Posts by Argus Tuft

won't someone think of the children

hmmm - nothing in the rules about posting kiddie pron....

So now I can complain to ACMA and have this URL banned by the Great Aussie Firewall. bwa ha haaa.

only trouble with an Opt-in filter

is once the infrastructure is in place - it's only a signature on a Act to make it All-in.....

and in another 4 or 8 or whatever years time there'll be a different bunch of monkeys in govt all with another point to make on how to 'save the children'.....

so many lines, so little time...

could decide between;

a) did she enjoy the rogering?,

b) she got well and truly rogered then...

c) another random phrase with 'rogered' inserted in the middle...

(ok so it's Friday.....)

there's a plan....

'The Portal' makes it sound like a nice single point-of-entry from the big nasty internet thingy into Aus. That'd make it easy to "protect" us by simply putting a filter onto that single 'portal' wouldn't it.....

Apart from the fact that he's a raving moron, there's a pattern appearing in his babbling of trying to create an 'understanding' in the general population that the Great Firewall is a good and simple thing....

Little details like polls taken by the major newspapers showing 99% of the population opposed to it are just issues to be worked through.

only in England

30deg ... "Cruelly Hot".. Hah ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

re: the title

this is a follow-on from Senator Conroy's blast at Google.

the only thing that should be probed is Conroy - preferably without lube..

time for new desktop wallpaper..

GOATSE perhaps?

looking forward to the law suit

when Apple decides iD is too close to iEveryThingElseInTheWorldBelongsToUs

if iPhones are so tuff

why doesn't the army save a few quid and replace ballistic vests with a couple of iPhones - one in each pocket of the uniform should do..

that could double as a replacement for whatever the latest cockup of a comms system is as well...

(thermonuclear war? - we've got an app for that)

what's with the " ®"?

"Just in case it's the latter, I for one would like to welcome, and so forth... ®"

If i want to grovel to our supreme robo overlords, I should be free to do so without fear of litigation..... Maybe Reg is taking lessons from Apple?

don't see what's wrong

with good old fashioned CS gas and a baton charge. That'd get rid of the young fekkers.

(excuse me while I adjust my cardigan)

but will the Apps

have to be bought from iTunes?

but surely

they could just train up a fleet of genetically engineered super dolphins to do the same thing? (maybe with little strap-on torpedoes?)

[paris because of the strap-on thing]

flip it around..

it's not there to protect the people, - it's there to protect the government.

short term- so they can get the votes of the balance-of-power-holding ultra christian loon party in parliament, and get their minimum term's up to qualify for the life-time golden parachute.

long term - Don't want people getting to pesky information that makes them ask embarrasing questions.

all they had to do

was peg out a particularly attractive sheep, and lay in wait.....

(Paris was the closest icon to a sheep I could find)

@ That's the problem (16:31)

the scariest part is that the list is secret - so we're not even allowed to know that the scope is creeping.... and leaking the list will be a criminal offense.

At least with 'traditional' censorship we knew which books/movies had been banned.

to be PC

wouldn't that be 11 longbowpersons of mixed origin and gender?

all they need to send

is "Fire"

anything else is kind of irrelevant. (unless the sub surfaces after everyone else is blown away and then decides 'what the hell' and launches anyway)

i'll stick to v1.6

remember - it's easy to be paranoid when everyone is watching...

ahh - the good old days..

when you wrote a letter and sent it to the typing pool, got the draft back, corrected it, and finally dropped it in the out tray. You actually had time to think if calling the boss at head office a moron was actually such a good idea, and hardly ever sent the letter to the whole office as a 'cc' by mistake....

when you left the office at 5pm and the only way to get hold of you was for someone to hop in a van and knock on your front door at home (because you NEVER gave anyone your home phone number)

when you went to 'visit a client' and had a good lunch at the pub....

then the typing pool got scrapped,

then the pager's came,

and eventually the death of something we used to call work-life-balance...

Roll on the robo-overlords. at least they'll put us out of our misery...

whats the problem?

just turn off the power point and they're helpless (unless they decide to enslave us all as meat powered battery banks)

Paris because she knows how to use a battery..

bugger the connector

what's important is how long is the lead. And how do I stop it getting tangled up around the lamp posts while i'm driving??

blame the accountant trolls..

a couple of decades ago when I was a telecom's network designer, the creed was "it must not fail", and we designed in backups on backups.

nowadays the mantra is "cost down", and huge chunks of the country rely on single exchange's.

that'd be the result..

just ban all cars bigger than a SmartCar

and the lardies will have to walk to the pub....

(might get cold on the walk)

a female version

could be interesting........

[Paris for the obvious reasons]

Re: Proxy Idea

The b@st@rds are talking Deep Packet Inspection, not just URL filtering, as the next stage.

I suppose we can encypt the beejezus out of our traffic, but there's nothing to stop them extending it to dropping any packets they can't decrypt "incase it contains kiddie p0rn"...

what about the wimmen?

given that the average microsoft programmer would be a pimply 30yo virgin?

i suppose the local pizza shop would get a lot of spam though

has anyone considered

a plot from our evil computer overlords?

re: Laser light is (phase) coherent

unlike our politicians

it's discrimitation when

i have to pay more for my extra-huge XXL size 'gentlemens' rubber items.....

(mines the one with the boiled-lollie packet in the pocket)

pool? England?

does that double as an ice-rink for 3/4 of the year??

[mine's the warm padded one]