Medium-to-large Australian ISPs routinely carry in excess of 100,000 HTTP requests per second during peak times, SAGE-AU said in a statement.

Under ideal conditions with the best-of-breed filter in place, those ISPs would be incorrectly blocking over 3,000 HTTP requests every second.

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The Guild also claims the filtering regime will undo any benefits from a future Fibre to the Node (FTTN) network, due to the delays and processing required by the content filters that were tested.

Preliminary results from the ACMA study showed that five of the six filters tested degraded Internet throughput speeds by at least 22 percent.

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• Look after your own children.
• Protecting the children is a media emotive beatup and does not have any real logic behind it.
• Look after your own damn children.
• I like my Internet the way it is.
• Look after your own goddamn children.
• Our quality of Internet access can only get worse.
• Look after your own goddamn children or don’t have any.

I started playing WOW again. Lo’ and behold the band’s getting back together. Most by coincidence it seems.

So far we’ve got most people back like Crixie, Harrina, Peddler, Doy, Inter, Seqo and probably a couple others.  Apparently Gerbie’s still lacking so he hasn’t returned yet.

Also Doy’s Monday segment’s gone AWOL.