Comments on: Sysadmins slam Conroy’s Wi-Fi “misinformation”

By: Simon Reidy

Simon Reidy — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 05:39:48 +0000

It’s not so much that I’m swaying “towards Labor” Renai, but more it’s a defiant stance against Liberal. Malcom Turnball represented a much more “centre right” opposition, and was a strong support of a Republic and the ETS. When Tony Abbott came to power the Liberal party is now back to being a terrifying hard right, conservative, monarch supporting, capitalist army, and I would rather be set on fire than give them my vote. Tony Abbott is a religious, climate change denying, lying, “1950′s style” dinosaur who would take this country back to the dark ages. The prospect of him leading this country scares the crap out of me.

I am angry as hell with Rudd for walking away from climate change, employing a clueless technology minister with stupid policies, taking a hard line on immigration with no compassion whatsoever, and a multitude of other issues. Hence as I said my vote for Labor will be a reluctant one.

It really is a classic case of the “lesser of two evils”.

By: wheelyweb

wheelyweb — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 01:29:58 +0000

The main point, really is that Senator Conroy has no clue about the industry he claims to represent, repeatedly issues moronic statements like this one, with a frequency that makes your head spin, as well as failing to either elicit or act on informed, intelligent factual information that would actually help him do his job properly, if that was in fact what he wanted to do.

WE know he’s talking out of turn about things he knows nothing about, but we are a tiny minority of the public. The damage he is doing to HIS OWN PORTFOLIO, and the emerging industries related to it is boggling! If KRudd wants to defend this minister’s actions, far worse in my mind than the more personal dalliances of a recently uncloseted minister which led to his resignation.

How did this Luddite get this brief? The difference between Sen Conroy and Ludlum are like night and day, since Ludlam spends time researching, learning, and consulting before he makes public statements.

By: Renai LeMay

Renai LeMay — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 00:49:45 +0000

I’d like to see Google make a statement about what sorts of data it collected so that we could see really what is in there … as many technically minded people have said, it really could be just a lot of garbage, depending on how fast the Street View cars drive etc. And as you’ve said, much of the important internet traffic is encrypted these days anyway.

By: Renai LeMay

Renai LeMay — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 00:46:25 +0000

Interesting Simon — what are the other issues that you’re voting pro-Labor on? There seems to be a movement away from Labor at the moment, although I think most people still expect them to win the next election fairly easily.

By: Renai LeMay

Renai LeMay — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 00:45:10 +0000

Hilarious! The fact that Conroy is a Senator does make it a little hard for those of us who don’t live in Victoria to attempt to vote him out at the next election :)

Having said that, I wouldn’t say it’s Conroy that is the main problem with Labor’s policies, especially on the filter. It’s the party line entirely that needs to be changed. That is something that is a much bigger challenge.

By: Renai LeMay

Renai LeMay — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 00:42:21 +0000

I think a telling fact in this whole debate (as with all privacy debates) is that there actually have been no privacy implications of Google’s actions so far. Nobody has come forward and said: “Google took my data and did something with it and now my life is demonstratably changed in these negative ways.”

In short, nobody knows what data Google has, the data is probably junk that would not be usable without some serious data mining, and even if it wasn’t, Google has pledged to delete it/and hand it over to the authorities.

We should be getting over this debate and moving on to something that matters.

By: Paul..

Paul.. — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 10:03:51 +0000

Second story today about the dingleberry Conroy. Honestly, I do try and stay away from politics but having that man in the position he’s in winds me up! Mind you, even some folks in the EU are making the same claims about banking details being exposed so he’s not alone on this particular issue.

Strictly speaking you could say that some of the (encrypted) packets may well have contained parts of a session with a banking system but to suggest that the information is usable/complete/readable is at best misleading…

By: Simon Reidy

Simon Reidy — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 07:29:32 +0000

A nice feature! (putting Conroy last on any piece of paper would feel great) but alas I’m in Tas.

Given the scope of issues we’ll be voting on this election it’ll be a tough vote indeed. I love the tech industry, but to me there are more important issues I’ll be voting for which sway my vote (albeit a very reluctant one) towards Labor.

By: Douglas

Douglas — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 07:24:37 +0000

If you live in Victoria, there's a site here that will, upon the release of the ballot papers, provide printable instructions to take with you to the polling booth so that you can vote below the line for your party of choice but put Conroy last.

By: Simon Reidy

Simon Reidy — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 07:17:12 +0000

A technically illiterate moron, and an outright liar. Just what you want from the man responsible for the future of telecommunications in Australia.

What saddens me is I’ll still have to indirectly vote for him. There’s just no way I can bring myself to vote for the alternative.