@mercury_media My brain is too dead at this hour to go down that particular rabbit hole.
@mercury_media Yep, as far as I can tell, an affiliate is pretty much the same as an employee except they don’t get APS staff entitlements.
Oh FFS.
If only politics worked more like this. pic.twitter.com/Ov4MprBnQc HT @theretronaut
@nancycato1 Thanks.
kstowellaus Journalists at the #M17 crash site: @maxseddon (Buzzfeed), @PaulSonne (WSJ) @shaunwalker7 (Guardian) @PhilWilliamsABC (ABC Australia)
InfosecFlanders I’ve done everything Best Practice says! Even the stuff that contradicts the other stuff!
@troyhunt Or, the other way would be to pay Twitter money, I guess? [Shrugs.] Extracting tweets is seen as against their terms.
@troyhunt But you need to request an archive from Twitter, so if you’re not that account you’re screwed.
@troyhunt Use Tweet Nest. pongsocket.com/tweetnest/ All tweets, now and future, into a database.
ReliveApollo11 Starting 9th revolution around the Moon; still in rest period. #Apollo11
@nancycato1 Please forgive my lack of mirth right now. I’m still climbing down from work mode, deep in tricky legislation.
That amends the ASIO Act 1979, so here’s that for reference. http://t.co/THsSBSeoMZ I can give vague pointers to relevant sections of both.
Background: I’m going through National Security Legislation Amendment Bill (No. 1) 2014, mostly Schedule 2. http://t.co/NmVTDhFLFZ
OK, I am now officially out of mental energy for this. I’ll finishing writing in the morning, though observations are welcome.
@mercury_media That, yes. It makes sense to me to provide immunity from Crimes Act cybercrimes to anyone lawfully “helping†ASIO.
@mercury_media … though seconded people can literally come from anywhere at the D-G’s discretion, it seems.
@mercury_media No, individuals contracted or seconded, not whole agencies, as I read the new s85 and s87 in the Bill…
@jpwarren Here are the relevant new definitions in the Bill. pic.twitter.com/mdlhDgrtiG
@jpwarren It wouldn’t make a difference under the Act, I think. Listening, observing, tracking. They’re the categories of surveillance.
@nancycato1 @zdnetaustralia Thank you, but no. I’ve just eaten. Rain check?
@jpwarren In the context of the placement of a surveillance device under a specific warrant, I’m fine with “replace†being there.
@SnarkyPlatypus I have no wine. I do not want wine.
@DrParnassus @mpesce It’s derp all the way down.
@nancycato1 @zdnetaustralia Shoosh you! :P No, this is worse than usual, but I think that’s because I’m sick and grumpy.
@SnarkyPlatypus No, @dobes is pissing off to NZ and @joshgnosis works hard enough without me sending him half-finished rants.
This thing I am writing for @zdnetaustralia is getting stupidly long and snarky.
@mikko So did you spend your 1,79€?
mikko Turns out, there is an app to do [DEGAUSS] on an iPhone. Cc: @philrandal pic.twitter.com/dP5ImmsATh
@joshgnosis There also appears to be a glorious troll going down. They Want To Believe.
Hello, electricity.
Goodbye, electricity.
@thomasking No resources convenient (I’m writing something else now) but scroll back throug@joshgnosisis and my tweets for screenshots.
@BrigadierSlog @joshgnosis The supposed “political†tweets may not be what’s being paid for, though. They’re more likely incidental chaff.
Russia in Russian-built missile supplied to Russian allies by Russia shock.
@joshgnosis And the less they know about how spam works, the more they’re hyped up about it.
RT @sylmobile: From 2017, all draft federal legislation will be released as python, c# and javascript libraries. [Finally! No wait.]
I should be paid danger money for reading this shit.
“object: (a) a vehicle, aircraft, vessel or other means of transportation; or (b) clothing or any other thing worn; or (c) any other thing.”
“Insert:
maintain, in relation to a surveillance device, includes adjust, improve, relocate, repair, service and replace the device.”
“5 Section 22
Insert:
device includes instrument, apparatus and equipment.”
