[clug] [OT] Broadband clangers

[Boris Rousak]

On 11/08/2010 03:01, Scott Ferguson wrote:
>   On Wed, 11 Aug 2010 10:28:42 +1000 Bob Edwards<bob at cs.anu.edu.au>   wrote:
>    
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>> Subject: [clug] [OT] Broadband clangers
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>> Kerry O'Brien on the 7:30 report last night interviewing Tony Abbott:
>>
>> "KERRY O'BRIEN: It's fibre that - where the signals will travel at the
>> speed of light."
>> (from http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2010/s2979381.htm )
>>
>> As if, somehow, signals travelling down fibre that "last mile" will
>> somehow be noticably any faster than signals travelling down copper
>> that same last mile...
>>
>> There was also a debate on ABC News 24 last night with Sen. Conroy
>> (sorry, I simply can't grok the ABC archives...) where he says
>> something like: "we need 100Mbps to enable future technologies like
>> the SmartGrid".
>>
>> My grid meter runs at 19200baud and is bursty... I guess they may
>> want to have 5000+ grid meters running per household... that would
>> be a killer app for a 100Mbps connection...
>>
>> I am not necessarily against having a 100Mbps link, I just don't see
>> why the minister is using SmartGrid as part of his argument. This is
>> not going to need anything more than about 300bps, if that. The
>> minister must have more compelling reasons to invest $43B for the
>> NBN than enabling SmartGrids.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Bob Edwards.
>>
>>      
> Obviously Conroy is an id10t. He probably "thinks" SmartGrid (spend $20
> save 20c) is some sort of internet enabled education system.
> Next week he'll be announcing a new internet filtering system
About that filtering silliness - has the idea finally died in the water? 
I've been out of the country a bit longer then expected and was 
wondering if its safe to come home yet? :)

> to stop
> people typing "google" into google, and breaking the internet :-D
> Rumour has it that he actually has called desktop support to help open
> his laptop!
> Can't wait till he discovers Cloud computing and connects it the ozone
> layer.... bet he spends a lot of time looking for the "any key" ;-p
>
> Cheers
>