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welp, that's it for me and Tim Tams Crikey posted:Beetling out new Tim Tams. It seems like Arnott’s waited until everyone was in a food coma from the delight of peanut butter Tim Tams to quietly announce that the standard and double coat varieties of the chocolate biscuit will now include cochineal — making the national biccie non-kosher and non-vegetarian. Cochineal is made from crushing cochineal beetles, which aside from bring gross, means people who keep kosher or don’t eat animal products won’t eat it. Many Tim Tam fans have taken to the biscuit’s Facebook page to complain, but so far the company has responded to just one of the comments. Arnott’s already sends kosher versions of the biscuits to Israel but has told the Kashrut Authority (responsible for certifying kosher products) they aren’t available in Australia. Ms Tips finds Tim Tam discrimination about as unpalatable as crushed bugs, but would likely be placated by a few packets of peanut butter Tim Tams, if they were to be sent to Crikey’s offices …
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Brandis has a very high opinion of himself. There's some very minor scandal about him calling himself a QC despite being told not to.Murodese posted:e; when did Latika Bourke leave the ABC? She has Age articles now?
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Murodese posted:More than likely, it'll store protocol headers but not content. ie. it will store all of these things for web requests: Would I be right in thinking https would bypass all logging besides the domain name? Pretty trivial fix, especially when major sites like facebook and google use ssl by default
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Haters Objector posted:Since we're all offering financial advice: The only thing that I would add is when are you planning on buying a home? If it is longer than 5 years away - then yeah you might be better going with a managed mutual fund as they will perform better than interest over time. If it is within the next 5 years however - then it would be a gamble. If the market shits its pants you could lose 30-40% of your savings. This is not an outlandish proposition, if the Chinese property market pops then Australia is going to be in the poo poo deep. If it's within the next 5 years, I would take TOML's advice and put your money in a decent term deposit. It's boring, but it is safe. Best of luck dude
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Orkin Mang posted:I didn't know he considered himself to be intelligent. Every time I hear him speak he sounds like nothing more than a moderately articulate lawyer suffering from late-stage vampirism. His brainless stammering in that Sky News interview was not the performance of a man of any real intelligence or insight. Someone insulted his intelligence and then the very next day everyone wouldn't stop talking about his mighty intellect because he's a giant baby mentally and physically who threw a tantrum behind closed doors.
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Amethyst posted:Would I be right in thinking https would bypass all logging besides the domain name? Pretty trivial fix, especially when major sites like facebook and google use ssl by default Depends how they do it. There's a good chance they'll force ISPs to perform mitm monitoring, meaning that they still get all that data but web security's chain of trust is completely broken and banks flip the gently caress out.
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Murodese posted:Depends how they do it. There's a good chance they'll force ISPs to perform mitm monitoring, meaning that they still get all that data but web security's chain of trust is completely broken and banks flip the gently caress out. How would mitm monitoring work if traffic is encrypted with private ciphers?
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V for Vegas posted:
Well, sucks if you're a vegan, but it's been a common dye in basically everything for a long time. quote:Cochineal is one of the few water-soluble colourants to resist degradation with time. It is one of the most light- and heat-stable and oxidation-resistant of all the natural organic colourants and is even more stable than many synthetic food colours.[31] The water-soluble form is used in alcoholic drinks with calcium carmine; the insoluble form is used in a wide variety of products. Together with ammonium carmine, they can be found in meat, sausages, processed poultry products (meat products cannot be coloured in the United States unless they are labeled as such), surimi, marinades, alcoholic drinks, bakery products and toppings, cookies, desserts, icings, pie fillings, jams, preserves, gelatin desserts, juice beverages, varieties of cheddar cheese and other dairy products, sauces, and sweets.[31]
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If Bolt can't have his way, he's taking his ball and going home: http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/...en_look/#181723 quote:The Attorney General should not propose tough new surveillance laws when he cannot even explain exactly how they work and how intrusive they will be in checking even your browsing history. SPLITS
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Cleretic posted:The worse one to me is still Eureka, though. I didn't know it was a failure until last year, when explaining the name of the Australian mech from Pacific Rim to an American friend of mine. Guillermo del Toro indirectly taught me more Australian history than my actual Australian history course. The Eureka Stockade is our Alamo. In true Australian spirit the stockade was built half-arsedly with over turned materials/junk. They were too dumb to keep things organised so the stockade was made to act as a giant line in the sand so that the rebels didn't accidentally wonder off like lemmings
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Murodese posted:More than likely, it'll store protocol headers but not content. ie. it will store all of these things for web requests: I only visit sites with ironic metadata
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Amethyst posted:Would I be right in thinking https would bypass all logging besides the domain name? Pretty trivial fix, especially when major sites like facebook and google use ssl by default They wouldn't even get that, they would just get the ip and port. Https is encrypted at the socket layer, the address and so on is in the request that is sent over the encrypted connection so without breaking e-commerce they get nothing useful on https.
