On Tuesday night Australia attempted a national census.
By 7.30pm, after just two million citizen entries and four concerted Denial of Service (DoS) attacks, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) shut their site down.
Thirty-six hours later, it is still down.
"Heads will roll," declares PM.
Endusers :
Two key messages :
The first is, if y0u want enduser acceptance, you need to actually go and consult with them and listen to the endusers.
And then the second thing is, you need to listen to concerns when seven Senators, a Deputy Privacy Commissioner, and a former lead statistician of the country all raise privacy concerns and you sweep them away as if they count for nothing, don't be surprised if people are pretty unhappy.
- Dr Suelette Dreyfus (Computer Security lecturer, Melb. Uni)
The Drum, ABC.TV yesterday.
Two key messages :
The first is, if y0u want enduser acceptance, you need to actually go and consult with them and listen to the endusers.
And then the second thing is, you need to listen to concerns when seven Senators, a Deputy Privacy Commissioner, and a former lead statistician of the country all raise privacy concerns and you sweep them away as if they count for nothing, don't be surprised if people are pretty unhappy.
- Dr Suelette Dreyfus (Computer Security lecturer, Melb. Uni)
The Drum, ABC.TV yesterday.
Endgamers :
Since the narrow re-election of the conservative Turnbull government last month, we've been intrigued to note the preference for an 'Endgame' set in the Prime Minister’s Press Conference Room, the Blue Room.
Since the narrow re-election of the conservative Turnbull government last month, we've been intrigued to note the preference for an 'Endgame' set in the Prime Minister’s Press Conference Room, the Blue Room.
Instead of the previously favoured dark minimal unobtrusive lecterns...
Environment minister Greg Hunt, Prime minister Tony Abbott and Foreign Minister Julie Bishop at a press conference in the blue room of Parliament House, Canberra this morning, Tuesday 11th August 2015. Photograph: Mike Bowers for the Guardian
...the would-be gravitees now elect to address the nation from monumental white heraldic dustbins.
Endgame by Samuel Beckett : Clov cannot sit, Hamm cannot stand and his discarded parents Nell and Nagg are trapped in dustbins struggling to comprehend a world in which they are terrified of “starting to mean something”.
1958, Frances Cuka as Nell & Richard Goolden as Nagg in the first English language production.
1996, Henry Jones and Eileen Nicholas at the Donmar Warehouse.
2008, Elaine Stritch as Nell and Alvin Epstein as Nagg, Brooklyn Academy of Music – photo by Richard Termine
2010, Randy Harrison as Nagg and Tanya Dougherty as Nell, Berkshire Theatre
2012 Endgame by Monash Uni Student Theatre (MSA)
All for TAR and TAR for all :
2016 Endgame at the Blue Room -
ScoMo and the PM as Nagg and Nell
Press and TV as Clov and Hamm
Theatre of the Actors of Regard
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