Re: [LINK] Free cloud services

On 30/12/2020 12:56 pm, Karl Auer wrote: > On Mon, 2020-12-21 at 10:39 +1100, Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote: >> I'd like to run a Windows compute intensive app in something a lot >> more powerful than my laptop. The .exe is under 200kb but it needs >> about 5-10Gb

[LINK] Free cloud services

. Does anyone have any experience of Amazon and/or Microsoft (or anything else) and what the risks might be? Especially if the thing runs wild and chews up resources unexpectedly? Advice/comments would be appreciated. -- Regards brd Bernard Robertson-Dunn Canberra Australia email: b

Re: [LINK] Low-code and no-code development .. but .. security?

. For those youngsters who may have missed earlier cycles, have a read of these: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer-aided_software_engineering https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_programming -- Regards brd Bernard Robertson-Dunn Canberra Australia

[LINK] QR codes become the simpler alternative for coronavirus management as COVIDSafe takes a backseat

the community through the provision of these digital systems." The app has since introduced a breakdown of daily COVID-19 statistics to encourage users to use the app. As QR codes continue to dominate the venue check-in process thanks to their relative ease and reliability, COVIDSafe's usage

Re: [LINK] COVIDsafe app update requires location on

ture? >>> Regards, >>> Kim >>> >>> --  >>> -- >>> kheit...@kheitman.com.........www.kheitman.com [1] >>> -- >>> _

[LINK] Victoria stopped using COVIDSafe during outbreak

the federal government to admit that the contact tracing app isn’t working, and then work to fix it.   -- Regards brd Bernard Robertson-Dunn Canberra Australia email: b...@iimetro.com.au ___ Link mailing list Link@mailman.anu.edu.au http://mail

[LINK] How does COVIDSafe compare to Europe's contact tracing apps?

tag. By some estimates, COVIDSafe has reportedly cost around $2.75 million <https://www.innovationaus.com/bcg-gets-another-covidsafe-contract/> in contractors fees. The Irish app cost €850,000 ($1.4 million). -- Regards brd Bernard Robertson-Dunn Canberra Australia email: b...@iimetro.com.au ___ Link mailing list Link@mailman.anu.edu.au http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link

[LINK] COVIDSafe app yet to trace useful number of unique cases despite second wave

hysical distancing. The government would not confirm how much was spent advertising the app itself. -- Regards brd Bernard Robertson-Dunn Canberra Australia email: b...@iimetro.com.au ___ Link mailing list Link@mailman.anu.edu.au http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link

[LINK] Can digital contact tracing make up for lost time? (The Lancet)

is needed. Rushing an app out the door and then trying to make it work and justify its effectiveness is bound to put a dent in the public's perception of it. -- Regards brd Bernard Robertson-Dunn Canberra Australia email: b...@iimetro.com.au ___ Link mailin

[LINK] BCG gets another COVIDSafe contract

, the minister should be celebrating,” he said. -- Regards brd Bernard Robertson-Dunn Canberra Australia email: b...@iimetro.com.au ___ Link mailing list Link@mailman.anu.edu.au http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link

[LINK] Is COVIDSafe distracting our patients from evidence-based solutions?

6789?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw> -- Regards brd Bernard Robertson-Dunn Canberra Australia email: b...@iimetro.com.au ___ Link mailing list Link@mailman.anu.edu.au http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link

[LINK] Tik Tok influencers paid to promote COVIDSafe app falsely claim it 'traces everyone who tests positive'

l picture [in these ads]. It's clear that the app isn't delivering in the scale of uptake or in the effectiveness of the app. "Using influencers is one way to get to the younger market, but I think there has to be more clarity and honesty about the functionality of the app and ultimately how effe

[LINK] COVIDSafe app slammed as a “$2 million failure”

o be sure, but not helpful when working out COVIDSafe's efficacy. Still, it seems the Federal Government has no plans to dump the app, as the U.K. did with its own tracing app. As downloads steadily increase, hope is still being pinned on COVIDSafe to help stem the new spread.   -- Regards brd Bernard

