With such a reputation, and having not seen it myself, I had to buy the DVD, and yes, it really is that bad, although that's the only reason I bought it.
Not much replayability though....
The only way that this kind of crap will ever cease, is if new protocols are devised that make you and your movements annoymous and untraceable.
I don't know how possible or feasible this idea is, but something needs to be done.
Freedom of speach is at stake. I'm not sure of the details, but wasn't there a court case or a precedent that says that if you are scared about the repurcussions of you accessing information, your right to free speach is being hindered? Well if logs are going to be kept for significant ammounts of time, and the govt or private companies are going to have access to it, i'd consider this to be of concern.
Did you read the article?
It is the Victorian state Govt. The Victorian state Govt is controled by the Australian Labor Party.
Seeing as John Howard is the Prime Minister, and is therefore in Federal politics, there is no way that Howard can be held accountable in this.
Give Victorian Premier Steve Bracks a call instead.
I live in Australia, and pretty much everyone has a GSM phone. It's the accepted standard in the country. We got rid of our crappy analog AMPS netrwork years ago.
The main telco in Aust also introduced CDMA, but virtually no one uses it. It's crap in comparison to our GSM network, and the only reason CDMA was brought in was to appease the farmers seeing as no telco is going to waste money by putting a cell in the middle of nowhere to cover a paddock of sheep.
The way my phone plan works is this:
I pay a minimum of $33 a month. With that I get $33 credit in my choice of voice calls or SMS or a combination of both.
Most plans are like this or are quite similar.
I can call anywhere in the country and i'll pay the same ammount. I don't pay long distance rates. I can also use my phone anywhere in the country and still pay the same rates.
Our network coverage is pretty damn good. Depending on which GSM provider you choose, the level of coverage is between 97% and 98% of the population. [Note: Population, not land area].
After 8PM at night and until 12AM, I can call anyone, anywhere in the country on the same network that I use, and talk for FREE for 20 minutes, and when i've reached that, I can simply hang up and dial again.
No one in the country pays for incoming calls, whenever I tell anyone that they have to in the US, they think it's just stupid, and no one is surprised that cell phones haven't taken off in the USA.
The land line system in Aust is also very good and very cheap. My land line provider - Optus has a HFC (Hybrid Fibre Optic Co-Axial) network that i'm connected to.
The US has got to realise that they can not set every standard and simply have the entire world follow them. GSM is the standard. Adopt it. The rest of the world is not going to revert back to AMPS just for you.
I know that some places in the USA have got GSM networks, but they are not widespread, but once again, the US has dropped the ball and is not using the same radio frequencies as everyone else.
I've got a dual band phone that operates on 800MHz and 1800MHz. I can use my phone just about everywhere in the world with those frequencies, but the US has decided to use a different frequency. Sorry I don't know which it is off the top of my head. Maybe the spectrum wasn't available in the US. Eventualy, even if the US does get GSM widespread, you'll have to have Tri-band phones, and wait for the rest of the world to also get tri-band GSM phones.
Oh how much the US cell phone system sux.
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I think 112 works on every GSM phone everywhere in the world, seeing as when you travel to other countries, not everywhere has 911, so this is more global
I've done some more research and have found some sources to back the claim about the baker.
On page number 152 of "Titanic - An Illustrated History" by Don Lynch, there is a paragraph:
"Soon after the men got to their feet, Chief Baker Charles Joughin, who had stepped blithely off the stern as the Titanic sank, came swimming up to the boat. Miraculously, he had been paddling around in the water for two hours, oblivious to the cold. Undoubtedly he owed his survival to the considerable amount of alcohol he had consumed before the sinking, which had functioned as an effective antifreeze".
Or for those of you without an extensive book colletion of the Titanic, there's the "Encyclopedia Titanica" with their section on the Baker
"It was Joughin who fortified himself with alcohol, threw deck chairs overboard for flotation devices, rode the stern down and claims to have stepped into the water without getting his hair wet. He claims to have hung on to the side of Collapsible B for hours with most of his body submerged in the icy water, yet survived with virtually no ill effects."
