Firstly, Burce Parens has an interesting story in his Blog about how Richard Stallman was accosted by security at the WSIS Internet conference in Tunisia. Richard Stallman started one of the huge open source projects, probably starting the open source movement. He started the GNU project which is an important part of Linux. Bruce Parens is someone I have had an interesting Linux Vs. Windows discussions with a couple of years back after he attended a conference I went to.

The reason for the entry was that Stallman was detained after handing out alfoil during a talk to stop RFID enabled ID tags from being read at places other than checkpoints. This rather annoyed secrity personel… And they refused to allow him to leave a conference room for two hours. Interesting…

There is a link in the SMH about how a company in Western Australia is marketing radar detectors in the eastern states. The article notes that the owner of the site has sold more than 100 radar detectors and about five radar jammers since establishing his website dontgetcaught.com.au earlier this year. The interesting thing is that he is relying on the fact that it is not illegal to sell the devices in W.A. Well, actually it is illegal. Radar Jammers need to be liecensed under the Radiocommunications Act, and if they are not they can be liable for a $250K fine. The other thing about radar jammers is that they also jam other radio services that operate on the same frequency. And this is why the jammers are illegal.

Firstly, there is a story in the SMH about the changes that Telstra are proposing to their mobile network. “Telstra’s 8.4 million mobile-phone users will need to buy a new handset when the company switches to its proposed new-generation technology, beginning next year.” according to the SMH. However this has to be a gradual straturgy. Hmm… What could the real agenda be?

Could it be that by offering hardware (that still probably uses SIM cards) but that is incompatible with other cariers then customers of Telstra will find it harder to move from telstra. They will also find it harder to move to telstra, but Telstra have a whole lot more to loose in the mobile world since they have the most customers who might transfer to other cariers.