<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Well of course, they don't even consider it... no doubt they'll try and outlaw<div>the use of those devices, too, since they get in the way of their fantasies of </div><div>control.</div><div><br></div><div>I'm convinced the deranged idiots who dream up these totally impractical</div><div>ideas started their careers in barely technical public positions where the </div><div>most wonderful idea that came out of their heads was to prevent their staff </div><div>from using the right click button (for fear that someone might change their </div><div>desktop background to something racy).</div><div><br></div><div>No doubt they were congratulated by an equally deranged manager, who</div><div>praised them for preventing any litigation.</div><div><br></div><div>Meanwhile they cement their career in keeping the government firmly </div><div>wedged up Microsoft's arse by running networks with only one operating </div><div>system, office productivity suite and hardware platform - scarcely bothering</div><div>to investigate elsewhere (as the dudes from FreeBSD won't take you </div><div>out to dinner for using <i>their</i> software).</div><div><br></div><div>Any no matter how they look at things, this becomes the only way to approach</div><div>a desktop computing environment - by being in control of <i>everything</i>.</div><div><br></div><div>I'm sure it shouldn't come as a great shock to this community that they believe </div><div>that this should just be scaled up to work for <i>everybody</i>.</div><div><br></div><div>With a taste of this control and power, they continue to ooze up the policy</div><div>ladder equipped with buzz words (or even just as a steaming, bumbling mess </div><div>like Conroy: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gl7X6peh-w">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gl7X6peh-w</a>), hoping to one day </div><div>arrive at a position where they can exert this level of demi-god like behaviour </div><div>on more and more people - hell, perhaps even the entire country.</div><div><br></div><div>... and here we are.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>-- Tom</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On 22/06/2010, at 2:31 PM, Dobbins, Roland wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><br>On Jun 22, 2010, at 11:45 AM, Sean K. Finn wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite">Australians would be unable to access the internet without having anti-virus and firewall programs installed and a virus-free machine under a new plan put forward by a year-long parliamentary cyber-crime inquiry.<br></blockquote><br>How does one install antivirus & a 'firewall' on one's iPhone, iPad, home router, XBox 360, PS3, Wii, & HDTV?<br><br>Why would one wish to do so, when the end-result is the same - botted hosts - with or without antivirus & 'firewalls'?<br><br>-----------------------------------------------------------------------<br>Roland Dobbins <<a href="mailto:rdobbins@arbor.net">rdobbins@arbor.net</a>> // <<a href="http://www.arbornetworks.com">http://www.arbornetworks.com</a>><br><br> Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.<br><br> -- H.L. Mencken<br><br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>AusNOG mailing list<br><a href="mailto:AusNOG@lists.ausnog.net">AusNOG@lists.ausnog.net</a><br>http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog<br></div></blockquote></div><br><div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>-- <br>Kind Regards,<br><br>Tom Wright<br>Internode Network Operations<br>P: +61 8 8228 2999<br>W: <a href="http://www.internode.on.net/">http://www.internode.on.net</a></div></div></span></span>
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