ASD incident response manager Mitchell Clarke told the Australian Information Security Association conference that the ASD had codenamed the hacker 'Alf' after the Home and Away character played by Ray Meagher.
Are there any real conspiracies for which the whistle was blown by a non-mainstream outlet and the story was not very quickly picked up by a mainstream news source?
Honestly curious about this. I can't think of any offhand, but it may be possible.
[...] more like it was a CIA op for a gun grab and pinning it on ISIS doesn't fit the desired narrative, even if they did facilitate it.
My favourite conspiracy theory is that it was a false flag operation by gun manufacturers to make their stock prices and sales go up (as they reliably do after massacres).
The AC is right on that point, though. That is indeed (more or less) what Trump said.
The fact that he's now pushing tax cuts for the rich which will further entrench economic inequality is not relevant (he said a lot of things that he can't or won't deliver on). He said exactly what he needed to say to get elected.
Cynical opportunists wouldn't be able to get a toehold if there wasn't a real opportunity to exploit. It's probably incorrect to say that Russian interference caused Trump's victory, because it didn't need to. Only a few small nudges were required.
No kid of mine has ever forgotten that their phone was in the pocket of their school uniform when it went into the laundry. The same can't be said for things that plug into said phones.
Phones last years. Headphones/earbuds with right-angle 3.5mm plugs last months. Headphones with inline 3.5mm plugs last weeks.
Here are the more use cases for which an incompatible headphone port or additional peripheral are not appropriate:
Teenagers who regularly break, lose, and launder things. People who use their phones hands free while commuting by mode other than car. People who use their phones while engaged in a mobile task (e.g. jogging, cleaning). People who routinely carry more than one device from different manufacturers (e.g. phone and laptop, one of which may be work or school issue).
That goes double if you're not an adult. If it doesn't work.woth both a phone and a school-issued laptop over which I have no control, I'm not buying it for my kids.
I take it you don't have kids who have their own phones. Cheaply replaceable peripherals are a hard requirement for any portable device that they get.
Whatever you think the solution is, it WILL get shoved in pockets, roughly plugged and unplugged, damaged, lost, put through a laundry cycle. If it last less than 2 months with that abuse or costs more than $10 to replace or isn't available at a local supermarket, I'm not interested.
That will last how long in my kid's pocket, do you think?
As any rail commuter who listens to podcasts can tell you, any plug which connects to a.phone which isn't right angled is going to break within 2 months. Until they work out how to make a USB C connector that robust and that grips as securely as a 3.5mm plug, it's useless to me.
Just to be clear, what I said was that film is the preferred print medium for anything big. In most places in the developed world, large x-rays are shot on digital (as you say) and printed to film. Many GP surgeries are not set up for a fully digital workflow yet.
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Pull your head in, mate. Anonymous Drongo thinks there's only ever been one TV character named "Alf".
In case you were curious, this is the cultural reference.
"They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown." - Carl Sagan
There is no way that Reagan ranks worse than Buchanan, Pierce, Andrew Johnson, or Harding. Even Grant was worse than Reagan.
Wikileaks works with news outlets on the big releases.
I contend that we are all irrationally nonsensical. Atheists just believe in one fewer pieces of nonsense than you do.
Are there any real conspiracies for which the whistle was blown by a non-mainstream outlet and the story was not very quickly picked up by a mainstream news source?
Honestly curious about this. I can't think of any offhand, but it may be possible.
In the near future, the only things on the Internet will be Things.
As long as they don't have fluoride I'm good.
The proliferation of small, easily-lost parts was precisely one of the problems that needed solving.
[...] more like it was a CIA op for a gun grab and pinning it on ISIS doesn't fit the desired narrative, even if they did facilitate it.
My favourite conspiracy theory is that it was a false flag operation by gun manufacturers to make their stock prices and sales go up (as they reliably do after massacres).
It's just as plausible.
ISIS claims they radicalized him.
I think everyone knows by now that ISIS is full of shit.
The first one I can see is a few days later. And it was a lame Eliza joke. Awesome.
The AC is right on that point, though. That is indeed (more or less) what Trump said.
The fact that he's now pushing tax cuts for the rich which will further entrench economic inequality is not relevant (he said a lot of things that he can't or won't deliver on). He said exactly what he needed to say to get elected.
Cynical opportunists wouldn't be able to get a toehold if there wasn't a real opportunity to exploit. It's probably incorrect to say that Russian interference caused Trump's victory, because it didn't need to. Only a few small nudges were required.
"I and the public know
What all schoolchildren learn,
Those to whom evil is done
Do evil in return."
- W.H. Auden, September 1, 1939
More so than the USB-C connectors on my MacBook Pro, then...
No kid of mine has ever forgotten that their phone was in the pocket of their school uniform when it went into the laundry. The same can't be said for things that plug into said phones.
Phones last years. Headphones/earbuds with right-angle 3.5mm plugs last months. Headphones with inline 3.5mm plugs last weeks.
Here are the more use cases for which an incompatible headphone port or additional peripheral are not appropriate:
Teenagers who regularly break, lose, and launder things.
People who use their phones hands free while commuting by mode other than car.
People who use their phones while engaged in a mobile task (e.g. jogging, cleaning).
People who routinely carry more than one device from different manufacturers (e.g. phone and laptop, one of which may be work or school issue).
That goes double if you're not an adult. If it doesn't work.woth both a phone and a school-issued laptop over which I have no control, I'm not buying it for my kids.
I take it you don't have kids who have their own phones. Cheaply replaceable peripherals are a hard requirement for any portable device that they get.
Whatever you think the solution is, it WILL get shoved in pockets, roughly plugged and unplugged, damaged, lost, put through a laundry cycle. If it last less than 2 months with that abuse or costs more than $10 to replace or isn't available at a local supermarket, I'm not interested.
That will last how long in my kid's pocket, do you think?
As any rail commuter who listens to podcasts can tell you, any plug which connects to a.phone which isn't right angled is going to break within 2 months. Until they work out how to make a USB C connector that robust and that grips as securely as a 3.5mm plug, it's useless to me.
Just to be clear, what I said was that film is the preferred print medium for anything big. In most places in the developed world, large x-rays are shot on digital (as you say) and printed to film. Many GP surgeries are not set up for a fully digital workflow yet.
(Disclaimer: Yes, I know he wasn't a permanent resident of NZ.)
I don't think the US would kill a permanent resident of NZ on our soil, not in a way that wasn't plausibly deniable like you're suggesting.