@txd wd. much appreciate a fix to broken Collingwood VirtualMin. Redirects to ‘service unavailable’.
Nannies with scissors: unaccountable ASIC censoring of ‘suspect’ websites. ISPs don’t seem to object! delimiter.com.au/2013/06/28/rev…
Neil Brown; “She foolishly abandoned her best ploy…to stand firm & force her colleagues to blast her out of officeis.gd/sTsHNfMK
Oops… tweet on the hollowness of Labor should have referred to Gareth Evans’s essay in the Australiantheaustralian.com.au/national-affai…VU
To the polls on his record (disowned even by caucus)? On hers (ditto)? We all loose when Labor stands with and for nothing but themselves::
@scottlincicome Nope. Party blood-feuds are a policy-free zone (it’s about ‘me’). Will the conservatives pander less? Hope so, but…
I hope the added competitive pressure pushes Abbott closer to the ‘neo-liberal’ agenda (labor market reforms, less ind’y assistance…)
A #spill is just a mess on the carpet; what the grown-ups have to clean up later (if any are left in the Labor party).
My novel of cyber war, government betrayal and an assault on Google (“Cloud of Lies” is.gd/KwxOa9) was created in @ScrivenerApp
snlester RT @mattyglesias Unlike Snowden, the US intel community would never make an alliance of convenience with unsavory regimes.
Good meeting @LowyInstitute on trade initiatives for G20 next year. Discussion no doubt better than G20 participants will have.
6;00 AM 1km car queue to Melb airport terminals. This airport a disgrace to city.
On ABC RN at noon on the Safeguard inquiries on processed fruit and tomatoes is.gd/cwnBt8
The Colombo Plan was about aid to poor countries (& ‘communism’), this looks like ForPol gimmickry & uni marketing theaustralian.com.au/higher-educati…
Show stoppers! RT @GrumpyStKilda: Middle Eight Music is having an EOFY sale—15% off all CDs, DVDs & leather goodsow.ly/miigry
insteconomics China’s Great Uprooting: Moving 250 Million Into Cities nyti.ms/13NbWVU
@snlester Process can be substantial :-) When ACTA finally surfaced it was nearly innocuous. But secrecy killed its credibility long before.
@snlester Trade agreements bind parliaments: secret processes are wrong. Exec hides what it wants unknown until choices are only yea or nay.
Kan you Kobo? “Cloud of Lies” — a tale of government betrayal — now also on the anti-Amazonkobobooks.com/ebook/Cloud-of…1pic.twitter.com/86e0Q5rmwlwl
One upon a time airline security worked without idiotic, unreliable, un-selective scanning. wired.com/threatlevel/20…
Odd but true: it takes longer to open less than more. Michael Geist details the Canada - EU Trade Agreement agony michaelgeist.ca/content/view/6…
“He would simply ask the (Western Union) operators for copies of the Japanese messages” MO that still works! theatlantic.com/international/…
“Cloud of Lies” my (2009) novel about cyber-criminals opening a Google ‘back door’ for government spies now on Amazon amazon.com/Cloud-of-Lies-…
My essay for Lowy’s G20 Monitor on minimizing damage to the #WTO trading system from mega-regional blocs:: is.gd/U8BH5w
“Now that your liquid items are ready, let’s get you prepared for your departure security check”. Ugh! domusweb.it/en/design/2013…
How can government snoops use metadata? Here, just one data point on 254 people outs a troublemaker::kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/…
JulieKNovak Very sad news of the passing of esteemed Australian economist Helen Hughes, I benefited greatly from her insights on indigenous education
Obama’s early gift to steel unions, opposed by tire industry, appealed by China, OK’d by WTO, still hurts poor people latimes.com/business/autos…
Obama and Xi to discuss siege tactics. One builds a wall around the Internet, the other mines under it. Neither is safe.
‘Treasures of tinsel and sheen’: RT @SincDavidson: Midnight in Altona quadrant.org.au/blogs/qed/2013…
My (rejected, unpublished) 2009 (semi)-thriller “The Classic of Music” showed how NSA created its Google ‘back door’ is.gd/tntfmH
Globalized market = f(transnational firms, investments); #WTO governments bicker over whether to get out of the way: is.gd/zqPQa2
@JohnMcNeil6 Buon appetito! “Prandium longum, vita brevis…” (Or is it the other way round?)
“Wagner and the Jews”: Barenboim on genius allied to bitter faults; argues there’s something like that in Zionism: nybooks.com/articles/archi…
@howserob @Carydc sure, but not to that extent! See PC estimates pc.gov.au/__data/assets/… and Aus. report in earlier tweet.
@howserob @Carydc Possible, but Combet’s agency resists claim. +Hydro: end of droughts. Lower output: mfg slump. No simple explanations :-/
@howserob Report is propaganda. Emissions fall mostly due to change in generation mix (more hydro) and lower output is.gd/cV2BVZ
Breaking the “politics of the last atrocity” in Syria (and a theory of why its not happening) independent.co.uk/voices/comment…
And “mumbo-jumbo” too!
RT @CISOZ: Time to Dump Australia’s Anti-Dumping System: ht.ly/2xkNUo *Excellent* review. A-D is screw-the-consumer jumbo-jumbo!
Bash programming teaches parsimony, refinement: the keys to good writing. FizzBuzz tutorial is great fun: net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/othe…
Gleick presents Smolin’s argument that time is not absolute: “In the real world it is always some particular moment.” 10:16 AM, Jun 2nd, 2013 via iCab Mobile (Web Browser)