{"id":623,"date":"2009-04-08T17:37:32","date_gmt":"2009-04-08T06:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/?p=623"},"modified":"2009-04-08T22:36:27","modified_gmt":"2009-04-08T11:36:27","slug":"the-surest-way-to-succeed-is-to-redefine-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/?p=623","title":{"rendered":"The surest way to succeed is to redefine success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"score MORE with a CONROY goalpost!\" src=\"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/blogimages\/conroy_goalpost.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nWhile you gotta hand it to the guy for being able to bullshit on the fly, it was heaps better when Senator Conjob was hiding under a rock, refusing to answer any questions  at all about the proposed mandatory filtering scam.<\/p>\n<p>Conjob appeared on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/triplej\/hack\/\">Triple J&#8217;s Hack<\/a> program on Tuesday, 7 April- and was summarily <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/triplej\/people\/kate_otoole.htm\">O&#8217;Tooled<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/blogimages\/conroy_hacked_by_otoole_on_triple_j.mp3\">MP3 audio, 450kb<\/a>).<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Stephen Conroy: We said that if the trial shows that this cannot be done then we won&#8217;t do it.<\/p>\n<p>Kate O&#8217;Toole: And what is the definition of &#8216;cannot be done&#8217;? What would be the acceptable amount to slow the internet down?<\/p>\n<p>SC: Now you&#8217;re asking me to pre-empt the outcome of the trial.<\/p>\n<p>KO: No, no, no, I&#8217;m not, you&#8217;ve gotta have a&#8230; before you start the trial, you&#8217;ve got to have an understanding of what is&#8230; what&#8217;s a pass and a fail, like you&#8217;ve got to be able to measure, you can&#8217;t sort of wait until the trial finishes and then look back and decide how you&#8217;re going to measure the outcome.<\/p>\n<p>SC: Well actually, actually, that&#8217;s how you conduct a trial. You wait to see what the results is and then you make a decision based on the results. If the trial shows that it cannot be done without slowing the internet down, then we will not do it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And there you have it- Conjob will define &#8216;success&#8217; after the results of the filtering trial are in- moreover, the trial won&#8217;t be held under anything resembling real-world conditions. Customers on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.optus.com.au\/portal\/site\/aboutoptus\/menuitem.cfa0247099a6f722d0b61a108c8ac7a0\/?vgnextoid=85eff2e37741e110VgnVCM10000002cd780aRCRD\">filtering trial ISPs like Optus<\/a> will be able to opt-out.<\/p>\n<p>However, in the same breath, Conjob committed himself to an impossible goal- filtering without any speed degradation whatsoever. Simple as this, when a computer halts an access to a website while the URL is compared to a banlist, there will be an inherent delay while that task is performed.<\/p>\n<p>You would have to have mountains of sympathy for Conjob&#8217;s primary school teachers. He&#8217;d be the only kid who could have homework eaten by the family dog twenty times yet turn it into a scholastic achievement every single time.<\/p>\n<p>-weez<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While you gotta hand it to the guy for being able to bullshit on the fly, it was heaps better when Senator Conjob was hiding under a rock, refusing to answer any questions at all about the proposed mandatory filtering scam. Conjob appeared on Triple J&#8217;s Hack program on Tuesday, 7 April- and was summarily [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}