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I would like to apologize for previously calling you a paid shill. I now realize my error. Nobody would pay you for this shit.

Labor only promoted FTTP because Telstra refused to negotiate on FTTN.

Telstra was more than willing to negotiate as is evidenced by their submissions to the RFP 2007/09.

I guess you've forgotten that Telstra's bid was non-compliant? For a company of Telstra's size that was a deliberate action.

We are no longer dependent on Telstra.

Instead Labor is creating NBNCo which has an even tighter monopoly grip on infrastructure.

Labor only promised 1Gbps speed because just prior to the last election Google announced Google Fibre.

It took some time but Labor found a way to be able to offer it and keep the existing pricing. Most people don't (yet) care, but for Australia's forward-thinking technologists, this is a big win

Let me quote Quiqley for you: The reason we announced one gigabit was simply because when the government said you've got to provide at least 100Mbps, Google at the time made an announcement that they were providing 1 gigabit in the US. And suddenly we went from a situation facing [those] in the media saying 'what on earth does anyone need 100 megs for?' to saying 'this is already redundant, it is already out of date, you can't do one gig'," he told a Parliamentary inquiry into the benefits of the NBN in Sydney this morning.

I'm not sure that many people would call $150/month wholesale for 1Gbps, plus data charges a win, especially when so few peope will have access to those speeds.

Less than 5% are predicted to connect at 1Gbps in 2028

Predicted by who? You? NBNCo's own corprate plan shows in Exhibit 2.12 that downstream trends from 1985 - 2012 extrapolated to 2025 that demand for and reliance on gigabit services and beyond are more than likely. It is available and it cost us nothing ectra to have it made available.

I'm surprised that you've read the NBNCo Corporate Plan and missed Exhibit 8-4 Overall Fibre Subscriber Split by AVC Speed Tiers. You will find it that my numbers come from there. Have a read. Yes the hardware being installed will support 1Gbps, but not many will be able to afford the plans.

50% are predicted by Labor's NBN Corporate Plan to connect on fibre at 12Mbps

You, sir, have obviously never written a business plan. Conservatism is the name of the game. You plan for worst case. What we are seeing is that, as of Feb 2013, 41% have opted for the fastest available 100/40 plans and 11% have opted for the entry level 12/1

When preparing the 2012 revision of the Corporate Plan, NBNCo revised upwards the percentage of 100Mbps connections, but did not alter the percentage of 12Mbps connections. This suggests that NBNCo unsurprisingly expect that many of those yet to connect will choose the cheapest plan. NBNCo's latest prediction reinforces my opinion that speed tiers on the NBN will create digital divide.

I assume that you are referring to the same conservative corporate plan that is falling further behind every day in meeting the consistently revised down rollout targets? ;-) The Stage 2 maps published prior the last Federal election show my house covered, which means I should have been able to order a connection at the latest by the end of 2011. The current NBNCo Rollout suggests I may be able to order a service in 2018.

Huge amounts of money are being wasted by NBNCo (Building a Fibre NBN on a Copper budget)

Our NBN is a project that has been planned, approved and star

Atlassian set up something that is both awesome and functional. Seriously, you could just do this. http://www.zdnet.com.au/atlassian-builds-portal-for-video-chat-339327884.htm

I agree, it's totally lame. But to geek-ify it a little, try to do something like this: Portal-style videoconference.

And then slave this to the webcam, under the control of the grandparents for "corrective" actions.

OK, that is evidence of a clean room implementation. How did Sun code end up in Android then?

I see no clear evidence that it did. All the code examples I've seen that are supposedly copied code seem trivial, and likely to be accidental duplication.

Also, what was this guy doing working on Android?

He wasn't. http://www.zdnet.com.au/google-oracle-get-technical-in-court-339336340.htm

He was working for Google in an entirely different capacity, and wrote the code as a translation of a Python implementation. The code was then copied into Android by a second Google employee, who was possibly unaware of its source. But as the code in question is trivial, and represents just about the only sensible way to achieve the same results, I'm not sure it counts as copyright code (see the Lexmark case of a few years ago -- if code is the only sensible way of implementing a functional requirement, no copyright exists). Here is the code in question:

private static void rangeCheck(int arrayLen, int fromIndex, int toIndex) {
                  if (fromIndex > toIndex)
                          throw new IllegalArgumentException("fromIndex(" + fromIndex +
                                                ") > toIndex(" + toIndex+")");
                  if (fromIndex < 0)
                          throw new ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException(fromIndex);
                  if (toIndex > arrayLen)
                          throw new ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException(toIndex);
          }

Sure looks trivial to me.