- Encyclopedia Titanica: Chief Baker: Charles John Joughin [www.encyclopedia-titanica.org] Accessed Sun Jun 30 16:58:23 2002.
You may have also seen the movie "Titanic". When the stern is about to go under, they show the baker with a hip flask drinking.
This is not an urban legend. I'm sure there are a lot more sources that could back me on this also.
However....
Alcohol also acts as anti-freeze.
You may know of the story about the Baker on the Titanic.
The normal survival time in the icy cold waters at that time was only a few minutes.
The baker had the right idea and got trashed just before it went under. The Baker was picked up 2 hours later, and he survived.
The company I work for has a fingerprint scanner for ID.
When I quit my current job, my resignation letter will include a demand that all biometric data held on me by the company, be permanently deleted.
hmmm, but would they comply?
I agree. If the list was made public, the government might as well just say "Ok, This is where all the kiddie porn is, this is how to build bombs..." etc
Why does Slashdot always go psycho about Australia's NON EXISTANT censorship.
We do NOT, I repeat DO NOT have any internet censorship in Australia.
As you may have noticed, most journalists have no idea what they are talking about with technology, and frequently get it wrong. That problem isn't exclusive to the USA.
The "censorship" in Australia is realy like this:
There is absolutely NO censorship. If you happen to be a "Concerned Parent", your ISP must provide you with software such as Net Nanny...etc if you REQUEST it.
It is completely optional. It is in no way mandatory.
The Australian authorities have a list of kiddie porn sites that they give to the makers of filtering software so that those sites can be included in the list of blocked sites for the Australian editions of their software.
This topic has come up on Slashdot numerous times, and whenever an Australian tries to explain it to the rest of/. No one listens, and most of the time they get modded down.
Why let the truth get in the way of a good story?
It seems that you just want to have a bitch about Australia, without looking into the facts.
I hope this in some way clears up the topic, but seeing as this has come up before, and everyone keeps bitching about the exact same things, I doubt you'll listen.
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Did anyone else catch the section on Miss Vermont's website that says she's a member of Mensa? Are we sure of that?
With such a reputation, and having not seen it myself, I had to buy the DVD, and yes, it really is that bad, although that's the only reason I bought it. Not much replayability though....
I don't know how possible or feasible this idea is, but something needs to be done.
Freedom of speach is at stake. I'm not sure of the details, but wasn't there a court case or a precedent that says that if you are scared about the repurcussions of you accessing information, your right to free speach is being hindered? Well if logs are going to be kept for significant ammounts of time, and the govt or private companies are going to have access to it, i'd consider this to be of concern.
John Howard is the Liberal PM.
Did you read the article? It is the Victorian state Govt. The Victorian state Govt is controled by the Australian Labor Party. Seeing as John Howard is the Prime Minister, and is therefore in Federal politics, there is no way that Howard can be held accountable in this. Give Victorian Premier Steve Bracks a call instead.
The main telco in Aust also introduced CDMA, but virtually no one uses it. It's crap in comparison to our GSM network, and the only reason CDMA was brought in was to appease the farmers seeing as no telco is going to waste money by putting a cell in the middle of nowhere to cover a paddock of sheep.
The way my phone plan works is this:
I pay a minimum of $33 a month. With that I get $33 credit in my choice of voice calls or SMS or a combination of both.
Most plans are like this or are quite similar.
I can call anywhere in the country and i'll pay the same ammount. I don't pay long distance rates. I can also use my phone anywhere in the country and still pay the same rates.
Our network coverage is pretty damn good. Depending on which GSM provider you choose, the level of coverage is between 97% and 98% of the population. [Note: Population, not land area].
After 8PM at night and until 12AM, I can call anyone, anywhere in the country on the same network that I use, and talk for FREE for 20 minutes, and when i've reached that, I can simply hang up and dial again.
