Google TV goes no where. At minimum stackable external hard disk and dvd drives, for ripping and media serving. More useful software like firewall and internet serving. While they are at it why not an IPv6 mail and web server. They basically went nowhere with it. The apple product is of course just another outlet for limited licence content with a low entry price to trap the unwary.
The idiot box is so last century, to kick it into this century it becomes nothing but a display for home media centre that should link all the other digital devices in the home and server content from where and when ever it is sourced. Can not get channels, pfft, better to provide ISP localised and secured restricted torrents for friends to access each other libraries, of course only one at time.
For live there is always time shifted free to air or thousands of streams from all over the web.
If the actual perpetrator of the crime had stopped a little sooner, after his neighbours had been accused and prior to their lawyers assisting them with a private investigator (note the police had already defined their guilt they now had to prove their innocence) who tracked down the actual guilty party and provided substantive evidence sufficient that the police would further investigate the matter, the perpetrator would have gotten away with it.
A warning all round about IP addresses being insufficient for prosecution of any crime, about reasonable doubt being a rule for investigation as well as the court (they should not have had to pay for and use a private investigator, the police failed in their due care to properly investigate the matter) and of course the real risks you face when using a computer and the internet. First lesson, where possible use wired over wireless, when using wireless infra-red is better than radio signals sometimes convenience can come with too high a price.
This is actually an old story. Originally marketing and PR firms noted that cars produce distinctive engine noise that promote the label and with electric cars this would be gone, hence they worked on the idea of electric cars making marketing driving noise and seeking excuses to force it on customers.
This bit of legislative douchery is the means by which they can enforce it. They admit that above 20km per hour tyre noise is sufficient to alert pedestrians and below 20km per hour, well excuse me but if you hit a pedestrian below 20 km per hour your not paying attention. Even at low speeds rolling resistance http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_resistance is a measure of tyre flex, hence abrasion and noise.
Please define porn first. A two adults sharing a dirty voip (internet call) porn, how about when it is a video call.
So will companies that sell porn have to identify themselves as such in and then why would they. Porn has an international supply so how are foreign companies targeted.
The reality of this is 24/7 monitoring and censorship of all internet communications, including phone calls, otherwise how can you block porn.
The same old lie spread again and again, to protect children. So is the government saying that content suitable for a 16 year old is suitable for a 6 year old how about a 5 year old and a seventeen teen year old. The reality is if you want an internet suitable for children is has to be a children only internet, one that has been censored of all unhealthy commercial content, one where content is approved, so no commercial, no junk food, no raunch targeted at minors. Everything other than this for children is a lie.
Nepotism in reality counts more than the school when it comes to prestigious colleges. Face if your parents can afford to send you there, then the have the contacts to get you a job, especially one of those jobs than involves gambling with other peoples money, lawyers, mass media or government. So empty bragging rights, less stringent academic requirements for bottom end grades, no matter how bas the student the parent can buy a pass with sufficient money but, those that benefit by nepotism will protect their own kind and they don't want some skilled smart arse showing them up.
Wake up. Do you want you post delivered as cheaply as possible or do you want you postal service to be a profitable as possible, you can not have both, profit you fool comes from gouging the consumers pocket.
Government services attempt to provide as much service as possible whilst charging as little as possible, sometimes resulting losses. Corporations attempt to provide as little service as possible whilst charging as much as possible for it, often resulting in multimillion dollar bonuses for corporate executives. Competition is what corporation strive to cripple by forming cartel, buy buying out the opposition and then ramping up prices to pay for it, by lying to consumers, by lobbying for reduced worker rights, by not paying tax, by seeking corporate welfare from the local, state and federal government.
So more efficient letter carriage, drop Saturday deliveries, drop pick up of mail from letter box have localised post boxes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post_box, just those simply changes will substantively reduce cost. Of course it you really want to do what a for profit corporation would do, simply drop all postal services to rural areas unless they are willing to pay substantially more for the service.
As for corporations as far as they are concerned your money is their money and they will and do lie, cheat and steal to 'er' recover it.
Of course when it comes to control freaks no one can match military officers, no matter how incompetent they are at it. Smartphones for every soldier so;
24/7 monitoring of location The military own the phone and the service person so random activation recording and computer analysis of the phones microphone Always on call no refusal
So the military is the ideal place to test digital enslavement of the populace, next parolees, then the general populace for any misdemeanour activity like not being rich or being a member of the wrong political party.