Curious that this news from zdnet http://www.zdnet.com.au/spy-drone-data-reveals-bin-laden-link-339336470.htm appears in news soon afterward. Are they analyzing it and cloning at the same time?

I'd stay away from the Australian Greens if I were you, they're not at all like the European Greens.

Australian Greens (source: http://greens.org.au/policies/media-arts-science/arts- )
"introduce legislation to protect intellectual and artistic property rights."

European Greens (source: http://www.greens-efa.eu/fileadmin/dam/Documents/Policy_papers/Creation_and_copyright_in_the_digital_era_EN.pdf )
"We want to shorten the protection time to something that is reasonable from both society’s and an investor’s point of view, and propose 20 years from publication."

What?

Not convinced yet?

OK. Let me put the final nail in the Australian Green's 1880s era coffin:
The pre-decision draft (PDF) of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) has drawn praise from the Greens, but the party says the devil may be in the fine print.

Pirate Party Australia has decried the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA).

Australians. You decide what future you want... but at least DO something!

Its legal now. Australia had its early hacking cases and its was no fun for the police.
They had to understand what a phone line was, a modem was and how to record a modem for later play back in full.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electron_(computer_hacker)
They then had to present a case with very old trespass laws and invite the legal system to think digital with old laws about walking onto gov (~mil) land.
Australia also makes movies, music and produces some form of scientific products of some value every few years.
Australia also likes getting quality military equipment at low cost from the USA.
So Australia made sure it was covered for the next hacking cases, music/movie law and anti terror laws to play nice with its friends around the world and ensure we are seen as a team player.
A judge will be asked to sign off on the final raid, until then your just a person of interest.
http://www.zdnet.com.au/inside-australia-s-data-retention-proposal-339303862.htm has some info on how logs will be collected and how little legal input will be needed to get your isp details in full and begin long term tracking.
"automate the process of requesting and obtaining access to telecommunications data"

If you want to view all pics at once, view it here:

http://www.zdnet.com.au/imax-replaces-worlds-largest-screen-pics_print-339331475.htm

Yes you need to spin up a subpoena, court order, or other legal document right....
Then wait for the details to come back. Spin up the telco with a court order ect. and get the real world details form some cleared admin and the telcos's legal team.....
I am guessing very little paperwork and very automated - point and click like for a person with many hats results in very rapid real world details.
Australia hinted at such a system for cleared staff - no real day to day court paperwork needed.
http://www.zdnet.com.au/inside-australia-s-data-retention-proposal-339303862.htm
"..."wanted to automate the process of requesting and obtaining access to telecommunications data."

This.

I'm all behind the NBN.. so long as they prioritise to provide services for:
1) Areas that with no broadband
then
2) Areas that currently have badly services broadband
then
3) Areas limited to ADSL 1
then
4) Everywhere else

taking into account
A) All new suburbs / houses are to be connected as they are built

The problem with this is that it isn't economically viable. They need to get millions of users onboard and paying for the network in order to ensure sufficient capital and investment to extend to the areas that really need it.

The other problem is that the prices they are putting forth don't look too good when stacked up against ADSL 2.

Compare $50 for the DSL for 500GB with uploads not countered at DSL2+ speeds - that's 8M down 1Mup if you are close enough to an exchange (from TPG) ;
to
$49 for 40gig at 12mbps (from Optus) with uploads meters - which does not mean 40GB.. it means 40 GB total uploads and downloads.. so call that 30 GB or 20 GB.. depending on how you use your connection.

The worst part is that they feel the need to meter uploads and downloads. A major step backwards. Most people won't appreciate the impact of this until they are hit with their first excessive use bill.

They are still debating whether or not average joe will even join the NBN. This problem, however, is solved: they are destroying the copper network, and forcing everyone onto the NBN. Pundits have been guessing that if this didn't happen then the NBN would sink.

