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Well, as a Canadian whenever I hit the google site I'm redirected to the google.ca site. When I was in Australia on holidays I believe it was google.com.au

Now my brain may be fuzzy, but I believe that various searches would tailor items for the area... try it.

You'll notice that the advertising banners are different. For me it came up with a banner for woolworth's. Throw a little more info in there and perhaps in the future it would be grabbing stores based on proximity, such as displaying city local results first, then regional, state/province, and national/intercontinental. It's not part of the main search results but such an idea still has relevence.

Personally, such usage isn't a big deal to me. The only think I worry about is that when I'm studying a topic on perhaps a song or whatever and google caches that as my search, then somebody requests said info when trying to nail me for music piracy (which I bother with anyways, but I'm sure there might be something similar).

The word is imminent. immanent means something completely different.

Coral is extremely sensitive to heat. Global warming can cause Coral dieback which could make it harder to encourage further coral growth.

But certainly, converting CO2 to solid carbon is the only future proof way of dealing with the problem.

Of course, to do this you need to put the energy back in...

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Note, due to their width, you can only put in one per bank. :)

Ostentation doesn't work so well when inside an opaque case.

http://groups.google.com.au/group/comp.os.minix/br owse_thread/thread/c25870d7a41696d2/

It's lots

I can't believe this was modded Interesting - it's totally wrong. Have a look at the size of the PayPalSucks forums to get an idea of what I mean - size alone should give you an idea of what you're dealing with here.

Then go read one of their draconian user agreements, the ex-employee/whistleblower interviews (PayPalSucks and elsewhere), and maybe something like this. Or just google it?

I was ripped off myself - thankfully only for US$2.50 - for the crime of living outside the US and sending verification papers a month too slow. I logged in one day to find my account locked before even the first transaction, with big red bold text to the effect of "bugger off, we don't want your money". I made several calls to get it working again before finding PayPalSucks, but couldn't be bothered spending any more time fighting their obfuscation-fu. I'd suggest my case was more incompetence than malice, but I've seen (firsthand) much worse.

No offense meant, but please do a little research before making such sweeping claims. It's really annoying to see someone sing their praises after watching them get away with the kind of shit that they do.

Easy

Armstrong said the new provision won't necessarily lead him to run SQL Server on [virtualised] machines ...

Partner with Google. Then:

http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&q=new+planet &meta=

Easy!

Was I the only one who read their birthday banner as 'Googte'?

there's a few links on Google bit I cannot find any pic...

http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&q=anti+skimm ing+rfid&spell=1

I am asking a Japanese friend to look for me... but I guess as mentioned by kf6auf, probably a bit of foil around your wallet.

Once you take the card out of the wallet... well... make sure you keep it foil wrapped...

time to buy shares in foil companies ;-)

You may also want to check this :
http://www.semiconductors.philips.com/markets/iden tification/articles/success/s65/

Jeez if you're going to make it for the lazy at least have the courtesy to link it :)

are we more stupider than we used to was?

What happens in China, STAYS in China.

I don't think so

The flaw is not that some people reporduce more then others, it is that some people reproduce period.

"Invitro fertilization", When nature/god says 'no', but the doctor says 'yes, for a reasonable fee'.

The first time this story was posted, I thought, "This guy needs to see a counsellor."

The second time I saw this story, I thought, "Umm, you already said that."

The third time I wondered what the hell is going on. Then I tried a google search and looky what I found.

http://www.google.com.au/search?q=%22My+business+f aces+ruin.+CD+sales+have+dropped+through+the+floor .%22&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&rls=GGLD,GGLD:2004-22,GGLD :en&filter=0

And thats not even half the time the story has been posted. It does the rounds on slashdot quite regularly. It should be added to slashot posting spam filters or something. Great work of fiction, isn't it?

I dont know how you read into my post that I was advocating that [Americans] should get all the jobs.

Try re-reading my post without assuming that I am an american. you insensitive clod (sorry, I couldnt resist).

If there is any pro-American spin on my post, it would be that I am happy that the America job market benefits from open source; because open source is not a zero-sum game; an American job in open source improves the number of open source jobs in other countries. While it is possible that the amount of open source work will become limited in the future, maybe when free/libre, feature complete, stable solutions exist for all problems known to man, Im sure I will be dead by then.

Regarding the Microsoft's supposed offshoring, it could be considered bad, not because of its affects on American jobs, but because outsourcing overseas affects Microsofts shareholders. The article was eluding to the situation that CS grads are not as prevalent, and that is hurting MS' R&D division in Redmond. Here is a hint for them, offshoring is not going to help! Paying your staff in real hard cash rather than shares will! And another one: "an Access database to track the health history of people in the village" is not going to encourage CS grads to join the company.
(BillG: google Google to find out how to increase R&D personnel)

In reply to Linux's David Miller:
Bryan Cantrill on comp.sys.sun.hardware

and isn't 1 bar equal to 101325 Pascals?

the other funny thing is that Greenland isnt as big as people think, most map projections show it somewhere the size of Australia, but it is only about a quarter of the size.

