Re: [LINK] BitCoin DDoS and/or Wallet-Hack

On 19 April 2013 00:01, Karl Auer ka...@biplane.com.au wrote: And what do people turn to, even today, in times of crisis or distrust? Gold. The reason that (some) people turn to gold (at some times) is to do with the fact that it's value is independent of any particular government. Using the

Re: [LINK] refusing contactless cards

Product idea: A skim detector keyring? On 1 August 2013 17:37, Harry McNally harr...@decisions-and-designs.com.auwrote: Hello Karl (and Link) On 01/08/13 13:46, Karl Schaffarczyk wrote: Craig, My local credit union (CPS) happily disabled the contactless functionality of their card

Re: [LINK] NBN and personal alarm compatibility

I've been really upset about this kind of issue since they banned horses from freeways. The government welched on its obligation to buy cars for horse owners, didn't they? Jim On 13 August 2013 11:26, Jan Whitaker jw...@janwhitaker.com wrote: Interesting article about the other sorts of

Re: [LINK] No more human sysadmins??

I think this is a social and ethical issue rather than anything much to do with the sysadmin function. If an organisation is doing something that its employees may regard as unethical - like unacknowledged collection of information on the activities of law-abiding citizens without oversight -

Re: [LINK] Optus to lay fibre last mile?

Does the fibre ownership remain with Optus? The two big economic advantages of the old NBN is firstly that it provided an open market for content and secondly that it was priced at cost rather than priced on its utility to users. The object of any smart business is to charge for their products

Re: [LINK] Oh well -- it was good for the week it lasted

People like simple narratives not complexity or cost-benefit curves. So, security means absolute security. And any weakness is framed as a much more psychologically appealing catastrophic failure. - Jim ___ Link mailing list Link@mailman.anu.edu.au

Re: [LINK] strategic review??

Does potential future PM Turnbull want to be remembered as the guy who gave us a crap Internet? I doubt it. It's highly likely there will be a bit of verbal dancing and a new FTTH plan with a few cosmetic changes. The economics of the FTTN network are wrong, and, what's more important

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

I find this kind of statement literally incredible, whether taken in it as a direct statement, or as its implied negative: Successful companies never get beaten or overtaken on their own turf - think mainframes and IBM, Kodak and film. The prosaic rendition of the same is that a very large

Re: [LINK] strategic review??

On 25 September 2013 18:23, Richard rchirg...@ozemail.com.au wrote: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/07/18/reengineer_the_nbn_says_hackett/ Except that the big cost is digging up the roads and footpaths and laying fibre; the electronic box on the consumer end is relatively minor and pretty

Re: [LINK] Aussies wealthiest people in the world

The housing bubble is alive and well in Australia. This makes us appear richer. Drop like 20-30% of the house dollar value of Australian homes - about what has happened elsewhere post GFC and could happen here on an economic shock - and we'd loose a little shine. Also, the headline US

Re: [LINK] Industrial Internet - Risks, anyone?

On 11 October 2013 10:08, Jan Whitaker jw...@janwhitaker.com wrote: Granted, there are if/then conditionals that can be incorporated to avoid the worst problems, but I'm not convinced Google cars have lower accident rates than human drivers and all accidents to date (six, my daughter told

Re: [LINK] RIP Printed Evidence of Payments

On 1 November 2013 12:08, Roger Clarke roger.cla...@xamax.com.au wrote: But that doesn't appear to be a 'core promise': [Evernote] ... reserve the right to establish limits to ... your continued ability to access ... your Content and other data, and impose other limitations at any time, with

Re: [LINK] Of Walled Gardens and Their Dangers

On 1 November 2013 14:10, Frank O'Connor francisoconn...@bigpond.comwrote: Well ... except for: So, you'd recommend the upgrade for our more or less stock living room mac? About 3 years old IIRC, basically used for web browsing. - Jim ___ Link

Re: [LINK] Google’s Robot Cars Are Smoother, Safer Drivers Than You

Every event that is remembered is recreated from disparate associations. People usually recreate memories in ways that reduce negative affect. (If you don't, you risk depression, etc.) This includes reducing moral threat, ie, culpability. Once something has been misremembered a few times it

Re: [LINK] AEC won't release vote-counting code

On 7 November 2013 11:49, Fred Pilcher fpilc...@netspeed.com.au wrote: an organisation that, following the WA debacle, doesn't need any more evidence of incompetence Don't we have one of the best electoral processes in the world? I 'm not sure who you think we should be emulating. - Jim

Re: [LINK] An Overhead NBN

Surely, the long term plan should be for a good quality set of ducts in all city/urban areas that are capable of supporting all services, including power. If this was a stated/mandated plan then we wouldn't need the economic craziness of the different services taking turns to dig up the roads on

Re: [LINK] Android mobile phone antivirus?

