I'm not convinced that the "MAD" concept would work with Islamic fundamentalist nations such as Iran. It seems to me that they would happily sacrifice their own people if it meant defeating "the Great Satan" and infidels.
Couple that with outstanding warranties and you have a winner. A good example is the dead/stuck pixel policy they have for LCDs. It is one of the best around.
No it's more like this:
Optus spent $5 million creating a 900 page bid proposing an open playing field. I don't think the details are public yet, but that link has the media release. They also fronted a $5 million bond.
Telstra sent in a 14 page memo saying something along the lines of "we'll do it as long as you guarantee our infrastructure monopoly and we wont pay the bond, but we promise to put in $5 billion".
If this gets up, this is a win for all Australian Internet users. "Telstra has said entry-level access to its proposed NBN would start at $39.95 per month for a 1 megabit per second connection with 200MB of download capacity."[ref] This is what we could look forward to under Telstra. More of the same shite. That 200mb includes backhaul too.
At least the $100 million (citation?) spent by the previous government on examining Internet censorship still left us with a choice of whether or not to participate. I would rather see $100 million spent on trying to catch and punish the people making and distributing the real kiddie porn.
In other news,in Sydney, a homeless guy was today charged with having child porn on his phone. It was pictures of kids running around in public in their underwear, so apparently children playing, with clothes on, in a non-sexual context is also considered porn. The implications of this are quite profound, especially in the context of the current debate on filtering. Oh what a slippery slope.
It is sad, however, the media has not got behind this like they did with the anti Iraq rallies, anti gun rallies etc. Without the self righteous media - I'm looking at you Daily Telegraph - telling the sheeple what to do, they won't do it.
This is totally to do with "Christian nutters", in particular one Senator Steve Fielding from Family First Party (i.e. the Christian Right). Other party site here. He holds the balance of power in the Senate and this is totally about getting his vote so as to enable the sitting government to get their legislation through. There are plenty of press[pdf]releases[pdf] on these sites to demonstrate their position and lobbying[pdf].
Big Media may be lobbying and pushing, but this is nothing to do with what is happening here in Australia with regards to the current push for filtering.
Here's an idea - how about the government gets gets on with the job of catching the people making child porn etc and gets the fuck out of my life. I don't need you to decide what is good for me and my family. I've been well able to do that myself for many years. If I want a filtered feed, I will filter it. Indeed, the kids' computers are filtered with K9, which seems to be working quite well thank you very much. If I need to ramp it up, there is always Dan's Guardian & Squid and plenty of other options
For God's sake. When are these do-gooders going wake up to themselves? Naked != Porn. There has to be more to it than that. Some kind of sexual context at least. It seems that the definition of "kiddie porn" has gone from depraved sexual acts against young children to holiday snaps of kids swimming in the lake naked. There is light years between those two contexts. And another thing - in the 15 years or more that I have been using computers, I have never come across any kiddie porn on the net. Never. Not Ever. It's not out there lurking on every wrong mouse click waiting to "damage" some innocent child. Talk about a fear campaign.
I've seen police write comments here saying that they have the tools and laws they require now and are doing fine thank you very much.
So Senator Conroy - fuck off. We'll manage the content that we want to stop our children from viewing. We don't need you to decide for us. K9 filters work just fine on the kids PCs along with a set of written rules of what they are allowed to do and what they are not allowed to do.
I wish people would stop perpetuating this myth. No one has been deprived of any physical property so no theft has occurred. You may call it "illegal digital duplication" or "illegal copying" but stealing, it is not.
Don't forget the US Free Trade Agreement our government signed us up for. Thanks for that. Now we get to have DMCA like rules, MAFIAA/RIAA browbeating and destruction of our medical system by "Big Pharma".
Oh. That rules that strategy out then. Luckily I didn't attempt to use that method then;) I was reading up on it, but haven't got around to testing it yet.
Perhaps I should clarify that statement... In windows, you can remove exec permissions from a removable device with group policy and USB Drive Letter Manager.
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I'm not convinced that the "MAD" concept would work with Islamic fundamentalist nations such as Iran. It seems to me that they would happily sacrifice their own people if it meant defeating "the Great Satan" and infidels.
5. Don't tailgate - the end is near!
Couple that with outstanding warranties and you have a winner. A good example is the dead/stuck pixel policy they have for LCDs. It is one of the best around.
I think some of the mods must be on crack. How the hell is this guy's post a troll?
