At 10:03 AM 5/04/2016, Jim Birch wrote:
>A week in a spinal ward might bring home the benefits of driverless cars.
>It's a no brainer when considered in terms of relative risks, rather than
>risk elimination.
>
>They are also likely to improve traffic flow and ease congestion.
>Especially when
At 03:16 PM 30/03/2016, David Boxall wrote:
>Sadly, today's Conservatives seem terrified of the future. Asking them for
>anything "with long-term sustainability in mind" is asking them to confront
>that which causes them to soil their nappies.
It's the same at state level. You should have
At 02:22 PM 29/04/2016, 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 where the fibre infrastructure has been
>destroyed. There will
At 12:15 PM 13/05/2016, Roger Clarke wrote:
>>Update A Telstra spokesman acknowledged last night's outage and attributed it
>>to a failure with a component that manages traffic ...
>...snip...
This discussion today was timely. Our computer club met today and asked what
happened to the
At 11:01 AM 13/05/2016, Stephen Loosley wrote:
>Swinburne Uni adds analytics to CCTV
>
>Looking to expand to facial recognition, heat maps.
And come up with a brand new name: Prison.
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At 01:50 PM 14/07/2016, Brendan wrote:
>Presumably, driverless cars are going to disproportionately remove drunks,
>suicides and young men from the accident statistics. If there is only a
>marginal improvement in _overall_ statistics, then that implies that they're
>being balanced by losses
At 09:19 PM 27/07/2016, Frank O'Connor wrote:
>I think computers are likely to develop into sapience before sentience
which
>may be problematic - as this whole discussion so far points to.
Hmm...I reckon in a rudimentary yet multiple way, computers already are
sentient, as in sensors -
At 10:25 AM 28/07/2016, David Lochrin wrote:
>There's no colour in physics, only EM waves of certain wavelengths or photons
>of certain energies, so where would it come from? If you can answer that
>you'll be famous.
LOL doubt it.
Rods and cones (something like five different types I think
At 11:58 AM 28/07/2016, Frank O'Connor wrote:
>Personally I think AIâs are a long way from developing this
>âunderstandingâ - especially at the hard wired instinctive level that
>pretty well all fauna and Animalia on this planet do.
>
>And that could be problematic for any truly sapient AI
At 09:54 PM 2/08/2016, Roger Clarke wrote:
>Alright, I'm up for it.
>
>I'm prepared to make the prediction that, after autonomous cars take over, 90
>percent of road accidents will be caused by machine error.
Made me laugh.
Alternative: the network made me do it.
Jan
I write books.
At 07:53 AM 3/08/2016, Nicholas English wrote:
>The ancestors of all great Australian adventures in infrastructure are rail
>and water. 100 years latter we are still paying to fix them both.
>There's no need to learn when an investor can get a return.
The 'gift' that keeps on giving - like a
At 12:13 PM 11/08/2016, Ben Elliston wrote:
>.. which is how it should have been done in the first place. Why
>build a system with such a high peak capacity when you could smooth it
>out over several days (say, Queensland Monday, Victoria Tuesday, NSW
>Wednesday) and do it with less kit?
Yep,
At 09:06 AM 11/08/2016, Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote:
>The most reasonable explanation is that they didn't expect everyone to
>try and log on at about 7:30, after dinner. Someone had already
>predicted this and had it published in the age - on August 4
At 09:39 AM 11/08/2016, Marghanita da Cruz wrote:
>Worth noting the ABS now comes under the Minister for Small Business which is
>in the outer ministry.
>https://www.pm.gov.au/your-government/ministers
Plus the guy has only had responsibility for it for 2 weeks. Abbott then Mal
didn't assign
At 06:54 AM 11/08/2016, Frank O'Connor wrote:
>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 not be
At 04:14 PM 5/07/2016, David Boxall wrote:
>>If we keep arguing about the costs over a four year budget cycle we are
>>unlikely to see a universally acceptable outcome. We need to be building a
>>futureproofed NBN that is seen as a critical long term investment.
I find it amazing that the
At 10:17 PM 6/07/2016, Stephen Loosley wrote:
>Senior ABC sources have told The New Daily that the ABCâs move into text
>publishing was a point of aggravation to News Ltd., in particular with its
>Canberra lobbyists telling politicians the broadcaster had gone beyond its
>taxpayer subsidised
At 12:59 PM 11/07/2016, Paul Bolger wrote:
>I'm not sure though that this approach is justifiable. If the operator
>of the robot/remote unit is not under any danger from the offender are
>they still under the legal protection of 'killing to save themselves'.
>I suspect not.
