What, like downgrade to 2G? No thanks, I may be a mac user, but there's no way that I'd buy a phone that doesn't have video calling, reasonable international roaming and most importantly : NOT LOCKS ME INTO AN EXPENSIVE CONTRACT!
I think the iPhone is pretty gay and jolly good for the twits who don't realise better phones are available. What I expect is that phones will be 3G, with video calling, feature expandable memory slots, have bluetooth stereo headphones, may connect to wifi (for skype), be able to store txts through java onto phone main memory or online (I really hate only having room for 200 txts, bring on gmail for txts). In addition, I'd expect on plan or pre-paid to be able to : have unlimited calls, video calls & txts to a few friends. Have a thousand national txts per month. Have an international happy hour rate to various countries. (For calls at a time convenient to them)
If anyone wants to do java gmail for txt, they can, as long as it's not patented. Oh I'd like it on my phone, save me from deleting just cause my phone is old.
From Wikipedia article on exabyte (s): in 2002 all telephone calls worldwide on both landlines and mobile phones contained 17.3 exabytes of new information if stored in digital form. 64 bit operating systems can address 16 exabytes.
Therefore I would suggest that you would find that No Such Agency and it's foreign friends all use 64 bit Operating systems with total of at least 80 exabytes storage per network per year.
Here in new zealand, we have that sort of problem. The vast majority of the national infrastructure is owned by the former government monopoly, telecom. The government recently decided to favor urban phone users in the telecom unbundling of lines.
TelstraClear rolled out a private cable network last decade in the capital, Wellington and in the main south island city, Christchurch. TelstraClear also has a fibre backbone mainly for government and business users in other city centres. CityLink, a former wellington city council company, has a purely fibre optic network, in Auckland, Christchurch, Wellington CBD and is rolling out in Miramar, a suburb famous for it's film studio. Fortunately, I live where the new fibre is being laid.
Back to Net Neutrality, it doesn't apply to Telstra, as it's not the monopoly, even though it is the only company on it's cable service. On telstra, you can get cable TV, Phone, internet. On telecom, you can get a landline, mobile and internet. Telecom is the monopoly phone player, it is opening up exchanges to competition at a reasonable price in urban areas,
and it will actually replace the entire urban network with fibre to the node (in all towns with 500 or more phone lines) in several years. Now I don't really care that much about the phone line service, I have a reliable Vodafone mobile which is far more useful overseas than a telecom one. What is a major issue for telecom customers is internet reliability, first of all they have to rely on ADSL, at best getting 7-8mbit on offpeak times, finding traffic capped to miserly amounts, and then it limits you to dialup speeds.
Along with peak time throttling of p2p, I haven't heard of anyone playing WOW with a telecom Xtra account. But by far, the complaint that gets the most attention about telecom's xtra is the email service. They "upgraded" the yahoo webmail "bubble" several weeks ago and took out the mail for thousands of businesses for a week,
then they didn't offer anything to deal with the inconvenience when the spam filter trapped too much legitimate mail and people lost contracts, etc.
Now, if they were to start slowing down google or microsoft live traffic because they made a deal with yahoo, then what would people do for webmail?
Arguably, you could mention using a 3G mobile internet "solution" like vodafone, but it's pretty expensive for just 1gig per month, and slow.
Citylink I want to check out, because they have an open fibre network with a speed advantage in most of their rates compared to telstra. However, it looks like it would just be a very complicated internet bill.
Out of 4 choices, there are 2 expensive ones (Telecom and Vodafone), 1 simple one (Telstra) and 1 complex choice. (Citylink + an ISP) Of course, you could go with a telecom line and another ISP, but results will vary more than the reliable amount of unreliabilty with telecom Xtra.:)
Funny, I could swear that there is a porno with that name.;-) Or at least someone will make it. The first rule of porn is, there will be porn of it. The second rule of porn is, they will make porn of it, if there it doesn't exist already. The third rule of porn is, flatmates will make the hard drive run out of space.
