The NBN is already being rolled out around Australia, and is available through much of Tasmania. It hasn't got a filter. The filtering is a separate piece of legislation that doesn't have the legs to get through the new parliament, with the Opposition and the Greens opposing it.
It also does not exist under the exclusive executive oversight of the government. It is being set up along the lines of existing government-sponsored enterprises such as Australia Post or Medibank Private; furthermore, while the government will have a controlling stake the intent is for half the company to be privately owned & funded. The "$43 billion" headline figure only includes $26 billion of government funding, with the remainder expected to be raised from the market.
NBN Co is ultimately responsible for the infrastructure, but the internet service provision is not part of its mandate - they might be providing the pipes, but it's ultimately up to the ISPs still to deliver the actual internet. See the NBN plans offered by iiNet in Tasmania, for instance.
As for the idea that you could go back to using "normal ADSL" through the "private network", that's wrong too. The whole idea here is to rip up the old copper wherever possible and replace it with fiber. That is the dramatic dividend this will provide - telephony is going to totally change in Australia. That's what $11 billion is going to Telstra for.
I think the argument is in the sense that the Menzies Liberals represent the "true Liberals", and that Turnbull upholds this tradition more so than Abbott et al., who are far more in the Howard-post-9/11 Liberal mould.
The veracity of this judgement is left to your own political views as to what represents "true Liberal" and how closely Turnbull matches it.
Yeah that and more cars on the road would mean the average road speed would drop to a safe 25 km/h. Problem solved?
Everyone's a pedestrian at some point, if you live and/or work anywhere considered an urban centre.
Not to give them too much credit, but usually a government can get on with more than one thing at once, despite the fact that the media can't seem to handle more than one narrative.
The FCC Investigation was in 1995, and the fact of the investigation and the laws around television network ownership possibly demonstrates one of the most egregious hypocritical stances of American "free trade" - protectionism at home through tariffs and legal restrictions while fighting for unrestricted access abroad.
Murdoch became a naturalised US citizen on 4 September 1985, before he bought the Fox predecessor in December of that year. So not by much, but still legal.
(and this is one instance where the no-newspaper-and-tv-network-in-one-market rule here in Aussieland works pretty well)
It's rather simple to flip it around if they chose to communicate it that way - you start with 12 points, and if you hit 0 you're out of credits/lives/points and your licence is gone.
Actually, this has come about because a woman stepped out in front of a speeding ambulance - siren on, lights blaring - just last Friday.
No law has been passed as yet, but the NSW government is concerned the 25% increase in pedestrian fatalities this year is a bad trend, and is moving to be appear to be doing something.
I think the behaviour being asked for above is the "open with" behaviour common on other browsers, where the file is download to a temporary folder (e.g. $WINUSER$\Local Settings\Temp for Windows) for use by an application selected right from the download dialog. The temp folder can be cleaned up by the browser at a random date in future, or more often than not just sits there until someone decides to clean it out.
This just means the file is out-of-sight out-of-mind for a one-time-use scenario and the user doesn't need to concern themselves with file management post-use.
(Some might say this goes hand-in-hand with private browsing modes. You wait til you're cleaning out a Temp folder for a friend of a friend and notice the number of 30 second video clips...)
So you knew that leap seconds should be tested for, did you?
I'm not defending Oracle, but at least give them this much credit - leap seconds don't exactly spring to mind when you're planning a test suite for software. Certainly after this incident I can't imagine they would miss it again, but I'd have been surprised if anyone can claim they knew to test for these beforehand.
The problem is not in coastal cities in America, it's outlying villages in developing nations, or in overpopulated cities in rapidly developing nations throughout Asia.
There's another possible simple test: use the southern hemisphere. If it goes down in winter in the southern hemisphere at the same time as going up in the northern, that's a whole different data point.
"Although the instant destruction and death of millions of residents and visitors to Alderaan was considered a major turning point in the Rebel movements popularity, Darth Vader was considered to have been acting within his remit by the wider Imperial corps. Also, they didn't want to get force-choked."
