As an Australian who grew up loving my country... I am fucking glad I left more than 5 years ago.

Australia is slowly turning to shit. :/

Yeah, i'm not really happy with the Useragent situation. That clusterfuck needs to be sorted. I'm surprised it wasn't somehow forced as part of the HTML5 or HTTP2.0 spec.

Or how about we stop this barbaric practice? It's 2015. We're not living in the fucking middle ages anymore.

What the fuck is wrong with Americans, I swear.

Are they a venture backed startup full of bronies?

So, wait. If everyone starts posting this all over facebook will the UK ISP's have no choice but to block facebook.com, too ?

No. Never.

I'm an Australian who has lived in a few countries and currently live in the US on a visa. I'd like to get my greencard, BUT NEVER CITIZENSHIP. The tax headache alone is NOT WORTH IT.

If the IRS ever changes its laws on citizens, then maybe, but that is not currently the case.

Btw, the NZ Herald Articles:

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/n...

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/n...

The key point also:

But the Snowden papers show that counter-terrorism is at most a minor part of the GCSB's operations. Most projects are assisting the US and allies to gather political and economic intelligence country-by-country around the world.

Is the general attitude of the public simply not giving a shit. This is currently front page news in the New Zealand Herald but it'll quickly be gone and forgotten, and nothing will change.

What is the deal with the general public's apathy when it comes to NSA/GCQH/GCSB/etc ?

Are we really at the point where it's too late to do anything about this and just admit defeat?

You're so wrong you're embarrassing yourself.

Thomas the Train? wth? I thought it was Thomas the Tank Engine. *checks* Yeah, according to wikipedia, Thomas the Tank Engine is the name.

Is this another one of those Where's Wally vs Where's Waldo things? o_O

It's already opensource?

Ya, no shit. As someone who is from downunder, holy CRAP America is in the dark ages when it comes to its banking and communications systems.

Jesus christ.

And the funny thing is, they are so blissfully unaware things are better elsewhere in the world because none of them ever go anywhere anymore.

I agree, this is a serious problem. I see it all the time. But not EVERYONE is like this.

I have a deep understanding of Windows technologies (since NT4, AD, Exchange 2003 through 2008, SQL Server and more) as well as Linux (been using it since 1995), FreeBSD (1993), OpenBSD, Solaris, and more and most opensource technologies like MySQL, Sendmail, Postfix, Exim, Courier, Dovecot, Bind, etc. Hell, even stuff like Oracle.

I also have a deep understanding of programming (C, C++, C#, Java, Perl, PHP, JavaScript, Assembly, and more) and other IT technologies such as Storage (EMC, IBM, NetApp and newer technologies like Tintri), Virtualization (arguably, mostly only VMware ESX), and Networking (Cisco and Juniper switches and routers, all the way up to the really big stuff like MX960s.)

I like to use the right technology for the job. Even though I _prefer_ Linux or Unix based solutions, I will use the right tool for the job. Sometimes FreeBSD or Solaris is better (such as when ZFS is concerned.) Sometimes Windows is the better solution (granted, not often. Mostly just as AD for windows desktops.)

Yeah. We exist. We're called Senior Systems Engineers and Systems Architects. There might be a short supply of us, though. My skills got me a visa and I now live in the SF Bay Area because my employer spent over a year looking for a local and couldn't find one that was any fucking good.

Wow. Where to start with this post.

North Korea does not just have 1 router. And most countries do not have 'more' routers. Countries have tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of routers.

192.168.0.0/16 and 10.0.0.0/8 are private IP addresses. You can use the same private range as your neighbour and their neighbours neighbour.

As others have noted, North Korea probably has lots of small networks with a government mandated router listening on 10.76.1.11 on each one of those networks.

Because nobody in North Korea posts articles or blogs. (I'd love to see one if there was.) The common North Korean citizen does not get internet access. If you're lucky enough to get internet access (you're of some high status) it is only the internal internet (or North Korean Intranet) not the outside internet. Only the supreme ruling elite get access to the outside Internet.

That is why you won't find articles or blog posts from people from within North Korea....

Are you talking about mikeselectricstuff? I watch that channel too!