Re: [LINK] What your choice of smartphone says about you

2017-01-09 Thread David
Life become this complicated? I've tried to remove unwanted pre-installed apps from someone's Samsung Android smartphone but with no success. David L. ___ Link mailing list Link@mailman.anu.edu.au http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link

Re: [LINK] Fixing My Health Record system

2017-01-11 Thread David
hich aideth the growth of plants and it is strong." Now the center manager spake unto his director, saying, "It promoteth growth, and it is very powerful." And the director spake unto his Vice President, saying, "This powerful new product will promote the growth of the compan

Re: [LINK] Digital Health

2017-01-18 Thread David
omissions in the article are the lack of even a one-paragraph estimate of cost-benefit, and a convincing example of the end-to-end process from patient to doctor. It's all arm-waving, long-lunch stuff. Sigh... David L. ___ Link mailing list Link@mailman.anu.edu.au http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link

Re: [LINK] Electromagnetic pulse artillery shell

2017-01-24 Thread David
ailed. Or it was hacked. The stability of a complex system is also an issue, as we see occasionally in power networks. These issues will only become bigger as populations increase at an accelerating rate. "We'll all be rooned," said Hanrahan... David L. __

Re: [LINK] Electromagnetic pulse artillery shell

2017-01-24 Thread David
That is not part of the requirements for this weapon. My post was not intended to deal with weapons design. David L. ___ Link mailing list Link@mailman.anu.edu.au http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link

Re: [LINK] NBN in multiple connected households

2017-11-14 Thread David
Residents in your building can thus choose between TPG using their existing infrastructure or any NBN ISP. Existing TPG customers can stay put, but existing Telstra customers will have to make a choice. Of course voice services can be provided independently by third

Re: [LINK] Cars, again

2017-11-14 Thread David
see human-like intelligence in 10 or 15 years. I can remember my supervisor experimenting with neural networks even then, and sure enough you could see it "learning", David L. ___ Link mailing list Link@mailman.anu.edu.au http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link

Re: [LINK] Some peace of mind about the NBN

2017-11-14 Thread David
to pillar & pillar to node. A pop-up box gives relevant details; in my case for example: GANSW718932725 Technology: FTTN Distance Premise-Pillar: 984m Distance Node-Pillar: 52m Estimated Download Rate: 19-29 Mbps Estimated Upload Rate: 8-12 Mbp

Re: [LINK] Some peace of mind about the NBN

2017-11-14 Thread David
On Wed, 15 Nov 2017 12:53:21 David wrote: > There's an interesting map showing streets and individual properties, the > copper path between each property and its FTTN node, and the estimated speed > - see > Whoops it's at http://nbnmtm.australiaeast.cloudapp.azure.

Re: [LINK] Cars, again

2017-11-14 Thread David
t, especially one at a level > close to current capability? I'm not proposing any limit, I'm suggesting they have a very, very long way to go. And we might get clues from the nominal computing capacity of just a few cubic millimetres of human brain. David L. ___ Link mailing list Link@mailman.anu.edu.au http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link

Re: [LINK] Cars, again

2017-11-14 Thread David
mptions favouring the Tesla, it's certainly not clear the Autopilot accident record is any better than that of human drivers. Let's review the situation when there have been 10 or 20 Autopilot fatalities. David L. ___ Link mailing list Link@mailman.anu.edu.au http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link

Re: [LINK] Some peace of mind about the NBN

2017-11-14 Thread David
in Canberra where the network was implemented by Transact and handed over to NBN later. I'll bet NBN Co. isn't touching the well-performing Transact network! I suspect the copper paths originally came from Telstra information, which would be

Re: [LINK] Some peace of mind about the NBN

2017-11-15 Thread David
re now have, or will have, a parallel NBN FTTN network? If so, why would anyone in their right mind wish to migrate from an FTTC to an FTTN service? David L. ___ Link mailing list Link@mailman.anu.edu.au http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link

