I want to leave secure boot enabled, but put me in charge of the keys. That is, I want to load my own public keys into the system (through a secure channel, such as a bios screen or flipping a physical switch, for example).
What's the point of that? Are you frightened your girlfriend/boyfriend/wife/mother/roommate is going to try to install an OS you don't like when you're not watching?
The point of this is blocking people from hacking the OS. It is to keep YOU out not to help you keep others out. If you have the keys it has already failed.
According to TFA, the asteroid is mostly black and "aircraft carrier sized". The first thing that flashed into my mind was that it would be very interesting if radar images during the flyby revealed it was in fact a very, Very VERY old spacecraft.
DO NOT. REPEAT DO NOT watch this if you loved it as a child. The poor excuse for what passed as science and science fiction here made me think what a stupid ignorant child I was. Huge nostalgic letdown. By comparison Star Trek Original Series is realistic - that is how far fetched and bad the science is.
Just because a library is less hi-tech than a playstation does not mean that it is cheaper.
There's better economies of scale with a book. A single library can serve an entire prison at a time. While a single Xbox, at best, serves a few prisoners.
Worst argument I've heard in a while. You don't just buy one book for a library, and you don't build a library that houses enough books for one man, so why would you expect one Xbox (possibly with one software title???) to serve a prison? Sure you have one physical library but the physical building costs a hell of a lot more than a bunch of Xboxes. Storing, maintaining and managing books costs money.
The best argument you could probably make is that libraries can be used for learning as well as entertainment. But the reality is most reading done in prisons is not for education so even that is weak.
The bottom line is if you put someone in a box and give them nothing to do they won't be rehabilitated, and they won't be less of a danger when they get out - they'll just go mad.
If they work, they need to be compensated. Free room and board and utilities and clothes ought to do it.
You left out food. I suppose we should starve them all to death.
People make such idiotic statements then wonder why prisoners re-offend. You forget that punishment is only one function of the prison system. It's other function ought to be reforming the prisoner. Back them into a corner with a medieval stupid attitude like yours and you have criminals who have nothing to lose because once they're labelled it takes heroic effort to get back into society. People think that they are being tough on criminal scum but this approach just reads to a society rife with crime - you turn prisons into criminal incubators. Is that really worth satisfying your sense of revenge/justice.
If prisoners get to sit around playing games, the punishment of prison could easily be less than their punishment outside of prison? Prisoners should be making big rocks into little rocks.
Yes I'm sure that will work well. Bore the prisoners to the point of breaking, and teach them nothing, then dump them back on the streets at the end of that time with no prospects of making money legitimately. Great move. I'm sure that will bring crime rates down. If a prisoner can read a book or play pool or basketball or watch tv lest they go insane and start beating other to a pupl, why not an Xbox once a week?
- Buying music by these artists funds this extortion. - If I can't blame the artists for their own act of signing up with a recording label, who exactly should I blame? - The most popular well known artists typically are not poor unless they've squandered their money or made terrible busienss deals. (I'm sure there are exceptions but that's the rule). - I also blame others like corrupt politicians that allow petty copyright infringements to carry heavier penalties than violent crimes.
According to Geeks the window manager was perfected by Microsoft in Windows 95 and everything else has been an abomination.
According to which geeks exactly? I've been bitching about the file manager for a couple of decades. They still don't have it right in Windows 7. Estimates on file copying are all over the place. They finally have a resume on temporary error (file open etc) but it's not very flexible and you still get caught in situations where you have to abort a file copy, potentially undo, and start over.
There are legions of geeky cargo cults who still live in 1998 and practice superstitious rituals to make their computers go faster.
I'm just as guilty as the next guy.
Frankly I think you're projecting.
It's like whipping your computer to make it go faster.
Wiping a computer almost always does make it "go faster", for a long list of reasons, but you're throwing the baby out with the bathwater to do it. This hasn't changed all that much from when I was born except that there is added data and software and thus more complexity for a complete re-install. (Perhaps the one thing that has changed is that the DRM has become idiotic in an attempt to force duplicate purchases, but you can avoid software like that).
You have to adapt to the new ways. If you try to do things the old way then it often is clunky and slow.
We believe that since we've used the system for 20+ years we know the best way to do something we've done forever.
You only adapt to new ways if it is better overall. If the new way is moronic, adapting to it is also moronic.
