w variant.
"You're really super smart, way too smart to be fooled by anyone. That's why
you're worthy of being tested by our special e-meters to see if you're
super-human, please come inside".
That's how thousands got suckere
ke water, electricity, gas, etc. and don't forget to put banner ads on it
for cost-recovery.
best of all, this will enable automating the response to cyberattacks with an
ICBM launch.
They can also have it monitor the president's twitter feed for strike
co-ordinates.
craig
On Fri, May 31, 2019 at 10:46:29AM +1000, David wrote:
> On Wednesday, 29 May 2019 20:41:30 AEST Craig Sanders wrote:
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> > e.g. currently, while it's almost impossible to buy a non-"Smart" TV, you
> > **can** choose not to plug it in to a wired or wireless netwo
other
device that the manufacturer wants to invent some stupid fucking reason to
make it Smart™.
Because you're the product. Always and Forever. Brand Loyalty Will Be
Enforced.
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ons to the advertising/spyware industry.
Don't use Stylish, it's trojaned with spyware that tracks every URL visited or
embedded in a page.
[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greasemonkey
[6] https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/antifeatures
https://www.digitalethics.org/essays/it-feature-it-bug-no-its-antifeature
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in amongst the advertising,
sport and other soporific distractions, and sensationalism". For commercial
TV & Radio, anyway. Some print papers did a good job.
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lots of other stuff).
iinet's support staff are unable to say if or when it will be available. They
have said I could get Residential FTTC NBN but are unable to say whether I can
still have my networks routed to an NBN connection.
Does anyone know
d directories, still encoded." Maybe someone has
written a plugin for Spotlight or EasyFind to search Thunderbird's email &
attachment metadata database. (I don't know if plugins are possible for these
programs. I don't use either of them)
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rain from buying IoT-enabled stuff. The
goal is technology like this doesn't require the (mis-)use of the consumer's
own network bandwidth and is cheap enough to embed in anything and everything.
Always-on, all-pervasive constant surveillance to serve corporate and
government needs.
't care when it
gets asset-stripped and/or sold off to Murdoch.
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d to disasters like the GFC. It allows them to play the same scams on
a much smaller scale.
Remember - Americans don't see the phrase "caveat emptor" as a warning, they
see it as a legitimate and profitable business model.
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t;smarts" really belong in a network, at both
of the end-points. Not in the middle, and not at the "edge" (whic is just a
shinier, fancier term for middle).
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ntly illegal forms of tax evasion, or marriage equality plebiscites or
enormous adani coal mines or cashless welfare cards or drug-testing benefit
recipients.
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ps: sorry. this grew from the original two-paragraph comment I intended to an
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benefits to themselves and their class. Champions of the common man,
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the government can
hide it under the national security rug.
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On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 02:22:20PM +1000, Tom Worthington wrote:
> I am at a meeting on use of social media for emergencies at University
> of Sydney. One interesting item is that NBN Co. is building a "Network
> on Wheels" for deployment in a disaster [...]
with the kind of advanced technology we
On Mon, Apr 04, 2016 at 11:39:13AM +1000, Roger Clarke wrote:
> Some other questions intrude:
one more question:
why isn't this part of the my.gov.au site?
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hidden behind containers that are revealed by javascript, but the main
"Go back to myhealthrecord.gov.au" link at the top of the page is http
rather than https. Probably a careless mistake.
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a sledge-hammer (or, more sensibly, return it for a refund),
they keep on using them.
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poa or
whatever) on your linux box?
or do you have to use whatever buggy, insecure firmware abomination
(with who-knows how many security holes and/or deliberate backdoors) is
in the modem to control your connection and firewall rules?
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they're
always going to be someone else's problem. that's never been the case
in the past, so why now for the NBN?
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died slowly because of a lack
of on-going funding.
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ilure.
An expensive failure that transfers as much tax-payer money as possible
to corporations like Telstra and Optus.
(*) More accurately, it should be called Murdoch's NBN.
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Roger Clarke got a mention in this one. They didn't elaborate on what
he might mean by "privacy issues"
I expect he was talking about the fact that an app on a phone can and
often does do a lot more than what it purports to do, and many apps
send information back to the app's author without noti
believes strongly in Libertarian theology
and is unlikely to apply his critical thinking skills if an idea comes
dressed in enough free-market dogma.
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ture as a level playing
field.
of course, that's too competitive for huge corporate monopolists (they
might have to compete on service or quality or innovation rather than
customer lock-in and a plethora of product confusion), so it had to die.
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it belongs).
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ps: the proof is not in the paper. it's in the verification procedures
performed by the passport office. the australian passport office is very
good at detecting identity theft/fraud.
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whenever you want: "oh no, i
couldn't possibly eat THAT - you'll have to make something especially
for *me* without gluten in it"
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on. and trying to
re-compress already compressed data like pictures or videos usually
just wastes CPU power and sometimes results in negative compression
levels (i.e. the qty of data transferred is greater than if you didn't
recompress it)
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ers, but not for hundreds or
thousands within range of the wifi access pointand IIRC, NBN wifi is
using the same unlicensed spectrum as home/office wifi (and garage door
openers and microwaves and wireless TV extenders etc etc etc) so it will
be congested right from the start.
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s to give money to friends and
family in advertising agencies, especially Liberal governments.