Re: [LINK] Some peace of mind about the NBN

2017-11-15 Thread David
r old Telstra copper for up to a kilometre or more sounds almost bizarre. David L. ___ Link mailing list Link@mailman.anu.edu.au http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link

Re: [LINK] Some peace of mind about the NBN

2017-11-15 Thread David
th of there (Monash, Bonython, Calwell), with small areas to the inner-north (O'Connor, Cook). But I'm surprised at the extent of FTTP, for example a large area centred on Gungahlin is all fibre to the premise. (*) http://nbnmtm.australiaeast.cloudapp.a

Re: [LINK] Cars, again

2017-11-15 Thread David
them > consarned things until one wins the Paris to Dakar unaided" "consarned"??? If you don't like my benchmark for an autonomous system designed for vehicle control in any circumstances where a domestic or commercial vehicle would now operate, would you like to prop

Re: [LINK] Cars, again

2017-11-16 Thread David
On Thu, 16 Nov 2017 21:03:07 David Boxall wrote: > I'd say if the autonomous system performs marginally better than the average > driver, then that's a good start. Average includes those who are drunk, > drugged, tired, distracted or stupid. That won't work because

Re: [LINK] Cars, again

2017-11-16 Thread David
On Fri, 17 Nov 2017 07:16:08 David Boxall wrote: > Nobody really knows what we're doing, but we _are_ doing it. > Some will huddle in a corner, whimpering. Others will get on with the job. And some will happily sit back and watch the circus unfol

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

2017-11-19 Thread David
bly at a treasury level, not in the marketplace: - e-Dinar, Tunisia's national currency, was the first state currency using blockchain technology. - eCFA is Senegal's blockchain-based national digital currency. It's interesting

[LINK] The thread "Cars, again"

2017-11-19 Thread David
("Nobody really knows what we're doing, but we _are_ doing it. Some will huddle in a corner, whimpering. Others will get on with the job."). Gratituous slurs have no place on Link. David L. ___ Link mailing list Link@mailman.anu.

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

2017-11-19 Thread David
em with scalability as a function of the cumulative number of transactions. And I wonder about stability. How much latitude is there in terms of the network of bitcoin nodes, and the performance of the underlying internet? David L. --- On Mon, 20 Nov 2017 14:51:24 Frank O'Conno

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

2017-11-20 Thread David
asing centralisation of mining operations makes it more likely that a single mining pool may contribute more than 50 per cent of the networks’ computing power. [14] If this were to occur, even unintentionally, there could be a loss of confidence in Bitcoin. [15] and more. Googli

[LINK] Ported telephone numbers

2018-01-07 Thread David
re shown there. Can any Linker shed light on how know how calls are routed to a ported number? Ported numbers must now be occurring on a large scale given the NBN, and call routing would have to be efficient. David L. ___ Link mailing list Link

Re: [LINK] Ported telephone numbers

2018-01-08 Thread David
On Monday, 8 January 2018 9:58:03 PM AEDT Paul Brooks wrote: > See http://commsalliance.com.au/Documents/Publications-by-Topic/LNP > In particular G520 listed at the end. Thanks Paul, that's interesting and confirms my understanding. The site https://www.thenumberingsystem.com.au/#/number-regist

Re: [LINK] Ported telephone numbers

2018-01-08 Thread David
Just for clarification, I think the way it's supposed to work is that the carrier to which a number is allocated publishes a PLNR ("Ported Local Number Register") file which is available to all other carriers. This shows the new holder of the number in question, so calls can be routed directly

Re: [LINK] Ported telephone numbers

2018-01-09 Thread David
;t know much about what happens on the far side of their VoIP server. But the good news is that their ported-number charge is apparently now $5.50 p.m., not $10 as I reported! The other problem I haven't found a precise definition of the meaning of the 'LNP' flag in the EPID. Do yo