Did anyone mention that the Gov't has already stepped forward with a plan for a national NBN filter?

Now, how about a few thousand mesh network devices all over the country side...

Swings and roundabouts..

1. censorship - ISP voluntary filtering is up an' kicking (and don't give the "change your ISP", some of us can't do it)

2. Web browsing history retention - quote: ZDNet Australia broke the news on Friday that the Federal Government Attorney-General's Department was considering how it could best implement a data retention regime in Australia..
Please note: not "If it could implement..." but "how it could best implement...".

Now, sleep tight and sweet dreams.

1. censorship - ISP voluntary filtering is up an' kicking (and don't give the "change your ISP", some of us can't do it)

2. Web browsing history retention - quote: ZDNet Australia broke the news on Friday that the Federal Government Attorney-General's Department was considering how it could best implement a data retention regime in Australia..
Please note: not "If it could implement..." but "how it could best implement...".

Now, sleep tight and sweet dreams.

1. censorship - ISP voluntary filtering is up an' kicking (and don't give the "change your ISP", some of us can't do it)

2. Web browsing history retention - quote: ZDNet Australia broke the news on Friday that the Federal Government Attorney-General's Department was considering how it could best implement a data retention regime in Australia..
Please note: not "If it could implement..." but "how it could best implement...".

Now, sleep tight and sweet dreams.

1. censorship - ISP voluntary filtering is up an' kicking (and don't give the "change your ISP", some of us can't do it)

2. Web browsing history retention - quote: ZDNet Australia broke the news on Friday that the Federal Government Attorney-General's Department was considering how it could best implement a data retention regime in Australia..
Please note: not "If it could implement..." but "how it could best implement...".

Now, sleep tight and sweet dreams.

Its not a matter of feeling or not. Wi-fi has been proven to interfere with emergancy landing equipment. Don't believe me? Read for yourself. http://www.zdnet.com.au/wi-fi-proven-to-interfere-with-aircraft-339311113.htm
http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/2011/03/10/354179/wi-fi-interference-with-honeywell-avionics-prompts-boeing.html

From your article:

A senior Boeing engineer stressed to ZDNet Australia that the levels of EMI required to affect a pilot's screen exceeds the levels produced by the normal operation of normal levels of Wi-Fi use.

"Boeing and Honeywell have concluded that actual EMI levels experienced during a flight where there is normal operation of a Wi-Fi system will not cause any blanking of a Phase 3 display. This is not a safety issue with currently operating 737s and 777s," a Boeing engineer said.

Its not a matter of feeling or not. Wi-fi has been proven to interfere with emergancy landing equipment. Don't believe me? Read for yourself. http://www.zdnet.com.au/wi-fi-proven-to-interfere-with-aircraft-339311113.htm http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/2011/03/10/354179/wi-fi-interference-with-honeywell-avionics-prompts-boeing.html

In Australia a State Government used a ridiculously expensive "off the shelf" SAP payroll solution that turned into a complete disaster. A year later and staff still aren't being paid properly. Lots of finger pointing between IBM, SAP and Corptech who is the State Government's IT corporation. They paid $40M for software that didn't work, and still doesn't work.

Take that number in. $40M. Ridiculously overpriced even if it did work, but this doesn't even do that. Payroll isn't rocket science. A few competent programmers locked away for 6 months could do better. Far too much money is thrown at so-called 'enterprise software'.
http://www.itnews.com.au/News/218348,ibm-under-fire-for-qld-health-bungle.aspx
http://www.arnnet.com.au/article/351650/ibm_says_queensland_health_sap_failure_its_fault/
http://www.zdnet.com.au/qld-health-sap-woes-lead-to-cash-advances-339302381.htm
http://www.goldcoast.com.au/article/2010/05/07/215335_gold-coast-news.html
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/australian-it/qld-health-pays-hefty-price-for-sick-payroll-system/story-e6frgakx-1225813063057
http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/351608/updated_qld_govt_blames_ibm_health_payroll_bungle/

Ahh, I see you're not good at reading, let me help you out.

You mean Conroy, not the Labor party.