I can't count how many times I've tried to work the same way I've worked in old software in a competitor's package. It was horrible! Why? Because I was *doing it wrong*. Once I learned how the new software worked and stopped trying to cram my square plug approach through a round hole I realized that the new system was actually a lot faster when you worked with its philosophy.
Sometimes the problem is the new philosophy is abhorrent. If you have to work with it, by definition you have no choice. But given a choice, why pick the new less efficient system if the old one was better and more efficient? This kind of reinvention of the wheel is exactly why progress is so slow and often 2 step forwards, 1 step back.
Did I blink and end up back in primary school? Does anyone who refuses to use Ubuntu have cooties too?
And how ridiculous is it to say geeks are "too cool" to use a product. What are you smoking!?!? Geeks love new things that function well and allow them to do cool things. They do not shun these things based on idiotic social protocol.
So take your poorly written crippled little interface and put it back in a dark cupboard, or if you're out of room shove it somewhere the sun don't shine!
I am sick and tired of free software developers thinking that because their product is free (in both senses) they can dictate what I do or do not like, or what features I do or do not want. If you take a feature away, either give me a way to re-enable it or suffer my ire. Firefox devs, Google, Ubuntu...that means you. Apple, Microsoft, you're not exempt because I pay for your product.
Having a tablet oriented linux distro is going to open up the linux market. Ubuntu has a reputation for working out of the box, let's see if they can keep it with such unusual hardware.
So we can look forward to the "year of Linux on the Tablet" just after the "year of Linux on the Desktop"?
We all know that's just code for smartphones with a hideous colour scheme.
Google, obviously. Since they have "the" IP address for all these driverless cars, how will drivers' private data be protected?!
...and if you complain, does the Google car just accidentally slam you into a concrete barrier at 200km/hr?
Haven't we learnt anything from films like this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Car http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christine_(1983_film)..and most horrific of all: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbie#Versions Man they use to show one of these awful films at school any time they had a film half-day (so the teachers could meet). Once or twice a year. The HORROR. (*They showed the Karate Kid one year but the resulting injuries put a stop to that ever happening again. Imagine a bunch of ferral 8 year olds who think they're special beating each other up)
It appears that AC is married to someone with a harsh voice. The AC didn't claim that all women, or even all wives, have harsh voices. AC just claimed one person who AC likely spends a lot of time with has a harsh voice.
For some reason, it almost always happens to be wives rather than husbands that are referred to as having harsh, screetching voices. Odd that. Heaven forbid anyone suggest this might be due to sexism, though!
The human male voice tends to be deeper than the female voice. This has to do with physiology. So referring to husbands as having shrill irritating voices does not ring true. Stereotypes tend to take a truth and exaggerate it - the truth makes it recognisable. Heaven forbid reality get in the way of political correctness.
There are plenty of anti-male stereotypes - just watch an episode of an American sitcom like say Everybody Loves Raymond for example. He's obtuse, lazy and incompetent. His wife is whiny over-emotional and nags. That doesn't make anyone laughing at the gags a sexist monster who wants to put down the opposite sex.
This is what happens when you spend 100k on a good college getting an english/art/history/worthless degree.....to be a little more selective on those degrees that wont really contribute to society as a hole.
You just turned society as a whole into society as a hole. Perhaps an English degree is overkill, but I'd argue you just made the counterpoint of the one you were trying to make.
Why don't you try a different argument that does not rely on the stupidity and inexperience of the reader? Why are you pushing such a line which I very much doubt you believe yourself? Is it some silly game to see if you can get a large number of replies about how silly your suggestion is?
Instead of being so insulting and abbrasive, and making assumptions about what I do or don't believe, why don't you educate yourself.
I don't know what checking is done regarding repositories. I imagine not a heck of a lot since they mainly change branding. But it would be easy enough to mess with a source RPM if you had access to the repository. Replacing one important package would be enough to introduce a root backdoor. Again this has been demonstrated with the kernel sources. Such an attack has been attempted. So why do you insist that i'm relying on the reader's inexperience and stupidity or that I don't believe what I'm saying? (Think what you want. I don't come here to talk rubbish I don't believe).
meh... they want to give people a reason to upgrade to 4S from 4
I think considering that the iPad 2, which has a faster processor than the 4s doesn't have Siri, this is a very strong probability.
I'd go much further. I'd say it's the only reason, and those postulating other reasons are deluding themselves. We're talking about Apple here. Style over substance. Fads over usefulness. Our way or the highway.