Re: [LINK] Ported telephone numbers

2018-01-09 Thread David
I couldn't see any individual numbers, just ranges. It's all something of a mystery, I suppose there's probably a degree of ad-hocery going on... David L. ___ Link mailing list Link@mailman.anu.edu.au http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link

Re: [LINK] Ported telephone numbers

2018-01-11 Thread David
On Friday, 12 January 2018 10:48:08 AM AEDT Tom Worthington wrote: > There is a risk in customers assuming the NBN phone connection will be as > reliable as the service it replaces. There's cynicism for you!! I've been using VoIP since January 2006, first with Engin (which had a problem with ec

Re: [LINK] Ported telephone numbers

2018-01-12 Thread David
On Friday, 12 January 2018 12:43:52 PM AEDT Paul Brooks wrote: > I think what you're looking for is RFC 6116 ENUM - a DNS lookup of a > telephone number to a URI such as a SIP address, and RFC 5067, RFC 5526 > "Infrastructure ENUM", and RFC 3824 "Using E.164 number with SIP". That is indeed wha

Re: [LINK] Ported telephone numbers

2018-01-13 Thread David
On Sunday, 14 January 2018 11:58:34 AM AEDT JanW wrote: > Technically, no. But the prices are very different. ...and many mobile 'phones sound like Donald Duck, as well as irradiating the neural network. DavidL. ___ Link mailing list Link@mailman.anu.

[LINK] Video streaming

2018-02-01 Thread David
Once upon a time I could happily play ABC iView and SBS on-demand videos. But now I have the latest Linux, Firefox & Videolan packages with H.264 support, and Flash, and nothing much works at all. ABC iView plays at such a low frame-rate & resolution it's unwatchable. The ABC seem to be dogge

Re: [LINK] Video streaming

2018-02-02 Thread David
On Friday, 2 February 2018 17:28:36 AEDT JanW wrote: > IView worked straight away in Chrome. I read somewhere that Chrome has done a deal with Adobe involving Flash, which is possibly why it works for you using Chrome but is so abysmally slow for me using the Flash package in my Linux distributi

Re: [LINK] Video streaming

2018-02-08 Thread David
avidL. -- Forwarded Message -- From: rene To: Sent: Sat, 3 Feb 2018 16:54:04 +1000 Subject: Re: [LINK] Video streaming On Fri, 02 Feb 2018 14:47:34 +1100, David wrote: > Once upon a time I could happily play ABC iView and SBS on-demand videos. > But now I have the latest Lin

Re: [LINK] Video streaming

2018-02-08 Thread David
Hi Irene, On Tuesday, 6 February 2018 16:33:46 AEDT you wrote: > Also since trying to post the appended message to Link, I've remembered this > HTML5 video test site: > https://www.quirksmode.org/html5/tests/video.html > Hopefully that would help you figure out what type of "HTML5" videos your

Re: [LINK] Video streaming

2018-02-09 Thread David
On Friday, 9 February 2018 13:53:14 AEDT Karl Auer wrote: > For SBS in particular, check out webdl > >https://bitbucket.org/delx/webdl Thanks, Karl! I'll give it a go... WebDL is described as "a set of Python scripts to grab video from online Free To Air Australian channels" and I think

Re: [LINK] Where's Tim Minchin?

2018-02-15 Thread David
On Friday, 16 February 2018 06:07:49 AEDT Paul Bolger wrote: > Worked for me too. Wondering what's the point of having a national > broadcaster if they can't host their own videos. I doubt James Valentine's song is official ABC content, the Coalition and Cory Bernadii (especially) would have a c

Re: [LINK] Thought Volvos were supposed to be safe?

