Re: [LINK] Google has removed Canberra buses from directions in google maps

Mmmm … 10%-15% of their Australian advertising revenue would be fair, and not as open to tax evasion/avoidance as an income tax. Whether its allocated to the media barons, or directly to a fund to encourage/pay for a transition to online journalism, or to conventional (obsolete) journalism busi

Re: [LINK] If Google pulls search....

Mmmm … If it comes down to a choice between Google, and Rupert Murdoch’s right wing rags, ranting Fox News opinions and divisive demagoguery, Sky News and Sports, and News (in name only) Ltd journalism … I know which I’d pick. Murdoch would like a return to the pre-internet 'good old days’ … w

Re: [LINK] COVIDSafe app downloads update

Mmmm … From my experience they tend to hide behind catch-phrases like “World’s Best Practice” and award themselves self assessed gongs and appropriations, rather than face the simple truth that the vast majority of their IT projects are debacles and disasters. That said, the I find the fact th

Re: [LINK] Stephen Loosely on a live stream

Mmmm … First deal with the crisis … and that looks like being ongoing for a year or two … then hold the post mortem. This whole thing smacks of politics, supporting the despicable Trump (who is casting around for someone, anyone, to blame for his woeful performance from Day 1 of the crisis in

Re: [LINK] What happened to broadband in Australia? (Part2)

Yes, for the last six years we’ve been Running with the Morons. I thought we’d reached peak stupid with Abbott, but the government luminaries (both political and in NBN’s management) since then have boldly gone into single neurone territory again and again. Not for them the advice of network sp

[LINK] This explains a lot ...

https://www.fastcompany.com/40584777/were-all-getting-dumber-says-science Seems that IQ scores have been dropping since the 1970’s ___ Link mailing list Link@mailman.anu.edu.au

Re: [LINK] Bitcoin is hitting new highs—here’s why it might not be a bubble

M … I pretty much view Bitcoin as a bit of an ethereal digital fraud in the making 1. It fails as a means of exchange for commercial/household transactions due to inbuilt effluxion of time (it’s not instantaneous like a credit card or cash transaction), transaction validation and lack of a

Re: [LINK] Peter Martin Economist (?) blames Labor for NBN!

But, an interesting and very-much-to-the-point rant. For the record, the same thing happens to me every time I comment on the LNP's farcical (and tragic for the country) NBN. A waste of money, time, and effort and a compromise of the country's future for the next 20 to thirty years ... all shee

Re: [LINK] Aussie households pay highest power prices in the world

M, One of the most ‘energy rich’ countries in the world (although we seem to redeem a pittance from it by way of royalties or charges on the gas we export - 1/50th of what Qatar charges, for example), and we don’t even get the advantage of this abundance in either gas prices (which feed int

Re: [LINK] Peter Martin Economist (?) blames Labor for NBN!

Well for mine: 1. Peter Martin’s columns have read like Malcolm Turnbull cheerleader hype for some time now. As one of the Age’s Commentariat he has been pretty much way to the right of public sentiment for some time, has a really poor record of accuracy and predictive validity (look at the las

Re: [LINK] Progress Report on Googong Wings

Yeah, Seems like another application of the old saying that ‘just because you can do something, doesn’t mean you should do something.’ I’m guessing that the next big improvement with delivery by drones will be 'biological enhancement'. The idea will be for pigeons to be implanted with control

Re: [LINK] AMD introducing 16 core processors

Thanks for that, Steve, Yeah … they had to do something to combat the Intel ‘Machine' in a shrinking desktop and laptop market. That said, the benefits of multiple cores remain to be seen when the large majority of software is still being written and compiled for single core architectures, and

Re: [LINK] Govt to tax broadband

Terrific. First they take a well designed state of the art broadband network and turn it into an expensive, tardily built, hodge podge of obsolete and inappropriate technologies, slowest in the world, debacle that they pity us for in other countries. Then they FINALLY realise that the satellit

[LINK] NBN articles ...

