Yeah as backwards as the current government seems to be, certain things have been put in place in the past. Telstra internally isn't even allowed to talk to it's own wholesale department.
Not to say the situation is at all that great here, Telstra have a monopoly, especially in Mobile phones (Leave any major city and you'll only get Telstra coverage)
After watching Q&A I was really disappointed in Andrew Bolt, I expected a lot more common sense out of him. I've always enjoyed his interesting opinions in the Herald Sun. He really need a bib for the amount of BS he was dribbling.
Conroy also Featured on Q and A last week. I also spent a great deal of Yelling at the TV watching this. He makes so many conflicting statements, it's hard to know what's really going on.
Oh and check out the nude pictures of Hanson, unfortunately it's only funny because it's happening to someone I don't like.
**shudder** I was talking to the GF and said I didn't understand why Pauline Hanson was making a big deal out of it, who the fuck in their right mind would ever want to see her naked!
Back OT, maybe that is the case, but we still have to fight it. If no one says anything, it might just go through silently. On the other hand it could explain why it was kept pretty silent pre-election.
I also I believe one of his comments was "We are happy with the filter being to RC (Refused Classification) material For Now"
Which is a big part of the problem I have with the filter (amongst other things) is that it's open to scope creep. Pet peeve of the month will be used to help get ministers onside, especially at the moment to pass anything Labour need the help of the Independant ministers, ones like Family First Senator Steve Fielding, religious right wing nut job.
I was under the impression that AU could raise the privileges of a Non-Admin user? I noticed the option on the N-lite install I was playing with last night.
Well I know the post is funny, but in reality you don't have to implement internally straight away. All those devices that aren't capable of it can stay that way. PAT/NAT will still work even with IPv6 outside and IPv4 inside. Even the lower end of the enterprise gear is capable of it and to backup how easy it is, it takes up a very small section in the CCNA training material and our class spent about an hour on it. I understand it, it makes sense, the real barrier is fear.
That's why the SCSI Burners were worth their weight in Gold! I think we had 3 in total growing up, a 2x, 4x and an 8x. I do recall the guys at the PC markets braging how quickly they could burn CDs by using a slightly better and way more expensive SCSI controller... Ahh nostalgia:)
The recall feature in Novell Groupwise was a double edged sword. It actually worked silently, so if the user hadn't opened it already, they never knew it existed.
Personally I thought it was a dangerous feature, but it did save a few staff members some embarrassment. Although the change to Exchange/Outlook returned that embarrassment, especially when she sent the entire Office (instead of just the receptionist with the account having a similar name as the distribution list) some quite raunchy pictures of some strapping lads. It wasn't easy explaining that the feature she had grown accustomed to no long worked as expected. Many tears followed!
Charlie: I'll leave Linux out of the equation since I know my grandma couldn't run it. Between Mac and PC, I'd say that Macs are less secure for the reasons we've discussed here (lack of anti-exploitation technologies) but are more safe because there simply isn't much malware out there. For now, I'd still recommend Macs for typical users as the odds of something targeting them are so low that they might go years without seeing any malware, even though if an attacker cared to target them it would be easier for them.
Pity that question wasn't earlier, I wouldn't of had to waste my time reading TFA. Nothing he said was particularly surprising and most of it had a fairly obvious bias.
Yes, but in WA at least, I don't think they are allowed to call them a Pint, rather a "Large" beer. Between stunts like that and the cost, I prefer to head on around to a mates place for a few beers!
No one said it _only_ affected DD-WRT or OpenWRT. There are still _a lot_ of consumer grade routers that can be accessed via telnet and some I've seen in my travels with Telnet open to the world by default.
I did take great pleasure in dropping the routes on a device that appeared to be trying to brute force my ssh!
any linux mipsel routing device that has the router administration interface or sshd or telnetd in a DMZ, which has weak username/passwords (including openwrt/dd-wrt devices).
Anyone Savvy enough to want to run OpenWRT/DD-WRT should hopefully be savvy enough to have a decent password. I'm guessing by DMZ it means open slather access to the device. Open Slather + Weak Password = Your Own Stupidity
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Yeah as backwards as the current government seems to be, certain things have been put in place in the past. Telstra internally isn't even allowed to talk to it's own wholesale department.
Not to say the situation is at all that great here, Telstra have a monopoly, especially in Mobile phones (Leave any major city and you'll only get Telstra coverage)
Yeah that "Surplus" is about to be turned into a "Deficit". Bloody Spend happy Labour government
Bugger, that's what you get for posting whilst running out the door to beat traffic!
It kinda did.. LMGTFY First hit is the pre-election pdf of Conroy outlining his plans. Quite different to what is being proposed now.
