Clueless wireless in Australia
One of the things that I would have considered much easier before travelling here, is getting online in Australia. If you travel through Europe or the U.S., you are used to get a pay-for wireless network everywhere and free wireless in many places. Well, Australia is different. There is Internet, but mostly through kiosk systems that allow you only to surf the web and sometimes (very rarely) to upload some images from a SD or Flash disk.
If wireless is available, it is metered (five dollars per hour is quite cheap), not very fast (50 kBytes/sec) and outside of the tourist spots and big cities, finding a wireless access point is a lesson in futility.
If I drive down the street in my home town (4000 inhabitants), I never have less than five wireless networks (most of them private and closed, but still visible) at any time. Here in Australia you can stand in the middle of Main Street in a tourist spot like the Barossa Valley and … nothing. Not even a closed network.
Australia lags five years behind the U.S. and Europe here. Hey Aussies, time to catch up. 
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Stuff that scares me…
We all have probably read about the theory that even if you scramble the letters in a word, as long as you keep the first and last letter intact, people can read such text (almost) without problems.
Now consider an application like this and the amount of daily spam that gets caught by word-driven Bayes filters. Like the one in SpamAssassin. Connect the dots.
(Though one can say that some of the spam that eludes these filters today actually looks like it got mangled with such an application).
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