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  1. Re:Implementation was good though on Internal 'Set Of Blunders' Crashed Australia's Census Site (cso.com.au) · · Score: 2

    30+ hours to get your password / receipt emailed to you. 20 minutes, maybe 1 hour is acceptable.

    Started my census return on the 12th at 17:05 and requested the password be emailed to me.
    The password email was sent by the ABS servers in the 14th at 03:50.

    If I was depending upon the password to resume doing the census I would have had to wait an additional day.

    Additionally the forms really didn't handle doing "Father", "Daughter", "Wife". Had to go and delete all the data entry for my daughter. Add my wife then re-add my daughter.

  2. Re:How can you tell? on Australian Census Website Shut Down On Census Night After 4 DDoS Attacks (smh.com.au) · · Score: 1

    Except when the CDN network geolocates you in the US rather than in Australia and you can't even get the webpage to display.

  3. Re:Won't fly in Europe on Dark Patterns Across the Web Are Designed To Trick You · · Score: 1

    Similar laws here in Australia and if you are doing business with a Australian they apply to you regardless of where in the world the business is based.

  4. Funny thing real estate prices have essentially risen indefinitely and will continue to do so with the odd correction. The only question is what rate of growth is sustainable? Look at any long term graph of property prices.

  5. Re: Why doesn't law enforcement get it? on Tech Firms Say FBI Wants Browsing History Without Warrant (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Just print out the contract and amend it to require a subpoena before releasing relating to you. If the company accepts the change in terms it is then legally bound to request the subpoena. This is no different to crossing out terms that you don't agree with. Just get the changes initialled by the companies representative.

    If we all do this the changes will become part of the standard contract.

  6. Re:Yup. Me too. on Netflix Blocks Many IPv6 Users Over Geolocation Difficulty · · Score: 1

    Complain to your consumer affairs people. Netflix are choosing to implement a disruptive solution rather than a non disruptive solution (e.g. redirect to a IPv4 only set of servers). You have paid for your service. You are not attempting to circumvent geo fencing. It is Netflix's responsibility to do geo fencing to the best of their ability which they clearly are not doing.

  7. Re:Meanwhile everyone else moves on.... on Netflix Blocks Many IPv6 Users Over Geolocation Difficulty · · Score: 1
  8. Re:YUP on Netflix Blocks Many IPv6 Users Over Geolocation Difficulty · · Score: 1

    And Netflix have chosen to do this "solution" rather than a real solution which will work with the IPv6 network as it was when they turned on IPv6 for themselves.

    HE's tunnel prefixes are reasonable well known. It doesn't that a rocket scientist to say "Is the connection coming from this block" and redirect to IPv4. Do the same for the other IPv6 tunnel brokers.

    This is different for a IPv4 in IPv4 tunnel.

  9. Re:IPv6 and NAT on DistroWatch Finally Adds Support For IPv6 (distrowatch.com) · · Score: 1

    No. It has not endorsed NAT. In fact is explicitly discouraged. RFC 6296 is
    a experimental (not standards track) RFC which says DO NOT DO THIS
    but if you do this is a least worst way.

    For reasons discussed in [RFC2993] and Section 5, the IETF does not
    recommend the use of Network Address Translation technology for IPv6.
    Where translation is implemented, however, this specification
    provides a mechanism that has fewer architectural problems than
    merely implementing a traditional stateful Network Address Translator
    in an IPv6 environment. It also provides a useful alternative to the
    complexities and costs imposed by multihoming using provider-
    independent addressing and the routing and network management issues
    of overlaid ISP address space. Some problems remain, however. The
    reader should consider the alternatives suggested in [RFC4864] and
    the considerations of [RFC5902] for improved approaches.

  10. Re: Safe Harbor and ContentID on YouTube Is Guilty Of Criminal Racketeering, Grammy Winner Says (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    And the distributor is protected by the safe harbour laws. The uploader isn't protected and never was. The whole point of the laws was to remove the ISP (distributor) from equation provided they follow the rules.

  11. Re: Safe Harbor and ContentID on YouTube Is Guilty Of Criminal Racketeering, Grammy Winner Says (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 2

    The point of the safe harbour legislation is to remove this path provided the ISP meets the requirements of the safe harbour legislation.

    You can sue (nobody can prevent you doing that) but the chances of success are negligible unless you can show the ISP isn't meeting the requirements of the safe harbour legislation.

