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Why Must Oracle Treat Us Like Idiots?

With yet another round of Java security updates – (this time to address 42 new security issues) – reaching our computers today, I find myself once again getting agro with Oracle with the nonchalant way they treat people when their updates roll. Why on earth should/would a security patch be asking us to install a […]

Our Customers Are Idiots: V/Line

Long suffering Geelong V/Line customers copped another penalty for trying to do the right thing and support public transport yesterday morning when the 4:43am service from Marshall to Melbourne’s Southern Cross Station ran out of fuel at Footscray, halting all trains behind it. This included metropolitan services on the Werribee and Williamstown lines, and caused […]

V/Line: Treating Customers Like Idiots – Still

This afternoon I got the following tweet from V/Line’s curiously named “@vlineinform” account, once again showing how the truth should never get in the way of, well, treating their customers like idiots. Now – notice that the current time is “16:37”, and that the tweet(s) were received “3 mins ago” – meaning they were posted […]

Idiotic View in Internet Copyright Case

A seriously stupid view of the various responsibilities involved in digital copyright infringement has been put “on the record” during closing arguments in the landmark Australian federal court case been the film industry, and the Australian ISP iiNet. Film Studios Issue Ultimatum to ISPs The film industry has “decreed” that ISPs should “get serious” about […]

Propaganda Targeted With Propaganda?

Today has seen another episode of “completely missing the point” released by the Australian Government. Government Targets Online Terror Propaganda “Terrorist propaganda posted on social media and the internet will be monitored and analysed under an $18 million plan announced by the Abbott government.” How will they target the propaganda? “The government will also produce […]

Website Bullied By Coalition Lawyers

Earlier this week, a rather blunt and straightforward website came online, voicing displeasure against a swathe of Coalition election policies. The publisher has a right to have a say, right? Until the Coalition’s lawyers got wind of it, apparently. The owner of the website, Jesse Richardson, issued a media statement (click for full size): “My […]

The Ultimate Coalition Filtering Betrayal

At 12:00am this morning, the election advertising blackout commenced. This morning on television, Opposition leader Tony Abbott confirmed that all of their policies for the 2013 election had been released, in preparation for the long awaited release of their costings. Yet, this afternoon a serious piece of policy was released. An old foe of the […]

V/Line – Could It Really Be True?

Regular followers of my tweets and blog posts will know that a subject I am, shall we say, “passionate” about is the performance – (or lack thereof) – of the customer service efforts of Victoria’s regional rail provider, V/Line. Any regular commuter with an ounce of common sense understands that things go wrong from time […]

Single Point of Failure

Well, yet again this morning, thousands of commuters from the western suburbs of Melbourne and Geelong had their daily travel severely disrupted, after a power failure at Newport station disabled signals and points. Now, I’m the first to accept that unexpected things happen all the time, and that running an integrated public transport network is […]

ACL: Out of Touch?

Without wishing to suggest either way as to whether the ACL as a organisation has a positive or negative effect on the current federal election campaign, I do have to wonder about some of their actions, or inactions, as the case may be. I just took this snapshot from the front page of their website, […]