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   PaulT (profile), Jun 10th, 2010 @ 2:08pm

   
   

   The cake is a lie.
   
   (yeah cliche, but the firs thing that comes to mind when thinking of "portals" and "scams")

    

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   Simon, Jun 10th, 2010 @ 2:11pm

   
   

   Communications Minister

   I weep

    

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   bradmoreso (profile), Jun 10th, 2010 @ 2:11pm

   
   

   well-intentioned, ill-informed

   ... and of the state, so inherent doom looms for citizens.
   
   This may not be an intentional power grab, but just as setting filesystem permissions wide open "so the app will work" can lead to serious abuses and security violations. And, you know, disastrous results.

    

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   Anonymous Coward, Jun 10th, 2010 @ 2:16pm

   
   

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   All part of Valve's brilliant PR campaign. Carry on.

    

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   wat, Jun 10th, 2010 @ 2:53pm

   
   

   Re: well-intentioned, ill-informed

   well-intentioned? it's people like you, bradley, that are just one tier under these idiots that are trying to make decisions on concepts they know nothing about.

    

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   Anonymous Coward, Jun 10th, 2010 @ 3:03pm

   
   

   Easier this way

   In business it is so much easier to supervise something if you are clueless about the subject. If you are lucky you can make a few big, flashy changes that impress your superiors (who are also clueless of course). Hopefully you have a few people working for you who can help you paper over the disasters. This can't go ion forever, but it can go on long enough for you to get promoted out of the job before all the wheels come off. Repeat the process and you will be successful in modern corporate structure where only the short term matters.
   
   It's probably the same thing when it comes to being a regulater.

    

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   Richard Corsale (profile), Jun 10th, 2010 @ 3:06pm

   
   

   dhuaaa

   OMG Mike.. Why don't you post about things you know something about! I had a scam crawl through my portal just the other day! I cant believe you. Your probably on the a shill for the portal industry.
   
   
   GAWD!!!

    

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   Mike, Jun 10th, 2010 @ 3:45pm

   
   

   Seems like the only thing he did wrong was use the word portal incorrectly. Being infected with spam could just be a turn of phrase.

    

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   The Groove Tiger (profile), Jun 10th, 2010 @ 4:00pm

   
   

   It's all the scams coming out of the portal that are clogging up our tubes and preventing from having our movies delivered!

    

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    An Australian.., Jun 10th, 2010 @ 5:18pm

    
    

    A Portals not a Portal.

    Hi,
    
    Let see, Last I heard portal, a good 12 years ago, in relation to computer tech, it was a reference to a computer screen, I don't particularly remember it in reference to the net at all...
    Similarly, you can't be infected by spam.. or scams.. thats silly. thats like saying youve been infected by mail, and a bad car dealer..
    
    The guy is an idiot. and I love that quote.. It's going to last longer than he does.
    
    So Portal, not a turn of phrase, here atleast. I think he just honestly believes that the internet is magic, and that we can use other magics to control the all powerful net magics, and that knowledge flows through these channels of power, and comes out of the network and into your computer, to be interpreted, and is then displayed on it's magical viewing portal..

     

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    TW Burger (profile), Jun 10th, 2010 @ 5:43pm

    
    

    The worst part (of Conroy's statement)is not the "spams and scams through the portal". Although inept, it's understandable. The "up to 20,000 regularly getting infected" is the problem. Where did that number come from? What's the rate? Clearly he made it up and is lying to us. Shame on him.

     

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    Hephaestus (profile), Jun 10th, 2010 @ 6:18pm

    
    

    Re: well-intentioned, ill-informed

    "well-intentioned, ill-informed"
    
    Politicians are really out to save the children
    
    Politicians really care what happens to you
    
    Politicians never lie
    
    Politicians always do the right thing
    
    Politicians never do favor for people who fund their campains
    
    How many of those do you believe?

     

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    Allen (profile), Jun 10th, 2010 @ 6:33pm

    
    

    Re: dhuaaa

    Sounds painful.

     

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    Anonymous Coward, Jun 10th, 2010 @ 6:35pm

    
    

    listening to some of his other statements, he really has no idea what he's doing

     

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    Sean T Henry (profile), Jun 10th, 2010 @ 6:35pm

    
    

    Re: Re: well-intentioned, ill-informed

    I know the answer 6X0=??? what was the question?

     

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    matrix, Jun 10th, 2010 @ 7:54pm

    
    

    Nuclear intelligence

    yes folks we must NUKE intelligence now before they gets any smarter and realize all the peeps running stuff are just one big bunch a crooks
    
    we has to filter the truth now
    go hurry it dont matter who you p[ut doing it GET IT DONE QUICKLY before more smarties become blue...dont eat BLUE eat teh red pill er smarty

     

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    Ash Crill, Jun 10th, 2010 @ 9:55pm

    
    

    Conroy claims Googlecould have 'hoovered' bank details

    This is all over the news in Australia today. His latest comment is ridiculous and makes him sound even more ill-informed:
    
    "(If) you were doing a banking transaction, or transmitting personal information, they could have hoovered it up, sucked it up into their machine," he told ABC TV yesterday."
    
    http://www.theaustralian.com.au/politics/google-denies-capturing-banking-details/stor y-e6frgczf-1225876667684

     

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    Niall (profile), Jun 11th, 2010 @ 4:22am

    
    

    Tubes...

    So in taking about portals and stuff so cluelessly, he has his own 'tubes' moment by sounding like a tube... (pardon the UK slang).

     

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    georgied, Jun 11th, 2010 @ 5:48am

    
    

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    He must be getting his numbers from BP. 20,000 a day! The whole of Australia would be infected within three years.

     

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    BBT, Jun 11th, 2010 @ 7:11am

    
    

    Sometimes I try to imagine just how the average non-technical person sees the internet and computers. Usually it gets triggered by comments like this, or watching "24". "24" always has computer shit be so essential to the plot but it's always the craziest stuff. The way the internet is portrayed on 24 makes me think of some crazy dreamworld like the mages go to in Dragon Age, combined with the streaming numbers of The Matrix.

     

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