Re: [LINK] The "health" record security model

Karl Auer Can you genuinely not see how misuse of medical information might hurt > you, or how a Government might wish to use it for purposes that we the > population may not want or approve of? If you genuinely cannot, then > say so and we will try to elucidate. But I fear you are being >

Re: [LINK] The "health" record security model

David wrote: But the problem with MHRecord lies in it's unknown objectives Please explain what you imagine these "unknown objectives" might be in concrete language and how they might hurt me. It sound very like fairies at the bottom on the garden talk. Sorry, goblins. > Longitudinal

Re: [LINK] The "health" record security model

On Mon, 12 Nov 2018 at 17:28, David wrote: It's not even a document-management system as far as I can tell, it's more > of a badly designed drop-box. > I don't quite understand what you're saying here. It is a document management system as a matter of fact because it actually manages

Re: [LINK] The "health" record security model

Hi Jan There are three basic reasons for having a shared health record 1. To help the patient by treating their conditions. Primary benefit goes to the patient. 2. To help the health system: to make the system more efficient, basically to treat more people and/or treat them better at the same

Re: [LINK] The "health" record security model

Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote: > On 12/11/2018 11:52 AM, Jim Birch wrote: > > Are you aware that when you get a myhr it will be pretty empty and > history will not be uploaded? Of course. Are you aware that when you buy a house it is not full of furniture and homely memories?

Re: [LINK] The "health" record security model

"The vast majority of patients are able to converse with their doctors, usually in a practice they've been going to for years, and MHRecord is then just more paperwork" The vast majority of patients are unable to reliably convey diagnoses, whether they corpus mentus or not. They can usually

Re: [LINK] The "health" record security model

"The emergency room scenario is freighted with emotion, unstated expectations, time criticality, life-and-death decisions at their most extreme. It might be politically exciting to announce, but in practice a new system will only add to the load on THE most adrenalin-pumped, overworked, pressured

Re: [LINK] Linux running under Windows?!!

Steve Bulmer once pronounced open-source software to be "un-American". Maybe it is. If only we could work out what "un-American" means then we'd know. The action in computing is in data centres and Microsoft want their software to be running data centres. Excluding Linux, or anything, is not

Re: [LINK] My letter to the local paper

it is rather misleading if you don't. (And at times like this, every bit of sanity helps.) Jim On Tue, 24 Jul 2018 at 13:21, Karl Auer wrote: > On Tue, 2018-07-24 at 11:12 +1000, Jim Birch wrote: > > "To avoid that risk, you might consider pointing out errors and > > u

[LINK] Blockchain v Trust

Projects based on the elimination of trust have failed to capture customers’ interest because trust is actually so damn valuable. A lawless and mistrustful world where self-interest is the only principle and paranoia is the only source of safety is a not a paradise but a crypto-medieval hellhole.

Re: [LINK] My letter to the local paper

, > mental and physical > enslavement, that sort of thing and I think you'll see a broader picture > of Eastern Europe > at the time. > > > Jim Birch wrote: > > The one thing that that George Orwell was absolutely correct about is > that > > there was a year called 1984.

Re: [LINK] My letter to the local paper

It's not guaranteed that the government won't shoot you or imprison you either. Such is life. The one thing that that George Orwell was absolutely correct about is that there was a year called 1984. The rest turned out, ironically, to be exactly the kind of fake news he was railing against.

Re: [LINK] Urgent: MyHR Opt-Out

This is the version 1.0 product. ATM it contains very little information but is obviously going to expand. This will take time given history, legacy systems, resistance to change, risks, etc. Declaring that it is no use and never will be seems perhaps a little too grandiose to me. Change

Re: [LINK] Urgent: MyHR Opt-Out

I would have thought that the fundamental reason for centralised medical records is cost savings and better health care. It isn't just about you personally. It's the aggregate effects that a government should be interested in, i.e. better value from health spending (which if you haven't noticed

Re: [LINK] Electric car disposal

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Re: [LINK] Tesla on Autopilot Crashes Into Laguna Beach Police Patrol Vehicle

