Turnbull is an idiot, he knows nothing about IT and tech, why is he the shadow communications minister? And people are voting for Abbott who supports him (and all the other shamed Coalition ministers), just because they want to vote for a man and feel justified in xenophobia.
Politics is a popularity contest, not a ministerial meritocracy. The options are generally equally poor but you have to work with the bunch that were popular enough to get elected. See the problem now?
I was wondering that myself. I realise that some US ballot papers are issued in book form but surely they gear up to allow for that... well, actually it appears not. Voting in compulsory here, so (nearly) everyone votes, and I have never had to wait more than five minutes in suburban Australian polling places. Our elections occur on a Saturday so the impact on most businesses is low, but can you imagine the impact of losing every worker for a couple of hours on a Tuesday. Have any of the candidates suggested moving election day as a productivity measure?
There is no governing body of the English language.
Many have tried to become that body and failed. We are left with the counter-intuitive result that many of the glorious inconsistencies in English are the result of attempts to eliminate the same.
In terms of the outcome of a high speed impact on passengers and aircraft, no, I guess not. In terms what happens when that composite material catches fire pre- or post-impact and the resulting toxic brew of gas and fibres that survivors, rescuers, and investigators will breathe in or handle, I'm not so sure. I hope we do not find out.
No, Minwee is saying that you elect your government to run the city/state/country... and you should let them. Running the country includes trivialities such as employing qualified judicial officers, policing, education department staff, health department staff and all the other adminstrivia that makes it onto US ballot papers in varying amounts. It works in most of the world but seems, like social welfare and medical services, to be anathema in the US.
Sure, $11.25 per $500 dollar phone doesn't sound much but it seems exceptionally unlikely that will be the only royalty payment being made against that device. The terms will be x% of the gross revenue from the device for this single licensor. Now, multiply that out by the number of patent licensors you have to keep happy... rapidly you see 10% then 15% etc. of your gross revenue disappear. Worse, as soon as licensor A, B and C see licensor D get 2.25% they want that or better when their license comes up for renewal.
I am not defending Apple's behaviour here, but as a "little guy" who has had to deal with a "big guy" on royalties I can see why you would fight to minimise these impositions. Unlike Apple, the "little guy" has to like it or leave.
Probably works like that most of the time too. Mention the word paedophile though and all bets are off. Guilty verdict or not you are marked for life as suspect.
Immigration staff know which flight your passport came in on (hint: they don't trust you) and they mark your immigration card for quarantine staff accordingly. Loiter too long after a flight arrives and you will raise suspicion, and not just for an undeclared chocolate bar. Quarantine staff also get to see which carousel your baggage is sitting, unattended on. Quarantine dogs don't care about you but they will find the fruit in your bag. There are no blanket rules... people are checked at random all the time and those displaying suspicious behaviour or signs of stress invite inspection. Border staff are not as stupid as the common meme in this place would have you believe.
Once you pass passport checks the 'security' on entering Australia is to do with biological security. A US national entering from a US flight is low risk for carrying biological hazards like viable seeds, eggs, infested timber products etc. Had you entered on a flight you joined in Africa or Asia, or been a Chinese national (think suitcase full of traditional remedies), they would likely have X-rayed everything for biological matter. We have stiff penalties for failing to declare prohibited biological items.
Security on leaving Australia bound for the US is largely dictated by US policy.
What the BBC is reporting is not quite what was offered. The ABC quotes Mr Lord as:
"Huawei is willing to offer complete and unrestricted access to our software source code and our equipment in such an environment," he said.
"And in the interests of national security, we believe all other vendors should be subject to the same high standard of transparency."
The reference to "such an environment" is an industry funded organisation dedicated to vetting this stuff.
The exercise is nothing more than a PR spin. Huawei knows full well that the other players will neither want to fund a centre that effectively lets a competitor back into the race nor subject their own code to such scrutiny and risk rejection. He is the local face of Huawei so he has to say these things, but they will not change anything.
