Star Wars Guide to the Australian Election

The policing of Facebook Community standards is pathetic

My account was banned after a friend of a friend started being aggressive in a comment thread
after I posted a story about abortion in the comments...

This man implied the well respected author was biased and a party hack, I asked him explain the slur on this women. subsequently, he then posted a Young Turks video link from my twitter feed and accused me of being a misogynist.

Naturally, like most right wing trolls, he avoided answering and tried to change the topic to abusing me.

He then started to repeatedly accuse me of sending private messages, including a gay slur, which I hadn't. Subsequently, he deleted all his comments.

 I was blocked for saying, "Stewart, Why did you delete all your comments? Fair Enough I did say stand up or retract... lulz"

This is classic (right wing) troll behavior, the Facebook "police" could of checked and seen I have never sent him any messages, he was outright lying. It wasn't his post he was commenting on and the original poster privately expressed his disappointment this man's behavior and approach.

One would assume that Facebook can see deleted comments for the context, (I have them all via email notifications) I wasn't being violent or harassing, I was simply asking him to explain his attack on the reputation of a high profile, respected Australian Woman. 

Did the Facebook reviewer really think I was threatening violence? It is clear from my whole Facebook history that I am a non violent individual...

Call me crazy, but maybe, just maybe, the Facebook police could spend more time policing online hate and rape memes rather than those standing up for women online?

Tony Abbott's scripted lies about #NBN costs

QUESTION:

Are you going to make Malcolm Turnbull the Treasurer?

TONY ABBOTT:

Malcolm is the Shadow Minister for Communications. He’s doing a really good job of exposing the fact that the National Broadband Network is a complete white elephant. He’s doing a very good job of promoting our real solution, which is national broadband that doesn’t involve digging up every street to deliver fibre to the home whether you want it, need it or can afford to pay three times the current price for it. He’s doing a very good job and I expect that Malcolm will be the Communications Minister in an incoming government.

Source: http://www.tonyabbott.com.au/News/tabid/94/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/9083/Joint-Doorstop-Interview-Leumeah.aspx

@zackster @iinet No, they cost the same as their ADSL plans. @tonyabbottmhr is lying, shockingly. bit.ly/Woobtp
— John B (@johnb78) March 3, 2013

Note, he wasn't even asked about this, Abbott just wanted to deliver this prepared talking point

@r_chirgwin @zackster Abbott just came out with it. He wasn't asked a q and none of the press understand NBN anyway as u know Richard
— Vince O'Grady (@vogrady2132) March 3, 2013

Now just imagine if someone from the ALP had said this.... I am sick of the media double standards

The Age did report today, NBN users report no hike in bills  yet nothing about Tony Abbott's bullshit?

The irony of Abbott's lie is that most business customers would happily pay 3x current costs just to be able to access reliable high speed broadband.

For all the constant, right wing carry on about productivity, you think they might understand this concept.

Christine Milne LIES about the ALP and Carbon Pricing

at 47mins in, Milne says neither major party would of implemented carbon pricing without the Greens, which is a lie

More Julie Owens please, lots more

Technical details: Could not establish trust relationship with remote server.

Ran into this issue with an old Windows Mobile PDA which couldn't connect to an SSL webservice yesterday.

Unable connect to database. Please contact your system administrator.
Technical details: Could not establish trust relationship with remote server.

The solution might be really dead simple, just check the date and time on the PDA,
if it's too far out of whack it can cause the SSL connection to fail.

You can guess the solution yourself

Mozilla Developer Network beats w3schools for HTML help

One of the terrible legacies of the modern web is that most search queries on Google relating to html / web technologies often have terrible results, usually involving w3schools, which has patchy, inaccurate and out of date content.

It makes me heart heavy and sad to see StackOverflow answers based on W3Schools’ inaccuracies, and riven entirely when they’re accepted.

— Eric A. Meyer (@meyerweb) June 4, 2012

Now if Google was nice, they would simply demote the shitty w3schools content, but there is an easy workaround, you can simply add MDN to your search and get results from the wonderful Mozilla Developer Network.

Using Oracle Views with Mapguide / FDO

Using views in Oracle is a good way to access data via Mapguide/FDO,
but in order to be able to select a feature, it must have a primary key,
otherwise, selection will fail.

This is the SQL syntax to add a primary key on an Oracle View

alter view add constraint primary key () disable novalidate;

Once the view has a primary key, selection becomes available.

Bruno

From the Mapguide Users Mailing list

Performance Tip for Mapguide Tiled layers with Fusion

Internally, Fusion uses OpenLayers to display maps. By default, titled maps use a buffer factor of 2

http://dev.openlayers.org/docs/files/OpenLayers/Layer/Grid-js.html#OpenLayers.Layer.Grid.buffer

This buffer setting determines how many off screen tiles are loaded, you can tweak this option using the following syntax in your ApplicationDefinition.xml

<Map>
               <Type>MapGuide</Type>
                <SingleTile>false</SingleTile>
                <Extension>
                        <ResourceId>Library:// .....</ResourceId>
                        <Options>
                            <buffer>0</buffer>                               
                        </Options>                       
                </Extension>
</Map>

Setting buffer:0 means that only the initially visible tiles are loaded, which means as you pan, the tiles are loaded as required

Some Quick Carbon Pricing Info

Just a quick link to some important information for both Consumers and Business with regards to introduction of Carbon Pricing in Australia .

Carbon price claims – FAQs for business

BTW: The Australian tax free threshold rises to over $18k as of July 1, meaning one million low income earners no longer pay income tax.