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A Question of Trust

Val Hooper, Victoria University Gordon Anderson, Victoria University Stephen Blumenfeld, Victoria University Anyone familiar with George Orwell’s novel 1984 will relate to the menace of Big Brother watching their every keystroke and mouse click. For a growing share of the workforce that dystopian reality arrived while most of us

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Smugmobile Owners Paid To Charge Cars Over The Holiday Weekend

Smugmobile Owners Paid To Charge Cars Over The Holiday Weekend

The renewable energy pricing anomalies strike again.  Not only does the long-suffering taxpayer shell out to windfarms operators to not produce electricity it appears they may be subsidising the smugmobile owners as well. When the ‘renewable utility companies have more electricity available than they need to meet demand, what do

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Did You Hear the One About the Super Model and COVID-19?

Did You Hear the One About the Super Model and COVID-19?

No, not that sort of super model, the super computer model that was the basis for the lockdown which trashed the economy – that model. Apparently the decisions in New Zealand were based on models by a group called Te Punaha Matatini, a “Centre of Research Excellence” at Auckland University.  Their

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The Australian Government Launches Its Pandemic App

The Australian Government Launches Its Pandemic App

One thing that has been obvious about the response to the Chinese virus pandemic is how willing the public has been to co-operate with government restrictions that would normally be associated with totalitarian states. There have been some rumblings, particularly with over-zealous police fining people for anything from washing their

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Scott Mclaughlin Wins First Indycar Race: Sort Of

Scott Mclaughlin Wins First Indycar Race: Sort Of

Well anyone who likes a bit of sport knows that there isn’t much going on anywhere in the world at the moment. Football is cancelled, rugby is a goner, yachting, mountainbiking, skiing, all gone. But what about motor racing? Well sure, the actual belting around racetracks is right out,

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Why Are We Calling It ‘Social Distancing’?

Why Are We Calling It ‘Social Distancing’?

Katharine H. Greenaway University of Melbourne Alexander Saeri Monash University Tegan Cruwys Australian National University We are now a society at a distance. As of this week, New South Wales has closed restaurants, bars, gyms, and entertainment venues where people gather in large numbers. Victoria has similarly implemented a shut

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OK, You Need to Just Chill, Not Netflix Too.

OK, You Need to Just Chill, Not Netflix Too.

Reports out of Europe this week say that as a result of the lockdowns over there, too many people are using Netflix and YouTube, and as a result, the Internet is becoming overloaded and slow. As a result, YouTube and Netflix will temporarily reduce video quality in the United Kingdom

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Even Bots Are Catching Coronavirus

Even Bots Are Catching Coronavirus

Now that Facebook has sent home its human workers and all that’s left are Mark Zuckerberg and his fellow bots, a curious phenomenon has emerged. Tech giant Facebook recently admitted that it marked posts linking to genuine information and articles about the Wuhan coronavirus as spam, blaming a “bug

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A Bad Case of Wind in Colorado

A Bad Case of Wind in Colorado

Dave Pine The beautiful state of Colorado is known to be a Millennial Greenie hipster’s paradise. Their environmental policies are usually a good indication of which direction the rest of the US will head. “Wind turbine blades won’t be buried in the Logan County landfill any longer. Although

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BFD Weekender: TikTok Is Taking the World by Storm

BFD Weekender: TikTok Is Taking the World by Storm

ByteDance, which owns TikTok, is the first Chinese tech company with a serious chance when it comes to competing with the American social media giants such as Facebook and Instagram. CKGSB Knowledge Fair Observer TikTok’s latest viral challenge has the world’s teens gluing up their top lips with

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Smugmobile Owners Conned

Oh dear, oh, dear. It seems all is not rosy in the green world of hybrid motoring.  The plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) owners are not actually saving the planet. Woe is me! It seems that the claimed ‘economy’ figures touted by the manufacturers are not actually achievable out here

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Using the Drug Pushers’ Business Model: Brilliant!

Using the Drug Pushers’ Business Model: Brilliant!

Get them hooked and then slug them later when they are far too invested in the product to back away. Clearly IONITY, a European EV charging network, were thinking this when they hiked their EV charging prices by more than 500%. I am sure that the fact that this happened

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