Not trained to recognise police cars? On 30 May 2018 at 14:36, Marghanita da Cruz wrote: > http://ktla.com/2018/05/29/tesla-on-autopilot-crashes-into- > laguna-beach-police-patrol-vehicle/ > > > -- > Marghanita da Cruz > Telephone: 0414-869202 > Email: marghan...@ramin.com.au > Website:

Re: [LINK] Elaine Herzberg was an Anomaly, just an Artefact

David wrote: That argument leaves no place for human responsibility... Human responsibility is often a very useful mythology for social organisation but why would you want to persist with it where it fails? Esp. if there's an option for designing out the problem. Jim

Re: [LINK] Elaine Herzberg was an Anomaly, just an Artefact

Nicholas English wrote: The difference is Jim that ‘granny’ wasn’t issued with a manufactures > warranty... > This sounds like a kind of "blame fetish" to me. Admittedly, it's very popular and most news outlets would be hopelessly confounded without it, but for me at least reducing the road

Re: [LINK] Elaine Herzberg was an Anomaly, just an Artefact

Yes, but this is what I don't get: don't software bugs in humans drivers' brains kill all the time? My cousin and his wife were recently hit by a human-controlled vehicle*. They were crossing in a crossing at a designated crossing legally with the "green man" and were hit by a turning vehicle.

Re: [LINK] Google's 'Plus Codes' for Locations

A UK startup What3Words has divided the globe into three metre squares using a three word code eg a piece of Ularu is at warns.booed.snoring, http://w3w.co/warns.booed.snoring These words are assigned randomly and multiple language versions exist and can be translated reliably. Words were chosen

Re: [LINK] Windy Weather

Great interface. Windy defaults to the ECMWF model. This is a cooperative European effort. Model has a 9km grid which is better than most operational models. It also uses an ensemble forecast technique. Input data to the models is always imperfect and small errors amplify over time. Better

Re: [LINK] 5 Myths About Bitcoin You Need to Understand

Kim Holburn wrote: > 5 Myths About Bitcoin > 5 dodgey myths. > > MYTH #1: There is a finite supply of bitcoin > There actually is an upper limit of Bitcoin. This could be changed by community consensus but this would fundamentally change the ideology of the "currency" and would in effect

Re: [LINK] Moxie Marlinspike, The Creator of Signal Has a Plan to Fix Cryptocurrency

You can also go to the local casino and plonk anything you care to on an unpredictable process. You might be even clearer on what you are doing. Jim ___ Link mailing list Link@mailman.anu.edu.au http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link

Re: [LINK] Bitcoin and global warming

Joshua Gans: In summary, we are going to look at the Bitcoin era as an important innovation running off the back of a big design mistake. It all could have been avoided had Bitcoin minted its 21 million coins right from the start or with a much shorter expansion.

Re: [LINK] Bitcoin and global warming

Tom Worthington wrote: > Yes, I am going to put my "ICT Sustainability" class on to the job of > fixing Bitcoin, next semester at ANU: http://programsandcourses.anu. > edu.au/course/comp7310 There's a bit of a fundamental economic problem there, isn't there? Reducing the energy cost of a

[LINK] Bitcoin and global warming

Writing in The Conversation on Monday, Professor John Quiggin said the rise of Blockchain itself should not be prevented, as there were other ways to use it that were not as energy intensive. But he said that Bitcoin itself should be abandoned, describing it as a “collective delusion” with

[LINK] The other chess

On December 5 the DeepMind group published a new paper at the site of Cornell University called "Mastering Chess and Shogi by Self-Play with a General Reinforcement Learning Algorithm", and the results were nothing short of staggering. AlphaZero had done more than just master the game, it had

Re: [LINK] Cars, again

XKCD on self-driving cars: https://xkcd.com/1925/ On 17 November 2017 at 21:19, David Boxall wrote: > On 17/11/2017 9:57 AM, David Lochrin wrote: > >> On Fri, 17 Nov 2017 07:16:08 David Boxall wrote: >> >>> Nobody really knows what we're doing, but we _are_ doing it. Some