The basic Android security model is to separate the applications from the operating system. The OS is a Linux kernel that is obviously compiled for the particular processor and contains device drivers for the specific hardware. This is different for each hardware platform and is where the the

Re: [LINK] The heights of hubris

This takes the old charades of turning the first sod, donning the firefighter/hardhat/service uniform to a new level of surreality (is that a word) doesn't it? Now you are the investigative reporter reporter on government policy. Turnbull is also running a fallacy when he claims that the

Re: [LINK] Perfect Forward Secrecy

I thought Twitter was for broadcasting to anyone willing to listen? - Jim On 23 November 2013 21:43, Frank O'Connor francisoconn...@bigpond.comwrote: Mmmm, Aside from the growing efficacy of brute force decryption and other methods made available by increasing CPU/GPU grunt, the key

Re: [LINK] The NSA Mission Statement

This is an interesting piece on the uselessness of spying from John Quiggin. His argument is less about moral transgression and more about the practical issue of it being a waste or resources. You don't get a lot for a billion dollars dollars: I’ve long maintained the view that spies never

Re: [LINK] pressure on Uncle Mal re NBN

The FTTN is an unbelievably dumb policy, dollar for dollar. But hey, that's why we invite the uninformed to make policy choices at election time. However, the critical component of getting Turbull to go ahead with FTTP is a face-saver. I'm not sure what available but what looks hopeful are the

Re: [LINK] FCC, ATT keen to phase out the PSTN (Public Switched Telephone Network)

Isn't that perfectly reasonable? The POTS-on-copper has been great but it isn't technically up to what is being asked of it any more. Retaining POTS means either supporting a decaying clunky parallel service or limiting Internet infrastructure to clunky performance levels. This is really a

Re: [LINK] Amazon Prime Air

Michael wrote: It looks terribly energy inefficient to me, but that never stopped progress. It would use less energy than a courier truck. The question question is whether the truck can combine enough deliveries to overcome it's bigger energy usage and cost. Courier trucks do have other

Re: [LINK] Amazon Prime Air

Is a drone more dangerous than a car? - Jim On 3 December 2013 12:29, Roger Clarke roger.cla...@xamax.com.au wrote: At 11:07 +1100 3/12/13, Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote: Has anybody seen a discussion on liability and/or insurance for these autonomous things? On 3/12/2013 11:31 AM,

Re: [LINK] Amazon Prime Air

On 3 December 2013 13:19, Jan Whitaker jw...@internode.on.net wrote: At 01:06 PM 3/12/2013, Jim Birch wrote: ...I refer, of course, to the type of machine suggested for short range urban delivery of non-lethal payloads. That's where the system problems come in. Cars are part

Re: [LINK] Amazon Prime Air

Paul Brooks wrote: resolution of GPS and the frequency of sampling, which can be +/- 30 metres for a fairly rapidly moving device. Google cars don't have a =/- 30 m accuracy. Cruise missiles do a lot better than 30m by augmenting GPS. A drone could use a combination of location and other

Re: [LINK] private question for off list - consulting

I ran a small home office business - basically me and a casual employee occasionally when required) for a number of years before accepting a position at one of my clients as they grew. Some points: You do a lot of stuff that doesn't uses time and doesn't make money, like accounting, tax,

Re: [LINK] Bitcoin AND Surveillance

Worth reading, if you are so inclined: How the Bitcoin protocol actually works http://www.michaelnielsen.org/ddi/how-the-bitcoin-protocol-actually-works/ Many thousands of articles have been written purporting to explain Bitcoin, the online, peer-to-peer currency. Most of those articles give a

[LINK] GMail clobbers image tracking in ads

Google have announced that they will begin cacheing the images in email ads. Advertisers load emails with uniquely-named images that are downloaded at the time the mail is displayed. This allows them to track stuff like whether the email was viewed, at what time, by what client, at what

