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Everyone remembers the “giant seagull” which “attacked” Peter Hitchener at the beginning of a recent Nine News Melbourne bulletin. It went viral almost immediately.
Well, “Hitch” has had his revenge. Sort of. Courtesy of Melbourne’s Channel 31 program, “The Inquiry”. Kinda cheesy, but humourous nonetheless!
Got a bit of a laugh out of this in the Foxtel EPG last night. An invisible program!
It has no title, no description, and runs from 9:25pm until 9:25pm, complete with the option of setting a reminder to watch it. I wonder if we had iQ, if it would have let me record it? Good for laugh.
A seriously stupid view of the various responsibilities involved in digital copyright infringement has been put “on the record” during closing arguments in the landmark Australian federal court case been the film industry, and the Australian ISP iiNet.
| Film Studios Issue Ultimatum to ISPs |
The film industry has “decreed” that ISPs should “get serious” about copyright infringment or “get out of the business”. What a joke! Since when have service providers in any industry been obliged to shut down their operations when scarcely proven – (if at all) – illegal activities have been committed by their customers using their services? Umm, never springs to mind.
Do we ban cutlery companies from making knives because somebody might get stabbed using one?
Do we get Telstra to shut themselves down because someone arranged a murder over the phone using a Telstra-provided service? Does that make Telstra a party to that murder? Clearly not on both counts. The film industry is asking the same thing of ISPs.
But why is it the responsibility of iiNet (or any other ISP) to clean up the mess the film industry themselves have left behind by allowing their content to get out there anyway?
Why? Because it’s prohibitively expensive (and generally futile) for the film industry to spend the money getting it right in the first place, so they’ll demand that the ISPs bear the cost of cleaning up their mess. It’s really about maintaining their own profits by not having to spend the money doing it properly themselves.
It’s time they woke up to themselves.
Well…perhaps not REALLY. But this rain radar image from today shows a heavy band of rain, shaped very much like the country of Japan!
Similar?
I noticed the following Microsoft patch applied itself to my laptop this morning.
Interestingly, without the patch “Control Panel will incorrectly display an error message”. Incorrectly display? As in, in error?
So that makes it an erroneous error. It reminds of the message I saw on a Sun Xterm many moons ago – “Error – an error did not occur”. Us nerds are so helpful with our error messages sometimes!
According to the sign on the barrier, this Melbourne taxi made some significant improvements to Southern Cross Station!
I’m sure the driver, passenger, and people on the footpath weren’t so sure about the term “improvement”, but I got a laugh out of the placement of the signs.
| Two Injured in CBD Taxi Crash |
Congratulations to Danny Lannen of the Geelong Advertiser for winning an award for his coverage of the terribly sad case of Chanelle Rae. Online bullying is a desperately serious issue for the world.
| Addy Journalist Danny Lannen Wins News Award |
Perhaps some of his colleagues at the Addy should take a leaf out of his book, and start doing some real journalism? Take for example, the following two recent articles.
| Bloody Day Starts in Quiet Court |
What journalistic value does that have? It’s like a high school “creative writing” task. It is not even remotely a news piece, let alone does it add anything to the reporting of what was another tragic incident in Geelong’s recent history.
Here’s another:
| Another Chapter in On-going Bikie War |
“Spring clean up”? Just another “creative writing” task. Fluff. Sickly sweet. Seriously Geelong Adverstiser – start doing less of this, and more real reporting.
After three lean years in which it has missed out on glory in the biggest motor racing event in this country, the Bathurst 1000, Holden roared back to victory lane yesterday with a dominant result which left the rival Ford teams in their wake.
The official Holden Racing Team took out the victory – leading fourteen other Holdens home inside the top twenty finishers. That’s right – fifteen out of the first twenty, which included nine inside the top ten, and the first four cars home – harking back to the real glory years of the late 1970’s.
In true tradition though, the Ford teams will no doubt come out with all guns blazing in 2010. However, as a Holden fan, yesterday will be hard to beat, and will represent a landmark in the history of Holden in the sport.
Great. Geelong won the AFL Grand Final on the weekend. Kudos. Congratulations, and well done. As an Essendon supporter – and having seen my team win four times in my lifetime – I know the joy the fans are feeling right now. Celebrate, absolutely.
However, the “media” in this town just never seem to have any perspective – look at the current front page of the Geelong Advertiser website. Every story in the “news” section relates to the football club and their win in some way. The only exception is a story about cyclist Cadel Evans, but then again, you need to realise he’s from the Geelong area, so managed to squeeze in.
Honestly, there could be a massive thermonuclear detonation in the middle of this town, and it wouldn’t make the front page.
Please, Geelong fans, enjoy it for a couple of weeks, then get on with life – and take those bloody flags off your cars. You look like tools.
Well, well, well. Stephen Conroy thinks that recent hacking attacks on federal government websites were juvenile – given that they were reportedly made in response to the government plan to introduce mandatory net filtering.
| Conroy Says Website Attacks Juvenile |
Perhaps he should be listening to the message? That people don’t want this? Too sensible to think that, huh?