Re: [LINK] Bitcoin is hitting new highs—here’s why it might not be a bubble

Hamish Moffatt wrote: > The author argues that pretty much anything you think a blockchain would > be useful for, would be better off without a blockchain. Sooner or later digital currencies will become standard because the economic friction of transfers is approximately zero. Banks and

Re: [LINK] Cars, again

"It was not autonomous, the driver was legally in control." That's a legal technicality, isn't it? My bottom line would that the autopilot failed in this case (and should, and presumably was, improved.) This is one data point. It proves nothing except that machine car control is not perfect

Re: [LINK] Cars, again

On 15 November 2017 at 14:32, David wrote: > > This is a complex task, but guess what? Computer systems can already > drive cars, and they can do it well. > > Not when they T-bone trucks and kill the driver! > Choosing anecdotal evidence seems wrong to me. Personally I'd

Re: [LINK] Cars, again

David wrote: > The prognostications of so-called "elder statesmen" do not have a good > record. Especially if you cherry pick them. > More recently we had the Prime Minister, an experienced & senior lawyer, > declare that ... (Unfortunately for us) politician are in the business of

[LINK] Cars, again

Auto-industry elder statesman declares game over. “It saddens me to say it, but we are approaching the end of the automotive era. Travel will be in standardized modules. The end state will be the fully autonomous module with no capability for the driver to exercise command. The tipping point will

Re: [LINK] Xapo's Swiss mountain bitcoin vault in photos — Quartz

Empty racks suggest an advertising push. Hence, Bitcoin! Maybe Swiss banks prefer data centres in a more central location. Jim On 19 October 2017 at 13:16, Kim Holburn wrote: > Seems like completely over the top security theatre to me. > > > On 2017/Oct/18, at 8:10 AM, Jan

Re: [LINK] By hook or by crook.

Forename Surname wrote: > My point was more that it would be trivial with the current printing, not > that it is technically possibly to covertly keep tabs on our ballot forms. > Trivial, if your Joe Bloe has access to the demographics database, crosslinked to the barcodes, crosslinked with the

Re: [LINK] ABS could find out how you vote.

It would be relatively easy to produce identifiable voting papers via individual micro variations in the printing without obvious barcodes*. See, eg, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printer_steganography AFAIK there are commerical systems available (and used by governments) that do this sort of

Re: [LINK] Blockchain

On 22 September 2017 at 10:53, Kim Holburn wrote: > I'm not sure this is the case. The rising value of bitcoin has pretty > much matched its uses in China as a way for Chinese to get around > government restrictions on moving RMB to foreign currencies. This is a factor but

Re: [LINK] Blockchain

Would he know? The blockchain has great appeal to libertarians because it doesn't, or apparently doesn't, require government management control to work (and, as we all know, government is the real evil.) However, the practical reality of bitcoin is a running disaster. Could anyone commit to a

Re: [LINK] NBN & POTS

David Lochrin wrote: The main surprise was that the POTS service was still functioning at all > after cutover of the NBN service. > This would be an almost mandatory feature to decrease the irate customer and/or horror headline risk where there is an issue with some component of the FTTN

Re: [LINK] Peter Martin Economist (?) blames Labor for NBN!

$50 billion for a national FTTN network is a lot of money. This very close to the Australia's annual expenditure on road infrastructure. The value has been estimated at $280 billion. I don't have a split for maintenance v. improvement. A per premise cost of $4k for FTTN as 25 years loan at 4%

Re: [LINK] RFI: Is Google News finally fully evil?

Roger You're in Google News. Go to standard Google Search, select News at the top, enter your date range and and sort by date... Jim > What I'm seeing is here: > http://www.rogerclarke.com/II/Ffox-GNews-170802.png > > ___ Link mailing list

Re: [LINK] Amazon granted patent to put parachutes inside shipping labels

Stephen Loosley wrote: Amazon granted patent to put parachutes inside shipping labels > Fear of falling: Basophobia. Fear of books: Bibliophobia. Fear of open places: Agoraphobia. Fear of falling books in open places: Amazonophobia? ___ Link mailing

Re: [LINK] Router "firewall" security, NBN QC, etc

If you aren't confident you might be able to put Tomato or another open source router code on it. This would, however, change your support profile. Jim On 2 June 2017 at 13:01, David Lochrin wrote: The supplier responded that "I agree that this files have no obvious >

Re: [LINK] British researcher finds a 'kill switch' for global cyber attack

> it's difficult to see why any organisation would prefer Windows. 1. Existing applications and infrastructure 2. Existing staff skills and available skills in new recruitments 3. System component interoperability It's difficult to see how a moderate to large organisation that uses Windows

Re: [LINK] The three ransomware bitcoin wallets ..

