We use past forecast errors to construct confidence intervals and other estimates of uncertainty around the Reserve Bank of Australia's forecasts of key macroeconomic variables. Our estimates suggest that uncertainty about forecasts is high. We find that the RBA's forecasts have substantial explanatory power for the inflation rate but not for GDP growth.
Fonts annoy me. So many licences, variability and availability and differences machine to machine. Like standards I suppose so many to choose from and non completely compatible.
Data security is such a good thing. Good thing the hackers didn't get it.
And with the data retention proposals of course no isp is going to be tempted to defray the cost with either on-site or outsourced datamining. And all storage is onsite and under their control.
From the FTA "An Origin spokesman said the portal was fully compliant with Australian privacy legislation. He said the additional information requested about each household ''adds to the richness of the Origin Smart experience''.
Customer information can only be accessed by staff involved in billing. He said the electricity retailer only shared information with third parties when they had a ''legitimate business need to do so in order to meet our service obligations to our customers''."
"with third parties" the easiest way for the NSA to get all the data in the world would be to sell cheap datamining services as the Narly Stats Advisers.
And government and business wonder why people don't trust them.
Just because - use of amazon AWS to meet excess capacity setup http://oduinn.com/blog/2012/07/11/releng-production-systems-go-hybrid-now-available-on-aws/ "As of Friday afternoon (10jul2012), RelEng started generating a small number of production builds and try builds on Amazon Web Services." tl;dr Mozilla has an arrangement that when the queue on Moz hardware gets too long they call AWS to take up the slack
Pretty pics, notes, lessons, considerations (security 1st) all at the link
Of course the government can either do it itself and be accused of being behind the time, wasting money on a depreciating asset and having over the top security requirements or; has lost control of its IT infrastructure and is paying too much for the cloud services.
and my biggest weather problem is keeping my coffee warm.
You know how a lot of people rag on the preppers who keep plenty of supplies & their own generating kit & stuff for end of of times. Guess who has power & food that isn't going to go off. Prepping isn't just for alien invasion scenarios.
Basically ignore the hype of file sharing, the Australian government really wants to get down & dirty on this total information awareness deal. NBN will be a big help there.
Slashdot Mirror
Make a twitter for newbies and a news feed if you want, I like my hand curated news sources as they are.
It isn't broken for me.
A bigger fix would be to make twitter a proper platform like it was, not a semi closed app
Be interesting to know how much actual data was lost
The page with everything linked on it
http://www.rba.gov.au/publications/rdp/2012/2012-07.html
Estimates of Uncertainty around the RBA's Forecasts
Abstract:
We use past forecast errors to construct confidence intervals and other estimates of uncertainty around the Reserve Bank of Australia's forecasts of key macroeconomic variables. Our estimates suggest that uncertainty about forecasts is high. We find that the RBA's forecasts have substantial explanatory power for the inflation rate but not for GDP growth.
Download the Paper [PDF 713K] and the Data.
http://www.rba.gov.au/publications/rdp/2012/pdf/rdp2012-07.pdf
http://www.rba.gov.au/publications/rdp/2012/2012-07-data.html
Licence
http://www.rba.gov.au/copyright/index.html
Who said I was good at this
Redundant is just above Insightful, I fucked up & fixed it best i could
Stupid mod button was supposed to be insightful
Nightlies not so happy right now
They are going to need to fix this one soon then
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=738698
Click-to-play
From August in Qld http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/queensland/go-card-travel-records-point-finger-at-murder-accused-20120816-24b3v.html ..."
"A Supreme Court jury heard that Ashley Michael McGoldrick's Go Card history showed
and from 2010
http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/queensland/police-watching-where-you-go-20100728-10vx2.html
"The revelation came after brisbanetimes.com.au exclusively revealed that police are using Go Card technology to not only pinpoint the movements of criminal suspects but also potential witnesses.
"
Actually accepted submission.
Fonts annoy me. So many licences, variability and availability and differences machine to machine. Like standards I suppose so many to choose from and non completely compatible.
from the ads, you would every time you changed provider a fairy would be born and a unicorn saved.
I had to hassle Origin a few times to get them to actually send me a bill. Billing systems are the pits.
cost? someone overseas offering to it cheaper
true, they will just get laws passed if us pesky citizens get in the way of profit
Data security is such a good thing. Good thing the hackers didn't get it.
And with the data retention proposals of course no isp is going to be tempted to defray the cost with either on-site or outsourced datamining. And all storage is onsite and under their control.
From the FTA
"An Origin spokesman said the portal was fully compliant with Australian privacy legislation. He said the additional information requested about each household ''adds to the richness of the Origin Smart experience''.
Customer information can only be accessed by staff involved in billing. He said the electricity retailer only shared information with third parties when they had a ''legitimate business need to do so in order to meet our service obligations to our customers''."
"with third parties" the easiest way for the NSA to get all the data in the world would be to sell cheap datamining services as the Narly Stats Advisers.
And government and business wonder why people don't trust them.
kinda what I thought but I have no problem displaying my ignorance to be corrected.
Thanks.
why not just buy/rent a server and do it yourself?
also backups.
Internal unless you have an external IDE connector
Any offers for my LS-120 superdrive?
Just because - use of amazon AWS to meet excess capacity setup
http://oduinn.com/blog/2012/07/11/releng-production-systems-go-hybrid-now-available-on-aws/
"As of Friday afternoon (10jul2012), RelEng started generating a small number of production builds and try builds on Amazon Web Services."
tl;dr Mozilla has an arrangement that when the queue on Moz hardware gets too long they call AWS to take up the slack
Pretty pics, notes, lessons, considerations (security 1st) all at the link
Of course the government can either do it itself and be accused of being behind the time, wasting money on a depreciating asset and having over the top security requirements or;
has lost control of its IT infrastructure and is paying too much for the cloud services.
They aren't going to win.
They can pay for first priority
and of course stuff like this & google goggles is only the beginning
and my biggest weather problem is keeping my coffee warm.
You know how a lot of people rag on the preppers who keep plenty of supplies & their own generating kit & stuff for end of of times. Guess who has power & food that isn't going to go off. Prepping isn't just for alien invasion scenarios.
A little broader perspective
http://slashdot.org/journal/282007/fun-things-about-australia
http://slashdot.org/journal/282059/apparently-i-was-not-pessimistic-enough-yesterday
[these are by me from the few days]
Basically ignore the hype of file sharing, the Australian government really wants to get down & dirty on this total information awareness deal. NBN will be a big help there.
I was up to about 11.15pm local and was outside for about 15min then - nada except for maybe a solitary flash which could have been anything.
Will see how late I am up tonight but might be a bit late