With a very small group where everyone knows everyone else it would be difficult to infliltrate it and infect it with malware. There are not very many CentOS developers and packagers.
If you managed to hack into the repository, and did so cleverly covering your tracks, would they actually notice the changes? How long did it take for that Kernel hack earlier this year to be found? How much longer with less eyes.
No one deserves to be given that much money. No one
He's not being given it, moron. He's earning it.
Please tell me where I can apply for a job where I shut things down and slash and hack at my staff's pay and conditions while ruining the company's reputation and devasting customer's lives for a $1.5M pay increase? If that's how you EARN that kind of pay, just imagine what running the company competently must earn you!
Centos is a community effort and would be easier to infiltrate and infect with malware than official Redhat. While it's not the most likely scenario, the CEO and CIO may find themselves in a position where it could be argued that they did not exercise due diligence and care should your company lose data or be compromised in some other way. The breach doesn't even have to be related to Centos itself. They just have to be audited or investigated for some sort of breach and it happens to come up that instead of going with a cheap and trusted supported and paid alternative, they got cheap and greedy and cut corners.
The only problem with this line of argument is that it can backfire big time: the execs may panic and go too far - for example banning all open source or free software.
I've rarely seen geeks be generally rational about anything they are passionate about. They just happen to sometimes have some actual arguments to support their view instead of being based on feelings alone.
So does my generic statement trump yours?
As for Apple products, some cost more, some less (I know - shocking!) And honestly, I cannot get over the large sentiment against iTunes on here. Don't like it, don't run it. There are other options, even if you own an iPod. iPad, or an iPhone. You just won't get updates, nor have backups. Choices.
What you're describing applies to all human beings not just geeks. Geeks are by definition MORE rational than the average person because their interest is in trying to understand the equipment they're using. So that argument is weak, trumps nothing and does not change my mind.
As for the argument about 3rd party software don't be so disingenuous. You know perfectly well that to get full functionality from an Apple product you must run iTunes - all other options are partial solutions - and this is by Apple's own design. You're the sort of person that would tell a guy to RTFM if he was having trouble: Not at all helpful unless the docs are available and comprehensible at his level.
Qantas has 33000 or so employees. Even a $5000 p.a. increase in salary to every employee wouldn't make it to the hundreds of millions. On the other hand, Qantas did just double its yearly net profits, to a total of $250 million.
33000 * $5000 = $165M. Alan Joyce should still be fired. Would rather see each employee get $45/yr than him get an extra $1.5M/year.
Alan Joyce will be remembered as the man who killed QANTAS.
Qantas employees generally already have higher pay and better conditions than equivalent positions at other domestic carriers (Virgin, Jetstar, Tiger) - and FAR more than carriers in almost any foreign country that you could name. Also, Alan Joyce, though just given a $1.5M raise, voluntarily took a $7M/year pay cut previously. So he's just regaining some of what he previously lost (not that that justifies anything, just pointing it out).
AJ is a bit of a dick
There's an understatement. Does it not even register that he's able to afford to take a $7M/year pay cut? What must he be earning. Also to shut down the airline THE DAY AFTER getting a $1.5M pay rise....I just don't see how anyone can justify that. He should lead by example. If people must sacrifice he shouldn't be taking a pay raise that is equal to the entire salary of 20 of his lesser paid employees. Whether or not any of the union's conditions are met, the man should be sacked. He is incompetent, a hypocrite and a fool and he's single handedly managed to put QANTAS in a position from which it will not recover.
$110,000 for a private citizen buying a 10mW laser pointer on Ebay without a permit. 2 different pieces of paperwork and several weeks to get permission to buy one legally.
Do you think this will deter the sort of idiot that would point a laser at a plane for kicks? The sort of inbred cretin that has nothing to lose! No just honest people with legitimate uses for the things.
I'm an astro club member and I'll stick to 1mW. I've got young kids anyway so why have something at home that can blind them. But I'd be seriously irritated if I had a legitimate use and had to jump through these hoops.
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I want to leave secure boot enabled, but put me in charge of the keys. That is, I want to load my own public keys into the system (through a secure channel, such as a bios screen or flipping a physical switch, for example).
What's the point of that? Are you frightened your girlfriend/boyfriend/wife/mother/roommate is going to try to install an OS you don't like when you're not watching?
The point of this is blocking people from hacking the OS. It is to keep YOU out not to help you keep others out. If you have the keys it has already failed.
