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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.
links for 2010-08-06
$3 August at Sushi Train Town Hall
For the month of August Sushi Train at Town Hall is offering all plates for $3.
Go forth and gorge yourselves.
Edit: Just noticed the Sushi Train blog post on the deal here.
links for 2010-08-04
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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.
links for 2010-08-03
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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.
Michael Keaton in StarCraft II?
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 other mention of this.
Maybe everyone else is just too interested in playing the game to look at the box?
I’d just like to thank my movie fanatic sister for pointing this out.
links for 2010-07-29
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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.
Overdose on plastic pink and blue (photo)
An overdose of plastic pink and blue kids’ bins and storage boxes at Coles, Broadway.
links for 2010-07-27
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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.
links for 2010-07-23
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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".
Cleaning Apple’s (photo)
Cleaning the Apple store tonight in Sydney CBD.
