luv-talk May 2015

luv-talk@luv.asn.au

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by Rohan McLeod

Andrew McGlashan wrote: > On 8/04/2015 12:08 AM, Russell Coker wrote: >> At the meeting there was a mention of the fact that we now have a legal >> precedent for film companies to force ISPs to divulge the names of customers >> who might have torrented movies. > This was bound to catch up with iiNet [and other] users.... > >> Is there any good anonymous peer to peer software? Something that uses tor >> hidden services for all communications? > Much better to just keep to legal and proper downloads, don't you think? Well of course that goes without saying ! the very idea of owning movies which I haven't paid for; or even converting DVD's so they are playable outside of brain-dead DVD players, (which mostly also seem incapable of playing them); is abhorrent to my higher moral self.! I even believe there are some who have copies of that other OS what was it called .....; anyway they have not paid for it apparently. There seems to exist a whole category of software ..shareware ? where such behaviour is rife. This software philosophy, what's it called 'open-source' ?; why it's just encourages such an attitude ! Oh Andrew; how I concur with you regarding the wickedness of the world ! regards Rohan McLeod

6 years, 7 months

East West Link - contacting the government

by Peter Ross

Hi all, Labor opposing East West Link - good news, at least for me. There is no contract signed yet - so all uncertainty claims are quite strange. It is up to the government in power to create certainty - by waiting with the contracts until after the election. The process is before the courts because the link did not go through a proper planning, assessment and consultation process yet. The lack of process created the uncertainty. So the government can correct it by honouring process. This would make it a decision made by a government which asked for a mandate from the electorate. Below my letter to Terry Mulder (terence.mulder(a)parliament.vic.gov.au). Maybe you would like to contact him too? Thanks Peter Dear Terry, the Labor decision to dump the East West Link is a good one for us in Melbourne. Please cancel the project if you care for Victoria. It may save hundred of millions or billions of dollars of claims when the project finally ends in the bin, as it should. The East West Link is not a properly planned project. I contacted you before about my concerns. Some of the events and claims are truly bizarre if you are familiar with the area as I am. I work in Kensington. I frequently use the bike track along the Mooney Ponds Creek you want to overshadow with another bunch of lanes. I also spend a lot of time waiting for and in trains from and to Craigieburn and Upfield which never go on time. It is not a surprise that the whole case is before the courts. The rush to lock it in resulted in a shoddy process which defies logic and did never satisfy requirements of proper consulting with the public. Even now, the design is still work in progress, and some of the "corrections" over time looked as professional as me designing a model train with my son. How can this being assessed? How can the community have a sufficient input in this process? How can you sign contracts with this uncertainty? It will be a liability for any future government and all Victorians. A tender process where you continue with one bidder only is another detail not making sense. I never do that if I want a good deal. You were elected with the Liberals claiming support for the Metro Rail Link. You did not advance the project. Instead it became another train wreck of "planning on the run". Please bring that back into action instead of tinkering with the East West Link if you want to do something for Victoria. Thank you Peter [contact details]

7 years, 1 month

The Likely Cause of Addiction Has Been Discovered and It Is Not What You Think -- Alternet

by Andrew McGlashan

http://www.alternet.org/drugs/likely-cause-addiction-has-been-discovered-an…

7 years, 3 months

Tripathon event=hackathon : This weekend.

