Part of the "discussion paper (pdf) also says "give us your passwords or else":
Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act 1979
14.Reforming the Lawful Access Regime
a.
expanding the basis of interception activities
15.
Modernising the Industry assistance framework
a.
establish an offence for failure to assist in the decryption of communications
b.
institute industry response timelines
c.
tailored data retention periods for up to 2 years for parts of a data set, with specific timeframes taking into account agency priorities, and privacy and cost impacts
I for one welcome our green watermellon, commie, non gun toting, ethical, environmental, pro choice, pro secular, pro internet privacy overlords. Go the greens!
Wrong. All that has been said is one sentence in a discussion paper(pdf). Here it is:
Relevant Act: Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act 1979
Terms of Reference extract:
15. Modernising the Industry assistance framework
a. tailored data retention periods for up to 2 years for parts of a data set, with specific
timeframes taking into account agency priorities, and privacy and cost impacts
EFA is seriously concerned at the lack of detail provided by the Attorney-General’s Department in
relation to this proposal, as well as the lack of any cost-benefit analysis or even a substantive
justification for such a wide-ranging proposal that would affect all Australians. It is therefore very
difficult to make meaningful comments on a proposal that lacks any substantive detail.
EFA recommends that the Committee reject this proposal out of hand, and request that the
Attorney-General’s Department provide a detailed proposal that includes an explanation of the
justifications behind it and a cost-benefit analysis.
LulzSec (and Anonymous) have 'demonstrated that an awful lot of people are either asleep at the switch or believed in arcane security methods like security through obscurity.
Wait what? Lulzsec showed that security though obscurity is bad? I thought the whole point to their "AntiSec" cause was to stop security companies publicly announcing vulnerabilities. Isn't that the definition of security through obscurity?
Yeah it's not practical, yeah it's expensive, but damn, if it pays off, it pays off big time. Besides, it's not like we're asking you to pay for it, SETI runs off private money.
Personally I think they'll have more of a chance in the fledgling field of optical seti, where they're looking for aliens pointing laser beams at us... yes really.
For the same reason you wouldn't put a block of wood, a piece of cheese or some bubblegum between them. They would all restrict the flow of heat from the CPU to the heatsink, rendering it ineffective. The only thing you want between you CPU and the heatsink is a thin film of thermal conductive paste.
But then again I'm an activist, what would I know.
The heatsink you have on your CPU is really good at sucking the heat away from it. It was designed to take the heat off of your CPU and dump it into the surrounding air as fast as possible.
This heat->power chip thingo is designed to convert heat into electricity. Yes it might cool your CPU a little bit, but nowhere near as fast as a good heatsink.
Of course after reading the article I noticed there is a cooling mode for the chip where rather than generating electricity, you actually feed it electricity, and it cools down the chip a lot more. That might be more efficient (and practical) than current heatsink-fan technology, but I'll wait till I see it with my own eyes.
In Australia it's also the case that the least biased tv journalism is on the government funded stations (at least in my opinion). Perhaps they are held to a higher standard because of the direct relationship?
We need to be more wary of the commercial entities behind our media. Our cross-media ownership laws are slowly being eroded. Soon Packer and Murdoch will own it all (as opposed to the 90% they own now).
Thankfully there's this thing called the internet that those old codgers didn't see as a threat until it was too late.
Listen up, it works like this. If IE had close to 100% market share (as it did in the past) lazy web developers would only develop sites that ran properly when viewed in IE. Now that it has dropped to around 80%, web developers must make their sites compatible with all browsers.
This means that when I view these sites on my linux machine they actually work! It effectively removes one barrier to switching my OS. Now if only the game companies would release linux versions I could put linux on all my machines.
Yes, Wells', and to a lesser extent Verne's stories were rooted in science, but in a way that accentuated the story rather than detracted from it. To avoid repeating myself please read this post
.
I probably stated my original point too harshly, I do appreciate the scientific details when they are intergrated well. Science fiction, like any other genre, has its share of stinkers, and a sure sign of a stinker is over-reliance on technology.
