Re: [LINK] How fast is the NBN?

Wireless depends on the bands being available for public use? If we want to be planning for larger wireless public bandwidth should we be tracking squatted commercial wireless bands and reclaiming it for public use? On 3 March 2016 at 13:27, David Boxall wrote: > On

Re: [LINK] How fast is the NBN?

I saw some old photographs of the ditches dug on East Terrace in Adelaide. I do not know if they were putting in water, sewage or both but the hole was thorough, deep enough to stand in and dug by hand. The rail infrastructure across the country was equally thorough. What kind of nbn would they be

Re: [LINK] Talking about AI

It would be nice if we could understand the data from other species. They do not necessarily speak a language we would recognise but if we had better fidelity data about the behaviour of other species and ecologies that would help us to understand the planet, otherwise I think we can be blinded by

Re: [LINK] Young Aussies losing ground in digital economy

On 25 January 2016 at 13:34, Stephen Loosley wrote: > > > Seems like Heston complaining about Food Science / Home Eco being taught > in schools > because students may misunderstand the tools, language or recipes and make > mistakes. > And, what would Shorten know about

Re: [LINK] Hate to say it Malcs, but "we told you so"

Hi What is the expected lifetime of the repaired copper v fibre to the premises? Janet On 3 December 2015 at 07:34, Andy Farkas wrote: > Professor Rod Tucker does some numbers: > >

Re: [LINK] John Birmingham's Chicken Theory of Copyright

Given that KFC tastes very similar to traditional Thai recipes the example is an interesting choice? On 14 September 2015 at 18:27, Tom Worthington wrote: > Greetings from the Senate Alcove of Australian Parliament House in > Canberra, where John Birmingham is

Re: [LINK] What Do I tell the Public About Cookies?

Isn't that just a war of business models? Free range advertising v walled garden consumer? I do not see any relative privacy gains from being internal to a walled garden? Do apple allow their consumers to sift or block the privacy intrusions of their own iApps and advertising? It doesn't look like

Re: [LINK] Government wasting $485M on failed eHealth system

Use fracking as an example. Currently I believe doctors are being told they may not report fracking related illnesses and it is difficult to get data on what chemicals are in the fluid and in the waste water. There is a lot of money behind fracking. If you have a health dataset that gives names

Re: [LINK] Surviving Climate Change

Improbable don't you think? We are fracking our water infrastructure which underpins everything else. Fighting bushfire in a landscape with leaking methane and flammable groundwater is going to be fun. Our climate is already crispy. We are largely dependent on things coming in and going out

Re: [LINK] Renewable energy 'simply WON'T WORK'

imagine if we were spending the money that asio nsa etc use watching people all the money killing people instead to collect and connect people doing interesting things with technologies, ecologies, soil preservation, water remediation connecting communities with sun or wind or distance or desert

Re: [LINK] Renewable energy 'simply WON'T WORK'

The extreme version of this idea, that the modern industrial world has to stop and we need to revert to some imaginary preindustrial pastoral existence is even more whacky. If you really wanted to trash the planet, kill a lot of people and upset everyone else that would be a good way to do

Re: [LINK] Gov killing off Australian wind-tower industry

thought this presentation on climate and forestry was useful https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSIEzq0fofk ___ Link mailing list Link@mailman.anu.edu.au http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link

Re: [LINK] What Today's Economic Gloomsayers Are Missing

On 19 August 2014 08:41, Kim Holburn k...@holburn.net wrote: http://online.wsj.com/articles/joel-mokyr-what-todays-economic-gloomsayers-are-missing-1407536487 What is wrong with this story? The one-word answer is technology. Meanwhile in AU cuts to CSIRO, science, renewable energy.

