Posts by A Lewis

No snapping: Photographers get collars felt

@ Wokstation

Sorry, your statement is not generally applicable. In Australia, it is the photographer that has to be on the private property for the landowner to have rights to prohibit their actions. If you are taking photographs from outside the school grounds, there is nothing to stop you unless you are causing a nuisance (possibly if you're there every day) the images are indecent, or they're in a setting where the subject may have an expectation of privacy (e.g. in toilets, change rooms etc. Not just on private property which is in plain view of public areas.) I suspect this may actually be the case in other jurisdictions as well (but IANAL, YMMV, MTG). Mind you, the teachers have a legal duty to question your actions but, if you have a reasonable explanation, no right to stop you.

@ Christian Gerzner

Your friends are misinformed. It is quite legal to take photographs of people, with or without their permission, in a public place in NSW (with certain limitations, mainly to do with offensive behaviour, nuisance, etc. - see the informative post at http://www.overclockers.com.au/wiki/Your_right_to_take_photographs for more details.) It could be argued that the beer garden was private property, but this only means you must respect the owner's wishes, i.e. if the publican asked you to desist, you should. The subjects of the photographs have no expectation of privacy in such a place, and so no legal right to object. Though should they do so, politeness might dictate you comply with their request. From what you described, though, everyone (including the law) was happy with the situation.

The 'blem wit' error messages

VAX VMS...

...had the delta debugger. With this utility you could patch the contents of RAM of a running system - by specifying hex addresses and values. Given the potential for disastrous consequences, this was not a tool for the novice. Perhaps for this reason it had no command prompt and only one error message - "eh?"