So overall really rather off, as there is no real battle field application as they are tied to a public frequency so jamming is to be expected if they were actually used.
Never heard of the blatantly obvious, obviously. How many other countries have attack carriers that you need to defend against for example. The principle is if you going to make a big bullshit yarn about people choosing what is cut, then it should be open slather not selectively targeted at what Republican hill billies least understand, science. So the bullshit in it should have been blindingly obvious even to you, unless of course you have a propaganda axe to grind.
So how about no health care for elected officials, halve politicians pay packets, federally mandated limits on all government executive salaries, no private planes for politicians let them all get xrayed and molested at airports flying economy class, no new crap for the military for a decade, no welfare for millionaire farmers, no oil industry subsidies and no mass media subsidies. They sky is the limit why just pick on science, let's guess because 'hmm' scientists can't afford bloody lobbyists.
True life animation, nor cartoons, using virtual characters and environments, driven by artificial intelligence and robotics science. So software engineers become animation script engineers.
Even wonder that the show might be on the other foot, that the Bank of America knowingly dealt with criminals of all sorts including terrorists and that is what they really fear.
It is pointlessly insane. Blaming North Koreans for being the slaves of the psychopathic minority that actually control the country is equally insane as that leadership. Of course the North Korea leadership will seek to kill as much of their own population as well as the rest of humanity as they can, precisely because they are insane psychopaths.
Clearly as with any autocracy the only viable solution is the rapid elimination of the leadership to issues any 'scorched earth' type of instructions. In the interim of course that threat means that their most viable means of delivering weapons of mass destruction should be constrained, all North Korea flagged merchant vessel should be prevented from leaving North Korean waters as that is their only real means of delivering weapons of mass destruction.
In ancient times you freed the slaves and killed the masters, to declare war upon the slaves just makes you as inhumane as their masters. You do not seek to protect humanity by becoming the enemy of humanity.
What Sci-Fi channel, I believe you mean the Sy-Fy channel and nothing sums up more the 'dumb' of that channel more the the title itself.
Here's the catch science fiction has one of the most expensive production costs, due to special effects and high set design costs. To attract it core fans, the science fiction aficionados, the stories must be rich and complex and hold to premise behind the series as science fiction types have long memories. Problem this is a very limited audience and the drooling wrestling and reality TV fans just don't get it, don't understand and because it shows up their ignorance don't want to watch it.
So high cost, small audience just doesn't cut it when it comes to the insatiable greed of the mass media set, they ain't interested in the art, they are only interested in living to excess. Basically you are stuck waiting until low cost animation catches up allowing quality science fiction stories to be told at a low cost, minus the celebrity airheads, minus greedy publishers ie direct from the story tellers and animation geeks to their most supportive audience.
Well here's a hint, you don't target the hundreds of thousands per individual science grant, that people will oppose simply upon the basis that they don't understand the science behind them nor it's potential benefits. Just imagine some idiot decrying research into the genetics of fruit flys, how dumb can you be not to realise how that genetic research can be used in other fields and even used in that field itself to control a pest that destroys hundreds of millions of dollars worth of food every year hint dumb enough to be a vice presidential candidate apparently.
Want to save money than tackle the big ticket items first, aircraft, ships and tanks designed to fight a world war the no longer exists and even if it did, would simply result in mutual nuclear annihilation. So no new planes, tanks or ships for a decade, make do with what is already in the arsenal which is greater than the rest of the world combined. Also an end the the exorbitant cost of militarising the police, the only result of which is to generate tens of millions of dollars of successful lawsuits for the excessive use of force.
So what is YouCut all about, obviously one thing and one thing only to direct peoples eyes away from the billion dollar wasts, such as no bid contracts, the military industrial complex and bridges to no where and get them focused on things they don't understand and they feel superior about when they laugh at them. The ignorant wallowing in the ignorance.
It is a matter of inevitability and UN control is all about establishing treaties for intercommunication with each individual country controlling their part of it. So other countries are becoming more uncomfortable with US control, when the US has security failures and starts attacking internet access in other countries to try to enforce web silence.
So really is was only a matter of time between the imperial US attempting total control of the internet and other countries driving for greater independence. Think of it in dollar terms, no every other country can sell those prime.com.net and.org all over again and the US get's stuck with.us.
