Wow. It looks like broadband is truly becoming an election issue, with NBNCo announcing this morning that they won’t just be delivering the 100Mbps speeds previously promised, but will instead deliver 1Gbps speeds to 93 per cent of Australian homes. Like I said… Wow.
There’s been a number of comments circulating online that a vote for the Greens in the upcoming election is a vote for Conroy, due to the recently announced preferences deal between the Greens and Labor. Unfortunately there seems to be some misunderstanding how the electoral system for the Senate works, because nothing could be further from the truth. Here’s why.
According to the Australian Constitution, the next federal election must happen by April 16, 2011. That said, the PM has stated that we’ll be heading to the polls some time this year. It may sound obvious, but if you want to use your vote to fight the filter, you should make sure you’re enrolled and your contact details are correct on the electoral roll.
Tomorrow, Brits will vote on a new prime minister, with the results being projected on the landmark tower known as Big Ben, in real time. It’s not the first time projections have been beamed, but it’ll be interactive at least.
President-Elect Barack Obama has pledged to deliver weekly “fireside chats” a la FDR via YouTube, and today he posted his first. The content of the video isn’t unexpected: he calls for immediate help from Congress to aid unemployment insurance, and calls for all Americans to come together to weather the hard economic road ahead. What’s remarkable is how right it feels.
Artifex, makers of the Linux Ghostscript Postscript interpreter, is suing Diebold for breaking the fair use terms of its software. Diebold used the freely-available software, which is fine, but when they authored some changes to Ghostscript Postscript, they neglected to follow the very reasonable rules such use requires. Biggies like HP, Xerox, and IBM all use Ghostscript legally and honestly, so why can’t Diebold?