Completely wrong. The beginnings of these policies started with Kim Beazley. Additionally, if it's not a Labor party policy, then you need to tell the Prime Minister that, and you might ask them to update their pages. While you can say the most recent ones are crafted and pushed by Conroy, it does have the support of "the party", where its leader and strategists speak for what the party supports.

Deputy comms minister Kate Lundy has been an outspoken critic of filtering

Partially wrong. She's been an outspoken critic of... THIS type of filter. She wants it to be an opt-out filter. She was however an outspoken critic of ISP level filtering... when LIBERAL was in power.

The contract was to buy that.

This is where the reading comprehension comes in. Even with the single line you quoted, in no way, can it be taken to mean 'they were paid to censor the internet'. Please re-read it. What it says is 'They censored the internet, at the same time as they were awarded a contract', not a contract for censoring the internet, but a contract for buying the infrastructure.

Please, keep up.

This is because they own 0% of the pits and ducts (or copper) that make up the last mile which is where the NBN is operating.

Now this is reasonably true, except that Agile (Internodes infrastructure company) does supply last mile connections for many rural communities. On top of this, they own a significant amount of interstate fiber, which is something the NBN also had in its deal, though to a lesser extent at this stage.

You dont actually understand what's going on here and should never have been modded up.

The thing I like about your post, is the arrogance it has, while being exceptionally wrong. It's almost like you're trolling me. Not sure if you're retarded, or trolling. I'm erring on the former.

Standard Microsoft reputation management response to malware discussions.

As opposed to the standard Apple response to a problem:
Ignore the problem
Blame the user
Then only if there is sufficient outrage that could possibly damage their image do they admit there is a problem

I'm told that there is some emphasis on designing new transmitter/receiver systems that can squeeze more bandwidth out of the strands you already have

Yeah this was in the news today. It talks about 100Gbps per wavelength and 16Tbps in total.

Dear RSA; speaking as a customer; we need a simple answer to the question:

has the securid seeds database been compromised?

anything else you announce is fluff.

We use a LOT of SecurID tokens at our university, and the group that manages them has been way too quiet since this happened. But today they sent an email out - no mention of the RSA breach, just that they have decided to "retire the SecurID tokens early to save money" and are replacing them with a different product.

So I'm guessing they think the seeds database has been compromised.

has the securid seeds database been compromised?

anything else you announce is fluff.

Australia tried to explain data retention via the European Convention on Cybercrime http://www.zdnet.com.au/data-retention-not-blanket-but-targeted-339311987.htm
"...under the convention, law enforcement agencies would approach an ISP with a certificate, requiring information pertaining to an individual to be retained until the agency can get a court order or warrant."
Retention keeps your interesting ip safe and usable until a "court order" can be requested at some point.
Soon they will just keep it all.
"[But] more generally the retention of all of the communications on their network is a very different issue and having to retain those and retrieve those would be quite a different scenario. And we're not talking about that at this stage."

Uh, it is child's play so to say:

http://www.zdnet.com.au/olpc-achieves-2km-range-in-802-11s-tests-339277912.htm

Also note that the methods mentioned in the economist article are much better suited for places like Libya where most people may have a radio but probably not a computer or even a network connection.

Being at home above the equator, I'm confused by the article's reference to "material relating to confidential commercial information". Supposedly, such information could and should be protected from disclosure.

But why does the government need to have trade secrets along with the usual military and diplomatic embargo on information? Dictators and their cronies might think it's okay to run a government for profit, but my understanding of democratic government is that, at best, it shouldn't lose money ("balanced budget"). Fees are charged for paperwork and the like so the government can pay its employees or buy the raw materials it needs to render its services.

Australia has had a lot of police database issues. From the removal of original files and the double life of officers as active spies for criminal groups.
eg. "Victoria Police and the problem of corruption and serious misconduct"
http://www.opi.vic.gov.au/file.php?61
The NSA used levels of access, subsets of information was never open to anyone not cleared for that unique operation. The East Germans split all their spy info so no one person could ever walk out with full details.
In the private sector its a can be a internet free for all.
http://www.theage.com.au/technology/security/vodafone-sacks-staff-over-database-breaches-20110114-19q0y.html
http://www.zdnet.com.au/virus-hits-integral-energy-desktops-339298861.htm
Australia has a lot to learn at the low and mid level computing, usually buying in systems from the USA and letting the locals try their best. The NSA and GCHQ have worked with our top level defence staff, so thats more safe.