  12. Yet Another Australia Tax Rip Off on Apple Unveils Smaller iPhone SE, Starting At $399 (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    The 16GB model cost AUD 679 (incl GST) which give a pre-tax price of USD 468 at today's exchange rate. That's a 17% markup because we are in Australia.

  13. Re:What is there to support? on Old Kindles Will Be Disconnected Unless You Update By Tuesday (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Enabling IPv6 support.

  14. Re:Unless you had it's wireless disabled.... on Old Kindles Will Be Disconnected Unless You Update By Tuesday (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Which was enough time to get a replacement screen from e-bay, as it had cracked, install it, and update.

  15. Re: Not a new concept/problem on Old Kindles Will Be Disconnected Unless You Update By Tuesday (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually it isn't. If you don't have a chain of trust you don't have a chain of trust. When a CERT expires it shouldn't be used anymore.

    Those other products are depending upon a CERT that effectively never expires. This is not good security practice.

  16. Re:MITM Protection on Wi-Fi Hotspot Blocking Persists Despite FCC Crackdown (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Blocking traffic to other spots just means the hotel can MiTM your traffic. I've found most hotels do MiTM traffic sent on their network.

  17. Re:There won't be a better test case on Godfather Of Encryption Explains Why Apple Should Help The FBI (bgr.com) · · Score: 1

    Not necessarily. It's one persons opinion. This is why there is a appeals system.

  18. Re:There won't be a better test case on Godfather Of Encryption Explains Why Apple Should Help The FBI (bgr.com) · · Score: 1

    Only if they want a contempt of court charge. While they are allowed to challenge orders they are not allowed to take steps which would prevent them doing what the court has ordered now that they are subject to a court order.

    If you routinely destroy all correspondence after x days, you won't be in contempt if the court asks you for something that has been destroyed. If you destroy it after you have been asked for it you will be.

  19. Re:Its all a fake on The Tragedy Of Apollo 1 And The Lessons That Brought Us To The Moon (forbes.com) · · Score: 1

    They still do today unless the plane is pre-treated with insecticide. If you get a untreated plane on the route the cans of spray come out.

  20. And if several towers can see your phone the location can be triangulated with reasonable accuracy as the towers have synchronised clocks.

    GPS is not required to locate a phone most of the time.

  21. Re:One obvious question. on FBI "Took Over World's Biggest Child Porn Website" (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Physical no, psychological yes.

    Just knowing that more people are seeing something that you don't want to be seen and you have no control of that causes ongoing psychological trauma.

    It doesn't even have to be you in the images for it to be causing trauma.

    Even porn stars sometime regret filming a scene and don't want the scenes to be ever shown again.

    Movie crash scenes which seriously injure / kill people are often cut to prevent psychological trauma to relatives.

    There are reasons "Viewer Discretion" is displayed before some news articles.

  22. Re:Time lost on You Can Look Forward To 8 More Years of Leap Second Problems (cio.com) · · Score: 1

    Daylight savings is a absolute mess compared to leap seconds. The dates when the shift occurs change often with as much notice as a leap second change. They vary per political boundary. Nothing is really coordinated. You can't actually compute how many seconds in the future a event will be. The direction changes per hemisphere. You get a hour (or two) of ambiguous time every year. Which 2:45am is it? You induce jet lag in large portions of the community.

  23. Re:Children or not on Chicago Sends More Than 100,000 "Bogus" Camera-Based Speeding Tickets · · Score: 1

    Which is illegal in many jurisdictions. In some jurisdictions you can actually get a "bike plate" for the bike carrier/rack. It's about the size of a motorcycle plate and carries the car's number.

  24. Re:How can we dis posters for failing to RTFA? on DNA Data From California Newborn Blood Samples Stored, Sold To 3rd Parties (cbslocal.com) · · Score: 1

    Right there next to the subject.

  25. Re:Not sure it matters, ultimately? on Rural Mississippi: The Land That the Internet Era Forgot (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    So farmers don't need to update software in a timely manner? So farmers can't take advantage of the benefits of a high speed connection. That the *only* use of a high speed connection is to get pre-recorded video.

    High speed internet is a enabling technology. Anyone who says xxx doesn't need high speed internet really doesn't know the needs of xxx. xxx may not know that they will need high speed internet. They may not needed all the time but there will be times when they do need it.