Every last one of us is going to die (at least everyone alive this second), some of us might help ourselves to opt out of this whole life deal a little bit early, some not. Sure it sucks that we have to foot the bill (as taxpayers) for the heart attacks those idiots get for sucking down 3 pounds of oily beef every day, but really, in 200 years we will be that black and white turn of the century photo you look at and think "They are all dead now... Pretty ugly fashion sense too."
Nobody will really care that much, so does it really matter?
If you follow the rhetoric spat out from North Korea, it seems, to me at least, that they want to save face. They are not going to let sanctions stop them in their quest to become respected, and I guess they feel that poaching technology from the bottom dwelling scum of the planet along with in house development is the way to arrive in the first world. Every day of the week they are saying "You look at us sideways, we will destroy you." They do naught but give ultimatums. Up until recently they were hollow threats. Now that they have shown they can let off a somewhat impotent nuke, and that they can throw crap up in to space, that's about good enough. Job done. The rest of the world leaders pumping out press releases to say how terrible this is, well, news flash, the horse has already bolted, they made their point, you did not do enough to stop it.
Maybe they will expect to get the big chair at the discussion table now, but would they actually use their new found weapons to gain some extra waterfront by erasing a chunk of South Korea? I don't think they are that stupid. They drop a nuke on anyone, they get the same damage back 10 fold. China isn't exactly going to side with them, nobody wants a world war except for an exceedingly small bunch of human misfits. Even the dumbest of us can comprehend such a thing is not a great idea.
Not really, reciprocal arrangements are made by telecommunications companies a thousand times every day, to say that they are complex is perhaps a bit of an understatement. Usually they work out pretty well and everyone is happy, but sometimes someone gets an agenda, or just plain greedy and this is the end result.
Er, you do understand how GSM works right? You are using, in the vast majority of instances, a 2 bit codec - and by this I mean 2 bits out of a standard 8 bit wide 64kbps timeslot on some trunk that is already compressed to the crap house using DCME. This means for voice you are given a generous 16kbps. What do you want for skype? 6 channel surround sound? 128kbps, are you serious?!
Skype can and does work absolutely fine on 3G. Even speeding along the interstate.
Maybe I'm missing something here, but google, all knowing and everything, tells me that the ocean level has been on the rise at a fairly steady rate of 1.8 millimeters (yes mm) per year for the last century or two. However, in the last 10 or 15 years that number has been trending in the upward direction by an additional 1.3mm. Now I don't know where you live, but by the time this affects the place where I'm sitting, new main stream religions will have formed, people will look back on us as though we were savages still swinging in the trees, and flying cars will still be just a couple of years away from rolling off show room floors. It's not like I live on the side of a mountain in a cave either. Myself, and 18 million others nearly like me, all of us are at about 4 meters above mean sea level on average. I personally have around 1400 years left to figure out where to make new house, and that's still allowing for a fairly modest increase in sea level rise from its current value.
Never overestimate the influence of the corporate overlords. I'm sure they are up there in their glass towers screaming at the guys and girls in the basement to take this shit in to the 21st century already. We want buzzwordability here, not usability. Our visitors are consumers of the extraneous, they really don't want slashdot, they don't know what they want, but when they come here, they are going to damn well make advert impressions and statistics that look good on the digitally projected power point presentations.
How do you figure you've made 5000 comments? I used to see "showing the last 24 comments of XXX", but that vanished a few months back. Where can one find this value now?
But her boobs were showing! Some parts of the world are pretty prudish about breasts, naturally this doesn't affect anyone here on slashdot, but hey, apparently this is true! Who would have thought!
Maybe they need to take a trip to Papua New Guinea or some of the other south east pacific islands, the land where naked tribal teenage chicks wander freely on city streets. (And Grandma, and milf, and bbw tribal chicks, something for everyone I guess.)
Here in the Philippines you can show brain splatter from bus/human interactive mash ups on the nightly news, you can show movies so violent that they terrify you for life, but showing even a hint of bare cleavage, that's a bit too racy, you'll land your backside in court on indecency charges. This isn't to say you can't get porn, or that it's bad, hell, we have prostitution down to a fine art as many foreigners would vouch for: (Wanna buy a woman?).
Not only that, but like the OP said, (a little inaccurate, but smack on the money anyway) most of these people live in small compound dwellings spanning one or two generations, but also covering a few families from the current generation. Several of these family members will be filches, they bum around and leech of the others while watching the grandparents do their washing, but several others will work 14 hour days and bring in money for the whole family. Sure the landscaping is crap, and they use second hand everything for everything, and the same pot holes in the road have been there since grandma was a babe, but this is not entirely because of poverty.