Most people use the Deja Vu control panel that ships with Roxio toast. Sure, you may not want to buy toast, but it is the best app for burning cross platform disks, far more control than with the burn folders setup in the finder.
Actually, I would argue that for government security, it would be wise to not use this technology. The last thing we need is for official secrets to get leaked to Microsoft. Besides which, I have my own intellectual property that I will not share because it holds personal value.
I don't want to disclose what code I'm working on for my games when I go to an interview for a database developer.
This is Microsoft trying to be the thought police, nobody who uses this system should program anything that runs on windows, because a few months later, Microsoft will release a near identical product.
Don't worry, your country does watch our entire alliance too. The real concern you should have is with the Chinese hacking into your country and doing damage. We don't do damage, after all we are the Good Guys®.;-)
Yes NZ is important too. We contribute, even though we don't get as much respect from the Americans for our anti-nuclear law. We're about as likely to change that as to go back to mere two party democracy.
By the time they start looking at 128bit AES or Triple DES, they'll probably be using my 4KB key system. And you'd be surprised to know how boring those secrets really are.
Sorry, I don't know of any/. parties in Wellington, let alone Auckland. The few people I know IRL who might read/. don't. I might find more/. readers at a new job I've applied for, but last party I had was "howling at lunar rossa" at my flat.
As for/. users, I would suggest that you will find a few at the university computer clubs or LUGs.
Hmm, does that mean Ohakune is the town that belongs to Evil? Lol, that'd suck. They have relatively cheap skiing there. I'll be stuffed if I need to go all the way to the South Island to ski.
I can stay awake for 2 weeks if I don't have my pills. (Not a useful condition, unless you travel or have a lover;-P ) It's only at the 9 days mark that I go fuzzy. I take minor brain breaks after then. However, I have done it a couple of times and not revealed any research I'm doing, so I guess nobody can try to get information out of me by sleep deprivation.
That ex wasn't evil, she was just very bad for me, didn't want me to take my pills.
Ok, well I have trouble imagining that the state will get rid of anonymous political donations, for more than 1 election. I really wanted to insert "The taking of DNA samples or fingerprints without reason to believe a crime has been committed is Orwellian, and the Police are therefore banned from doing so." along with this goody : "Children become criminally responsible at age 10." and "child criminals are banned from eating sweets until age 18."
I was thinking about a MMO game server that was based on a peer to peer network. I would be open to allowing dynamic hosting of servers on the grid. This should allow for local peering on the same network (or city) and make it cheaper for ISPs.
I was thinking that maybe a best fit would be one map zone per server, running from a common master map. I would make it Player vs Environment on the low zones, then open up to Player vs Player on tougher zones. Another thing would be running cities as large instances on their own server, and only letting auctions be globally linked to cities of the same faction.
Well, most children are drunken thieving teenagers. Criminals are targeted by the police, dumbass! And illegal immigrants are usually involved in other illegal activities, such as importing drugs, kidnapping asian students or associated with terrorists. (Like Ahkmed Zaoui was before he came to New Zealand).
Personally, I want all child criminals to be banned from having sweets until they turn 18. Just for spite!
Well, the hammer wielding assailant was off his face on party pills. Trust me, it's not a good idea to be awake for more than 2 days straight. I should know, I've been awake seriously long amounts of time before. (But the less said about time spent with my ex, the better);-P
Most people would agree with you, except the nudists. But seriously, privacy is a natural process.
Yes, well I'm on the right wing side. Wish that I was in the rich, right wing side. But definately not in favor of the amoral faction. (However, i do like the amoral faction. They are the most likely to take out the christian party.):-)
I don't know. I personally know a new zealander who is a US citizen who might disagree.
And as a dual citizen of New Zealand and the West Island, I would personally be annoyed if I had to give up my right to vote in the West Island. (not that I have yet, but if John Howard gets back in, it'd be a very sad day.)
New Zealand follows the German MMP system. We have one house of representatives. We will have 121 Seats unless there is another overhang next year. About half are directly elected, of which 7 are Maori seats. The rest are list seats allocated by putting in party nominees according to their share after counting what they won.