Seems the US media (unlike our own) isn’t shy about calling the NBN an unmitigated failure … https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/11/world/australia/australia-slow-internet-broadband.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur&_r=1

Re: [LINK] The experts agree, Turnbull’s NBN is ‘a national tragedy’

Well, I’d nominate Tony Abbott, ‘Mr Broadband’, Henry Ergas, Ziggy Switkowsi and Morrow for the positions on the Parliamentary Lawn. And I'll volunteer to ignite the stupid, ignorant, expert opinion denying, sods. What a waste of $60 billion this has been! And the final disaster won’t be saleab

Re: [LINK] Brandis rushes to release telco metadata for civil proceedings

matter as we have drifted seriously off the course of my original missive… which was concerning the AG’s intent to provide data to litigants in civil actions. Happy Christmas one and all ... --- > On 23 Dec 2016, at 3:33 pm, David Lochrin wrote: > > On Friday 23 December 2016 14:31

Re: [LINK] Brandis rushes to release telco metadata for civil proceedings

ssive… which was concerning the AG’s intent to provide data to litigants in civil actions. Happy Christmas one and all …" --- > On 23 Dec 2016, at 3:33 pm, David Lochrin wrote: > > On Friday 23 December 2016 14:31:32 Frank O'Connor wrote: > >> Situation with

Re: [LINK] Brandis rushes to release telco metadata for civil proceedings

> On 23 Dec 2016, at 12:14 pm, David Lochrin wrote: > > The IPsec VPN protocol provides authentication and/or encryption. A > single-hop VPN packet carries the original source & destination IP addresses > and also relies on public-private key pairs, so the local end could be raided > to reco

Re: [LINK] Brandis rushes to release telco metadata for civil proceedings

Sorry, fired that off before I replied. :) > On 23 Dec 2016, at 9:43 am, Christian Heinrich > wrote: > > > On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 5:48 PM, Jim Birch wrote: >> The biggest user segment in Australia are people who want to access the >> more extensive content on US Netflix, but there are o

Re: [LINK] Brandis rushes to release telco metadata for civil proceedings

> On 23 Dec 2016, at 9:43 am, Christian Heinrich > wrote: > > Jim, > > On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 5:48 PM, Jim Birch wrote: >> I suggest you read lifehacker's pages on VPN. This compares services and >> is updated periodically. > > I'd recommend > https://torrentfreak.com/anonymous-vpn-servic

Re: [LINK] Brandis rushes to release telco metadata for civil proceedings

G’day Christian, > On 23 Dec 2016, at 9:39 am, Christian Heinrich > wrote: > > Frank, > > On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 4:58 PM, Frank O'Connor > wrote: >> Don’t know about that. Prior to 2014, and even early last year, VPN’s and >> other security >>

Re: [LINK] Brandis rushes to release telco metadata for civil proceedings

G’day Christian, > On 22 Dec 2016, at 2:46 pm, Christian Heinrich > wrote: > > Frank, > > On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 10:16 AM, Frank O'Connor > wrote: >> At the moment, very few Australian Internet users take advantage of secure >> proxy >> s

[LINK] Brandis rushes to release telco metadata for civil proceedings

Over at ZDNET Stilgherrian wrote an article on the AG’s new proposal to make the supposedly strictly secure ‘held only by the government' metadata collected by the government available to un-named third parties (IP holders, moral crusaders, marriage partners … who knows) in CIVIL actions. See:

Re: [LINK] NBN: A Nation Building Project - Dr Mark Gregory

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

Re: [LINK] WIPO Adopts Open Access Policy for its Publications

Ironic. :) Just my 2 cents worth … --- > On 18 Nov. 2016, at 8:57 pm, Antony Broughton Barry > wrote: > > > > http://www.wipo.int/pressroom/en/articles/2016/article_0016.html > > Sent from Pocket - Get it free! > ___ > Link mailing list > L

Re: [LINK] 'Public-Private cybersecurity centres'

My apologies, The least the government could have done is respected the CERT trademark. :) At any rate, the expensive government ‘alternative’ is not a shade on the original. --- > On 27 Oct. 2016, at 10:08 am, Glen Turner wrote: > > > I suspect this conversation is