I do however agree that it does however hold a metric ass load of ice (3 km thick in places) that is predicted might irreversable begin to melt with a temperature rise of only a degree or two...

lesse now, 3km of ice thick... 2 million square kilometers in area is about 6 million million million litres. Hey that is a lot! I leave how much this will increase the level of the ocean as an exercise...

Erm, well, no I don't remember.
I amazoned for the crackpot book that you must be referring to, but can't find any books published in the past 30 years whose premise is that we are headed for an ice age.

the magnetic poles are supposed to reverse (flip) sometime between now and then next 700 years

Pole reversal has happened but predicting when is another favorite topic of those crackpot books you are reading.

and we have at most 2000 years of recrded history

You wagged school and stayed home to read "The Young Person's Old Testament" didn't you?

The fact that 99.99% of the worlds climate experts say that human activity is effecting the global climate - and the fact that scientists in the other 0.01% once worked for tobacco companies and now work for the Bush administration makes me think that you are talking crap.

Indeed

cLive ;-)

You're misinterpreting what's happening here. The Government doesn't care what happens on www.google.com but only on www.google.com.au where all Australian visitors to www.google.com are automatically diverted to. Displaying gambling advertisements on a web site specifically designed for Australian audiences is against Australian law. Web sites like Slashdot or Fark, even though they may have many Australian visitors are free to do what they like. Even in sporting events held overseas that are televised in Australia (such as formula 1 or the Ashes) there are gambling and cigarrete advertisements. The Ashes has a huge blimp with the logo "BetFair.com" that the camera zooms in from time to time, and this is televised on a government television station.

The difference is that Google.com.au is based in Australia and targetting Australian audience. The advertising done by Google is based from Sydney. If they display illegal advertisements on an Australian web site then that's illegal by Australian law.

Most forms of gambling are legal in Australia. Most of the State Governments run some form of lottery, which raises much revenue (not to mention all the casinos and poker machines).

As far as I know, it is only illegal to run (and advertise) an online gambling site from within Australia. There is a press release at http://www.dcita.gov.au/Article/0,,0_4-2_4008-4_15 618,00.html from the man once described as the "world's greatest luddite", Richard Alston, the former Minister for Communications, Information Technology and the Arts http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&c2coff=1&q=w orld's+greatest+luddite&btnG=Search&meta=cr%3Dcoun tryAU

Block Google's IP and be done with it. Google isn't breaking any laws and http://www.google.com.au/ goes bye-bye.

You stupid fucking posers.

Evidence

Throw the book at them. Google deserves banishment from the Earth for this satanic act against the Australian citizenry.

Google can toss a set of statistics towards the cops showing the sheer amount of accesses from everywhere _ELSE_ compared to Australia. That overrides the majority requirement, I'd think.

This is probably referring to the Google Australia site. Still, it's enraging that Australia, or any other country, thinks it's acceptable to infringe on people's fundamental freedom of speech.

Is google really a web 'site'? If you go to google Australia You're presented with very little more than a web-facing interface to a search-engine.

Certainly, if you type in 'Casinos in Melbourne' you will probably find a lot of adverts at the side of your search - but the ads are usually fairly relevant to what *you* (mr consumer) wanted to find anyway.

... the number of pages that are "indexed" and those that are actually IN the "index"... For example, using a weblog processing tool I wrote I discovered that search engines will frequently access the same page over and over again... So Yahoo may be calling their "index" size the number of items that have been indexed... rather than the number of items actually in the index... For some this is a semantic difference, for others "truth economics"... Also, when you check the estimated pages for any particular site for example: http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=s ite%3Aslashdot.org&btnG=Search&meta= and: http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=site%3Aslashdot.o rg&prssweb=Search&ei=UTF-8&fr=FP-tab-web-t&fl=0&x= wrt you can see that they tend to vastly overestimate the number of pages that a site has... A more useful way of estimating the index sizes would be to use the "site:xyz.com" searches for both... Of course the robots.txt file for each site would need to be considered however in case the webmaster(s) have decided to lock out a particular engine...

I know this is redundant...

Richard Stallman's famous parable

The delineation on Linux or BSD, between root (administrator) and ~/ (user) is profound.

On anything MS, it's grey and you can allow (read let the world in) by something as trivial as setting a user account able to read the default www dir.

Thus opening the gamut of IE vulnerabilites.

Try that on a system designed to allow proper delineated access.

For Christs (purposefully capped) sake, the (M$) marketing guru's will mandate user access to anything and everything in Longhorn (or whatever the marketroids deign to call this abomination), so that (Shit won't break).

Mark my words, (excessive french sweet sounding drool) We have seen you before, and we will see your successor!

I wish/hope that engineering will eventually override M$(S) marketroidness, but history has proven me, and every othe administrator wrong.

Perhaps this is MS's last chance?....

Personally I hope rackspace get raked over the coals for this one to serve as an example to other ISP's that this kind of flagrant disregard for privacy and the laws of the land cannot go unpunished.