Re: [LINK] COVIDfail – the Australian coronavirus tracing app that can’t find anyone

with sunscreen was correct. “Neither of them will stop you getting COVID-19”. On 15/07/2020 8:26 am, Andy Farkas wrote: > On 9/7/20 6:04 pm, Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote: >> >>> COVIDfail – the Australian coronavirus tracing app that can’t find >>> anyone ... >> > > Mi

Re: [LINK] COVIDfail – the Australian coronavirus tracing app that can’t find anyone

On 14/07/2020 9:00 am, Tom Worthington wrote: > On 9/7/20 6:04 pm, Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote: > >> COVIDfail – the Australian coronavirus tracing app that can’t find >> anyone ... > > Compared to other government COVID-19 initiatives, the App was cheap > and at le

[LINK] COVIDSafe issues found by the tech community

Summary.md. -- Regards brd Bernard Robertson-Dunn Canberra Australia email: b...@iimetro.com.au ___ Link mailing list Link@mailman.anu.edu.au http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link

[LINK] Victoria Accessed COVIDSafe Data 21 Times But Couldn’t Identify Any New Contacts

Downs <https://www.dhhs.vic.gov.au/coronavirus-update-victoria-31-may-2020>. "Update: This article was originally published on June 3, 2020 but has been updated with the latest figures and the DHHS’s clarification on an earlier unidentified contact." --

Re: [LINK] What is hyper-automation?

either a failure or a disaster - or both FWIW, I have a MEng and PhD in automation and control engineering. -- Regards brd Bernard Robertson-Dunn Canberra Australia email: b...@iimetro.com.au ___ Link mailing list Link@mailman.anu.edu.a

[LINK] COVIDfail – the Australian coronavirus tracing app that can’t find anyone

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[LINK] Security cameras can tell burglars when you're not home, study shows

they did find that their cameras present the same privacy risk. CNN has reached out to Nest and Xiaomi for comment on the research. The study was published at the IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications, which brings together researchers in networking and related fields. -- Rega

Re: [LINK] Fwd: Updates on CovidSAFE App

. > > Internationally, the effectiveness of COVID-19 tracing apps has been > patchy at best. > > France also went its own way rather than using the Google-Apple tech, > but the resulting StopCovid app has been underwhelming. Less than 2% of > the French popula

[LINK] America Is Reopening. Coronavirus Tracing Apps Aren’t Ready.

cruited to help with the initiative. -- Regards brd Bernard Robertson-Dunn Canberra Australia email: b...@iimetro.com.au ___ Link mailing list Link@mailman.anu.edu.au http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link

[LINK] COVIDFail. The IT debacle that could cost lives

s currently Vice President of TelSoc, however the views expressed here are his own. This article, since updated, was first published in //The Lucky General/ <https://theluckygeneral.biz/about/>/./   -- Regards brd Bernard Robertson-Dunn Canberra Australia email: b...@iimetro.

[LINK] COVID-19 information sources

-19_apps Someone/some people have spent a lot of time collating information on apps around the world - there are over 220 references. -- Regards brd Bernard Robertson-Dunn Canberra Australia email: b...@iimetro.com.au ___ Link mailing list Link

[LINK] Europe rolls out contact tracing apps

or contact-tracing boots on the ground. In Italy, mostly healthcare professionals, administrative staff and, if needed, people from veterinary public services can be employed in contact tracing. But Pisano spoke dismissively about the more old-fashioned, door-knocking approach, which proved critical in

[LINK] Norway halts coronavirus app over privacy concerns

to be to save lives and stop the pandemic. -- Regards brd Bernard Robertson-Dunn Canberra Australia email: b...@iimetro.com.au ___ Link mailing list Link@mailman.anu.edu.au http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link

[LINK] COVIDSafe ‘extremely limited’: New research

.au/files/14448/PolicyPrimer.pdf> It was written by academics from the four universities: Rhema Vaithianathan, Matthew Ryan, Nina Anchugina, Linda Selvey, Tim Dare and Anna Brown. -- Regards brd Bernard Robertson-Dunn Canberra Australia email: b...@iimetro.

[LINK] It Was Supposed to Detect Fraud. It Wrongfully Accused Thousands Instead.