>>>Open Source does not punish them for the effrontery of disclosing them.

Punish them? What you say?

Like this

Sometimes good news is good.
(I know, profound)

At least I can start drinking Foster's again to pretend to be "outback"!

Also I found a US winning a robot battle against Australia on the side panel, and robots merit an instant mouse click!

...

On a more enlightened note, I found TFA really shallow and not providing the news in the most ideal way I wanted:

The government accepted response to recommendations that federal, state and territory police forces establish an "e-crime managers group" to improve information-sharing and cross-jurisdiction cooperation, which would fall under the auspices of the Australia and New Zealand Policing Advisory Agency's e-Crime Committee.

So really our collective "uphill battle of common sense" is really just a temporary mitigation to the common sense necessity. (Don't confuse my comment in not being pleased by the article, just I was hoping for a bit more...sometimes the sensationalist Slashdot headlines get to me!?!!)

Are you trying to say MySQL or Postgresql are equal to Oracle in performance, reliability, or documentation?

I'm saying that oracle is becoming more and more irrelevant, as some high scale deployments of other software shows.

Some licensing schemes with oracle can wind up costing companies almost a million dollars per year. That equates to quite a few extra full time employed database administrators.. which would more than be able to make up for any perceived lack of documentation etc.

There really are very few scenarios left where you actually need oracle for your database.

OR http://www.zdnet.com.au/aussie-makes-apple-imod-for-datacentres-339306909.htm

"excuse for vital infrastructure to be controlled via the internet."
Australians like MS at the front end?
eg http://www.smh.com.au/technology/security/sinister-integral-energy-virus-outbreak-a-threat-to-power-grid-20091001-gdrx.html
http://www.zdnet.com.au/virus-hits-integral-energy-desktops-339298861.htm

I think they should receive some congrats.

"Likely the whole system will soon be automated."
Australia is dreaming of that too. Show ID to get an ISP account, a fed or state task force clicks on any Australian ip and the data links back in real time.
".... the AFP [Australian Federal Police] told the briefing that it wanted to automate the process of requesting and obtaining access to telecommunications data."
http://www.zdnet.com.au/inside-australia-s-data-retention-proposal-339303862.htm
France may want the same instant system. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frenchelon in the courts :)

while it would appear the minister may have had some guilty consience,
and there wa irony that Christian MP Fred Nile was "involved"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Nile

* the audit was unauthorised
http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/woman-behind-nsw-parliamentary-porn-inquiry-quits-20100906-14y1i.html
* the audit did not properly identify "porn sites"
"instances of inappropriate access were registered by the audit if parliamentary staff accessed sites that contained links or advertisements to pornographic or gambling material."
http://www.zdnet.com.au/reports-of-nsw-mp-internet-misuse-flawed-339305748.htm
the "porn sites" with by far the biggest number of hits were local newspaper ones, apparently because they included on-line dating ads
http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/09/03/nsw-parliament’s-flawed-prn-hunt/

stop thinking globally and think locally.
when we get the NBN up, major IT contenders such as google, microsoft, facebook, youtube will have local caches within australia, jobs will be created from expansions of such companies, more data centres... let alone medical applications, video conferencing, IPTV streaming, extremely cheap phone calls, ability then to setup local call centres ...
Education expansion, schools no longer have to be where the most people are when it can be done vide a video link.
More bandwidth = more data processing so more research can be completed, super computers creates, technology advances made....
so many possibilities.

check out http://www.zdnet.com.au/election-rant-1-wireless-greed-339305187.htm for more info is the possibilities

And with no anti-virus scanner or anything, how would you even know if you were infected?

He wouldn't know, of course. Could be he's on dial-up, the malware is less likely to get users with a useless, slow connection. :)

But seriously, there are lots of dorks on /. who brag about "never been infected"; it's obvious they don't know what they're doing and are running a spambot or worse. Remember, the average time it takes for a fresh winstall to be compromised is twelve (12) minutes!

Do rural farmers really need a 1Gb Internet link?

