Archive for the ‘Society’ Category
Friday, January 4th, 2008
That's right. The newly elected Labor government has decided that they should protect children from pornography, violence, and hate material on the Internet by imposing mandatory filtering of Internet traffic at the ISP level. Such filtering would be based on a black list decided by ACMA bureaucrats (who don't yet ...
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Wednesday, August 15th, 2007
I've just learned that recipients of unemployment benefits (welfare/"the dole") here in Australia are able to fulfill their "Work for The Dole" ("mutual obligation" -- service to the community to continue receiving welfare benefits) requirements by contributing to open source software projects -- whether by providing their services as a ...
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