. She is 32, and wonders if it was a waste of time to get two degrees in criminal justice. “I can’t get the job I wanted,” she said, “because they suggested that I was a criminal.” -- Regards brd Bernard Robertson-Dunn Canberra Australia email: b...@iimetro.com.au

Re: [LINK] NBNCo Breach results in a belting with a feather duster

resses. And if they will be compensated. The radio reports seem to suggest the compensation will be for network changes only. -- Regards brd Bernard Robertson-Dunn Canberra Australia email: b...@iimetro.com.au ___ Link mailing list Link@mailman.anu.edu.a

[LINK] There Has Been an Increase in Other Causes of Deaths, Not Just Coronavirus [in USA]

by conditions that are common comorbidities with Covid-19 -- Regards brd Bernard Robertson-Dunn Canberra Australia email: b...@iimetro.com.au ___ Link mailing list Link@mailman.anu.edu.au http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link

Re: [LINK] COVIDSafe app downloads update

ave to keep hammering away at them, pointing out (using their own data) their failings. -- Regards brd Bernard Robertson-Dunn Canberra Australia email: b...@iimetro.com.au ___ Link mailing list Link@mailman.anu.edu.au http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mail

[LINK] COVIDSafe app downloads update

: Over 5 days, the app has been downloaded a maximum of 190,000 times i.e. 38,000/day. A more likely number is about 100,000 times i.e 20,000/day. My previous observation that the people have lost interest is still valid. -- Regards brd Bernard Robertson-Dunn Canberra Australia email: b

Re: [LINK] Perfect if Taiwan won the race

o trouble, it might be our only option for a while. -- Regards brd Bernard Robertson-Dunn Canberra Australia email: b...@iimetro.com.au ___ Link mailing list Link@mailman.anu.edu.au http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link

Re: [LINK] Cambridge University Using Online Lectures Until 2021

.au/technology/it/graduate_elearning/ > > Dr Danny Kingsley, then Head of the Office of Scholarly Communication > at Cambridge, took some notes. > https://unlockingresearch-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=208 > > -- Regards brd Bernard Robert

[LINK] COVIDSafe may need privacy changes to use new Apple and Google tool

f the phone. -- Regards brd Bernard Robertson-Dunn Canberra Australia email: b...@iimetro.com.au ___ Link mailing list Link@mailman.anu.edu.au http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link

[LINK] Apple and Google launch contact tracing API for COVID-19 exposure

who we are as a nation," Rep. Anna Eshoo, D-California, said in a statement. -- Regards brd Bernard Robertson-Dunn Canberra Australia email: b...@iimetro.com.au ___ Link mailing list Link@mailman.anu.edu.au http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link

[LINK] COVIDSafe app stats update

copies of the updated app have been downloaded. -- Regards brd Bernard Robertson-Dunn Canberra Australia email: b...@iimetro.com.au ___ Link mailing list Link@mailman.anu.edu.au http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link

Re: [LINK] About those COVIDSafe download numbers

On 18/05/2020 9:12 am, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On 16/5/20 1:43 pm, Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote: >> 1. Total number of downloads - i.e. pre-update plus since update >> >> 2. Downloads of updated version > > > The download number is irrelevant. The interesting nu

[LINK] About those COVIDSafe download numbers

should reset again. To paraphrase an old saying: Release in haste, deal with the chaos at leisure. -- Regards brd Bernard Robertson-Dunn Canberra Australia email: b...@iimetro.com.au ___ Link mailing list Link@mailman.anu.edu.au http

[LINK] These charts track how coronavirus is spreading around the world

or accurate. The USA is leading the world in many categories, mostly the undesirable ones. -- Regards brd Bernard Robertson-Dunn Canberra Australia email: b...@iimetro.com.au ___ Link mailing list Link@mailman.anu.edu.au http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman

[LINK] COVIDSafe update closes denial of service bug and makes notifications optional

nt that is to the progress and process of moving out of the most extreme of the restrictions that we have had to deal with." Last week the Department of Health revealed it had no target for downloads of the app. -- Regards brd Bernard Robertson-Dunn Canberra Australia email: b...@iimetro.com.au ___ Link mailing list Link@mailman.anu.edu.au http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link

[LINK] Keeping up with COVIDSafe

trust it by downloading the app. In return it should trust us with better information." With this government that rather goes against the grain. It's a matter of "do what we say, not what we do. " or "give us your data, but we won't give you any of our data" -- Regards brd B