His hobbies are trolling and shilling for Microsoft.
It's not a hobby if you make your living that way.
According to TFA, the asteroid is mostly black and "aircraft carrier sized". The first thing that flashed into my mind was that it would be very interesting if radar images during the flyby revealed it was in fact a very, Very VERY old spacecraft.
How about a balttleship instead?
http://www.starblazers.com/images/jun09/images/Starlogpages.PDF
DO NOT. REPEAT DO NOT watch this if you loved it as a child. The poor excuse for what passed as science and science fiction here made me think what a stupid ignorant child I was. Huge nostalgic letdown. By comparison Star Trek Original Series is realistic - that is how far fetched and bad the science is.
Just because a library is less hi-tech than a playstation does not mean that it is cheaper.
There's better economies of scale with a book. A single library can serve an entire prison at a time. While a single Xbox, at best, serves a few prisoners.
Worst argument I've heard in a while. You don't just buy one book for a library, and you don't build a library that houses enough books for one man, so why would you expect one Xbox (possibly with one software title???) to serve a prison? Sure you have one physical library but the physical building costs a hell of a lot more than a bunch of Xboxes. Storing, maintaining and managing books costs money.
The best argument you could probably make is that libraries can be used for learning as well as entertainment. But the reality is most reading done in prisons is not for education so even that is weak.
The bottom line is if you put someone in a box and give them nothing to do they won't be rehabilitated, and they won't be less of a danger when they get out - they'll just go mad.
If they work, they need to be compensated. Free room and board and utilities and clothes ought to do it.
You left out food. I suppose we should starve them all to death.
People make such idiotic statements then wonder why prisoners re-offend. You forget that punishment is only one function of the prison system. It's other function ought to be reforming the prisoner. Back them into a corner with a medieval stupid attitude like yours and you have criminals who have nothing to lose because once they're labelled it takes heroic effort to get back into society. People think that they are being tough on criminal scum but this approach just reads to a society rife with crime - you turn prisons into criminal incubators. Is that really worth satisfying your sense of revenge/justice.
If prisoners get to sit around playing games, the punishment of prison could easily be less than their punishment outside of prison? Prisoners should be making big rocks into little rocks.
Yes I'm sure that will work well. Bore the prisoners to the point of breaking, and teach them nothing, then dump them back on the streets at the end of that time with no prospects of making money legitimately. Great move. I'm sure that will bring crime rates down. If a prisoner can read a book or play pool or basketball or watch tv lest they go insane and start beating other to a pupl, why not an Xbox once a week?
Therefore, prisoners cannot engage in gaming and will have to result to other kinds of violence.
It would be nice if the slashdot editors would resort to other kinds of editing.
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When your in a hole, rule #1 - stop digging.
He subscribes to a different philosophy. "BE the hole!"
don't blame the artist
- Buying music by these artists funds this extortion.
- If I can't blame the artists for their own act of signing up with a recording label, who exactly should I blame?
- The most popular well known artists typically are not poor unless they've squandered their money or made terrible busienss deals. (I'm sure there are exceptions but that's the rule).
- I also blame others like corrupt politicians that allow petty copyright infringements to carry heavier penalties than violent crimes.
You know where they can stick their umbarrreellla-ellla-ellla-aaayyyy-ayyyy.
According to Geeks the window manager was perfected by Microsoft in Windows 95 and everything else has been an abomination.
According to which geeks exactly? I've been bitching about the file manager for a couple of decades. They still don't have it right in Windows 7. Estimates on file copying are all over the place. They finally have a resume on temporary error (file open etc) but it's not very flexible and you still get caught in situations where you have to abort a file copy, potentially undo, and start over.
There are legions of geeky cargo cults who still live in 1998 and practice superstitious rituals to make their computers go faster.
I'm just as guilty as the next guy.
Frankly I think you're projecting.
It's like whipping your computer to make it go faster.
Wiping a computer almost always does make it "go faster", for a long list of reasons, but you're throwing the baby out with the bathwater to do it. This hasn't changed all that much from when I was born except that there is added data and software and thus more complexity for a complete re-install. (Perhaps the one thing that has changed is that the DRM has become idiotic in an attempt to force duplicate purchases, but you can avoid software like that).
You have to adapt to the new ways. If you try to do things the old way then it often is clunky and slow.
We believe that since we've used the system for 20+ years we know the best way to do something we've done forever.
You only adapt to new ways if it is better overall. If the new way is moronic, adapting to it is also moronic.
