This is why I think we shouldn't count MSFT out. They've had it so easy for 10 - 15 years that they have turned to competing among themselves for something to do. Once a real sense of fear and external competition sets…
> Mr Gane said he was confident that the Federal Government would now review the laws surrounding copyright infringement Ominous.
Will be there - great to see there are enough startup oriented Melbournites to make this a possibility!
This is a point I always have trouble impressing on people. They do a simple benchmarks on a tiny code base that pulls some data from the database, spits out some data, and they compare and PHP seems to be lightning…
I reckon there's a whole bunch pushing non-unicode and not knowing it, but declaring UTF-8 anyway. Since the current versions of PHP don't even support unicode (at least, without going to very special pains) I suspect…
I don't know exactly what mortgage contracts look like in the US, but the ones I have seen in my country don't say you can walk away. They say you can not walk away. The bank getting the house is just one consequence…
> Disney removes all other copies, but allows access to the original. But they don't have to - they could banish Mickey from the world if they chose to. Copyright allows them to do it. Is that wrong? I think it's…
I think arguing against all censorship is doomed because people will always come up with examples that are very hard to argue with. For example, "what if someone puts detailed plans to make a nuclear bomb on the…
Yes, after deploying it on 2 sites I'm thinking of taking it down and "doing my own thing" because it's just going to baffle non-Australians.
> While you can’t get code into your templates, it’s easy to get UI into your code, which is (almost) just as bad. I looked at Lift a year or two ago and this was the showstopper for me. While there's a cleanliness…
> does Australia have constitutional or otherwise legally protected free speech No. Australians have no direct freedoms at all. What rights they have are "implied" indirectly from other things such as that the…
The answer is b). I suspect they fully know how stupid their policies are (Stephen Conroy has pretty much admitted it on live TV). What they are attempting is classic 'wedge politics': pick an issue on which your…
You would want to be extremely careful - despite all logic against it, the US Dollar spikes when just about any international crisis takes hold. The dollar's decline might well occur afterwards, but that would be a…
I've never understood why America outsources so much half way around the planet for cheap labor when it is available on her doorstep - a short flight, easy transport, same time zone , reasonably stable, friendly…
> it doesn't look like Google offers synchronization so its utility as a backup environment is quite limited. Actually, my beef with all these services is the opposite: they rarely provide support to mount plain old…
This is amazingly bold. Not because they are shutting down operations or even stopping the censoring - they could have done that in a hundred ways that would save face and leave the door open for them to come back in at…
The app would have to be signed by someone who presumably would have paid the $99 to get the developer account with Apple and thus there would be a way to trace (somehow) the app to some real person. Now, the identity…
> as the encrypted cookie can be sniffed, and replayed to the server I think the whole article is premised on requiring a level of security that would presume TLS is being used.
Sure ... but I think Apple has a way of redefining the "high end". Smart phones were already considered expensive when Apple launched the iPhone.
Well, it's not trying to be a "tablet", so it's not lying around the living room. 95% of the time it's sitting in your pocket when not in use, very safe and comfortable.
So how do you explain the iPhone? The smart phone market was well and truly catered for when Apple entered there. Apple's primary method of business is to price themselves in a tier above everyone else but to provide a…
Point taken. I would say that satisfying point 3 relieves the need to satisfy point 2 (if I can replace it for less than $50 then I can handle the possibility of coffee getting poured on it). So paper works.
It seems to me that the right approach should always have a significant random element, not as a deterrent, but as a check on how well the non-random component is working. The random part will examine in depth to find…
I think the tablet has plenty of uses, but it's the flaws that hold it back. We actually have a tablet at home and it was very useful on the couch and in various other roles. However there are a couple of features that…
Do you have evidence that they are? I suspect that libraries are filling important niches today that are extremely hard to replace with technology, but their use for some purposes such as repositories for reference…
This is why I think we shouldn't count MSFT out. They've had it so easy for 10 - 15 years that they have turned to competing among themselves for something to do. Once a real sense of fear and external competition sets…
> Mr Gane said he was confident that the Federal Government would now review the laws surrounding copyright infringement Ominous.
Will be there - great to see there are enough startup oriented Melbournites to make this a possibility!
This is a point I always have trouble impressing on people. They do a simple benchmarks on a tiny code base that pulls some data from the database, spits out some data, and they compare and PHP seems to be lightning…
I reckon there's a whole bunch pushing non-unicode and not knowing it, but declaring UTF-8 anyway. Since the current versions of PHP don't even support unicode (at least, without going to very special pains) I suspect…
I don't know exactly what mortgage contracts look like in the US, but the ones I have seen in my country don't say you can walk away. They say you can not walk away. The bank getting the house is just one consequence…
> Disney removes all other copies, but allows access to the original. But they don't have to - they could banish Mickey from the world if they chose to. Copyright allows them to do it. Is that wrong? I think it's…
I think arguing against all censorship is doomed because people will always come up with examples that are very hard to argue with. For example, "what if someone puts detailed plans to make a nuclear bomb on the…
Yes, after deploying it on 2 sites I'm thinking of taking it down and "doing my own thing" because it's just going to baffle non-Australians.
> While you can’t get code into your templates, it’s easy to get UI into your code, which is (almost) just as bad. I looked at Lift a year or two ago and this was the showstopper for me. While there's a cleanliness…
> does Australia have constitutional or otherwise legally protected free speech No. Australians have no direct freedoms at all. What rights they have are "implied" indirectly from other things such as that the…
The answer is b). I suspect they fully know how stupid their policies are (Stephen Conroy has pretty much admitted it on live TV). What they are attempting is classic 'wedge politics': pick an issue on which your…
You would want to be extremely careful - despite all logic against it, the US Dollar spikes when just about any international crisis takes hold. The dollar's decline might well occur afterwards, but that would be a…
I've never understood why America outsources so much half way around the planet for cheap labor when it is available on her doorstep - a short flight, easy transport, same time zone , reasonably stable, friendly…
> it doesn't look like Google offers synchronization so its utility as a backup environment is quite limited. Actually, my beef with all these services is the opposite: they rarely provide support to mount plain old…
This is amazingly bold. Not because they are shutting down operations or even stopping the censoring - they could have done that in a hundred ways that would save face and leave the door open for them to come back in at…
The app would have to be signed by someone who presumably would have paid the $99 to get the developer account with Apple and thus there would be a way to trace (somehow) the app to some real person. Now, the identity…
> as the encrypted cookie can be sniffed, and replayed to the server I think the whole article is premised on requiring a level of security that would presume TLS is being used.
Sure ... but I think Apple has a way of redefining the "high end". Smart phones were already considered expensive when Apple launched the iPhone.
Well, it's not trying to be a "tablet", so it's not lying around the living room. 95% of the time it's sitting in your pocket when not in use, very safe and comfortable.
So how do you explain the iPhone? The smart phone market was well and truly catered for when Apple entered there. Apple's primary method of business is to price themselves in a tier above everyone else but to provide a…
Point taken. I would say that satisfying point 3 relieves the need to satisfy point 2 (if I can replace it for less than $50 then I can handle the possibility of coffee getting poured on it). So paper works.
It seems to me that the right approach should always have a significant random element, not as a deterrent, but as a check on how well the non-random component is working. The random part will examine in depth to find…
I think the tablet has plenty of uses, but it's the flaws that hold it back. We actually have a tablet at home and it was very useful on the couch and in various other roles. However there are a couple of features that…
Do you have evidence that they are? I suspect that libraries are filling important niches today that are extremely hard to replace with technology, but their use for some purposes such as repositories for reference…