Re: [LINK] 'Public-Private cybersecurity centres'

Right On, Roger, What utter BS! Government security mavens (in the DSD) lost me when they told me something I was trying to implement was TOO SECURE (PGP based secure e-mail), they couldn’t crack it, and therefore they couldn’t approve it. But little numbers like establishing a government AusC

Re: [LINK] Completely off-topic

Now that is cool … … WAAAY COL! It’s good to get a reminder that things like this are happening in our world ... Just my 2 cents worth :) --- > On 7 Oct. 2016, at 12:25 am, Stephen Loosley > wrote: > > https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/562fzy/what_is_the_most_pleasan

Re: [LINK] Telstra trials 5G mobile network, the next 'quantum leap' in technology

> On 20 Sep 2016, at 9:31 PM, David Boxall wrote: > > And they're coming out of the woodwork again. > "This is what the government should be investing in not fibre to the home." >

Re: [LINK] NBN gets to Albury, Sussan Ley is impressed

Mmmm, > On 20 Sep 2016, at 11:35 AM, Bernard Robertson-Dunn > wrote: > > FTTH would have no big street box requiring maintenance, no > environmentally bad batteries, no electronics with very limited upgrade > options.. … no huge power overheads and costs - with the attendant vulnerabilitie

Re: [LINK] Fwd: The rise and fall of the Gopher protocol | MinnPost

Archie, Gopher, Veronica ... Mmmm, the all bring back memories Not single composite hyperlinked documents combining text, graphics and other files ... Which later HTTP and HTML did ... What you got was distinct tex, graphic and other files opening on your screen - but a major upgrade on the tex

[LINK] Language please ...

See: http://www.zdnet.com/article/my-health-record-dumb-and-useless-australian-privacy-foundation/ …. For some rather strong (but merited) language from our own BRD. Pretty much EVERY digital health initiative over the last 20 years has come to the same sordid end - hamstrung from within and wi

Re: [LINK] Census: OAIC's Vacuous Pseudo-Investigation Report

Mmmm …. Seems a bit like a pre-emptive “it wasn’t me, Sir, it was him” strike to me. But I’m sure there’ll be enough blame to go around (and disappear up some bureaucratic fundament) when it all comes out in the whitewash. :) Just my 2 cents worth … --- > On 11 Aug 2016, at 4:16 PM, Roger

Re: [LINK] The numbers just don't add up.

Yo BRD, > > Here's what may be a useful tweet, claiming to know what really > happened. YMMV, IANAL etc. > > https://twitter.com/riskybusiness/status/763605906047107073 If that’s true it’s ‘Amateur Hour' at the ABS. I mean, leaving aside whether they were attacked or not, why would you not tak

Re: [LINK] RFI: Census Site Implosion

Actually, like the ATO, the ABS is a division of Treasury. So, if anyone is ultimately responsible it’s ScoMo. That said, he’ll just write it off as an ‘on water’ matter and therefore deem it not necessary to comment. Just my 2 cents worth … --- > On 11 Aug 2016, at 9:47 AM, JanW wrote: > > A

Re: [LINK] RFI: Census Site Implosion

Mmmm …. and its still down now (6 am Thursday morning). Bottom line: If there really was a series of DDOS attacks (which has been by no means proved, and will probably only be proved if third parties verify traffic stats .. and the ABS produces the logs) then the ABS are incompetent and should

Re: [LINK] RFI: Census Site Implosion

No, nope … I think incompetence covers it. O course they will say they tested it, that the servers should have handled the demand within their load sharing tolerances, that their systems are ‘world’s best practice’, and that it was all the fault of some completely unforeseeable glitch that nobo

Re: [LINK] Machine Learning Was: Re: Robot cars and the fear gap

evel that pretty well all fauna and Animalia on this planet do. And that could be problematic for any truly sapient AI that we develop. I don’t know if this is making any sense … but what the heck! Just my 2 cents worth … --- > On 28 Jul 2016, at 8:01 AM, JanW wrote: > > At 09:19 P

