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Negative Entropy: Nov 30, 2009

Good OP.

# ¿ Apr 1, 2015 02:47

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# ¿ May 22, 2024 06:05

Negative Entropy: Nov 30, 2009

I've voted Democrats before, generally preferencing them before the rest of the rabble when possible.

However im wary of joining the Dems because they might press gang me into a seat out of desperation.

# ¿ Apr 1, 2015 02:50

Negative Entropy: Nov 30, 2009

I'm just trying to get one of those sweet Democrats gangtags.

# ¿ Apr 1, 2015 03:01

Negative Entropy: Nov 30, 2009

Anidav, you have found yourself to be in a unique position to be the most in touch with the australian psyche at large. You will sample from a wide net cast over many locations.

The perspective you will bring in the next few months will be enlightening.

# ¿ Apr 1, 2015 03:33

Negative Entropy: Nov 30, 2009

Anidav posted:

Yet at the same time when I asked these very same people what would influence their vote if a by-election in Cook were to be held. they all said the same thing:

Faster Internet, Better Roads, Protect the Reef, More focus on FNQ and land development powers put back into the hands of local governments.

Then they vote LNP

Makes no sense.

# ¿ Apr 1, 2015 04:04

Negative Entropy: Nov 30, 2009

Brisbane wet

Stones Corner. Bin day.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-04-01/severe-storms-dump-heavy-rain-on-south-east-queensland/6363872

# ¿ Apr 1, 2015 06:09

Negative Entropy: Nov 30, 2009

Netflix adopters have realised Australian Internet is poo poo, really poo poo and started complaining. iinet blames Telstra.

http://m.smh.com.au/business/media-and-marketing/iinet-blames-telstra-for-slow-netflix-connection-speeds-20150331-1mblrj.html

# ¿ Apr 1, 2015 16:14

Negative Entropy: Nov 30, 2009

Fruity Gordo posted:

srsly?! fuuuuuuck

nah

did you just quote yourself as another person

# ¿ Apr 1, 2015 21:49

Negative Entropy: Nov 30, 2009

Tones blames Labor for Essendon doping.

Seriously? :what:

# ¿ Apr 1, 2015 23:30

Negative Entropy: Nov 30, 2009

Zenithe posted:

April Fools?

Heard it on JJJ news at 0800. I've been looking through google news for a source but ive only found something from the arsetrailian.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/latest-news/pm-stands-by-sports-minister-over-asada/story-fn3dxiwe-1227288669905

quote:

TONY Abbott has defended his sports minister from criticism she hasn't taken strong enough action against the nation's anti-doping agency.

THE prime minister described Sussan Ley as "calm, balanced and reasonable" - exactly the attributes needed to deal with the aftermath of ASADA's failure to secure anti-doping convictions against 34 past and present Essendon players by the AFL's anti-doping tribunal.

Mr Abbott also told Macquarie Radio on Thursday what was dubbed the "blackest day in sport" two years ago by the then Labor government seemed to be a case of "mountains made of molehills".

the JJJ snippet said he wanted people to move on now the Anti-doping tribunal found them not guilty, then there was a soundbite, then "he blamed for the former Labor govt for the scandal"

keep looking, it'll turn up. Maybe he should be the Prime Minister for Sport.

not like its any of his concern.

# ¿ Apr 1, 2015 23:52

Negative Entropy: Nov 30, 2009

Murodese posted:

Telstra's HFC network (which are the plans that go up to 100mbit) get around 15mbps in my area, Optus get around 20mbps. Shared mediums don't work that well

I'm on Optus HFC installed a little over a year ago and i can get a consistent 30Mbit/1Mbit inter-australia, with the option of going up to 50/20 and 100/40 down/up.

# ¿ Apr 2, 2015 02:31

Negative Entropy: Nov 30, 2009

CrazyTolradi posted:

Yeah, your modem can sync at those speeds, doesn't mean your throughput is going to be that, however. HFC, as Murodese has said, is a shared medium, meaning you're sharing it with EVERYONE in your street/area. Peak hours it becomes more congested than Coro Drive/Milton Rd and TBH I'd rather have a 20Mbit DSL connection that I don't share than a 100Mbit one that I would.

uhh, yeah. I can computer thanks.

Ok, maybe i should specify that I'm getting these speeds pretty constantly throughout the day and last 5 months. Indicating there are probably fuckall people on HFC in my area of Stafford. Or have old DOCSIS2 modems and not using their share effectively.

ofc, I want a FTTH gigabit connection.

