I will leave passion/true belief, in the bucket at our door o sung wo, and quote two party preferred poll this morning,54 Labor, 46 the two party's making up the coalition, add just this, no party EVER can or will, make every one happy/get every thing right/ we should be content both sides have at times done great things for this country

Hi there BELLY...

Of course you're right - both major Parties have done great things in the past. Problem is, it's the near future that I'm worried about, all we can learn from the past is; don't make the same mistake twice?

Dear Rache,

Thank you for the information.

Let me clarify that the issue is not about the particular cabling materials, but about independence and the isolation of our essential services from the global and vulnerable wild experiment called "internet".

Power stations and dams have already been hacked over the internet. You think it won't happen here because this or that component was programmed in Australia, but how many times already we said "Oh, but I didn't think of this", "Oh, but I didn't think of that"? For example, Snowden discovered that American products were hacked at the hardware level, that they produced physical backdoors which could even override the firmware. How sure can you be that all components are local and trustworthy? What for example about the compilers of the firmware? Where they also written here? Compilers could easily insert backdoors, but then have we really thought of everything?

The way to go is the way it was: complete isolation between the world of computers and internet from the world of essential services. In order to make sure that the two do not mix, we must purposefully use independent and different standards, perhaps starting with 11-bit bytes...

This unreliable internet can still be used for games, entertainment and pornography, but not at the expense of our basic communications, or power and water supply and the like.

Trump, the mans very existence questions are voters to be trusted to say who should lead us? America has a weird electoral system, some claim they would demand a different heaven after death, but, let us wait and see IF Trump has achieved any thing, if any thing changes, and at our peril, never forget the part China played in this maybe break though

Isn't the simple fact that China is there, and always will be there, a major problem with demilitarising the entire Korean Peninsula ? i.e. it's under no pressure to demilitarise; i.e. the crocodile laying there, just waiting for the littlies to finish their game ?

Look out for some Chinese sabre-rattling over Taiwan, IF the US pulls forces out of South Korea (and maybe Japan). Expect hurried visits to Washington from the Taiwanese president and the Japanese Prime Minister. And maybe the South Korean president as well.

Joe

I wonder if there has been another person in history that has constantly resulted in egg poured all over the face of the leftist media. Surely he deserves a medal for that. The more they pour dirt on Trump the more popular he seems to be getting. How refreshing.