Re: [LINK] Online Copyright Infringement Discussion Paper

It doesn't answer the last questions on page 8? It does not investigate the accuracy/validity of the take down request Copyright actions are used as a means to censor content. GetUp are facing one currently

Re: [LINK] Reboot ICT teacher training to halt the computing brain drain

Maybe there could be room for teachers of one special subject. Perhaps they could train in a second subject while teaching the first? I wonder about how kids will learn technical trades and engineering. In SA the TAFE trade workshops have been gutted of equipment. They expected kids to learn

Re: [LINK] web: Queensland technology ranks in disarray

Not just Queensland perhaps. The SA technology plan suggested outsourcing IT and having no project funding no longer than 3 months. The plan also included only 1 of 5 sections of the overall plan for public comment. The rest was TBA. Perhaps things have changed since but it seemed a high risk with

Re: [LINK] Apps for medicine not all goodness and light

Google and Apple health apps http://www.theverge.com/2014/1/31/5366242/apple-met-with-the-fda-to-talk-mobile-medical-applications-last-month FitBit http://www.livescience.com/40108-fitbit-flex-review.html ___ Link mailing list Link@mailman.anu.edu.au

Re: [LINK] Who needs Google Glass?

On 30 January 2014 22:10, Frank O'Connor francisoconn...@bigpond.comwrote: Yeah, they'd probably be terrific for that ... and I am a bike rider. But they'd also be terrific for your average voyeur, and any number of other people who want to invade your personal space and privacy for various

Re: [LINK] Who needs Google Glass?

i thought that cameras for cyclists might help reduce hit and run accidents On 30 January 2014 18:01, Frank O'Connor francisoconn...@bigpond.comwrote: Mmmm ... And from memory Kogan and oo.com are advertising these puppies (or something very similar) as Spy Glasses - which is probably

Re: [LINK] The Open Government Partnership

On 22 January 2014 19:41, step...@melbpc.org.au wrote: Jan writes, When a young Aussie *Attorney General* feels we need more public opinion for proper law making, and good governance, then by golly I guess we do! I think the medium varies.. However, if online is the choice, there must

Re: [LINK] The Open Government Partnership

On 22 January 2014 23:25, step...@melbpc.org.au wrote: Janet writes, Air time doesn't necessarily mean something is usefully covered and decided on. Refugees are an issue (with secrecy currently making it worse) where discussion gets railed into fear and badness. If the

Re: [LINK] The Open Government Partnership

On 20 January 2014 15:55, step...@melbpc.org.au wrote: Janet writes, http://www.opengovpartnership.org One must deplore Australia's achievements in embracing open government. This happened last year. http://www.govhack.org/ Yes, it's very old news for Link .. Fair enough

Re: [LINK] Adverts on govt websites

In April the Gillard government introduced the first trial of advertising on a government website on the bureau site for one year. -- Quite a racket, if you ask me. Jan How far is that from privatising those functions? Perhaps it is a way of outing corporate sponsorship?

Re: [LINK] The Open Government Partnership

On 20 January 2014 22:03, step...@melbpc.org.au wrote: Janet writes, http://www.opengovpartnership.org One must deplore Australia's achievements in embracing open government. We have the tools. True open governance is a two-way process. Trust folk to be involved in what Australia does.

Re: [LINK] Adverts on govt websites

On 21 January 2014 10:38, Janet Hawtin ja...@hawtin.net.au wrote: In April the Gillard government introduced the first trial of advertising on a government website on the bureau site for one year. -- Quite a racket, if you ask me. Jan How far is that from privatising those

Re: [LINK] The Open Government Partnership

On 19 January 2014 21:01, step...@melbpc.org.au wrote: http://www.opengovpartnership.org One must deplore Australia's achievements in embracing open government. This happened last year. http://www.govhack.org/ ___ Link mailing list

Re: [LINK] Equivalency: technology yesterday and today

On 18 January 2014 14:32, step...@melbpc.org.au wrote: Frank writes, And God knows what a single, probably wearable, device will integrate by way of functions and applications in 10-20 years time. If it's something like Google Glass, with inbuilt headphones and other high res output

Re: [LINK] Australian online news history

Hi folks This is not Australian but thought it might be interesting: Phila. woman's 35-year TV news archive to be digitized, made public http://archiveslive.ning.com/profiles/blog/show?id=6334236%3ABlogPost%3A56731xgs=1xg_source=msg_share_post ___ Link

