Posts by nzlemming
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Hard News: The Internet Party, whatever happens, in reply to netcoach,
3. Clare Curran – fallen out with David Cunliffe who has taken over ICT from her, she is pissed.
Yeah, nah. Curran is pure red, always has been. She's more interested in Hillside and jobs in her electorate (as she should be, and as any electorate MP should be). Not the most techie hands on the benches, and I was surprised she got it when Cunliffe fell from favour, but her errors in the portfolio pale beside National's.
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Hard News: The Internet Party, whatever happens, in reply to Matthew Poole,
If the office is in Lower Hutt, and they really have a sitting MP... maybe it's Trevor Mallard?
That was my first thought too.
More likely, it's because the rents are cheaper in the Hutt. I seriously can't see Trevor jumping wakas...
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Good god! Gower is finally showing some signs of becoming a journalist (although the story was as much about him as it was about Oravida, but it's a start...)
Any time Key tries to do the brushoff answer, you know he's hiding stuff.
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Something worth knowing is that the policy adviser Collins took to the dinner was Margaret Malcolm, who is not a ministry appointment, but appears to be employed (via Ministerial Services, I presume) by the particular Minister, Ms Collins.
Very little has been made about her presence at a private dinner, though she is probably another close friend, noting the Law Society connection (but that raises questions about her appointment, to me, anyway), or about the NZ ambassador's presence at the Oravida 'cup of tea' but unavailability for the private dinner, to which he was invited according to Collins. Sounds like political savvy on his part to refuse a private meeting with a high ranking Chinese border control official.
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Hard News: The Web, in reply to Steve Barnes,
Is this good news?
In sudden announcement, US to give up control of DNS root zoneMore a case of the Americans trying to put the best spin on a situation that was moving out of their direct control, anyway.
The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), under the United States Department of Commerce, has retained ultimate control of the domain name system (DNS) since transitioning it from a government project into private hands in 1997. With Commerce’s blessing, the International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) acts as the primary essential governing body for Internet policy.
Yeah, nah. A contract is not a “blessing”, and paying the bills does not actually equal control, except that it gives leverage, which may be the reason for the lack of [edit: critical] comment by ICANN in that article. Also, there was no way the rest of the world was going to let the US have any vestige of control after the contract end date of 2015, despite the bluster, and ICANN has been moving towards this point since it was founded. Indeed, it was the basis on which it was founded, right back to the Green Paper days.
What has happened, I think, is that someone at the White House has said “We need a good news story about the Internet!”, but this in no way counters the harm the NSA has done, technically and spiritually, to the Internet protocols and technologies by compromising the most basic levels of security. It’s going to take a long time and a lot of new tech for that to be undone.
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Hard News: Spring Timing, in reply to Phil Wallington,
so it is not au revoir… But goodbye
Woohoo! Double flounce, and only on page 6! Is that a record, Russ?
#latetothepartybutIvebeenbusy
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I can't argue with any of your post, Jolisa, and I'm profoundly glad I don't have any children that have to cope with this, as well as profoundly sorry for those of your that do.
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Hard News: The Web, in reply to Steve Barnes,
I am really quite surprised, if not astounded, that this thread has received so little response
I've been busy, mmmkay?
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Hard News: The Web, in reply to JWT1,
How about a shout out for Lou Montulli, one of the developers of Lynx, a text only web browser released in 1992 and still in use. I used it for years after Netscape became available if I was on a slow connection. Lynx was developed by students at the University of Kansas
Lynx is awesome for doing accessibility assessment on websites. Problems stand out like a dog's balls.
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Hard News: The Web, in reply to BenWilson,
Can anyone else here claim an active 18 year old email address? Even more scary, I’ve never deleted a non-spam message or disposable notification.
I've had my current email address (not the Gmail one - my real email address) since 1995. And its domain name. Never really bothered with a website for some reason, though I've used the webspace it offers occasionally for special purposes.