* Posts by LaeMing

2410 publicly visible posts • joined 23 Dec 2009

The slow strangulation of telework in Australia

LaeMing
Unhappy

But but but.

We are only supposed to consume!

How could some career-politician who has never created anything real in their life understand otherwise? Seriously!

Samsung caught disabling Windows Update to run its own bloatware

LaeMing
Unhappy

I was thinking the same.

Samsung used to be a preferred brand for me across the whole CE field.

But they are getting too much like Sony now.

NEVER go full Sony!

Raising a stink in court: Innocent poo banditry warehousers win $2.2m

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Re: 2.2 meelion dollars

I think the worry is that the employer, having obtained the DNA samples, could then mis-use them for potentially discriminatory purposes.

Australia gets its Internet filter after Senate vote

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Go

With the tendency for political parties to keep 'accidentally' using unlicenced IP on their sites.

This could prove interesting!

We need to watch these sites like hungry hungry hawks.

For the national good, of course.

Graphene sheaths could boost processor signal speeds by 30 per cent

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Happy

re: Will it blend?

It will blend all sorts of things that a regular blender blade would choke on!

No, Australian Small business AREN'T flunking out online

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Yes.

We only usually hear about the whiners as they are the ones making the noise, while everyone else quietly gets on with getting stuff done.

Australia's Senate demands access to NBN business case that doesn't exist

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Happy

Re: Bingo!

That word, while not in common use, is considered pretty 'normal' here in Aus. Is the English Language's home slipping behind the colonies in linguistic complexity?

Strewth, cobba! That takes the dingo's biscuits!

Auto-playing video ads? People love auto-playing video ads – Twitter

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I don't often tweet, but when I do...

Yes. Twitter has a very good specific use for me. None of these 'features' have anything to add to that use.

I will soon have to move all parties interested in what I have to say (yes such exists! In a very specific work-related way) to Diaspora* or similar. In the end, this isn't really the sort of thing that needs to be profitable for a specific organisation to exist if you go distributed.

Exit-tel customers can't even upgrade their plans to stay

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Re: No notice for this customer yet.

I think you may be correct. I am one of those people for whom branding and corporate image slides right over. It is generally a perk, but it does have the occasional down-side - like when I have cause to identify a commercial entity.

LaeMing

No notice for this customer yet.

NBN just put the outside box and fibre on my place a few weeks ago and a work colleague who lives 2 block north of me just got the internals plugged in, so if Exetel do want to terminate me, I am hoping they can hold off for another month or two when I have to switch plans anyway, so switching providers at the same time would not be much additional effort.

My impression has always been that Exetel is primarily focused on business users and they only connect home users (like me) because why-not. If that has become uneconomic for them, then pulling that side-service back would be expected.

What might make connecting home users suddenly uneconomic? Well being informed that they now have to go to the trouble to store 2 years worth of user-activity metadata might. That is, of course, pure speculation.

I have always thought if Exetel wasn't so good for my current needs that TPG might deserve my patronage if only for being the ISP that seems to always be standing up to our governments (all of them!) trying to get their sticky fingers in parts of the 'net they have no business being anywhere near.

Australia gets its site filter at LAST

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Thumb Up

Nong-on.

A most delightfully Australian take on the situation.

The $60,000 logo: What it costs to change a website

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Flame

So,

Can I deduct my share of that from my next tax bill?

'Stolen' art found on nearby shelf. Police keep looking anyway

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Never mis-file on the stacks!

That's why the public generally don't get stack access in a library and have to ask a librarian to get something - if it is mis-filed on the stacks it can take years-to-never to find it again!

FBI: Apple and Google are helping ISIS by offering strong crypto

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Apple and Google are helping anyone who doesn't want the FBI et. al. doing un-warranted drag-netting of their data. Since that set includes the entirety of the US population, I think they are at worst guilty of patriotism.

One USB plug to rule them all? That's sensible, but no...

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Facepalm

Why not just send the video/network/whatever signal over the USB3 wires as, I dunno, USB3 data? Have some sort of dongle at the end that converts that to HDMI/1000baseT/whatever.

I highly doubt alt-modes would cover the extreme-use cases that wouldn't be satisfied by that anyway.

IT-savvy US congressmen to Feds: End your crypto-backdoor crusade

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Unhappy

Re: Seriously, how stupid are we supposed to be?

See: Binary liquid explosives on planes because Die Hard 3.

If in doubt, consult a competent chemist.

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Trollface

#closed-source-software-problems

Turnbull's Digital Transformers discover log files contain more than meets the eye

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Black Helicopters

Story title needs more "air quotes".

Chlorine gas horror leak at Apple data center puts five in hospital

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Boffin

Re: Posting.

Either that, or they are both furiously watching the LCD screen on a noxious gas detecter.

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Joke

Just sayin...

Fruit releases all kinds of noxious chemicals when it goes bad!