I can't count how many times I've tried to work the same way I've worked in old software in a competitor's package. It was horrible! Why? Because I was *doing it wrong*. Once I learned how the new software worked and stopped trying to cram my square plug approach through a round hole I realized that the new system was actually a lot faster when you worked with its philosophy.
Sometimes the problem is the new philosophy is abhorrent. If you have to work with it, by definition you have no choice. But given a choice, why pick the new less efficient system if the old one was better and more efficient? This kind of reinvention of the wheel is exactly why progress is so slow and often 2 step forwards, 1 step back.
Did I blink and end up back in primary school? Does anyone who refuses to use Ubuntu have cooties too?
And how ridiculous is it to say geeks are "too cool" to use a product. What are you smoking!?!? Geeks love new things that function well and allow them to do cool things. They do not shun these things based on idiotic social protocol.
So take your poorly written crippled little interface and put it back in a dark cupboard, or if you're out of room shove it somewhere the sun don't shine!
I am sick and tired of free software developers thinking that because their product is free (in both senses) they can dictate what I do or do not like, or what features I do or do not want. If you take a feature away, either give me a way to re-enable it or suffer my ire. Firefox devs, Google, Ubuntu...that means you. Apple, Microsoft, you're not exempt because I pay for your product.
Having a tablet oriented linux distro is going to open up the linux market. Ubuntu has a reputation for working out of the box, let's see if they can keep it with such unusual hardware.
So we can look forward to the "year of Linux on the Tablet" just after the "year of Linux on the Desktop"?
We all know that's just code for smartphones with a hideous colour scheme.
Who 'Owns' the Google Driverless Car IP?
Google, obviously. Since they have "the" IP address for all these driverless cars, how will drivers' private data be protected?!
...and if you complain, does the Google car just accidentally slam you into a concrete barrier at 200km/hr?
Haven't we learnt anything from films like this: ..and most horrific of all:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Car
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christine_(1983_film)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbie#Versions
Man they use to show one of these awful films at school any time they had a film half-day (so the teachers could meet). Once or twice a year. The HORROR. (*They showed the Karate Kid one year but the resulting injuries put a stop to that ever happening again. Imagine a bunch of ferral 8 year olds who think they're special beating each other up)
It appears that AC is married to someone with a harsh voice. The AC didn't claim that all women, or even all wives, have harsh voices. AC just claimed one person who AC likely spends a lot of time with has a harsh voice.
For some reason, it almost always happens to be wives rather than husbands that are referred to as having harsh, screetching voices. Odd that. Heaven forbid anyone suggest this might be due to sexism, though!
The human male voice tends to be deeper than the female voice. This has to do with physiology. So referring to husbands as having shrill irritating voices does not ring true. Stereotypes tend to take a truth and exaggerate it - the truth makes it recognisable. Heaven forbid reality get in the way of political correctness.
There are plenty of anti-male stereotypes - just watch an episode of an American sitcom like say Everybody Loves Raymond for example. He's obtuse, lazy and incompetent. His wife is whiny over-emotional and nags. That doesn't make anyone laughing at the gags a sexist monster who wants to put down the opposite sex.
This is what happens when you spend 100k on a good college getting an english/art/history/worthless degree. ....to be a little more selective on those degrees that wont really contribute to society as a hole.
You just turned society as a whole into society as a hole. Perhaps an English degree is overkill, but I'd argue you just made the counterpoint of the one you were trying to make.
Why don't you try a different argument that does not rely on the stupidity and inexperience of the reader? Why are you pushing such a line which I very much doubt you believe yourself? Is it some silly game to see if you can get a large number of replies about how silly your suggestion is?
Instead of being so insulting and abbrasive, and making assumptions about what I do or don't believe, why don't you educate yourself.
I don't know what checking is done regarding repositories. I imagine not a heck of a lot since they mainly change branding. But it would be easy enough to mess with a source RPM if you had access to the repository. Replacing one important package would be enough to introduce a root backdoor. Again this has been demonstrated with the kernel sources. Such an attack has been attempted. So why do you insist that i'm relying on the reader's inexperience and stupidity or that I don't believe what I'm saying? (Think what you want. I don't come here to talk rubbish I don't believe).
meh... they want to give people a reason to upgrade to 4S from 4
I think considering that the iPad 2, which has a faster processor than the 4s doesn't have Siri, this is a very strong probability.
