Posts by Russell Brown
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... the less well-known corollary is that when you suspect the answer isn't going to be to your liking (or will come back to bite you in the arse), you don't ask the question at all.
A not unfair assessment.
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I wrote about this in my Listener column during the campaign last year. About that study:
The upshot was clear enough: even in tests under the most favourable conditions, ISP-level filtering looked like a bad idea. The real-world results of such a national system hardly bore thinking about, especially as the report concluded that the largest ISPs would have the most problems with filtering.
Sadly, the Howard government had taken the conclusions seriously until Labor started the bidding war. Likely consequence ...
It will not be compulsory for any household to adopt home PC filtering software or ISP filtering, but all users will feel the drag on performance if, as the government expects, millions of families do opt for ISP filtering. The government has hinted that it expects libraries to introduce filtering.
Moreover, the mere existence of a government-controlled nationwide internet-filtering system – one that aims to cover not just web content, but email, chat and peer-to-peer file exchange – seems to offer an unwelcome temptation both to expand its scope and to make it compulsory. When the system launches, it will use a blacklist of websites that includes not only pornography, but also some deemed by a government agency to be “terror” sites.
Election year is taking Australian politicians down a fairly strange road.
Amusingly, I now see that the column wound up being discussed in the forums of a Euro-porn database site.
(Warning: Really, **really** Not Safe For Work ads ...)
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Meanwhile, it looks like the McCain-Palin machine have found a journo who will show Palin 'proper deference': Come on down ABC's Charlie Gibson.
Josh Marshall had a useful comment on why the multiple interview format is a bad idea for journalists:
Political interviews are never done like this. Because it makes the questioning entirely at the discretion of the person being interviewed and their handlers. The interviewer has to be on their best behavior, at least until the last of the 'multiple interviews' because otherwise the subsequent sittings just won't happen. For a political journalist to agree to such terms amounts to a form of self-gelding. The only interviews that are done this way are lifestyle and celebrity interviews. And it's pretty clear that that is what this will be.
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In overnight:
The Troopergate documentation, which, as the article says, indicates a degree of obsessiveness on the governor's behalf.
And Palin makes a really dumb economic gaffe.
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Ask Russell. Oh no, he's gone.
I've been lying down, thanks.
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@Hilary
No one seems to have commented on the disability bit.
I'll probably post something fairly extensive to the Humans blog in the next day or two.
Short version: Obama's disabilities policies and the thoughtful, inclusive way they were formulated set new standards for political parties anywhere. Yup, that good.
But of course, the lady waving around the Down's baby gets all the good headlines ...
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Why did you make me do that?
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Sorry if someone else has posted this somewhere, but it is teh awesome:
If only ...
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Well no, but it provides quick summations of counter-spin.
True, and it's useful in that sense.
And to be fair, Kos has been extremely unhelpful to its candidate in the way it's gone off half-cocked on several things ...
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russell, did you do anything about getting the spore people to address the difficulties in installing their legitimately purchase software? I'd like to hear how they respond.
Unofficially and apologetically. EA are new to the download thing and they've got it crazily wrong. It's just stupid to take $100+ for a download you know might be flaky, then give people three times ever, in the life of the product to install it.
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