Negative Entropy fucked around with this message at 03:08 on Apr 2, 2015

# ¿ Apr 2, 2015 03:02

Negative Entropy: Nov 30, 2009

open24hours posted:

I was supposed to get the NBN in 2016 under the old plan. The new, faster, cheaper, plan doesn't even bother to estimate the year it might be installed in my street.

My area was supposed to get FTTH by late 2014 according to the old plan.
but HFC is considered 'adequate' NBN now, so, i guess i should not complain. :v:

# ¿ Apr 2, 2015 03:09

Negative Entropy: Nov 30, 2009

Sulla-Marius 88 posted:

The true competition in sport lies in training regimens, political maneuvering and finance, steroids and dietary management. Given this, we should stop kidding ourselves and just build robots to replace the current inferior human substitutes. That way we can stop acting like sport has anything to do with the players or human competition and acknowledge its true roots in entertainment and corporatism. Tens of thousands of human lives will be spared from the sinister manipulations of greedy enterprise and with a proper focus on artificial intelligence and engineering maybe sports as an industry can actually serve some goddamn use for once instead of retaining all its medical research for the cutting edge of an unethical and inaccessible black market

This post is the best post.

seriously, a high watermark has been set.

:golfclap:

# ¿ Apr 6, 2015 06:54

Negative Entropy: Nov 30, 2009

Fruity Gordo posted:

Hmmm weird, looks like you managed to miss this post, friend:

fruity, that's a mush of syllables.

# ¿ Apr 6, 2015 07:08

Negative Entropy: Nov 30, 2009

Fruity Gordo posted:

t

Anger management for angry managers.

Sulla-Marius 88 posted:

"I'm sorry if my words have upset you but I really do believe you are responsible for creating a hostile work environment that is entirely untenable and, moreover, was wholly unjustifi-" *spew chunks of blood on the table* "Excuse me, wholly unjustified. Was there anything else?"

do this. Get mad, get your due

# ¿ Apr 7, 2015 01:27

Negative Entropy: Nov 30, 2009

freebooter posted:

I strongly encourage everybody to visit http://toobigtoignore.org.au and "Add Your Voice," as I just did, by sending them something along the lines of the concise message I just sent, which was "gently caress you, you greedy pieces of poo poo."

pisswhiskers posted:

gently caress off you greed filled gently caress nugget.
penalty rates are what separate us from working poverty America. unions worked hard to get a fair rate of pay and fair conditions, if you can't loving keep afloat while treating workers like actual worthwhile human beings maybe you should quit business and learn some ethics.

# ¿ Apr 7, 2015 02:12

Negative Entropy: Nov 30, 2009

I sent another angry missive their way, sent from one of the qld liberal seats email.

it feels good to rant at pricks who want to screw their workers.

# ¿ Apr 7, 2015 02:34

Negative Entropy: Nov 30, 2009

Senor Tron posted:

From what we were told at work (so don't hold it as gospel) this was the first year that SA had Easter Saturday as a public holiday.

Also, the Bombay Bicycle Club example of how not to do public holiday surcharges:

I'm seeing this as a tombstone for a lovely business, shiny marble some flowers on the side.

# ¿ Apr 8, 2015 04:11

Negative Entropy: Nov 30, 2009

CourierFail, dont click.

http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/queensland/lnp-seniors-wish-campbell-newman-would-just-go-away/story-fnn8dlfs-1227297830472

quote:

LNP seniors wish Campbell Newman would �just go away�

A SENIOR member of the LNP has called for former premier Campbell Newman to give his party clear air and allow it to rebuild following its January state election drubbing.

Mr Newman publicly defended himself for the first time yesterday as recriminations continue over the election defeat, revealing to The Courier-Mail he twice offered his resignation to LNP bosses in the lead-up the election. He said they rejected both offers.

NEWMAN REVEALS: �I offered to quit - twice�

PREMIER SPEAKS: Full transcript of Annastacia Palaszczuk�s press conference

The Opposition yesterday distanced themselves from the revelation, with party leader Lawrence Springborg insisting it was a matter for Mr Newman.

�Mr Newman is a private citizen,� he said.

His comments were echoed by former attorney-general Jarrod Bleijie. �The reality was we had a team which went to the 2015 election and the people spoke and we have listened to that,� he said.Others within the party were furious he had thrown the focus back on fractious �relations within the LNP.
�I wish he would just go away. Just like Anna Bligh � who moved to New South Wales and took four years (before releasing a book),� a senior LNP member told The Courier-Mail.

�She didn�t want to impact on the election. She had consideration for the team.�

A spokesman for the LNP had said in a statement that the leadership of the LNP�s parliamentary team �is determined by its elected members, not the party organisation� but the MP told The Courier-Mail it was well known the party played a key role in recruiting Mr Newman and in keeping him in the role.

