An extension is made to HTTP (and other relevant protocols) which includes an Adult/Non-adult content flag. This allows the proxy to block connections to inappropriate sites.
And trivial for the paternalistic idiot government we have down here (or any other paternalistic idiot government) to pass a law saying "All ISPs must block access to all content with the adult-content-tag"... Now do you see part of the problem??
Forget the cable, worry about replacing them
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If I may make a humble suggestion, you should be less worried about what types of cable you run, and more worried about your ability to easily (ie without knocking holes in walls, cieling, etc) replace them in the future. A friend of mine (who yearns to return to the good ol' days when men were men, and code was punched on pieces of cardboard) (Hi, Ross) completely wired his house with state-of-the-art cabling when it was first built. Unfortunatly, what was state-of-the-art back then (ie 10-Base2 coax) is antiquated crap now.
What I would suggest if you/really/ want to future-proof your cabling is to run all the cabling in PVC conduits with built in pulling-wires. Or alternatively, leave plenty of pulling wires in cielings etc.. Making sure it's going to be easy to pull through new cables in X years down the track, is a hell of a lot more worthwhile than worrying about whether Cat5 or Fibre will still be useful then. The design life of a house is a hell of a lot longer than the useful life of a cabling system.
Unless the telco's are going to install two services to every house and every business, each one running in seperate duct, to a seperate exchange, with the backup exchange having fully-redundant backhaul circuits that wouldn't be affected by (lets say) someone flying a Boeing product into the primary exchange, the system is still going to be vunerable. As long as all the copper runs back to one building, if "something" happens to that building, theres going to be an awful lot of people with "NO DIALTONE".
Well, Optus got listed because they failed to respond to spam complaints. For this past month, I've been getting more spam volume than the volume from my Bugtraq subscription. About a quarter of that was connected to Optus in one way or another. In other words, Optus has been filling my mailbox with crap. I lose nothing by blocking them, and it makes my life easier.
Optus didnt "fail to respond to spam complaints", they chose not to act on the complaints of a few millitant anti-spam types who think that everyone associated with whatever they decide is "spam" should be blackballed from the Internet. It's boycott blacklisting, and it's a blackmail tool, pure and simple.
They are, in effect, saying to Optus 'You cannot have this person as a client, or anyone else that we decide is involved with spam, or we will blacklist you to force you to accept our demands'. It's complete BS. Who died and appointed spews.org the spam police? It's organised extortion, and good for Optus for not backing down. Hopefully they will sue spews.org and put them out of business.
.. at least that's my considered opinion. In September last year my company was considering buying a used Sun Enterprise 3000 server. We had it in our office on evaluation, and lo and behold, the rotten thing just would not cold-boot RH Linux, despite booting Solaris flawlessly.
I raised a bug with RedHat about this. Their response? "I don't have any Ex000 systems, so I have no way to fix this. Sorry."
I later found out from "other" sources within RedHat that this was a major problem. Sun would just/not/ give them decent boxes on loan so they could solve issues like this one. Very next release, Sparc support disappeared from RedHat, Digital are getting my business that otherwise would have gone to Sun, and I'll think very hard before acquiring another Sun box, ever.. (or using RedHat for that matter).
Moving content offshore has proved to be a simple work-around to the Broadcasting Services Amendment (Online Services) Act which empowers the Australian Broadcasting Authority to order content hosts to remove material rated "R" or worse. This legislation only applies to content hosted within Australia.
Unfortunatly, the proposed legislation in South Australia will apply to all residents of South Australia, whether the content is hosted in Australia or in outer Mongolia.
Not only that, but the police can start a prosecution before the content in question has even been officially classified by the Office of Film and Literature classification. So if your friendly neighberhood pleeceman decides your website isn't fit for children, they can charge you, and have you in court for this, before they even bother to get the content classified.
Some choice quotes come to mind, such as "Help! Help! I'm being repressed!" and "Don't fool yourself, we're living in a dictatorship!"
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And trivial for the paternalistic idiot government we have down here (or any other paternalistic idiot government) to pass a law saying "All ISPs must block access to all content with the adult-content-tag"... Now do you see part of the problem??
What I would suggest if you
Unless the telco's are going to install two services to every house and every business, each one running in seperate duct, to a seperate exchange, with the backup exchange having fully-redundant backhaul circuits that wouldn't be affected by (lets say) someone flying a Boeing product into the primary exchange, the system is still going to be vunerable. As long as all the copper runs back to one building, if "something" happens to that building, theres going to be an awful lot of people with "NO DIALTONE".
Optus didnt "fail to respond to spam complaints", they chose not to act on the complaints of a few millitant anti-spam types who think that everyone associated with whatever they decide is "spam" should be blackballed from the Internet. It's boycott blacklisting, and it's a blackmail tool, pure and simple.
They are, in effect, saying to Optus 'You cannot have this person as a client, or anyone else that we decide is involved with spam, or we will blacklist you to force you to accept our demands'. It's complete BS. Who died and appointed spews.org the spam police? It's organised extortion, and good for Optus for not backing down. Hopefully they will sue spews.org and put them out of business.
I raised a bug with RedHat about this. Their response? "I don't have any Ex000 systems, so I have no way to fix this. Sorry."
I later found out from "other" sources within RedHat that this was a major problem. Sun would just /not/ give them decent boxes on loan so they could solve issues like this one. Very next release, Sparc support disappeared from RedHat, Digital are getting my business that otherwise would have gone to Sun, and I'll think very hard before acquiring another Sun box, ever.. (or using RedHat for that matter).
Moving content offshore has proved to be a simple work-around to the Broadcasting Services Amendment (Online Services) Act which empowers the Australian Broadcasting Authority to order content hosts to remove material rated "R" or worse. This legislation only applies to content hosted within Australia.
Unfortunatly, the proposed legislation in South Australia will apply to all residents of South Australia, whether the content is hosted in Australia or in outer Mongolia.
Not only that, but the police can start a prosecution before the content in question has even been officially classified by the Office of Film and Literature classification. So if your friendly neighberhood pleeceman decides your website isn't fit for children, they can charge you, and have you in court for this, before they even bother to get the content classified.
Some choice quotes come to mind, such as "Help! Help! I'm being repressed!" and "Don't fool yourself, we're living in a dictatorship!"