by Daniel Jitnah

Hi Luvers, I think LUV could have a (or more) team(s)at this event this weekend. (see below) If anyone is interested, ** please register and let me know **. I have registered. For info: 1. I will go to the idea sprint on 28 May. (Thursday). 2. Last year I went to this event (or equivalent)...and I had no idea what it was all about before going! I just went there teamed up with 4 other people I have never ever met before and ... we actually won the 2nd Prize!! from about 12 or 15 teams. I consider we should have won the first prize, but as it was a return ticket to USA, that made it difficult to share between 5 of us!! ...So put it this way, if the judging criteria is same as last year, I have a fair idea what it takes to win a prize! (and what it takes not not win one!!) 3. If you are interested, please email me with skills you can contribute. Note that non-techies can also be involved, infact I think this is why we did well last year, as we had a good balanced team with highly complementary skills. Someone with Open Street map api skills or Google map api (or the Nokia stuff - forgot how its called?) would also be highly useful. People who can put up a good webfront with python/php/perl etc backend quickly. Someone with good communication/marketing skills also useful. Cheers Daniel. -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Public Transport Victoria, Tripathon this weekend Date: Mon, 25 May 2015 01:44:50 +0000 From: Dean Economou <Dean.Economou(a)nicta.com.au> Dear Infrahack participants: I wanted to let you know about another event in the Infrastructure space being run this weekend. PTV and Collabforge are holding a “Tripathon” where PTV’s real time transport API is being made available. The tech jam is this weekend, 30^th and 31^st May with an idea sprint and API launch on Thurs 28^th May. WIN CASH PRIZES (up to $10,250), MENTORSHIP, WORKSHOPS AND A CHANCE TO COLLABORATE WITH INDUSTRY-LEADERS. WHATEVER YOU MAKE, YOU KEEP. All welcome and further details below. /Please send to your networks of developers, UXperts and business innovators/ *Website - *http://www.victripathon.com/#victripathon *Tech Jam registration - *https://victripathon-techjam.eventbrite.com.au <https://victripathon-techjam.eventbrite.com.au/> *PTV Timetable API and Events Launch - *https://victripathon-launch.eventbrite.com.au <https://victripathon-launch.eventbrite.com.au/> *Ideas Sprint registration - *https://victripathon-ideasprint.eventbrite.com.au <https://victripathon-ideasprint.eventbrite.com.au/> Very best, Dean. NB, NICTA folks are not eligible for prizes but we’d love you to come as mentors or judges. *Dean Economou** **Technology Strategist*** *NICTA** l** **www.nicta.com.au <https://webmail.nicta.com.au/owa/redir.aspx?C=24e2a56e5eaa4f299522d113c677a…>*** *T + **61 418899339* ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The information in this e-mail may be confidential and subject to legal professional privilege and/or copyright. National ICT Australia Limited accepts no liability for any damage caused by this email or its attachments.

7 years, 4 months

Coding and STEM education actually mentioned by our 2 party system

by thelionroars

I was heartened to notice (somewhat late I admit) that one of the 2 major parties in Australia actually had something meaningful to talk about during budget week. http://www.zdnet.com/article/labor-continues-push-for-coding-in-schools/ http://www.smartcompany.com.au/technology/46949-bill-shorten-s-stem-policy-… http://theconversation.com/labors-plans-for-science-technology-maths-educat…

7 years, 4 months

FYI: O'Reilly: Day Against DRM + Save 50-60% on all ebooks, ...

by rdbrown＠pacific.net.au

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7 years, 4 months

UEFI and Win 10 article link

by Davor Balder

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/201722-linuxs-worst-case-scenario-micros… I am not sure if this issue has changed or progressed but here we are.

7 years, 5 months

Lenovo caught pre-installing adware on laptops - Security - News - iTnews.com.au

by Andrew McGlashan

With modern computers having such low margins, I expect a lot more of this very bad behaviour from manufacturers. Computers and IT is very quickly becoming something with a great lack of trust, so sad. http://www.itnews.com.au/News/400712,lenovo-caught-pre-installing-adware-on… Cheers A.

7 years, 5 months

How feasible are secure drop-boxes for "IT naive whistleblowers" ?

by Rohan McLeod

Assembled cogniscenti: I am not a huge fan of the Melbourne Herald-Sun and I believe the somewhat similar English Sun, is one of the Murdoch's papers which seemed to have little regard for privacy. So I found the following link which a friend sent; somewhat curious. But it did prompt the question suppose an ombudsman wanted to set up a secure drop box for "IT-naive whistleblowers", is it feasible ? and how could the whistleblower be certain of that anonymity ? http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/6429126/The-Sun-Whistleblower-Cha… regards Rohan McLeod

7 years, 5 months

Something of interest to Debian users [Linux Journal]...

by Davor Balder

http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/when-official-debian-support-ends-who-w… Any thoughts... ? DB

7 years, 5 months

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