I'd go much further. I'd say it's the only reason, and those postulating other reasons are deluding themselves. We're talking about Apple here. Style over substance. Fads over usefulness. Our way or the highway.
With a very small group where everyone knows everyone else it would be difficult to infliltrate it and infect it with malware. There are not very many CentOS developers and packagers.
If you managed to hack into the repository, and did so cleverly covering your tracks, would they actually notice the changes? How long did it take for that Kernel hack earlier this year to be found? How much longer with less eyes.
That's a double edged sword you're wielding.
He's not being given it, moron. He's earning it.
Please tell me where I can apply for a job where I shut things down and slash and hack at my staff's pay and conditions while ruining the company's reputation and devasting customer's lives for a $1.5M pay increase? If that's how you EARN that kind of pay, just imagine what running the company competently must earn you!
Centos is a community effort and would be easier to infiltrate and infect with malware than official Redhat. While it's not the most likely scenario, the CEO and CIO may find themselves in a position where it could be argued that they did not exercise due diligence and care should your company lose data or be compromised in some other way. The breach doesn't even have to be related to Centos itself. They just have to be audited or investigated for some sort of breach and it happens to come up that instead of going with a cheap and trusted supported and paid alternative, they got cheap and greedy and cut corners.
The only problem with this line of argument is that it can backfire big time: the execs may panic and go too far - for example banning all open source or free software.
I've rarely seen geeks be generally rational about anything they are passionate about. They just happen to sometimes have some actual arguments to support their view instead of being based on feelings alone.
So does my generic statement trump yours?
As for Apple products, some cost more, some less (I know - shocking!) And honestly, I cannot get over the large sentiment against iTunes on here. Don't like it, don't run it. There are other options, even if you own an iPod. iPad, or an iPhone. You just won't get updates, nor have backups. Choices.
What you're describing applies to all human beings not just geeks. Geeks are by definition MORE rational than the average person because their interest is in trying to understand the equipment they're using. So that argument is weak, trumps nothing and does not change my mind.
As for the argument about 3rd party software don't be so disingenuous. You know perfectly well that to get full functionality from an Apple product you must run iTunes - all other options are partial solutions - and this is by Apple's own design. You're the sort of person that would tell a guy to RTFM if he was having trouble: Not at all helpful unless the docs are available and comprehensible at his level.
'Hundreds of millions'?
Qantas has 33000 or so employees. Even a $5000 p.a. increase in salary to every employee wouldn't make it to the hundreds of millions. On the other hand, Qantas did just double its yearly net profits, to a total of $250 million.
33000 * $5000 = $165M. Alan Joyce should still be fired. Would rather see each employee get $45/yr than him get an extra $1.5M/year.
Alan Joyce will be remembered as the man who killed QANTAS.
Qantas employees generally already have higher pay and better conditions than equivalent positions at other domestic carriers (Virgin, Jetstar, Tiger) - and FAR more than carriers in almost any foreign country that you could name. Also, Alan Joyce, though just given a $1.5M raise, voluntarily took a $7M/year pay cut previously. So he's just regaining some of what he previously lost (not that that justifies anything, just pointing it out).
AJ is a bit of a dick
There's an understatement. Does it not even register that he's able to afford to take a $7M/year pay cut? What must he be earning. Also to shut down the airline THE DAY AFTER getting a $1.5M pay rise....I just don't see how anyone can justify that. He should lead by example. If people must sacrifice he shouldn't be taking a pay raise that is equal to the entire salary of 20 of his lesser paid employees. Whether or not any of the union's conditions are met, the man should be sacked. He is incompetent, a hypocrite and a fool and he's single handedly managed to put QANTAS in a position from which it will not recover.
While I disagree with Australia's ban on "high power lasers" (i.e., lasers strong enough to be seen at distance), I do see their point.
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BMO
Here is where you're heading:
http://www.customs.gov.au/webdata/resources/files/LaserPointers.pdf
$110,000 for a private citizen buying a 10mW laser pointer on Ebay without a permit.
2 different pieces of paperwork and several weeks to get permission to buy one legally.
Do you think this will deter the sort of idiot that would point a laser at a plane for kicks? The sort of inbred cretin that has nothing to lose! No just honest people with legitimate uses for the things.
I'm an astro club member and I'll stick to 1mW. I've got young kids anyway so why have something at home that can blind them. But I'd be seriously irritated if I had a legitimate use and had to jump through these hoops.