Posts by BenWilson
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Hard News: Game Lorde, in reply to Robyn Gallagher,
She’s not a teen, but was playing to the same audience.
Oh, you meant by teen pop star that she targets teens, not that she is a teen? But it’s her age that does actually make her interesting, not her target audience.
ETA: Well, and of course, that she's talented. Seems to have a voice beyond her years to me.
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Hard News: Jonesing, in reply to Henry Barnard,
Surely even two years would have been enough for him to witness the bear pit at first hand and to work out whether he was prepared to do the kind of work required in it.
It wasn't only him who chose him. I think they did it too damned fast - it was straight after an election, it would hardly have mattered if they'd taken their sweet time about it.
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Hard News: Jonesing, in reply to Keir Leslie,
Heh, I didn't say it's a good reason.
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OnPoint: The Gift that Keeps on Making…, in reply to Stephen R,
Am I being paranoid to wonder if the reason the iphone keeps that list at all is for that very purpose?
I'd say that's paranoid. I expect their reason is to monetize it somehow. Also, there are actually quite a lot of people who just aren't worried about being tracked, they'd find the information actually useful.
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Hard News: Game Lorde, in reply to Robyn Gallagher,
I think the grown ups are stoked that we actually have a teen pop star. Who was our last one? It helps that she's got a good voice.
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Hard News: Jonesing, in reply to Hilary Stace,
Not sure why as most of Wellington electorates (apart from Ohariu) are Labour seats.
That probably is why. If the support is to grow then it needs to be in areas that are not already reasonably safe.
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OnPoint: The Gift that Keeps on Making…, in reply to Keith Ng,
we can speculate about all the amazeball capabilities of the NSA, but it doesn’t all automatically transfer to the GCSB.
Yup, you might as well keep using as good encryption as you can. There’s no law against it, no particular reason they’d think you’re a terrorist, and as for the GCSB, you might as well make them go to all the trouble of getting a warrant and demanding your keys.
Mind you, I remember I once got system admin rights to the whole domain at one large workplace, just by nagging the admin with minor legitimate requests. I can well imagine a level of trust would build up between the USA and NZ. So whilst it’s not automatic, it might not be a very high bar before they’re routinely getting some decent crackpower. Depends on whether it’s cheaper than just getting a warrant. I do not know the answer to that.
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The short answer is that you can't be sure, and the long answer is that it only matters if you're really intending to hide your data from some seriously powerful institutions. If you're not, then public key encryption is secure enough. If you are, then consider that the security of the algorithm is the least of your worries, and the security of your skin might be of more concern.
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OK, I'll back down and accept "They didn't have anyone good enough and they were too scared of the misogynist vote" as an alternative to "they lacked courage", although it really does seem to be hair splitting to me.
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Hard News: Jonesing, in reply to Keir Leslie,
because the Greens and Labour have political differences — and that that difference is just as real (if not as large, or expressed in the same ways) as the difference between National and Labour.]
If you are talking about the central point of each group, perhaps so. But individuals are not all located in the center, and some of them may well be closer to National’s center than they are to the Greens’, within Labour. But the reality is that it is the Greens that offer a coalition, not National.
ETA: Well, OK, a Labour National coalition is not in any way banned. If that's what Labour wants, then, well, goodbye to the Left altogether.
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