Sometimes it's a cultural thing - what good is that 80 inch $3000 plasma HDTV when you can buy a crappy little 21 inch vacuum tube job for $100. Sure the expensive one looks better and does a whole load of things, but the logic here is that it's a waste of money that could be better spent on a crap load of crap instead of a handful of excellent things. If they just saved up and got good stuff, it'd probably last longer, so in the long run they very likely aren't saving money at all anyway. Most of them live in what we would consider squalor not because they particularly have to, but because they will cut corners at every opportunity during construction and maintenance. Want your doorway to be squared off? WTF? That's too much work when you can just cut the door up to fit the doorway instead. You want your footpath to be smooth? What about the 6 utility poles that we plan on putting in, then yanking out half so that they each leave a 6 foot hole that you can break your leg in by accident at some future point in time? You want a gutter too, and you want it to be able to drain away? That would mean straight lines are needed. (Scratch of the chin) It's going to be expensive!
At least this is how it is in the Philippines. Not sure about India. Near enough is truly good enough it would seem. I sometimes wonder if this is where the world is headed, but then when I speak with the aforementioned older generations, they say the same thing occurred during their times too - maybe it's a slope, turtles all the way down!
I don't want convincing, and I didn't post trying to make you look bad with some high and mighty attitude. You post your business on a public forum, you get questioned in public. End of story. I have my answers already, you appear to be shaping my entire persona from a single slashdot post though, which would make you just as bad as you perceive me to be. I'm ok with this.
I was wanting to see some of this evidence that Randi is a crackpot and deserving of the statements you made. I'm not saying that he isn't, I'm saying that at face value what he is asking for seems pretty rational and logical.
I get it, you're in to metaphysics, great, I've read all the books too. Been there done that, I went the opposite way though, from an early childhood firm belief in such things, to a slow dawning rationalization that humans are pretty damn good at convincing themselves of anything at all. Anything. The more I experience, the more I learn, the more I know how little I actually know. Sanity, it's a sliding scale. Reality, I don't know what yours is, but I'm a little bit stuck with mine. If yours tells you that you can make mine different with or without me knowing, then I'm going to need a little bit more than just some text saying "well that's just how it is! I don't need to prove it to you"
I'm going to want a little bit of evidence, maybe an experiment or two. Don't get me wrong, I understand where you are coming from "We, the ones that can 'really' do this stuff, we don't need to prove anything to anyone!"
I'm not entirely sure what you are rambling on about, but, the guy and his rules seem pretty simple to me: Come in and prove you can do whatever it is you claim you can do, under our conditions, those conditions also being fairly straight forward. No cheating.
So, aside from your word, which is nothing short of one big "Citation Needed", I'm going to see "1 (one) million dollars, verified in a bank account, just waiting to be had", along with a sensible set of rules that should be absolutely no problem at all for anyone having a talent of this kind, and conclude that you are either scorned because you failed it, or just incapable of understanding others might be a tad cynical of those who come with extraordinary claims.
I've never heard of a card processor doing that, sounds like you need to dump the one you have real quick. We are using HSBC, not exactly the most user friendly bunch, their documentation is crap, and setting up their CPI or API for the first time is a task I'm glad I don't ever have to do again, but locking you out of your own money, never happened.
If that were truly the case, just a bunch of posturing, then why are they actually suing each other in real courts, with real people, real money, real contracts, and probably entire companies at stake?
I think the posturing you mention was probably done years or months ago behind closed doors, obviously it failed, so now we are seeing the legal battles that were threatened in those meetings. I don't much care though, if they invalidate each others patents, it just means a whole bunch of new tech comes along. Choice is a good thing yes?
Cattle generally get their consciousness switched off using what is no more complex than a plain old nail gun, at least this is how it is done in most of the more affluent societies around the world these days. Not so here in Asia, mostly they use a sledge hammer or a machete. With the nail gun death appears to be fast, perhaps even instantaneous. As to the flavour, unless you are intending to eat the head, then you're probably not going to be needing any study.
I'll give you the earth being roughly spherical in shape, but we don't know that the universe is 14 billion years old. That figure is arrived at using more than an assumption or two, it's based on a whole load of things we don't understand, have no data on, or any means to test yet. It might well be accurate, but to say we 'know' is a little premature. Maybe you'll interpret this as nit-picking, I'm not sure. I don't mean for it to be though.
