Re: [LINK] New proposal for e-voting - Turnbull

2013-09-11 Thread Karl Schaffarczyk
At 06:05 PM 10/09/2013, Richard wrote: My take, with a correction: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/09/10/turnbull_floats_evote_compulsory_id/ I was given the context lecture by a Turnbull staffer, which is typical spinner behaviour. God knows what rope political staffers have

Re: [LINK] New proposal for e-voting - Turnbull

2013-09-11 Thread Robert Brockway
On Tue, 10 Sep 2013, Jan Whitaker wrote: [We didn't hear a thing about it this time, even for disabled access. What happened to the 'next big thing'? I'd be interested in Linkers' view of the security of evoting now - have things changed or is Diebold still sus?] My view is that the code

[LINK] Optus to lay fibre last mile?

2013-09-11 Thread stephen
Optus weighs in with plan for broadband BY: MITCHELL BINGEMANN From: The Australian September 12, 2013 OPTUS is considering plans to front the construction costs of laying fibre across the last mile of the Coalition's fibre-to-the-node plan, allowing consumers to get it direct to their homes

[LINK] Great ambiguity from CBA

2013-09-11 Thread Karl Auer
I just got my statement from the Commonwealth Bank. Enclosed with it was a brochure about PIN numbers - they want everyone to use a PIN, because they are more secure than signatures, doncha know. In the brochure was this gem: It's important to create a PIN that you can easily remember,

Re: [LINK] Effect of New Government on ICT in Canberra

2013-09-11 Thread Tom Worthington
On 11/09/13 10:46, Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote: On 11/09/2013 8:23 AM, Tom Worthington wrote: It's Cass-Dunbar, not Cass-Dunba. Apologies, I have corrected the blog version: http://blog.tomw.net.au/2013/09/effect-of-new-government-on-ict-in.html IMHO, there is a risk that any government

Re: [LINK] Optus to lay fibre last mile?

2013-09-11 Thread Jim Birch
Does the fibre ownership remain with Optus? The two big economic advantages of the old NBN is firstly that it provided an open market for content and secondly that it was priced at cost rather than priced on its utility to users. The object of any smart business is to charge for their products