[LINK] Our weird behavior during the pandemic is screwing with AI models

, marketing, and more. Machine-learning models trained on normal human behavior are now finding that normal has changed, and some are breaking as a result. etc -- Regards brd Bernard Robertson-Dunn Canberra Australia email: b...@iimetro.com.au ___ Link

Re: [LINK] Company Pays Up after Robot Breaches First Law

ard Robertson-Dunn Canberra Australia email: b...@iimetro.com.au ___ Link mailing list Link@mailman.anu.edu.au http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link

[LINK] COVIDSafe a few observations

virus-covid-19 directs people to health.gov.au for information about cronavirus and the app. All in all the government doesn't seem to be pushing people very hard to download and use it or pinning its hopes on the thing. -- Regards brd Bernard Robertson-Dunn Canberra Austra

[LINK] No modelling on 40% trace target: Health

the datastore deleted, saying this should instead be linked with the end of the Biosecurity Emergency order. -- Regards brd Bernard Robertson-Dunn Canberra Australia email: b...@iimetro.com.au ___ Link mailing list Link@mailman.anu.edu.au http

Re: [LINK] RFC: Does CovidSafe Actually Work?

ies. Big question: Of those who get the virus, what's the probability that they are asymptomatic carriers? If you don't know you have it, you won't get yourself tested and won't be told to press the app's big button. -- Regards brd Bernard Robertson-Dunn Canberra Australia email: b

Re: [LINK] CovidSafe?

ulates and what the impact might be on the phone if it maxes out the storage space? Do we know what language this app is written in? What libraries it utilises / links, if any? -- Regards brd Bernard Robertson-Dunn Canberra Australia email: b...

Re: [LINK] CovidSafe?

On 28/04/2020 6:23 pm, Kim Holburn wrote: > 1.5 metres for 15 minutes Nobody knows if this is appropriate. By recording all contacts, at least the government has the ability/option to look at other values. -- Regards brd Bernard Robertson-Dunn Canberra Australia email: b...@iimetro.com

Re: [LINK] What if Covid-19 isn't our biggest threat?

emic coming, but they have > worse worries for humanity > -- Regards brd Bernard Robertson-Dunn Canberra Australia email: b...@iimetro.com.au ___ Link mailing list Link@mailman.anu.edu.au http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link

[LINK] COVIDSafe stumbles

some users are told they have been INFECTED with the deadly bug without even being tested https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8258387/Panic-Australians-told-coronavirus-new-government-app.html -- Regards brd Bernard Robertson-Dunn Canberra Australia email:

[LINK] reverse engineering the COVIDSafe app

If anyone is interested, this guy started to reverse engineer the COVIDSafe app last night https://twitter.com/xssfox/status/1254258634902499328 -- Regards brd Bernard Robertson-Dunn Canberra Australia email: b...@iimetro.com.au ___ Link mailing

[LINK] CovidSafe available in Google Play. Register from 6:00pm

Coronavirus Australia. There is no sign of CovidSafe (at least I can't find it) There is a possibility of confusion unless the government gets its act together real quick smart. -- Regards brd Bernard Robertson-Dunn Canberra Australia email: b...@iimetro.com.au

[LINK] Roll up, roll up, get your app here......

-184622314.html -- Regards brd Bernard Robertson-Dunn Canberra Australia email: b...@iimetro.com.au ___ Link mailing list Link@mailman.anu.edu.au http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link

[LINK] Contract Tracing Apps - UK Reactions

e <#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2> -- Regards brd Bernard Robertson-Dunn Canberra Australia email: b...@iimetro.com.au ___ Link mailing list Link@mailman.anu.edu.au http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link

Re: [LINK] Fwd: Facebook AI is stupid

ence ourselves, we might try again. Then again we might not. -- Regards brd Bernard Robertson-Dunn Canberra Australia email: b...@iimetro.com.au ___ Link mailing list Link@mailman.anu.edu.au http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link

[LINK] Bluetooth contact tracing needs bigger, better data

their backs trying to do.” -- Regards brd Bernard Robertson-Dunn Canberra Australia email: b...@iimetro.com.au ___ Link mailing list Link@mailman.anu.edu.au http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link

