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Some statistics on Pickles government vehicle auctions
I collected information on sales at three Pickles ‘Victorian Government & Council Vehicles’ auctions on 13, 20 and 27 August 2019. I collected data on ‘personal vehicles’, which I defined as vehicles with a sedan, wagon, hatchback or liftback body type. I compared winning bids… »
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Rules of order rant: Prior amendments
In Australian and UK meeting procedure, there is a rule relating to the order in which amendments may be moved, known as the ‘prior amendment’ rule. Citrine's The ABC of Chairmanship describes this as follows:
… »when an amendment has been moved to alter the latter
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Investigating a MIDI music DRM system (c. 1998)
Background
This post concerns a DRM system used in a proprietary JavaScript-based music player. The music is sequenced locally in the client based on instrument and note data, à la MIDI. The music player does not have any export capabilities, but like the previous instalment… »
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Single Transferable Vote counting sheet (Creative Commons)
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Investigating a legacy document delivery DRM system – Part 2
Last time, we investigated the HTML5 viewer for a document delivery DRM system, rehosting the viewer to give us unlimited access to documents – but only through the standard print procedure, which inserts watermarks and copyright information. This time, we'll investigate how we can… »
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Investigating a legacy document delivery DRM system – Part 1
Background
This post concerns a DRM system used in an online document delivery platform (think PDFs, but proprietary), established circa 2000 and still in popular operation. Documents purchased through the platform are delivered in a proprietary encrypted file format, which can be opened using a… »