This is stupid. Encryption is mathematics, and mathematics has no built in back-doors for illiterate politicians who don't understand how encryption works.
They know how it works. Our former PM (same party) declared that while the Laws of Mathematics are noble, the only Law that applies in Australia is the Law of Australia.
As soon as I saw the headline here on Slashdot, I googled "delete github account" and I have just completed the process of downloading my meager repos and nuking it.
I do not wish to be part of any club which would have Microsoft as a member, let alone one run by Microsoft.
It must be quaint that the US is going Chip and Sign, when the rest of the enlightened world has had Chip and Pin for over a decade and some merchants in some countries, such as Australia, don't allow signatures anymore.
Any questions?
Yep. What makes you think your suggestions have anything to do with Technet? Technet has SFA to do with the MS Development stack. It doesn't come with any paid version of Visual Studio for a reason. If you want a development stack, get MSDN.
With the NBN I believe most of the international links and peering will be handled by NBNCo
Umm no.
All NBNCo do is provide a connection from you to your chosen RSP (reatil service provider), nothing more. Your RSP is the one that needs to provision the bandwidth from the PoI you're connected to, to the Internet.
To me, Blizzard's reasons and excuses are clearly nonsense.
And you have two clear choices
1) Accept Blizzard's design and pay for the game/play it
2) Don't accept Blizzard's design and don't pay for/play the game.
There is no 3) I'll pay but complain loudly that this isn't what I paid for.
Yet another "click here dozens of times so we can get more advertising revenue" article. This could have been done in 3-4 pages, not 10+.
They also clearly haven't used Windows 7 as it has the ability to mount VHDs as well. (Windows 8 improves upon that by adding ISO mounting support) The way they wrote that "feature" is as if the VHD mounting is absent in previous versions.
I'd expect to see ISP wide NAT deployed before IPv6.
Too late. Although they default the configuration of the modems they ship to having IPv6 disabled, this will soon not be the case. So when that happens and you sign up to this ISP and buy a modem along with it, you'll get IPv6 by default.
No one's mentioned Virtual BattleSpace2?
What I don't get is that there's no mention of the fact that the US government already licenses the Unreal Engine for America's Army and they also license VBS2 for precisely this form of training.
Yup, same here.
It's frustrating that my wife and I both have an iPhone 4. She's on Optus and I'm on Telstra. Both of us will have "full reception" but she can't access any websites/youtube/facebook/etc. and I can. It's even more embarrassing for Optus when I tether her phone to mine because she can't access the data she's paid for. Optus even called her up the other day and offered here an in-home "mini-cell thingo". To which she repeatedly told the moron that the phone uses WIFI AT HOME!!! IF YOU WANT TO FIX MY ISSUES YOU'LL HAVE TO IMPROVE CELL-RECEPTION AT THE SHOPPING CENTRES I FREQUENT.
She can't wait to switch to Telstra (boy did I never think to hear those words come out of her mouth, let alone mine, considering how hopeless Telstra are with the rest of their communications)
What I don't understand is why these copyright failures don't use what is already in place. All they need to do is file an Order 15A for discovery with the court and the ISP will happily hand over the information required. Since this whole fiasco with iiNET had started, there had been exactly zero Order15A's applied for by AFACT. iiNET even told them exactly how to do it but were then painted as pirate-harborers and sympathisers.
This entire argument by the industry is malicious at best. We have a judicial system here for a reason. A plaintiff just can't order a defendant around with "evidence" without that "evidence" being validated by a judge/magistrate with a court order.
Here's one comment from 3 years ago that still holds true today: http://whrl.pl/RbBoKk and his followup for more detail http://whrl.pl/RbBoMh
I don't get the fuss over this from/. and other tech sites (I'm glaring at you Ars Technica). The *ONLY* thing that has changed is they've removed the 30-day limitation. All the other restrictions in place have been in place for years. There is absolutely *NOTHING* stopping you from creating another account if the old one expired.
- Enable unsigned scripts to run. Preventing.ps1 script files from running by default is a shit workaround for not having an execute bit, and is totally useless. Just turn it off.
Because the execute bit is far superior to only running digitally signed approved scripts from approved signers
SharePoint can be managed via direct SQL database queries from anything, with some care.
Assuming you don't ever want help from PSS.
Already out there and have been for years. They sell IPv6-capable modems too.
One of their biggest issues was dealing with a "prominent NA router vendor starting with C" where their LNSs and other hardware would fail spectacularly running certain common dual-stack configurations. It took them years to develop a stable patch for it.