No one in the country pays for incoming calls, whenever I tell anyone that they have to in the US, they think it's just stupid, and no one is surprised that cell phones haven't taken off in the USA.
The land line system in Aust is also very good and very cheap. My land line provider - Optus has a HFC (Hybrid Fibre Optic Co-Axial) network that i'm connected to.
The US has got to realise that they can not set every standard and simply have the entire world follow them. GSM is the standard. Adopt it. The rest of the world is not going to revert back to AMPS just for you.
I know that some places in the USA have got GSM networks, but they are not widespread, but once again, the US has dropped the ball and is not using the same radio frequencies as everyone else.
I've got a dual band phone that operates on 800MHz and 1800MHz. I can use my phone just about everywhere in the world with those frequencies, but the US has decided to use a different frequency. Sorry I don't know which it is off the top of my head. Maybe the spectrum wasn't available in the US. Eventualy, even if the US does get GSM widespread, you'll have to have Tri-band phones, and wait for the rest of the world to also get tri-band GSM phones.
Oh how much the US cell phone system sux.
I think 112 works on every GSM phone everywhere in the world, seeing as when you travel to other countries, not everywhere has 911, so this is more global
On page number 152 of "Titanic - An Illustrated History" by Don Lynch, there is a paragraph:
"Soon after the men got to their feet, Chief Baker Charles Joughin, who had stepped blithely off the stern as the Titanic sank, came swimming up to the boat. Miraculously, he had been paddling around in the water for two hours, oblivious to the cold. Undoubtedly he owed his survival to the considerable amount of alcohol he had consumed before the sinking, which had functioned as an effective antifreeze".
Or for those of you without an extensive book colletion of the Titanic, there's the "Encyclopedia Titanica" with their section on the Baker
"It was Joughin who fortified himself with alcohol, threw deck chairs overboard for flotation devices, rode the stern down and claims to have stepped into the water without getting his hair wet. He claims to have hung on to the side of Collapsible B for hours with most of his body submerged in the icy water, yet survived with virtually no ill effects."
- Encyclopedia Titanica: Chief Baker: Charles John Joughin [www.encyclopedia-titanica.org] Accessed Sun Jun 30 16:58:23 2002.
You may have also seen the movie "Titanic". When the stern is about to go under, they show the baker with a hip flask drinking.
This is not an urban legend. I'm sure there are a lot more sources that could back me on this also.
However.... Alcohol also acts as anti-freeze. You may know of the story about the Baker on the Titanic. The normal survival time in the icy cold waters at that time was only a few minutes. The baker had the right idea and got trashed just before it went under. The Baker was picked up 2 hours later, and he survived.
The company I work for has a fingerprint scanner for ID. When I quit my current job, my resignation letter will include a demand that all biometric data held on me by the company, be permanently deleted. hmmm, but would they comply?
I agree. If the list was made public, the government might as well just say "Ok, This is where all the kiddie porn is, this is how to build bombs..." etc
Why does Slashdot always go psycho about Australia's NON EXISTANT censorship.
/. No one listens, and most of the time they get modded down.
We do NOT, I repeat DO NOT have any internet censorship in Australia.
As you may have noticed, most journalists have no idea what they are talking about with technology, and frequently get it wrong. That problem isn't exclusive to the USA.
The "censorship" in Australia is realy like this:
There is absolutely NO censorship. If you happen to be a "Concerned Parent", your ISP must provide you with software such as Net Nanny...etc if you REQUEST it.
It is completely optional. It is in no way mandatory.
The Australian authorities have a list of kiddie porn sites that they give to the makers of filtering software so that those sites can be included in the list of blocked sites for the Australian editions of their software.
This topic has come up on Slashdot numerous times, and whenever an Australian tries to explain it to the rest of
Why let the truth get in the way of a good story?
It seems that you just want to have a bitch about Australia, without looking into the facts.
I hope this in some way clears up the topic, but seeing as this has come up before, and everyone keeps bitching about the exact same things, I doubt you'll listen.