Re: [LINK] Machine Learning Was: Re: Robot cars and the fear gap

Mmmm, There’s a BIG difference between the two. It could even be argued that a single (although complex) celled amoeba is sentient - it possesses the necessary sensory capabilities to appreciate the world around it, and it is capable of movement to avoid light - responding to stimuli, as well

Re: [LINK] O/T: The Moron's Bark

It would appear that the moron density is dropping.:) The Political Commentariat and the MSM were the ones that looked like morons after Saturday’s result. Politicians? Yeah, but short sighted morons with a high degree of rat cunning. Just my 2 cents worth … --- > On 2 Jul 2016, at 10:58 A

Re: [LINK] Four different Aussies on four different NBN technologies

Pretty much what you’d expect from News Ltd (or any MSM outlet in Oz) Anecdotes from News Ltd selected individuals … if that ain’t unimpeachable evidence, what is? Just my 2 cents worth … --- > On 19 Jun 2016, at 2:45 PM, David Boxall wrote: > >

Re: [LINK] Voter fury rising over sluggish internet speeds

> On 11 Jun 2016, at 10:34 AM, Bernard Robertson-Dunn > wrote: > > The NBNco site tells me that the NBN it is not currently available and > there is no scheduled date for rollout. Lucky Sod! The NBN has been posited for my area by Q2 2016 … hey!That’s now! … but nobody’s seen hide nor hair of

Re: [LINK] Will humans be banned from driving?

Sorry, fired that last puppy off before I’d finished. > On 1 Jun 2016, at 11:11 PM, Bernard Robertson-Dunn > wrote: > > Table 1 > 1970-1982 road deaths were over 1000/year peaking in 1978 at 1384 > The latest year reported, 2014 was 303. > > Deaths per 1000 persons > 1978 0.27 (population 5,

Re: [LINK] Will humans be banned from driving?

> On 1 Jun 2016, at 11:11 PM, Bernard Robertson-Dunn > wrote: > > On 1/06/2016 6:01 PM, Frank O'Connor wrote: > > You are missing my point. Yes technology has improved many things, yes > automation is fantastic and can do things humans can and will never do

Re: [LINK] Will humans be banned from driving?

Yo Ivan, > On 1 Jun 2016, at 6:24 PM, Ivan Trundle wrote: > > >> On 1 Jun 2016, at 6:01 PM, Frank O'Connor >> wrote: >> >> And yes, I know it’s great to have a ‘backup system’ to the auto-pilot in a >> plane, and I doubt I wold want to fly in

Re: [LINK] Will humans be banned from driving?

Yo BRD, Keeping this private … :) > On 1 Jun 2016, at 5:02 PM, Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote: > > On 1/06/2016 4:24 PM, Frank O'Connor wrote: >> Actually, commercial aeroplanes have pretty much been fully automated. You >> can enter coordinates/destinations/fl

Re: [LINK] Will humans be banned from driving?

G’day BRD, > On 1 Jun 2016, at 3:33 PM, Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote: > > If you look at flying air planes, why are they not all fully automatic? > Flying a plane is a far simpler problem. The reasons why planes haven't > been fully automated may well apply to cars. And cars have their own, > ad

Re: [LINK] Will humans be banned from driving?

Yo BRD, > On 1 Jun 2016, at 2:34 PM, Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote: > > On 1/06/2016 2:12 PM, Frank O'Connor wrote: >> Mmmm, >> >> As will the attendant hardware - and no I don’t just mean the cars. >> >> Roads will need to be maintained with high

Re: [LINK] Will humans be banned from driving?