Overall, though, I truly believe that the features for 4.0 are ones Firefox users like - speed, HTML5 support, stability.
Is that at the expense of HTML 4 features like the Title tag? Currently, FF4 only shows the title in the tab and when you have more than 3 tabs open, it's impossible to read it. At least FF3.6 shows the active tab's title in the main FF Title bar so you could at least read the current one.
Any time a new patch comes out, the new items can't be seen until the servers come up because they get "data mined" by sending API requests to the servers using random itemids.
Requesting an item id that the realm has not "seen" since coming back online from maintenance/restart will likely result in your client being forcefully disconnected. It's one way Blizzard stop data mining in that fashion.
The whole thing seems to be on a purely honor system, sure the moderators there might be able to prune out all the 'Penis McBoobsfaces' that are going to be showing up over time
Fair point. A more subtle problem with a fake name is if your account gets hacked by a gold seller. Good luck proving who you are if you used a fake name and you can't access the account because the password's changed.
Another reason for BigPond: you can't get DSL connected by anyone else, but BigPond miraculously can. Go with them and churn after the first few months. I've seen it happen before.
The correct procedure if that is the case is if the following has happened:
You signed up for ISP X
Telstra rejects the application
You immediately sign up for Telstra Bigpond
Telstra accepts the application
You contact ISP X and Bigpond and ask for a free transfer
If that doesn't happen, contact the ACCC and the TIO
Telstra can't legally prevent you in that case and they'd rather keep it quiet than let the TIO/ACCC know they've been breaching operational separation (i.e. Telstra Wholesale and Telstra Bigpond are not allowed to communicate on different paths than other ISPs and TW).
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This is stupid. Encryption is mathematics, and mathematics has no built in back-doors for illiterate politicians who don't understand how encryption works.
They know how it works. Our former PM (same party) declared that while the Laws of Mathematics are noble, the only Law that applies in Australia is the Law of Australia.
As soon as I saw the headline here on Slashdot, I googled "delete github account" and I have just completed the process of downloading my meager repos and nuking it.
I do not wish to be part of any club which would have Microsoft as a member, let alone one run by Microsoft.
You might want to stay away from Linux then.
Linux Foundation - Corporate Members
It must be quaint that the US is going Chip and Sign, when the rest of the enlightened world has had Chip and Pin for over a decade and some merchants in some countries, such as Australia, don't allow signatures anymore.
Any questions?
Yep. What makes you think your suggestions have anything to do with Technet? Technet has SFA to do with the MS Development stack. It doesn't come with any paid version of Visual Studio for a reason. If you want a development stack, get MSDN.
SharpDevelop is free.
So's Visual Studio Express.
With the NBN I believe most of the international links and peering will be handled by NBNCo
Umm no. All NBNCo do is provide a connection from you to your chosen RSP (reatil service provider), nothing more. Your RSP is the one that needs to provision the bandwidth from the PoI you're connected to, to the Internet.
Oh they did ask me to do a virus scan etc., which of course I did do, as well as trojan scans, autoruns, malaware, you name it. Nada.
Name one AV product that picks up 0-day malware/viruses/trojans.
To me, Blizzard's reasons and excuses are clearly nonsense.
And you have two clear choices
1) Accept Blizzard's design and pay for the game/play it
2) Don't accept Blizzard's design and don't pay for/play the game.
There is no 3) I'll pay but complain loudly that this isn't what I paid for.
Yet another "click here dozens of times so we can get more advertising revenue" article. This could have been done in 3-4 pages, not 10+.
They also clearly haven't used Windows 7 as it has the ability to mount VHDs as well. (Windows 8 improves upon that by adding ISO mounting support) The way they wrote that "feature" is as if the VHD mounting is absent in previous versions.
I'd expect to see ISP wide NAT deployed before IPv6.
Too late. Although they default the configuration of the modems they ship to having IPv6 disabled, this will soon not be the case. So when that happens and you sign up to this ISP and buy a modem along with it, you'll get IPv6 by default.
No one's mentioned Virtual BattleSpace2? What I don't get is that there's no mention of the fact that the US government already licenses the Unreal Engine for America's Army and they also license VBS2 for precisely this form of training.
Also it's bloody YOUR not you're
You forgot the repeated failure of the Australian people to actually be able to spell the name of one of the major political parties.
It's LABOR not LABOUR.