Re: [LINK] UN declares that the right to privacy,

On 18 December 2013 18:10, step...@melbpc.org.au wrote: Maybe. Although I respect this opinion, personal responsibility matters. I have a quote on this that I lifted from somewhere :) Auer's Theorem: Any solution that involves everybody will fail. I might be misrepresenting Karl but to me

Re: [LINK] A security question

From the behaviour of banks we might infer: (1) Multifactor identification is too hard for a proportion of their customers (2) The actual level of successful hacking is passably low (3) So, it is simpler to run suspicious activity monitors and guarantee accounts - Jim On 19 December 2013

Re: [LINK] NYT: Snowden is a whistleblower and should be offered a plea to return home

It's interesting how he is officially vilified but regarded as a hero by 80% of the rest of the US population (and just about everyone outside the US.) I can't imagine that the ruling class would relent on this one - the whole state security process is maintained by certainty that they will go

Re: [LINK] SBS: The Age of Big Data

It's interesting that the AI dream from circa 1950 of creating a rational intelligent conceptualising machine - epitomised by 2001's HAL 9000 computer - has fallen away and we now attempt high level intelligence tasks with neural networks and big data. This parallels the change from thinking of

Re: [LINK] McAfee now Intel Security

My personal take on John McAffee improved greatly when I discovered he was no longer associated with that software and was just another regular gun-toting drug-crazed egomaniac. - Jim ___ Link mailing list Link@mailman.anu.edu.au

[LINK] iOS banking apps security tests

Among other deficiencies, this little gem: 40% of the audited apps did not validate the authenticity of SSL certificates presented. This makes them susceptible to Man in The Middle (MiTM) attacks. http://blog.ioactive.com/2014/01/personal-banking-apps-leak-info-through.html - Jim

Re: [LINK] Cyberattacks, max the CPU and turn-off fans

Scott Howard wrote: (Speaking for myself, not on behalf of my employer who may happen to be mentioned in the article...) Ok, I read it wrong. I guess you are talking about the original article, not Wikipedia's Stuxnet entry ;) Jim ___ Link mailing

Re: [LINK] Bitcoin robbery - again

It's probably better to write out your bitcoins on paper and bury them in the backyard. :) On 5 March 2014 09:17, Jan Whitaker jw...@janwhitaker.com wrote: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/04/flexcoin-shuts-down_n_4896591.html Another day, another bunch of missing bitcoins. A bitcoin

Re: [LINK] Malcolm Turnbull, Minister for Communications, on Cybersecurity

On 5 March 2014 18:15, Tom Worthington tom.worthing...@tomw.net.au wrote: Minister Turnbull started by saying the Internet is the single most powerful driver of innovation in human history (I would nominate the invention of language and writing as greater influences) In politics the event

Re: [LINK] Breach of privacy by Telstra comes cheap

12.6 seconds of revenue. 82 seconds of profit - Jim On 11 March 2014 13:59, Chris Johnson chris.john...@anu.edu.au wrote: ITPro reports that Telstra found guilty of breaches of privacy of thousands of customers

Re: [LINK] Cyber hijack of MH370?

world this erratic behaviour might have been picked up. - Jim On 17 March 2014 13:39, Jan Whitaker jw...@internode.on.net wrote: At 01:25 PM 17/03/2014, Jim Birch wrote: Commercial airliners have multiple independent control and comms systems for pretty obvious reasons. Interesting

Re: [LINK] Cyber hijack of MH370?

https://plus.google.com/app/basic/stream/z13cv1gohsmbv5jmy221vrfyiz3vdhbop04 Suggests a fire on the plane that knocked out the comms, then the occupants. There is a problem with the satellite pings that continued for hours unless the plane flew on as a ghost flight but some other explanation may

Re: [LINK] NSW evoting system for next state election

I would have thought that the key to honest elections is institutional: having an strong, open and independent electoral process, backed up by free citizen oversight. Australia does very well at this. I can't see that computerising voting will make a difference and it could improve auditability.

Re: [LINK] Fwd: Ubuntu One file services

On 12 April 2014 15:52, Paul Bolger pbol...@gmail.com wrote: Ubuntu One A casualty of the cloud wars. - Jim ___ Link mailing list Link@mailman.anu.edu.au http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link

Re: [LINK] Flash drives in the sea?

On 29 April 2014 20:42, Stephen Loosley step...@melbpc.org.au wrote: The more than 50-day operation, which the Australian prime minister, Tony Abbott, calls “probably the most difficult search in human history... Probably one of the more ridiculous bits of hyperbole to be emitted from the

Re: [LINK] Flash drives in the sea?