Sorry to double post.. this is a good article on it too.
No it's more like this:
Optus spent $5 million creating a 900 page bid proposing an open playing field. I don't think the details are public yet, but that link has the media release. They also fronted a $5 million bond.
Telstra sent in a 14 page memo saying something along the lines of "we'll do it as long as you guarantee our infrastructure monopoly and we wont pay the bond, but we promise to put in $5 billion".
If this gets up, this is a win for all Australian Internet users. "Telstra has said entry-level access to its proposed NBN would start at $39.95 per month for a 1 megabit per second connection with 200MB of download capacity."[ref] This is what we could look forward to under Telstra. More of the same shite. That 200mb includes backhaul too.
I thought all of the dingo/baby jokes faded away back in the 80's?
At least the $100 million (citation?) spent by the previous government on examining Internet censorship still left us with a choice of whether or not to participate. I would rather see $100 million spent on trying to catch and punish the people making and distributing the real kiddie porn.
In other news,in Sydney, a homeless guy was today charged with having child porn on his phone. It was pictures of kids running around in public in their underwear, so apparently children playing, with clothes on, in a non-sexual context is also considered porn. The implications of this are quite profound, especially in the context of the current debate on filtering. Oh what a slippery slope.
I can't believe that you voted for those arsehats either. ;)
It is sad, however, the media has not got behind this like they did with the anti Iraq rallies, anti gun rallies etc. Without the self righteous media - I'm looking at you Daily Telegraph - telling the sheeple what to do, they won't do it.
We don't have "riders" here in Australia
This is totally to do with "Christian nutters", in particular one Senator Steve Fielding from Family First Party (i.e. the Christian Right). Other party site here. He holds the balance of power in the Senate and this is totally about getting his vote so as to enable the sitting government to get their legislation through. There are plenty of press [pdf] releases [pdf] on these sites to demonstrate their position and lobbying [pdf].
Big Media may be lobbying and pushing, but this is nothing to do with what is happening here in Australia with regards to the current push for filtering.
Here's an idea - how about the government gets gets on with the job of catching the people making child porn etc and gets the fuck out of my life. I don't need you to decide what is good for me and my family. I've been well able to do that myself for many years. If I want a filtered feed, I will filter it. Indeed, the kids' computers are filtered with K9, which seems to be working quite well thank you very much. If I need to ramp it up, there is always Dan's Guardian & Squid and plenty of other options
No. Naked != Porn.
If Bart was depicted with his "junk" out in a sexual context, then it would be child porn.
For God's sake. When are these do-gooders going wake up to themselves? Naked != Porn. There has to be more to it than that. Some kind of sexual context at least. It seems that the definition of "kiddie porn" has gone from depraved sexual acts against young children to holiday snaps of kids swimming in the lake naked. There is light years between those two contexts. And another thing - in the 15 years or more that I have been using computers, I have never come across any kiddie porn on the net. Never. Not Ever. It's not out there lurking on every wrong mouse click waiting to "damage" some innocent child. Talk about a fear campaign.
I've seen police write comments here saying that they have the tools and laws they require now and are doing fine thank you very much.
So Senator Conroy - fuck off. We'll manage the content that we want to stop our children from viewing. We don't need you to decide for us. K9 filters work just fine on the kids PCs along with a set of written rules of what they are allowed to do and what they are not allowed to do.
This makes me want to go to my shed and retrieve the Compaq 486 dx 2/66 for a test run.
I wish people would stop perpetuating this myth. No one has been deprived of any physical property so no theft has occurred. You may call it "illegal digital duplication" or "illegal copying" but stealing, it is not.
Don't forget the US Free Trade Agreement our government signed us up for. Thanks for that. Now we get to have DMCA like rules, MAFIAA/RIAA browbeating and destruction of our medical system by "Big Pharma".
The Daleks?
No, they took all of our guns off us. Only the cops, criminals, and heavily restricted sporting shooters have guns here.
I am an Aussie and I can tell you that iiNet and Internode are the good guys in so far as an ISP can be good or bad.
Oh. ;) I was reading up on it, but haven't got around to testing it yet.
That rules that strategy out then. Luckily I didn't attempt to use that method then
Perhaps I should clarify that statement... In windows, you can remove exec permissions from a removable device with group policy and USB Drive Letter Manager.
You can with Windows as well.
"men goodness"? where the hell did my "u" go?