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quote:Mr Scales found the ACCC "overstepped its authority" when it advised Labor that connecting the broadband fibre through street terminals, or nodes, was not a stepping-stone policy towards linking fibre directly to homes. It is extraordinary that a government agency would provide advice that is the truth, and it's even more amazing that the ALP would follow that advice (that is the truth)!!
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Aug 5, 2014 02:33
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Zenithe posted:ING are quite good, provided you don't need to make cash deposits or bank a cheque. They have no fees, usually higher than average interest and have some handy things right now (2% back when you use paywave) Seconding ING, fantastic bank. They don't do credit cards if that's something you need, but all bank cards are debit cards so that's not a biggie.
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Aug 6, 2014 04:33
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http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/live/2014/aug/05/raf-jets-escort-qatar-airways-plane-to-manchester-airport-live-coverage Glad to see our rampant stupidity is spreading onto international flights
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Aug 6, 2014 04:35
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Ragingsheep posted:What's that got to do with Australia? Oops, misread it. Thought it said the guy was from Australia, but nope. The couple they were interviewing were (who cares?).
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Aug 6, 2014 04:42
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If Loughnane goes down over this I will literally loving die laughing
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Aug 6, 2014 06:00
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The weirdest thing about Chris Berg is that his articles are reprehensible tripe that looks like it was entirely poo poo out as a troll, but his Twitter is actually pretty funny. I'm not convinced that he's not just a very proficient troll.
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Aug 6, 2014 09:45
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Aug 6, 2014 10:58
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Captain Pissweak posted:I keep telling you people about Howard years history education. I'm pretty sure I've said this before, but when I did history in year 6-10 we were taught that Gallipoli was a great victory for Australia and our soldiers were hard men who fought against ten times their number and managed to get away cleanly by being ingenious.
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Aug 6, 2014 15:35
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Yeah, Unisuper is great and their socially responsible options routinely outperform their normal ones.
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Aug 7, 2014 03:05
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Gough Suppressant posted:The point he is attempting to make is that they will know you visited somethingawful.com but not whether you visited the forums or the weekend web(although forums are probably on a different server so they would know you visited the forums but not whether you went to auspol or e/n) More than likely, it'll store protocol headers but not content. ie. it will store all of these things for web requests: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HTTP_header_fields#Request_Headers This means they'll be able to see which pages you've visited and generally what you've done (ie. they know you've made a post on somethingawful because headers[location] is 'http://forums.somethingawful.com/postreply.php?9857239875239857623', but not what the post contains. Likewise, they'll know you downloaded a torrent file from http://sometorrentsitehere.com/gettorrent.php?id=495872598 and can find out which one it is. Also referers etc. And that's only for HTTP requests, the vast majority of useful and interesting data about peoples' browsing habits is in the metadata. e; when did Latika Bourke leave the ABC? She has Age articles now?
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Aug 7, 2014 04:37
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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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Aug 7, 2014 04:49
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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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This may surprise you, but News Corp is pretty loving racist. http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/aboriginal-surfer-sues-for-defamation-20140803-zzlvy.html quote:Law suits are vanishingly rare in the world of surfing. It’s meant to be all peace, love and smokin’ barrels – not pleas, plaintiffs, and corporate barristers. Now pro surfer Otis Carey is suing Nationwide News, a subsidiary of News Corp Australia, for defamation, in a case that has divided the surfing community.
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Jumpingmanjim posted:Yeah but what has he done now? Apparently the key reason that women get breast cancer is because of abortions
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The Nats won't be happy about that. They might even stand up for the values of their constituents and split from the Liberal Party!!! lol
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Aug 7, 2014 13:52
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For some perspective on the import ban from Russia, the live export ban in 2011 (which was for a little under a month) cost $46.5m (this one is worth ~$400m) and was apparently "apocalypse" to northern Australia. Looking forward to hearing some similar rhetoric! ("apparently we won't even notice the difference" -- sunrise) Murodese fucked around with this message at 01:44 on Aug 8, 2014 |
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Antlions posted:So, something I'm not sure about : ICAC good? ICAC bad? ICAC good but run by bad people? I hear bits and pieces about it but I don't really have any context to go on. The ICAC was restarted by the Liberals to take a crack at corruption within the ALP, and it backfired spectacularly (because the Libs are more corrupt than the ALP). ICAC = good and also hilarious
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Amethyst posted:http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/content/2014/s4062660.htm That is the dumbest loving idea they've had, and they've had some loving doozies jesus loving christ
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You don't get scholarships with a D average. You rarely even get an APA with an HD average, it's usually an HD average + excellent thesis + published papers o_o
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Quantum Mechanic posted:Uh I got my APA with an HD average, First Class Honours-equiv Masters and 4 published papers, and a friend didn't get one with HD avg/1C/no papers. Depends a bit on how many your university gets allocated and how competitive they are.
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Aug 9, 2014 04:24
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Depends how you do it. The APA scoring (at my uni, dunno about others) is based actually on GPA, so to get 4/4 GPA you need to get an HD in literally every unit (which is what I did) (b/c I own). Otherwise, they base it on WAM which is just a weighted average of every unit, and you can afford to get 70 or something in a particularly difficult unit. As for papers, most people in STEM will generally publish at least one during hons from their thesis. I had 4 because I did a Masters, which gave me a bit more time to do other stuff and I also went to Belgium to work in research before my APA application went in, so I got one from there. Another came from a normal coursework unit assignment that I rewrote to tighten up the language. One paper from my MSc thesis proposal turned into a position paper, and another from the final thesis written into a paper.