One interesting quality of the bitcoin system is that if (when?) it is cracked, or if a specific wallet id is obtained by some method, the entire transaction history is laid bare. Jim On 15 May 2017 at 13:33, Stephen Loosley wrote: CRIME IN REALTIME > >

Re: [LINK] British researcher finds a 'kill switch' for global cyber attack

On 15 May 2017 at 12:11, JanW wrote: why didn't it find these 'baddies' when they were delivered? Because the list of threats is constantly increasing. There's an army of people out there developing detection and countermeasures. An attack like this causes a flurry of

Re: [LINK] British researcher finds a 'kill switch' for global cyber attack

Maybe they should have waited for someone to register the domain then got a vigilante squad of recently retired HNS execs to pay him a visit. Jim ___ Link mailing list Link@mailman.anu.edu.au http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link

Re: [LINK] Australia completely cashless?

+ Significant disadvantage for criminals, + Fairly neutral for the rest of us except that we won't be paying a 1.5% visa tax to banks on our purchases. ___ Link mailing list Link@mailman.anu.edu.au http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link

Re: [LINK] Spells Against Autonomy

Maybe it will come down to a choosing an optimized, hopefully small, randomized hit rate. Computers aren't perfect, are they? :) ___ Link mailing list Link@mailman.anu.edu.au http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link

Re: [LINK] Spells Against Autonomy

Andy Farkas wrote: "even a person wearing a t-shirt with a STOP sign on it can affect > the navigational capabilities of autonomous cars" > A recently paper in the Journal of Planning Education and Research, Pedestrians, Autonomous Vehicles, and Cities by Adam Millard-Ball, makes an interesting

Re: [LINK] Life Clock

Intelligent design. On 17 March 2017 at 13:45, Andy Farkas wrote: > > I once programmed a Life game on a PDP-11/20 that output to an ASR-33 > Teletype... > > This is amazing: > > http://hackaday.com/2017/03/11/a-clock-created-with-conways-life/ > > -andyf > >

Re: [LINK] NBN ads

Execution aside, the more people who are using the NBN the better from an economic point of view. Who knows, they might even influence the political process. Jim ___ Link mailing list Link@mailman.anu.edu.au

Re: [LINK] Electromagnetic pulse artillery shell

Traffic lights are designed as state sets so that they can't show incompatible signals, eg, green in all directions, even if a control fault occurs or they are hacked. That would require a physical rewiring at the control box. This is basic design safety and has been around for a long time. It

Re: [LINK] News anchor sets off Alexa devices around San Diego ordering unwanted dollhouses

BRD wrote: News anchor sets off Alexa devices around San Diego ordering unwanted > dollhouses > First world problem. ___ Link mailing list Link@mailman.anu.edu.au http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link

Re: [LINK] Brandis rushes to release telco metadata for civil proceedings

I suggest you read lifehacker's pages on VPN. This compares services and is updated periodically. http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2016/12/five-best-vpn-service-providers-for-2016/ http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2012/09/why-you-need-a-vpn-and-how-to-choose-one/ A domestic VPN is a service that

Re: [LINK] https/metadata

The actual DNS query and response content would not be visible at the metadata level level, it's inside the message. The metadata says you contacted a dns server but not what you looked up. The term "metadata" itself is a bit ambiguous, at any layer the stuff outside the layer wrapper is

Re: [LINK] Fake News

A recent experimental paper* reported: "Three-year-old children are promiscuous normativists. In other words, they spontaneously inferred the presence of social norms even when an adult had done nothing to indicate such a norm in either language or behavior." The human capacity for to create and