Then of course the new internet reality is the death of all retail operations. Technically they are are waste of time and your hard earned income. The new shopping experience will be driven by logistics http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logistics with a good web interface.
So order your desired products from the logistics company and they source it direct from manufacturers and deliver it straight to your door, no middle men, no exporter, importer, wholesaler, retailer, chain of profit margins to rip you off, just the manufacturer and the logistics company.
Eep, before the windrones start picking in me again, might I suggest you are placing Ballmer and Gates in the role of the cylons and that I had nothing to do with it;).
You also obviously do no coding and have no idea where the $ use comes from in M$ basic. Also I restrict the use of MS for http://www.msaustralia.org.au/ a charitable organisation that has my full support (I even spent three months diagnosed with the condition turned out just to be a bruised spinal cord). What can I say but get over it dickwad and go here http://www.mssociety.org.uk/ and donate if you really into the pound symbol but if your just a US M$ marketdroid then go here http://www.nationalmssociety.org/index.aspx and donate.
The idea is ACMA remains civilian and thus is a more acceptable place of employment for computer geeks and nerds, rather than the authoritarian structure of military and police forces. So the only thing the do is investigate and analyse system break-ins and suspicion of system break ins, as well as of course assist in the design of secure system.
The warrants, wire taps et al are still done by the same authorities they just go to ACMA for the technical resource. The main reason to do it that what, is purely and simply to create a more sound employment basis for the type of people required to fulfil the necessary roles (more psychological suitable), to create a suitable training environment to enhance their skills (more readily ties in with that other civilian resource, universities) and to house the necessary technology to analyse the incursions. In the US the FCC could fulfil the same role.
So strictly speaking a civilian technological resource, which is shared by other military, intelligence and policing resources. It is simply a more sound sensible way of managing it.
Who wants to diddle with centrifuges, when you can shut down a countries power plants for months. Centrifuges, pfft, no electricity for months, total chaos, real financial destruction and even the possibility of social order break down. Sure the government can communicate within itself but what is the point when they can no longer communicate with an isolated, fearful, hungry, thirsty, general public.
The only tricky bit is making sure which country gets which electronic components, but with good encoding and high density micro circuitry, each and every batch of components can be uniquely indefinable with it's unique code. Trust no one.
If you compare the news article to the secret document released, the journalist really, really stretched one paragraph. To quote "Australian intelligence would need to stay engaged with its US counterparts to share lessons learned in the cyber arena", certainly the US has demonstrated many things not to do and Australian Intelligence has likely learned from them.
Likely Australia is far better off expanding the role of ACMA http://www.acma.gov.au/WEB/HOMEPAGE/pc=HOME, to investigate 'cybercrime' and make use of other authorities, State Police for local action and Interpol, ASIO and ambassadorial staff for overseas actions.
Internet security is really a civilian thing and done largely in public as a shared effort, firstly to protect people from attacks and secondly to prosecute those carrying out those attacks.
As far as defence is concerned the US after Iraq has proved that it can't really be trusted where the financial interests of it's defence and oil industry can readily outweigh it's defence treaties and the value it places upon honouring the shared trust with allies. So the big cyberdefence thing is the localised production of electronic components to be used in critical infrastructure as well as the computer software required to make it run, basically in the internet age, 'NO' other country can be trusted. You don't want to be drawn into someone else's idiotic cyber war because an ally decided to compromise your systems to make it look like someone else did (something the US has proved it is quite willing to do with it supplied false intelligence data about the threat from Iraq).
So from the marketdroids point of view, when you are both watching the TV and using a computer, which one do you pay more attention to. So for you has the TV just become background, whilst you a really actually focused on your computer.
So that statistical comparison between using the internet and watching the TV could actually be much worse for marketing on the TV than they realise, if they haven't checked for people doing both at the same time and the TV just being largely ignored background.
They were stuck with a literal interpretation of the Law. Omega chose to protect their watches under copyright, the copyright laws give some protection from parallel importing, originally put in place by the pigopolists to protect different pricing in different regions for music, movies and books.
So in this case the original lawmakers the Senate and Congress are the asshats, Omega just decided to make use of that bit scum buggery in global trade where corporations get access and the nobodies, us, are told to get knotted (that's how they get those big fat corporate profits).