2018-03-21 Thread David
On Thursday, 22 March 2018 13:37:32 AEDT Paul Bolger wrote: > It certainly didn't avoid, and it doesn't look like there was anything else > on the road. And it was also good weather. Light glinting on the rims of her bicycle wheels straight in front of the car is visible for about one second b

Re: [LINK] itN: Sydney Fish Market lures consortium to test IoT

2018-04-04 Thread David
On Wednesday, 4 April 2018 08:43:01 AEST Roger Clarke wrote: > Regular bins at the site are now fitted with smart sensors provided by Solar > Bins Australia. These collect a variety of data and transmit it over the > global 'Things' LoRaWAN network, which was brought to Australia by the > start-

Re: [LINK] Google data collection issues

2018-04-22 Thread David
On Monday, 23 April 2018 09:48:07 AEST Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote: > I know it's the Daily Mail, but it does raise some interesting questions: > http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5642049/Google-data-make-7ft-9in-pile-paper-TWO-WEEKS.html > > I don't know enough about Google and/or browsers

Re: [LINK] Google data collection issues

2018-04-22 Thread David
On Monday, 23 April 2018 09:48:07 AEST Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote: > I don't know enough about Google and/or browsers, or even if it is a specific > browser problem, but if you are logged into Google on your smartphone and/or > PC, what exactly can Google get at? I'm no expert, but I think a p

Re: [LINK] Google data collection issues

2018-04-23 Thread David
On Monday, 23 April 2018 16:58:07 AEST Tom Worthington wrote: > Google has large amounts of data about me. But as long as they use it just > try to sell me stuff I am not too worried. If they give the data to someone > else to try to change my vote I would be worried. But you're part of a social

Re: [LINK] More Earth-Shattering IoT Applications

2018-04-25 Thread David
On Tuesday, 24 April 2018 20:36:46 AEST Roger Clarke wrote: > One doesn't want to be *unduly* sceptical, but such things really do seem far > too much like either techno-solutions desperately seeking a problem, or > excuses for the installation of sensors that have other purposes that the > spo

Re: [LINK] More Earth-Shattering IoT Applications

2018-04-25 Thread David
On Thursday, 26 April 2018 09:42:03 AEST Tom Worthington wrote: >> Newcastle Council uses sportsground for smart city trial ... >> https://www.itnews.com.au/news/newcastle-council-uses-sportsground-for-smart-city-trial-489563 >> >> The groundsman and his travel to grounds are a fixed and unavoid

Re: [LINK] More Earth-Shattering IoT Applications

2018-04-25 Thread David
On Thursday, 26 April 2018 11:21:22 AEST Scott Howard wrote: > As you've pointed out, just like the mobile phone and the graphical web > browser, this serves almost zero purpose. The mobile phone was a logical development of the wired variety which had proved its usefulness since the 19th centu

Re: [LINK] More Earth-Shattering IoT Applications

2018-04-27 Thread David
On Saturday, 28 April 2018 08:35:04 AEST Tom Worthington wrote: > > You'd need lots of cameras to reliably detect empty spaces ... > > No. I visited a Cambridge University college where the IT staff showed me > their system using a few high resolution cameras on very tall poles to cover > the e

Re: [LINK] More Earth-Shattering IoT Applications

2018-04-29 Thread David
On 29/04/2018 9:08 AM, Tom Worthington wrote: ... What was the user interface? The college was using a GUI to control the cameras, with recording, pan tilt and zoom. There was not fancy image recognition software. But that was some years ago. I was thinking of drivers entering the carpark

Re: [LINK] Error-prone

2018-05-04 Thread David
On Saturday, 5 May 2018 00:59:47 AEST Andy Farkas wrote: > "How can we solve traffic jams, emissions and accidents? Self-driving cars!" ...or public transport! The self-driving vehicle as a solution to peak-hour traffic jams is a fantasy which hasn't been thought through, like the one about how

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

2018-05-08 Thread David
On 8/05/2018 5:47 PM, Kim Holburn wrote: If self-driving cars or at least some particular type of them can be shown to have half the number of accidents that human drivers have, wouldn't that be an argument for the safety of self-driving cars? That argument leaves no place for human responsi