That's a very good
At 01:03 PM 11/07/2016, Marghanita da Cruz you wrote:
>Something unusual about this election was that it was in the dead of winter.
>But it was a beautiful day in Sydney.
Yes, winter was an issue, as well as school holidays. I voted early to avoid
lines in the wet Melbourne weather. Missed the
At 11:19 AM 5/08/2016, Karl Auer wrote:
>Carry on with Chrome. Google loves you.
Chrome is NOT my browser of choice. I use it quite sparingly.
I don't use bloated FF any more either.
I avoid IE as much as possible, too. Chrome over that, without logging in. So
no, Google can get stuffed. I
At 09:00 AM 6/08/2016, Kim Holburn wrote:
>I think the key issue is: why do all browsers give away so much information to
>websites? Why do we have to rely on extensions to make browsers secure?
>
>Who are they making the browsers for exactly?
It's the new TV - they are selling eyeballs and
At 09:13 AM 9/08/2016, David Boxall you wrote:
>By the way, I've just had another Telstra rep. assure me that ADSL is
>available on my line (9km from a RIM). I'm stringing them along, just to find
>out how far they'll go.
LMAO
good luck with that, Telstra REP!! Sales-shill more likely -- hook
At 09:51 PM 9/08/2016, Marghanita da Cruz wrote:
>* JavaScript is required to use this online form. Please enable
> JavaScript on your device or for assistance call the Census Inquiry
> Service on 1300 214 531. [code 950]"
At least someone had the sense to program in the failure number in the
Thanks, Andy
I haven't upgraded and don't intend to. I reckon my machine(s) are optimised
for whatever OEM OS version they came with. I only upgrade OS when I buy new
hardware. That's a few years away yet, perhaps.
What is irritating, though, is providing support in our computer club just
At 10:51 AM 2/07/2016, David Lochrin you wrote:
>It sounds very confused, as though the writer imagines a single distribution
>fibre is split evenly every time it comes to a house, so the signal after 'n'
>houses is then (2^-n). But even then, optical transmission is very efficient
>and
At 08:40 PM 31/01/2017, David Boxall wrote:
>What scares the Conservatives sh!tless is the thought that we need to invest
>before the cost/benefit equation comes into balance. We're dealing with harm
>done by decades of creeping commercialisation, culminating in privatisation.
>Australia can't
At 11:44 PM 8/02/2017, Andy Farkas you wrote:
>nbn(tm) have you FAQ'd:
>
> http://www.nbnco.com.au/support/articles/02348/The-technician-missed-my-appointment-what-do-I-do-now
LOL. I clicked the link, the page came up, and no content. Well, I thought it
was funny, given the title.
At 06:15 AM 31/01/2017, Paul Brooks wrote:
>While the Revised Outlook on the following page pegs the maximum number at
>306,000 in
>June 2024. Not sure where the other 293,000 premises went!
I only ever thought it was the MPs who couldn't count, like treasurers. I guess
it's communicable to
At 12:59 PM 22/02/2017, Paul Brooks wrote:
>Google on the other hand has started charging GST, and the billing entity
>switched
>from Google Ireland to Google Australia.
>Which I probably need to query, as all my Google cloud activity (storage and
>compute)
>is explicitly directed to European
At 10:31 AM 18/02/2017, David Lochrin wrote:
>The smell of a dead rodent is very strong! But I wonder if it was really
>Telstra calling? It may have been a marketing organisation who were being
>paid on results, or it may have been an outright scam. The latter seems most
>likely to me - at
At 02:13 PM 25/02/2017, David Boxall wrote:
>>âThey have taken Australians and given them all this fancy modern
>>technology, the politicians are telling everyone how fantastic it is, when in
>>reality itâs far worse than what people have now where telephones are
>>concerned.â
This
At 11:55 AM 13/02/2017, David Lochrin wrote:
>Given that we're dealing with broadband Back o' Bourke and not greater Sydney,
>the cost of providing 10 Mbit/sec in remote areas is likely to be orders of
>magnitude less than 1 Gbit/sec. While I'm no fan of the current Government's
>approach, all
At 07:42 PM 19/08/2016, Antony Barry wrote:
>They were magic times. It started with archie. Who remember archie now?
>
>https://www.minnpost.com/business/2016/08/rise-and-fall-gopher-protocol
I do! One of my fond memories around that time was giving gopher lessons to our
Chancellor. We were
At 09:45 AM 26/02/2017, David Boxall wrote:
>>It is now quickly becoming apparent that it's no longer a simple task due to
>>the mix of technologies and the need to have a nbn service to enable a VOIP
>>service to be active.