So, to get represented in parliament, you either need to win : a general electorate, a maori electorate or 5% of the party votes.
What this means is simple, Labour or National win a load of ordinary seats and fill with up a few list MPs. NZFirst gets the elderly and the patriot vote. Sure to be there.:-( Greens get the young and the hippy vote. Like the smell of their voters, sure to be there.:-P Act gets the ambitious and business vote. Too well funded to lose, but I like them more than others.:-) Maori party, gets enough of the Maori seats and Pacific Islander votes to be there. A new party.
That irrelevant few that split up and now have bugger all chance. (One has gone to be the christian party with the MP who is in the first corruption trial.)
What would be easier would be if you are just going to make laws into online referenda (with postal voting allowed).
Umm, no. We don't have a president. That would require a mature attitude to politics:-) We are a realm of the commonwealth, basically the Governor-General looks after us on behalf of the Queen. We only get to elect Parliament, local government and health boards.
However, I would agree that the masses (Auckland) and the Rest Of New Zealand (RONZ) know better than politicians.
I don't know about ruling out Maori people from the net. Let's face it, it's usually $2 for half an hour at a net cafe. Hell, even a really bad busker can make that in ten minutes on courtney place. (Less time in Auckland) Besides, it's not exclusively online. Just free online, otherwise you can buy a hard copy of the proposal and make a submission by freepost.
I agree, I live in wellington. There is yet, nothing cool about using a wiki for our overdue update to the police act. This is just an extra piece of fluff to go with the announcement of the new cyber-crime lab. I wonder, did they also use green matrices and smoke effects to herald this new initiative?
However, if this is the start to allow citizens to write their opinions on forthcoming and existing laws, I'm in favor.
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What, like downgrade to 2G? No thanks, I may be a mac user, but there's no way that I'd buy a phone that doesn't have video calling, reasonable international roaming and most importantly : NOT LOCKS ME INTO AN EXPENSIVE CONTRACT!
I think the iPhone is pretty gay and jolly good for the twits who don't realise better phones are available.
What I expect is that phones will be 3G, with video calling, feature expandable memory slots, have bluetooth stereo headphones, may connect to wifi (for skype), be able to store txts through java onto phone main memory or online (I really hate only having room for 200 txts, bring on gmail for txts).
In addition, I'd expect on plan or pre-paid to be able to : have unlimited calls, video calls & txts to a few friends. Have a thousand national txts per month. Have an international happy hour rate to various countries. (For calls at a time convenient to them)
If anyone wants to do java gmail for txt, they can, as long as it's not patented. Oh I'd like it on my phone, save me from deleting just cause my phone is old.
From Wikipedia article on exabyte (s): in 2002 all telephone calls worldwide on both landlines and mobile phones contained 17.3 exabytes of new information if stored in digital form.
64 bit operating systems can address 16 exabytes.
Therefore I would suggest that you would find that No Such Agency and it's foreign friends all use 64 bit Operating systems with total of at least 80 exabytes storage per network per year.
Here in new zealand, we have that sort of problem.
:)
The vast majority of the national infrastructure is owned by the former government monopoly, telecom.
The government recently decided to favor urban phone users in the telecom unbundling of lines.
TelstraClear rolled out a private cable network last decade in the capital, Wellington and in the main south island city, Christchurch.
TelstraClear also has a fibre backbone mainly for government and business users in other city centres.
CityLink, a former wellington city council company, has a purely fibre optic network, in Auckland, Christchurch, Wellington CBD and is rolling out in Miramar, a suburb famous for it's film studio. Fortunately, I live where the new fibre is being laid.
Back to Net Neutrality, it doesn't apply to Telstra, as it's not the monopoly, even though it is the only company on it's cable service.
On telstra, you can get cable TV, Phone, internet. On telecom, you can get a landline, mobile and internet.
Telecom is the monopoly phone player, it is opening up exchanges to competition at a reasonable price in urban areas,
and it will actually replace the entire urban network with fibre to the node (in all towns with 500 or more phone lines) in several years.
