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Its like watching an 80 year old person installing malware intentionally thinking they are improving their computer. Its so fucking frustrating that I might actually end up in politics just to try and fix this mess of a political system.

Source:
http://theconversation.com/expert-panel-metadata-retention-report-38168
 
As some of you may know, Australia is pushing to put forward a meta data harvesting program in which ISP are required to keep a customers Meta Data for at least 2 years. This is an extremely scary prospect and is worth scrutinising the entire way.
 
This article basically outlines some new details of the program that have come to light.
 
 
Major changes being made:
 
 
400 million dollars per year. ARE YOU FREAKING SERIOUS!!!
For a country as small as ours that is an obscene amount of money for a system that has been proven NOT TO WORK in multiple countries around the world.
 
 
Yeah... Incompatibility with the right to privacy sure is right. But then again, its not like Australia hasn't been snooping in everything they can for ever. They didn't allow digital mobile phones into the country until they could crack the encryption...
 
It seems to me like the whole data hoarding thing is completely silly, and by the looks of it, Australia is just jumping onto the bandwagon in time for all of the reports of how ineffective it is everywhere else in the world.
 
Yet again, Australia looks like they will be spending a ludicrous amount of money in the name of "national Security" a seemingly pointless black hole for taxpayer dollars. They are willing to spend billions on Jets, and Submarines that will likely be rendered useless in a couple of years, but they don't think they should spend money on Education. What a bunch of old hags.

I'm not at all against cuts, I am just against illogical cuts that are detrimental to the health of the country in the long run.
 
And I have a nickname for ole mate Kevin.
 
Kevin Rud, the Dud.
 
He did one good thing for this country, and that was to say sorry.

Its like watching an 80 year old person installing malware intentionally thinking they are improving their computer. Its so fucking frustrating that I might actually end up in politics just to try and fix this mess of a political system.

i just thought of the same..we've gone into island hoppings and battery will run out on all devices..but then again, too much gadgets isn't advised when you want to get away into nature..
 
but for those cam whores on the most remote islands here, this could do well

This looks cool, I will wait until it is actually out in the wild before I go off and buy one though.
 
For those of you that think a battery pack would be better, I am guessing the idea of this is to be ruggard, and to be able to take it on hiking trips where you might not have power for a full week. It also looks like it will be smaller and lighter than a battery pack to do the same job.

+10 To wordplay. Level up!

$400 million is a large amount of money to individuals, many companies ect.. But relative to $1 Trillion it really isn't that much, whilst I do recognise it's wasted money and yeah that submarines thing is super pointless I just don't think the cost is the biggest problem here, whether or not it is wasted money. They waste more money on many other things.

In the stunning conclusion to scrapyard wars episode 1, Linus beats Luke.. or Luke beats Linus.. I guess you'll just need to watch the bloody video.
 
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Its like watching an 80 year old person installing malware intentionally thinking they are improving their computer. Its so fucking frustrating that I might actually end up in politics just to try and fix this mess of a political system.

Source:
http://theconversation.com/expert-panel-metadata-retention-report-38168
 
As some of you may know, Australia is pushing to put forward a meta data harvesting program in which ISP are required to keep a customers Meta Data for at least 2 years. This is an extremely scary prospect and is worth scrutinising the entire way.
 
This article basically outlines some new details of the program that have come to light.
 
 
Major changes being made:
 
 
400 million dollars per year. ARE YOU FREAKING SERIOUS!!!
For a country as small as ours that is an obscene amount of money for a system that has been proven NOT TO WORK in multiple countries around the world.
 
 
Yeah... Incompatibility with the right to privacy sure is right. But then again, its not like Australia hasn't been snooping in everything they can for ever. They didn't allow digital mobile phones into the country until they could crack the encryption...
 
It seems to me like the whole data hoarding thing is completely silly, and by the looks of it, Australia is just jumping onto the bandwagon in time for all of the reports of how ineffective it is everywhere else in the world.
 
Yet again, Australia looks like they will be spending a ludicrous amount of money in the name of "national Security" a seemingly pointless black hole for taxpayer dollars. They are willing to spend billions on Jets, and Submarines that will likely be rendered useless in a couple of years, but they don't think they should spend money on Education. What a bunch of old hags.

So... Where is the news post in here?

I would say its a pretty good deal. They come new for about 400.

