Torrent Sites Blocked in Australia(Offical)

[Joel]

It's funny because torrents aren't the only way to download this sort of stuff. #fail

[Dave The Man]

[Tannin]

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/06/30/worlds_best_vpns_fall_flat_in_security_tests/

[Dave The Man]

[Tannin]

IPv6: the Windows Vista of networking.

[Dave The Man]

[Tannin]

^ Which remionds me of a post I made to that effect in another place more tan a year ago. Let's see if I can hunt it down:

[Dave The Man]

[Tannin]

No, it was the one thing worse than a Microsoft design, a committee effort.

[Wokko]

There must be an alternate universe where OS/2 beat windows, Netscape is still the browser of choice, Facebook was bought by Myspace and killed and Alta Vista's popularity prevented Google from being any more than Bing.

[Tannin]

OS/2 was vastly superior to Windows. I don't mean slightly, in some arcane techo ways, I mean vastly better. It was not far off a full decade ahead. (In some aspects, it is still better, though not too many now.) Windows didn't match early 1990s vintage OS/2 for stability, user interface design, flexibility, or multi-taking power until about the turn of the century. But Windows was marketed by the very best firm in the business (as they were then - not now!) and OS/2 was marketed by IBM who, in consumer space, couldn't sell a cold beer in a crowded desert. Sad, but that's history.

Actually, Netscape did become the browser of choice, but only after a long and messy death, a resurrection on the third day, and couple of name changes by deed poll. In its original incarnation (then still called "Netscape"), Netscape only ever seemed decent because the competition was the worst, buggiest, least secure, most dangerous browser of all time. But it too was marketed by the all-time grandmasters of selling snake oil, and it too went to its grave. But then came the resurrection: Netscape reemerged under a new name (Mozilla, which was actually its old name before it was Netscape) and with vastly improved and modernised code. Bit by bit, it began eating into Internet Explorer's near-total dominance, changing it's name twice more along the way to become Firebird, and then Firefox. After some years, it knocked the horrid Internet Exploder off its perch.

(And then, only a few years later, was itself knocked off by a new and not-very-good browser from a company which was even better at selling stuff to everyone than Microsoft. Well, actually, that's the wrong way about. Microsoft was great at selling things to everyone, Google is superb at selling everyone to things, which is a much cleverer idea.)

In that alternative universe where Myspace bought Facebook, they mismanaged it into oblivion inside two years, then went out of business. No other universe is possible.

I can imagine a universe where Alta Vista remained top dog. I cannot imagine a world where Bing succeeded. Do what you like with the laws of physics, make water flow uphill, mandate two cats in every elementary particle, I still cannot imagine the execrable Bing succeeding.

[The Prototype]

I haven't come across any banned torrent sites yet, not to say they haven't banned some but the typical ones I am using haven't been blocked.

[Dave The Man]

[Dave The Man]

People are Claiming that Article is out of date and Problems have been fixed

http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies.cfm?t=2423595

[David]

Every cinephile's favourite tracker – which we are no longer at liberty to refer to by name in public, lest it get too much of a profile – was just resurrected last week after being taken down by a Dutch anti-piracy organisation at the end of May. I'm still hoping and praying that it is spared the Wrath of Turnbull.

Frankly, I don't care if the whole Internet gets banned so long as that site stays up.