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Mattjpwns posted:If Bolt can't have his way, he's taking his ball and going home: I swear this Government's entire media strategy is "leak to the Daily Telegraph"
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Jumpingmanjim posted:I swear this Government's entire media strategy is "leak to the Daily Telegraph" The Turnbull stuff was leaked to The Guardian and/or SMH first I think.
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Ragingsheep posted:The Turnbull stuff was leaked to The Guardian and/or SMH first I think. I mean when it's coming from the top, IE Peta Credlin. So much of government policy is being leaked to the Daily Telegraph to the point now that it is in the paper before cabinet seems to know about it.
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Cartoon posted:When I saw the SMH today I was initially happy that finally we might step back from BOATS! but I quickly realised this was just going to increase the racist poo poo fighting. A noted twelve year high due to unprecedented growth in the 15-19yo demographic. Apparently more teens are registering as actively looking for work because of anxiety around proposed changes to newstart!
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must not.. make.. snarky political jokes.. about current learning institution.. fffududfnjskdlfndsklfn WHY DO YOU TAUNT ME LIKE THIS
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norp posted:They wouldn't even get that, they would just get the ip and port. Right, so switch your DNS provider to a non-Australian server and use https everywhere and they get nothing useful.
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Orkin Mang posted:I didn't know he considered himself to be intelligent. Every time I hear him speak he sounds like nothing more than a moderately articulate lawyer suffering from late-stage vampirism. His brainless stammering in that Sky News interview was not the performance of a man of any real intelligence or insight. *He calls himself a QC, despite never having practiced law as one *He bought two big-rear end book walls for his parliamentary office to show everybody how many books he has read *He likened himself to Voltaire in a valiant defence of racists and climate change deniers *He had a huge dummy spit over being wrong about the legality of the Israeli occupation of Palestine, and forced a bunch of colleagues to give interviews the next day and deliver verbatim testimony as to what a "fine intellect" he possessed *He attributed his massive failure to sell the merits of racial abuse to Australia to the inability of the plebs to understand freedom at the same level that he, an acolyte of John Stuart Mill, does.
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Haters Objector posted:
Don't forget he had to buy the second one because the first one was to big to move.
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Amethyst posted:Right, so switch your DNS provider to a non-Australian server and use https everywhere and they get nothing useful. You would need to encrypt (and/or use a a side band for) your DNS traffic as well or they will be able to match your DNS lookups to the ip addresses you connect to. In addition there are not going to be multiple services on one IP using https, because the certificate exchange happens before the web request.
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I haven't read the past couple of pages. But what if I told you goons that police forces in Australia don't presently require a warrant to start collecting metadata, which is also referred to by a dozen other weasel words, of communication devices? Phone companies are also presently storing up to a month's worth of CCR information (metadata) for law enforcement purposes.
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Those On My Left posted:The full thing is amazing C'mon do a proper comparison: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjLK9ug6MB4 Francis Greenslade much more understandable. In local news, the fallout from Jack Lyons is utterly hilarious: quote:FORMER Liberal and Nationals candidates Lisa Ruffell and Steven Oliver won't say if they have been approached to replace Jack Lyons as the Liberal candidate for Bendigo West. Three other candidates from other parties are also ruling themselves out, its a mess. But Greg Bickely the Liberal candidate for Bendigo East who spent shitloads and still didn't win in the Federal election added some weirdness in the paper edition that didn't make it online. In addition to saying he'd made comments to the Guardian and The Age in support of the Bendigo mosque (which some were linking to the Jack Lyons disaster), he remarked quote:"I made a number of comments about Bendigo's rich multicultural heritage. I'm very proud of it. I don't think it's necessary to reiterate those comments". He said he was not responsible should the publications choose not to publish his comments. Candidate makes comments no-one reports but why So 4 months out from an election and we still don't have a major candidate. We have a Greens candidate tho! John Brownstein must be quietly confident.
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Haters Objector posted:*He calls himself a QC, despite never having practiced law as one Please do not slander John Stuart Mill in this, no more than using Voltaire.
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Amethyst posted:How would mitm monitoring work if traffic is encrypted with private ciphers? It wouldn't, but it would require both ends to have pre-shared private certificates. Easier option is just to use a VPN for everything, but that introduces a fair amount of latency (since the exit point would have to be outside Australia).
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Freudian Slip posted:And the other great thing is that there is a bunch of finger pointing going on among the Liberal ranks Fuuuuuck Jason Wood is my local member. Wood's a jerk anyway, so doesn't surprise me that he is supporting Brandis.