Mate, if I'd get 1 Gbps there, I'd move at the country side by the end of this year.
Moreover, if I'd have to pay AUD5000 from my pocket to have a country-side home wired with optical fibre, I'd do it tomorrow and I'd move in by the end of this year.
Maybe I'm not very representative, but I would think that I'm not quite the only lunatic sick enough of the city life to do it (telecommuting is not a problem for me).

There is also the possibility that 4G technologies will come along and provide 90% of the benefits (ubiquitous fast internet) at only 10% of the cost (no digging up the country).

Doh... are you sure you aren't the IT advisor for Tony Abbott (who's not Bill Gates to know the difference between peak-speed and guaranteed bandwidth)?

http://www.zdnet.com.au/quigley-nbn-co-to-deliver-1gbps-339301748.htm?omnRef=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com.au%2Fsearch%3Fq%3Dnbn%2Bto%2Bdeliver%2B1gbps%26ie%3Dutf-8%26oe%3Dutf-8%26aq%3Dt%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla%3Aen-GB%3Aofficial%26client%3Dfirefox-a Sorry to put water on your fire; but this is for business only at the moment.

No, he won't understand: according to him, he's not Bill Gates

It's not ok for google to inadvertadly capture minute packets of useless information, but it's ok for the government to direct ISPs to intercept data illegally.

The Australian Labor party have time and time again broken their promises, Barging ahead with Policies that their citizens do no want and completely fucking up things they tried to achieve

The only reason Google are in hot water is because they stood up to Senator Conroy and he got upset about it.

I for one will be making my vote count this year and I urge all fellow Australian slashdotters to do the same.

So we have a "Office of Online Security be established within the Department of Prime Minster and Cabinet"
Then we see a cut to "The Online Child Sexual Exploitation Team", a unit of the Australian Federal Police of $2.8 million.
http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/politics/fight-to-filter-out-evil-leaves-bad-guys-to-do-their-worst-20100514-v4cq.html
We also have some fun news via http://www.zdnet.com.au/inside-australia-s-data-retention-proposal-339303862.htm
Beyond the "want the source and the destination IP addresses for internet sessions" they are dreaming of linking
""They want allied personal information with that account, including, [the department] said, passport numbers.""
with "automate the process of requesting and obtaining access to telecommunications data."
One day your ip could be linked to your isp and photo id while you surf on a filtered internet with Windows anti-virus and firewall software running.
Some great projects and funding for someone :)

MAYBE you should read the frigging NEWS before accusing somebody of not knowing their stuff, eh?

http://www.theage.com.au/technology/technology-news/big-brother-wants-all-your-bits-and-bytes-20100611-y3p3.html

http://www.theage.com.au/technology/blogs/the-geek/internet-freedom-in-2010-looks-like-1984/20100618-ykr9.html

http://www.zdnet.com.au/govt-wants-isps-to-record-browsing-history-339303785.htm?omnRef=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.webspy.com.au%2Fblogs%2Findex.php%2Fgovernment-sanctioned-isp-filtering-and-monitoring%2F

http://www.webspy.com.au/blogs/index.php/government-sanctioned-isp-filtering-and-monitoring/

http://www.itwire.com/it-policy-news/government-tech-policy/39742-australian-government-to-monitor-all-internet-usage

http://www.smh.com.au/national/government-plans-to-monitor-without-court-authorisation-20100611-y3lq.html

http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/1276537/Government-web-monitoring-slammed

WHO said it had anything to do specifically with the NBN? You still end up with a trade... unless you can bash some sense into your representatives. Who, from the recent evidence, seem to have an even lower IQ than the idiots in the U.S. Congress.

Recall from 2008 http://www.zdnet.com.au/telstra-uses-plastic-bags-and-tape-to-fix-phone-lines-339285489.htm
They have a huge secret database of crushed ducts too.
Other telcos have asked for details but nobody gets to understand the state of the network in any depth.
This mindset is what we will be adding to a new network.

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1599659/wall-street-journal-admits-ipad-sales-disappointing

http://www.itnewsafrica.com/?p=6709

http://www.thetechherald.com/article.php/201014/5463/First-day-iPad-sales-fall-short-of-revised-expectations

http://www.totaltele.com/view.aspx?ID=454448

Wow. Four stories about how Apple didn't sell as many iPads as some analysts (not Apple) predicted!