Probably a good deal of that blur can be removed though - there are some stunningly detailed images of area 51 from 26 miles away taken through a telescope using multiple images to remove the atmospherics: http://www.dreamlandresort.com/area51/panorama_0608.html
Naturally this would be a little more challenging with the ISS since it's moving pretty fast through the scope - probably need a motor drive on it to keep it steady.
From a secret 3 letter agency point of view, it's no secret that the US and German governments share a limited amount of intelligence - google abounds with info on it, so you can bet your backside that anything leaked from either of those governments to wikileaks is going to come under scrutiny at some level. Australia is part of the big 5 (UKUSA), so if I were a betting kind of person I would lay good odds that Australia also has one or two agreements in place with Germany as well, thus the raid.
If the CIA finds any of their secret stuff on wikileaks, what they do about it will depend on the classification and severity of damage that would occur if they did nothing. Has it happened before? I have no idea, but not many people will be talking about it if it did.
The problem with leaking this particular Australian blacklist is that it will reveal to a few key people exactly how certain things got on that list in the first place. A pretty big heads up if you're at the centre of one of these child porn rings (or other criminal activities that can be deduced from the list)
Leaking certain types of secret isn't so bad it would seem, but leaking single source secrets, or slipping up with the source or methodology, that might get you a free visit from ASIS and a gun if you live outside the country, or ASIO if you're living locally.
I feel your pain! I ride a motorbike, lane splitting is legal where I live, so people like me are making those idiots think twice about doing this particular brand of stupid. Scare the bejesus out of you with a steel cap to your door today sir? Ma'am? Kick off your side mirror?
Discalimer: I don't actually do the above: What I actually do is knock on their window and yell muffled expletives through my helmet and face mask, or make gentle but unplanned adjustments to their side mirror - 99% of the time this is met with a glare that is indicative of the moron having total conviction and belief that they had the full blessing of their deity of choice to do what they just did, the other 1% of the time I'm pleasantly surprised and the other driver rolls down the window and says 'Sorry'
Not all classes of moron are right up at the top of the food chain and untouchable:-) One by one I'm helping to make your driving experience a little more pleasant by shaming either myself or them, I'm not entirely sure who yet.
I remember a time in Australia in the not too distant past when red light cameras were being introduced as an accident investigative tool - many local governments said they would only review the happy snaps in the event of an actual accident within the affected intersection. The populous thought it was a good idea too. Unfortunately 15 minutes later they were a revenue source in addition to their roll out description. Now they don't even bother with an explanation, red light cameras come bubble wrapped and included in even the most basic traffic light kit.
I moved to Asia, over here the amber (yellow) light is more or less just a waste of electricity, the red light typically means the next 12 cars go through, and green means you wait for those aforementioned 12 cars to pass you by before entering yourself. If they put up red light cameras they would make billions $$$ every year, only they can't afford to put them up so those billions remain a bit elusive. Radar, now that's star trek technology, it wont be introduced until it gets invented somewhere in the next 200 years.
Less likely to break in the sense of being 'sturdy' also means you are more likely to die in an accident. So, would you prefer your el-cheapo modern X-Box to shatter harmlessly on impact with your significant other in the heat of game battle anger, or remain in one piece?
It would be utterly trivial. No internet café needed. You're talking about huge Australian ISP's here, it's not that hard to make shit vanish if you drive the network. You have a bunch of very technically literate people that have complete control over what their systems log, this often encompasses some very large chunks of the routing between themselves and the international border. Making all the hops within Australia actually vanish is probably a couple of minutes work, and it's not like wikileaks is actually going to leak what they know just because Conroy is frothing at the mouth so bad and threatening to get the Australian Federal Police on the case.
Clearly you haven't lived in the tropical parts of Asia. You could install a weaved mesh so fine that the gaps between each strand are just a few atoms wide, the buggers might bang up against it for a bit, but then they'll get pissed and just teleport their arses right on through anyway. To get revenge on you for this, the stupid pricks bite you on the thickest parts of your feet just to prove that even a half inch of skin is no more problematic to spear on through than tissue paper.
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Every last one of us is going to die (at least everyone alive this second), some of us might help ourselves to opt out of this whole life deal a little bit early, some not. Sure it sucks that we have to foot the bill (as taxpayers) for the heart attacks those idiots get for sucking down 3 pounds of oily beef every day, but really, in 200 years we will be that black and white turn of the century photo you look at and think "They are all dead now... Pretty ugly fashion sense too."
