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement aims to set rules for the operations of intellectual property laws around the world, with a focus on cracking down on internet piracy.
Posted by Delicious on 19 August 2010 – 12:04 am
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Motion shot of the bus going round the corner. Looks like it is about to topple over into the photographer.
The sign in Coles proclaimed Made with 40% choc chips. But do you really want choc chips in your OJ? And wouldn't they get stuck in the straw?
Posted by Delicious on 13 August 2010 – 12:03 am
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Posted by Delicious on 7 August 2010 – 12:05 am
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The High Court has ruled that Howard-era laws that close the electoral rolls on the day that writs for an election are issued are invalid. The Australian Electoral Commission will now scramble to contact an estimated 100,000 Australians to inform them they are entitled to vote at the election on August 21.
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Google Wave is dead, but why did it actually die?
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The federal government has moved to distance itself from its controversial web snooping plans during the election campaign and the decision to hide details from the public. The Attorney-General claimed he hadn't actually seen the document that was 90% censored, despite it having passed through his office.
Posted by Delicious on 5 August 2010 – 12:05 am
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Commentary on the WikiLeaks and Julian Assange business.
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A computer security researcher has built a device for just $US1500 ($1656) that can intercept some kinds of mobile phone calls and record everything that's said.
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One of three judges presiding over the appeal between the film studios and ISP iiNet over alleged copyright infringement on ISP networks has questioned whether a decision by the full bench of the Federal Court will actually solve anything in the war between the two sides.
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On the morning of the third day of the Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft (AFACT) appeal against the iiNet copyright case verdict, iiNet barrister Richard Cobden said that the federation had passed infringing customer data to iiNet without explaining it.
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The information pertaining to copyright infringements delivered to Internet service provider iiNet by the Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft (AFACT) during 2008 was of questionable reliability, a Federal Court has heard.
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The U.S. Copyright Group (USCG) clones/copies the web site of another group also involved in trying to collect money from people by sending them infringement notices.
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In its open arguments AFACT claimed that iiNet had the power to stop copyright infringement.
Posted by Delicious on 4 August 2010 – 12:05 am
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Has anyone else noticed that the face staring out the StarCraft II box looks a lot like Michael Keaton? No, is seem not. Searching Google only found one
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A graph of data costs to iPad uses across different countries. Written from a USA perspective, but interesting to note that Australia site in the middle of the range at $7.48 /GB. Better than France at $25.47/GB, and worse than Singapore at $0.51/GB
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I guess those who care about international press freedom can take comfort in the fact that Marc Thiessen no longer works for the government. On the Washington Post website, the former Bush Administration speechwriter and harsh interrogation booster, offers his view of WikiLeaks and its founder Julian Assange.
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Who says games don't make you violent? A pretty amusing news clip is currently making the rounds, showing what happened when a couple of thieves try for a midnight raid on a gaming cafe.
Posted by Delicious on 30 July 2010 – 12:03 am
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An overdose of plastic pink and blue kids' bins and storage boxes at Coles, Broadway.
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Australian security experts, consumer advocates and privacy campaigners have sounded the alarm over the hundreds of thousands of free smartphone applications that spy on their users.
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Queensland police are tracking public transport passenger journeys using electronic fare Go Cards to investigate crime. Police can use Go Card journey information because they have an exemption to the Information Privacy Act.
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The Australian Greens hope to use the upcoming Senate inquiry into internet privacy to make all the relevant documents relating to the government's controversial data retention proposal public, without any parts censored.
Posted by Delicious on 28 July 2010 – 12:05 am
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A computer that monitored drilling operations on the Deepwater Horizon had been freezing with a "blue screen of death" prior to the explosion that sank the oil rig last April, the chief electronics technician aboard testified Friday at a federal hearing. (Not a Windows issue per say, more a computer maintenance issue)
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You have just GOT to refute the ridiculous idea that immigration is causing the overcrowding in cities/schools/trains.
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The telecommunications industry is alarmed by the Federal Opposition's desire to shut-down the $43 billion National Broadband Network (NBN) project.
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So yesterday Fairfax launched it’s Sydney Morning Herald iPad app. The strategy – designed to shore up print – and the execution – already derided by users as a “glorifed PDF reader” – are both laughable.
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Labor's internet filtering policy isn't being discussed in the run-up to the election but its impact on Australia is significant.
Posted by Delicious on 24 July 2010 – 12:02 am
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Spying the Ferris wheel over the overpass at Darling Harbour.
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John Howard must be eating his own liver around about now. He had only to look sideways at a little brown foreign chap and the media would be all over him for dog-whistling up a storm of racism. Granted, he might well have been blowing some wicked tunes on the bow-wow flute, but he'd have been called on it. The Orange Roughy meanwhile is in danger of popping her eyeballs out she's blowing so hard but nobody's calling her on it.
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The federal government has censored approximately 90 per cent of a secret document outlining its controversial plans to snoop on Australians' web surfing, obtained under freedom of information (FoI) laws, out of fear the document could cause "premature unnecessary debate".