A quick test of command line credibility is to ask about pipes: if they can successfully explain that, there's a good chance they understand how the subsystems work and not that the command line is merely a text-based view on the file system, and an understanding of pipes ought to be a part of any credible Software 101 program.
Up in orbit, there's not much drag to slow things down, so "pretty soon" can mean years, decades or more. Once it passes below a certain speed would start to fall faster, but as it's in the orbit zone it'll take quite a while before it hits enough things to slow it down. And sometimes those hits with other junk objects results in even more smaller pieces being generated.
Because of jailbreak apps like Installous, and MyWi, and My3G. The first lets you pirate App Store apps, violating terms and screwing Apple & the developers of the Apps. MyWi and My3G piss AT&T and the other carriers around the world off because they let you use a service provided in a way they didn't intend you to use.
I'd suspect even Google would make more effort to lock down Android if stuff like Installous was floating around there (is it? I have no idea).
Not recognition of the irony of linking to belowtheline.org while recommending voting above the line? Use the site to examine the parties, examine the preferences and exercise your right to direct your preferences as to your actual personal preference.
Also, that linked video hardly offers any argument other than "vote for the greens otherwise the right-wing religious wingnuts are going to get in." Give a coherent argument in favour of them, or even just listing Green policies if you want to influence votes.
So given that this is being raised in the context of intelligence agencies attempting to monitor communications between suspected terrorists, if/when an attack occurs will you say the same thing?
(Not that I'm in favour of the whole PATRIOT act thing, but all too often those saying "government should stay out of people's lives" are those who clamour the most for increased power to intelligence agencies.)
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Enough with the FUD.
The NBN is already being rolled out around Australia, and is available through much of Tasmania. It hasn't got a filter. The filtering is a separate piece of legislation that doesn't have the legs to get through the new parliament, with the Opposition and the Greens opposing it.
It also does not exist under the exclusive executive oversight of the government. It is being set up along the lines of existing government-sponsored enterprises such as Australia Post or Medibank Private; furthermore, while the government will have a controlling stake the intent is for half the company to be privately owned & funded. The "$43 billion" headline figure only includes $26 billion of government funding, with the remainder expected to be raised from the market.
NBN Co is ultimately responsible for the infrastructure, but the internet service provision is not part of its mandate - they might be providing the pipes, but it's ultimately up to the ISPs still to deliver the actual internet. See the NBN plans offered by iiNet in Tasmania, for instance.
As for the idea that you could go back to using "normal ADSL" through the "private network", that's wrong too. The whole idea here is to rip up the old copper wherever possible and replace it with fiber. That is the dramatic dividend this will provide - telephony is going to totally change in Australia. That's what $11 billion is going to Telstra for.
Get your facts right before you parrot this FUD.
Senator Minchin pushed for the spill, with a view to getting Hockey into the top spot. Abbott snuck through as the surprise/compromise candidate.
I think the argument is in the sense that the Menzies Liberals represent the "true Liberals", and that Turnbull upholds this tradition more so than Abbott et al., who are far more in the Howard-post-9/11 Liberal mould.
The veracity of this judgement is left to your own political views as to what represents "true Liberal" and how closely Turnbull matches it.
Yeah that and more cars on the road would mean the average road speed would drop to a safe 25 km/h. Problem solved?
Everyone's a pedestrian at some point, if you live and/or work anywhere considered an urban centre.
Not to give them too much credit, but usually a government can get on with more than one thing at once, despite the fact that the media can't seem to handle more than one narrative.
The FCC Investigation was in 1995, and the fact of the investigation and the laws around television network ownership possibly demonstrates one of the most egregious hypocritical stances of American "free trade" - protectionism at home through tariffs and legal restrictions while fighting for unrestricted access abroad.
Murdoch became a naturalised US citizen on 4 September 1985, before he bought the Fox predecessor in December of that year. So not by much, but still legal.
(and this is one instance where the no-newspaper-and-tv-network-in-one-market rule here in Aussieland works pretty well)
It's rather simple to flip it around if they chose to communicate it that way - you start with 12 points, and if you hit 0 you're out of credits/lives/points and your licence is gone.
