Smokey

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.

I actually love the idea on an indigenous verse, but no. Leave my song alone please

Love Vanders and I really feel for the bloke. He's in my best 22 when fit. But it has to be said - he is officially a list clogger at point (through no fault of his own of course). I take no pleasure in saying it, but that is the reality. He'd wanna bounce back quickly and play some great games later in year otherwise the ROI is looking absolutely horrific.

Kayo services are presumably hosted in cloud infrastructure, which can be scaled by deploying addition resources (servers) on-demand with ease. I Wouldn’t worry about kayo missing a beat.

So telling people to "go to work" if they have Corona virus is excellent advice right? And appointing a politician instead of a medical scientist to lead the response team is the best way to go? And not committing to making the cure affordable for all American's until forced to by public sentiment is good stuff in your eyes? Should I keep going? Orange man is bad. You're absolutely right.

That's fine. Each to their own. My point is just withholding membership money based on performance is counter productive at best.

May has spent his fair share of time in a suit on a Tuesday night over the years, that’s why he gets dealt with harshly

If paid incrementally, it can cost as little as 2 cappuccinos a month. Withholding such a small pittance out of "principal" isn't noble, it's ridiculous. Memberships are the lifeblood of every club in so many ways, but I guess the people that do this think they're bigger than the club so the narrative fits I guess.

Normally I get a headache reading anything Kane says but I like that he shares my views on the so-called "leadership groups". They are complete rubbish. Real leaders lead without being told they are a leader. No leadership group means that at any given point, on any given day, anyone can be the leader we need. I love it.

Why wouldn't this thread be serious - there's always an oppo watch thread prior to every game

Why do you care so much about about other peoples money? I can't imagine this affects you personally in any way, shape or form. Weird stuff

Incredible photos thanks mate

I'd like to see Ben Brown get a haircut

So you see more parallels than to the contrary then. Thats good news I guess.

People that take the time to read an article, then come back to DL to proclaim its a fluff piece that they weren't interested in are very strange and clearly need a hobby Happy to have Richo on board, if only that he knew how to beat us in recent times. I'll take the insights in to that any day of the week.