On 30 April 2014 12:47, Chris Maltby ch...@sw.oz.au wrote: Lasseter's reef? The Higgs boson? (Like 40 years and €7.5B) ___ Link mailing list Link@mailman.anu.edu.au http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link

Re: [LINK] Flash drives in the sea?

Yep. It seems almost trivial to upgrade the memory in a the voice and data recorders to current memory capabilities. Likewise, battery technology has moved along. However, as I said It seems unlikely that any retrofit to would be justified in terms of opportunity costs for improving flight

Re: [LINK] Uber?

On 14 May 2014 09:50, Hamish Moffatt ham...@cloud.net.au wrote: On 14/05/14 08:56, Jim Birch wrote: On 13 May 2014 17:53, Alan Hargreaves alan.hargrea...@oracle.com wrote: wouldn't this affect your registration and insurance, as your really not private use any more Sooner or later

Re: [LINK] Telstra WiFi Network

Google is planning a similar wifi rollout. Not much detail here, the further link in paywalled: http://gigaom.com/2014/05/21/google-reportedly-plans-to-target-businesses-with-wi-fi/ - Jim ___ Link mailing list Link@mailman.anu.edu.au

Re: [LINK] The Robots Are Coming, And They Are Replacing Workers

On Kim Holburn quoth: The robots are coming, and they are going to take millions of our jobs. Or, as Stephen Hawking, wrote recently: “If a superior alien civilization sent us a message saying, ‘We'll arrive in a few decades,’ would we just reply, ‘OK, call us when you get here – we'll leave

Re: [LINK] Functional Programming

On 10 July 2014 01:35, Rick Welykochy wrote: Novel, eh? Indeed. Microsoft has their functional programming language (F#) as part of Visual Studio. Therefore, functional programming isn't novel. :) Jim ___ Link mailing list Link@mailman.anu.edu.au

Re: [LINK] AEC to release secret voting source code

On 11 July 2014 13:43, Stephen Loosley wrote: “The AEC hardline position in trying to discredit Mr Cordover as a vexatious litigant is an abuse of the law under which the AEC operates and raises the very relevant question, what do they have to hide? The Palmer bug? :) More realistically,

Re: [LINK] That AEC Senate vote code

The Australian government's Easycount Senate vote counting source code is in visual basic. 360,000 lines of it. Aha. That's why they fought tooth and nail to block it's release: Shame :) Jim On 16 July 2014 20:46, Rachel Polanskis gr...@exemail.com.au wrote: On 16 Jul 2014, at 8:30 pm,

Re: [LINK] Google's harvesting algorithms

I'm not sure that harvesting is such a big issue here, Google already harvest data from your email and everything else. If everyone used gmail they would be perfectly happy with the status quo but a lot of the world has moved on from email. I think what Google are attempting here is to add

Re: [LINK] RFI: Clock Synchronisation in Hosts

I hadn't noticed this. Have you adjusted your time servers? It seems like the process might be stuck. There's some info on the osx time management process here http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/117864/how-can-i-tell-if-my-mac-is-keeping-the-clock-updated-properly Which includes this

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

On 24 November 2014 at 21:07, Michael wrote: To respond to jore and common sense, of course growth is finite, but remember that in addition to growth through expansion, there is growth through efficiencies (productivity). It's not even obvious that that growth is finite. Economic growth is

Re: [LINK] Lifts that move sideways

This would allow bigger and wider buildings. As more floor space is added at upper floors more elevators required are required. The height limit is reached when the whole ground floor is lift wells so adding more floors is more-or-less useless. This is also why very high buildings get thinner

Re: [LINK] From my friend re NBN change

Paul Brooks wrote: 3. Telstra appear to be forcing all NBN connections to buy and connect a Telstra-provided home gateway/router to the NBN connection to provide the telephone service as VoIP using the Telstra gateway, not using the in-built VoIP capability of the NBN box. Is there a

Re: [LINK] Net Neutrality in US

On 6 February 2015 at 11:53, Jeremy Visser jer...@sunriseroad.net wrote: Australian ISPs are definitely not “neutral” OTOH Australian ISP are sitting on a more-or-less open infrastructure and are not milking vertical markets like happens (relentlessly) in the US. What seems to be the major

Re: [LINK] web: Microsoft unveils holographic glasses, gives Windows 10 away for free

