On 11/20/16, Andy Farkas wrote:
> In a discussion about acronyms on IRC this weekend we brought up the BASIC
> computer language. This link was posted, a great read, and brings back many
> memories: "Fifty Years of BASIC, the Programming Language That Made
> Computers
> Personal"
>
> http://time.c
On Thursday 17 November 2016 21:31:59 David Boxall wrote:
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/11/16/telstra_launches_australian_homes_onto_the_internet_of_st/
> Telstra's decided that Australian homes aren't insecure enough, launching its
> very own Internet of S**t Things offering based mostly on
At 09:52 AM 21/11/2016, dloch...@key.net.au wrote:
>If someone hacks your front door and steals the priceless Ming Vase, would
>Telstra pay up immediately without argument?
Ignoring legal risk always makes me laugh, sadly. Of course Tel$tra could
include it as a 'business expense' or try to att
On Sunday 20 November 2016 18:54:28 Andy Farkas wrote:
> In a discussion about acronyms on IRC this weekend we brought up the BASIC
> computer language. This link was posted, a great read, and brings back many
> memories: "Fifty Years of BASIC, the Programming Language That Made Computers
> Pers
On Sunday 20 November 2016 18:54:28 Andy wrote:
> In a discussion about acronyms on IRC this weekend we brought up the BASIC
> computer
> language. This link was posted, a great read, and brings back many memories:
> "Fifty Years
> of BASIC, the Programming Language That Made Computers Personal"
‘Government launches facial verification system”
Face Identification Service launching next year
By Rohan Pearce (Computerworld) 16 November, 2016 12:25
http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/610227/government-launches-facial-verification-system
The first phase of the government’s new Face Ver
About an hour of depressing viewing.
https://youtu.be/jNajgT07rRg
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On 21/11/2016 15:22, David Boxall wrote:
About an hour of depressing viewing.
https://youtu.be/jNajgT07rRg
Yeah, watched that a couple weeks ago
This is even more depressing:
http://www.innovationaus.com/2016/11/NBN-bailout-a-political-mockery
-andyf
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M,
$60 billion, and all the wasted years and effort, down the tubes - because
Abbott, Turnbull, Ergas, Ziffy and the rest of the ‘MTM NBN’ couldn’t accept
that the original idea of building for the next 50 years, rather than building
for 2010, was the go.
$60 billion to be spectacularly be
