Smokey

Fair call, I think he has a lot of upside though. I'm with you on Gunstan 100%. His leadership up forward would be crucial

Like you, I could only speculate. Which is why I do not come on here and try to ram my speculation down others throats as if it were fact.. Tom Mitchell is down on form this year; do you blame Clarkson for that?

Laughable comment, Harmes had his best year in 2018 and Brayshaw came third in the Brownlow. You literally have no idea.

I would have thought that if there's less production staff, that we would see a less manipulated broadcast; not more.

in a heartbeat

All emotions aside, we'd be crazy to match a big offer from Geelong from a value perspective

I noticed the same. How good is it

So we can still make the finals, but the next game is meaningless. Righto champ lol

I hope Jack leaves on his own, because that's what is best for our list. If he's strong-armed out though, I worry about the damage that could do to what little team culture we have right now

play every kid we can. play every fringe player we got. lets see who wants a spot next year

As is usually the norm, I look forward to many happy months of no Melbourne playing at the seasons end.

Never have I been so happy to not watch a game. Catch ya Goody

Who cares. Freo by plenty.

Just got home from work and saw the score I shouldn't bother watching this, right?

Couldn't agree more. It wasn't always this bad, in fact even a few years ago the site was fairly serviceable and somewhat intuitive. Nowadays the home page layout confuses me, menus have become more and more obfuscated and generally speaking its clunky and difficult to find what you're looking for. And don't get me started on the tabloid style, fake outrage inducing and virtue signalling "news" from AFL media. Foxsports is good for checking scores; for everything else, theres Demonland.

Top 3 in order: Ever: Farmer, Woewodin, Jurrah Current: Petracca, May, Oliver

Freedom of speech is not and never has been guaranteed in this country as per our Constitution

You could make some fascinating info graphics showing the correlation between insane trade ideas and losing a game from this thread Some of the Brayshaw comments are hilarious

Brilliant lol

No reason we can’t win today. Go dee’s!

As an example people may be able to relate to, think of the time when you could trick Netflix into thinking your in the US, allowing you to view the American content not normally available to Australians. This was achieved masking your location using a proxy server. A proxy server is configured to on your computers network settings to force all of your computers outgoing network requests to terminate at the proxy server first, and then to continue to the requested destination from there. The result of this is that the IP packets the destination server receives from your computer will have the proxy server as the source of the traffic, rather than your public IP address. I think Netflix mitigated this by blocking incoming connections to their servers from all known VPN services, which if I'm right means it can actually still technically be done. But either way it's an example of how IP addresses can be manipulated to bypass security controls.

This analogy works well. Fun fact; the world is actually running out of these unique addresses to assign (known as an IPv4 address). IPv4 addresses are 32-bits in length there are a total of 4,294,967,296 possible unique addresses. This is why a new format was created; IPv6. This addresses space is 128-bits in length, allowing for 340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,456 unique addresses to be created. I'm not sure what that number is even called tbh, but we probably won't run out of IPv6 addresses anytime soon. Ok I'll stop now ... apologies for derailing the tread with this nonsense! I hate racists!

IT guy here; This is trickier than you may think. In short, public IP addresses (or NAT address) are the only unique IP addresses that could be used for this, and they are assigned to your home internet connection; not your devices. Think of the public IP address as the address associated with the link between your modem/router and the internet. This address is very sensitive in nature and disclosing it leaves your home network extremely vulnerable to malicious actors. The IP address your laptop at home gets is not unique and is given to your device by your modem/router. This will look like 192.168.0.2 or similar. Most home modem/routers broadcast networks which allocate IP addresses like this by default. What the outside world see's, such as the websites your visiting on your laptop, is your public IP. Problem here is that there could any number of unique users and devices in a home (or corporate) network. This makes IP based authorization/authentication/verification ineffective for most part as most networks have 2+ regular users with individual devices and accounts. What would work is the removal on anonymity from social media all together (not a popular idea with everyone!). Here's the idea; Government issue citizens a digital ID which is managed in your myGov portal that is required in some capacity to create a social media profile. This would all but solve the faceless troll issue (at least for the people not brave enough to own their abhorrent racist views publicly). You could then force (legislate) social media companies operating within Australia must a) enforce retrospective account verification with the government issued digital ID. Accounts not verified in 'x' months deactivated indefinitely. And b) require this ID verification for all new accounts. Let's see how many racist commentaries continue when the only account people can post it from is displayed exactly the same as their drivers license ... Problem with this; we're probably too far gone down the current path of anonymity by default. This sort of idea needed to happen 20 years ago, before Facebook was invented, not today. Back then, the internet was a different and far less hostile place. The landscape of the internet has changed dramatically, and the fundamental principal of anonymity is now, in my opinion, completely out-dated given the way social media is now a part of everyday life.

Wow, never thought I'd see an Omac appreciation thread in this place What next, the Gillon McLoughlin appreciation thread?

I know many here have many more years on me, but in my 33 years following this football club I have finally realised something - I don’t enjoy watching us play. Watching the dees is associated with negative emotions every time. I don’t look forward to it and normally once it’s starts I can’t wait for it to finish. I expect us to lose every week. I couldn’t help but feel like that even in 2018. Why do I even watch? I don’t know. I think it’s time for me to care less about footy and become a fair weather fan. Wake me up if we ever play finals again.