I wonder how our illustrious government is going to deal with drivers on the e-toll road, that hasn’t got e-tags, and are thus tolled by the Automatic Number Plate Recognition System system.

What if, as is very often the case, someone fakes my plates ? Do I now have to contest every single AARTO notice that they may serve ? Must I be imprisoned for six months due to non-payment of a toll? Must I now not use the highway until the dispute is settled ?

“A machine classifies a person as an offender, and you can’t confront your accuser because there is no accuser… can it be wise to establish a principle that when a machine says you did something illegal, you are presumed guilty?”

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This reminds me SO much of “The Cure”, it’s scary.

For Nigthwish.

And so here, is TBM:

I’ve always been partial to Prozilla, as a useful Linux download manager, since it’s multithreaded, and does file resume pretty well.

Then, it sort of became “out of debian tree” due to licensing or some such, and I switched to “axel” which is a pretty decent multithreaded downloader too.

I’ve now switched to LFTP, since it allows me to mirror http/ftp directories with a single command, which is my typical use case. Here you are mister downloadmanager: “an url” — now fetch!

LFTP however doesn’t multithread by default: It requires some magic;

set pget:default-n 5
set mirror:use-pget-n 5

Add these lines to ~/.lftprc or enter them at the lftp: ~> prompt.

Why aren’t these defaults?

WIOCC Chief Operating Officer Ryan Sher told MyBroadband that a cable cut on SMW3 in the red sea occurred yesterday which is to blame for EASSy service disruptions.

It is the single thing that has broken copiously, and caused the most downtime since since South Africa got loads of undersea capacity via Seacom, and EASSY.