Broken daylight savings on Nokia phones
Urrggh, its that time of the year again when daylight savings kicks in. Unfortunately my very clever N73 has the wrong change over dates so for the next few weeks it will think that New Zealand is at...
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Stop section 92
The Copyright (New Technologies) Amendment Act 2008 is not a bad bit of legislation EXCEPT for section 92 which allows a copyright holder to ask your ISP to terminate your Internet access if you...
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This is a bit of a WTF. TV3 news has quoted someone from the Ministry of Economic Development saying that the reason for section 92 is that it is too difficult to identify any particular user and that...
View ArticleWhat you need to know about the new copyright laws
As I type this, there are 19 days left until section 92 of the copyright law comes into effect. Last week Wednesday the Telecommunications Carriers’ Forum (TCF) published the draft copyright code of...
View ArticleHow we landed up with Section 92a
In the parliament debate, National’s Christopher Finlayson explains their reasoning for reinstating Section 92A: Christopher Finlayson: … The Minister [Judith Tizard] knows, and I certainly know, that...
View ArticleWhoosh goes 2009 DD45
Apparently a smallish asteroid just had a near miss with Earth. 2009 DD45 passed by at 63000km which is well inside the Moons orbit. It was realitively small, so if it hit, it would have only (only!)...
View ArticleSection 92a scrapped !
Looks like section 92a is going to get scrapped or at least get a rework. Woohoo ! The government actually paid attention to “the people” for once ;) Thumbs up to the Creative Feedom team for drawing...
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Auckland Train Signage FAIL
I’m an avid user of the trains in Auckland. It takes me 20 minutes to get from my house to downtown (and that includes a 8 minute walk) which sure beats getting stuck in rush hour traffic. But one...
View ArticleResponse to my Auckland Train Signage rant
Well, I received a response from Auckland Transport about my Auckland Train Signage FAIL post. Unfortunately it wasn’t very helpful as they merely (and carefully) explained how the signs are going to...
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