Re: [LINK] Don’t believe the hype: We’re a long way from 5G

2018-05-30 Thread David
The article states: "The real range of mmWave appears to be about about a third of a mile. 4G? It ranges from three to 30 miles." I don't think the author mentions absorption by water in its various forms. Signal propagation at those frequencies is heavily attenuated by rain, trees, and even

Re: [LINK] Don’t believe the hype: We’re a long way from 5G

2018-05-31 Thread David
Dear Link Institute, I know I'm just an old fuddy-duddy with a bad attitude toward our Fearless Leaders and the Glorious Future into which they're leading us, but would someone please enlighten me as to why we need 5G? According to the relevant Wikipedia article: "The goal of 5G is to provide

Re: [LINK] Online Education

2018-05-31 Thread David
On Friday, 1 June 2018 09:18:28 AEST Tom Worthington wrote: > ps: I am speaking on education to the Senate Select Committee on the Future > of Work and Workers, Parliament House, Canberra, Senate hearing room 2S1, > Monday 2:10 pm. > https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Sena

Re: [LINK] Don’t believe the hype: We’re a long way from 5G

2018-06-01 Thread David
en have turned a full circle, with the Rudd's NBN occupying the same role as Howard's "three amigos" version of Telstra. You may not lose your POTS service for quite a while if your NBN connection is via HFC. The POTS connection often se

Re: [LINK] Don’t believe the hype: We’re a long way from 5G

2018-06-01 Thread David
network was to save money, it's not technically necessary. Think of all that exchange real estate which can eventually be sold off, and the technical redundancies... David L. ___ Link mailing list Link@mailman.anu.edu.au http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link

Re: [LINK] Don’t believe the hype: We’re a long way from 5G

2018-06-04 Thread David
On Saturday, 2 June 2018 21:20:20 AEST Scott Howard wrote: > 5G isn't about mobile devices. > > It's about self-driving cars. And TV broadcasting. And football stadiums. > And IoT. And countless other things that likely haven't been even dreamed of > yet... > > As an example, consider these

Re: [LINK] Don’t believe the hype: We’re a long way from 5G

2018-06-04 Thread David
On Saturday, 2 June 2018 22:27:41 AEST Michael wrote: > But my computer does struggle even now with some tasks. It is a pain to do a > full back up to off-site locations. Video conferencing is poor (I urge you > to try a Cisco telepresence video conference if you have the chance. It uses > a

Re: [LINK] Don’t believe the hype: We’re a long way from 5G

2018-06-04 Thread David
On Monday, 4 June 2018 17:27:14 AEST Marghanita da Cruz wrote: > "Huawei denies any "material" links with the Chinese Communist Party and says > its best placed to deliver the high tech equipment needed for the 5G rollout." We've been here before. Around 15 years ago an Israeli company known as

Re: [LINK] Don’t believe the hype: We’re a long way from 5G

2018-06-04 Thread David
On Monday, 4 June 2018 21:04:07 AEST Stephen Loosley wrote: > Ah yes .. Huawei …. drinking tea with sharp eyes? > > “China Aims For Near-Total Surveillance, Including in People's Homes” And what's this in Toronto? See http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-05-31/concerns-over-google-city-in-toronto/9

Re: [LINK] Don’t believe the hype: We’re a long way from 5G

2018-06-05 Thread David
On Tuesday, 5 June 2018 16:16:04 AEST JLWhitaker wrote: > Good luck getting anyone with any sense to live there. Flushing toilets? > Seriously? Well it could be extraordinarily exciting. [Trudeau lavished praise on the project, describing it as an "extraordinarily exciting" development that was

Re: [LINK] Don’t believe the hype: We’re a long way from 5G

2018-06-05 Thread David
On Wednesday, 6 June 2018 12:58:04 AEST Paul Brooks wrote: > In a world where developers think a gigabyte-sized 'Hello World' app is OK > with drag-and-drop module development tools, the chances of getting those > few bytes of information encoded into less than several megabytes of cruft > inc