[LINK] How will the coronavirus app work?

gist, though? "I wouldn't recommend anyone download the app," Professor McLaws says. "We need to have wider community consultation - and have it done rapidly - about how long the data is held for and who holds it, and then is it removed completely and not used for secondary purposes.&q

Re: [LINK] Digital distraction: New report raises concerns about online learning

On 18/04/2020 9:11 am, jw...@internode.on.net wrote: > > So, no, this isn't new > I would have thought that the real question is "is it effective and/or optimal with respective to other mechanisms, given the circumstances and constraints?" -- Regards brd Bernard Robe

[LINK] Effective Configurations of a Digital Contact Tracing App

plore the conditions for success as countries prepare for exit from lockdowns" -- Regards brd Bernard Robertson-Dunn Canberra Australia email: b...@iimetro.com.au ___ Link mailing list Link@mailman.anu.edu.au http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link

[LINK] Transparency key to controlling virus: Swan

e decision-making behind the public health guidelines for COVID-19 so that they continue to follow the guidelines of social distancing and understand the burden of their individual actions on the unfolding situation, Dr Swan said. -- Regards brd Bernard Robertson-Dunn Canberra Australi

Re: [LINK] Coronavirus Australia: COVID-19 tracking app next step to stop outbreaks

r data, their track record  is dubious at best. -- Regards brd Bernard Robertson-Dunn Canberra Australia email: b...@iimetro.com.au ___ Link mailing list Link@mailman.anu.edu.au http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link

Re: [LINK] The government's coronavirus modelling

On 11/04/2020 1:28 pm, Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote: > More data is needed. And, it seems, a lot more patience. A model on its own is just theory. It needs to be validated, hence the need for data. Here's an example of data being used to validate (or not) climate models. Australian forest st

Re: [LINK] The government's coronavirus modelling

data is needed. And, it seems, a lot more patience. -- Regards brd Bernard Robertson-Dunn Canberra Australia email: b...@iimetro.com.au ___ Link mailing list Link@mailman.anu.edu.au http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link

Re: [LINK] The government's coronavirus modelling

Here's a much more useful description (in the current circumstances) of what's going on than any of Dr Jansson type models The one COVID-19 number to watch https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-04-10/coronavirus-data-australia-growth-factor-covid-19/12132478 -- Regards brd Bernard Robertson-Dunn

Re: [LINK] The government's coronavirus modelling

ght models  Which means that when Roger says > At the end, Jansson write: > > > ... I would caution against relying too heavily on modelling ... > > Well said, that man! I'd say, models are critically important, the danger is relying on the wrong modelling. -- Regards brd B

Re: [LINK] The government's coronavirus modelling

On 8/04/2020 8:43 pm, David Lochrin wrote: > I'd like to see some details of the alleged modelling. David, ICYMI, I sent an email last night that included this On 7/04/2020 11:10 pm, Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote: > Buried on the health.gov.au site is a link to the Doherty Institute

Re: [LINK] The government's coronavirus modelling

On 7/04/2020 10:25 pm, Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote: > The UK, with 2.5 times our population have had over 100 times the case > load and yesterday alone had 10 times our total death count and their PM > is in a serious way. I got my numbers wrong. The UK has about 55,000 cases, which is

Re: [LINK] The government's coronavirus modelling

en hard so far, it's going to be much harder next, especially as what we do (and can do) depends on what other countries do. Maybe someone should do some global modelling. -- Regards brd Bernard Robertson-Dunn Canberra Australia email: b...@iime

Re: [LINK] The government's coronavirus modelling

ahead. That may well be the case, but where's the thinking/modelling behind it? We need informed debate not content free mickey mouse modelling presentations. On 7/04/2020 8:39 pm, Roger Clarke wrote: > > On Tue, 2020-04-07 at 18:10 +1000, Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote: > >> I can't beli

Re: [LINK] The government's coronavirus modelling

yn Murphy  > > Minister, where is the modelling you've actually been paying for from > .. ? > > Jan > > > > - Original Message - > From: > "Bernard Robertson-Dunn" > > To: > "Link List" > Cc: >

