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by stirlo 6y ago
Fairfax still produces daily newspapers with a large readership in Australia's 2 largest cities. To say they don't exist just because their ownership changed is a misnomer.
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by stirlo 6y ago
I didn't mention the government funded ABC but rather the Australian Associated Press (AAP) which is a collection of local journalists funded collectively by the large media companies on both the left and right wing.
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by stirlo 6y ago
It's been highlighted below but the reason this is posted here and up voted is that Google choose to 404 any requests coming from non Australian IP addresses. Hardly seems to be the thing you do when you're acting above board...
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by stirlo 6y ago
Considering Google and Facebook are willing participants in PRISM [1] it can't be any worse [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_(surveillance_program)#M...
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by stirlo 6y ago
Fairfax has always provided a counter to newscorp and there's no reason this funding wouldn't be available to any new players that wanted to start up.
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by stirlo 6y ago
^ This. I'm hearing heaps of people crying "Murdock" and "Newscorp" but how about local jobs and ownership vs a global conglomerate that doesn't give 2 f#%ks about our tiny 25 million population and takes $4.8
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by stirlo 6y ago
Not necessarily the same attacker but unless the flaws that led to the attack are patched then copycats will target them now they know they will pay up
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by stirlo 6y ago
This is a very recent event (ransom was only paid on 07/28). They're not out of the woods yet. Whats the bet they get crypto locked again next week?
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by stirlo 6y ago
> Will they just shut off Google for Australia? And lose the billions of revenue over a few million in news payments? Of course not. Good on the Australian Government for putting them in a position where they actually have to contribute
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by stirlo 6y ago
The Australian app (COVIDsafe) does not use the Apple/Google API becuase the Goverment wanted location tracking which is banned under their terms. This means the COVIDsafe app chews up battery life and is vulnerable to power saving fea
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by stirlo 6y ago
> One only has to look at how different things were 50 or so (or less) years ago before these things were as widespread. Was the average person happier under these circumstances? That's what should be optimized not keeping things th
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by stirlo 6y ago
Dead simple. 4 engines instead of 2. Same reason the 747 is going away
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by stirlo 6y ago
It's a stupid why. Currently they get $8 billion for nothing. Purchase DDG (and set default) and they lose $8 billion, users complain about worse search results (just like maps) and Google just puts a banner on their homepage saying h
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by stirlo 6y ago
Headline: Apple should buy X!!! Analysis: "Apple can make such acquisitions for less than $1 billion. This will be less than a week of Apple’s cash flow." Logic: None! Apple makes $1 billion a week by avoiding running a bunch of m
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by stirlo 6y ago
Android only. I don't give a f#%k about the color of my messages but being able to see them from a website/windows desktop would be useful. This doesn't achieve that.
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by stirlo 6y ago
Possibly because they used to own MySpace and got in the habit?
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by stirlo 7y ago
Maybe, But that erratic behavior has also got them millions in free media coverage so it's not as clear cut it seems.
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by stirlo 7y ago
Most of this seems to be cosmetic (various switches breaking, noisy seat mechanisms) that the typical buyer would not bother fixing on a car with 100's of thousands of miles. Also interesting how much they got covered under warranty. I
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by stirlo 7y ago
> Here in Australia we've done it for decades, but with no global success. Examples? We have some of the most open markets in the world. We’re one of the only countries the US has a trade surplus with...
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by stirlo 7y ago
Same thing happened to Draw Something and Words with Friends. The trick is to get the 9 figure valuation, raise as much funding as possible and then put as much in your pockets before the hype dies down.
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by stirlo 7y ago
This is a new user hostile move from them. They have announced they are removing support for ALL older model speakers not just "discount code redeemed" ones. Additionally they disabling updates for any new speakers that remain in
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by stirlo 7y ago
That was the original stance, it's unclear to me if it still is. The post they made seems to be intentionally vague...
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by stirlo 7y ago
>The original ONE is still supported After announcing the Sonos ONE with heaps of fanfare they introduced a 2nd Gen revision only 16 months later and said that in the future only the 2nd Gen ONE would receive new features. Considering pa
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by stirlo 7y ago
There was a thread a while ago... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14491409 Essentially make a few Apple Pay purchases and look at the card number on the receipt. It's always the same.
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by stirlo 7y ago
I'm surprised they're issuing a statement admitting they made a "misstep". Surely they knew in advance the original update (removing support for their earliest adopters) would be received extremely negatively. I would ha
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by stirlo 7y ago
Contrary to the way it was marketed Apple Pay only randomises the credit card number when you add the card the first time. After that it’s the same card number being used for every transaction and traceable.
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by stirlo 7y ago
While companies definitely need to move away from SMS two factor it’s so entrenched (and simple) that more is needed. The government agencies that setup the mobile number portability system need to realise the seriousness of this flaw and a
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by stirlo 7y ago
Nearly every road in the world has a speed limit. Car manufacturers still quote top speed and advertise based a cars racing pedigree. 95% of bankers and doctors driving BMW or Mercedes don’t use these features but still pay for them. Same w
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by stirlo 7y ago
The Chromium based edge has not been released outside of Insider/Beta previews currently so the GP’s experiences aren’t relevant to the current chromium based builds.
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by stirlo 7y ago
http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html If you don’t have enough brand awareness to get your PR out there just latch your story onto someone that does...

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