Re: [LINK] Telstra launches Australian homes onto the Internet of S**t

More: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/11/16/telstra_smart_home_security/ On 17 November 2016 at 21:31, David Boxall wrote: > stralian_homes_onto_the_internet_of_st/> > >> Telstra's decided that Australian homes

Re: [LINK] Cyber Security Strategy

It's the little companies that typically need more help. Jim ___ Link mailing list Link@mailman.anu.edu.au http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link

Re: [LINK] Zcash launches tomorrow

This is still basically wrong, philosophically and economically. As a practical matter, any untraceable payment system becomes a conduit for tax avoidance and illegal activities and will get clobbered by governments. The underlying idea of these systems seems to be that government is the enemy

[LINK] As we become cameras

https://medium.com/@mhkt/as-we-become-cameras-ac142f9a8bb5#.6lt3q0p1q "More photographs have been taken in the past year than were taken on all film combined." ... "We are approaching a world in which visual and auditory presence at a distance—seeing as another, instantly—is not a rare luxury

[LINK] Self driving cars, again

"Federal auto safety regulators on Monday made it official: They are betting the nation’s highways will be safer with more cars driven by machines and not people. In long-awaited guidelines for the booming industry of automated vehicles, the Obama administration promised strong safety oversight,

Re: [LINK] Cyber threats for bitcoin

Stephen Loosley wrote: “Unfortunately because of its irreversible nature, bitcoin requires near > perfect security.” Irreversible and untraceable. A magnet for criminals, both as an attack target and as currency for illegal transactions. -=-=-=- Elsewhere: (real) central banks are looking at

Re: [LINK] Census: OAIC's Vacuous Pseudo-Investigation Report

I'm not quite sure why everyone is discounting a DDoS without access to logs. They are occurring semi continuously around the globe. There is a significant "libertarian" in the grey/black internet that would like to see the census - and really anything to do with government - fail. The more

Re: [LINK] AI, consciousness & perception (was Machine Learning)

On 2 August 2016 at 23:01, David Lochrin wrote: > Why not make the same claim about other people? After all, they are just > physical stuff - wet logic circuits - they couldn't possibly have conscious > sensation. I mean, how could it work? > > In this case we propose to

Re: [LINK] All cars on Australian roads will be driverless by 2030 - Telstra

Always ask: 90% of what? Jim ___ Link mailing list Link@mailman.anu.edu.au http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link

Re: [LINK] defining a geographic location in three words

The words should be Esperanto, to fully remove local ownership. :| Jim On 2 August 2016 at 22:34, Kim Holburn wrote: > https://map.what3words.com/about > > There’s mobile apps etc > > -- > Kim Holburn > IT Network & Security Consultant > T: +61 2 61402408 M: +61 404072753 >

Re: [LINK] Machine Learning Was: Re: Robot cars and the fear gap

On 28 July 2016 at 16:52, David Lochrin wrote: I'm simply saying we have no idea how perception arises. > No, perception is highly studied and a massive amount is known about it. > Until quite recently people would have commonly said it arises from your > immortal soul,

Re: [LINK] Machine Learning Was: Re: Robot cars and the fear gap

David Lochrin wrote: Now if we assume everything runs in accordance with physics, what would we > expect to see? Lots of electronic activity, certainly. But perception? > By what mechanism could this device possibly perceive green grass, blue > sky, and a red fire engine? Aren't you getting

Re: [LINK] Machine Learning Was: Re: Robot cars and the fear gap

David Lochrin wrote: Conscious minds attach meanings to symbols Maybe in your case. My cat is certainly conscious - i.e. aware of and responding to it's surroundings - but doesn't do a lot of symbols. A self-conscious mind, which might be what you are referring to, does that, and, is aware of

Re: [LINK] Robot cars and the fear gap

BRD wrote: And the idea that robots and/or autonomous vehicles can predict > consequences > Doesn't a robot - or a human driver - in effect make a prediction when they apply the brakes? I say "in effect" because the world does not actually run on "predictions". In Kahneman terms of slow and

Re: [LINK] Robot cars and the fear gap

BRD wrote: > Do you suppose Tesla will be required to make their source code > available for scrutiny if things get to court? Do you suppose that anyone could understand it? A multilayer neural network is essentially a black box. Presumably Tesla's cars have a bunch of virtual neural

