And the opposition are busy "opposing", so they aren't going to support anything the government wants to do.

Most of the secuirty industry is light years behind the rest of the world, their gear is really basic, the software to manage it is atrocious and the way they operate is very archaic. Imagine the dismay on the installers face when he asked for an Analogue phone line and the best we could offer him was a port on our FXS gateway (yeah not a great idea), we eventually convinced them to install a GPRS card in the system.

Actually I would be very surprised. They would have to do a complete 180 flip on how they've behaved as the opposing party for the last 3 years. Which mainly consists of opposing everything and slagging off at every opportunity. I dare say that's part of the reason why the Greens got 4% of the swing away from Labor and the Coalition (liberals) only got 1.5%. Admittedly they need to change their tactics, but being a conservative party, change isn't going to happen fast.

My facts are my personal experiences over the years, so take that as a testimonial of some random Internet user. But for a better and more complete explanation the quicktime alternative was written for a reason and the facts stated here may go a long way to let you know why. I mean seriously a picture viewer? Also, why on earth would a I want a _Video Codec_ to install a system service for updating and another one for making quicktime load faster for that 1 time every six months I'll use it. Applications that behave in this manner are a personal pet hat of mine (I repackage applications for a living) and Apple are big culprits for doing this (they are not alone here, I'm looking at you Adobe).

Offtopic note: Answering slashdot posts whilst taking hell desk calls doesn't always work as expected ;)

IMO Opinion quicktime causes windows to slow down and also likes to install background services. The Quicktime Alternative is just far less bloated and seems to work just as well. Also you aren't forced to use the quicktime player, it just behaves like any other normal video codec.

iTunes without QuickTime Get iTune Not necessarily. I don't own one, but a few of my friends have iDevices and the only way I'll support them is if they let me install itunes this way!

Consumer grade HPs have really massive bloated drivers. Steer clear. Fuji Xerox stuff is a bit more spendy, but tend to support a heap of standards and have tiny drivers.

There is a choice, don't vote for the major parties - Vote Green - No Filter and Support the NBN

I think a lot more of the money comes from Businesses and Mining

Thanks, I couldn't remember if I saw it recently on Ubuntu. I definitely recall it during the debian install I did the other day.

Debian and (I think) Ubuntu have a package called Popularity Contest which reports the package usage, completely optional and asks if you want to join it post installation.

Because this is something between the government and Google, although that's not the point I was making. The government were actively directing the ISPs in the trial to intercept peoples data. Google inadvertently captured a few packets of data that was actively being _broadcast_ in an unencrypted format. The only reason that my laptop isn't currently capturing my neighbors unencrypted wireless packets is that by default wireless cards are set to ignore everything that isn't addressed to them.

The point I'm trying to make, is what's good for the goose is good for the gander. Just because they are the government, doesn't mean the rules don't apply. Google screwed up, but it's not as big a deal as Senator Conroy made it out to be and they certainly didn't capture any banking details (or anything remotely usefull, go capture a couple of packets of your data using wireshark, you'll see how much a single packet contains).

Indeed, the only reason your wireless adapter in your device doesn't receive the data is because it _voluntarily_ checks whether it is destined for it or not.

It's not ok for google to inadvertadly capture minute packets of useless information, but it's ok for the government to direct ISPs to intercept data illegally.

The Australian Labor party have time and time again broken their promises, Barging ahead with Policies that their citizens do no want and completely fucking up things they tried to achieve

The only reason Google are in hot water is because they stood up to Senator Conroy and he got upset about it.

I for one will be making my vote count this year and I urge all fellow Australian slashdotters to do the same.