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Aug 9, 2014 04:29
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Kim Jong ill posted:Couple of questions that I should know the answer to (as I want to go into research post grad) but don't; if a HD is 7/7 how do you have a HD average GPA without getting all HDs throughout your degree? And when you guys say published do you mean like peer reviewed conference papers or journals? Because I don't really see an undergrad producing journal quality work. also, don't go into research don't do it don't do it.
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Aug 9, 2014 04:38
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Vladimir Poutine posted:This is actually pretty uncommon out of everyone I know in biology. I know post-docs who have never published. Really? I have a biologist on ResearchGate and literally every 5 loving minutes he's making GBS threads out a new paper about some particular aspect of some particular plant or something.
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Aug 9, 2014 04:49
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Vladimir Poutine posted:I guess I'm mostly talking molecular and microbiology. I don't really have much to do with ecology people. For all I know it might not be true of them. Varies by your department, as well. In Belgium there was pretty big pressure to publish amongst PhDs, with at least a couple of papers per year on top of your thesis work. Over here it's a lot slacker, I've found. More like one per year.
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Aug 9, 2014 05:04
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Splode posted:pretty sure using invasive data collection for your own ends is bad, and a better policy would be "We'll push for legislation to ban woolies and coles collecting all this data because it's bad for society to have huge corporations manipulating their customers into doing things they otherwise wouldn't!" My PhD is in data mining and I absolutely agree with this statement, even though it'd mean I'd have to find a new job. The amount of poo poo that can be found out about you from what you eat, the TV shows you watch and your browsing history is hilariously terrifying.
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Tokamak posted:Is that based on a comp sci. undergrad, or something else? I could imagine an undergrad data mining degree being an interesting combination of compsci/science/math/economics and social science courses. BSc CompSci, MSc Distributed Computing. I imagine a full data mining degree would be a combination of programming, statistics and artificial intelligence.
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Aug 10, 2014 14:35
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DAAS Kapitalist posted:There's this article about how Target can work out that a woman is pregnant and estimate the delivery date without her buying anything explicitly baby related. You can also use shopping lists to work out when people are likely to develop chronic diseases and use browsing history to build a full physical and mental health profile of people, which is ~invaluable~ for insurance agencies.
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Aug 10, 2014 15:40
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Flaky posted:Just to go back here, but the Greens really did quite poorly at this election, mostly coming off the back of their earlier significant results in (I think?) 2010. It wouldn't surprise me if the Greens were more innovative in their campaign strategy or that it won't have delayed benefits once the data has been refined or whatever, just that they did not do significantly well that election. Can't really be compared because it was only a senate election, but the WA difference between the 2013 election and the 2014 re-election was something like 6% and that was after they started using NationBuilder.
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Aug 11, 2014 12:38
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Soag posted:just make them kiss a member of the same sex for a visa it will be hot we can put tv screens up all over the city and show the hottest kisses live 
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Aug 13, 2014 07:11
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quote:“Protecting people from murder at the hands of ISIL terrorists is a humanitarian cause ...and Australia has a long and proud tradition of assisting people in need”
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Aug 13, 2014 10:03
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Lizard Combatant posted:We critique Australia first and with the most scrutiny because we are Australians and it's our loving job as citizens. Arguing relative privation or tu quoque is lazy at best and at worst, wilfully obfuscating. IWC willfully obfuscating an argument? Well I loving never
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Aug 13, 2014 11:39
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Nibbles! posted:Who defends Japan's immigration policies? Moreover, who defends anything related to Japan? The country made possession of child pornography illegal this year (2014). With a one year grace period. Also has sky-high rates of sexual assault.
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First up: Kalua Maurice Newman
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Ian Winthorpe III posted:A Sydney engineer, Wayne Karlen, 60 uh huh
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Aug 14, 2014 02:23
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Gough Suppressant posted:Not being Jewish seems a pretty big obstacle to proving that you were offended, insulted, intimidated or humiliated by a depiction of Jewish people. You're like 4/4 for dumb posts now. Would you agree that a depiction of Aboriginals as apemen in a cartoon wouldn't offend you, and why are you so racist? (you can be offended by something that's not targetting you)
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Aug 14, 2014 02:25
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Gough Suppressant posted:There is a pretty massive difference between hey that is offensive and hey I am offended and as such am going to launch a court case based on section 18C. the difference is that he's an avid commenter on andrew bolt's blog and is unaware of the existence of hypocrisy
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Aug 14, 2014 03:49
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Les Affaires posted:Regardless of your slapfight with muyb, it'd be a pretty steep change if a judge allows 18c to be pursued by somebody who isn't directly vilified by the laws. That's not a slapfight, we limit our slapfights to IRC
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quote:"I don't think [the Treasurer has] ever lived in a rural, regional, or remote area where he may have been a school leaver, a job seeker, unemployed, low to mid-income where there's no public transport," he said. The irony that Hockey is trying to quote facts and getting hated on is just unbelievably amazing. e; also, they're really pushing the "overall tax burden $" hard over the more appropriate "tax burden as a percentage of income"
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