Tensions remain within the party following the election loss, but several members said the soured relationship between Mr Newman and his former senior ministers Jeff Seeney and Tim Nicholls had eased.

Premier Annastacia Palas�zczuk, however, seized on Mr Newman�s comments.

�I don�t think it would have made any difference because the people of Queensland were sick and tired of the arrogance of all of the LNP, not just Campbell Newman,� she said.

# ¿ Apr 9, 2015 23:33

Negative Entropy: Nov 30, 2009

BCR is there a childcare services union.

my gf's "bestie" just got the arse for calling them out on their bullshit pay and hours. Shes going to speak to the Fair Work Ombudsman.

# ¿ Apr 10, 2015 03:11

Negative Entropy: Nov 30, 2009

Anidav posted:

But seriously I just started a word document and recorded this incident. I know it sounds like a silly gimmick but if I'm not active in maintaining my rights at work then we'd all get poo poo on.

Good work, keep it up.

# ¿ Apr 10, 2015 14:15

Negative Entropy: Nov 30, 2009

Hey d&d thread. I skipped the last 500 posts. what's happening?

I saw qld alp are up in the polls

# ¿ Apr 16, 2015 01:09

Negative Entropy: Nov 30, 2009

Urcher posted:

If there was a card that was accepted as identification for all dealings with the government then either:

1. Anyone who found it could use it for identity theft via any of tax evasion, welfare fraud, electoral fraud (lol), medicare fraud, or other similar means, or
2. You would need to combine it with other ID to do any of the above, in which case it has no benefit over the existing systems that ask for 100 points of ID by combining a range of different ID documents

Also whoever administered the database would either:

1. Leave it open to *hackerz* due to inept information security/software development
2. Share it with the police/other government departments without proper oversight
3. Sell it to the highest bidder
4. All of the above

quoting for good post.

# ¿ Apr 16, 2015 01:18

Negative Entropy: Nov 30, 2009

katlington posted:

We use dogs on asylum seekers now.

Oh loving really :cry:

# ¿ Apr 16, 2015 01:29

Negative Entropy: Nov 30, 2009

Oh goons, Dr Lynham is having an open office Saturday morning, so I'm going to head down and organise this breakfast with him.

I've been slack in chasing that up.

# ¿ Apr 16, 2015 01:53

Negative Entropy: Nov 30, 2009

Orkin Mang posted:

trained dogs attacking feral dogs, how deliciously appropriate

# ¿ Apr 16, 2015 03:37

Negative Entropy: Nov 30, 2009

MysticalMachineGun posted:

Why do all that poo poo in Cambodia when they could do it here? Whyyyyy?

Also, holy poo poo Cambodia has cheap beer. BRB booking a flight and putting my esky in a suitcase.

~Angkor beer~ :beerpal:

# ¿ Apr 17, 2015 04:46

Negative Entropy: Nov 30, 2009

I've just met with Dr Lynham and Rod Harding, and Anthony says that since taking government he has been bombarded by people wanting to talk to him. so i'm organising with his staff but the best we might hope for is about two months.

I said I was lax because I got distracted by a bout of depression and he replied his son also has sadbrain and wants to put money into mental health services again.

Rod Harding said Labor cancelled the BATtunnel due to woeful planning on behalf of Newman, and is looking for town planners to assist with suggestions.
he mentioned cancelling the Kingsford Smith Drive expansion because it helps LNP suburbs and I grumbled about pettiness but the old bloke with us laughed and told him to stick it to the Tories. his aide said road construction always loses votes in that area and that the LNP did it to Labor suburbs. he cited the airport link as reference for it lost the member his seat. he intends to rip up King George square and reinstall grass.
he also said the Victoria Point casino project is going ahead and is a state issue.
he called the treasury casino old and run down and said there is a proposal to turn it into an elite shopping centre ala GUM department store in Moscow.

he agreed the public transport system is abominable.

Dr Lynham asked me to ask you Brisgoons if you would want to come to a electoral meeting at his offices and maybe have a sit in or debate.

rod was also keen on having a meeting and I got his card.

Rod Harding is a lord mayor candidate.

# ¿ Apr 18, 2015 01:09

Negative Entropy: Nov 30, 2009

Jumpingmanjim posted:

Rod Hardening

I will miswrite his name in the email and it will be goons fault.

also. Wilston General is a great breakfast locale

# ¿ Apr 18, 2015 02:01

Negative Entropy: Nov 30, 2009

Holy poo poo, I've looked at the business card Rod Harding handed me and it has this:

He looks like some action hero, a sheen of sweat, a stern expression. He looks like Michael Westen about to put on some sunglasses and have the bridge behind him explode.