Au gummint, opposition: site blocks just FINE

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Paris Hilton

Whelp.

There goes much of .gov.au

NBN must limit downloads to 12 Mbps downloads until copper handover

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TiSP

http://www.google.com.au/tisp/

It was only meant as a JOKE, Malcolm!

Hardcore creationist finds 60-million-year-old fossils in backyard ... 'No, it hasn’t changed my mind about the Bible'

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Considering the apparent mish-mash of quantum theory and the sheer scale of the universe. I believe we live in an undergraduate-created simulation. Used the entire memory space, dragging the speed of light down in the process and had to keep patching the laws of physics in a 12-hours-before-submission all-nighter just to keep it stable.

I'd give it a C-

Property developers face NBN build sting

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Considering how much property developers in Australia charge over international mean prices for appartments with floor-plans that could best be described as "designed by a bad game of Tetris", I can't feel much sympathy.

Robots.txt tells hackers the places you don't want them to look

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Alert

Re: Yes.

http://choppingblock.keenspot.com/d/20020718.html

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Facepalm

Yes.

I always assumed robots.txt was just to flag parts of the tree that were not worth the robot's trouble. As both a courtesy to the search engines and to reduce bandwitdh to your web server. Nothing to do with security.

Using it for security is like leaving your front door open and a note on the table saying "please don't nick anything in the bedroom".

Your metadata and the cost of collecting it belong on your phone and internet bill

LaeMing

Re: A Good Thing, despite the politics

My last Aus tax notice did contain a paper with an annotated pie chart depicting the gross areas+portions in which the income tax money gets spent.

That DRM support in Firefox you never asked for? It's here

LaeMing
Unhappy

Re: I think I can speak for the majority when I say:

Sadly, the true majority say 'Derrrrrrr'.

POW: Smut-seeding copyright troll slammed as 'extortionate'

LaeMing

Forget the rest.

THIS GUY for president!

Kill all geoblocks says Internet Society of Australia

LaeMing
Unhappy

Sorry

That's not what international trade agreements are for.

Microsoft's cash-leaking Nokia phones rip off patents, face import ban

LaeMing
Meh

He who lives by the sword....

NBN Co loses the “Co” for AU$700,000

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Unhappy

Your tax dollar...

...at work.

Stuff your RFID card, just let me through the damn door!

LaeMing

Our RFID swipe cards really do only work from one side. No idea why!

Scummy transients FOUND ON MARS by NASA rover

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Go

Re: Mars9?

They keep bumping the version number every time they /don't/ find any bugs.

Rand Paul puts Hillary Clinton's hard drive on sale

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Coat

I believe...

...it was a certain female intern's dress that was crusty.

China weaponizes its Great Firewall into the GREAT FIRE CANNON, menaces entire globe

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Meh

Bad net citizens...

...get their IP blocks banned.

Self-aware storage? It'll be fine. Really - your arrays aren't the T-1000

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Alert

Self-aware storage?

Isn't that how Sgt. Schlock's people started out?

ALIENS ARE COMING: Chief NASA boffin in shock warning

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Boffin

Re: Gross problems

Earth and Mars have been exchanging pieces of rock (blown off each respectively by large meteor impacts) for the entire age of the solar system. Any contamination is already long done.

Netflix fail proves copper NBN leaves Australia utterly 4Ked

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Meh

Re: 38% @ 12Mbps and 38% at 25Mbps

"You're just like Turnbull, you argue that because people are on slow speeds now that they will never use faster speeds."

Wow. If they used that argument on roads development just think how much money they'd save!

LaeMing
Unhappy

Re: Bipartisan support

They know: that's how they are taking away what little privacy and rights we have.

RELICS of the Earth's long lost TWIN planet FOUND ON MOON

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Facepalm

Aaaaaand...

...by this mornig I am passing some nutter at the train station complaining that 'America' has found another Earth and is hiding it from us.

Google wants Marvin the Paranoid Android's personality in the cloud

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Don't forget...

...the two versions of Eddie the Shipboard Computer of Heart of Gold. Each worse than the other!

" I can even work out your personality problems to ten decimal places if it'll help. "

You. FTC. Get over here. Google is INVADING our children's MINDS – anti-ad campaigners

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Childcatcher

Sea-monkeys and X-ray specs.

The best introduction to the reality of advertising any kid can have.

Liberal MP threatens journo with metadata probe

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Mushroom

I believe the expression is...

"hoist by their own metadata".

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FAIL

Everybody sing...

I can see your true colours, shining through.

Feds ponder jamming journo comms in Australian Parliament

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Any chance...

...they could just lock themselves in, completely dis-connected from the outside, and never come out?

Streak life: Oz woman flashes boobs at Google Street View car

LaeMing
Happy

As Kaz Cook once wrote:

"You can always tell a bottle-fed baby!"