Now I don't really care that much about the phone line service, I have a reliable Vodafone mobile which is far more useful overseas than a telecom one.
What is a major issue for telecom customers is internet reliability, first of all they have to rely on ADSL, at best getting 7-8mbit on offpeak times, finding traffic capped to miserly amounts, and then it limits you to dialup speeds.
Along with peak time throttling of p2p, I haven't heard of anyone playing WOW with a telecom Xtra account.
But by far, the complaint that gets the most attention about telecom's xtra is the email service.
They "upgraded" the yahoo webmail "bubble" several weeks ago and took out the mail for thousands of businesses for a week,
then they didn't offer anything to deal with the inconvenience when the spam filter trapped too much legitimate mail and people lost contracts, etc.
Now, if they were to start slowing down google or microsoft live traffic because they made a deal with yahoo, then what would people do for webmail?
Arguably, you could mention using a 3G mobile internet "solution" like vodafone, but it's pretty expensive for just 1gig per month, and slow.
Citylink I want to check out, because they have an open fibre network with a speed advantage in most of their rates compared to telstra.
However, it looks like it would just be a very complicated internet bill.
Out of 4 choices, there are 2 expensive ones (Telecom and Vodafone), 1 simple one (Telstra) and 1 complex choice. (Citylink + an ISP)
Of course, you could go with a telecom line and another ISP, but results will vary more than the reliable amount of unreliabilty with telecom Xtra.
Really? In NZ all CDs and DVDs aren't returnable, unless the actual disc has a scratch, due to copyright restrictions.
Funny, I could swear that there is a porno with that name. ;-) Or at least someone will make it.
The first rule of porn is, there will be porn of it.
The second rule of porn is, they will make porn of it, if there it doesn't exist already.
The third rule of porn is, flatmates will make the hard drive run out of space.
Most people use the Deja Vu control panel that ships with Roxio toast. Sure, you may not want to buy toast, but it is the best app for burning cross platform disks, far more control than with the burn folders setup in the finder.
You mean like voting in two different countries? Funny, I'm planning to do just that.
Actually, I would argue that for government security, it would be wise to not use this technology.
The last thing we need is for official secrets to get leaked to Microsoft.
Besides which, I have my own intellectual property that I will not share because it holds personal value.
I don't want to disclose what code I'm working on for my games when I go to an interview for a database developer.
This is Microsoft trying to be the thought police, nobody who uses this system should program anything that runs on windows, because a few months later, Microsoft will release a near identical product.
Don't worry, your country does watch our entire alliance too. The real concern you should have is with the Chinese hacking into your country and doing damage. We don't do damage, after all we are the Good Guys®. ;-)
Yes NZ is important too. We contribute, even though we don't get as much respect from the Americans for our anti-nuclear law. We're about as likely to change that as to go back to mere two party democracy.
By the time they start looking at 128bit AES or Triple DES, they'll probably be using my 4KB key system.
And you'd be surprised to know how boring those secrets really are.
Sorry, I don't know of any /. parties in Wellington, let alone Auckland. The few people I know IRL who might read /. don't. /. readers at a new job I've applied for, but last party I had was "howling at lunar rossa" at my flat.
/. users, I would suggest that you will find a few at the university computer clubs or LUGs.
I might find more
As for
Hmm, does that mean Ohakune is the town that belongs to Evil? Lol, that'd suck. They have relatively cheap skiing there.
I'll be stuffed if I need to go all the way to the South Island to ski.
I can stay awake for 2 weeks if I don't have my pills. (Not a useful condition, unless you travel or have a lover ;-P )
It's only at the 9 days mark that I go fuzzy. I take minor brain breaks after then.
However, I have done it a couple of times and not revealed any research I'm doing, so I guess nobody can try to get information out of me by sleep deprivation.
That ex wasn't evil, she was just very bad for me, didn't want me to take my pills.
Ok, well I have trouble imagining that the state will get rid of anonymous political donations, for more than 1 election.
I really wanted to insert "The taking of DNA samples or fingerprints without reason to believe a crime has been committed is Orwellian, and the Police are therefore banned from doing so." along with this goody : "Children become criminally responsible at age 10." and "child criminals are banned from eating sweets until age 18."