Back in the 90s my home in Canberra (Australia's capital and a government town) was burgled. The first, and I mean very first, thing the police asked on arrival was, "I there any classified information involved?" I was standing there in my Air Force uniform, so I guess it was a reasonable question. Nothing I was working at the time could even remotely be considered safe to take home, encrypted or not, so the answer was a no-brainer. I guess I was dismayed that the event was common enough that the automatic response had kicked in though. Some things, it seems, don't change.
Yes, and there are organisations that actively police this and exto^H^H^H^Hask for an annual fee for places like cafes and hairdressers to cover their "exploitation" of the material. They do this even for playing a radio, for which the material is already licenced and paid for by the broadcaster to be broadcast to the entire public. Double dippers par excellence
You would think that if you were linking to your own site that you'd use a Coral Cache (or similar) link and not use HTTPS unless truly necessary as a self-preservation measure?
Arrest warrant is a legal order to put someone in handcuffs, therefore it is not possible to act unlawfully while assisting police in the preparation and execution of an arrest.
Of course it possible to act illegally. All it would take is for the GCSB to assist police by deliberately intercepting domestic communications of a permanent resident in order to locate the individual, an act prohibited by Section 14 of the relevant Act. (Dotcom was granted permanent NZ residency in Nov 2010) The GSCB could have placed an interception device on a network without an appropriate interception warrant, an act prohibited by section 15 of the Act. If they have done these things then they must held to account.
Fraudulent claims of copyright requiring 'clearance' and (ab)use of gatekeepers to control access to public domain works, where no copyrights in the original works exist, is a common method of revenue raising that is well known and nothing new. "Copyfraud and Other Abuses of Intellectual Property Law" by Jason Mazzone attempts to address this and other abuses of so-called "intellectual property" law with suggestion of ways to reform the law. Very US-centric but an interesting read anyway.
(I am in no way affiliated with the author or publisher.)
If you google "laptops" and read user reviews, maybe even go to a consumer review site, that's also marketing.
It is also extremely annoying marketing given the preponderance of "review" sites that sit in the results for almost any product related query... but that's just me:)
When you import, you still pay the GST. Not a factor.
Strictly speaking GST and import duties are owed on all imports. However, when an individual imports an item the GST/duty is not collected unless the customs value of the item exceeds $1000 (or is alcohol/tobacco, http://customs.gov.au/site/page5549.asp). This limit makes the sure tax is not consumed by the costs of collecting the tax. The Customs and Tax departments do look for repeat deliveries and do get wise to commercial entities importing this way. Once you are on their radar you are taxed on everything and have more paperwork to do.
The oft-quoted assertion by "white" importers that their prices must be at least 10% higher to cover the GST is a convenient distortion. The total GST remitted on the item once sold by the importer is the 1/11 of the difference between the import value and the sale value (i.e. sale value/11 - import value/11). True, they cover the total import GST until the item is sold, but ultimately the GST is a levy on the value added by the transaction. If they do not sell the imported item on then they are the end user and pay the full import GST; most commercial importers do not consume their own imports though. I am fairly sure that import duties cannot be similarly offset, so these could be legitimate costs that are be passed on.
Let's see, the United States, paying US rates for labour, managed to build, fly and land the Pathfinder on Mars for about $150 million ('92 dollars) in direct expenditure and spent about the same again running the mission. I think the Indians could conceivably an equivalent mission for less direct expenditure, but that is not a good measure of the peripheral expenditure and effort that would be required to obtain a similar knowledge and infrastructure base to that the US started from.
No, the poster despises cellphones and will never have one. Google insistence on repeatedly asking for a cellphone number when none is forthcoming is the source of the rant. It annoyed me too but I haven't been prompted for a while now.
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Turnbull is an idiot, he knows nothing about IT and tech, why is he the shadow communications minister? And people are voting for Abbott who supports him (and all the other shamed Coalition ministers), just because they want to vote for a man and feel justified in xenophobia.
Politics is a popularity contest, not a ministerial meritocracy. The options are generally equally poor but you have to work with the bunch that were popular enough to get elected. See the problem now?