Actually, this has come about because a woman stepped out in front of a speeding ambulance - siren on, lights blaring - just last Friday.
No law has been passed as yet, but the NSW government is concerned the 25% increase in pedestrian fatalities this year is a bad trend, and is moving to be appear to be doing something.
The highest bug bounty, $1337
$1337? Oh come on!
I think the behaviour being asked for above is the "open with" behaviour common on other browsers, where the file is download to a temporary folder (e.g. $WINUSER$\Local Settings\Temp for Windows) for use by an application selected right from the download dialog. The temp folder can be cleaned up by the browser at a random date in future, or more often than not just sits there until someone decides to clean it out.
This just means the file is out-of-sight out-of-mind for a one-time-use scenario and the user doesn't need to concern themselves with file management post-use.
(Some might say this goes hand-in-hand with private browsing modes. You wait til you're cleaning out a Temp folder for a friend of a friend and notice the number of 30 second video clips...)
So you knew that leap seconds should be tested for, did you?
I'm not defending Oracle, but at least give them this much credit - leap seconds don't exactly spring to mind when you're planning a test suite for software. Certainly after this incident I can't imagine they would miss it again, but I'd have been surprised if anyone can claim they knew to test for these beforehand.
The problem is not in coastal cities in America, it's outlying villages in developing nations, or in overpopulated cities in rapidly developing nations throughout Asia.
A little less myopia on the global front, please.
There's another possible simple test: use the southern hemisphere. If it goes down in winter in the southern hemisphere at the same time as going up in the northern, that's a whole different data point.
and what about when the oil runs out for producing that plastic?
Complaining that the summary missed a vital point? Been away from Slashdot for a while, have you?
Seriously, you're going to NPoV Star Wars?
"Although the instant destruction and death of millions of residents and visitors to Alderaan was considered a major turning point in the Rebel movements popularity, Darth Vader was considered to have been acting within his remit by the wider Imperial corps. Also, they didn't want to get force-choked."
A quick test of command line credibility is to ask about pipes: if they can successfully explain that, there's a good chance they understand how the subsystems work and not that the command line is merely a text-based view on the file system, and an understanding of pipes ought to be a part of any credible Software 101 program.
Up in orbit, there's not much drag to slow things down, so "pretty soon" can mean years, decades or more. Once it passes below a certain speed would start to fall faster, but as it's in the orbit zone it'll take quite a while before it hits enough things to slow it down. And sometimes those hits with other junk objects results in even more smaller pieces being generated.
Welcome to the world of probability theory. In particular, get started with Bayes and work your way from there.
Step 5 gave me the biggest belly laugh I've had this year. Thank you, sir!
Because of jailbreak apps like Installous, and MyWi, and My3G. The first lets you pirate App Store apps, violating terms and screwing Apple & the developers of the Apps. MyWi and My3G piss AT&T and the other carriers around the world off because they let you use a service provided in a way they didn't intend you to use.
I'd suspect even Google would make more effort to lock down Android if stuff like Installous was floating around there (is it? I have no idea).
Not recognition of the irony of linking to belowtheline.org while recommending voting above the line? Use the site to examine the parties, examine the preferences and exercise your right to direct your preferences as to your actual personal preference.
Also, that linked video hardly offers any argument other than "vote for the greens otherwise the right-wing religious wingnuts are going to get in." Give a coherent argument in favour of them, or even just listing Green policies if you want to influence votes.
So given that this is being raised in the context of intelligence agencies attempting to monitor communications between suspected terrorists, if/when an attack occurs will you say the same thing?
(Not that I'm in favour of the whole PATRIOT act thing, but all too often those saying "government should stay out of people's lives" are those who clamour the most for increased power to intelligence agencies.)
I'd suggest putting a down-payment on a new liver down now while you still can.
Nokia owns TeleAtlas, I can't remember who owns NavTeq - TomTom?
You've got that entirely backwards - Nokia owns NavTeq[1], and TomTom own TeleAtlas[2].
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navteq#Nokia_subsidiary
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teleatlas#TomTom_takeover