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y, the corporations, own.
look at every thing this government has done or plans to do, every
decision they make and it's starkly obvious - what big business wants,
big business gets.
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On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 06:27:38PM +1000, Frank O'Connor wrote:
> Nope ... Nope ... I think that was just a bird
you have to say "Nope" three times for the magic to work.
Tony says "Don't be a nope-nope-dope, say nope-nope-nope
m that it's too expensive to thoroughly vet the ads that
their customers run - but they conveniently neglect to mention that
while they're the ones who reap all the profit from the ads, it's the
public who are the ones who bear all the risk.
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I read in The Age[1] that the next census in 2016 is supposed to be "paperless"
does anyone here have any details about that? is there appropriate
planning for accessibility? will it require specific browser(s)
or operating system(s)? will it require javascript? will there be
alternatives availabl
sion of call centre flunkies
what the problem is. it could easily cost $30 or $50 or more just to
resolve a problem, and that is a HUGE amount of money for someone living
below the poverty lineit's an additional expense that could see you
living on 2-minute noodles for 3 meals a day for a we
>
> Looks like nuclear is the only realistic option. Fission then fusion,
> maybe.
Irish babies are an excellent renewable source of combustible fuel[1].
[1] J. Swift, 1729
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nds of spammers should you have to unsubscribe from?).
just add palmerunited.com and alacritytech.com.au to your block list and
forget about it.
don't engage with spammers, don't communicate, don't beg to be removed,
just block them.
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d) are riddled with spyware, even more so than PCs *because*
spyware is the business model of almost all tablet/phone apps whether
they are "free" or paid. They are untrustworthy devices and should be
treated as such.
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sband placed the order, not her.
she never made any agreement of any kind with kleargear.com - there's no
way that it could possibly apply to her.
> Hopefully the credit bureau will see sense. Get ready Australia,
> because this sort of credit tracking is coming here.
but extortion is good
On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 09:58:43AM +1100, Jim Birch wrote:
> * Only install applications from Google's store. Their monitoring is not
> perfect but it is better than nothing, and certainly better than a store
> set up as a scam.
alternatively, use an open-source only app "store" like F-Droid.
ht
petent to decide and MUST be protected from the
consequences of their incompetence, so that they can't be exploited and
democracy subverted.
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ry successfully in the US for
decades to keep poor, non-anglo, and non-white people from voting.
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al or electronic engineers because their mechanical
engineers - with vast experience of mechanical engineering but almost
none with electricty or electronics - should be able to figure out the
details. and maybe they can, but it'll take them much longer and they
won't do
dsman is generally pretty useless on anything
> of consequence, but it's possible that they may accept this as a
> dispute that they can mediate on.
complaint lodged with FOS a few hours ago.
i mentioned your point about abuse of market power by Visa & MC.
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ouldn't be
changing.
i said that my official position was that I've lodged a complaint with
the FOS and if I don't receive a satisfactory outcome, I would be
looking for a bank that can give me a non-RFID card.
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attitude was that I should run windows. my attitude was that i'd switch
to a bank that didn't require me to use an insecure operating system for
my banking.
i've heard that ANZ's ebanking site works fine now in Linux, but I've
had no compelling reason to leave Bendigo un
ouse,
I don't believe in going into debt for anything. avoiding debt is easy -
if i can't pay for something outright, then i can't afford it and don't
buy it.
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On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 11:34:41PM -0400, Scott Howard wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 10:45 PM, Craig Sanders wrote:
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> > because i don't want to carry something in my wallet that can be scanned
> > remotely to give an attacker my name, credit card number, CCV code
On Thu, Aug 01, 2013 at 10:10:04AM +1000, Jeremy Visser wrote:
> On 31/07/13 11:40, Craig Sanders wrote:
> > my bank, Bendingo Bank, just sent me a MasterCard PayPass debit card
> > - I didn't ask for it, and I don't want it.
>
> Care to share your thoughts on why
x27;t matter if the battery is dead
because you won't be taking it anywhere), otherwise a KVM switch can be
used.
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timing will be only a few years early for it to
be a very generous 90th birthday present from the australian people to
our very own evil overlord of the fourth estate.
craig
(from now on, i'm going to try never to refer to it as Liberal's NBN or
Turnbull's NBN - the correct name is
On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 11:17:21AM +1000, Noel Butler wrote:
> On Mon, 2013-04-22 at 20:19 +1000, Craig Sanders wrote:
> > hence the relentless pushing of the line that Julia Gillard is a liar
> > - after all, she said she wouldn't introduce a carbon tax but was
> > de
in itself, rather
than a means to an end.
(i was glad to see Gillard replace Ruddwhen Labour won the federal
election in 2007, the fact that she was Deputy PM and would eventually
replace him made having Rudd as PM more tolerable)
Labour are just a less-bad optionsomeone to put before th
have been in the US.
(which is why Turnbull has been neutered, he's one of the few remaining
old-school Liberals who still represent that demographic - the rest have
been either marginalised and ignored within the party, or replaced with
ultra-right wing ideologues)
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On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 09:04:28PM -0700, Scott Howard wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 5:27 PM, Craig Sanders wrote:
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> > Pay TV is dying, it never really worked in this country anyway
> > as Free-To-Air TV was mostly good enough, but it's dying even
> > i
icaee tax
revolt will be inevitable if the middle-classes are classified as "too
rich" to benefit from the service their taxes are paying for.
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