Mmmm, As will the attendant hardware - and no I don’t just mean the cars. Roads will need to be maintained with highly visible white marking and/or embedded sensors. GPS satellites will have to improve from their current accurate within 50 metres, to accurate within 5 … and not be subject to h

Re: [LINK] Conspiracy theory ;)

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

Re: [LINK] Aussie farmers go digital

That’s a bit rough … and probably inaccurate …. :) > On 22 Apr 2016, at 1:11 PM, David Boxall wrote: > > How much has Australia lost, thanks to decades of political onanism? I suppose the bottom line is that they’re not screwing themselves, they’re screwing the country, it’s people and its f

Re: [LINK] A non-sensationalist look at Australian internet speeds

> On 26 Mar 2016, at 10:28 AM, JanW wrote: > > Fairfax is dying. Their best journos jumped ship long ago, moving to places > where scrutiny is valued. Murdoch press will follow. > Mmmm … I’ve noticed that. There are still a few worth reading (Michael West, Kate McKlymont, Adele Ferguson etc

Re: [LINK] A non-sensationalist look at Australian internet speeds

Actually I think the tone and (highly debatable that it exists) substance of the article was something along the lines of “Yeah bandwidth in Australia is abysmal, and yeah it doesn’t look like the NBN is gonna make it hugely better, but (he inserts BIG non sequitur here) in those countries that

Re: [LINK] Does NBN need a third satellite?

Mmmm, But the NBN since the government took it over has had a history of wildly optimistic projections concerning bandwidth usage and requirements … apparently in 2020 Australian households will only need 15Mbs of bandwidth, which is why the MTM NBN is shooting for at least 25Mbs per household,

Re: [LINK] NBN chief seeks advice of US tech giants as broadband technology debate rages

Mmmm … As it stands, most estimates nowadays are that the MTM NBN will redeem less than $30 billion of its capital costs when on-sold to a gullible private industry. Thats a $30 billion capital loss on the books after sale. Personally I doubt whether it’s worth even $20 billion …. but a non-gul

Re: [LINK] How fast is the NBN?

e such a suggestion, Tom. > > > On 28/02/16 13:46, Frank O'Connor wrote: > >> So all the observed trends, the increase in speeds ... aren’t gonna >> appear... > > Speeds will increase, but people want stuff they can carry around with > them, not have it s

Re: [LINK] How fast is the NBN?

Mmmm, > On 28 Feb 2016, at 1:44 PM, David Boxall wrote: > > On 28/02/2016 12:17 PM, Tom Worthington wrote: >> ... >> The future I imagine is one where people use data when out and about, > Only then? Do you see none being used in homes, businesses, factories and the > like? Not to mention that

Re: [LINK] How fast is the NBN?

> On 28 Feb 2016, at 12:17 PM, Tom Worthington > wrote: > > On 27/02/16 05:07, Frank O'Connor wrote: > >> It’s a bit sad really that we can’t imagine a dynamic future ... And >> I think that is Tom’s problem … not enough imagination. > > The future I ima

Re: [LINK] How fast is the NBN?

It’s a bit sad really that we can’t imagine a dynamic future, in which technologies, processes, enablers and markets develop rather than reamain static at this moment in time. And I think that is Tom’s problem … not enough imagination. But anyway, the limiting factor with fibre isn’t the specif

Re: [LINK] Joint Strike Fighter Senate Submission

M, it’s amazing what politicians will spend money on - and where they elect to ‘economise’ to pay for it. Abbott’s government did elect to buy another 12 (at a cost of $10-12 billion), despite the fact that they’re running so far behind schedule that they’re likely to be superseded by next-g

Re: [LINK] Talking about AI

Ummm … Heuristics maybe? There were a number of efforts in that area in the late 70’s and early 80’s. I remember one offering, called Eurisko from memory, that showed a lot of promise … but it’s so long ago () and I failed to keep up with developments in that field. Scientific American was

Re: [LINK] NBN backup service

I considered this in a private reply to Jan, on the same thread you quote … when she queried the battery thing … to whit: "At a guess, and as I said, I have no idea about the design and circuitry in the nodes, in case of power failure you’d need backup power in both the node (hey, the calls wil

Re: [LINK] Nick Ross has left the building

Mmmm, It’s undeniable that the NBN went right off the ABC’s topic list after early 2013. My guess is that its inadvisable to lump your national broadcaster under the Communications Department banner and expect some objectivity of Communications Department issues. The terrific thing is that wh

