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Comment Re:FUD (Score 2) 208

Didn't the US government already try to do this, like 2 decades or so ago?

Yep. The International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) control the export and import of defense-related articles and services on the United States Munitions List. Until approx 1997, ITAR classified strong cryptography as arms and prohibited their export from the U.S. So welcome back to pre-97 Australia...

Comment Re:High cost of open plan (Score 2) 133

DeMaro & Lister looked at the impact of open plan vs closed offices on productivity waaay back in 1987 in the first edition of "Peopleware". Alas senior management and the beancounters still seem to just look at the capital cost & seem to think partitions are cheaper. I guess they are when the company decides to downsize the cubes to squeeze more sheep into the farm.
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Aussie Attorney General Says Gamers Are Scarier Than Biker Gangs 409

Sasayaki writes "South Australian Attorney-General Michael Atkinson claims, in an interview with Good Game, that gamers were more of a threat to his family than biker gangs. This is the man who has been the biggest opponent to Australia receiving an R18+ rating for video games and who has the power to veto any such law introducing it."

Comment Really a scheme to scupper the filter plan? (Score 1) 674

There is another possible slant to this announcement - perhaps Conroy is intentionally trying to sink the scheme by showing how hard the control of P2P traffic will be. The media coverage and public feedback is impossible for him to ignore - indeed we know he's not ignoring it due to the blog set up, etc, and Conroy is very selective in when he chooses to answer questions regarding this.

The government now knows how unpopular this idea is, but still has top "play the game" of placating the supporters of the scheme. By extending the live trial to cover P2P traffic as well, they can get even more damning results of how ineffectual and obrtusive the filtering will be, and so will be able to throw the scheme out with a "well, we tried..."

Yes, I know I'm probably completely delusional... ;-)

Comment Re:ADSL Quotas - Standard Practice in Australia (Score 1) 421

I have never heard of a plan that does not count both uploads and downloads. Is there a specific example of a plan that excludes uploads?

Most (all?) of Internode's plans are a good example - http://bc.whirlpool.net.au/bc/isp-9-1/internode-home-adsl.htm - there may be some caveats to that, but for the most part I understand there is no limit, which is great for the P2P fans - no need to worry about being shaped due to uploading too much.

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