At 10:43 PM 26/08/2016, Stephen Loosley wrote:
>I'd say this site will become very popular across NSW, and, will result in
>lower
>fuel prices across the State. An excellent State Gov initiative, and one which
>I'd certainly hope Victoria etc soon emulates. Well done the NSW government.
Ours
At 10:29 PM 26/08/2016, Antony Barry wrote:
>Back to petrol, I buy around 30 litres a month.
Me too -- without using the bike or walking much. :))
Buy local, plan trips.
But it's still nice to see prices below $1/l
Jan
I write books. http://janwhitaker.com/?page_id=8
Melbourne, Victoria,
At 05:28 PM 23/08/2016, Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote:
>And if you want to know who can legally get at your health data, without
>you knowing, see here:
>
>Especially the bit about "Section 70 Disclosure for law enforcement
>purposes, etc."
And that link is?? ;-)
Good overview, BRD.
Jan
I
At 04:05 PM 9/11/2016, Andy Farkas wrote:
>>Donald Trump cannot be president of the United States.
>
>Seems the American people disagree.
He's not inaugurated yet.
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Twitter:
At 10:33 PM 10/11/2016, Stephen Loosley wrote:
>The federal government is set to offer voluntary cyber-security âhealth
>checksâ for Australiaâs top 100 ASX-listed companies, in partnership with
>the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC).
[emphasis added above]
So,
At 01:38 AM 8/11/2016, Stephen Loosley wrote:
>Freeview FV can already mirror to Apple TV using AirPlay. Business Insider has
>contacted Freeview about any plans to support Google Chromecast.
I was looking forward to this app when I heard about it earlier. But, still far
too many holes in this
At 04:11 PM 23/11/2016, David Boxall wrote:
>>But rather than agree to the request, NBN Co decided to move the node cabinet
>>out of view, 120 metres down the road.
Is there ANYONE in that Government OWNED company with any brains
I got an email from my ISP telling me their products for
At 02:14 PM 28/11/2016, Stephen Loosley wrote:
>Typically trans-Tasman ping times are around 23 milliseconds. That is the time
>it takes data to travel from Sydney to Auckland. TPG is Australiaâs second
>largest service provider.
>
> âTPG is a lot worse than all NZ ISPs for downloading
At 09:52 AM 21/11/2016, dloch...@key.net.au wrote:
>If someone hacks your front door and steals the priceless Ming Vase, would
>Telstra pay up immediately without argument?
Ignoring legal risk always makes me laugh, sadly. Of course Tel$tra could
include it as a 'business expense' or try to
At 05:37 PM 12/11/2016, Stephen Loosley wrote:
>Surely IPv6 awareness is required throughout networks? And so, how aware are
>we?
Bets on if the NBN installed equipment is IPv6 ready? Or is that certain that
it's all fine and dandy?
Jan
I write books. http://janwhitaker.com/?page_id=8
At 08:05 PM 4/11/2016, Karl Schaffarczyk wrote:
>How would you serve the privacy and sovereignty
>issues with using a private and overseas service such as Amazon?
I attended an Amazon talk a couple years ago. They assured me they were using
Australian servers. I guess you can choose to believe
At 01:36 PM 2/11/2016, David Boxall wrote:
>>I use the internet to run pumps and an automated watering system to provide
>>water to livestock. This of course is out of action without internet so I
>>have to be there to ensure water is kept up to livestock. This wasn't too bad
>>before the
At 08:50 AM 9/12/2016, David Boxall wrote:
>Thinking it through, 1 b/s is "up to" several TB/s. The term is totally
>meaningless, so why is it legal?
I'm with you. The ACCC should take them on. I read recently in a search of
Whirlpool during my quest that OPTUS has already been found in breach
At 08:24 AM 22/12/2016, Christian Heinrich wrote:
>It wouldn't be unreasonable to assume that when complying with the
>order made the court that their network engineers were also aware of
>the workaround before this change was implemented too?
>
>Furthermore, Telstra could argue it would be
At 10:51 AM 28/12/2016, Stephen Loosley wrote:
>Real time payments overhaul coming in 2017
And no mention of what this new "service" ::cough:: is going to cost the
consumer.
Nor how the links would be made to your email or mobile or etc.
Jan
I write books. http://janwhitaker.com/?page_id=8
At 01:01 PM 28/12/2016, David Lochrin wrote:
>I can't really see any advantage to ordinary users because transactions under
>$100 such as the $2.50 coffee are now handled using "pay-wave" and that could
>hardly be simpler or faster.
Plus, I'd like to know where other than Maccas you can get a
Thanks David.
At 02:54 PM 27/12/2016, David Lochrin wrote:
>Having tired of continual prompts to share my location, I disabled it
>completely in Firefox by going to and searching for "geo" then
>toggling "geo.enabled" to false.