I was wondering that myself. I realise that some US ballot papers are issued in book form but surely they gear up to allow for that... well, actually it appears not. Voting in compulsory here, so (nearly) everyone votes, and I have never had to wait more than five minutes in suburban Australian polling places. Our elections occur on a Saturday so the impact on most businesses is low, but can you imagine the impact of losing every worker for a couple of hours on a Tuesday. Have any of the candidates suggested moving election day as a productivity measure?
There is no governing body of the English language.
Many have tried to become that body and failed. We are left with the counter-intuitive result that many of the glorious inconsistencies in English are the result of attempts to eliminate the same.
There's no way carbon fiber could be worse, ...
In terms of the outcome of a high speed impact on passengers and aircraft, no, I guess not. In terms what happens when that composite material catches fire pre- or post-impact and the resulting toxic brew of gas and fibres that survivors, rescuers, and investigators will breathe in or handle, I'm not so sure. I hope we do not find out.
No, Minwee is saying that you elect your government to run the city/state/country... and you should let them. Running the country includes trivialities such as employing qualified judicial officers, policing, education department staff, health department staff and all the other adminstrivia that makes it onto US ballot papers in varying amounts. It works in most of the world but seems, like social welfare and medical services, to be anathema in the US.
Sure, $11.25 per $500 dollar phone doesn't sound much but it seems exceptionally unlikely that will be the only royalty payment being made against that device. The terms will be x% of the gross revenue from the device for this single licensor. Now, multiply that out by the number of patent licensors you have to keep happy... rapidly you see 10% then 15% etc. of your gross revenue disappear. Worse, as soon as licensor A, B and C see licensor D get 2.25% they want that or better when their license comes up for renewal.
I am not defending Apple's behaviour here, but as a "little guy" who has had to deal with a "big guy" on royalties I can see why you would fight to minimise these impositions. Unlike Apple, the "little guy" has to like it or leave.
Probably works like that most of the time too. Mention the word paedophile though and all bets are off. Guilty verdict or not you are marked for life as suspect.
Immigration staff know which flight your passport came in on (hint: they don't trust you) and they mark your immigration card for quarantine staff accordingly. Loiter too long after a flight arrives and you will raise suspicion, and not just for an undeclared chocolate bar. Quarantine staff also get to see which carousel your baggage is sitting, unattended on. Quarantine dogs don't care about you but they will find the fruit in your bag. There are no blanket rules... people are checked at random all the time and those displaying suspicious behaviour or signs of stress invite inspection. Border staff are not as stupid as the common meme in this place would have you believe.
Once you pass passport checks the 'security' on entering Australia is to do with biological security. A US national entering from a US flight is low risk for carrying biological hazards like viable seeds, eggs, infested timber products etc. Had you entered on a flight you joined in Africa or Asia, or been a Chinese national (think suitcase full of traditional remedies), they would likely have X-rayed everything for biological matter. We have stiff penalties for failing to declare prohibited biological items.
Security on leaving Australia bound for the US is largely dictated by US policy.
What the BBC is reporting is not quite what was offered. The ABC quotes Mr Lord as:
"Huawei is willing to offer complete and unrestricted access to our software source code and our equipment in such an environment," he said. "And in the interests of national security, we believe all other vendors should be subject to the same high standard of transparency."
The reference to "such an environment" is an industry funded organisation dedicated to vetting this stuff.
The exercise is nothing more than a PR spin. Huawei knows full well that the other players will neither want to fund a centre that effectively lets a competitor back into the race nor subject their own code to such scrutiny and risk rejection. He is the local face of Huawei so he has to say these things, but they will not change anything.
Back in the 90s my home in Canberra (Australia's capital and a government town) was burgled. The first, and I mean very first, thing the police asked on arrival was, "I there any classified information involved?" I was standing there in my Air Force uniform, so I guess it was a reasonable question. Nothing I was working at the time could even remotely be considered safe to take home, encrypted or not, so the answer was a no-brainer. I guess I was dismayed that the event was common enough that the automatic response had kicked in though. Some things, it seems, don't change.
