Posts by Paul Campbell
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I think that if Chorus made a such low bid to get the contract so they could form their monopoly there's no call for them crying foul when it turns out they bid too little it was their choice.
Here in Dunedin they own the old gas mains, they got them for $1 - there's no reason to dig up most of the city, just the last 10m
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It seems to me that we wouldn't be in this situation if we had some real competition in the market place between copper and glass - in short if Chorus wanted the business they should have been forced to split off competing business units for the two networks (and Telecom makes 3)
Chorus is just the most impossible business to deal with, they are building out the fibre completely around my neighbourhood at the moment - they'll get to me some time in 2016 apparently - they've closed all their local offices, I can't go down town, bang on the door and make my case - if I call their national number and ask to talk to the person who's in charge of deciding who gets fibre in Dunedin they refuse to put me through, in fact they wont put me through to anyone, just tell me to read their web page - we're giving them a billion dollars of our taxes you'd think they'd be the least bit grateful.
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Hard News: Jonesing, in reply to Henry Barnard,
We will have to get used to this sort of thing:
Aren't we already? - many of us use STV to elect our councils - I expect a ballot, with more than 30 names on it for me to rank, to arrive in my mailbox any day now ....
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Did I get this wrong, did Jones just dismiss Curran's tweet on the grounds that "it must be that time of the month"? way to go wanna-be PM alienating half your potential voters
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someone who wanted their new appointee to be treated well on kiwiblag?
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well of course we're not really worried about people getting our public keys - if they're breaking in to our computers to get our private keys, or cracking them by brute force means that's another thing.
On the other hand because we now know they own all the routers "man-in-the-middle" attacks are a real problem - I'd always sort of thought of them as a cute academic exercise (apart from people trying to break cable/satellite TV systems) now they're part of our every day reality
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Well there's the problem isn't it - do you trust them to keep within the law? And how can you tell if they don't?
The recent example of the DEA is instructive they've been tapping away to their heart's content but then building cases backwards until they can find something that will meet legal scrutiny how could we discover something similar happening here?
To my mind we've already seen them go a bit rogue, assuming they won't do the same in the future is IMHO a bit naive
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Bruce Schneier is a little pissy ....
"To the engineers, I say this: we built the internet, and some of us have helped to subvert it. Now, those of us who love liberty have to fix it."
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What we really need are some great mathematicians who aren't beholding to anyone
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one has to assume that some percentage of everyday spam is the NSA trying to grow their stable of pwned machines