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Her successor has come out throwing punches, announcing a royal commission into corruption in the construction industry. Of course, if he was serious about integrity, with three weeks left of parliament, he could push through legislation to bring transparency to IBAC, in a similar way as the NSW ICAC. It is likely a new Lib government will call a royal commission anyway. But he also has announced a pro business an tougher on crime agenda. Surprisingly similar to Crusafilli (hope I spelt that right). https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-28/ben-carroll-vic-labor-premier-analysis/106966210?utm_source=abc_news_app&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_app&utm_content=other

No one I know Mentioned it. Men's shed tomorrow. I'll ask there. They did something like this over 20 years ago. I was randomly selected to be on the group in the MT Macedon area that formulated various aspects of it. The idea has Merit.. I support the idea of doing such things. It's acting responsibly. Nev.

I was working from home, my phone didn't get the alarm.

I was at the Men's Shed and 5 or 6 phones all went off at the same time. Different alarm sounds.

Ecky-Thump!

We have had a similar system implemented in the UK for a few years now (can't even remember how long). I recall an alarm going off on my phone I don't recall too much fanfare in the lead up to it to be honest. I found it quite amusing how the press were making a big deal about in in Australia... There were some issuing health warnings about it, Of course,, I didn't get it while back here, but I guess it was a not much in the press period.

My response was the short response and omitted things like path dependent or independent simulations, etc. Regardless of the AI model the fundamental coding concepts are more or less the same. Take for example, an agentic model. It takes the input, uses mainly neural networks to work out the response, and instead of responding by describing the output as in a LLM, it performs actions automatically. This is the bit that is discrete coding. As an example, you may have agentic AI that automagically responds to client service calls. At the end of the call it determines it can refund the client. Instead of telling a customer service rep the refund is within corporate policy and should be done, it informs the client and arranges a refund against the card or client bank account without human intervention. The same for a robot. It uses neural networks to read its environment and interactions and determine what to do, The discrete bit is then instructing the servo motors (or whatever hardware) to do something such as coordinating taking another step etc, The differences between your LLM and more specific AI use cases are the data sets they are trained on, the guard rails in place and the outputs being directed. And the results feedback loop as well.

I believe that is a known fault. A few other interesting points: The alert can appear even if you're on a phone call or using another app. It works on most modern phones, tablets, and some smartwatches. Older phones or devices with unsupported operating systems may not receive it, or may display headings such as "Presidential Alert" or "Extreme Threat Alert" instead of "AusAlert".

Mine worked okay, was loud and clear. However stupidly it came with headline text of "Presidental Warning" WTF? Made me almost immediately reject the message. Phone is a cheap android on Telstra.

I can't believe the people whinging about it and wanting to know if they can opt out. Hopefully just a minority. On a similar subject, whilst on my recent NZ trip, my phone sounded an unusual alarm at around 4AM. It was an earthquake warning. I assumed it was from a government service but it was not. It was actually from Google, which uses its millions of Android phones to detect P or Primary waves. For some people, the alert sounded before the quake could be felt. Why phones woke thousands before 5.9 magnitude Taumarunui earthquake "The Android Earthquake Alerts system uses the accelerometers built into millions of smartphones to detect the first seismic waves generated by an earthquake. Known as primary, or P-waves, these travel faster than the stronger secondary (S) waves that typically cause the most noticeable shaking and damage. This data is automatically anonymised and reported in the background to Google, and once there are enough matching reports, an alert gets pinged out to all Android users who might be affected. Depending on the estimated strength of the earthquake, users receive one of two alerts. A 'Be Aware' notification is sent for earthquakes below magnitude 4.5, while larger events trigger a louder 'Take Action' alert designed to grab people's attention, even if their phone is on silent. The system is not an earthquake predictor, but rather rapidly detects an earthquake after it begins and uses the difference in speed between the initial P-waves and the slower, more destructive shaking to provide advance warning to people further from the epicentre. The technology is now available in more than 90 countries, although its effectiveness depends on how many Android devices are nearby."

We showed our kids some youtube of the Goodies, they thought we were insane for watching this. yet they watched shows with a talking slice of pizza theat was friends with a hotdog and a talking flying. tiger.

We should not be too dismissive of what we experienced. After all, it was a test. The system was being tested to see if it worked. It was the 'beta' version. I suppose we should congratulate the testers for making it clear that they are seeking feedeback. Did you receive the test? If you did not, what equipment do you have? Where were you at teh time of the test? Actually, a bloke came into the shop just after 2:00pm and was asked if he had heard the alarm. 'Nah. I left my phone in the car.'

Not sure if rearranging would help at this stage. They need to start bolting them down for the storm that's going to hit in four months time.

The alarm was a bit of an anticlimax after all the hype on the radio about it. I was getting ready to hold my ears for the event but it just sounded like a budgie chirping in a tree about twenty metres away. And that was with the phone on full volume. With the radio on, you could barely hear the alarm. Taking into account it was only a test, the finished product will probably be a lot more effective. It will need to be a lot louder and longer for a start. The text was in very big print, so easy to read.

Rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic??????

I remember back to the 2000 Olympics in Sydney. A farmer whose place was under an incoming flight route planted a big paddock with canola and a ceral grain in the design of the logo. The logo could be seen from on high.

Rejoice rejoice. Step 1 of saving our state. Most corrupt government in our history.

Jacinta Allan served as the 49th Premier of Victoria and leader of the Victorian Labor Party from 2023 to 2026. Her tenure ended on 28 July 2026 when she resigned ahead of a leadership challenge from her deputy, Ben Carroll.

Canola time was always a pretty time to fly.

City Slicker is so Passe'. You've been in the country too Long. Canola Is a bright colour. It comes up as a Desktop on my PC regularly.. Nev

"I asked my wife why she didn't want me to get a tattoo. She said she didn't like drums and bagpipes."

I didn't want to start a new thread to discuss the testing of the Emergency Warning System, so I'll comment here. Did the phones of all around you sound the alarm? I was in a shop with about ten people. The shop was within a few hundred metres of the TELSTRA tower and in straight line view. Some of the phones sounded the alarm and some didn't. Also, I had announced the impending arrival of 2:00pm a few minutes before. Later that evening I watched a clip about the event from the Channel 9 News. It reported similar results in a city, probably Sydney. What got my goat up about that clip was that it purported to show a farmer standing in a field receiving the alarm. Problem was that the farmer was standing in a field of flowering canola Canola does not get to the stage depicted until about September. I wonder which city slicker produced the clip.

As is my knowledge of programmming. Thanks for your input, but it shows that the average person will never properly understand how this tool works. Also, your response dealt with Large Language Models. Aren't ther other ways that AI is used such as finding correlations from, say data colleced from sensors measuring physical events?

This is you being quick?

Isn't that the MAGA plastic surgery look?