Re: [LINK] Robot cars and the fear gap

On 14 July 2016 at 13:50, Brendan wrote: > > Presumably, driverless cars are going to disproportionately remove drunks, > suicides and young men from the accident statistics. That's true, but those drivers often hit other random people too. And people who aren't

Re: [LINK] Robot cars and the fear gap

Brendan wrote: It's not clear to me that overall lower injuries/fatalities overrides the > manner in which they're suffered/ who they're suffered by. This sounds a little spooky to me. Are you saying you don't mind being injured or killed provided there is a good redeeming narrative available?

Re: [LINK] Are Robots Still Just "Tools" When They Are Used to Kill?

Negotiators say they negotiate indefinitely if required. This is likely to produce the best outcome. If the guy says he can detonate multiple explosions, and you can't eliminate the possibility that he might be telling the truth, and he's irrational, and not improving under negotiations, it's a

Re: [LINK] Are Robots Still Just "Tools" When They Are Used to Kill?

"Robot kill" sounds spooky but this was not really a robot in the sense of an autonomous machine - it's just another technologically advanced weapon. A heat-seeking missile is more autonomous than this robot. Jim ___ Link mailing list

Re: [LINK] What is Mircosoft trying to do?

If you run an OS that is not receiving regular security updates, you are probably a menace to yourself and others. This might not apply to experts and machines running in secured environments but the average user should be running a current OS. The botnets of the Internet have been largely build

Re: [LINK] U.S. opens investigation into Tesla after fatal crash in Autopilot mode

Tesla said this is the first fatality in 130 million miles of autopilot, which is within cooee of than the US national average 88 million miles per fatality. If this single data point is at the average frequency, and the road and conditions were average death risk, and the software and sensors

[LINK] AI beats experts in aerial combat

http://magazine.uc.edu/editors_picks/recent_features/alpha.html "In fact, it was only after early iterations of ALPHA bested other computer program opponents that Lee then took to manual controls against a more mature version of ALPHA last October. Not only was Lee not able to score a kill

Re: [LINK] Why you may not own, or drive your vehicle in 10 years time

David Lochrin wrote: Only a human can assume moral or legal responsibility, so who would be > responsible for a death caused by the actions of a vehicle computer? A company has responsibilities if your electric kettle explodes, or your new fence falls on a passing pedestrian. It's not a new

Re: [LINK] Why you may not own, or drive your vehicle in 10 years time

David Lochrin wrote: It's interesting to see this topic surfacing again so soon, it obviously > excites passions. > Isn't it? If cars are to be completely computer-controlled by law This is a possible endpoint at the moment. It's not a real issue. That would only happen if cars meet all

Re: [LINK] Why you may not own, or drive your vehicle in 10 years time

Certainly some people, including me, like driving. Though not all the time. For most people pleasurable driving is a small part of their driving time. A lot of the pleasure, the social aspect, seeing stuff and going somewhere different, won't disappear. However, you need to compare the

Re: [LINK] Will humans be banned from driving?

Andy Farkas wrote: > I think there will always be non-autonomous vehicles. And humans will always play chess. However, motor biking is clearly within the scope of robotics. They just aren't challenging the best riders, yet. We walk over machines for general intelligence but for sensors,

Re: [LINK] Will humans be banned from driving?

Driving software will improve relentlessly. It's on a different curve to human driving. (Smart and attentive) humans are currently better and more adaptable drivers. It's a matter of when, not if, they get overtaken for each different driving requirement. This is pretty much how goes, whether

Re: [LINK] RFI: Telstra DNS outage

Avi Miller wrote: It's most likely that Telstra are AnyCasting their DNS servers ...so the problem would likely relate their routers' Anycast configuration, rather than an actual dns server problem, I guess. Jim ___ Link mailing list

Re: [LINK] itN: Reckless MPs okay Driverless Cars

Here's a Rand Corp analysis of the problem of autonomous vehicle safety. Exec summary: Autonomous vehicles would have to be driven hundreds of millions of miles and sometimes hundreds of billions of miles to demonstrate their reliability in terms of fatalities and injuries. Under even aggressive

