• ISPs forced to join child porn crackdown - Breaking - http://www.smh.com.au/technology/: Under the new laws, an ISP or ICH will face penalties of $11,000 for the individual and $55,000 for body corporates if they are made aware that their service can be used to access material that they have reasonable grounds to believe is child pornography or child abuse material and they do not refer details of that material to the AFP within a reasonable time. I hope the actual requirements are worded far more specifically than that - otherwise every single ISP must immediately notify the AFP that their service gives access to the internet. I am hoping the reality and intention of the law is that if ISPs discover that sort of material hosted on their servers their servers they would act immediately.
• Apple unveils new mini iPods - Breaking - http://www.smh.com.au/technology/ I would have given the shuffle a bit longer without opposition, personally. Unless they're sacrificing sales of the 1gig shuffle to the new-price 4gig mini. About AU$50 more for 3 gigs more...? Hmm.
• Warning: artistic aliens at work - National - www.smh.com.au. Grass art. It would have to be tsunami-related.
• ABC Sport - Rugby League - Newcastle Knightmare now a police matter. Even if you were such a fucking rock ape that you thought that sort of behavious was acceptable, wouldn't you at least restrain yourself to save your own arse? Ultimately people have to stop blaming the club, because that implies that the players are excused - which is bullshit. They are adults responsible for their own choices and actions; and they should be treated that way... which means criminal charges, loss of contracts, club-based fines, league-based bans from playing. The NRL clearly wants this shit to stop and - trust me - the fans want it to stop. I do find it interesting that people blame the sport though - if these guys were brickies, accountants or chefs would people be up in arms for their employers to control their bahaviour at 3am? Did these guys really turn into morons the moment they got a football contract, or did their attitudes get formed years earlier? The guys who do this stuff remind me of the jocks at high school - literally. They don't seem to change and the only thing that professional sport adds is money and a bigger audience.

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