When reviewing draft legislation, it is important to remember that section 25(4)(a) is not section 25A(4). #headexplodes
@thegrugq [Smirks.]
“Trust me, I’ve compressed it into a .rar file.”
In which @thegrugq links to a site containing links to .rar files that purport to be a game that relates to a topical news item. NO I WON’T.
I’m not scrolling back. The signal to arsehat ratio seems way too low today, and I’m feeling crap enough as it is.
Unexpected nap was unexpected and annoying.
Campbell Newman is on fire?
chrisbrownie Goodness me, eTax gets worse every year. pic.twitter.com/Js4kGiQG3s
RT @terencehuynh: Yd sells a “Cyber Jacket”… yep. http://t.co/TMhfqUk7Ei [Of course they do. #headdesk]
RT @franksting: If only Miss Universe contests were still popular, World Peace might seem like an attainable goal.
MT @ewe2: There’s almost 50,000 anagrams for Christopher Pyne. 163 with Pony in them. [God’s world is bountiful indeed!]
RT @ewe2: @stilgherrian A Robed Snigger #georgebrandisanagrams [Oh this is the best I’ve seen so far!]
Well since you’re in the mood for wordplay, maybe you can sort through these anagrams of “George Brandis†for me. http://t.co/MGkU0Ke2HI
Oh dear God, that’s set them off.
We need a word for when “arsehat†isn’t sufficient to convey the sheer stupidity. I may start using “arsesombreroâ€.
@oldozgeek @joshgnosis Who said it was “right� Maybe cut down on the hallucinogens.
@Thetribalmind @Colvinius @JennaPrice @mmechomski I don’t “consume†art galleries etc. Stop talking like this.
Oh well played, Google. Or rather, “A lewd leggy loophole!” pic.twitter.com/r9zPNH7PG7
Thankfully the Australian government’s plan to close down the Independent National Security Legislation Monitor has been reversed.
Reading through this stuff is a reminder of how vital the Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security is as an individual human being.
Please send whiskey.
Things needed to understand that #: Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security Act 1986. http://t.co/BOkiVyzkUo
Helpful, but perhaps not essential at this stage: Intelligence Services (Consequential Provisions) Act 2001. http://t.co/XVqxJtTyK1
Things needed to understand that #2: Intelligence Services Act 2001. http://t.co/64AplkXA3N
Things needed to understand that #1: Australian Security Intelligence Organisation Act 1979. http://t.co/yAVOijAclf
RT @NewtonMark: Tone’s going to accidentally declare war on Russia, isn’t he.
Permalink for “National Security Legislation Amendment Bill (No. 1) 2014†http://t.co/NmVTDhFLFZ
Muting all the words.
Mind you, @haruki_zaemon, we can’t be far off having dial-a-voice. Things read in the voice of anyone we choose.
MT @haruki_zaemon: product idea: Audible.com version of Hansard read aloud by Gerard Henderson. [No. Kill yourself.]
Oh now this is a bit special, for so, so many reasons. http://t.co/7aFDzvzP7B HT @terencehuynh, ping @SnarkyPlatypus
Now I’ll spend the rest of the morning reading the National Security Legislation Amendment Bill (No. 1), so that’ll improve my mood.
Thank God I have the names of those TV programs muted. The fucktard political opinions I do see are moronic enough.
@scottcarson1957 Ah yes, the great man had a fine understanding of the sausage-making of politics. That’ll be worked into a script.
Then both Coalition and Labor whine about PUP and the other one not doing things like they do things. YES THAT IS THE WHOLE FUCKING POINT.
Mind you, Labor hasn’t even gotten around to choosing a leader yet, so I guess it’s Bipartisan Leadership Arsehattery (BLA) all round.
What I don’t understand, if all the Coalition wants as “leader†is a cartoon parrot, is why they didn’t pick one with decent media delivery.
Except every now and then there’s a question that doesn’t quite match, and his right eye starts twitching as the other algorithm kicks in.
There’s no connection with objective reality. It’s rote memory. Hear the question, choose “Boats†or “Labor†or “Carbon taxâ€.
It’s as if Abbott is kept is limbo between interviews, shown a series of flash cards with canned answers, and rolled in front of the camera.
