The pretentiously-named Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft (AFACT) has lost its copyright infringement case against iiNet, as everyone sensible hoped. Finding iiNet responsible for copyright infringement of people who use their network to download movies via BitTorrent is like finding Australia Post responsible for fraud when someone sends a fraudulent cheque through their postal service, or finding Telstra guilty of conspirancy to commit murder if two people plan a murder over the telephone.
...Semicolons
Using a semicolon isn't hard; I once saw a party gorilla do it.
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Form criticism and the chicken and egg problem
As Humphrey Palmer has rather trenchantly remarked, whether or not the early church was adept at thinking up stories about Jesus to fit church settings, the form critics have certainly been adept at thinking up church settings to fit the stories about Jesus.
— D. A. Carson, 'Redaction Criticism: on the legitimacy and illegitimacy of a literary tool', in Scripture & Truth (Grand Rapids: Baker, 1992), 125, referring to Humphrey Palmer, The Logic of Gospel Criticism (New York: St. Martin's, 1968), 193....
Nerd tip of the day: watch out for fake/malicious Christmas greeting cards
Internet Storm Center has an important reminder about things which claim to be electronic Christmas greeting cards, but are actually much more (or less, depending on how you look at it). My advice: don't click them at all, and if you want to send one to your friends, do it by copying and pasting the link into a personal email.
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Nerd tip of the day: use anti-virus software
Bruce Schneier, the computer security equivalent of Chuck Norris, has some excellent points to make about anti-virus software. Executive summary: anti-virus is not enough to keep you safe online (you still have to be careful), but it's free (if you use AVG or Avast's free version) and easy, and protects against a lot of bad stuff, so you have no excus...