If anyone is using Pale Moon browser, you can do the same in it.
At 08:54 AM 24/03/2017, Tom Worthington wrote:
>>... New ABC chairman ... NBN board member and ex-Telstra exec ...
>
>So when will the ABC will be phasing out "broadcasting" in favor of Internet
>streaming of "radio" and "TV"? :-(
New name:
Australian Streaming Corporation
Then you'll know.
At 06:22 PM 23/03/2017, Robert Brockway wrote:
>>* Someone waving to alert the car/driver of a pending danger;
>>
>>* A policeman waving at a car/driver to make it stop.
>
>Good questions. To be up to the task I'd say they should be at least as good
>as humans at recognising each of those
Time for an update
Observation: weekend impact on HFC -- jerky connection/data thru-put. I was
trying to watch Netflix on my Chromecast to TV and encountered buffering to
that device. I could play direct to my laptop without buffering, but no matter
what device I tried to cast -- laptop or
At 11:30 AM 27/03/2017, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
>We'd need to know the result of a speed test (like speedtest.net) at the time
>of the problem, ideally from a wired connection.
As I said, I did the speed test to the laptop, in the same room, just 2 meters
from the Chromecast dongle and got:
-
At 09:26 AM 23/03/2017, Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote:
>"Sorry, have to miss out today. My net connection is 'off'. Bloody NBN
>cutover not in yet."
>
>Commiserations, Jan.
NBN Update:
It took some prodding, but it appears to be working now. When I got up
yesterday, everything was dead. Phones
At 12:37 PM 30/03/2017, David Lochrin you wrote:
>That takes me back to the Goon Show's exploding socks... you see, life
>imitating art!
A former Linker sent me this after I forwarded the Miele story to him:
"Honey, the washing machine will only wash red clothes. I think the Chinese
hackers
At 01:49 PM 29/03/2017, David Boxall you wrote:
>>... Back in the day of Ka band, which replaced C (the bigger dishes we used
>>to grab signal from early satellites), rain was an issue. Lots of noise. I
>>didn't know if it continued with Ku or not.
>>...
>
>Out of curiosity, I looked it up:
At 12:21 PM 29/03/2017, David Boxall wrote:
>I've seen a post from someone in the danger zone who'd managed to power their
>Sky Muster S-NTD with a genset, but couldn't get signal. How much of Sky
>Muster's failings are down to Ka band limitations and which to cost-cutting on
>the ground is
At 06:03 PM 17/03/2017, Andy Farkas you wrote:
>Have you noticed that Jan isn't here? :)
LOL - I'm here, just reading.
The NBN installer came yesterday and put in their gear. I have an important
skype call to the US tomorrow, so I decided to hold off on connecting the new
modem in case it
At 06:39 PM 17/03/2017, Andy Farkas wrote:
>Hehe.. you're usually a bit more vocal.
>
>>The NBN installer came yesterday and put in their gear.
>
>A new plate in the wall? Alongside your other HFC connection?
I didn't have HFC in the house, so this is new. Yes, a plate, beside a power
outlet
At 07:00 AM 6/04/2017, Jan Whitaker you wrote:
>Interview coming up after 7am news about slowing the digital transformation
>process due to Centrelink system issues. At least I think that's what she
>said. I didn't catch who is being interviewed.
Actually, it was ABC AM with Sabra Lane. The
At 11:20 AM 14/03/2017, David Boxall wrote:
>>âOthers here in town are complaining about speed, but Iâve discovered
>>lots of complaints are caused by incorrect self-install of equipment such as
>>ADSL filters left in line and telephone equipment still connected to other
>>wall outlets,â
At 01:57 PM 14/03/2017, David Boxall wrote:
>Interesting question. It's an issue for FttN and FttDP. Don't know about FttP.
>If your NBN is HFC, then you'll have a voice-capable line that will satisfy
>the USO. Under the circumstances, will any other copper line be maintained?
No USO - my
At 08:21 AM 9/03/2017, Roger Clarke wrote:
>Or will desktop/laptop OS follow mobile OS, with the effect of denying normal
>people access to general-purpose computing devices?
This seems to be the way things are going - even Microsoft is moving to more
tightly controlled "approved"
At 02:30 PM 6/03/2017, David Boxall wrote:
>>Restoring this document provides a base level of transparency on a
>>whole-of-project basis. We hope you find it useful.
I reckon it's just going to piss off a whole new bunch of people.