# ¿ Apr 18, 2015 04:57

Negative Entropy: Nov 30, 2009

Anidav posted:

Can I reprint this as a business card and hand it back to him?

Only if i print 100. otherwise you can print one and hand it to him when we meet.

# ¿ Apr 18, 2015 11:39

Negative Entropy: Nov 30, 2009

Wtf d&d

# ¿ Apr 19, 2015 21:57

Negative Entropy: Nov 30, 2009

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/04/20/content_biz_wants_netflix_out_of_australia/

quote:

The content business wants Netflix out of Australia

How do you think Netflix gets stuff here? Over the VPNs the government wants to ban
20 Apr 2015 at 20:14, Richard Chirgwin

Debate about copyright and virtual private networks (VPNs) has reached such a pitch in Australia that at least one voice wants a policy that, taken literally, would have the effect of closing down Netflix in this country.

I don't mean “stopping Australians from accessing Netflix US via VPNs”, I mean “bye-bye Netflix, go home to the US, nice to have met you”.

Here is what Cordell Jigsaw Zapruder managing director Nick Murray told media site Mumbrella:

“It should absolutely be regulated somehow to make it so people in Australia shouldn’t use VPNs”.

While The Register's readers are warming up their keyboards to remind the world that VPNs were originally invented to provide secure remote access to corporate servers, Vulture South will first address why a VPN ban would kill the Internet content industry.

The hint comes from the Wikileaks Sony document-dump, here. As Michael Geist notes, Sony wanted Netflix to block VPN users, but acknowledge that such a course of action isn't easy or perfect.

Deliciously, it's the Sony-Netflix contract (PDF) that gives us another key insight into the demands of content owners. That contract specified the following:

1.1.1. Unencrypted streaming of Included Programs is prohibited.1.1.2. Unencrypted downloads of Included Programs is prohibited.1.1.3. All Included Programs shall be transmitted and stored in a secure encrypted form. Included Programs shall never be transmitted to or between devices in unencrypted form.

In other words, Sony requires that Netflix use the same encrypted tunnel mechanism that protects corporate remote access to keep its content private between server and Internet subscriber – and, for that matter, between two Netflix server-farms replicating over the Internet.

A VPN, in other words.

We can also safely assume that all content owners have the same requirement, not just for Netflix but for everyone else.

Without VPNs, there's no content delivery over the Internet – unless, of course, the content owners like Nick Murray counter along the lines of “that's not what we meant”, and explain that they're talking about a service rather than a technology.

More than a gotcha

Beyond the “gotcha”, there's a serious point, because among those making or influencing policy in Australia, there's precious few who can clearly distinguish between a technology (that required to create an encrypted tunnel over the Internet) and a service (the VPN provider).

The VPN provider's technical role is to make it easy to set up and use the product; the business model for some is to land that traffic on the public Internet in the USA.

It's obvious that a technology ban would fail, simply because while the government might be collectively woolly about technology, it'll listen to the entire business community saying “don't ban encryption, you fools”.

Vulture South would contend that a legislative attempt to ban the business model – as is set out in the government's proposed copyright law amendment – will also fail.

It's not merely the “whack-a-mole” effect of trying to keep up with the (for example) the movement of BitTorrent directories between different IPs.

It's that the technology itself is doing what technology does: becoming democratised – made simpler, more available, and open source.

As just one example, here is a VPN project, SoftEther from the University of Tsukuba, Japan. In an era of cheap cloud hosting, anyone with the nous the ability to read instructions) can already DIY a VPN to drop their traffic in America.

(Hilariously, as a side-observation, El Reg notes that SoftEther's Website uses the obsolete TLS 1.0, AES_128_CBC encryption, with the outdated SHA1 for message authentication.)

It won't be long before someone wanting a VPN will be able to drag an icon into a pennies-a-day cloud host. Try banning that.

This dooms the federal government's hope to use the Copyright Act to ban VPNs – even in the limited case that the “primary” purpose is infringement.

Perhaps communications minister Malcolm Turnbull, who is arguably the second-most tech-savvy member of both houses of federal parliament, behind Greens senator Scott Ludlam, realises this.

Even with the “ban the VPN” amendment before the house, Turnbull recently (about nine days ago) updated his Copyright FAQs document.

