Posts by GrumpyOldBloke

Or the North Korean's.

Re: There is no N in NBN

>ACCC Chair Rod Sims in which he said Australia can probably sustain five major broadband providers

The ACCC has a lot to answer for.

Re: Japanese animation - not surprising

The titles you have listed are amongst the best examples of Japanese anime and would probably be compatible with Chinese party values. Fighting fascism is not a problem, every second Chinese period drama seems to be about fighting fascism as depicted by various Japanese invasions. Modern Japanese anime that are little more than incest and pedophile training videos might be more in the line of what China is trying to ban. Many of the titles would likely not pass Western censors either. China has started its own animation industry and the bans may also represent trade protections.

Re: You ain't seen nothing yet.

Good suggestion but then you get cash-back (worker pays part of salary back to employer), service charge, foreign debt or company store type scams.

Re: How many have disconnected?

Internode over nbn HFC is just resold lowest common denominator TPG without all the Internode goodies - like static IP. When they take my ADSL modem from my cold wrinkly hands its sadly good bye to Internode.

Re: Keep calm and have a beer

This is minor, just a dry run for the metadata leaks we all know are coming.

Re: wasted opportunity

That is because the transport offices are for the most part a perversion of the law. Rather than targeting the guilty their job is to force the commuter to continually prove their innocence. Law the Australian way. Travel to Japan and see how a mature nation handles this problem.

Re: Place your bets

From the Australian ABC ransomware-virus-hits-computer-servers-across-the-globe...

The Federal Minister responsible for cyber security, Dan Tehan, said the Government was doing all it could to prevent further outbreaks.

"We have been in contact with our Five Eyes partners and the national cyber security centres in those countries to get a good sense as to what is occurring," he told the ABC.

"We are monitoring the situation, we are in touch with other countries to see what impact is happening there.

"That is the best we can do at this stage."

... That is it, the best we can do at this stage. The emperor has no clothes. I guess we wait for another programmer sitting in his bedroom to work this one out.

Re: Disable hyperthreading? Ouch.

Ryzen is not without its issues - random freezes.

Re: Simple Fix?

Under Citizen the menu reads: Guns, Missiles

Re: Sysvinit and Devuan

Looking forward to Devuan Stretch.

Re: Hmmm

Yup, music and video all over again. Remove the artificial scarcity and see what people think it's really worth. If the brand name is not enough, maybe Disney will have to find a way of adding real value to a 1c piece of plastic. Put a bar code on her butt and enable the princess to access licensed content that is kid safe and not as creepy as some of the internet enabled spy toys we have seen so far. The plastic should be merely the gateway not the final product.

Re: Does Not Make Sense

It makes sense, you just have to look at it the right way. A rational point of view is that mass surveillance is a sickness, a disease that will kill the 5-eyes hosts. Attempting to control encryption is just one more pox on us all. However, from a mass surveillance point of view encryption gets in the way of big data and that is a problem. For data mining and mass surveillance it increases the cost of what is already a worthless endeavour. If mass surveillance is ever to be proved useful we must all stand naked before it just like the scanners at the airports.

Re: Stop the trade in idiots

Ours appear to be a special breed. While the British gene is strong there is a local mutation that puts ours in a class of their own.

Re: Is this part of...

Without the meatbags, an empty ejection seat popping out the top of the plane when it got into trouble would just look silly.

Re: THUD

Should be OK so long as they are not delivering pianos or anvils.

Re: What they are really admitting is...

They are looking for drugs and cash - especially cash!

Just like the war on drugs, the war on terror is merely a plot device for the war for control of money.

But where is GCHQ? An attack on the realm and the spooks are nowhere to be seen. Where is the government rushing in with a key generation service? How bad does it have to get before this turkey sold as keeping us safe actually starts to fly.

It is easy to blame the Yanks but the glorious British empire is culpable as well. Now if only we had that magic encryption that is secure but with backdoors.

This is Australia, a yes answer would not matter.

National security is about building a counter insurgency capability against your own people while pretending it is a counter terrorism capability against foreigners. This is the same way it operates in most of the free West. Though the US will protect its own interests as will the UK to a lesser extent. Australia will carry on in the role of the the village idiot.

Re: I remember the old joke...

> issue guns to every passenger

Finally a solution to the problem of the person in front of your reclining their seat.

Re: Project Scorpio?

Yeah, but where can you buy hammocks?

Re: Great Barrier Firewall

Block facebook! That leaves the oldies banging away on various flavours of solitaire - and they vote.

Brexit and Trump were about trying a different path, an easy sell. In Oz the task for the ALPLNP is to try and get the 25% or so of very unhappy voters plus the swingers to accept the status quo. A much harder sell.

Re: I'm pretty sure they were behind the bill in the first place

Trump is in a new show now. The President. Catch it on Fox.

Re: Rubber stamp

> ASIO will just be a rubberstamp to anything the attorney-general wants.

You might have cause and effect around the wrong way. 5 eyes and the ever increasing pay to play is the threat. Like him or loathe him, the battles that Trump is having to fight against his own security services should be ringing alarm bells throughout Western democracies. Unless of course democracy was only ever a sham.

Re: Surely not?

>What needs that sort of bandwidth in residential settings?!

Real time mass surveillance.

Re: It sounds like the old Windows cruft idea

Google doesn't seem to have the issue - 3 and a bit years on a Nexus 5 and no noticeable performance changes. Could be planned obsolescence, manufacturers cruft or cheap nvram. Might be better for Huawei to identify the actual problem rather than plastering over it with ML.

Re: Well It'd be wise for the well tanned man...

Dealing with Israel or not is not a simple question of pro or anti Semitism. Unlike other mindless vassal states, like Australia, Israel has its own ideas about what it wants to be when its grows up. Sometimes it is a strategic ally of the US, sometimes a strategic competitor. Not to recognise this, especially in an area of warfare where the barriers to entry are low, would be very foolish.

Re: LG?

LG's boot-loop technology does help with privacy though it only appears in some phones.

Re: @ Dwarf

Who would give their kid a Theresa May doll. You just know that is not going to end well.

Re: He screwed NBN and now it's renewables.

Yep, can't wait for my sooner, cheaper, faster electricity.

Re: How long before scammers get wise on this??

Those notices would be identified as fake straight away. The Australian government would never settle for half when it has its boot on your neck. The notices would be better written demanding full payment and promising additional ruinous penalties if proof is not offered as to innocence in some impossibly short time frame. That is the way Australian governments work. The daily tele reported this morning that there is now a whole new faux security apparatus to pay for modelled on the highly successful US DHS. Bring on the debt collectors!