Australian government has nothing to do with this cable which is due for completion in 2022
Australian government blocked Huawei from a previous cable to be completed in 2020 due to security concerns about equipment at Sydney landing point (rightly or wrongly), but they paid A$100m to fund the cable themselves (CSCS).
This new cable also has branches to PNG/Solomons (and everywhere else), its being pushed by the same guy who did Hawaiki, which is AU-NZ-US https://www.itnews.com.au/news...
Agreed, and there is the AGPL as mentioned which tries to extend copyleft, however it has failed in part because there was already too much money and power benefiting from the status quo, and those community leaders who could have made a difference didnt support it, even SFC want it to be watered down and made into a Lesser APGL.
What would have made a difference is a collective licensing organisation that had the power to change entire projects future work and adapt to new threats. There where attempts to move in that direction, but again they where shouted down by those with power and influence.
FOSS was started and controlled by hobbyists, they have almost no influence today, it has become a means of control as bad as proprietary ever was.
At the heart of the failure is the open source definition, and the FSF basic freedoms, which demands FOSS software has to be able to used for any purpose, even to do harm to movement itself.
Corporations who use FOSS are taking over the world
FOSS provides the means for them to concentrate their power by making them more independent of other greedy software corporations who used to fight them for it.
FOSS assists in a concentration of power by select corporations.
Also, the ability of the Chinese government to force nationals to do the bidding of their intelligence agencies was cited as a reason to ban Huawei and ZTE from supplying 5G equipment.
It created a possible legal conflict of interest where a Chinese run company might be required to, but not able to abide by both Chinese and Australian law.
The Australian government are deepening divide of personal and national security. Tech companies caught in the middle.
- Facilitating or assisting access to whatever law enforcement wants: a facility, device, service and any software used in conjunction with those things
Three types of notices; 1. Request for Voluntary assistance 2. Technical assistance (within their current capability, eg handover known keys) 3. Technical capability notice (build/provide new capability)
The third type is obviously most dangerous, especially the following can-of-worms;
- Substituting, or facilitating the substitution of, a service
- Removing one or more forms of electronic protection that are, or were applied by, or on behalf of, the provider
- Facilitating or assisting access to whatever law enforcement wants: a facility, device, service and any software used in conjunction with those things
And ISPs have to wear some of the cost, and do their work;
- Assisting with the testing, modification, development or maintenance of a technology or capability
- Notifying particular kinds of changes to, or developments affecting, eligible activities of the provider
I feel the FOSS community would be in a much healthier place if it allowed non-commercial licenses, provided the software available under standard commercial FRAND terms for those non-commercial users.
If the price of paying for a commercial license is cheaper than paying lawyers, i think there would be much higher license compliance, and much would be used to promote further development.
Unfortunately this will never happen with the support of the FOSS community, there is too much self interest by corporations in maintaining their current freeloader status-quo.
There are obvious similarities between the freedom trade-offs in the software world and many other aspects of life. The fact that you aren't willing to let yourself see that, and your lack of emotional control indicates your not capable of seeing the truth. Have some respect for yourself and stop choosing to be an intellectual and emotional cripple.
I avoid Reddit until recently, i saw it as being mostly troll driven with a few interesting posts, but i find it pretty much the opposite.
They is pretty good news coverage and minimal trolling that i have seen.
Its pretty usless for posting anything except links to news stories as you need a plugin to be able to see pictures inline, so it has a nostaligc feel to it. News feed from 10 years ago...
Over that time you or someone using your wireless network has installed dozens of apps that has been legally spying on and selling your data to anyone will pay a few cents.
The goals of open source software being to provide free (as in beer) software for large multi-national corporations so they more cheaply enslave society.
Exporting to other states has been where the problem manifests.
It makes sense with renewable power to have a well connected grid, it makes generation more efficient, because it can be sold where its needed most, but that places a lot of demand on the national grid, or really the inter-connectors between the states grid.
In the past South Australia, where the battery got disconnected because one of the states transmission lines got blown over from a storm which caused a spike which disconnected the state from the national grid.
So they lost part of their generating capacity, which then stopped them from importing power from other states.
In theory, with the battery in place, it can stabilise the states supply (that wasnt knocked out) which prevents the state inter-connectors from tripping, so external power to come in and prevent a blackout.
The operator of the grid sets prices for 5 minute blocks of power, and generators dont bid for it the operator increases the price. There are problems when a big generator suddenly goes offline, and supply cant easily meet demand. Which causes spike in prices.
Generators have been accused of gaming the system also, and there are process underway to improving the bidding process.
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And how did they obtain these secret visitor logs ?
They must be teh haxors !!! (surely not a leak)
The guardian used to be a reputable media outlet, now they collaborate with sources hostile to society to disseminate propaganda.
Australian government has nothing to do with this cable which is due for completion in 2022
Australian government blocked Huawei from a previous cable to be completed in 2020 due to security concerns about equipment at Sydney landing point (rightly or wrongly), but they paid A$100m to fund the cable themselves (CSCS).
The Coral Sea Cable System (CSCS), being funded largely by Australian Government is replacing the build Huawei was initially planning on building. CSCS is being built by Vocus/Alcatel.
https://www.coralseacablesyste...
https://www.submarinecablemap....
This new cable also has branches to PNG/Solomons (and everywhere else), its being pushed by the same guy who did Hawaiki, which is AU-NZ-US
https://www.itnews.com.au/news...
Except we dont, its always locked down by some other means.
e.g. How many phones use open source, how many have full source available and can be re-flashed ?