I think I might have to start watching interviews with Abbott again because they’re just so fucking funny. It’s like a parallel universe.
So that’d be the same Abbott with the same high degree of confidence that MH370 was right where we were looking and about to be found.
RT @joeobrien24: Abbott: We have very high degree of confidence (that Russian backed separatists brought down MH17).
Abbott lecturing people on blame-shifting when his excuse for every failure to keep his word is to blame Labor? That’s a bit rich too.
Abbott lecturing people on decency and humanity while 153 people sit in windowless cells on a prison ship, fate unknown? That’s a bit rich.
And… there goes my graphics again. Yes, that is wrapping around. instagram.com/p/qppu-8CFos/
@joshgnosis @Hippopeteamus If you search on almost any topic, you’ll find a few spambots have cloned the tweets in this way.
@joshgnosis @Hippopeteamus Spambots tweet random, copied tweets to look “normalâ€, masking the “real†spam when it’s eventually run.
@Hippopeteamus @joshgnosis Well I for one would never suggest flogging the ABC. Too many of them would enjoy it.
I am so goddam sick of @joshgnosis bringing all these facts into the discussion.
RT @joshgnosis: The conspiracy about Liberal spambots doesn’t stack up when you realise spam accounts tweet pro-Labor things, too. http://t…
So next week, @RNSundayExtra, can we have, say, a Turkish guest worker from a BMW factory similarly generalising about “The Germans�
Ah. An “arty†person generalising about nations based on their experiences in urban middle-class cultural industries. Bra@RNSundayExtraxtra!
It’s good* tha@RNSundayExtrara is presenting a vastly generalised feelpinion about “The Germansâ€. What are this man’s qualifications again?
In which @benschneiders reports how Kevin Rudd tried to rewrite history. http://t.co/oEy8JkrkoC
That is the one time I’ve retweeted one of those pathetic “remove one letter†arsehat games because obviously.
TheBloggess #RemoveALetterRuinABand All the band names on this trend are modern. No one else is going to say “The Cunt Basie Orchestra”? Feeling old.
If only there were some way Australia could tie carbon pricing to 100m freestyle times, it’d get millions in funding then.
MT @WSJ: Australia world’s first developed nation to repeal carbon laws on.wsj.com/1la5L6c pic.twitter.com/vRvcJiV8x1 [Yay! We win again!]
Of course I am a complete expert in both those weapons because I spent almost the whole half of a morning at that shooting range.
I don’t even know how to use an AR-15. Just the M-4 and the FN SCAR-H. Still, I suppose the principles are broadly the same.
Last night I dreamed I was watching a basketball game but excused myself to get an AR-15 from my locker, so I dunno what that was about.
SavedYouAClick 65. RT @Slate: This voter guessed how old Elizabeth Warren is. The answer may surprise you:
But none of that will happen unless you, personally, pore over every photograph of strangers’ misery you can find.
And if you screech really loudly at Eastern Europe, a ruined aircraft will reassemble itself and everyone will be OK. Fuckin’ screech, OK?
I reckon this whole Middle East thing could be solved if you all just screech hyperbole at each other some more. That should work.
Sun plan, draft: Stop the nausea; do that writing that I didn’t do yesterday; do that reading that I didn’t do yesterday; destroy the Earth.
DesiJedeikin In your face, Larry pic.twitter.com/I0l2y0vAKv
How to attend a US hacker conference when US authorities won’t let you into the countryi.imgur.com/btCMC9a.jpgj7 H@BiellaColemanan
So here’s what the US government recorded about one citizen’s air travel. It’s a lot. http://t.co/m7b8yIIl05
@GordyPls @leslienassar Keep going, Sunshine, the first delivery is in 3 to 5 days.
Hey everyone, forget going to Mars! We’ve got everything under control right here on Earthcitytp.comtY H@leslienassarar
@leslienassar Thank you, that is the bestest thing I have seen in my entire life, and I watched the Moon landing.
Sunday. God created a universe of 200 billion galaxies, but imprisoned you on a rock that’s putrid with your own filth. Hilarious. Sunday.