Costco could do some weird stuff selling them online from a branch location overseas as long as the end purchaser is the importer. What really needs to happen is, buy that cheap chinese crap direct from China and ignore the ego building masturbatory marketing, you watch the egg sucking corporate CEO's lobby to change product importation laws yet again.
M$ Internet Explorer under control the M$ controlled server is better at censoring the web, than any any browser.
WTF, this has nothing much to do with browsers at all, just how much time and effort a company is willing to put into to tracking down naughty web sites and updating their browsers and blocking the naughty payload coming from those web sites.
P.S. If you really want to do something good M$, work together with those other companies to make a universally accessible database of malicious web sites, so that everyone will be safer. Until then you are a dick and technically under law, an accessory after the fact for failure to report to the appropriate authorities an attempt by others to commit a crime ie. give the appropriate authorities access to that database so they can do something much more appropriate than just bloody blocking them.
The only point authorities are proving is they don't know what they are doing. Even with the fully explained PDF, that details in the writers opinion that Anonymous is not a group, there is no hierarchy and people can pursue any 'idea' they choose to or not, when espoused by the 'Anonymous' marketing meme and that even if they follow one particular idea at one time, in no way does it imply they pursue all ideas as espoused by the 'Anonymous' marketing meme.
The arrest shows a huge amount of ignorance by law enforcement. To arrest someone for being a member of 'Anonymous' is really, really dumb. About the only thing the writer is guilty of is the excessive and abusive use of the royal 'We'. By definition any member of Anonymous is the sole member of an organisation of one, as all other members are members unto themselves, either choosing to follow in their own desired fashion or ignore any particular 'Anonymous' marketing meme call for action.
All that cab be said about 'Anonymous' is membership is utterly non-exclusionary as every one is both a member and a non-member simultaneously.
This in no way shape or form is to be considered a press release on behalf of 'Anonymous' so you professional paranoid types can bugger off, simply a discussion on the sociological nature of 'Anonymous'.
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Google TV goes no where. At minimum stackable external hard disk and dvd drives, for ripping and media serving. More useful software like firewall and internet serving. While they are at it why not an IPv6 mail and web server. They basically went nowhere with it. The apple product is of course just another outlet for limited licence content with a low entry price to trap the unwary.
The idiot box is so last century, to kick it into this century it becomes nothing but a display for home media centre that should link all the other digital devices in the home and server content from where and when ever it is sourced. Can not get channels, pfft, better to provide ISP localised and secured restricted torrents for friends to access each other libraries, of course only one at time.
For live there is always time shifted free to air or thousands of streams from all over the web.
If you look at this story in depth there is a real warning of how badly it might have gone, a more in depth article http://www.startribune.com/local/north/112080854.html?elr=KArks:DCiUHc3E7_V_nDaycUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUoD3aPc:_2yc:a_ncyD_MDCiU really indicates it was only a matter of timing.
If the actual perpetrator of the crime had stopped a little sooner, after his neighbours had been accused and prior to their lawyers assisting them with a private investigator (note the police had already defined their guilt they now had to prove their innocence) who tracked down the actual guilty party and provided substantive evidence sufficient that the police would further investigate the matter, the perpetrator would have gotten away with it.
A warning all round about IP addresses being insufficient for prosecution of any crime, about reasonable doubt being a rule for investigation as well as the court (they should not have had to pay for and use a private investigator, the police failed in their due care to properly investigate the matter) and of course the real risks you face when using a computer and the internet. First lesson, where possible use wired over wireless, when using wireless infra-red is better than radio signals sometimes convenience can come with too high a price.
This is actually an old story. Originally marketing and PR firms noted that cars produce distinctive engine noise that promote the label and with electric cars this would be gone, hence they worked on the idea of electric cars making marketing driving noise and seeking excuses to force it on customers.
This bit of legislative douchery is the means by which they can enforce it. They admit that above 20km per hour tyre noise is sufficient to alert pedestrians and below 20km per hour, well excuse me but if you hit a pedestrian below 20 km per hour your not paying attention. Even at low speeds rolling resistance http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_resistance is a measure of tyre flex, hence abrasion and noise.
Please define porn first. A two adults sharing a dirty voip (internet call) porn, how about when it is a video call.
So will companies that sell porn have to identify themselves as such in and then why would they. Porn has an international supply so how are foreign companies targeted.
