Wednesday, November 12. 2008Time To Join The Torch Light Parades.....John Linton ....and burn some books Mein Fuhrer. We, along with all other ISPs I assume, received the 'courtesy' email asking us to visit the Fourth Reich's official sub site where we could find the details of how to participate in Herr Krudd's and Obersturmfuhrer Conroy's scheme to purge the Fatherland of the filth emanating from the diseased brains of the untermenschen. I skim read it to the point that my understanding is that Herr Rudd's Schutz-Staffel has drawn up an initial list of the undesirable sites that he wishes consigned to the flames as a first pass and will add to the list as further sub human filth is discovered in the future - based on his own definition of such undesirable material. His objective is to cleanse the Reich of anything he designates as undesirable so that the kinder can safely be indoctrinated in the preferred ways that he deems any citizen of the Fatherland should think and act to enhance the chances of them becoming Labor voters when they are eventually given voting rights (should in fact anyone will have voting right in the future if they continue to wish to exercise their current rights of freedom of speech). Towards the end of one of the 'documents' I seemed to gain the impression that there was a shuttered and locked goods wagon with Exetel's name on it waiting at a disused railway station which, as almost all of Sydney's railway stations under der Fuhrer's Gauleiters Carr, Iemma and now Rees 'stewardships' are now disused, was hard to pin down exactly, but it was attached to a train leading to a recently renovated 'camp site' outside Wagga if we didn't do exactly "vot you are tolt". Not wishing to make the acquaintance of Dr Irmried Eberl (while not ideal - I would prefer my internal organs to remain arranged in their current ways) and having as much freedom in my daily work as I can currently cope with I'm inclined not to be as 'independent spirited' (and for the pedants - yes - I know I'm combining the commandant of one camp with the gate sign of another) as I would usually be when confronted with the sadistic madness of bully boys and psychotics. Following Fuhrer Krudd's recent invasions of ABC Learning and his breathtaking Anschluss of the four major banks it just seems one more step on the way of creating more leibensraum for der Fuhrer's grand vision for a greater Australia and according to a recent poll (which some people say is actually independent of der Fuhrer's personal supervision - though I'm not sure how that's possible as it seems to indicate that some people don't agree which is beyond an acceptable standard of conformity) that 63% of us are in total agreement with our glorious leader's visions - or maybe we just smoke the same weed? Enough of such disloyal thoughts - wait a minute - is that the sound of a heavy military truck screeching to a halt and the sound of jackboots on the drive? Bear with me while I carefully open the black out curtains a 'crack' - Whew - no thank goodness it's just the next door neighbour's kids quietly running out in their carefree way looking a picture of smartness in their Krudd Youth uniforms to get their lift to school in someone's recently fully armoured 4 x 4 - apparently the vehicle of choice on the rutted and flooded unpaved roads Mosman women are forced to navigate every day of their lives. So back to what can be done in these totalitarian times by a small company struggling for survival under the burdens imposed by the ever increasing interference by the State in every aspect of what used to be our lives. We appear to have two options - ignore the sheer stupidity of this latest piece of doctrinaire madness from the Labor Loonies and put up with whatever the outcome is as best we can? - attempt to participate in showing these morons that this is one castle in the air too far - even for total idiots? It seems the words 'proxy' and 'P2P' are incomprehensible to the brain dead stupid Stephen and the even loonier Krudd so the trick is to find a way of getting through to the wads of cotton wool that occupy the space between their ears where other people have a grey, jelly-like substance. Steve ('our' Steve - not Stupid Stephen) believes that a silver bullet like 'null routing' would demonstrate that (forgetting about proxies, P2P etc) der Fuhrer's dreams of invading and then controlling cyber space can become a reality with far less loss of men and tanks (oops, sorry, money) than his current wild ideas about super filter hardware and massive slow downs in transmission speeds. We will see if we can easily demonstrate this to them at no cost to us or our users in some vain hope that they will eventually grab at such a straw to save millions of useless deaths on the Russian front - I mean tens of millions of money wasted on slowing down every Australian's internet experience. Come to think of it maybe they aren't as stupid as I think they are - maybe they DO realise they can't stop the internet from giving us access to Radio Britain's subversion so they've moved to plan B - if you can't stop it completely then at least slow it down and 'garble' the signal? Now where did I put my swastika armband? PS: It occurs me if these people currently posing as a federal government are so catastrophically wrong about cut and dried things like an NBN and internet filtering (which I have enough basic knowledge about to see they are so wrong it defies understanding by a rational mind) just how insanely wrong are they about their other 'initiatives'?