This sort of arrogance is precisely why the rest-of-the-world hate Cowardia and their foreign policies.
Yes, and there are organisations that actively police this and exto^H^H^H^Hask for an annual fee for places like cafes and hairdressers to cover their "exploitation" of the material. They do this even for playing a radio, for which the material is already licenced and paid for by the broadcaster to be broadcast to the entire public. Double dippers par excellence
Am I the only one thinking that a nude bomb would have been a better hack?
You would think that if you were linking to your own site that you'd use a Coral Cache (or similar) link and not use HTTPS unless truly necessary as a self-preservation measure?
If you looked at the pretty photo of the disk you would know that it is a 10x10 grid of images etched into silicon, not a CDROM.
Arrest warrant is a legal order to put someone in handcuffs, therefore it is not possible to act unlawfully while assisting police in the preparation and execution of an arrest.
Of course it possible to act illegally. All it would take is for the GCSB to assist police by deliberately intercepting domestic communications of a permanent resident in order to locate the individual, an act prohibited by Section 14 of the relevant Act. (Dotcom was granted permanent NZ residency in Nov 2010) The GSCB could have placed an interception device on a network without an appropriate interception warrant, an act prohibited by section 15 of the Act. If they have done these things then they must held to account.
You can pay the fine for every day they manage to catch you. Makes it slightly less attractive if they can catch you twice in a month.
Fraudulent claims of copyright requiring 'clearance' and (ab)use of gatekeepers to control access to public domain works, where no copyrights in the original works exist, is a common method of revenue raising that is well known and nothing new. "Copyfraud and Other Abuses of Intellectual Property Law" by Jason Mazzone attempts to address this and other abuses of so-called "intellectual property" law with suggestion of ways to reform the law. Very US-centric but an interesting read anyway.
(I am in no way affiliated with the author or publisher.)
why not 6km away, 10km, etc? That is not that large of an area all things considered. It would be roughly the size of a small town.
Maybe they are actually watching removals and van hire companies for people suddenly moving 11 km down the road
No, no they don't
If you google "laptops" and read user reviews, maybe even go to a consumer review site, that's also marketing.
It is also extremely annoying marketing given the preponderance of "review" sites that sit in the results for almost any product related query... but that's just me :)
When you import, you still pay the GST. Not a factor.
Strictly speaking GST and import duties are owed on all imports. However, when an individual imports an item the GST/duty is not collected unless the customs value of the item exceeds $1000 (or is alcohol/tobacco, http://customs.gov.au/site/page5549.asp). This limit makes the sure tax is not consumed by the costs of collecting the tax. The Customs and Tax departments do look for repeat deliveries and do get wise to commercial entities importing this way. Once you are on their radar you are taxed on everything and have more paperwork to do.
The oft-quoted assertion by "white" importers that their prices must be at least 10% higher to cover the GST is a convenient distortion. The total GST remitted on the item once sold by the importer is the 1/11 of the difference between the import value and the sale value (i.e. sale value/11 - import value/11). True, they cover the total import GST until the item is sold, but ultimately the GST is a levy on the value added by the transaction. If they do not sell the imported item on then they are the end user and pay the full import GST; most commercial importers do not consume their own imports though. I am fairly sure that import duties cannot be similarly offset, so these could be legitimate costs that are be passed on.
Let's see, the United States, paying US rates for labour, managed to build, fly and land the Pathfinder on Mars for about $150 million ('92 dollars) in direct expenditure and spent about the same again running the mission. I think the Indians could conceivably an equivalent mission for less direct expenditure, but that is not a good measure of the peripheral expenditure and effort that would be required to obtain a similar knowledge and infrastructure base to that the US started from.
No, the poster despises cellphones and will never have one. Google insistence on repeatedly asking for a cellphone number when none is forthcoming is the source of the rant. It annoyed me too but I haven't been prompted for a while now.