[LINK] The government's coronavirus modelling

on the modelling they released today. They may cunning but they are not stupid. IMHO, the big questions are "What is he hiding and why?" -- Regards brd Bernard Robertson-Dunn Canberra Australia email: b...@iimetro.com.au ___ Link m

Re: [LINK] OT: The Quality of Reporting on "COVID-19-Linked" Deaths

This is a stunning dynamic graphic. https://public.flourish.studio/visualisation/1756015/?utm_source=showcase_campaign=visualisation/1756015 -- Regards brd Bernard Robertson-Dunn Canberra Australia email: b...@iimetro.com.au ___ Link mailing list

Re: [LINK] OT: The Quality of Reporting on "COVID-19-Linked" Deaths

And then there are the claims that the right data is not being collected, at least not by the USA. Why Don’t We Know Who the Coronavirus Victims Are? https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/04/stop-looking-away-race-covid-19-victims/609250/ -- Regards brd Bernard Robertson-Dunn

Re: [LINK] OT: The Quality of Reporting on "COVID-19-Linked" Deaths

and 'You need both stories': WHO adviser calls for national coronavirus recovery tally https://www.smh.com.au/national/you-need-both-stories-who-adviser-calls-for-national-coronavirus-recovery-tally-20200402-p54ght.html -- Regards brd Bernard Robertson-Dunn Canberra Australia email: b

Re: [LINK] RFC: The Internationalized Deliberately Unreadable Network NOtation (I-DUNNO)

otation designed to replace current textual >    representations of IP addresses with something that is not only more >    concise but will also discourage this small, but obviously important, >    subset of human activity. > -- Regards brd Bernard Rober

[LINK] What Firefox send back to base about you

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Re: [LINK] Can Big Brother be stopped?

amendment not be pursued. " Exactly the same could be said about the proposed face matching service. For the record, the committee recommended it not be pursed. -- Regards brd Bernard Robertson-Dunn Canberra Australia email: b...@iimetro.com.au __

Re: [LINK] Open Letter re ACS and ADMA: Invitation to Sign

apse last year. Even as it was, the ACS was not much use to me. I've kept my Institute of Engineers, Australia membership current. And the IEEE and the IET (UK) Bernard -- Regards brd Bernard Robertson-Dunn Canberra Australia email: b...@iimet

Re: [LINK] Card Cancellation as a Condition of Statement-Entry Enquiry

transaction.  It was a Boost 4G Prepaid/Data-Rollover service. > Sure enough, in the Boost fineprint is "service provided by Telstra"). > > -- Regards brd Bernard Robertson-Dunn Canberra Australia email: b...@iimetro.com.au ___ Link mailing list Link@mailman.anu.edu.au http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link

[LINK] Petition - Declare a Climate Emergency

(and not a bot). We will not use your email address for any other purpose, and will not disclose it without your consent. -- Regards brd Bernard Robertson-Dunn Canberra Australia email: b...@iimetro.com.au ___ Link mailing list Link@mailman.anu.edu.au http

Re: [LINK] Numbers limit how accurately digital computers model chaos

ely digital computers model chaos Gee, do these people not know how to research their subject. IMHO, the issue is not mathematics or chaos, it's the state of what passes for research today. Bernard -- Regards brd Bernard Robertson-Dunn Canberra Australia email: b...@iimetro.com.au __

Re: [LINK] Numbers limit how accurately digital computers model chaos

highly specific - Apollo 11 on its journey to the moon and back. -- Regards brd Bernard Robertson-Dunn Canberra Australia email: b...@iimetro.com.au ___ Link mailing list Link@mailman.anu.edu.au http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link

Re: [LINK] Numbers limit how accurately digital computers model chaos

etheless." How does all this relate to non-linearity? Sometimes you only have to be a little bit wrong to totally stuff things up. -- Regards brd Bernard Robertson-Dunn Canberra Australia email: b...@iimetro.com.au ___ Link mailing list Link@mailman.anu.edu.au http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link

Re: [LINK] Numbers limit how accurately digital computers model chaos

mputer model in the 1960s showed that tiny >> rounding errors in the numbers fed into his computer led to quite different >> forecasts, which is now known as the 'butterfly effect'. -- Regards brd Bernard Robertson-Dunn Canberra Australia email: b...@iimetro.com.au ___