We forged the chains that are now used to enslave us :(
Agreed, and there is the AGPL as mentioned which tries to extend copyleft, however it has failed in part because there was already too much money and power benefiting from the status quo, and those community leaders who could have made a difference didnt support it, even SFC want it to be watered down and made into a Lesser APGL.
What would have made a difference is a collective licensing organisation that had the power to change entire projects future work and adapt to new threats. There where attempts to move in that direction, but again they where shouted down by those with power and influence.
FOSS was started and controlled by hobbyists, they have almost no influence today, it has become a means of control as bad as proprietary ever was.
At the heart of the failure is the open source definition, and the FSF basic freedoms, which demands FOSS software has to be able to used for any purpose, even to do harm to movement itself.
Corporations who use FOSS are taking over the world
FOSS provides the means for them to concentrate their power by making them more independent of other greedy software corporations who used to fight them for it.
FOSS assists in a concentration of power by select corporations.
Not the way i hoped it would work out.
"Build strong communities that respect civil discourse and human dignity"
Its pretty simple really.
Even the government appointed overseer of the government is concerned.
https://www.itnews.com.au/news...
Also, the ability of the Chinese government to force nationals to do the bidding of their intelligence agencies was cited as a reason to ban Huawei and ZTE from supplying 5G equipment.
It created a possible legal conflict of interest where a Chinese run company might be required to, but not able to abide by both Chinese and Australian law.
The Australian government are deepening divide of personal and national security. Tech companies caught in the middle.
There should be a license that doesnt allow any commercial software to be distributed on the same device or medium.
The same concept that debian uses to seperate main, contrib, non-free
But it skeptical it can be fixed now, there is too much money invested in capitalizing on other people work, it would be like ending slavery...
Actually, i think i was overly optimistic.
"Designated communications provider must not be required to implement or build a systemic weakness or systemic vulnerability etc"
So the ISP isnt allowed to install a backdoor, but they can be required to conduct a man-in-the-middle attacks which can be used to install backdoors.
- Facilitating or assisting access to whatever law enforcement wants: a facility, device, service and any software used in conjunction with those things
I assume that would include broadcasting antenna
It looks to be mostly about getting IPSs to help the government conduct man-in-the-middle attacks rather than backdoors (initially).
There is better coverage of it at itnews;
https://www.itnews.com.au/news...
Three types of notices;
1. Request for Voluntary assistance
2. Technical assistance (within their current capability, eg handover known keys)
3. Technical capability notice (build/provide new capability)
The third type is obviously most dangerous, especially the following can-of-worms;
- Substituting, or facilitating the substitution of, a service
- Removing one or more forms of electronic protection that are, or were applied by, or on behalf of, the provider
- Facilitating or assisting access to whatever law enforcement wants: a facility, device, service and any software used in conjunction with those things
And ISPs have to wear some of the cost, and do their work;
- Assisting with the testing, modification, development or maintenance of a technology or capability
- Notifying particular kinds of changes to, or developments affecting, eligible activities of the provider
A more accurate analogy than licence plates, is library cards.
His suggestion is that all "readers" have a globally unique identifier, so if they read (or write) something bad they can be traced.
#fahrenheit451
I feel the FOSS community would be in a much healthier place if it allowed non-commercial licenses, provided the software available under standard commercial FRAND terms for those non-commercial users.
If the price of paying for a commercial license is cheaper than paying lawyers, i think there would be much higher license compliance, and much would be used to promote further development.
Unfortunately this will never happen with the support of the FOSS community, there is too much self interest by corporations in maintaining their current freeloader status-quo.
There are obvious similarities between the freedom trade-offs in the software world and many other aspects of life. The fact that you aren't willing to let yourself see that, and your lack of emotional control indicates your not capable of seeing the truth.
Have some respect for yourself and stop choosing to be an intellectual and emotional cripple.
"facing consequences of his actions" has nothing to do with definition of freedom.
You must have no understanding of the concept of copyleft, and sacrificing some freedom to promote freedom for the system.
From your high account number and generic opinion you may as well be working in a bot farm, or worse your an unpaid propaganda victim.
You have a very f*cked up understanding of what freedom is.
I avoid Reddit until recently, i saw it as being mostly troll driven with a few interesting posts, but i find it pretty much the opposite.
They is pretty good news coverage and minimal trolling that i have seen.
Its pretty usless for posting anything except links to news stories as you need a plugin to be able to see pictures inline, so it has a nostaligc feel to it. News feed from 10 years ago...
Over that time you or someone using your wireless network has installed dozens of apps that has been legally spying on and selling your data to anyone will pay a few cents.
"the goals of open source software."
The goals of open source software being to provide free (as in beer) software for large multi-national corporations so they more cheaply enslave society.
How do i convert bags of sugar to tomatoes, how much does it weigh in tomatoes ?
I can see an opportunity for someone to whip up a quick webpage to convert between the weight of all sorts of grocery types...
Exporting to other states has been where the problem manifests.
It makes sense with renewable power to have a well connected grid, it makes generation more efficient, because it can be sold where its needed most, but that places a lot of demand on the national grid, or really the inter-connectors between the states grid.
In the past South Australia, where the battery got disconnected because one of the states transmission lines got blown over from a storm which caused a spike which disconnected the state from the national grid.
So they lost part of their generating capacity, which then stopped them from importing power from other states.
In theory, with the battery in place, it can stabilise the states supply (that wasnt knocked out) which prevents the state inter-connectors from tripping, so external power to come in and prevent a blackout.
The operator of the grid sets prices for 5 minute blocks of power, and generators dont bid for it the operator increases the price. There are problems when a big generator suddenly goes offline, and supply cant easily meet demand. Which causes spike in prices.
Generators have been accused of gaming the system also, and there are process underway to improving the bidding process.