Re: [LINK] Detailed analysis of NBN Co’s finances shows FTTP better value than FTTN

I’d guess the operating costs of the MTM model NBN are blown out by: 1. Power requirements at the node. It costs to power up all that copper and all those nodes … not an issue with fibre. 2. Maintenance costs at the node/aboveground box. Hey all these above ground, complex, exposed to the eleme

Re: [LINK] Strange call from "Telstra"

Definitely not Telstra.:) Probably from the same people who have bought us the ‘Windows Technical Services Department’ My guess is that we’re looking at a fishing expedition there. They keep you talking, get to verify your username and logon-passwords, maybe get you to connect to their

Re: [LINK] NBN got what it paid for—will now cost almost half as much again to fix it

Mmmm, > On 27 Nov 2015, at 10:47 AM, Bernard Robertson-Dunn > wrote: > > “The nbn board are political hacks. They are incompetent. They did not > know what they were doing,” the former communications minister raged. I have to admit that as soon as I saw Ziggy Switowski appointed to the NBN,

Re: [LINK] Turnbull's faster, cheaper NBN - Background Briefing - ABC Radio National (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Well, I propose that we refer to him as ‘Mr Broadband’ from now on in all our missives, messages into the List, and conversations from others with others from now on. Because if we refer to him as ‘the Prime Minister’ or ‘Mr Turnbull’ he’ll just weasel his way out of any responsibility for thi

Re: [LINK] NBN spent $14m on 1800km of new copper for FTTN

No, It goes beyond ‘dumb’. Sadly, that’s been a hallmark of our country for the last three years or so, so I’m guessing you’re using the ‘not that dumb’ assessment when measured against other landmark political decisions we’ve seen on refugee policy, climate policy, transport policy, fiscal po

Re: [LINK] Rachel Polanskis -- RIP

Mmmm … She’ll be missed. She was there at the beginning of the LINK list, there at the beginning of ISOC, and pretty much there as a contributor from the beginning of the Internet in Oz (way back in the 1980’s). As you say, she was quick to respond to pleas for help - which was always especial

Re: [LINK] itN: Telcos don't like regulation

Yup …Shock! Horror! Of course, the argument and merits of their case depends on how much of the green stuff they’ve sent the way of the major parties … so I’m well content that the rational decision will be made. That said, Telstra did get $11billion from the government for a fully depreciated

Re: [LINK] What Do I tell the Public About Cookies?

not always 'evil' and did represent a solution to a problem posed by HTTP's design for low maintenance and low network overheads. Just my 2 cents worth ... Give me a coffee, and no-one gets hurt > On 26 Aug 2015, at 4:32 pm, Roger Clarke wrote: > > At 4:1

Re: [LINK] What Do I tell the Public About Cookies?

Cookies were created because HTTP as a protocol can't maintain 'state'. This was both a good thing - because it allows the Web to simply drop the connection once it has passed the requested Web page - and a bad thing, because sometimes you need to do things in sessions, or even across sessions,

Re: [LINK] web: Stunning blow for Dallas Buyers Club in copyright case - Computerworld

Mmmm, A surety of $600,000, his previous warnings on going on 'fishing expeditions’ and his caution against demanding unconscionable damages, as well as our ISP’s requesting that their costs for this scheme being met in full, have put a little bit of a dampener on IP and copyright legal actions

Re: [LINK] web: Taxpayers, IT expert slam ATO's 'appalling' myGov integration

Mmmm … This debacle has been going on for about 20 years in one form or another. First there was the platform specific binaries … that only worked on Windows, and only worked on specific (obsolete) versions of Windows. Then there were the aborted attempts to create binaries for other platforms

Re: [LINK] NSW Transport for Internet Explorer only

Mmmm … the use of platform specific binaries and browser extensions sort of defeats the idea of a ubiquitous open standards network, doesn’t it? It’s almost as if these bureaucrats and government departments don’t realise that the era of the closed proprietary network has passed them by, and tha

Re: [LINK] Self-driving cars .. kill you to save multiple others?