On 22 January 2015 at 10:14, Brendan wrote: I presume it's the drug dealer play. The first hit is 'free', but after that you're no longer 'free'. I think Microsoft might end up going permanently free with Windows OS, for home users at least. (Large businesses still have a lot of lock-in to

Re: [LINK] Surviving Climate Change

On 22 January 2015 at 17:11, jore commun...@thoughtmaybe.com wrote: Most built on cooperation and mutual aid. It's what makes life possible. It is certainly what allows some the advanced life of humans and possibly some other mammals to occur but it by no means underlies nature. We are

Re: [LINK] Surviving Climate Change

of technologies to pump the process. If anything, the mindset has improved, just not as fast and uniformly as the capability for destruction. Rabbits can do something similar without the aid of any ideology at all (as a quick look in my suburban backyard reveals.) Jim David Boxall wrote: Jim Birch

Re: [LINK] Impossible engine

On 20 January 2015 at 23:47, Stephen Loosley stephenloos...@zoho.com wrote: the drive may work by pushing against the ghostly cloud of particles and anti-particles that are constantly popping into being and disappearing again in empty space Better wear a tin foil hat when a levitating

Re: [LINK] www.MedicalCertificate.me

Is there an API to connect to a nextgen Fitbit? Jim ___ Link mailing list Link@mailman.anu.edu.au http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link

Re: [LINK] Carbon Price Removal Rebate

What totally beats me about this is what people think the government does with all this tax money. Do they image the government hides it under a bed somewhere? Hello? It should read: Carbon Price Removal Rebate 01/07/2014 - 25/11/2014 $36.57 Your share of reduced government services and

Re: [LINK] Thieves using a $17 power amplifier to break into cars with remote keyless systems

David Lochrin wrote: However I could imagine a break-in device which simply recorded the response when the owner was nearby and played it back when they were away, a form of man-in-the-middle attack Does that mean there is no challenge/response protocol in this system? Hard to believe -

Re: [LINK] Thieves using a $17 power amplifier to break into cars with remote keyless systems

On 22 April 2015 at 14:55, David Lochrin dloch...@d2.net.au wrote: A challenge-response scheme would require the owner to get out the key and do something (what you know) which would defeat the whole purpose. If the key signal can be recorded and played back this would be extremely weak

Re: [LINK] web: 'Gorillas': Google Photos uses racist tag on black friends, provoking backl ...

There's a bit of anthropomorphic conflation going on here. I wouldn't take the results of a photo matching algorithm too personally. Jim On 2 July 2015 at 12:10, Jan Whitaker jw...@janwhitaker.com wrote: Remember the pink skin filters from Senator Dick to make the internet safe from those

Re: [LINK] Any way to save a tablet?

Try going to the Boot menu then to Recovery Mode. I'm not sure what the options are there but can probably do some different reset. I think I'd be trying to eliminate some app configuration data first, then delete apps, then full factory reset. On my Google Nexus 5 I get the boot menu by

Re: [LINK] web: Higher divorce fee remains for online applications

On the positive side, online dating is cheaper. :) Jim ___ Link mailing list Link@mailman.anu.edu.au http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link

Re: [LINK] Wikipedia, ontroversial science vulnerable to sabotage

It is impossible for the Wikipedia model to work well on quasi-religious tribal topics. Who would seriously think otherwise? It's generally great, or the least great start, on non-controversial subjects, especially technical subjects. Jim ___ Link

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] 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] Electromagnetic Hyper Sensitivity

As I see it, these effects, if they exist at all, are pretty small. There have been numerous epidemiological studies of mobile phone use including some with good design and high numbers. None have found anything more than what looks like noise and, importantly, no one has found a dose-related

Re: [LINK] Electromagnetic Hyper Sensitivity

It should be very easy to purchase a clip on rf filter and put it on the earpiece cable. Though a lot harder to draw conclusions from any perceived results... Jim ___ Link mailing list Link@mailman.anu.edu.au

Re: [LINK] Electromagnetic Hyper Sensitivity

On 9 September 2015 at 15:38, David Lochrin wrote: > Just as a nitpick, an antenna doesn't normally radiate according to an > inverse-square law. Just as a nitpick, that's still inverse square fall off, it's just not omnidirectional. To break inverse square you need a

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

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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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

[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

[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] 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

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] 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

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] 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] 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] 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] 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

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