While the rest of the country sits back and waits for the NBN to be built and 100Mbps broadband to be delivered to our front door, iPrimus is busy telling the world that they’re anticipating to start selling services using the NBN in Tasmania from the middle of the year. More »
Even though Microsoft may not count Tasmania as part of Australia, our southern brothers have one big technological advantage over the rest of us – the government is starting the rollout of the NBN down there. And now that little advantage has a fringe benefit, with Hybrid TV announcing that they will be offering participants in the NBN trial a freed TiVo for a year in order to truly test out the network. More »
It’s pretty easy to forget about Tasmania, all the way tucked down there at the bottom of the country. Hell, there’s even a bit of water separating them from the rest of us. Which is why I have nothing but understanding for Microsoft, who have conveniently forgotten about the country’s sixth state in their Windows 7 Student upgrade offer. More »
Either Don road in Devonport, Tasmania is a portal to an alternate dimension (more plausible than it sounds), or the Street View driver was on drugs so strong that they not only affected him (or her), but also the photographs his Google car was taking. Either way, it’s pretty fucked up.
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So if you thought that the new Government actually had some common sense when it came to censoring the Internet, you’d be very, very wrong. The Australian is reporting that Communications Minister Conroy has given the green light for ISP level filters to be trialled in Tasmania.
The filters are designed to filter out those net nasties that could possibly harm your children, like porn and swear words, and are originally planned to be operated in a closed environment by Enex Testlab. The closed test is expected to be completed by June 30, with Live trials to happen after that.
If you do happen to be a Tasmanian, the news gets a little bit worse. The trials aren’t opt-in – you’ll need to opt out if you want to spend your days watching pornotube the freedom to choose what you want to experience online.
