Comments on: Is Conroy really this ignorant of his own portfolio?

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Fri, 17 Apr 2009 06:33:20 +0000

[...] or very confused knowledge of even his own administration’s policies, let alone the issue at hand: http://stilgherrian.com/politics/is-…own-portfolio/ Quite funny. He accuses the ISP of not monitoring customer data, yet by the laws of the government [...]

By: maelorin

maelorin — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 04:33:45 +0000

resetting the evil bit would take marginally less time than mark would take to subvert the filtering system …

By: Australian Censorship Minister advocates illegal taping of Internet Accounts

Australian Censorship Minister advocates illegal taping of Internet Accounts — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 01:58:53 +0000

[...] rightly points out that even if they were illegally spying on customers, how could iiNet tell whether a particular [...]

By: Stilgherrian

Stilgherrian — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 20:31:56 +0000

@John H: You're quite correct. How could I forget RFC 3514, it's such useful technology.

By: John H

John H — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 08:23:28 +0000

Anyway, how can an ISP tell whether a particular data stream is an “illegal” copy or not? A music file looks just the same whether it’s being used legally under the terms of its license or under fair dealing, or not. I assume that unlicensed copies have the evil bit set to 1.

By: LT

LT — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 07:18:53 +0000

I will be voting liberal at the next election labor is out of touch with the common person they are ment to represent. (life long labor voter)

By: Stilgherrian

Stilgherrian — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 07:07:40 +0000

@mtats and @John C: I guess I should link to the Pointy-Haired Boss (PHB), for the folks who don't read Dilbert. @mike seyfang: SBS TV's Insight is repeated and is also available as video on demand from the episode's web page. @CW: As this is a civil case rather than a criminal one, I'm not sure what rules of prejudice apply. I'll ask a lawyer. Stand by. @LT: Whatever Senator Conroy's personal views in this, mandatory Internet filtering is Labor Party policy. If Senator Conroy has failed to implement it without causing massive controversy, then that's moderately full of FAIL.

By: LT

LT — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 06:56:25 +0000

Is Conroy really this ignorant of his own portfolio?
simple answer yes.
Rudd should get rid of the clown if he wants to get voted in again, unless this is really his agenda.

By: CW

CW — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 02:41:09 +0000

Aren’t the comments from Conroy about iiNet’s ongoing legal case prejudicial, he is the fuckin’ minister… How could it possibly be appropriate to make comment about the defence strategy?

Conroy is from another planet, where they wear arses as hats!

By: mike seyfang

mike seyfang — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 02:23:13 +0000

Hoping somebody in your vast network of fans will make an illegal recording of tonight’s SBS show and share it with those of us unable to sit in front of a telly or make our own recordings tonight.

I’ll be busy researching a blog post discussing the virtues of our ABC’s iView service (which is how I watched most of last weeks Q&A which I discovered via Twitter) vs the evil ineptitude of ABC Online Store — downloads section.

Keep up the good work.

p.s. love the ‘magic filter’ riff stuck in my head for all time!

By: neil_mc

neil_mc — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 02:21:23 +0000

“Please wait. Your download has been queued and is awaiting checks by our legal department. Estimated time to download = 4 weeks, 3 days, 13 hours and 15 minutes. Linux ISOs are not exempt from checking and will be referred to our software patent department for download approval.”

I’d really like a new Minister please Mr Rudd.

By: John C

John C — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 02:20:28 +0000

“Kind of like a PHB” Life imitates Art — Conroy is living the Dilbert cartoon.

By: mtats

mtats — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 01:55:38 +0000

Unfortunately as Comms minister, Conroy now falls under the ‘a little bit of knowedge is worse than no knowledge at all’ banner.

Kind of like a PHB.

By: Stilgherrian

Stilgherrian — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 01:49:57 +0000

@G Thompson: A yes, the Telecommunications Interception Act 1979 as amended. Enjoy.

By: Fictillius

Fictillius — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 01:45:44 +0000

You mean that every ISP in Australia DOESN’T HAVE hundreds of staff sitting there making sure we’re not doing anything we shouldn’t!? ZOMG! Maybe Senator Conroy needs to go work for the government in China, he might be more at home there. More and more evidence comes to light to show that he really does have no idea about technology and that his governments policies and what they are actually trying to achieve is all over the place.

On a serious note, as lead tech for the company I work for we cannot and do not monitor what our staff do on the Internet. While this is unusual for a corporate environment our managing director doesn’t believe in the ‘big brother’ approach, rather that our users can be responsible enough to use the company bandwidth in an appropriate manner