The reality of this is 24/7 monitoring and censorship of all internet communications, including phone calls, otherwise how can you block porn.
The same old lie spread again and again, to protect children. So is the government saying that content suitable for a 16 year old is suitable for a 6 year old how about a 5 year old and a seventeen teen year old. The reality is if you want an internet suitable for children is has to be a children only internet, one that has been censored of all unhealthy commercial content, one where content is approved, so no commercial, no junk food, no raunch targeted at minors. Everything other than this for children is a lie.
Nepotism in reality counts more than the school when it comes to prestigious colleges. Face if your parents can afford to send you there, then the have the contacts to get you a job, especially one of those jobs than involves gambling with other peoples money, lawyers, mass media or government. So empty bragging rights, less stringent academic requirements for bottom end grades, no matter how bas the student the parent can buy a pass with sufficient money but, those that benefit by nepotism will protect their own kind and they don't want some skilled smart arse showing them up.
Wake up. Do you want you post delivered as cheaply as possible or do you want you postal service to be a profitable as possible, you can not have both, profit you fool comes from gouging the consumers pocket.
Government services attempt to provide as much service as possible whilst charging as little as possible, sometimes resulting losses. Corporations attempt to provide as little service as possible whilst charging as much as possible for it, often resulting in multimillion dollar bonuses for corporate executives. Competition is what corporation strive to cripple by forming cartel, buy buying out the opposition and then ramping up prices to pay for it, by lying to consumers, by lobbying for reduced worker rights, by not paying tax, by seeking corporate welfare from the local, state and federal government.
So more efficient letter carriage, drop Saturday deliveries, drop pick up of mail from letter box have localised post boxes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post_box, just those simply changes will substantively reduce cost. Of course it you really want to do what a for profit corporation would do, simply drop all postal services to rural areas unless they are willing to pay substantially more for the service.
As for corporations as far as they are concerned your money is their money and they will and do lie, cheat and steal to 'er' recover it.
Of course when it comes to control freaks no one can match military officers, no matter how incompetent they are at it. Smartphones for every soldier so;
24/7 monitoring of location
The military own the phone and the service person so random activation recording and computer analysis of the phones microphone
Always on call no refusal
So the military is the ideal place to test digital enslavement of the populace, next parolees, then the general populace for any misdemeanour activity like not being rich or being a member of the wrong political party.
So overall really rather off, as there is no real battle field application as they are tied to a public frequency so jamming is to be expected if they were actually used.
Never heard of the blatantly obvious, obviously. How many other countries have attack carriers that you need to defend against for example. The principle is if you going to make a big bullshit yarn about people choosing what is cut, then it should be open slather not selectively targeted at what Republican hill billies least understand, science. So the bullshit in it should have been blindingly obvious even to you, unless of course you have a propaganda axe to grind.
So how about no health care for elected officials, halve politicians pay packets, federally mandated limits on all government executive salaries, no private planes for politicians let them all get xrayed and molested at airports flying economy class, no new crap for the military for a decade, no welfare for millionaire farmers, no oil industry subsidies and no mass media subsidies. They sky is the limit why just pick on science, let's guess because 'hmm' scientists can't afford bloody lobbyists.
True life animation, nor cartoons, using virtual characters and environments, driven by artificial intelligence and robotics science. So software engineers become animation script engineers.
Even wonder that the show might be on the other foot, that the Bank of America knowingly dealt with criminals of all sorts including terrorists and that is what they really fear.
It is pointlessly insane. Blaming North Koreans for being the slaves of the psychopathic minority that actually control the country is equally insane as that leadership. Of course the North Korea leadership will seek to kill as much of their own population as well as the rest of humanity as they can, precisely because they are insane psychopaths.
Clearly as with any autocracy the only viable solution is the rapid elimination of the leadership to issues any 'scorched earth' type of instructions. In the interim of course that threat means that their most viable means of delivering weapons of mass destruction should be constrained, all North Korea flagged merchant vessel should be prevented from leaving North Korean waters as that is their only real means of delivering weapons of mass destruction.
In ancient times you freed the slaves and killed the masters, to declare war upon the slaves just makes you as inhumane as their masters. You do not seek to protect humanity by becoming the enemy of humanity.
What Sci-Fi channel, I believe you mean the Sy-Fy channel and nothing sums up more the 'dumb' of that channel more the the title itself.
