Re: [LINK] Pirate Party Telecommunications Policy

2016-05-13 Thread Stephen Rothwell
Hi David, On Fri, 13 May 2016 16:39:10 +1000 David Boxall wrote: > > On 13/05/2016 3:58 PM, Stephen Rothwell wrote: > > > > TransACT is FTTN ... I *think* (but do not know) that the fibre is > > (mostly) underground and the copper is either underground or overhead > > (in 100 pair bundles?).

Re: [LINK] Pirate Party Telecommunications Policy

2016-05-13 Thread David Boxall
On 13/05/2016 5:33 PM, Stephen Rothwell wrote: It only occurred to me later that you may be talking about TransACT in central Victoria (where they do have HFC). No, Hawker ACT. The setup is very old. Might have originally been for TV (I know it replaced Telstra copper for 'phone). I think Ainsli

Re: [LINK] itN: 'Salesforce users in 16 hour outage outrage'

2016-05-13 Thread Martin Barry
$quoted_author = "Roger Clarke" ; > > Salesforce chief Marc Benioff has been forced to apologise to the > company's customers after a 16 hour outage that is still ongoing [due?] to > a North American instance [which?] downed operations around the country. > > [I'm having trouble parsing that sent

Re: [LINK] Location, location, location, location, location,...

2016-05-13 Thread Martin Barry
$quoted_author = "Jim Birch" ; > > When an online mapping service cannot locate a precise address, it defaults > to the central point in the general area. The central point of the United > States is the Taylor farm near Wichita, Kansas. Every fleeing debtor in > America is robotically assumed to b

Re: [LINK] Australia Post to lose passport services

2016-05-13 Thread Martin Barry
$quoted_author = "Scott Howard" ; > > However based on your email I've just checked, and it seems that the > process changed last June and it now has to be done in person. (Which is > annoying, as my passport is full again...) Not only that but is there now a AU$102 overseas lodgement fee. https

Re: [LINK] Surveillance system

2016-05-13 Thread Tom Worthington
On 13/05/16 11:01, Stephen Loosley wrote: ...abnormal behaviour ... library ... What is abnormal behavior for a student in a library? "*BEEP BEEP BEEP* PANOPTICON ALERT: Abnormal behavior detected in library: Student reading a book. *BEEP BEEP BEEP*" ;-) -- Tom Wor

Re: [LINK] Surveillance system

2016-05-13 Thread Tom Worthington
On 13/05/16 11:01, Stephen Loosley wrote: ...abnormal behaviour ... library ... What is abnormal behavior for a student in a library? "*BEEP BEEP BEEP* PANOPTICON ALERT: Abnormal behavior detected in library: Student reading a book. *BEEP BEEP BEEP*" ;-) ps: I am c

[LINK] Conspiracy theory ;)

2016-05-13 Thread David Boxall
Trawling through the Wayback Machine , it looks like the ABC's special on the NBN disappea

Re: [LINK] Pirate Party Telecommunications Policy

2016-05-13 Thread David Boxall
On 13/05/2016 6:35 PM, David Boxall wrote: ... See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TransACT (which is now out of date). Not at all the network I know. ... An old post from Link with an oblique reference to the network in question:

Re: [LINK] Conspiracy theory ;)

2016-05-13 Thread Frank O'Connor
The ABC has tended to look at the NBN through rose coloured glasses for the last couple of years. On the ABC technology now amounts to Good Game, and trite rewrites of PR material handed to them by whoever has a policy or product that they want to sell. After the latest $40 million cut to thei