That document retains Turnbull's opinion that VPNs are legal:

“The Copyright Act does not make it illegal to use a VPN to access overseas content,” he writes. “While content providers often have in place international commercial arrangements to protect copyright in different countries or regions, which can result in ‘geoblocking’, circumventing this is not illegal under the Copyright Act.”

The Australian Communications Consumer Action Network reckons the Copyright Act amendments should let citizens object to proposed blocks.

That's a worthy notion, but it probably misses the point. The whole amendment reflects the content industry's self-contradictory wishes, and should be ditched.

Even if the content owners are themselves confused, enforcement of commercial contracts is where the access-to-content debate should end.

After all, if – as Fairfax reports – HBO can drop Australian customers, Netflix probably can as well.

Then we'd merely be forced to set up our own VPNs and obtain American-domiciled payment mechanisms.

Negative Entropy fucked around with this message at 00:13 on Apr 21, 2015

# ¿ Apr 21, 2015 00:09

Negative Entropy: Nov 30, 2009

that sounds like telecommunications 'I'm not racist but...'

# ¿ Apr 21, 2015 02:19

Negative Entropy: Nov 30, 2009

http://m.sunshinecoastdaily.com.au/news/government-plans-tax-game-currency/2613336/

quote:

Government plans to tax in-game currency

Kieran Salsone (21st April 2015 8:34 AM)

TREASURY officials have announced plans to tax income made by characters in computer games in an effort to reduce the deficit.

The latest move means people playing computer games will have to declare any kind of gold, rupees, credits or other forms of in-game currency their characters earn.

Government spokesperson Richard Pennybags said the economy was being "undermined by the 'monopoly economy'."

"There is a real concern among policy makers that players who pass go and land in Income Tax aren't declaring that money to the ATO.

"We're staring at a budgetary black hole and its time the Links, Marios, and Master Chiefs of Australia paid their fair share."

The government has been quick to point out that the legislation being proposed to tax the monopoly economy is not at all aimed at clubs running pokies or moonshine.

A Brisbane Institute white paper estimates the total monopoly economy to be worth more than a trillion AUD every year, with the majority of that coming from gang violence in GTA V and sales of hunter gear in World of Warcraft.

The white paper also proposed for the collection of gaming metadata to help the ATO investigate terrorists operating within computer games.

"We've had intelligence that terrorist cells have been operating within popular games like Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive," said ASIO Deputy Director Del Usion.

"Having the tax office collecting the movements of these characters will allow us to act in the event they become real humans."

Frisky Business is a satire column. It is not real.

It's getting harder to pick the satire from the real.

# ¿ Apr 21, 2015 05:56

Negative Entropy: Nov 30, 2009

Negligent posted:

ប្រជាជនខ្មែរមានការគួរឱ្យស្រឡាញ់

I met Senso in Phenom Pehn, it was a nice place, Siam Reip was depressing.

# ¿ Apr 21, 2015 05:59

Negative Entropy: Nov 30, 2009

El Scotch posted:

Dear friends down under, what's a good radio station that I can stream at work?

under 35?
TripleJ
http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/

# ¿ Apr 21, 2015 21:55

Negative Entropy: Nov 30, 2009

Negligent posted:

All Cambodia really needs is for more white people to go there on a study tour and lecture the Khmer on how ur doin it wrong

quoting my mate in a tuk tuk in the second part of our trip.

"It makes me appreciate what I've got, I'm bothered by being late to a meeting or getting dumb emails from accounting, these people have real problems, access to clean water and the potential to die or be maimed on the way to work by decades old ordinance. I feel humbled. I miss gutters, and honest businesspeople. "

we were ripped off many times, and lived next door to a child sex tourist in a hotel that could be described as a four star hotel cut up into four one star hotels, with exposed wiring in the shower.
the Khmer were obsequiously nice people. but i still haggled over single dollars. and i think i bought two shirts from someone's stolen luggage at a market. there was litter everywhere.

this is how life is for a large number of people on earth. we've got it really good.

And this argument about refouling refugees or resettlement is brazenly transparent about maintaining this idea that we live in a white paradise and our leaders and the people who elect them don't want that upset by 'dirty browns' that deserve less and should live elsewhere.

refer to abbots speech about a place for everyone but not necessarily here.

Cambodia has problems, and you talk about corruption, but gently caress, look at our own.

# ¿ Apr 21, 2015 22:11

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# ¿ May 22, 2024 06:05

Negative Entropy: Nov 30, 2009

Kim Jong ill posted:

How many times did you pay a child to suck your dick before you decided that Cambodia was the best place in the world to live?

... uh. Negligent is Khmer iirc.

# ¿ Apr 22, 2015 00:06

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