Re: [LINK] Don’t believe the hype: We’re a long way from 5G

2018-06-06 Thread David
On Thursday, 7 June 2018 08:39:41 AEST Tom Worthington wrote: > Perhaps I am confident of finding competent people because I train them at > ANU. I tutor teams of programmers and engineers at ANU. One one of my teams > this semester built a simulator for testing software in thousands of > inter

Re: [LINK] ABC iView now HTML5

2018-06-12 Thread David
Stephen, thank you for forwarding that... iView with common-or-garden Firefox at last!!! DavidL. ___ Link mailing list Link@mailman.anu.edu.au http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link

[LINK] The displayed telephone number

2018-06-26 Thread David
There seem to be two types of telephone number: a network subscriber-number and a calling-number which is shown when "calling number display" (CND) is available. Once upon a time when the earth was green, and the network was managed by a public entity responsible for providing a national servi

Re: [LINK] Autonomous emergency braking systems

2018-07-01 Thread David
Is there a user or workshop mechanism which can be used to disable the automatic braking system without invalidating the vehicle's type approval? There will probably come a point where the customer will only get somewhere if they publicly question the inherent safety of this model of vehicle. T

Re: [LINK] Urgent: MyHR Opt-Out

2018-07-17 Thread David
On 16/07/2018 10:44 AM, Roger Clarke wrote: > This record is all-but useless for patient care. It's purpose is to enable > government agencies to get access to people's health care data. The only potential value I can see might relate to someone with a chronic condition which rendered them unab

Re: [LINK] Urgent: MyHR Opt-Out

2018-07-18 Thread David
On Wednesday, 18 July 2018 15:01:58 AEST Dr Bob Jansen (in Korea) wrote: > Why not use a chip inside our Medicare card? We need it for treatment anyway > so why not have a system wherein the treating clinician uploads their notes > or discharge summary into that chip. Then security is dependent

Re: [LINK] Urgent: MyHR Opt-Out

2018-07-18 Thread David
On Thursday, 19 July 2018 11:01:23 AEST Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote: > I agree [that the fundamental reasons for centralised medical records are > cost savings and better health care]. My Health Record isn't one of them, > its a summary system that required significant GP effort to input and

Re: [LINK] Urgent: MyHR Opt-Out

2018-07-19 Thread David
On Thursday, 19 July 2018 16:24:13 AEST Karl Auer wrote: > But it has to be done the right way. Setting up a massive, poorly controlled, > poorly secured, poorly managed and poorly curated helth database on all > Australians is not the way. It's not just a V1.0 problem, it is a > fundamentally

Re: [LINK] Urgent: MyHR Opt-Out

2018-07-19 Thread David
On Thursday, 19 July 2018 15:44:43 AEST Jim Birch wrote: > This is the version 1.0 product. It's actually V2.0. The AMA published this press release on 15th Oct 2015: "The Government has proposed that Practice Incentive Program e-health payments be tied to doctor use of the MyHealth Record (My

Re: [LINK] 'We desperately need this data': NIB boss wants members' digital health records

2018-07-22 Thread David
On Sunday, 22 July 2018 17:36:01 AEST Christian Heinrich wrote: > *"If I get a hit by a bus tomorrow, I want the hospital to have my [digital] > record," Mr Fitzgibbon said* to quote > https://www.smh.com.au/business/consumer-affairs/we-desperately-need-this-data-nib-boss-wants-members-digital-h

Re: [LINK] My letter to the local paper

2018-07-22 Thread David
On Sunday, 22 July 2018 17:22:53 AEST Karl Auer wrote: > You cannot control who uploads things into your record. You have no right to > check what is uploaded into your record. You cannot control who sees your > record. You cannot find out who has accessed your record, nor what they do > with i

Re: [LINK] myhr website disclaimer

2018-07-26 Thread David
On Wednesday, 25 July 2018 11:47:46 AEST Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote: > And on the subject of the myhr itself, if the person who "owns" their myhr > doesn't keep accurate, complete and up-to-date who does? Answer nobody. If > they don't have the internet and/or cannot figure out how to operat

