Which muppet you voting for?

[ysu]

That's a lot of fuckwittery

But only a very small surprise; and that's exactly my biggest fear about this data-collection regime.

Someone who should not, will get access to it (read: malicious hackers). Then it's sold to people who'll use it for all kinds of nefarious purposes. Blackmail. Personality theft. You name it.

Even if the idea is a good one to start with (it's not), this danger is always there, and not worth it.

[durbster]

But, if I was to hazard a guess based on no information beyond a headline on The Age that I saw: Some fuckwit designed a fuckwit system to extract data from fuckwits' Internet and/or telephony usage. They then stored it in a fuckwit database designed by fuckwits and run by fuckwits, that had a user interface designed by fuckwits, programmed by fuckwits, and used by fuckwits. The fuckwits who used it probably followed fuckwit procedures adhering to fuckwit policies that were both written by fuckwits. The fuckwit user probably forgot to to something they should have, or did something they shouldn't have, resulting in fuckwit data about fuckwits being accessed by other fuckwits who were supposed to have visibility of other fuckwits' fuckwit data in some other fuckwit database.

[wabbit]

https://www.itnews.com.au/news/govt-to- ... tax-460847

[r8response]

Cheaper, Faster, Sooner...

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[pab]

My mum's area has had HFC NBN for a while now. She got a letter saying she needed to switch over soon because the analogue system was being switched off. so we chose a plan for her, I submitted the application and paid for the modem/installation. The modem was installed by her ISP about 2 months ago and she was told that within a few days it'd be activated. She then gets a series of messages advising her of delays which gradually pushed back her activation date, it's now apparently going to activated on May 25th. The analogue system will be turned off in her area on May 12th.

We've since found out what's causing the delay. She's on a subdivided block (she's number 19, her neighbor is 19a) and it seems when the external boxes were installed on those two houses both lines from the street were brought into 19a, so she just has an empty box on her wall! So she'll now be without internet or phone for at least 2 weeks.

And the classic is, 3 or 4 weeks or so ago a woman from the NBN knocked on her door to tell her that she wasn't connected to the NBN yet, and that she should apply for it straight away or she'd lose her internet and phone! When my mum explained to her why she wasn't connected yet her response was, "yeah, that sort of thing seems to be happening quite a bit".

[ysu]

Malcolm should fucking pay for each and every problem in this mess, that'd teach the bastard to knowingly and maliciously fucking up essential infrastructure.

[norbs]

I am going to stand outside the local Centrelink selling clean piss.

[norbs]

Curious, was there any mention of Snowy Hydro 2.0 in the budget?

[smithcorp]

Pretty confusing. The budget i think signals the intention to buy it back from the States, which would be a precursor to Snowy 2.0, but it doesn't appear there's actually money for it:

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/nation ... 84baf3f4f7

http://www.skynews.com.au/news/feature- ... yback.html

[norbs]

[ysu]

Read an article today, reporter asks Turnbull something like "is it true that we'll go over half a trillion deficit with the new budget?"
Response was something like "Labor has promised $16 bn more deficit at the last elections".

But what was worse; the reporter did not say "My dear Malcolm, that's not an answer to my question, wanna try again?" just nodded and went onto the next question which resulted in similarly informative results.

Another question how is that right that while cutting friggen everything that's social from average joe they are giving tax cuts to big corps.
The response was not even worth mentioning.


Fucking hate mainstream media, almost as much as politicians themselves.

[Montey]

It'd also be nice if the reporter knew the difference between deficit and debt.

[ysu]

apologies, that is probably my mistake.

[wabbit]

Fucking hate mainstream media, almost as much as politicians themselves.

You might like this. Watch it in chunks because it's four hours worth.

[ysu]

That looks very interesting, wabs, thanks. I'll watch it when I'm a bit less tired.

[smithcorp]

This is major news. Australia deliberately worsened conditions on Manus to coerce detainees to accept PNG resettlement. They moved people into non-airconditioned facilities for instance to provide worse conditions for some groups. Nick McKim says this is meets the definition of torture. Horrible.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-n ... MP=soc_568

[ysu]

This is major news. Australia deliberately worsened conditions on Manus to coerce detainees to accept PNG resettlement. They moved people into non-airconditioned facilities for instance to provide worse conditions for some groups. Nick McKim says this is meets the definition of torture. Horrible.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-n ... MP=soc_568

That is again something that should have proper criminal repercussions. Wanna bet that no-one will to go to court over it?

"Nothing is below us" - nearly any politician nowadays.

[norbs]

Dutton and Morrison. Both Christians I believe!

c**t*.

[ysu]

In the meantime
Australian oil well leaked into ocean for months – but spill kept secret

It'd seem the "National Offshore Petroleum Safety and Environmental Management Authority" can shorten their name to "National Offshore Petroleum Management Authority".

[norbs]

One for YSU.

http://www.zdnet.com/article/nbn-purcha ... have-fttn/

[ysu]

One for YSU.

http://www.zdnet.com/article/nbn-purcha ... have-fttn/

They probably call this the "renewables" then? Instead of energy, they apply it to tech. Great.

[wabbit]

I thought some might like this

[ysu]

You post great videos, wabbit. Thanks.

[ysu]

I'm just scratching my head over this, but I'm not feeling too well today, maybe I'm just not seeing the brilliance of it?
https://www.businessinsider.com.au/cust ... nth-2017-5

The consumer watchdog has decided customers that receive superfast fibre broadband sourced from outside the NBN will be slugged a tax to help coverage in regional Australia.

[smithcorp]

At the Senate economic estimates committee just now:

Senator Roberts wants to know if it's important for scientists to keep an open mind.

Yes, Professor Finkel says, "but not so much that your brain leaks out".