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norp posted:You would need to encrypt (and/or use a a side band for) your DNS traffic as well or they will be able to match your DNS lookups to the ip addresses you connect to. Typically the way I'd anticipate this kind of monitoring being implemented is using something along the lines of cisco netflow. This is placed usually on an edge router and captures (IP,Protocol,Port,Time,Size) tuples for each connection made (on the order of hundreds for a typical modern webpage). ISPs used to use this mechanism for traffic accounting (and this advice, horribly mangled is probably the root of the "no browsing history but your IP addresses" clusterfuck, and maybe also the "ISPs already collect this stuff" clusterfuck). Now, as you can guess, this generates a metric fuckload of data (tens of terabytes per day for a decent sized ISP) so nobody really uses this stuff anymore - they use technologies like ISG, which just keeps running totals of different traffic types for each customer's login session (a bit like a more flexible kind of RADIUS accounting for those here with a bit of technical background). So, if a netflow style solution were to be implemented then it would still track all your sessions (https or http). A VPN or a tor style connection would of course obfuscate the traffic - you'd just see the VPN endpoint or the tor nodes you're connecting to. DeathMuffin fucked around with this message at 06:45 on Aug 7, 2014 |
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sidviscous posted:So, if a netflow style solution were to be implemented then it would still track all your sessions (https or http). A VPN or a tor style connection would of course obfuscate the traffic - you'd just see the VPN endpoint or the tor nodes you're connecting to. It would need to be something like this, but if ASIO wants deep inspection the poo poo hits the fan anyway. Have a Grundle quote:Rundle: Team Australia would love to have free speech, but there's a war on Also have an editorial by Jeff Sparrow on the Carlton thing quote:Fairfax turns on Carlton as we increasingly shoot the messenger I've seen some pretty self-righteous poo poo written about Carlton all of which are the worst kind of tone argument to apply: that he was rude and he represented his employer. Ignoring the fact that the gleeful collection by Witchfinder Sharri Markson were all from private emails somehow accidentally on purpose sent to her (gee what a coincidence) and we of course don't know what was sent to generate those responses.
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Instead of asking for repeals of laws to make Andrew Bolt not racist why don't these groups push for a federal bill of rights to enshrine these rights? The Constitution was originally written with an assumption a Bill of Rights would follow, wasn't it?
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Nibbles! posted:Instead of asking for repeals of laws to make Andrew Bolt not racist why don't these groups push for a federal bill of rights to enshrine these rights? The Constitution was originally written with an assumption a Bill of Rights would follow, wasn't it? Because for a bill of rights to make it into the constitution, it would be watered down so much in the parliament that by the time it makes it to the people, it will either carry no legal weight, or it won't be worth voting for and will fail.
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Les Affaires posted:Because for a bill of rights to make it into the constitution, it would be watered down so much in the parliament that by the time it makes it to the people, it will either carry no legal weight, or it won't be worth voting for and will fail. Also they only want free speech if it's in their particular interest. They want the right to be a bigot but they don't want people to be able to argue with them re: climate change (see: Brandis' thing about climate scientists bullying climate change deniers). If you look at America, their BoR doesn't do much except for allowing people who shouldn't have guns to have guns. And maybe it gives people the illusion of having rights while they are simultaneously having their rights eroded (Patriot Act, anyone?).
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRO_6lQhxTk
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Outstanding
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Say, I feel like I've seen stories like these before...'Cosmetic' plastic surgery for cancer patients denied or delayed by Medibank posted:Cancer patients requiring reconstructive plastic surgery have been denied or delayed hospital cover by Medibank because the nation's largest health insurance provider claims it is a "cosmetic" procedure.
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Medibank posted:"I don't think anyone believes that we should be paying for that." Hi, I'm the person who believes you should be paying for that.
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The video is kind of choppy.
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Shadeoses posted:The video is kind of choppy. Don't worry, that's just what happens when "metadata' is being collected.
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Jonah Galtberg posted:Say, I feel like I've seen stories like these before... Hi, PHI employee here. Australian insurers genuinely don't look for reasons not to pay in the same way that American ones do. I would be pretty confident guaranteeing that this is some front-line shmuck interpreting a directive about not paying cosmetic procedures far too literally, and the back and forth communication to get the situation resolved is simply the result of poo poo internal communication processes in the company. Since I started in the industry the guideline for my particular employer has been "If Medicare contribute to an in-patient procedure we will also cover it. Medicare do not cover a range of procedures they deem to be cosmetic." (emphasis mine) Medicare would surely pay towards reconstructive surgery of this nature, yeah? Also, exclusions can bite you, but there is always documentation about what particular stuff is excluded under a particular category in the promotional material. Many people don't read the detail and opt for the cheaper cover because "they'll never use that stuff." There are instances where frontline staff don't provide comprehensive enough information about what's covered and what isn't, for sure, but I was in a role where I had to do many, many call recording reviews to check whether a customer's complaint was valid or not, and the sad truth is that the overwhelming majority of the time they were told and they just didn't listen. I'm all for the best possible customer service to prevent people from getting screwed over but there are lots of people who actively screw themselves over by not giving enough of a poo poo to read the details about something they're paying several hundred dollars for every goddamn month. SadisTech fucked around with this message at 09:35 on Aug 7, 2014 |
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medibank posted:"Moving away from cancer surgery and burns, we have, at the other edge of the spectrum, treatments that are really on the edge around improving someone's self image or making someone feel better about themselves," he said. Well I guess they don't think they should cover depression, anxiety, and related mental health issues either?
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SwissCM posted:Well I guess they don't think they should cover depression, anxiety, and related mental health issues either? Where there's an admission to hospital involved, they will pay. Out-patient psychology services are only covered under some ancillary covers, and then only for a relatively limited amount.
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