This entire article reads like a "whataboutism" written by the Apple marketing department.

Here in Australia we have a monopoly on media.

Just because you read in the newspaper that everyone is outraged doesn't mean it's true. The new law makes no sense other than to feed that monopoly and appears to be an attempt by our current right wing government to benefit Murdoch (who owns sky News)

In Australia, we have rules for our .com.au domain names too. It's not different. If Tasmania wanted to start their own country. They'd need their own domain and technically wouldn't qualify for .com.au (since they wouldn't have abn's anymore).

The country is no longer part of the EU. They voted for a hard brexit. That doesn't mean they can pick and choose only the good things. It's a two-way relationship.

We set up home networks here for customers. And the number of customers with NBN problems (which included myself) was massive. In fact, it literally took me a year to prove to NBN/TPG that my FTTC connection dropped out EVERY time it rained (and I ended up going to the TIO, who resolved it by replacing the copper cable with ANOTHER obsolete copper cable).

We have a customer in Mt Eliza with Skymuster / Satellite, despite having a school almost next door with Fibre, and FTTN 3 houses away. We have a customer with fixed wireless. They get 1mbps upload, and 10mbps download. Anything over 6/1 is apparently OK and they can't fix.

  FTTP was the only system with a standard for VOIP built in. On the rest of it, SIP isn't mandated, so we're stuck installing shitty ISP routers, instead of upgrading them to real ones. They should have required phone lines use standard SIP, and required SIP details to be provided to customers.

NBN techs never confirm if the premises have a lift either, so lots of properties had NBN installed with No phone working in the lift (and I suspect many still don't have working phones in their lifts). Someone will likely die because of it.

One of our customers was a NBN tech, and he said the cabling for lots of premises he's seen was poorly done (including some of the new Fibre ones).

The whole thing is a disaster. This isn't completed. They just lowered the standards to ADSL standards in areas they couldn't be arsed with

Your first sentence was correct

In fact, in university in ux design, Apple is actually regularly used as an example of poor design

Cool.. Trashy Propaganda post by another country. The video doesn't even have speaking.

How the hell does one come up with such trash and get it on Slashdot so easily?

Err. What are you on about?

Given that you forgot about all the infections in the aged care facilities, and the fact that the fed government (ie, liberals) were trying to reopen Australia fully even when the infection was widespread. Everyone should consider themselves lucky that Dan was in charge.

He wasn't the hotel guard who was having sex with people isolated, and there were violations of isolation in NSW too.

I see you're celebrating your freedom by staying home, self isolating on reddit instead of trekking outdoors.

We've been at 0 for the past few days. Nobody can say Dan didn't do a good job, unless they read political BS from Murdoch Media (who are very pro liberal, because if Greens or Labor takes over, its likely there will be a royal commission to reduce their monopoly)

Why does this include a quote from Greg Hunt?

Anyone who lives here in Australia knows he was part of the problem, not the solution. In fact, he was heavily against lockdown, which is the ONLY reason here in VIC why we got it back under control, and if he had been in charge and we had opened up, Australia would be like US now (NSW is still getting regular local infections fairly regularly, just at low rates). And I suspect that here in VIC, we're possibly more sorted than them now.

We are fortunate that VIC wasn't run by his political party (who were the ones in charge of aged care, which was a total f**king disaster)

We had 1 or 2 people the last week in r/confessions. They kept reposting racist crap every few hours, and then deleting it hours after, reposting it, so people who hadn't seen the previous ones thought they were just confessing, whereas they were just using it as a billboard to push a racist agenda.

Not sure how you can blame Microsoft for that one..Sony would simply pull some other dodginess.

Don't forget all the legit customers Sony screwed as well with their BD protections, which often caused issues on various bluray players.

They make lots of good products, but their Music / Video publishing deparrtment are a-holes, and have held back progress significantly.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.androidcentral.com...

Don't forget that their first installer had an exploit in it.

