You have left out that the Linux approach to security is distribution dependent, and nothing to do with ‘Linux’ as such. From Ubuntu’s approach of not even letting you have a root account to Slackware not including PAM to Fedora having SELinux.

It should also have been pointed out just how much Windows has improved in the last 5 years.

Additionally these days with most exploits being browser based, the OS is less significant and relevant than it was a few years ago.

Which brings me to the next point. What can you do about it? I suppose I can change my password, (I suppose I’d better) but what else can be done/ Is it all a matter of shutting the gate after the horse has bolted?

Scary world…

I agree that the device may well be a great consumption device, but I’m still struggling to see how it’d cater for creation.

I would be tempted to get one to read on, or watch movies on. I disagree with your points about the screen sucking for reading, I do it off my iPhone already, an iPad would just offer a bigger screen to do it on.

There is already a large ecosystem of apps out for the iPad, so it’s useful for a lot of stuff.

My reasons from buying one would mostly come down to it being a cheap Lemur replacement, but that’s a very niche need.

The whole thing should be dumped before more money is wasted, and Conroy realises that it won’t work. From what I’ve been told, IPv6 will render the filter useless. If that’s the case, then this whole project will fail before long.

I think Conroy has his head in a place of great shadows, but this sort of behaviour will not help in any way. It needs to be ordinary people making a common sense argument against the draconian and useless policies proposed by the ALP (of all parties), not fring agendas about free porn. How trite and ridiculous.

What’s your take on the why of all this proposed policy Vito? Simply playing to the moralists who want a magical ’safe’ internet without any understanding of how impossible or desirable that would actually be? Another agenda entirely? I can’t figure it at all. It’s so obvious a filter won’t work. My nine year old knows that. What’s their game?

I had all my privacy settings locked down. You couldn’t even see who my friends were without being a friend.

But no, you just had to have that “What information of mine can friends give away without asking?” thing.

Fuck you facebook.

Fuck you.