Jan
I write books. http://janwhitaker.com/?page_id=8
At 01:36 PM 3/08/2017, Roger Clarke you wrote:
>[But wouldn't it be nice to know what Telstra (et al.?) replaced it with, on
>the stretches 'deep in remote parts of Australia'?!]
Any bets on Skymuster or zip?
Jan
I write books. http://janwhitaker.com/?page_id=8
Melbourne, Victoria,
I love podcasts. This one from Radiolab that I listened to last night is a
story about the efforts gone to by the creator of Z-cash, which is an
alternative to Bitcoin, based on the ultimate level of security and privacy
possible, without exposing the open register which publicly shows all
At 04:26 PM 31/07/2017, Andy Farkas wrote:
>Mr. Trumble, please explain how a node is upgradable? Oh, you rip it all out
>and start again? M, more affordable
Some bright spark from some dodgy tech company came in with a nice colour
brochure. Can't think of anything else that make
At 01:02 PM 7/08/2017, David Lochrin wrote:
>The gadget-ridden world they're trying to inflict on us is a result of a
>value-free corporate world where wisdom & responsibility are out of scope.
Anyone here listen to Radio Lab? Their last two episodes - Breaking News and
Truth Warriors - expose
At 07:00 AM 16/05/2017, Roger Clarke wrote:
>[Word gets around.]
>
>How Australia Bungled Its $36 Billion High-Speed Internet Rollout
>ANDREW McMILLEN
>NYT
>MAY 11, 2017
>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/11/world/australia/australia-slow-internet-broadband.html
I reckon this is because the NYT
someone should tell Chris Berg. Wait, excuse me. Doctor Chris Berg, RMIT.
Steve, are you still here?
At 09:39 AM 22/09/2017, Roger Clarke wrote:
>At 8:51 +1000 22/9/17, Tom Worthington wrote:
>>Blockchain is not the most important innovation this century, let alone in a
>>century.
>
>An
At 02:20 PM 15/10/2017, Stephen Loosley wrote:
>https://i.imgur.com/TWkkMTg.png
Interesting that this caught Elon's attention while he was in Victoria, eh?
Jan
I write books. http://janwhitaker.com/?page_id=8
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
jw...@janwhitaker.com
Twitter:
At 12:46 PM 30/08/2017, David Lochrin wrote:
>I think Governments need a panel of The Wise, well grounded in engineering and
>other disciplines and skilled in big-picture thinking. Of course their advice
>would never be completely acceptable, and why do we need that when we have the
>IPA?
On facebook (yeah, I know, sigh), there's a video out this week from Batdad
about his son and Bitcoin. It's hilarious!
https://www.facebook.com/BatDadOfficial/videos/1663192900390866/
At 09:39 AM 17/12/2017, Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote:
>The Hard Math Behind Bitcoin's Global Warming Problem
At 04:47 PM 7/12/2017, Kim Holburn wrote:
>Bitcoin trading is already slow and expensive. It's easier to just hold
>bitcoin ATM and making small fast transactions like buying coffee would seem
>almost too slow to be useful. I might be wrong about this though, I haven't
>tried it.
Are there
At 11:50 AM 15/01/2018, Dr Bob Jansen (in Korea) wrote:
>I wonder if Australia is taking the wrong focus? After all, do most people
>care about speed or services? I would suspect services.
I may be wrong, but I think this is a holdover from the international data
charge days across the
At 11:04 PM 12/01/2018, Stephen Loosley wrote:
>The highest-speed plan on the national broadband network is becoming a tough
>sell for telecommunications companies amid concerns the risks and costs are
>outweighing the benefits.
Asked a friend in the US, small town Indiana, what his Internet
I used to use SBS on demand on Chrome browser. It won't sign in any longer.
Ghostery is listing a HEAP of trackers. I think I'll pass. I tried logging in
with my established account and with Google. Both failed. Hence I put it down
to the Ghostery blocks. Using my tablet with the SBS On Demand
At 11:14 AM 14/01/2018, Tom Worthington wrote:
>If you want to be able to call emergency services during a blackout, when the
>NBN is not working, what do you do? If you have a mobile phone, then do you
>need an NBN based telephone service at all?
Technically, no. But the prices are very
At 08:38 AM 13/04/2018, Andy Farkas wrote:
>We can also expect that this year, like most years, the Budget will have
>a big effect on students."
That statement is like the Chinese wish: may you live in interesting times.
The person takes it in a positive way, usually, but it is no such thing. I
It would have happened if the human was driving as well. Accidents and stupid
human actions happen. Selling auto-drive cars as 100% safe is hype.
Jan
At 09:22 PM 21/03/2018, David Boxall you wrote:
>On 20/03/2018 9:43 PM, I wrote:
>>... It will be interesting to know the details of what went
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