I live in Australia so I don't think I can make it to any of those conventions, although it would be nice. I live with two authors anyway, so I get enough of that at home:)
Admittedly I have only read "The Time Machine". It does go into detail about the science, but it does so in the character's voice. My post was a bit reactionary, I was mainly addressing the bulk of modern sci-fi authors whom I feel lack character development. They focus on science to the detriment of the story.
I suppose the same could be said of many of Wells' contemporaries, but unlike him their stories have faded from view. So I look back on the past with rose coloured glasses while modern authors invoke my criticism. Ultimately all the science in science fiction becomes obselete, and only the stories and imagination remain.
It's called sci-fi. Short for science fiction. I abhor the modern trend of basing sci-fi on reality. The current crop of sci-fi authors all have degrees in physics and get too bogged down in the details. I don't care what kind of engine the ship uses to go faster than light, the fact that it does is good enough for me.
Give me the old-school Jules Vern or H.G. Wells any day.
I tell ya we need an eye tracking mouse. Just look where you want to click, press a special button on the keyboard and BAM. It would be great for duckhunt too.
Of course the difficulty is in the implementation. Accuracy would be a problem, it would be especially tricky to get it to place the caret between two specific letters. Oh well, forget being able to actually implement it, I'll just patent the system and watch the $$$ roll in.
If FireFox was created by Microsoft, we would not have *any* memory problems at all because they plan and design things, and they do stringint testing to ensure that there are no memory leaks or other problems.
I have firefox open with three different websites in tabs.
I then fired up three instances of IE with the same websites.
In this case firefox wins on memory usage. Of course memory leaks are another thing entirely, but I've had this instance of firefox running all day at work, as I do everyday. I've never seen it go over 100MB.
Of course that is just one man's experience, others have had problems. I switched my roommate over to firefox from IE and he has told me it crashes all the time. Of course that could be because his laptop has its air intake fan on the bottom, so it doubles as a vacuum cleaner when you put it on a flat surface.
can you imagine trying to remember 12 new truly random passwords per month (all changing on different dates).
I've found that without some systematic method it's impossible to make this work, as a result of using a system I know that my passwords are relatively weak but what would you do?
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oops stuffed up the link: http://aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/House_of_Representatives_Committees?url=pjcis/nsl2012/additional/discussion%20paper.pdf
I for one welcome our green watermellon, commie, non gun toting, ethical, environmental, pro choice, pro secular, pro internet privacy overlords. Go the greens!
The details are sorely lacking. Here is Electronic Frontiers Australia's submission to the inquiry (pdf):
Join Electronic Frontiers Australia, they'll keep you posted and are fighting the good fight.
Unfortunately, no one votes for the Attorney General position. It's a complete boys' club.
Except the current AG is a woman. And so is the person that appointed her (the prime minister).
Get a bicycle. Get fit, stay private, don't emit co2.
Wait what? Lulzsec showed that security though obscurity is bad? I thought the whole point to their "AntiSec" cause was to stop security companies publicly announcing vulnerabilities. Isn't that the definition of security through obscurity?
Yeah it's not practical, yeah it's expensive, but damn, if it pays off, it pays off big time. Besides, it's not like we're asking you to pay for it, SETI runs off private money.
Personally I think they'll have more of a chance in the fledgling field of optical seti, where they're looking for aliens pointing laser beams at us... yes really.
For the same reason you wouldn't put a block of wood, a piece of cheese or some bubblegum between them. They would all restrict the flow of heat from the CPU to the heatsink, rendering it ineffective. The only thing you want between you CPU and the heatsink is a thin film of thermal conductive paste.
But then again I'm an activist, what would I know.
The heatsink you have on your CPU is really good at sucking the heat away from it. It was designed to take the heat off of your CPU and dump it into the surrounding air as fast as possible.
