In Australia government will be suing corporation for not spying on their users. (metadata retention laws)

I call bullshit, what do you base that on ?

When Jacob Applebaum was at LCA he mentioned key IT people at one of the Major ISPs say they didnt snoop.

If it has always been done by industry arguing about passing on the cost to customer ?
(this government is so tight they wouldnt compoensate anyone if they had any choice)

There was a poll done by essential media, who do regular party polling (not the best), but often ask interesting questions.

Question + Result here http://essentialvision.com.au/...

The voters of both major parties dont want this legislation, but both parties negotiated so there is "bipartisan support on national security".

No effective opposition mean no effective democracy.

Next up is the censorship bill, or three strikes or whatever which will likely go the same way.

If you have to get the computer that close to the machine you want to hack, then you could just drop by occasionaly and connect a cable/wifi to it and do a data dump.

Perhaps pver the last 25 years she become good at her job, and gets more referals because of that, or maybe there is some other explanation as to why she as an individual has seen more attempted suicides.

I think i know why she isnt a computer programmer

"The more common definition, however, is that transmitting and receiving can be done simultaneously"

If it is transmitting and receiving as fast as the TX or RX could do in its own channel, then yes i would call that full duplex.

But if they are reducing the data transmission rates in order to share the same medium then it really is half duplex.

Blind obediance to your newslords...

By definition its not full duplex if its using a shared channel to transmit and receive.

Looks like what they have is a fast switching half duplex.

I second the MS sculpt keyboard, your wrists sit on the front which is higher than the back. Your fingertips just naturally hover over the keys with straight wrists, and its just veyr restful.

I also like the weirdo mouse (combo), but it took me a while to get used to it, i kept tiping it over... you rests the side of your hand on the desk which saves the palm of my hand from getting sore. Still use a flat mouse for gaming though, wouldnt want this weirdo one for that.

Having the seperate numeric pad means the mouse is a lot closer to your right hand so you dont have to move it so far.

Hard to improve on.

For the first time in history, a prototype story has been created that is claimed to be completely buzzwords,

Their profits i imagine.

A human brain will accept all sorts of compromised logic to get something it really wants.

Its based on proprietary software from 3rd party vendors. (drivers at least).

Its just a marketing exercise, technically no security or privacy, at best they force their adversaries to change methods.

Agent Smith has more humanity than Mr "die or relocate" Kokuyo

"I'd like to share a revelation that I've had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species and I realized that you're not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment but you humans do not. You move to an area and you multiply and multiply until every natural resource is consumed and the only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet. You're a plague and we are the cure." - Agnt Smith, The Matrix

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