Nice one, Stephen:) My BIG problem with ethical arguments like the one below is that in the real world we’d never even have to time to make them or consider the implications therein. You’re about to prang in to something/somebody, you have about a second to make a decision, you tend to

Re: [LINK] web: Border Force Act: detention secrecy just got worse - The Drum (Australian B ...

Well, yeah but … we’ll be saved by our media - won’t we? The old Fourth Estate, those guardians of the public weal, won’t desert us. Will they? Maybe not ... 1. In the press (both Fairfax and News Ltd) I see articles on a daily basis from the Fourth Estate, and/or retired politicians and bodies

Re: [LINK] Gridlocked cities to cost more than $53 billion a year by 2031 without action: Infrastructure Australia

s they are provided at the moment … we could honestly say that we have 'Shit Politicians'. As it is, that applies anyway … but only in a metaphorical sense.:) Just my 2 cents worth … --- > On 23 May 2015, at 11:14 am, Craig Sanders wrote: > > On Sat, May 23, 20

Re: [LINK] Gridlocked cities to cost more than $53 billion a year by 2031 without action: Infrastructure Australia

> On 23 May 2015, at 10:04 am, Marghanita da Cruz > wrote: > > Gridlock can only be addressed by Mass Transit/Public Transport. Very true … but Mass Transit/Public Transport doesn’t seem to sit well with our current government. They are willing (no EAGER!) to waste billions of public monies

Re: [LINK] Gridlocked cities to cost more than $53 billion a year by 2031 without action: Infrastructure Australia

Look, up in the sky ... Is it a bird, is it a plane? No, it's our PM. Because this looks like a job for the INFRASTRUCTURE PRIME MINISTER!! Nope ... Nope ... I think that was just a bird Maybe IPM was just another weak aspiration rather than a promise.:) Just my 2 cents worth ... > On

Re: [LINK] New Ford GT employs 10 million lines of code ‘

Mmmm, Every new line of code can represent another possible point of failure. And in the good old days all we had to worry about was failure in a car part. And one of the reasons cars are impossible to DIY service nowadays is the need for plugging it into the million dollar diagnostic machine t

Re: [LINK] Tools for Compiling to JavaScript

> On 14 Apr 2015, at 9:54 pm, Roger Clarke wrote: > > > Once upon a time, computing terms had clear meanings. > > Compile meant to convert source-code into executable code, i.e. the > machine-language of a given computer. Unless you were using one of the early versions of PASCAL with its blo

Re: [LINK] Carbon Price Removal Rebate

Yo Jan, Yeah, Direct Action a monumentally stupid idea ... that from the stats already released doesn't seem to work. (According to a couple of recent items on Fairfax and other sites, greenhouse gas emissions have already started trending upwards.) Subsidising the sinners ... has a great ring

[LINK] US FCC changes broadband definition

See: http://www.theverge.com/2015/1/29/7932653/fcc-changed-definition-broadband-25mbps Minimum for 'broadband' as accepted by the Federal Communications Commission is now 25Mbs download and 3Mbs upload. And that lags the current European definitions. And that is for the CURRENT US definition. G

Re: [LINK] Aussie Cyber Warfare

> On 28 Jan 2015, at 10:07 pm, Stephen Loosley wrote: > > Quoting: > http://www.afr.com/p/technology/australia_launches_cyber_weapons_hR1B30qv3c6bYKJvquVzoO > > > Australian Cyber Offensive > > Australia is no passive participant in cyber conflicts. > > Multiple intelligence sources have t

Re: [LINK] NBN Malcolm style

Mmmm, Makes just about as much technical sense as the MTM design does. I can see the design meeting now: "OK, we need to design a multi-technology rather than single technology network with as many possible points of failure as possible. 60-80,000 possible points of failure ... lets call them ‘

Re: [LINK] Surviving Climate Change

Personally, I don't have a lot of time for either the 'What a Work is Man' argument or the sanctity of Nature arguments. The bottom line is that if we were even remotely collectively intelligent we would realise that you can't keep dumping your garbage in a closed system (the world), and you ca

