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Australia considers copyright law changes to target Internet piracy(mobile.abc.net.au)
2 points by pserwylo 13y ago|0 comments
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by pserwylo 13y ago
I'm not sure why you've been down voted. I didn't intend for my post to say that talking to friends or colleagues is a replacement for professional help, just that any extra help is a positive, especially when people might ha
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by pserwylo 13y ago
Traditionally, they are handed out for free at conferences. I'm quite confident that if you are going to a conference or a user group, they'd be happy to post some to you (I'm not part of the organisation, just like what they
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by pserwylo 13y ago
There is an organisation called BlueHackers.org [0] which was started at the Open Source Developers Conference. It has a strong presence at linux.conf.au as well. The organisation started from a very brief lightning talk that went something
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Day we fight back started in Australia(greensmps.org.au)
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by pserwylo 13y ago
If you split end users into tech people and lay people, then I don't think it matters as much. Most of my lay friends tend not to even realise they are not on the latest version. Their maps app gives them directions and the camera take
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by pserwylo 13y ago
As somebody who is learning electronics using Arduino right now, I almost agree with you. WARNING: The first time I accidentally forgot to put a resistor in front of an LED and sent 50mA to one which was rated at 20mA, I expected it to fi
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by pserwylo 13y ago
Ah, that's good to know. Must be my inferior and incorrect pop culture references that told me "Yard sale". FWIW: Google Fight has "Garage sale" smashing "Yard sale" [0] while Urban Dictionary has almost t
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by pserwylo 13y ago
[This may come across as tounge-in-cheek, but I'm quite serious] I voted yes, but I hope that there will always be people in the community who desire physical polling stations. The reason is that as much as I am disillusioned about pol
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by pserwylo 13y ago
I recently read an interesting New Scientist article in an old (2009) magazine[0] which explains how to use moving sidewalks for mass public transit. Spoiler alert - it has actually been done before! [0] - http://web.archive.org
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by pserwylo 13y ago
> it's not like searching the desktop will send results to Amazon et al. But it is similar - if you use web applications in your every day life, then a misspelling may well send your misspelled info to Amazon, if they advertise thro
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by pserwylo 13y ago
I feel the same about this as with the Ubuntu affliate-link issue: I appreciate the work that distro maintainers put in, and I understand that many would like to earn revenue somehow from the distribution. If you give us the option to opt-i
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by pserwylo 13y ago
Nice simple, well implemented idea. I have a question which often comes up when I hear about "startups" on HN or in mainstream media. When is a company no longer a "startup"? I know it's been addressed before, and t
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by pserwylo 13y ago
Firstly, if this still let you attempt to view it on your device after seeing the warning, then I think this is a brilliant warning. Sure, we all get pissed off when we see "Cannot view website on Firefox" et al, but this is not j
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by pserwylo 13y ago
As somebody who is also learning electronics, I can also confirm that it is extremely satisfying to pull apart cheap RC cars and connect them to an Arduino. For anybody who is interested (including the OP), there is plenty of good tutorials
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by pserwylo 13y ago
After reading an ammendment to the copyright law being debated in the Australian parliment, I went looking for tools to view a diff on the old act and the proposed changes. That lead me to an old HN discussion [0] about using VCS to manage
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AT4AM: The amendment authoring tool used by EU Parliament open sourced(at4am.org)
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by pserwylo 13y ago
As with other commenters here, I completely agree. The NSA/Verizon issue has been conflated with the PRISM issue, because they were both published very close together and involve the NSA and broad scale data snooping. I am horrified ab
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by pserwylo 13y ago
A similar issue comes up in other domains too. For example, St John Ambulance Australia provides first aid for public events. Most of the duties are covered by volunteer first aiders. However if they cannot meet demand (which is often the c
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by pserwylo 13y ago
I agree, and find these practices deeply troubling. It is similar in Australia, where every now and then there is a story published about how extremely rich corporations or individuals pay a few million to accountants, and reduce their taxa
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by pserwylo 13y ago
Why don't startups need to provide customer service? The title sounds suspiciously like you don't need to provide customer service until you have some cash in the bank to pay for it. But if you can't figure out how to provide customer servi
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by pserwylo 13y ago
I was the opposite. As soon as I saw that image of the UK, I really thought it was "beautiful", in the way that other people may think a piece of art is beautiful.
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BlueHackers - you are never alone(bluehackers.org)
1 points by pserwylo 13y ago|0 comments
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by pserwylo 13y ago
This is where my appliaction of a "privacy" idea to a "security" problem falls down. With privacy, I try to be pretty vigilant, but I don't do everything in my power to prevent tracking. I am more worried with companies collecting large swa
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by pserwylo 13y ago
I often think about creating a browser and email plugin/extension to help with this: - Look at all link tags. - If it looks like a URL (has a scheme at the beginning, or something which resembles a hostname, or a bunch of path or query para
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by pserwylo 13y ago
I think that it is more of an issue with conditioning. As you and others have mentioned, one could indeed learn Gimp's UI with enough practice. However, I'd say that someone who picked up Photoshop, or MS Word, or any complex piece of softw
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by pserwylo 13y ago
I'm familiar with a few people who have done this, and they really enjoy what they do. I wish anyone doing this all the best. However it suffers the same problem as 1). That is, you may not have the energy for other projects. I understand t
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by pserwylo 13y ago
Oh of course. I didn't mention: 3) One day I'd like to own a caravan park. And indeed, they were complete and utter generalisations. I'm sure there are people in interesting jobs, who come home and are able to work on interesting side proje
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by pserwylo 13y ago
I've wrestled with this in the past. As a CS PhD student, I will be working full time as a web developer when I graduate. For me it came down to either (sweeping generalisations): 1) Continuing research on interesting problems, or perhaps w
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by pserwylo 13y ago
This is important. We've just been implementing a SOAP interface to our software, and have been discussing the best way to provide a JSON API using the same mechanism. The sticking point is probably that there is no standard way to define a

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