Posts by Alfie
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Hard News: Ten Thousand Maniacs, in reply to Rob Stowell,
it’s nuts for ‘most of the world’ to be actively against both sides in a civil war.
Do keep in mind that Assad has killed seven times more Syrian civilians than IS.
Between January and July, Assad’s military and pro-government militias killed 7,894 people, while the Islamic State killed 1,131, according to the Syrian Network for Human Rights, a monitoring group based in Britain.
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Legal Beagle: Voting in the Flag Referendum, in reply to Bart Janssen,
I'm following Russell's earlier suggestion of voting for Red Peak in the first poll, mainly to drop Key's preferred choices to the bottom of the pile. The second referendum is the more important one and I'll be voting for keeping the existing flag. Not because I have any love for the union jack, but as an objection to the whole, flawed process.
Is it actually fair for me to rank my least hated or should I just not bother?
I bunged the koru at #2 for the reason above. If we are going to be stuck with a new flag, please let it not be one of Key's preferred two.
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Google translates the phrase from latin as Holy Land, or from Chinese as T and RA S Ann couch. Just saying.
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Somebody has been emailing MediaWorks and TVNZ staff urging them to boycott Mark Weldon's Terra Sancta wines.
The email said: "Do not support Mark Weldon because he doesn't support journalism."
While the writer's sentiments are in the right place, unfortunately the email includes Weldon's full contact details, which is not so cool.
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Legal Beagle: Voting in the Flag Referendum, in reply to Rosemary McDonald,
and this....http://insights.nzherald.co.nz/article/the-flag-debate
That's an excellent visualisation which is most revealing in exposing how much manipulation is going on behind the scenes. Nice work Caleb Tutty.
I guess what surprises me most is that it's the Herald exposing this fraud. Ever since they accepted public money to run positive spin for the flag panel, I've looked suspiciously at every flag story they run. For me, the Herald's independence on this issue was severely compromised from that point forward.
Any news media which accepts money to blur the line between news and advertorial, however fleeting, risks losing its main asset -- credibility.
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Bradley Ambrose’s defamation case against Key takes another step forward. Herald journo and Key biographer John Roughan has been ordered to hand over recordings of his chats with the PM.
The Privacy Commission based its ruling on an earlier decision by Judge Helen Winkelmann during Kim Dotcom’s civil case against the NZ police and spy agencies. She ruled that the privacy exemption for news media related specifically to “articles and programmes” and did not extend to books.
While I wish Ambrose well in his endeavours, I can’t help but feel that the principle of journalistic protection is being perverted in New Zealand.
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OnPoint: The Whaledump Saga: Scooby-Doo Edition, in reply to izogi,
I really don’t understand what’s being stated here.
Cloning is pretty much always done in the lab so who knows what the cops were up to when they photographed the screen. One of the first rules of computer forensics is that you don't switch on the suspect device in the field and risk overwriting things such as temporary Windows files.
Their lack of basic forensic knowledge suggests this was more likely to be someone who'd done a basic securing evidence 101 course than a crack cyber team.
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Bill English responds... Yeah, nah.
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Juha Saarinen looks at the ballsup of the police raid on Hager and points out the inadequacy of the expert they employed to search Hager's devices.
The Police asked both Twitter and Google for information but they both said, 'come back with a warrant.' So the cops didn't bother. Likewise Vodafone and TradeMe.
Rawshark used Tails -- a Linux OS on a stick which leaves no trace of activity. But still the Police insisted on viewing Hager's temporary Windows files, just in case. In case what?
For all the money NZ spends on electronic surveillance, you'd think they might be able to find techs with a touch more nouse than the Keystone Cops.
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Thank God for Jan Wright, our Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment. In a report released today (PDF, 2.9Mb) she’s advised Bill English to starting costing in the financial impact of sea level rises. Because it is happening and it will be costly.