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Journal Journal: Revealed: US flew spy drone missions from Australia 7

Perhaps from the "No shit Sherlock dept".
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-09-03/revealed-us-flew-drone-missions-from-australia/4236306
'The United States flew highly classified Global Hawk spy drone missions from the Royal Australian Air Force base at Edinburgh in South Australia from late 2001 until at least 2006.

Sci-Fi

Journal Journal: Breaking news - digital multimedia rights holder gets a clue

http://blogs.abc.net.au/abc_tv/2012/08/the-doctor-to-premiere-on-iview.html
" ABC TV is thrilled to announce that in true time-lord style, the first episode of Season 7 of Doctor Who, "Asylum of the Daleks", will now premiere on iview Sunday, 2 September from 5.10am EST immediately after its UK launch on 1 September.

Music

Journal Journal: Some things for you

Yes I have been mostly absent. This may continue. Actually flicking thru the je's in a feed reader (the only way to deal with the je spam) and occasional front page story.

Comment It takes a worried man to sing a worried song (Score 1) 9

It takes a worried man to sing a worried song

I went across the river and I lay down to sleep
Went across the river and I lay down to sleep
Went across the river and I lay down to sleep
When I woke up, put the shackles on my feet

It takes a worried man to sing a worried song
It takes a worried man to sing a worried song
It takes a worried man to sing a worried song
Worried now but I won't be worried long

User Journal

Journal Journal: I can hope this isn't just an election strategy

Wayne Swan Deputy PM and currently acting leader while Julia is on holidays, continues his attack on what he sees as looming inequality and social distortion. How far would he get in USA arguing for higher taxes and more spending on the disadvantaged?
Sorry to criticise the USA but I think your politics and economy is pretty screwed up and I don't see how you are going to get out of it.
Of course given the governments current polling it could just be a Hail Mary pass, but they have bee

User Journal

Journal Journal: War, what is it good for? 2

http://www.themonthly.com.au/winning-enemies-john-birmingham-5260
"But by the time Stanley McChrystal arrived to bring his very special talents to bear on the problem of the ‘forgotten war’, his best estimates of the number of surviving Al Qaeda fighters in Afghanistan was somewhere a little north of one hundred men. As recently released documents show, even bin Laden despaired of how far his creation had fallen. But by then, of course, there were other enemies to fight, pretty

User Journal

Journal Journal: No conspiracy theory here, just the facts

http://www.zdnet.com/the-google-search-human-trafficking-and-drug-cartels-7000001027/
"Google Ideas, the think tank of the technology giant, has been quietly working with the Council on Foreign Relations and other relevant organizations over the past several months. The aim? To combat drug cartels, money launderers and human traffickers who run their operations through digital networks."

"Stewart Patrick, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations said:

Comment Re:They have cash? (Score 1) 183

Just because - use of amazon AWS to meet excess capacity setup
http://oduinn.com/blog/2012/07/11/releng-production-systems-go-hybrid-now-available-on-aws/
"As of Friday afternoon (10jul2012), RelEng started generating a small number of production builds and try builds on Amazon Web Services."
tl;dr Mozilla has an arrangement that when the queue on Moz hardware gets too long they call AWS to take up the slack

Pretty pics, notes, lessons, considerations (security 1st) all at the link

Comment Re:They have cash? (Score 2) 183

Of course the government can either do it itself and be accused of being behind the time, wasting money on a depreciating asset and having over the top security requirements or;
has lost control of its IT infrastructure and is paying too much for the cloud services.

They aren't going to win.

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