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14th October 2015, 10:48 PM | #121 |
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Everyone in the industry knew it was a total shambles from the start. Including, I imagine, the then Telecommunications Minister now PM. Not only are the Telcos not ready for the task, they don't ever want to be ready for the task. It's a complete loser for them. They have to afford heaps of expensive technology to start with which must be paid for by the customers. It is a complete turn-off for their customers so their income base reduces. And even semi-smart customers will bypass the filters easily, which makes the whole thing an exercise in absolutely futility. That is, yet another example of the Abbott idiocy. And it only cost us another few hundred million dollars.
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15th October 2015, 04:24 AM | #124 |
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Welfare debit card bill passed.
The governments welfare debit card bill has passed the Senate with the support of the ALP. The final vote was 37-10. This clears the way for a trial of the card in three sites, including Ceduna in South Australia from early next year.
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15th October 2015, 11:46 PM | #125 |
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Nice to see your new boy coming to meet his Guru, Combover Johnny.
Expect him to come home with much better understanding of how to drive Australia's property prices higher, reduce spending on health & education, and save money on climate change. Oh, hang on. Aussie's already got the last one sorted. |
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16th October 2015, 05:21 AM | #127 |
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No, this one is down to the LNP alone, if not specific people in that area with warped ideological agendas and party-political backhanders.
Labor, for all their sins before 2013, were at least looking at a world-class NBN and resisted alternatives to metadata mining for "terrorist searches". Alas, they caved after that - very poor decision. |
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16th October 2015, 02:07 PM | #128 |
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Who is the ex-PM that Heffernan has accused of being a suspected paedophile?
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20th October 2015, 01:47 PM | #130 |
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NBN Co. (Fraudband) buys 1800kms of new copper cable to make FTTN work.
Unbelievable https://delimiter.com.au/2015/10/20/...ake-fttn-work/ |
20th October 2015, 04:27 PM | #132 |
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I assume it is going to be Billy McMahon. There are unsubstantiated internet claim that Billy McMahon was gay. I have no opinion on that.
"It was common knowledge to many in political and social circles that the Liberal politician William McMahon was gay and that for many years he had shared a waterside Sydney home with his long term male partner." http://www.culturedviews.com/lady-so...04/03/view.htm Sonia is, of course, aghast at anyone even suggesting her husband was not heterosexual. http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news...-1111114526775 It is my understanding that Billy McMahon had some sexual immaturity issues and sought treatment back then, but never heard anything about him being a paedophile. ("boy lover in the 80's") I don't know what the sexual immaturity issues actually were, as I was only a kid when I overheard the discussion back then between senior psychiatrists. |
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21st October 2015, 12:47 AM | #134 |
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21st October 2015, 03:56 AM | #135 |
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Joe Hockey's final speech.
I think "First Dog On The Moon" say's it all. http://www.theguardian.com/commentis...mpous-braggart |
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Not content with being a homophobe, Eric Abetz decided to toss a little racism into the mix, describing African-American supreme court judge Clarence Thomas as a negro: http://www.theguardian.com/australia...e-in-interview
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They were actually started back in Howard's era, about 2005 IIRC. They didn't work then and they won't work now.
ETA: I was wrong. Cybercrime Act 2001 https://www.comlaw.gov.au/Details/C2004A00937 |
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Being an IT tech who had to deal with the technical and legal issues for clients at the time, it does indeed support my assertion. Granted the wording is now so dated as to be ludicrous on that point alone, so it didn't mention "metadata" per se. But they intended to use the powers of the act for the same purposes, i.e. to spy on the population in the name of "security". The current law is a variant of the same, with the same purpose in mind, and with the same bone-headed understanding and drawbacks.
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23rd October 2015, 01:09 AM | #143 |
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You keep missing the point that this is not just a "LNP alone" thing. No matter who introduces the legislation, they all receive bi-partisan support. And neither party is interested in how effective these laws are (everybody knows that only honest people will get caught up in the laws). Making laws is all they are interested in.
I don't know if the Cybercrime Act 2001 alone would have been enough to force ISPs to retain meta-data but the Laberals were dead keen to make sure that there was another law about it. |
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No, I didn't miss it. I agree. The 2001 law was a sop to senator Brian Harradine, the uptight religious thick-head from Tasmania who held the balance of power at the time. This was all his demands - he wanted to "censor the Internet" from pornography by keeping tabs on who was browsing what IP's. You may recall the peals of horrified laughter from the IT community at the time (proxy software sales skyrocketed), and the resounding groans from local ISP's who had to implement this tracking by law (my clients).
Agreed, the level of cross-house support was very disappointing. But the reason was purely political games - to pay for Harradine's unclogging of the Senate. My point was that, regardless of the back-story, the current law is hardly the first of this type, nor is it any better. In fact it is likely to be worse.
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On Heffernan's allegations, a French clock-loving Labor PM has been suggested to me, based on rumours about his marriage break-up. McMahon seems a real possibility, he was a shifty bastard.
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Welcome to the new one, just like the old one...
On Monday, 34 OECD countries need to agree to pass a deal that would slash pollution, stopping new coal fired power plants being built across the planet and restricting emissions from existing plants. There are just 2 countries refusing to sign... Which third world countries are these, unwilling to step up to the future and stop polluting `our' planet??? who? Turns out its South Korea, and AUSTRALIA!!!!! Yup the libs still (even under the new Turnbull promises to be a `good global citizen on climate change') obviously are still in full denial mode. `Damn the torpedoes, full steam ahead' and to hell with the results to the planet and our descendants (Turnbull government accused of blocking US, Japan plan to reduce coal, The Age, 10 November 2015) |
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It looks like the Budget Emergency just got boring so everyone's forgotten about it now.
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It's funny, I actually grew up there- I lived less than 500m from lighthouse beach
It seems that the number of attacks has increased remarkably over the last 5 years or so- when I was growing up there was only 1 attack in my entire childhood, where now it seems to be every 6 months or so at most warmer water? more sharks? who knows Personally I'd like to see the nets back |
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A very long read with a lot of dry numbers, but worth a read.
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Forgot to mention that the detailed analysis that I linked to in my previous post was by former NBN CEO Mike Quigley.
This Turnbull bloke is now wooing Australians with his charm and smarm (is their such a word). |
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Can it get any worse.
http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politi...25-gl7fso.html Tony's, Mr Internet, who virtually invented the internet Has stuffed it up once again. Mr. Fraudband should slink away with his head hung low. Scrap this monumental blunder Fraudband and bring back Lobor's real NBN. |
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I see things are going swimmingly for our broadband of the 20th century.
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Tony Abbott could have won the next election.
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