I was thinking about a MMO game server that was based on a peer to peer network.
I would be open to allowing dynamic hosting of servers on the grid.
This should allow for local peering on the same network (or city) and make it cheaper for ISPs.
I was thinking that maybe a best fit would be one map zone per server, running from a common master map.
I would make it Player vs Environment on the low zones, then open up to Player vs Player on tougher zones.
Another thing would be running cities as large instances on their own server, and only letting auctions be globally linked to cities of the same faction.
Well, most children are drunken thieving teenagers. Criminals are targeted by the police, dumbass!
And illegal immigrants are usually involved in other illegal activities, such as importing drugs, kidnapping asian students or associated with terrorists. (Like Ahkmed Zaoui was before he came to New Zealand).
Personally, I want all child criminals to be banned from having sweets until they turn 18. Just for spite!
Well, the hammer wielding assailant was off his face on party pills. Trust me, it's not a good idea to be awake for more than 2 days straight. I should know, I've been awake seriously long amounts of time before. (But the less said about time spent with my ex, the better) ;-P
Most people would agree with you, except the nudists. But seriously, privacy is a natural process.
Yes, well I'm on the right wing side. Wish that I was in the rich, right wing side. But definately not in favor of the amoral faction. (However, i do like the amoral faction. They are the most likely to take out the christian party.) :-)
This time it's 121 with overhang, next time it's 121 without overhang. I think. Or am I just too drunk to get it right?
Re: your sig. As an Act supporter, I don't appreciate you implying there should be a separation of state and business. :-P
Back to topic though, could someone who has the damn password to this wiki please insert the following :
"Taking fingerprints or DNA without reason to suspect a crime has been committed is Orwellian, and police are therefore banned from doing so."
I don't know. I personally know a new zealander who is a US citizen who might disagree.
And as a dual citizen of New Zealand and the West Island, I would personally be annoyed if I had to give up my right to vote in the West Island. (not that I have yet, but if John Howard gets back in, it'd be a very sad day.)
New Zealand follows the German MMP system. We have one house of representatives. We will have 121 Seats unless there is another overhang next year. About half are directly elected, of which 7 are Maori seats. The rest are list seats allocated by putting in party nominees according to their share after counting what they won.
:-( :-P :-)
So, to get represented in parliament, you either need to win : a general electorate, a maori electorate or 5% of the party votes.
What this means is simple, Labour or National win a load of ordinary seats and fill with up a few list MPs.
NZFirst gets the elderly and the patriot vote. Sure to be there.
Greens get the young and the hippy vote. Like the smell of their voters, sure to be there.
Act gets the ambitious and business vote. Too well funded to lose, but I like them more than others.
Maori party, gets enough of the Maori seats and Pacific Islander votes to be there. A new party.
That irrelevant few that split up and now have bugger all chance. (One has gone to be the christian party with the MP who is in the first corruption trial.)
What would be easier would be if you are just going to make laws into online referenda (with postal voting allowed).
Umm, no. We don't have a president. That would require a mature attitude to politics :-)
We are a realm of the commonwealth, basically the Governor-General looks after us on behalf of the Queen.
We only get to elect Parliament, local government and health boards.
However, I would agree that the masses (Auckland) and the Rest Of New Zealand (RONZ) know better than politicians.
I don't know about ruling out Maori people from the net. Let's face it, it's usually $2 for half an hour at a net cafe.
Hell, even a really bad busker can make that in ten minutes on courtney place. (Less time in Auckland)
Besides, it's not exclusively online. Just free online, otherwise you can buy a hard copy of the proposal and make a submission by freepost.
I agree, I live in wellington. There is yet, nothing cool about using a wiki for our overdue update to the police act.
This is just an extra piece of fluff to go with the announcement of the new cyber-crime lab.
I wonder, did they also use green matrices and smoke effects to herald this new initiative?
However, if this is the start to allow citizens to write their opinions on forthcoming and existing laws, I'm in favor.