Re: [LINK] My letter to the local paper

2018-07-29 Thread David
On Monday, 30 July 2018 14:26:24 AEST Stephen Loosley wrote: > “This product is a piece of shit,” a doctor at Florida’s Jupiter Hospital > said to IBM, according to the documents seen by Stat News. “We bought it for > marketing and with hopes that you would achieve the vision." "We bought it fo

Re: [LINK] The ABC weighs in on My Health Record

2018-08-03 Thread David
On Thursday, 2 August 2018 22:47:00 AEST Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote: > The problem is that the government treats itself as a privileged case, not as > a third party. I think that nails it. DavidL. ___ Link mailing list Link@mailman.anu.edu.au http:

Re: [LINK] European Science Funders Ban Grantees From Publishing In Paywalled Journals

2018-09-06 Thread David
On Friday, 7 September 2018 13:30:11 AEST JLWhitaker wrote: > ABC RN Science Friction had a big story about science fraud today. Worth a > listen. Mostly it was about the Chinese Science situation where publishing is > required, so an industry of false results and false peer reviews has grown up

Re: [LINK] RFC: Responsible Business Use of AI

2018-09-20 Thread David
der what football matches were scheduled, and consult his intuition, but he unfortunately wished to retire. DEC's rule-based system replaced his forecasts, and I understand it was quite successful. Cheers, David L. ___ Link mailing list Link@mailman.anu.edu.au http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link

Re: [LINK] RFC: Responsible Business Use of AI

2018-09-20 Thread David
n the subject dated 1985. Sorry about that... David L. ___ Link mailing list Link@mailman.anu.edu.au http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link

Re: [LINK] RFC: Responsible Business Use of AI

2018-09-21 Thread David
an nine minutes." Wow!!! Sombody has a career in athletics! David L. ___ Link mailing list Link@mailman.anu.edu.au http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link

Re: [LINK] RFC: A Capable Email-Client, e.g. for a Mac

2018-09-30 Thread David
- see https://eudoraconverter.codeplex.com/ and https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/bharry/2017/03/31/shutting-down-codeplex/ Hope this is of some use... David L. ___ Link mailing list Link@mailman.anu.edu.au http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link

Re: [LINK] NBN upgrade questions

2018-10-08 Thread David
y is probably minimal, again because it makes support easier. David L. ___ Link mailing list Link@mailman.anu.edu.au http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link

Re: [LINK] NBN upgrade questions

2018-10-08 Thread David
On 9/10/2018 12:14 PM, David wrote: which will almost certainly nesessitate a new modem. Of course I meant it would "necessitate" a new modem! On 9/10/2018 11:59 AM, Carl Makin wrote: I think that with FTTP and Fixed Wireless, NBN provide the connecting equipment and just h

Re: [LINK] NBN upgrade questions

2018-10-09 Thread David
tand NBNCo. provide a box which just converts the HFC signal to Ethernet, but does it also provide power to something in the pit? David L. ___ Link mailing list Link@mailman.anu.edu.au http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link

Re: [LINK] NBN upgrade questions

2018-10-09 Thread David
come the NBN connection details with distances, and a blue line indicating the copper path according to Telstra's (?) records. David L. ___ Link mailing list Link@mailman.anu.edu.au http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link

Re: [LINK] NBN upgrade questions

2018-10-09 Thread David
do some ISPs provide a router with an HFC port which can be plugged directly into the cable from the street without the intermediate media-conversion box, notably Telstra & Optus, who run the HFC networks? David L. ___ Link mailing list

Re: [LINK] NBN upgrade questions

2018-10-09 Thread David
. Configuration for Australian tones, number plans, etc. requires some expertise, but presumably Aussie Broadband have already done that. I can provide details for anyone interested. David L. ___ Link mailing list Link@mailman.anu.edu.au http

