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Comment Brag about it and get snapped! (Score 5, Informative) 214

They had an entire episode on one of the current affairs TV shows here in Australia dedicated to cyber crime. The very next day this article came out.

The way they were talking on the TV show you're lead to believe they worked hard and displayed decent technical knowledge and skills. Nice to know my tax dollars pay for a department that doesn't even have a secure server. However according to the article the police stated that it was a seperate network with no actual worthwhile data or connection to the real network

Comment But does it play... (Score 1) 142

My netbook serves primarily 3 functions
  1. Web Associated activities most heavily flash related because that's how everyone rolls now
  2. Word Processing I'm a P/T student Essays & Reports :(
  3. Music & Movies

If I can't do all these things out of the box on a Linux distro I'm going to fall back to windows because after messing about with the relatively mainstream RH & Debian based distros I can't be stuffed reading through forums to work out how to tweak for making things work in Linux anymore.

Comment Re:Australian Labor Governments (Score 1) 189

I'm pretty sure the sale of Telstra went into funding all federal employees super annuation liability the government has on their records of course the current government got rid of that "future fund" and we still have the monopoly and nothing to show yet but the NBN might remove Telstra's monopoly more so on local data

Comment Re:Not very good blocking software (Score 1) 184

Your post is bound to be filtered out by my government overlords sooner or later.

On the other hand do you have a proxy server you can lend me to filter the internet through?

Please let me know before it's too late and my internet is cut o

<THIS POST HAS BEEN TERMINATED BY THE AUSTRALIAN FEDERAL GOVERNMENT>

Censorship

Verizon Cutting Access To Entire Alt.* Usenet Hierarchy 579

modemac writes "Verizon has declared it will no longer offer access to the entire alt.* hierarchy of Usenet newsgroups to its customers. This stems from last week's agreement for major ISPs to cut off access to 'newsgroups and Web sites' that make child pornography available. The story notes, 'No law requires Verizon to do this. Instead, the company (and, to varying extents, Time Warner Cable and Sprint) agreed to restrictions on Usenet in response to political strong-arming by New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat. Cuomo claimed that his office found child porn on 88 newsgroups — out of roughly 100,000 newsgroups that exist.' In response, Verizon will cut its customers off from a large portion of Usenet, as it will only carry newsgroups in the Big 8."

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