2 million, 2 months. Fastest ever to $1 billion. But some analysts were off by a week or so (in light of a supply shortage, no less), oh no!

keep reading ...

http://www.smartcompany.com.au/information-technology/20100604-the-ipad-can-t-match-the-laptop-yet-but-when-it-can-the-world-will-change-kohler.html

http://www.zdnet.com.au/why-the-apple-ipad-will-fail-in-australia-339302686.htm

http://www.itwire.com/it-industry-news/strategy/38566-five-reasons-the-ipad-will-fail-in-australia

http://delimiter.com.au/2010/04/27/five-reasons-the-ipad-will-fail-in-australia/

http://www.marketingmag.com.au/news/view/ipad-over-hyped-2165

Three identical articles! And two opinions that match yours! Oh my, Apple is doomed!

2 million, 2 months, fastest to $1 billion, top selling tablet, etc., etc. You can quote all the bullshit articles you want, but you can't negate the simple fact that the iPad is off to a stellar start. You can't take the position that with a start like this, the iPad is going to fall flat and expect to be taken seriously. If it is going fail, there are no signs of it. In fact, all signs point to the opposite conclusion.

I'll repeat that: there are no signs at all that the iPad will fail. Just because you don't like it, that doesn't mean...

Fuck, I just realized, nobody can be that stupid. I've been trolled. I need to learn to pay better attention next time.

/end thread

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1599659/wall-street-journal-admits-ipad-sales-disappointing

http://www.itnewsafrica.com/?p=6709

http://www.thetechherald.com/article.php/201014/5463/First-day-iPad-sales-fall-short-of-revised-expectations

http://www.totaltele.com/view.aspx?ID=454448

keep reading ...

http://www.smartcompany.com.au/information-technology/20100604-the-ipad-can-t-match-the-laptop-yet-but-when-it-can-the-world-will-change-kohler.html

http://www.zdnet.com.au/why-the-apple-ipad-will-fail-in-australia-339302686.htm

http://www.itwire.com/it-industry-news/strategy/38566-five-reasons-the-ipad-will-fail-in-australia

http://delimiter.com.au/2010/04/27/five-reasons-the-ipad-will-fail-in-australia/

http://www.marketingmag.com.au/news/view/ipad-over-hyped-2165

Rudd has to call an election soon, but what a choice it will be: Either Conservative-Christian Kevin Rudd or his opponent Conservative-Christian Tony Abbott. Abbott has refused to speak out against the net filter. Secretly, I would say he quite likes it and will go along with it.

> "I think that it makes sense to try to ensure that the homes of Australia aren't invaded with pornography via the internet," said Abbott. "On the other hand I don't want to see wider censorship and I don't want to see the internet destroyed as a tool for people's education or as a tool for people's businesses." Talk about fence sitting.

> What it came down to was a question of whether it was technically feasible, according to Abbott. Yet he wasn't willing to air his thoughts on the matter. "I just don't know enough about it at this stage to have an opinion on that," he said.
http://www.zdnet.com.au/abbott-drawn-into-filter-debate-339300089.htm

Given his conservative position on everything else he ever talks about, I'd say he *does* have an opinion on it... but he wants to cash in on the Rudd protest vote. At the end of the day we get to choose between two political parties... near identical... both headed by conservatives who like the idea of a net filter to stop the unwashed masses looking at boobs and bottoms, and to get them back into church. Pic related:
http://larvatusprodeo.net/2010/03/31/tony-abbott-and-political-catholicism/
http://www.abc.net.au/compass/s1362997.htm
http://www.cathnews.com/article.aspx?aeid=19151

If they're genuinely good guys, I'll document that too. Do you have any links to back up your story?

I suspect that you won't. You have an overly broad definition of patent troll to include a research organization that found a revolutionary way of dealing with a complicated problem in wireless communications. This solution allowed WiFi and other wireless technologies to become popular and useful. I think that it is up to you to document why you feel that CSIRO isn't doing research and merely trolling patents.

Here is a brief summary and timeline of the development of the patent.

Sorry if this is trollish, but Macs are IMO a WORSE security risk than Windows when dealing with spearphishing and other forms of targeted attacks. Security updates are rare. Even if the OS model is better than Microsoft's, it's not a good choice.

Macs are security risks.