Here's the catch science fiction has one of the most expensive production costs, due to special effects and high set design costs. To attract it core fans, the science fiction aficionados, the stories must be rich and complex and hold to premise behind the series as science fiction types have long memories. Problem this is a very limited audience and the drooling wrestling and reality TV fans just don't get it, don't understand and because it shows up their ignorance don't want to watch it.
So high cost, small audience just doesn't cut it when it comes to the insatiable greed of the mass media set, they ain't interested in the art, they are only interested in living to excess. Basically you are stuck waiting until low cost animation catches up allowing quality science fiction stories to be told at a low cost, minus the celebrity airheads, minus greedy publishers ie direct from the story tellers and animation geeks to their most supportive audience.
Well here's a hint, you don't target the hundreds of thousands per individual science grant, that people will oppose simply upon the basis that they don't understand the science behind them nor it's potential benefits. Just imagine some idiot decrying research into the genetics of fruit flys, how dumb can you be not to realise how that genetic research can be used in other fields and even used in that field itself to control a pest that destroys hundreds of millions of dollars worth of food every year hint dumb enough to be a vice presidential candidate apparently.
Want to save money than tackle the big ticket items first, aircraft, ships and tanks designed to fight a world war the no longer exists and even if it did, would simply result in mutual nuclear annihilation. So no new planes, tanks or ships for a decade, make do with what is already in the arsenal which is greater than the rest of the world combined. Also an end the the exorbitant cost of militarising the police, the only result of which is to generate tens of millions of dollars of successful lawsuits for the excessive use of force.
So what is YouCut all about, obviously one thing and one thing only to direct peoples eyes away from the billion dollar wasts, such as no bid contracts, the military industrial complex and bridges to no where and get them focused on things they don't understand and they feel superior about when they laugh at them. The ignorant wallowing in the ignorance.
More accurately, you have to rely upon your lawyers ability to exploit the intellectual weaknesses of jurors.
It is a matter of inevitability and UN control is all about establishing treaties for intercommunication with each individual country controlling their part of it. So other countries are becoming more uncomfortable with US control, when the US has security failures and starts attacking internet access in other countries to try to enforce web silence.
So really is was only a matter of time between the imperial US attempting total control of the internet and other countries driving for greater independence. Think of it in dollar terms, no every other country can sell those prime .com .net and .org all over again and the US get's stuck with .us.
Then of course the new internet reality is the death of all retail operations. Technically they are are waste of time and your hard earned income. The new shopping experience will be driven by logistics http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logistics with a good web interface.
So order your desired products from the logistics company and they source it direct from manufacturers and deliver it straight to your door, no middle men, no exporter, importer, wholesaler, retailer, chain of profit margins to rip you off, just the manufacturer and the logistics company.
Eep, before the windrones start picking in me again, might I suggest you are placing Ballmer and Gates in the role of the cylons and that I had nothing to do with it ;).
You also obviously do no coding and have no idea where the $ use comes from in M$ basic. Also I restrict the use of MS for http://www.msaustralia.org.au/ a charitable organisation that has my full support (I even spent three months diagnosed with the condition turned out just to be a bruised spinal cord). What can I say but get over it dickwad and go here http://www.mssociety.org.uk/ and donate if you really into the pound symbol but if your just a US M$ marketdroid then go here http://www.nationalmssociety.org/index.aspx and donate.
The idea is ACMA remains civilian and thus is a more acceptable place of employment for computer geeks and nerds, rather than the authoritarian structure of military and police forces. So the only thing the do is investigate and analyse system break-ins and suspicion of system break ins, as well as of course assist in the design of secure system.
The warrants, wire taps et al are still done by the same authorities they just go to ACMA for the technical resource. The main reason to do it that what, is purely and simply to create a more sound employment basis for the type of people required to fulfil the necessary roles (more psychological suitable), to create a suitable training environment to enhance their skills (more readily ties in with that other civilian resource, universities) and to house the necessary technology to analyse the incursions. In the US the FCC could fulfil the same role.
So strictly speaking a civilian technological resource, which is shared by other military, intelligence and policing resources. It is simply a more sound sensible way of managing it.
