KenMcM - Slashdot User

Comment: Re:Our internet filter (Score 1) 143

by KenMcM on Monday March 15 2010, @04:30AM (#31479184) Attached to: Filter Vendor Agrees Aussie Censorship Can't Work As Promised

Maybe this could have been the motive for the filter when it was planned to use the ACMA blacklist, which is designed for children. Now that it only filters RC, the opposition could ask the same question. Why did you give a laptop to Little Mikey with a fibreoptic connection to boobies? Why does your filter not protect Mikey from boobies?

Comment: Re:Hurr. (Score 5, Funny) 629

by KenMcM on Thursday February 25 2010, @12:33AM (#31268530) Attached to: Beliefs Conform To Cultural Identities

Here here.

Where!?

Comment: Law to be repealed (Score 2, Informative) 352

by KenMcM on Tuesday February 02 2010, @10:30AM (#30994854) Attached to: South Australia Outlaws Anonymous Political Speech

Attorney-General Michael Atkinson has just vowed to repeal this law.

Comment: Carriers can mess with this? (Score 5, Interesting) 90

by KenMcM on Saturday January 30 2010, @12:28AM (#30959370) Attached to: Google Deducing Wireless Location Data

What's stopping carriers from deliberately slowing transmission rates for random customers during random intervals? Just enough such that Google's data is inaccurate.

Comment: S/MIME support? (Score 1) 275

by KenMcM on Wednesday January 13 2010, @11:58PM (#30760610) Attached to: Gmail Moves To HTTPS By Default

When will Google provide S/MIME support natively?

Comment: Re:Definitely questions for... (Score 1) 434

by KenMcM on Wednesday November 25 2009, @09:17PM (#30232610) Attached to: Australian Govt. Proposes Internet "Panic Button" For Kids

Is cyber-bullying even illegal?

You bet. See Section 474.17 of Schedule 1 of the Criminal Code Act 1995. From the page:

474.17 Using a carriage service to menace, harass or cause offence
(1) A person is guilty of an offence if:
(a) the person uses a carriage service; and
(b) the person does so in a way (whether by the method of use or the content of a communication, or both) that reasonable persons would regard as being, in all the circumstances, menacing, harassing or offensive.
Penalty: Imprisonment for 3 years.

Australians aren't nearly as thick-skinned/tough as people think they are.

Comment: Twitter can serve everyone! (Score 1) 205

by KenMcM on Friday October 02 2009, @03:30AM (#29614519) Attached to: UK Court Order Served Over Twitter, To Anonymous User Posing As Another

My congratulations to the Court for their embrace of technology. I propose that we use social networking to serve legal papers to everybody! Not using twitter? Not a problem! Enough RTs will mean somebody you know can hand you the tinyurl address to the PDF!

Comment: Re:My ISP (EXETEL) already does this.. (Score 2, Interesting) 286

by KenMcM on Tuesday September 15 2009, @04:14AM (#29423443) Attached to: Australian ISPs Asked To Cut Off Malware-Infected PCs

Exetel also conducted a trial of its own in regard to ISP level web filtering technologies. It made participation in this trial mandatory for all of its subscribers, disallowing them the freedom to opt-out. There's some food for thought.

Comment: Re:Good luck mate (Score 1) 464

by KenMcM on Monday September 07 2009, @08:21AM (#29338975) Attached to: Church of Scientology Proposes Net Censorship In Australia

I believe much more people than 30-40% were against net censorship, but look what happened...

The stubborn Senator still hasn't drafted any bill and Parliament haven't voted? Seriously, what happened? As far as I'm aware, nothing aside from the termination of the government-funded home software filter scheme has happened. This is good, it means we have the ability to prevent anything more from happening. That is, unless you've raised the white flag before the battle began.

Nigeria To Prosecute More Scammers-> 0

Submitted by KenMcM on Wednesday September 02 2009, @09:20AM

KenMcM writes "Nigerian high commissioner Olu Agbi has promised to ramp up the prosecution of '419' fraudsters.

From the article:
The Nigerian Government has teamed up with Queensland Police to create an "online reporting system" on the Queensland Police website where any Australians who believe they have been targeted by a scam can report it directly to Nigeria's Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).

Police say this will greatly speed up investigations and solve the problem of victims not reporting scams to police because they are embarrassed or feel foolish."
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