I'm an actual Starlink user at my farm. It's head-and-shoulders better than any competing service.

I previously has used a cellular uplink... and even with a yagi mounted 30' up on a mast, I barely had 1-2Mb/s of bandwidth. It was truly miserable.

Starlink is a game-changer... give 'em the freakin' money. They've done something truly miraculous for rural internet users, who had previously only terrible/expensive options. As a taxpayer, I'm actually glad to see the money I contribute going to something useful.

Townsville has a cyclone affect the city every 5 to 10 years. That's not even going over, just within 100km. Most of the houses are built to cyclone standards and have been for 30+ years. Damage is minimal, a handful of older houses and a bit of localized inundation - the river catchment is too small for flooding.
Brisbane, the state capital city, on the other hand has major flood and hail every 2 to 3 years.
Guess where the "uninsurable" areas are? Certainly not where all the head offices and political and business leaders are located.

"Woke, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC"

Do I grievously misremember, or did this sig once say:

SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC

There's a writeup of the apparent exploit that was used, which stated with "dl.asp" and then used several others to infect the server.

https://www.scmagazine.com/kas...

I just did a google search for "dl.asp" and the first hit is from Kaseya's community forum site in 2010, discussing the fact that it has no security restrictions. I can't see the original page, as the server's not responding, but google is offering a cached copy of the page, as does the wayback machine.

Here's the links:

http://community.kaseya.com/xs...

http://webcache.googleusercont...

https://web.archive.org/web/20...

No mod points, so I'll post a reply.

I agree completely on all points. The ACCC has given Australia one of the best consumer protection frameworks in the world, despite the repeated efforts of the current government and corporations to make it otherwise.

Google ads don't hog bandwidth or CPU. They're reasonably sized static images or text content.
So, no, there's no exception for Google ads. But it wouldn't change anything if there were

This was true in 2005. It is no longer so.

... if it *were* to be approved.

Agreed. The last 20 years have not been kind to this place.

And I think we're there.

You think we're there? What cringeworthy, random, flailing act on the part of this administration can you possibly point to to make that claim? Contact tracing depends upon one very important datum - knowing exactly where the disease is and is not at any given point in time. Given that the goal thus far has been to block access to testing in order to keep the confirmed case count down, how could you possibly assert that it's even possible to know this?

And even if you managed to get that far, all you'd do is meaningfully establish where the starting blocks are. To characterize anything Trump has done as an effort comparable to the Apollo or Mahatten(sic) projects is an exaggeration on par with Caligula claiming to have conquered England after some legionaries whacked some reeds with their swords.

not great, not terrible.

That's *one* way to keep the count of confirmed cases down.

So you're saying that the time to raise taxes is after the average global temperature goes up by more than 5 degrees? If that happens, there won't be anything to tax.

The ongoing global climate war worsens and civilization collapses.

And this is a big reason why, after 10 some odd years of using Android, I recently switched to an iPhone.

... after having been an Android user for 10+ years, specifically for this kind of thing. Apple is far from perfect, but they're the only big player pretending to give a shit about user privacy. With an Android phone, by the time you get done with the preinstalled crapware from the phone manufacturer, network provider, and Google, your entire damn life is an open book to gods know who.