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You Godwin'd your own blog! Great post by the way. In summary there are 10 clear reasons why Cleanfeed must die:
0. no mandate (the cannot-opt-out tier was NOT on the table leading into the election) 1. not wanted (by the VAST majority) 2. not needed (by the VAST majority) 3. doesn't work (too many false positives, too many false negatives) 4. easily circumvented (proxies, VPN etc.) 5. too expensive (how much is this going to increase our average Internet costs? $5 a month? For a WOMBAT*?) 6. breaks the internet (slows webbrowsing to a crawl when we're supposed to be trying to increase speeds) 7. leads to problems it was supposed to "fix" (i.e. makes the real crims harder to find) 8. not scalable (IPv6? Nup.) 9. scope creep ("banned" list gets longer and longer) The pro-"Cleanfeed" argument is like Monty Python's Black Knight. It keeps taking mortal hit after mortal hit but keeps coming back with "It's just a flesh wound!" I can't believe they're actually proceeding with trials! *WOMBAT: Waste Of Money, Brains And Time. Comments (2)
I cant believe the government wants to go down this path...
Where they alseep or off on holiday when the Australian public outcry was experienced after it was revealed the Chinese government was blocking and filtering internet traffic in and out of China stopping BBC and other broadcasters from trafficing live feeds back to their country to bradcast the olympic games. Now, some mere months on from that, it seems the fat-cats have forgotten how upset the Australians where with this discraceful display of political censorship, and they have gone to do it themselves. Shall we just load up the guns and hand it to the politicians, they look like theya re ready to shoot themselves in the foot. Comment (1)
As soon as someone invokes Nazis or Hitler the thread is said to have been Godwin'd/Godwined. After Godwin's Law: "As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one."
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Thank you - I was already tired of the media comparisons to China.
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There's an up side for me. I think, even more than their ludicrous NBN fiasco they have decided to push this nonsense which will cause widespread outrage in the Australian communities to a point where it will cost them a lot of votes.
As Sir Humphrey would have observed to stupid Stephen if he was still with us: "A very courageous decision - minister" I didn't label Conroy "stupid" without good reason! Comments (4)
I'd still be weary of this 'null routing' thing. For example, many virtual hosts have a number of customers hosted on the same IP address, so setting up a 'null route' for an IP address might have the effect of blocking more legitimate sites than illegitimate ones.
I also tend to think that ISPs should be more or less neutral about the access they provide. If a customer is accessing something illegal, isn't it best leaving up to the authorities? Of course to set up any 'null route', Exetel will need to be aware that such illegal content exists, which either means you have to actively search for it or monitor what your customers are doing and analyse their packet data. The later approach certainly raises an array of ethical issues. Either approach would no doubt require far more resources than a small company could provide. Comment (1)
Der Fuhrer has set himself up as the arbiter of what is acceptable for you to access.
It appears to be unwise to disagree with Fuhrers. Comments (4)
Null routing, as nice as it sounds, comes with a good chunk of collateral damage (virtual hosting where hundreds or thousands of sites share a single IP).
Null routing also comes at a substantial resource cost on some routing platforms. Comment (1)
FAIL. If you are going to use a lame Nazi analogy, at least try to spell the German correctly. But then again, your English isn't much better: "His object in to cleanse the Reich..." And you call them stupid. Fail again.
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Thank you for your concern.
I would be grateful if you could point out the words I have mis-spelled so I can correct them. Comment (1)
Excellent use of metaphor, John. You must have some German heritage to make use of the idiom so accurately. I don't usually agree with your extreme view of our current leadership, and I thought that Coonan was as bad as a minister could get, but Stephen Conroy has demonstrated that the barrel is always a bit deeper if you look hard enough.
BTW: Being of German-Jewish stock myself, I found the reference to the "shuttered and locked goods wagon" especially chilling. Comment (1)
I clearly enjoyed that one, darker perhaps than my musings on a possible mystopian near future..
and #6 david .. another pink floyd "the final cut" album "a warning to anyone still in command of their possible future to take care. in derelict sidings the poppies entwine with cattle trucks lying in wait for the next time" chilling. probability factor 0.5 apart from that, have a nice day. Comment (1)
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