Posts by Steve Barnes
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Hard News: The Huawei Question, in reply to Lew Stoddart,
Democratic governments are and ought to be accountable
And because of that they should be allowed to operate in secrecy?. That seems wrong in so many ways. Like I said, I think there is nothing wrong in people keeping an eye on Governments. Our current bunch of powermongers seem to think that democracy is served by ignoring the wishes of the people and keeping secrets.
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Hard News: The Huawei Question, in reply to Lew Stoddart,
This is so wrong I simply don’t know where to start.
So, Governments should be exempt from being honest?.
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Hard News: The Huawei Question, in reply to James George,
I can think of more examples of USuk IT sabotage than I can Chinese IT sabotage
I had to do a double take on that.
But bang on.
I actually think is good to have people keeping an eye out, helps keep Nations honest, you're less likely to misbehave when you know you are being watched. -
Hard News: The Huawei Question, in reply to Russell Brown,
Got a note to say that high-speed broadband will be passing by our house within days.
Lucky bugger. Still no word on when it gets to my suburb in Auckland.At a meeting of local residents at Pt Chevalier School this evening (Weds 9th April) staff from Telecom and Chorus provided an update of progress with the fast broadband deployment.
Thanks Ross. I get the impression that the big difference for people isn’t just the prodigious downstream speeds, but a decent rate upstream for the first time.
The more things change the more they stay the same...
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Hard News: The Huawei Question, in reply to Lew Stoddart,
Ahhh but.
ThisSecurity analyst Paul Buchanan said the deal could potentially give the Chinese government the opportunity to tap into New Zealand intelligence systems, including Echelon - the world's most extensive eavesdropping system to which China is not privy.
It's just so hypocritical. How dare they have the possibility of discovering that we are spying on them.
Or another way of looking at it...
If they see the information we have on you, you should be worried. Because we are nice cuddly bunnies and butter doesn't melt in our mouths and they are the Devil and will eat your children.
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This is just kowtowing to the paranoid racist panicings of the US and Australia.
We are being told that “Dem Chinamen are inscrutably unscrupulous and insidiously indubitably dangerous slopey eyed monsters” by the very people that do This ShitCanal Plus, which is owned by the French media giant Vivendi Universal, claims to have evidence that NDS had staff at its lab in Israel conduct “electrical and optical examination of the protected internal software code of the card using expensive machinery”. It says the code extracted was then sent on to NDS’s American subsidiary, which gave it to Dr7.com, a website frequented by smartcard counterfeiters.
Thanks for reminding me Russell, I was gob-smacked by the audacity when I first heard about it.
The thought that we should be frightened of the Chinese whilst cuddling up to these sharks and snakes is, almost, laughable. -
Hard News: A storm in any port, in reply to BenWilson,
I’m undecided if that’s through malice or ignorance.
A mixture of the two? Malignance?.
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Capture: Two Tripods, One Night, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
have you tried turning it off and turning it on again?
Hadn't thought of that................................
Do I have to hold my tongue in any particular position ?
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Hard News: Back to mediocrity, in reply to Islander,
Striding from financial disaster into permanent everlasting debt-
With a little help from an ex-cop real estate salesman apparently.
A well known ex-detective and real estate salesman in Queenstown has appeared in court charged with defrauding the town's high profile annual rugby sevens tournament...
...Its organising committee is non profit with proceeds going back to the cash-strapped Otago rugby union. -
I was talking to an old friend the other day, a lawyer who used to do a lot of work for the Maritime Union, he told me that the Union is as good as finished, the H&S stance taken by the company may be dishonest, deceptive and total shit but it is a get out of jail free card, it is using the aims of the Union against them.
I don't think even I can be heartless enough to hope there is a tragic outcome, a serious injury or death, to expose the disingenuity of the scum that passes for management at the Ports of Auckland.