Re: [LINK] Big Data - bad or otherwise

Here is an education student data proposal. Apologies if this has already been linked. Building a Student Data Infrastructure: Privacy, Transparency and the Gates Foundation-Funded inBloom http://hackeducation.com/2013/02/10/inbloom-student-data-privacy-security-transparency/ On 16 January 2014

Re: [LINK] Big Data - bad or otherwise

On 17 January 2014 16:22, step...@melbpc.org.au wrote: Janet writes, http://hackeducation.com/2013/02/10/inbloom-student-data-privacy- security-transparency/ So, as this link notes, the reasonably widely respected do-good Gates Foundation is now also involved in the creation/promotion

Re: [LINK] Big Data - bad or otherwise

On 15 January 2014 18:43, step...@melbpc.org.au wrote: The main issue imho appears to be, how granulated any big data regarding humans is allowed to remain. That is, big data with individual names, or phone numbers is very granulated. It allows an individual identification. And perhaps, as

Re: [LINK] selling the furniture-- in Detroit

On 28 December 2013 02:47, step...@melbpc.org.au wrote: Frank writes, something has to be done to stop the erosion of our infrastructure, assets, lifestyle and standard of living as governments 'sell of off the farm' to cater to current cash demands necessitated by the politics of

Re: [LINK] Wireless Broadband for Regional Australia

yup.. 64 here and feel the same ___ Link mailing list Link@mailman.anu.edu.au http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link

Re: [LINK] Wireless Broadband for Regional Australia

The infrastructure we have now for roads, power, sewage, water, phone, rail. It was established looking forwards. We have not moved onwards from that investment. How much of that infrastructure is still shiny where you are? If kids could talk about connectivity and what they imagined it might be

Re: [LINK] A security question

Where do security/privacy overlap? Who decides? On 19 December 2013 11:02, Scott Howard sc...@doc.net.au wrote: On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 4:14 PM, Roger Clarke roger.cla...@xamax.com.au wrote: NAB's 'solution' for such customers is to set a bank-imposed (not customer-selected) daily

Re: [LINK] Security 'vs.' Privacy [Was Re: A security question

On 19 December 2013 11:35, Roger Clarke roger.cla...@xamax.com.au wrote: At 11:09 +1030 19/12/13, Janet Hawtin wrote: Where do security/privacy overlap? Reject the 'you can have security or privacy - choose one' mythology. I am playing an online computer game. It used to have trouble

Re: [LINK] Security 'vs.' Privacy [Was Re: A security question

wrote: Great stuff Janet! Join an appropriate Committee or Board of APF, or EFA, and multiply your and our impacts. http://www.privacy.org.au/About/Contacts.html http://www.efa.org.au _ At 12:22 +1030 19/12/13, Janet Hawtin wrote: On 19 December 2013 11:35, Roger

Re: [LINK] Security 'vs.' Privacy [Was Re: A security question

On 19 December 2013 13:22, Roger Clarke roger.cla...@xamax.com.au wrote: Better still, Janet, please start 'Privacy and Freedom Underground'. With those insights, you can do the activist stuff that us stuffy suits have to stay away from in order to seem respectable (:-)} A few

Re: [LINK] Security 'vs.' Privacy

On 19 December 2013 17:24, step...@melbpc.org.au wrote: Janet writes, the planet is a finite interwoven system of reciprocity, interdependence Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has. Margaret Mead

Re: [LINK] Robert X Cringely on the future of the smartphone and desktop - as seen by Apple.

Hypothetical: MS has a goodly amount of shares in Apple so perhaps they just think it is just time for them to not run competing products from the same portfolio? On 25 September 2013 15:13, Bernard Robertson-Dunn b...@iimetro.com.auwrote: Successful companies never get beaten or overtaken

Re: [LINK] New proposal for e-voting - Turnbull

On 10 September 2013 15:58, Jan Whitaker jw...@janwhitaker.com wrote: [We didn't hear a thing about it this time, even for disabled access. What happened to the 'next big thing'? I'd be interested in Linkers' view of the security of evoting now - have things changed or is Diebold still sus?]