Re: [LINK] RFI: Thunderbird

2018-10-10 Thread David
udent submissions might need a conclusive audit trail! My own email client (Kmail) has excellent filtering options, including running a command-line (e.g. BASH) script, but Thunderbird seems quite deficient there. David L. ___ Link mailing list

Re: [LINK] itN/NIST: 'Don't bother with blockchain'

2018-10-16 Thread David
in a reasonable time requires a supercomputer? David L. ___ Link mailing list Link@mailman.anu.edu.au http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link

Re: [LINK] itN/NIST: 'Don't bother with blockchain'

2018-10-16 Thread David
dence in the event of a problem. What _independent_ backup would exist with a blockchain system? Also, a paper copy is likely to reveal tampering, but a blockchain hacked out of business hours when activity was low certainly wouldn't. David L.

Re: [LINK] China has been 'hijacking the vital internet backbone of western countries'

2018-10-31 Thread David
ding to an academic paper published this week by researchers from the US Naval War College and Tel Aviv University. There's some interesting discussion here: "Chinese Telecom performing BGP Hijacking • r/netsec" https://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/9rlehd/chinese_telecom_performin

Re: [LINK] Storing sun's energy

2018-11-07 Thread David
that requires. The 35-ton brick idea is interesting, but it would require an unsightly tower and some pretty complex control systems. David L. ___ Link mailing list Link@mailman.anu.edu.au http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link

[LINK] Linux running under Windows?!!

2018-11-09 Thread David
. [...] Your Linux files and Windows files are normally separated, but there are ways to access your Linux files from Windows and your Windows files from the Linux environment. [...] UNQUOTE I wonder what is Microsoft's long-term plan? David L. ___

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

2018-11-09 Thread David
I think Steve Bulmer once pronounced open-source software to be "un-American"! David L. ___ Link mailing list Link@mailman.anu.edu.au http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link

[LINK] The "health" record security model

2018-11-10 Thread David
would have to be described as naieve. But the third panelist was Professor David Vaile, Executive Director of the Cyberspace Law and Policy Centre at UNSW. He revealed that medical information (other than a summary of any allergies?) isn't held in a structured database but is a collection o

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

2018-11-11 Thread David
It will cost a fraction of trying to develop everything at > once, will be doable in fraction of the time, and will have an immediate > positive effect. The lessons learned during implementation will allow new > things to be handled faster and better. That's known

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

2018-11-11 Thread David
ian like Peter Dutton... > Complex systems need to be described in very simple terms at the top. Yes, but there's a direct relationship between the very simple description and the number of vested interests, ideas about system objectives, and committee sizes bought to bear on imple

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

2018-11-11 Thread David
x27;s office (:-)? Perhaps Labor should try to flush out whatever justification exists for our $1B expenditure, and then we can all see its proposed justification. David L. ___ Link mailing list Link@mailman.anu.edu.au http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link

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

2018-11-11 Thread David
ntation based on what we assume. Longitudinal studies have to be reasonably well-controlled to be reliable, and a collection of random PDFs is unlikely to cut it. That applies to (2) as well, since it's an application of (3) if I read you correctly. David L. __

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

2018-11-12 Thread David
On Tuesday, 13 November 2018 10:52:20 AEDT Jim Birch wrote: > 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

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

2018-11-13 Thread David
actively control what you can think and do. Do you want that? David L. ___ Link mailing list Link@mailman.anu.edu.au http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link

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

2018-11-16 Thread David
actively control what you can think and do. Do you want that? David L. ___ Link mailing list Link@mailman.anu.edu.au http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link

Re: [LINK] America to launch 12,000 communictions satellites

2018-11-18 Thread David
specially if the U.S. were to try using it as a vehicle into China. Can you imagine the chaos if the IoT is routed over this network (:-)... I don't think I'll be investing in it. David L. ___ Link mailing list Link@mailman.anu.edu.au http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link

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