But I do agree, Apple and Google take too many fees. That being said, at least they can publish their apps independently of the Play store on Android. Problem is, I've never come across an App store on Android which is as refined as Google's (and there is definitely a market for it).

Apple uses their App store to control competitors and give them a disadvantage though

OK. Tell me specifically why these new laws prevent hobby aircraft from operating? I have literally heard NO reason yet. And you haven't said ANY.

Someone has taken this proposal, and basically made a bunch of claims which DON'T make sense.

Also, drone's have been used for stalking.. https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.abc.net.au%2Fnews%2F20... There have also been MANY near misses for drones.

Also, we don't have statistics for drones which have damaged buildings, property or injured people (which is where this legislation also benefits). Bicycle crashes are different, because they aren't remote controlled. When a drone crashes, you possibly won't be able to find the owner.

Only if it falls out of the sky and injures someone. Why do you care if everyone knows where your drone is? After all, apparently you're not breaking any laws?

They're not toys. Your argument is based on privacy and what YOU want, not safety, which is what the aviation industry is about (and is the reason why it's so safe to fly). Yes, we understand you need some e-points on your instagram, but if you're following the laws, why should you care? Are you concerned because you're afraid you might break the law? Or, are you worried OTHER people may complain about you violating their privacy?

I bet you spared no expense on your drone already anyway.

We ALL know people who have broken laws with their drones, and most of us know multiple (4/4 of people I know have, and 1 didn't even realise they were doing it). Once again, they're not a toy, and a privacy risk for other people.

It's not a few drone owners, it seems to be the majority to be honest (unfortunately).

People break the laws in cars, but those who do can be held accountable via their license plate (in fact, an ex-boyfriend of an ex-tinder date tried to hit my car from the side the other day, and because they had a license plate and I had a dashcam, we know who did it now, and I plan to go to the police this weekend). This ALLOWS drone owners to be accountable.

I've skimmed the FPV response (it's long), but some of it's point's are basically "it's useless having a law because some people won't comply", and financial related. I do agree the weight limit is a bit low and should be increased though (although, any drone with a camera SHOULD require a transponder). People can disagree with a law and be in the wrong (it happens regularly). People hate any type of regulation. That doesn't make the regulation bad.

I also disagree about not having transponders for uncontrolled airspace. Lots of urban areas are uncontrolled, and if a drone hit's someone's car, without any means of identifying it, no drone owner will fess up. This law also means companies such as DJI will start adding such functionality to their drones (so, you need to look at all affected parties). It's not only about safety, it's about accountability. It also won't kill the hobbyist RC market (people are exaggerating).

Also, my aerobatics instructor actually got in a midair collision with another plane. Mandatory transponders (which will likely be introduced for planes) would have saved the other pilot (my aero instructor got REALLY lucky, as his elevator was jammed, and he only had some control of rudder). This was in uncontrolled airspace. The technology DOES work.

You must remember, the good thing about the aviation industry is that its about improving safety not other factors. This proposal greatly improves safety (especially as those who regularly don't follow the rules or put others in danger can be held accountable). It should NEVER be a political thing, and never has been.

Most of these things are not toys, and the vast majority have few redundancies in place to ensure they won't randomly fall out the sky (and I've heard of 2 instances where that has occurred now, one of which was in an area they shouldn't have been flying anyway).

Yes, some drone owners are responsible, but the only disadvantage of this is increased cost, but the advantages are huge.

Umm, no. You really have no idea do you (and you clearly don't have a flight license).

Here in Australia, my aerobatics instructor was actually involved in a midair collision and survived. Making transponders mandatory on light aircraft (which is being changed now) would have saved the other pilots life. You'd also be surprised by the amount of damage a tiny bird can make in a bird strike.

And VFR pilots in some areas REGULARLY need to take steps to ensure they don't hit other aircraft.

Your information about flying must come from top gun. The laws don't affect ultralight RC's either. All this does is allow accountability of d**kheads breaking laws.