Visual Studio also highlights regions of code that are unreachable (such as lines of code after a return statement for a simple example).
Yup, same here. It's frustrating that my wife and I both have an iPhone 4. She's on Optus and I'm on Telstra. Both of us will have "full reception" but she can't access any websites/youtube/facebook/etc. and I can. It's even more embarrassing for Optus when I tether her phone to mine because she can't access the data she's paid for. Optus even called her up the other day and offered here an in-home "mini-cell thingo". To which she repeatedly told the moron that the phone uses WIFI AT HOME!!! IF YOU WANT TO FIX MY ISSUES YOU'LL HAVE TO IMPROVE CELL-RECEPTION AT THE SHOPPING CENTRES I FREQUENT. She can't wait to switch to Telstra (boy did I never think to hear those words come out of her mouth, let alone mine, considering how hopeless Telstra are with the rest of their communications)
What I don't understand is why these copyright failures don't use what is already in place. All they need to do is file an Order 15A for discovery with the court and the ISP will happily hand over the information required. Since this whole fiasco with iiNET had started, there had been exactly zero Order15A's applied for by AFACT. iiNET even told them exactly how to do it but were then painted as pirate-harborers and sympathisers. This entire argument by the industry is malicious at best. We have a judicial system here for a reason. A plaintiff just can't order a defendant around with "evidence" without that "evidence" being validated by a judge/magistrate with a court order. Here's one comment from 3 years ago that still holds true today: http://whrl.pl/RbBoKk and his followup for more detail http://whrl.pl/RbBoMh
I don't get the fuss over this from /. and other tech sites (I'm glaring at you Ars Technica). The *ONLY* thing that has changed is they've removed the 30-day limitation. All the other restrictions in place have been in place for years. There is absolutely *NOTHING* stopping you from creating another account if the old one expired.
- Enable unsigned scripts to run. Preventing .ps1 script files from running by default is a shit workaround for not having an execute bit, and is totally useless. Just turn it off.
Because the execute bit is far superior to only running digitally signed approved scripts from approved signers
SharePoint can be managed via direct SQL database queries from anything, with some care.
Assuming you don't ever want help from PSS.
Already out there and have been for years. They sell IPv6-capable modems too.
One of their biggest issues was dealing with a "prominent NA router vendor starting with C" where their LNSs and other hardware would fail spectacularly running certain common dual-stack configurations. It took them years to develop a stable patch for it.
Overall, though, I truly believe that the features for 4.0 are ones Firefox users like - speed, HTML5 support, stability.
Is that at the expense of HTML 4 features like the Title tag? Currently, FF4 only shows the title in the tab and when you have more than 3 tabs open, it's impossible to read it. At least FF3.6 shows the active tab's title in the main FF Title bar so you could at least read the current one.
Any time a new patch comes out, the new items can't be seen until the servers come up because they get "data mined" by sending API requests to the servers using random itemids.
Requesting an item id that the realm has not "seen" since coming back online from maintenance/restart will likely result in your client being forcefully disconnected. It's one way Blizzard stop data mining in that fashion.
The whole thing seems to be on a purely honor system, sure the moderators there might be able to prune out all the 'Penis McBoobsfaces' that are going to be showing up over time
Fair point. A more subtle problem with a fake name is if your account gets hacked by a gold seller. Good luck proving who you are if you used a fake name and you can't access the account because the password's changed.
And what if the userbase isn't made up of entirely adults? This is wow we are talking about. I bet their are millions of minors who play.
Since this is Slashdot, I'm 100% sure you didn't read any comments posted prior to yours. Two words: Parental Controls. https://us.battle.net/account/parental-controls/index.html?rhtml=y
Ahh. My bad. I forgot that Telstra opened up their own ADSL2+ hardware for resale at stupidly expensive rates.
Also their unmetered content is great: ...
* Steam mirrors ...
Keep in mind that all Steam content servers in Australia are unmetered for Internode customers, not just their own.
The correct procedure if that is the case is if the following has happened:
Telstra rejects the application
Telstra can't legally prevent you in that case and they'd rather keep it quiet than let the TIO/ACCC know they've been breaching operational separation (i.e. Telstra Wholesale and Telstra Bigpond are not allowed to communicate on different paths than other ISPs and TW).
It's not as if people are forced to stay with BigPond or anything.
It's not as if Bigpond let you get ADSL2+ with another ISP if you're on a RIM or an area that only has Telstra Cable.