Nobody will really care that much, so does it really matter?
If you follow the rhetoric spat out from North Korea, it seems, to me at least, that they want to save face. They are not going to let sanctions stop them in their quest to become respected, and I guess they feel that poaching technology from the bottom dwelling scum of the planet along with in house development is the way to arrive in the first world. Every day of the week they are saying "You look at us sideways, we will destroy you." They do naught but give ultimatums. Up until recently they were hollow threats. Now that they have shown they can let off a somewhat impotent nuke, and that they can throw crap up in to space, that's about good enough. Job done. The rest of the world leaders pumping out press releases to say how terrible this is, well, news flash, the horse has already bolted, they made their point, you did not do enough to stop it.
Maybe they will expect to get the big chair at the discussion table now, but would they actually use their new found weapons to gain some extra waterfront by erasing a chunk of South Korea? I don't think they are that stupid. They drop a nuke on anyone, they get the same damage back 10 fold. China isn't exactly going to side with them, nobody wants a world war except for an exceedingly small bunch of human misfits. Even the dumbest of us can comprehend such a thing is not a great idea.
Not really, reciprocal arrangements are made by telecommunications companies a thousand times every day, to say that they are complex is perhaps a bit of an understatement. Usually they work out pretty well and everyone is happy, but sometimes someone gets an agenda, or just plain greedy and this is the end result.
Er, you do understand how GSM works right? You are using, in the vast majority of instances, a 2 bit codec - and by this I mean 2 bits out of a standard 8 bit wide 64kbps timeslot on some trunk that is already compressed to the crap house using DCME. This means for voice you are given a generous 16kbps. What do you want for skype? 6 channel surround sound? 128kbps, are you serious?!
Skype can and does work absolutely fine on 3G. Even speeding along the interstate.
Maybe I'm missing something here, but google, all knowing and everything, tells me that the ocean level has been on the rise at a fairly steady rate of 1.8 millimeters (yes mm) per year for the last century or two. However, in the last 10 or 15 years that number has been trending in the upward direction by an additional 1.3mm. Now I don't know where you live, but by the time this affects the place where I'm sitting, new main stream religions will have formed, people will look back on us as though we were savages still swinging in the trees, and flying cars will still be just a couple of years away from rolling off show room floors. It's not like I live on the side of a mountain in a cave either. Myself, and 18 million others nearly like me, all of us are at about 4 meters above mean sea level on average. I personally have around 1400 years left to figure out where to make new house, and that's still allowing for a fairly modest increase in sea level rise from its current value.
Never overestimate the influence of the corporate overlords. I'm sure they are up there in their glass towers screaming at the guys and girls in the basement to take this shit in to the 21st century already. We want buzzwordability here, not usability. Our visitors are consumers of the extraneous, they really don't want slashdot, they don't know what they want, but when they come here, they are going to damn well make advert impressions and statistics that look good on the digitally projected power point presentations.
Or something like that anyway.
How do you figure you've made 5000 comments? I used to see "showing the last 24 comments of XXX", but that vanished a few months back. Where can one find this value now?
But her boobs were showing! Some parts of the world are pretty prudish about breasts, naturally this doesn't affect anyone here on slashdot, but hey, apparently this is true! Who would have thought!
Maybe they need to take a trip to Papua New Guinea or some of the other south east pacific islands, the land where naked tribal teenage chicks wander freely on city streets. (And Grandma, and milf, and bbw tribal chicks, something for everyone I guess.)
Here in the Philippines you can show brain splatter from bus/human interactive mash ups on the nightly news, you can show movies so violent that they terrify you for life, but showing even a hint of bare cleavage, that's a bit too racy, you'll land your backside in court on indecency charges. This isn't to say you can't get porn, or that it's bad, hell, we have prostitution down to a fine art as many foreigners would vouch for: (Wanna buy a woman?).
I get your hint though :-)
Not only that, but like the OP said, (a little inaccurate, but smack on the money anyway) most of these people live in small compound dwellings spanning one or two generations, but also covering a few families from the current generation. Several of these family members will be filches, they bum around and leech of the others while watching the grandparents do their washing, but several others will work 14 hour days and bring in money for the whole family. Sure the landscaping is crap, and they use second hand everything for everything, and the same pot holes in the road have been there since grandma was a babe, but this is not entirely because of poverty.