Re: [LINK] From my friend re NBN change

Mmmm, Telstra is also encouraging existing customers to sign uo for new deals which include a new router. I'm guessing (and this is my nasty suspicious nature at work) that the new routers are all models that Telstra is using to implement its "Gee Whiz Wow' Last Gen Public WiFi network ... wit

Re: [LINK] Australian Patents

My feelings on the patents system (particularly the US payments system) are probably somewhat different to others. I don't necessarily see them as a good thing. Once you start patenting ideas and techniques as property - especially to the extent that is applicable in the US - you effectively a

Re: [LINK] NBN new roll-out map

Mmmm, Like you're not going to notice if the NBN has started in your area or not. Utterly pointless. Something that outlined a timetable however. That said, since they moved to the LNP's MTM model of the NBN, I've been beastly unconcerned with its progress or anything else about it. It simply

[LINK] BOFH on Antivirus Software

Check out http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/11/08/bofh_2014_episode_11/ for Simon travaglia's take on anti-virus software. It's very amusing. ___ Link mailing list Link@mailman.anu.edu.au http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link

Re: [LINK] RFC: Data Retention

And another excellent article on data retention ... and specifically the problems of metadata, from our old mate, Stil (Does he still frequent the List?) At any rate ... it's worth a read. http://www.zdnet.com/can-snowden-finally-kill-the-harmless-metadata-myth-733717/ On 15 Sep 2014,

Re: [LINK] web: Serious flaws in Turnbull's NBN cost-benefit analysis report

Mmmm, The idea that I'll need less bandwidth in 10 years time that I have now seems to me to be a tad flawed. Better they just abandon the construction and save the $30 billion in my book. This is shaping up to be the greatest (deliberate) waste of public monies ever. Just my 2 cents worth ...

Re: [LINK] Australian Crime Commission's ambit claim

Mmmm, but they're simply doing what that great Protector of 'Freedom', George Brandis, wants, It's remarkable how selective he is with his 'freedom'. Bigots must be free, but the rest of us must be under control and do what the government wants. 'Freedom of Speech' is Paramount - but no way in

Re: [LINK] Bitcoin .. ATO's draft guidance

I sort of expected this - even though I haven't been involved in any way for many many years. The bottom line is that no government will willingly assist other currencies to flourish in competition to their own, especially currencies that operate outside government control altogether. This is f

Re: [LINK] Remember the power to the nodes issue?

akhstan gets FttP at 100Mbs or better ... but Australia can't get a 25Mbs guaranteed network out of 'Mr Broadband'. Says it all really. :) --- On 12 Jul 2014, at 9:23 pm, JanW wrote: > At 09:05 PM 12/07/2014, Frank O'Connor you wrote: > >> There's

Re: [LINK] Remember the power to the nodes issue?

love this country! One screw up to the next ... and we still elect them! It's simply astonishing! --- On 12 Jul 2014, at 9:23 pm, JanW wrote: > At 09:05 PM 12/07/2014, Frank O'Connor you wrote: > >> There's the mundane copper/fibre reliability thingie. Exactly how >

Re: [LINK] Remember the power to the nodes issue?

Mmmm, There are any number of issues that haven't even been looked at with respect to those pesky nodes. There's the power thingie, as Jan mentions. There's the maintenance thingie (I mean, these 80,000 odd puppies are out there in the weather, being regularly opened and closed to service/conn

Re: [LINK] IT matters of interest in the 2014/2015 Federal Budget

Mmmm ... But it looks like Abbott's gone off science and technology, and is shooting for a deity-led economy, with what he's providing the School Chaplaincy program. Why he didn't just invest the $250 million in a long shot on the TAB or SportsBet I don't know, but we of the atheist persuasion

Re: [LINK] ABC site problems ...

nd less of a passive news consumer. Regards, --- On 15 May 2014, at 11:55 am, Jeremy Visser wrote: > On 14/05/2014 22:58, Frank O'Connor wrote: >> I've had problems with inputting any data onto the ABC site for the >> la

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