Remember that Malcolm Turnbull also said:

” The laws of Australia prevail in Australia, I can assure you of that,” he said on Friday. “The laws of mathematics are very commendable, but the only law that applies in Australia is the law of Australia.”

Similarly I think Scott Morisson is going down the same track, saying that URL HTTP Refs will need to obey Australian Law.

I don't think Scotty knows how the Internet works.

just tried to login. Failed. Just tried to reset my password. They say my account does not exist.

Maybe they've restored to an old backup?

Yes you can. Australia has.

There's a difference from being stateless and being stranded.

Just filter on an off-box parent device

I'm typing this on my mid-2012 MBP 15".

Yes it's got a non-functioning webcam, and the MicroSD card reader doesn't work.
But it's been upgraded to 16GB and 1TB SSD for a couple of hundred dollars.

To get equivalent mem/storage would mean forking out AU$4400. And that's a "side"grade, not an upgrade.

I thought memory / space was supposed to double every 18 months?

Don't media companies OWE Google, rather than the other way around, since their news articles are being prioritized?

When you click on the Google News article, does it take you to the original site?

Google could just hide the media results and their traffic share would decrease.

Isn't this called cutting off your nose to spite your face?

Australia does this a lot:

eg import duties on books to protect the Australian book industry - End result - Borders and Angus Robertson go bust
eg luxury car tax - End result - Mitsubishi, Holden, Ford and Toyota pull out of Australia
eg eBike regulations - Australians don't get access to decent (750W) eBikes
eg GST on all imports to protect billionaire electronics retailers who claim foul (whilst not passing on forex rates)
eg crippled Amazon.com.au where almost anything you want isn't available. (and you can't ship from amazon.com or amazon.co.uk)

Re: Australia got rid of the virus with much less pain

No. Australia has not got rid of the virus. There hasn't been a single day of zero new infections yet. It's still bubbling around. And I bet in 7-14 days, we'll have a surge from the mass gatherings over last weekend.

To drive.

Mobile device distraction is a plague on society. In Australia if you so much as touch or hold a device with a screen-phone, tablet etc, even whilst stationary, it's a $450 fine and 3 demerit points. Double in NSW over the holidays.

Next time I'm in SF, I'll watch the Giants at Oracle Park.

On second thoughts, maybe not. Oracle would want me to pay for 42000 seats, because I could theoretically sit in any one.

There was a bug in WinNT 3.5 which meant that when you moved the mouse, the interrupts from it would slow the system to a crawl.

Still waiting for MS to deliver on their promise of eliminating Spam.

How would they enforce this on ESXi, which is already pretty minimal? Put an agent on every single VM?

Seems like a last-ditch effort by dairy/meat producers to try to counteract the ever diminishing demand. Now that consumers are enlightened through social media and youtube to what goes on in factory farming, there's a lot more people thinking twice about what they consume.

>>> FWIW, I have been using Linux since 1992 when SLS was distributed on 12 floppy disks.
Nice!

I used the MCC 3.5" 720kb interim release which had a root disk and a boot disk. Kernel 0.12 or something. But if you want a real challenge, take a really really old distro (eg SLS 1.05), and using only the tools that it comes with and any source code you can get on the web, upgrade it to first 32-bit ELF, with a 1.x then 2.x kernel, then upgrade it to libc6 rather than libc4, then upgrade it to 64-bit ELF, then upgrade all the binutils, GCC, and kernel

/:rdvtest101:~$ ls -lad /etc/motd
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 216 Mar 22 1994 /etc/motd
/:rdvtest101:~$ cat /etc/motd

Softlanding Software (604) 592-0188, gentle touch downs from DOS bailouts.
Welcome to Linux SLS 1.05. Type "mesh" for a menu driven interface.
Fresh installations should use "syssetup" to link the X servers, etc.

/:rdvtest101:~$ uname -a
Linux rdvtest101 5.1.0 #1 SMP Tue May 7 13:59:27 EST 2019 x86_64 GNU/Linux
/:rdvtest101:~$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/vg_root-lv_root 50G 17G 31G 35% /
tmpfs 128M 20K 128M 1% /var/run
/dev/sda1 991M 89M 836M 10% /boot
tmpfs 128M 0 128M 0% /dev/shm
tmpfs 128M 8.0K 128M 1% /tmp

Maybe a challenge for dark winter evenings. Have fun!

Via a lot of compilation it's possible to update SLS 1.05 to the latest tools. I haven't the heart to delete /etc/motd. Big challenges were getting ELF going. getting libc6 going and cross compiling 64 bit from 32-bit. Now it's a 100% 64-bit system: /:softland:~$ cat /etc/motd

Softlanding Software (604) 592-0188, gentle touch downs from DOS bailouts.
Welcome to Linux SLS 1.05. Type "mesh" for a menu driven interface.
Fresh installations should use "syssetup" to link the X servers, etc. /:softland:~$ uname -a
Linux softland 4.16.14 #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun Jun 10 02:52:51 EST 2018 x86_64 unknown /:softland:~$ ld -v
GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.30 /:softland:~$ gcc -v
Using built-in specs.
COLLECT_GCC=gcc
COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=/usr/libexec/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/7.3.0/lto-wrapper
Target: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
Configured with: ../configure --target=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu --build=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu --host=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu --prefix=/usr --enable-languages=c,c++
Thread model: posix
gcc version 7.3.0 (GCC)