[LINK] Trackers, a musing

What if advertisers were to pursue us in real life, as they do on the internet? “After doing my shopping I went home. To my surprise they expected to come into the house with me and stay there. They forced the back door and installed themselves at my table. One of them had found my mobile phone

Re: [LINK] itN: Reckless MPs okay Driverless Cars

On 6 April 2016 at 10:35, Brendan wrote: Car manufacturers (and taxi companies) would have a lot to lose from > driverless cars > if that was the case. > I think so. And Uber drivers. We tend to think cars are sold on practical features but if you look at the ads

Re: [LINK] itN: Reckless MPs okay Driverless Cars

David Lochrin wrote: > > Call me over-cautious, but it will be a while before I entrust my nearest > & dearest to a driverless car. How do you feel about them getting in a car with a human driver? It's not like they are accident proof. People have all kinds of irrational fears, eg, fear of

Re: [LINK] itN: Reckless MPs okay Driverless Cars

Driverless cars have a better record than human drivers. Their most common accident is being rear-ended by human drivers who are running red lights and expect the driverless car in front of them to do the same. A week in a spinal ward might bring home the benefits of driverless cars. It's a no

Re: [LINK] Does NBN need a third satellite?

On 2 April 2016 at 13:54, Karl Auer wrote: "compressed for transmission" means "has had much data discarded". All digital video is compressed, except maybe the truly lossless "raw" digital masters at a studio. These chew up massive bandwidth/storage, and, contain a lot more information than

[LINK] Election hacking

This looks like an interesting read: How to Hack an Election Andrés Sepúlveda rigged elections throughout Latin America for almost a decade. He tells his story for the first time. http://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-how-to-hack-an-election/ Jim ___

Re: [LINK] The DVD is not dead!

On 12 February 2016 at 11:24, Scott Howardwrote: ISP-level caching hasn't been a viable system for saving any real level of > bandwidth for at least 10 years. Didn't realize that. They still seem to use it. Does that mean they could ditch it, or is it still cost effective, if marginal over all?

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

I don't get this idea that everyone should be coding an app. It's a specialized area with limited opportunities. It's a textbook case of survivor bias: people see a cool Zuckerberg story and assume the narrative can be replicated, ad infinitum. Not so, that particular niche is occupied, mastered

Re: [LINK] Housekeeping: users disabled by the system in Link

I'm not dead yet! ___ Link mailing list Link@mailman.anu.edu.au http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link

Re: [LINK] Telstra introduces Paper Invoice and payment charges (again)

Telstra are appalling at slipping in charges without much visible advice. When I've complained they seem happy to wipe them but I guess a lot of people just pay up rather than go through the maddening call centre process. They do have some links to do it asynchronously by email, bless their

Re: [LINK] Australia to trial cloud passports in world-first move

Doesn't the idea that you can land somewhere and have your id "proven" by a piece of paper belong in distant past? It's an absolute relic that predates the telegraph. Jim On 29 October 2015 at 15:13, Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote: > On 29/10/2015 9:45 AM, Jan Whitaker

Re: [LINK] NBN Long Term Satellite restrictions

There's a blue Autoplay slider switch that sits at the top of the right-hand column of Up Next videos on Youtube. The setting is remembered, presumably by cookies or as an account-wide setting across machines if you are logged in to a Google account. The relentless stream of updates is a more

Re: [LINK] NBN service accessibility [Was: web: The NBN satellite Malcolm Turnbull never wanted prepares for liftoff]

Tom Worthington wrote: It would be possible to design these applications so they don't download > all this extra stuff... > You would need to incentivise the page designers. If 90% of your clients are in cities with fast connections you can chuck all the baggage you want on the page if it has

Re: [LINK] NBN service accessibility [Was: web: The NBN satellite Malcolm Turnbull never wanted prepares for liftoff]

Tom Worthington wrote: > The NBN may increase disadvantage for non-metropolitan areas which do not > have fiber. > It's not the NBN specifically that is doing this, it's the evolution of the Internet. Once upon a time the sort of speed you can get now from the radio or satellite connections

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