WTF is DIDO

[dettol]

It's amusing to hear and read lawyers commenting on technical and engineering matters. What makes Coonan think she can
comment on anything to do with the technical aspects of telecommunications? I suppose she loaded a piece of software on her trusty Win 95 laptop and hey presto, instant engineering guru.

She is about as incompetent as the that previous fool Alston. What a mess he made of the privatisation of Telstra turning a government owned monopoly into a privately owned one.

I read with some incredulity that Alston is now a professor of IT at Monash. I'd laugh but this is serious.

A mere lawyer who has a BA (does that mean Bullshit Artist in his case?) who commented that the NBN is only useful for porn and gaming. I'm hardly surprised that came from him, disappointed that it came from someone in the position he is in. Obviously he knows nothing of the $50 billion a year internet economy that already exists and will grow even bigger with the NBN rollout.

As a technical officer in Telstra sometime ago, I worked in the transmission section looking after the inter-capital routes including the 565Mbit microwave radio transmission. When it rained hard or when there was a bush fire, the radio transmission would be interrupted due to the source of the interference literally blocking out the microwaves because of their minute wave lengths. The same problem would exist no-matter what type of microwave equipment is used. Fibre is the only stable medium for reliable transmission.

Turnbull is once again trotting out Liberal bullshit at the behest of dopey Abbott. If these two were in power when the phone links were planned late in the 19th century they would not have happened for the same reasons they are putting forward now. Back then, they would have been happy with mail.

And yes, I'm very political, very left wing.

[socrates]

Turnbull is once again trotting out Liberal bullshit at the behest of dopey Abbott. If these two were in power when the phone links were planned late in the 19th century they would not have happened for the same reasons they are putting forward now. Back then, they would have been happy with mail.

What is this newfangled 'mail' thingy that you refer to? No need for such technical nonsense. Anybody who claims it's necessary to waste our taxes on such a contrivance is only some layabout trying to promote his part of the horse industry; or he wants to look at naughty postcards; or both. So there. Carrier pigeons were good enough for Grandpa, dammit, and they're good enough for me.

[dettol]

What is this newfangled 'mail' thingy that you refer to? Carrier pigeons were good enough for Grandpa, dammit, and they're good enough for me.

Yeah, and don't forget the steam trains either. Abbott just loves coal.

The worrying thing is Abbott critical of something (the NBN) he readily (gleefully) claims he knows nothing about. But why sould ignorance stop anyone from the Liberal Party criticising anything?

Hah! The comment about the naughty postcards and the horses.

[socrates]

Yeah, and don't forget the steam trains either. Abbott just loves coal.

Yes, that's a bit of a worry.

(thinks - maybe I should have gone back to smoke signals and tom-tom drums. But maybe the coalition comms policy makers would claim they were too advanced, too expensive and should be provided by private enterprise anyway.)