Who wants to diddle with centrifuges, when you can shut down a countries power plants for months. Centrifuges, pfft, no electricity for months, total chaos, real financial destruction and even the possibility of social order break down. Sure the government can communicate within itself but what is the point when they can no longer communicate with an isolated, fearful, hungry, thirsty, general public.
The only tricky bit is making sure which country gets which electronic components, but with good encoding and high density micro circuitry, each and every batch of components can be uniquely indefinable with it's unique code. Trust no one.
If you compare the news article to the secret document released, the journalist really, really stretched one paragraph. To quote "Australian intelligence would need to stay engaged with its US counterparts to share lessons learned in the cyber arena", certainly the US has demonstrated many things not to do and Australian Intelligence has likely learned from them.
Likely Australia is far better off expanding the role of ACMA http://www.acma.gov.au/WEB/HOMEPAGE/pc=HOME, to investigate 'cybercrime' and make use of other authorities, State Police for local action and Interpol, ASIO and ambassadorial staff for overseas actions.
Internet security is really a civilian thing and done largely in public as a shared effort, firstly to protect people from attacks and secondly to prosecute those carrying out those attacks.
As far as defence is concerned the US after Iraq has proved that it can't really be trusted where the financial interests of it's defence and oil industry can readily outweigh it's defence treaties and the value it places upon honouring the shared trust with allies. So the big cyberdefence thing is the localised production of electronic components to be used in critical infrastructure as well as the computer software required to make it run, basically in the internet age, 'NO' other country can be trusted. You don't want to be drawn into someone else's idiotic cyber war because an ally decided to compromise your systems to make it look like someone else did (something the US has proved it is quite willing to do with it supplied false intelligence data about the threat from Iraq).
So from the marketdroids point of view, when you are both watching the TV and using a computer, which one do you pay more attention to. So for you has the TV just become background, whilst you a really actually focused on your computer.
So that statistical comparison between using the internet and watching the TV could actually be much worse for marketing on the TV than they realise, if they haven't checked for people doing both at the same time and the TV just being largely ignored background.
They were stuck with a literal interpretation of the Law. Omega chose to protect their watches under copyright, the copyright laws give some protection from parallel importing, originally put in place by the pigopolists to protect different pricing in different regions for music, movies and books.
So in this case the original lawmakers the Senate and Congress are the asshats, Omega just decided to make use of that bit scum buggery in global trade where corporations get access and the nobodies, us, are told to get knotted (that's how they get those big fat corporate profits).
Costco could do some weird stuff selling them online from a branch location overseas as long as the end purchaser is the importer. What really needs to happen is, buy that cheap chinese crap direct from China and ignore the ego building masturbatory marketing, you watch the egg sucking corporate CEO's lobby to change product importation laws yet again.
For immediate release.
Warning.
M$ Internet Explorer under control the M$ controlled server is better at censoring the web, than any any browser.
WTF, this has nothing much to do with browsers at all, just how much time and effort a company is willing to put into to tracking down naughty web sites and updating their browsers and blocking the naughty payload coming from those web sites.
P.S. If you really want to do something good M$, work together with those other companies to make a universally accessible database of malicious web sites, so that everyone will be safer. Until then you are a dick and technically under law, an accessory after the fact for failure to report to the appropriate authorities an attempt by others to commit a crime ie. give the appropriate authorities access to that database so they can do something much more appropriate than just bloody blocking them.
The only point authorities are proving is they don't know what they are doing. Even with the fully explained PDF, that details in the writers opinion that Anonymous is not a group, there is no hierarchy and people can pursue any 'idea' they choose to or not, when espoused by the 'Anonymous' marketing meme and that even if they follow one particular idea at one time, in no way does it imply they pursue all ideas as espoused by the 'Anonymous' marketing meme.
The arrest shows a huge amount of ignorance by law enforcement. To arrest someone for being a member of 'Anonymous' is really, really dumb. About the only thing the writer is guilty of is the excessive and abusive use of the royal 'We'. By definition any member of Anonymous is the sole member of an organisation of one, as all other members are members unto themselves, either choosing to follow in their own desired fashion or ignore any particular 'Anonymous' marketing meme call for action.
All that cab be said about 'Anonymous' is membership is utterly non-exclusionary as every one is both a member and a non-member simultaneously.
This in no way shape or form is to be considered a press release on behalf of 'Anonymous' so you professional paranoid types can bugger off, simply a discussion on the sociological nature of 'Anonymous'.