Re: [LINK] "Observer consciousness collapses the quantum wave function"

uot; consider observer consciousness to be an emergent property, just like all the other emergent properties that complex non-linear systems display as they scale up. -- Regards brd Bernard Robertson-Dunn Canberra Australia email: b...@iimetro.com.au ___

Re: [LINK] ISP-level site-blocking of 'dangerous material'

On 30/08/2019 3:29 pm, Scott Howard wrote: > On Mon, Aug 26, 2019 at 12:30 AM Bernard Robertson-Dunn > mailto:b...@iimetro.com.au>> wrote: > > AFAIK (and I can't check it) is that 8Chan.com was only accessible via > Tor. I believe it had a .oinion url. > > >

Re: [LINK] Apple Asia's Time-Server is >2 minutes fast

technology https://ntpserver.wordpress.com/2008/09/10/ntp-server-stratum-levels-explained/ -- Regards brd Bernard Robertson-Dunn Canberra Australia email: b...@iimetro.com.au ___ Link mailing list Link@mailman.anu.edu.au http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link

Re: [LINK] ISP-level site-blocking of 'dangerous material'

On 26/08/2019 12:26 pm, Kim Holburn wrote: > >> On 2019/Aug/26, at 10:16 am, Bernard Robertson-Dunn >> wrote: >> >> The Christchurch material was available only through 8Chan.com which was >> accessed via the Tor browser. > In this case we're talking about D

Re: [LINK] ISP-level site-blocking of 'dangerous material'

methods and the equipment they used." Quite an eye-opener and it's only what is publicly known - you wonder what goes on that we don't know about. -- Regards brd Bernard Robertson-Dunn Canberra Australia email: b...@iimetro.com.au ___ Link mailing li

Re: [LINK] The prescience of H.L. Mencken

n >> folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White >> House will be adorned by a downright moron." >> >> H.L. Mencken >> Bayard vs. Lionheart, >> The Evening Sun, Baltimore (26 July 1920) >> ht

[LINK] The prescience of H.L. Mencken

Bayard vs. Lionheart, The Evening Sun, Baltimore (26 July 1920) https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/H._L._Mencken -- Regards brd Bernard Robertson-Dunn Canberra Australia email: b...@iimetro.com.au ___ Link mailing list Link@mailman.anu.edu.au http://mailman.

Re: [LINK] Data Security

The ABC sent me a video file of the interview. It's available for downloading here: http://www.drbrd.com/docs/brd-abctv30-5-19.mp4 On 30/05/2019 5:18 pm, Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote: > On 30/05/2019 4:36 pm, Karl Auer wrote: >> On Thu, 2019-05-30 at 05:57 +, Stephen Loos

Re: [LINK] Data Security

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This is not 100% fail safe but it has a reasonable track record. Machines need to be proactively programmed. This is hard. Autodriving/full self-driving cars need to be tested against exceptions, not the norm. AFAIK that has never happened and may only happen over time in use, not the lab. -- Reg

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rch for > xpinstall.signatures.required and toggle to 'false'. Add-ons worked again for > me after that, but I read other people still had issues. Once the problem is > fixed by Firefox, change the setting back to 'true'. > > Regards, > Kate > > > On Sun, May 05, 2019 at 11:06:51AM +1000

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Re: [LINK] The black hole image came thanks to student Katie Bouman, half a tonne of hard drives and a big coincidence - Science News - ABC News

as some scientific value, however, most of which is publicity. -- Regards brd Bernard Robertson-Dunn Canberra Australia email: b...@iimetro.com.au ___ Link mailing list Link@mailman.anu.edu.au http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link

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system used for batch record processing. There is so much COBOL around that it is cheaper and better to keep it - it is fit for purpose, more so than any other language. -- Regards brd Bernard Robertson-Dunn Canberra Australia email: b...@iimetro.com.au

Re: [LINK] Blockchain's time is nearly up

On 17/02/2019 12:14 pm, JLWhitaker wrote: > On 17/02/2019 10:20 AM, Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote: >> Beware technology vendors selling solutions. Their solutions may well >> not solve your problem. > > Not only that. They may cause even more problems of worse impact t

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