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Friday, 26-February-2010 13:25:03 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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AFACT have lodged an appeal against the earlier ruling favouring iiNet in their copyright case. They will be challenging almost the entire judgement. But central to the appeal is an argument that the judge applied an incorrect test for whether iiNet "authorised" the copyright infringement of subscribers on its network.
Senator Kate Lundy has suggested an internet filter "lite" for Australia. The bottom line is that for many people a (generally silently applied) mandatory filter with a secret blacklist would always be concerning regardless of the filter scope. It still wouldn’t engage or educate all Internet subscribers in better online safety practices, it wouldn’t deal with business concerns and it wouldn’t deal with concerns around a secret blacklist: only the direct engagement of Internet subscribers and the ability to legitimately opt out resolves these fundamental objections.
Meanwhile Senator Conroy's website filters filtering from itself, thanks Jay. In the function that creates the list, or "tag cloud", there is a condition that if the words "ISP filtering" appear they should be skipped and not displayed.
Paypal may be opening an apps store for developers, thanks Teddybear. "We have a huge emphasis on interacting with developers. They're our customers, along with consumers and merchants," Bedier said during an interview at an outside café in Miami Beach's Lincoln Road promenade.
Here's an amusing article looking back at computer manuals. For example, the manual for the Franklin Ace 100 begins with about 40 pages of computer basics (What are they? What can they do? etc). And then, on page 40, two thirds of the way down the page, there is a chapter heading called “The Ancestral Territorial Imperatives of the Trumpeter Swan.”
Mitchee sent in this photo which looks like a TIE fighter cockpit, but is in fact from inside the ISS's new cupola. The cupola's fully opened windows look down on the Sahara Desert in this image that was 'tweeted' from space by JAXA astronaut and Expedition 22 flight engineer Soichi Noguchi.
If you're after some educatin', there's a huge pile of free online computer science courses here. Schools like MIT, UC Berkeley, and UMass Boston, are offering free online courses on everything from basic programming to robotics.
Today's timewaster has a sciency bent too, being a solar system simulator. In fact there's a huge pile of similar simulation games here.
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