Sometimes it's a cultural thing - what good is that 80 inch $3000 plasma HDTV when you can buy a crappy little 21 inch vacuum tube job for $100. Sure the expensive one looks better and does a whole load of things, but the logic here is that it's a waste of money that could be better spent on a crap load of crap instead of a handful of excellent things. If they just saved up and got good stuff, it'd probably last longer, so in the long run they very likely aren't saving money at all anyway. Most of them live in what we would consider squalor not because they particularly have to, but because they will cut corners at every opportunity during construction and maintenance. Want your doorway to be squared off? WTF? That's too much work when you can just cut the door up to fit the doorway instead. You want your footpath to be smooth? What about the 6 utility poles that we plan on putting in, then yanking out half so that they each leave a 6 foot hole that you can break your leg in by accident at some future point in time? You want a gutter too, and you want it to be able to drain away? That would mean straight lines are needed. (Scratch of the chin) It's going to be expensive!
At least this is how it is in the Philippines. Not sure about India. Near enough is truly good enough it would seem. I sometimes wonder if this is where the world is headed, but then when I speak with the aforementioned older generations, they say the same thing occurred during their times too - maybe it's a slope, turtles all the way down!
I don't want convincing, and I didn't post trying to make you look bad with some high and mighty attitude. You post your business on a public forum, you get questioned in public. End of story. I have my answers already, you appear to be shaping my entire persona from a single slashdot post though, which would make you just as bad as you perceive me to be. I'm ok with this.
I was wanting to see some of this evidence that Randi is a crackpot and deserving of the statements you made. I'm not saying that he isn't, I'm saying that at face value what he is asking for seems pretty rational and logical.
I get it, you're in to metaphysics, great, I've read all the books too. Been there done that, I went the opposite way though, from an early childhood firm belief in such things, to a slow dawning rationalization that humans are pretty damn good at convincing themselves of anything at all. Anything. The more I experience, the more I learn, the more I know how little I actually know. Sanity, it's a sliding scale. Reality, I don't know what yours is, but I'm a little bit stuck with mine. If yours tells you that you can make mine different with or without me knowing, then I'm going to need a little bit more than just some text saying "well that's just how it is! I don't need to prove it to you"
I'm going to want a little bit of evidence, maybe an experiment or two. Don't get me wrong, I understand where you are coming from "We, the ones that can 'really' do this stuff, we don't need to prove anything to anyone!"
Meh, I know your type too, sir.
I'm not entirely sure what you are rambling on about, but, the guy and his rules seem pretty simple to me: Come in and prove you can do whatever it is you claim you can do, under our conditions, those conditions also being fairly straight forward. No cheating.
So, aside from your word, which is nothing short of one big "Citation Needed", I'm going to see "1 (one) million dollars, verified in a bank account, just waiting to be had", along with a sensible set of rules that should be absolutely no problem at all for anyone having a talent of this kind, and conclude that you are either scorned because you failed it, or just incapable of understanding others might be a tad cynical of those who come with extraordinary claims.
I've never heard of a card processor doing that, sounds like you need to dump the one you have real quick. We are using HSBC, not exactly the most user friendly bunch, their documentation is crap, and setting up their CPI or API for the first time is a task I'm glad I don't ever have to do again, but locking you out of your own money, never happened.
If that were truly the case, just a bunch of posturing, then why are they actually suing each other in real courts, with real people, real money, real contracts, and probably entire companies at stake?
I think the posturing you mention was probably done years or months ago behind closed doors, obviously it failed, so now we are seeing the legal battles that were threatened in those meetings. I don't much care though, if they invalidate each others patents, it just means a whole bunch of new tech comes along. Choice is a good thing yes?
Cattle generally get their consciousness switched off using what is no more complex than a plain old nail gun, at least this is how it is done in most of the more affluent societies around the world these days. Not so here in Asia, mostly they use a sledge hammer or a machete. With the nail gun death appears to be fast, perhaps even instantaneous. As to the flavour, unless you are intending to eat the head, then you're probably not going to be needing any study.
I'll give you the earth being roughly spherical in shape, but we don't know that the universe is 14 billion years old. That figure is arrived at using more than an assumption or two, it's based on a whole load of things we don't understand, have no data on, or any means to test yet. It might well be accurate, but to say we 'know' is a little premature. Maybe you'll interpret this as nit-picking, I'm not sure. I don't mean for it to be though.