MythTV, watched it a bit later in the evening, so in essence I stopped swearing whilst pressing the skip button.
After watching Q&A I was really disappointed in Andrew Bolt, I expected a lot more common sense out of him. I've always enjoyed his interesting opinions in the Herald Sun. He really need a bib for the amount of BS he was dribbling.
Maybe, but his incompetence isn't helping his cause, so the cloud may just have a silver lining.
Maybe, but I wonder if he gets voted in again...
I did the same and all the letters I received in return just made me angry.
Funny :)
http://www.abc.net.au/tv/qanda/video.htm?pres=20081002&story=1
Conroy also Featured on Q and A last week. I also spent a great deal of Yelling at the TV watching this. He makes so many conflicting statements, it's hard to know what's really going on.
Oh and check out the nude pictures of Hanson, unfortunately it's only funny because it's happening to someone I don't like.
**shudder** I was talking to the GF and said I didn't understand why Pauline Hanson was making a big deal out of it, who the fuck in their right mind would ever want to see her naked!
Back OT, maybe that is the case, but we still have to fight it. If no one says anything, it might just go through silently. On the other hand it could explain why it was kept pretty silent pre-election.
I also I believe one of his comments was "We are happy with the filter being to RC (Refused Classification) material For Now"
Which is a big part of the problem I have with the filter (amongst other things) is that it's open to scope creep. Pet peeve of the month will be used to help get ministers onside, especially at the moment to pass anything Labour need the help of the Independant ministers, ones like Family First Senator Steve Fielding, religious right wing nut job.
The only time I didn't spend yelling at the TV was during the AD breaks. Senator Conroy only further showed how disconnected from reality he is.
I was under the impression that AU could raise the privileges of a Non-Admin user? I noticed the option on the N-lite install I was playing with last night.
Well I know the post is funny, but in reality you don't have to implement internally straight away. All those devices that aren't capable of it can stay that way. PAT/NAT will still work even with IPv6 outside and IPv4 inside. Even the lower end of the enterprise gear is capable of it and to backup how easy it is, it takes up a very small section in the CCNA training material and our class spent about an hour on it. I understand it, it makes sense, the real barrier is fear.
That's why the SCSI Burners were worth their weight in Gold! I think we had 3 in total growing up, a 2x, 4x and an 8x. I do recall the guys at the PC markets braging how quickly they could burn CDs by using a slightly better and way more expensive SCSI controller... Ahh nostalgia :)
The recall feature in Novell Groupwise was a double edged sword. It actually worked silently, so if the user hadn't opened it already, they never knew it existed.
Personally I thought it was a dangerous feature, but it did save a few staff members some embarrassment. Although the change to Exchange/Outlook returned that embarrassment, especially when she sent the entire Office (instead of just the receptionist with the account having a similar name as the distribution list) some quite raunchy pictures of some strapping lads. It wasn't easy explaining that the feature she had grown accustomed to no long worked as expected. Many tears followed!
I never thought I'd see the day where I have severe UID envy. :P
Possibly the Subject is flame bait, but in fairness those that modded this flame bait, have they read the article?
I wonder if you can mod articles flame bait, as going by moderation of my comment it certainly qualifies
Charlie: I'll leave Linux out of the equation since I know my grandma couldn't run it. Between Mac and PC, I'd say that Macs are less secure for the reasons we've discussed here (lack of anti-exploitation technologies) but are more safe because there simply isn't much malware out there. For now, I'd still recommend Macs for typical users as the odds of something targeting them are so low that they might go years without seeing any malware, even though if an attacker cared to target them it would be easier for them.
Pity that question wasn't earlier, I wouldn't of had to waste my time reading TFA. Nothing he said was particularly surprising and most of it had a fairly obvious bias.
Open Audit?
Yes, but in WA at least, I don't think they are allowed to call them a Pint, rather a "Large" beer. Between stunts like that and the cost, I prefer to head on around to a mates place for a few beers!
No one said it _only_ affected DD-WRT or OpenWRT. There are still _a lot_ of consumer grade routers that can be accessed via telnet and some I've seen in my travels with Telnet open to the world by default.
I did take great pleasure in dropping the routes on a device that appeared to be trying to brute force my ssh!
any linux mipsel routing device that has the router administration interface or sshd or telnetd in a DMZ, which has weak username/passwords (including openwrt/dd-wrt devices).
Anyone Savvy enough to want to run OpenWRT/DD-WRT should hopefully be savvy enough to have a decent password. I'm guessing by DMZ it means open slather access to the device. Open Slather + Weak Password = Your Own Stupidity