Our debt takes up around 29% GDP, where the UKs debt for example takes up about 97% GDP (Around there). Compared to other developed nations our debt is nothing. Governments are often in debt and always have been, it is up to government to spend money and invest. As long as they don't spend OVER GDP then it's not a problem.
 
Again, I think this metadata thing is terrible and a clear violation of our rights and privacies. However, having sensationalist comments around the cost is very pointless since $400 million is actually nothing to our government. What about the up to $2 billion a year they're going to give to Telstra to use the shitty copper cables for our terrible internet instead of upgrading to fibre? There are better things to complain about when it comes to government spending imo. Such as cutting $200 million or so from the ABC's budget (which they need desperately) when $200 Million is marginal to them (the government). Both sides of politics in this country have been running scare campaigns for years on our state of the economy. When in fact we have one of, if not the most stable economies in the world.

So... Where is the news post in here?

This looks cool, I will wait until it is actually out in the wild before I go off and buy one though.
 
For those of you that think a battery pack would be better, I am guessing the idea of this is to be ruggard, and to be able to take it on hiking trips where you might not have power for a full week. It also looks like it will be smaller and lighter than a battery pack to do the same job.

Actually because Aussie laws are so fucked up, they have ALL of the meta data info on you. And they are legally obliged to keep it for 2 FUCKING YEARS.
 
 
This whole thing is sketch as balls, I might become a politician and shove it in their arses because the current pollies here are a bunch of useless old hags, who don't understand how technology works and how it is good for the fucking economy.

Source:
http://theconversation.com/expert-panel-metadata-retention-report-38168
 
As some of you may know, Australia is pushing to put forward a meta data harvesting program in which ISP are required to keep a customers Meta Data for at least 2 years. This is an extremely scary prospect and is worth scrutinising the entire way.
 
This article basically outlines some new details of the program that have come to light.
 
 
Major changes being made:
 
 
400 million dollars per year. ARE YOU FREAKING SERIOUS!!!
For a country as small as ours that is an obscene amount of money for a system that has been proven NOT TO WORK in multiple countries around the world.
 
 
Yeah... Incompatibility with the right to privacy sure is right. But then again, its not like Australia hasn't been snooping in everything they can for ever. They didn't allow digital mobile phones into the country until they could crack the encryption...
 
It seems to me like the whole data hoarding thing is completely silly, and by the looks of it, Australia is just jumping onto the bandwagon in time for all of the reports of how ineffective it is everywhere else in the world.
 
Yet again, Australia looks like they will be spending a ludicrous amount of money in the name of "national Security" a seemingly pointless black hole for taxpayer dollars. They are willing to spend billions on Jets, and Submarines that will likely be rendered useless in a couple of years, but they don't think they should spend money on Education. What a bunch of old hags.

I'm not saying we CAN'T afford it, but even though we have one of the highest GDP in the world, we are still in debt. We should be working on things to get us out of that, not sinking money into a black hole.

Australia.... God we're fucked. Sorry for the profanity, but I can't think of a more succinct phrase. Okay, unfortunantly our politicians are a bunch that want power. I'm sure they start out wanting to do their part, but stuff happens.
 
Before this post turns into a we hate poli's speech, let me say they do a difficult job, balancing the want's of the vocal minority against those that just keep quiet in their disgust. My concern for this bill is simple. The isp's are being provided funding to improve their storage infrastructure....Who's providing security for this data?
 
Btw, I'm saying they do a difficult job. I'm not saying they do it well.

And now survey people on if they have had a HDD fail.
 
Personally I have had 3 HHD's fail and 1 SSD.
 
this literally means nothing.

I'm not at all against cuts, I am just against illogical cuts that are detrimental to the health of the country in the long run.
 
And I have a nickname for ole mate Kevin.
 
Kevin Rud, the Dud.
 
He did one good thing for this country, and that was to say sorry.

The survey's result does not represent anything at all.

I'm not at all against cuts, I am just against illogical cuts that are detrimental to the health of the country in the long run.
 
And I have a nickname for ole mate Kevin.
 
Kevin Rud, the Dud.
 
He did one good thing for this country, and that was to say sorry.

Its like watching an 80 year old person installing malware intentionally thinking they are improving their computer. Its so fucking frustrating that I might actually end up in politics just to try and fix this mess of a political system.