Probably a good deal of that blur can be removed though - there are some stunningly detailed images of area 51 from 26 miles away taken through a telescope using multiple images to remove the atmospherics:
http://www.dreamlandresort.com/area51/panorama_0608.html
Naturally this would be a little more challenging with the ISS since it's moving pretty fast through the scope - probably need a motor drive on it to keep it steady.
From a secret 3 letter agency point of view, it's no secret that the US and German governments share a limited amount of intelligence - google abounds with info on it, so you can bet your backside that anything leaked from either of those governments to wikileaks is going to come under scrutiny at some level. Australia is part of the big 5 (UKUSA), so if I were a betting kind of person I would lay good odds that Australia also has one or two agreements in place with Germany as well, thus the raid.
If the CIA finds any of their secret stuff on wikileaks, what they do about it will depend on the classification and severity of damage that would occur if they did nothing. Has it happened before? I have no idea, but not many people will be talking about it if it did.
The problem with leaking this particular Australian blacklist is that it will reveal to a few key people exactly how certain things got on that list in the first place. A pretty big heads up if you're at the centre of one of these child porn rings (or other criminal activities that can be deduced from the list)
Leaking certain types of secret isn't so bad it would seem, but leaking single source secrets, or slipping up with the source or methodology, that might get you a free visit from ASIS and a gun if you live outside the country, or ASIO if you're living locally.
All of that said, it wasn't me!
I feel your pain! I ride a motorbike, lane splitting is legal where I live, so people like me are making those idiots think twice about doing this particular brand of stupid. Scare the bejesus out of you with a steel cap to your door today sir? Ma'am? Kick off your side mirror?
Discalimer: I don't actually do the above: What I actually do is knock on their window and yell muffled expletives through my helmet and face mask, or make gentle but unplanned adjustments to their side mirror - 99% of the time this is met with a glare that is indicative of the moron having total conviction and belief that they had the full blessing of their deity of choice to do what they just did, the other 1% of the time I'm pleasantly surprised and the other driver rolls down the window and says 'Sorry'
Not all classes of moron are right up at the top of the food chain and untouchable :-) One by one I'm helping to make your driving experience a little more pleasant by shaming either myself or them, I'm not entirely sure who yet.
I remember a time in Australia in the not too distant past when red light cameras were being introduced as an accident investigative tool - many local governments said they would only review the happy snaps in the event of an actual accident within the affected intersection. The populous thought it was a good idea too. Unfortunately 15 minutes later they were a revenue source in addition to their roll out description. Now they don't even bother with an explanation, red light cameras come bubble wrapped and included in even the most basic traffic light kit.
I moved to Asia, over here the amber (yellow) light is more or less just a waste of electricity, the red light typically means the next 12 cars go through, and green means you wait for those aforementioned 12 cars to pass you by before entering yourself. If they put up red light cameras they would make billions $$$ every year, only they can't afford to put them up so those billions remain a bit elusive. Radar, now that's star trek technology, it wont be introduced until it gets invented somewhere in the next 200 years.
Less likely to break in the sense of being 'sturdy' also means you are more likely to die in an accident. So, would you prefer your el-cheapo modern X-Box to shatter harmlessly on impact with your significant other in the heat of game battle anger, or remain in one piece?
Sorry, I meant it would be utterly impossible (to find the individual)
It would be utterly trivial. No internet café needed. You're talking about huge Australian ISP's here, it's not that hard to make shit vanish if you drive the network. You have a bunch of very technically literate people that have complete control over what their systems log, this often encompasses some very large chunks of the routing between themselves and the international border. Making all the hops within Australia actually vanish is probably a couple of minutes work, and it's not like wikileaks is actually going to leak what they know just because Conroy is frothing at the mouth so bad and threatening to get the Australian Federal Police on the case.
No, you didn't, we all understood :-) You just got some ticked off noob with his 1 million + UID.
Clearly you haven't lived in the tropical parts of Asia. You could install a weaved mesh so fine that the gaps between each strand are just a few atoms wide, the buggers might bang up against it for a bit, but then they'll get pissed and just teleport their arses right on through anyway. To get revenge on you for this, the stupid pricks bite you on the thickest parts of your feet just to prove that even a half inch of skin is no more problematic to spear on through than tissue paper.
I'd buy 10 of these things in a heart beat.
Maybe they'll just say screw it, we're doing 128 bits? Or are we already patented up to the megabits already?