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Australian Labor Party Proposes ISP Level Filter 459

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Tuesday March 21, 2006 @07:27AM from the education-and-parenting-also-too-hard dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The Australian Labor Party (much the same as the Democrats in the US) are claiming they will force ISPs to block violent and pornographic content if elected. From the article: 'Mr Beazley said all households would be included in the policy unless there was a specific request for access to such material. It was "too hard" for many parents to install internet blockers on their computers to prevent offensive material being downloaded.'"

Comment Re:Working on site (Score 1) 468

by alfboggis on Monday March 20, 2006 @01:42PM (#14958092) Attached to: The Surprising Truth About Ugly Websites

The story submitter working on the site mentioned in the story....

Smells fishy to me...

No Nonsense XML Web Development with PHP 131

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday March 15, 2006 @01:46PM from the serious-development dept.

Alex Moskalyuk writes "PHP and XML seems like a marriage made in heaven. Powerful manipulation functions and support on the core language level in PHP5 combined with universal extensibility of XML make it a technology of choice for quite a few Web enthusiasts and companies out there. However, anyone inspired by PHP's ease of use can probably find a good cure from insomnia when facing with XML specs. With all the DTD's, XML Schemas, XSLT and XPath queries one can easily get the impression that the world is changing on them, and perhaps sticking to hard-coded HTML with PHP statements combined with SQL statements for data retrieval would be within the zone of comfort." Read the rest of Alex's review.

Nanotech and the Blind 138

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday March 14, 2006 @11:46AM from the waiting-for-my-HUD dept.

tomsastroblog writes "In a BBC report scientists injected blind hamsters with a solution containing nanoparticles. The result? Nerves re-grew and sight returned. The researchers injected the blind hamsters with a solution of synthetically made peptides; within 24 hours the brain started to heal itself. The peptides were later broken down by the body into a harmless substance and was excreted three to four weeks later. From the article: 'We are looking at this as a step process. If this can be used while operating on humans to mitigate damage during neurosurgery, that would be the first step,'"

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