Comments by "ChineseKiwi" (@ChineseKiwi) on "ABC News In-depth" channel.

Never forget the Liberals have tried to undermine these processes and gains, including our current government.
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@majortophat3083 Australia's major cities are too far away for HSR. You need major cities within 500km of each other for it to be cost effective, and yes that includes added economic activity and not just pure operation cost. We have learnt from Spain, whose only line that is profitable, including added economic activity, is Madrid to Barcalona. China has it for nationalist political reasons as opposed to it actually being cost effective.
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You own them indirectly via your Super.
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It actually REDUCES the cost to government as more people can get more work and people spend more, particularly at lower incomes. Grow up kid.
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In IT here: She did a stellar job answering all the questions in a layman's way and was correct in all of them.
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And sell them at a loss when the price plummets because you know nothing about the grid and bought into the fear.
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@majortophat3083 Canberra has far too small of a population and thus demand. Building a 350km speed train in the EU costs €100 million (yes Euros) more expensive per minute saved vs a 240km train. The calculations have been done time and again throughout the years in Australia. HSR isn’t economically viable for the distances between major cities and localised within-state medium speed rail is (and what all states are doing). The optimal time vs cost for rail for people is within 500km.
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They have in the past for the sake of safety. I assume you know the history.
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In IT here: She did a stellar job answering all the questions in a layman's way and was correct in all of them. A lot of structures in corporate, multi-million/billion dollar company IT, like Optus is, follow similar IT processes and networking structures generally. And a lot of that is actual government regulation as she stated.
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@arefkr yeah, mission critical infrastructure typically shouldn't be one of them LOL
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No. And they aren’t the CEO
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nice sexism there.
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This affected landline routing as well. It wouldn't have made a difference.
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@Malgetsfit as opposed to large country wide trial and many studies...the evidence is there. Did you even watch the video. At all?
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@Malgetsfit Literally watch the video and quit being lazy. It answers all of your questions.
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@majortophat3083 there are far cheaper ways to do that via legislation than building HSR.
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the ATMs use digital lines to communicate.
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The government literally prevents this. And it was highly unlikely this was to do with the cellular tower gear
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@finrothsmith7995 oh don't worry, they'll in-source back again in a few years when IT services and therefore staff morale plummets. Seen it ALLLLLLLL before in my career. There's a reason why the actually competent Indian IT workers have moved to the West for far higher wages already and thus you are always dealing with the B and C grade when outsourcing....
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@wingsofsuspensionlifts6814 and it was nothing to do with the lines.
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Remember, Labor are CENTRALIST and not left wing.
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@Malgetsfit it's a random gaming name I have used for 20 years.
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1) the earlier hack last year wasn't ransomware (those in IT know how they were breached) 2) This wasn't ransomware either
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@theaussiewhinger see above. Canberra has a tiny population.
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Anyone in IT, including me, would state this is extremely unlikely to be a cyber hack, as analogy wise, it isn’t need to blow up the entire building when you need to steal a few filing cabinets. Calm down buddy. This is far more a maintenance job that went very very wrong.
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"Some companies" - some dumb companies. No company is unhackable, however you can make it so it isn't worth the effort to hack you vs the reward. Analogy is like having a dog with a big bark at your house. Sure, the robber can still steal your things, but why bother when the house down the road has similar stuff but doesn't have the dog? People are lazy and want the easiest thing / target, hackers included.
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