Of course after reading the article I noticed there is a cooling mode for the chip where rather than generating electricity, you actually feed it electricity, and it cools down the chip a lot more. That might be more efficient (and practical) than current heatsink-fan technology, but I'll wait till I see it with my own eyes.This heat->power chip thingo is designed to convert heat into electricity. Yes it might cool your CPU a little bit, but nowhere near as fast as a good heatsink.
In Australia it's also the case that the least biased tv journalism is on the government funded stations (at least in my opinion). Perhaps they are held to a higher standard because of the direct relationship?
We need to be more wary of the commercial entities behind our media. Our cross-media ownership laws are slowly being eroded. Soon Packer and Murdoch will own it all (as opposed to the 90% they own now).
Thankfully there's this thing called the internet that those old codgers didn't see as a threat until it was too late.
Not for those of us who aren't in on the joke yet. I had never heard of FSM before i clicked on that link.
Listen up, it works like this. If IE had close to 100% market share (as it did in the past) lazy web developers would only develop sites that ran properly when viewed in IE. Now that it has dropped to around 80%, web developers must make their sites compatible with all browsers.
This means that when I view these sites on my linux machine they actually work! It effectively removes one barrier to switching my OS. Now if only the game companies would release linux versions I could put linux on all my machines.
We won't kill you, but if you ever want to see your garden gnomes again you'll give us the source code.
Jokes aside, cost might be an issue. Scorpion venom is the most expensive liquid in the world by volume.
Yes, Wells', and to a lesser extent Verne's stories were rooted in science, but in a way that accentuated the story rather than detracted from it. To avoid repeating myself please read this post
.I probably stated my original point too harshly, I do appreciate the scientific details when they are intergrated well. Science fiction, like any other genre, has its share of stinkers, and a sure sign of a stinker is over-reliance on technology.
I live in Australia so I don't think I can make it to any of those conventions, although it would be nice. I live with two authors anyway, so I get enough of that at home :)
Admittedly I have only read "The Time Machine". It does go into detail about the science, but it does so in the character's voice. My post was a bit reactionary, I was mainly addressing the bulk of modern sci-fi authors whom I feel lack character development. They focus on science to the detriment of the story.
I suppose the same could be said of many of Wells' contemporaries, but unlike him their stories have faded from view. So I look back on the past with rose coloured glasses while modern authors invoke my criticism. Ultimately all the science in science fiction becomes obselete, and only the stories and imagination remain.
It's called sci-fi. Short for science fiction. I abhor the modern trend of basing sci-fi on reality. The current crop of sci-fi authors all have degrees in physics and get too bogged down in the details. I don't care what kind of engine the ship uses to go faster than light, the fact that it does is good enough for me.
Give me the old-school Jules Vern or H.G. Wells any day.
Of course the difficulty is in the implementation. Accuracy would be a problem, it would be especially tricky to get it to place the caret between two specific letters. Oh well, forget being able to actually implement it, I'll just patent the system and watch the $$$ roll in.
Assuming 1 megabyte = 1024 kilobytes we get 0.03125 MB/s
0.03125*60*60*24*30 = 81000MB per 30 days. Roughly 81GB.
Of course that is running 24/7 at the maximum theoretical speed of the connection, which is never going to happen.
I then fired up three instances of IE with the same websites.
Firefox memory usage: 80MB
IE Memory usage: 60MB + 35MB + 35MB = 130MB.
In this case firefox wins on memory usage. Of course memory leaks are another thing entirely, but I've had this instance of firefox running all day at work, as I do everyday. I've never seen it go over 100MB.
Of course that is just one man's experience, others have had problems. I switched my roommate over to firefox from IE and he has told me it crashes all the time. Of course that could be because his laptop has its air intake fan on the bottom, so it doubles as a vacuum cleaner when you put it on a flat surface.
Guns, don't kill people, people kill people. Tracker sites don't infringe copyright, people infringe copyright.
I think this could this mean no more Chinese sourced modchips. Better get them while you can.
I've found that without some systematic method it's impossible to make this work, as a result of using a system I know that my passwords are relatively weak but what would you do?
Install KeePass.