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zut alors
12 years ago
Firsty, the laughs are coming fast today – especially frames #2 and #3.
And did you know that even if your mobile is turned off the mobile towers still know your location. Those towers are too clever by half.
I’m very very afraid FD.
Up until now…….
Nobody on the Internet knew if I really was (or wasn’t) Grommit’s evil twin brother.
Now they might find out!
Mike Jones
12 years ago
Firsty, I’ve considered this matter for seconds now and I’m oscillating between deep concern and not giving the tiniest sh1t.
Once upon a time one of the big 4 banks decided to do a massive project to collate everything about their customers in the ultimately vain hope that the “data would speak to them” ….. and tell them what they should do to take over the world.
The project had a name – “CS-90”. They hired legions of dudes with pointy heads and propeller hats on, spent squillions and after some years….. by which time the data had said f@ck all, they decided to kill it and the geniuses who conceived the monster in the first place.
So that was maybe 20 years ago. And this is now, which really appears to be more like then than then.
At least it’s not as stupid as going to war in Afghanistan – but it might cost roughly the same amount of cash.
Holden Back
12 years ago
Won’t this just lead to some servers in Fyshwick being even more full of pictures and html of kitties and porn*? And won’t they eventually burst, showering Canberra with lolz and horny?
(*Two separate categories, I hasten to add.)
Adam
12 years ago
These ‘new surveillance powers’ scare me shirtless (only a bit more than the current ones…)
My tilt at PM (c. 2024 – please remember to vote for me) would be under serious threat if my my p-rn surfing habits were ever to come out of the ISP archive, and be used against me by my political adversaries.
Thanks Crikey and FD, I can consider myself warned, and will repent and reform my ways before it’s too late!
Good news on the employment front, however, with ASIO requiring hundreds, maybe thousands of ‘data analysts’ to keep this surveillance program ticking along…
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To a hammer on the internet, everything looks like www.nail.com
Firsty, the laughs are coming fast today – especially frames #2 and #3.
And did you know that even if your mobile is turned off the mobile towers still know your location. Those towers are too clever by half.
I’m very very afraid FD.
Up until now…….
Nobody on the Internet knew if I really was (or wasn’t) Grommit’s evil twin brother.
Now they might find out!
Firsty, I’ve considered this matter for seconds now and I’m oscillating between deep concern and not giving the tiniest sh1t.
Once upon a time one of the big 4 banks decided to do a massive project to collate everything about their customers in the ultimately vain hope that the “data would speak to them” ….. and tell them what they should do to take over the world.
The project had a name – “CS-90”. They hired legions of dudes with pointy heads and propeller hats on, spent squillions and after some years….. by which time the data had said f@ck all, they decided to kill it and the geniuses who conceived the monster in the first place.
So that was maybe 20 years ago. And this is now, which really appears to be more like then than then.
At least it’s not as stupid as going to war in Afghanistan – but it might cost roughly the same amount of cash.
Won’t this just lead to some servers in Fyshwick being even more full of pictures and html of kitties and porn*? And won’t they eventually burst, showering Canberra with lolz and horny?
(*Two separate categories, I hasten to add.)
These ‘new surveillance powers’ scare me shirtless (only a bit more than the current ones…)
My tilt at PM (c. 2024 – please remember to vote for me) would be under serious threat if my my p-rn surfing habits were ever to come out of the ISP archive, and be used against me by my political adversaries.
Thanks Crikey and FD, I can consider myself warned, and will repent and reform my ways before it’s too late!
Good news on the employment front, however, with ASIO requiring hundreds, maybe thousands of ‘data analysts’ to keep this surveillance program ticking along…