Ha! What most people don't understand is that it's the flagrant disregard that spam^H^H^H^Hrackspace does best!

Personally I hope rackspace get raked over the coals for this one to serve as an example to other ISP's that this kind of flagrant disregard for privacy and the laws of the land cannot go unpunished.

Ha! What most people don't understand is that it's the flagrant disregard that spam^H^H^H^Hrackspace does best!

I've Found a heap of great screenshots over at news!

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+5 predictable.

Had the US not developed and deployed the bomb, someone else would have been the first to use it.

So, the USA has been feeding people feet-first into running wood chippers? Tying people up, blindfilding them, then throwing them off buildings? Throwing a bunch of women into a small room so they can be raped whenever someone feels like it?

Where do you get this trash from? Let me guess ... Fox News, right? OK fine. Lets pretend for a minute that this BS actually happened. It happened thanks to the support that the US gave Saddam for the first 2 decades of his rule. And lets not forget Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo Bay and hundres of other secret US torture camps. And the US's practice of extraordinary renditions.

As for the nonsense regarding law-abiding Iraqis wanting the USA gone, you're wrong again. I've a brother who served in Iraq - they essentially get heros' welcomes whenever they meet people when on patrol.

Either your brother or you are liers. The US troups are hated by all but the top 1% of the population: the collaboraters.

In fact, that's exactly what the "insurgents" are trying to do ... except they aren't insurgents. They're carted in from the surrounding countries and usually end up targetting Iraqis.

A handful of foreigners come from neighbouring countries to try to fight off the invaders. I don't see the problem. They are in a far better moral position that the invaders themselves. And you can't undermine the legitimacy of the Iraqi resistance simply because there are some foreign fighters on their side. Of course if there were no foreign fighters in the country, there wouldn't be a problem, would there?

Read that again: the terrorists are blowing up Iraqis.

The Americans have blown up a hell of a lot more civilians that the so-called 'terrorists' could ever hope to. And keep in mind that the Sunnis and Shiites are both united in their opinion of the terrorists targetting Iraqi civilians: they are widely believed to be American Block Opts and Israeli army attacks, that are meant to be blamed on the Iraqi resistance. link

Check the Iraqi death toll - over 10,000. Guess who ISN'T using precision-guided weapons?
Where did you pull that figure from? I figure it came from where your intelligence is centred: your anus. However I'll pretent that you're right, and answer your question. Since the US have killed over 100,000, and the 'terrorists' have killed 10,000, I suppose that means the US are the ones that aren't using precision-guided weapons.

As for anyone in the current administration being a war criminal, consider this: the USA has had the right (some would say the duty) to attack Iraq again as soon as Saddam broke the peace treaty he signed when the USA kicked his butt out of Kuwait.

What utter trash! Simply having a 'treaty' on a piece of paper doesn't give the US, or any other country, the right to invade another country and kill hundres of thousands of civilians. And keep in mind that Iraq wasn't invaded because of your treaty - if this were a legitimate excuse, the US would have been falling over themeselves to use it instead of having to fabricate the 'evidence' and spend millions on their war propogandy ... which people such as yourselves have fallen desperately under the power of.

He'd been breaking his agreements for almost a decade, attacking US planes patrolling the area he wasn't allowed to keep forces in, etc.

What fucking right do some arrogant US arseholes have telling other people where they can and can't fly planes - in their own country!

The USA was 100% justif

It may have changed, I used to work in a computer service workshop that also serviced Epson printers, the Epson certified tech used to either replce the printheads or soak them in Isopropyl Alcohol

Typically the parts and labour to repair a printer was more than the cost of replacing the printer - unless it was something like a SC300 with Postscript kit installed.

It might have something to do with the effect described in this article, which describes a ventricular assist device that uses a spinning impeller to move the blood around.

People implanted with this device have no pulse, which should be enough to really put the screaming willies into the Rise of the Machines brigade..

Although this doesn't say that the implantees no longer have a heartbeat, it does mean that when they are lying in bed or something like that, they don't have the sound of blood pulsing through their inner ear,. Apparently the sound is a gentle swishing noise a bit like a washing machine. Certainly, I think it would be eerie, until you got used to it.

see, USA

To state the obvious i'd suggest substituting "suckers" for "Americans".

Not trying to be funny, but it's people innocence/ignorance that causes these problems. You don't have to be American to be stupid (despite some peoples feelings on the matter).

Take the phrase "it's on the internet, it MUST be true" for example.

Not surprising at all...

Microsoft's media portal in australia, "ninemsn" (think msnbc) recently had to explain how it failed to notice its members had set up a "Rape Club" chatroom devoted to discussions a photos of, er, rape.

I just tried to track down a link through google news.

Which (at the moment) leads to a news article on ninemsn (!) Amusingly, follow the link and receive:

"The article you have requested does not exist"

Tinfoil hats ahoy! Instead, try this link to read about the whole sordid affair:

Found your comment interesting as reading this article it seems to me to be complete bullshit.

In the logs, he found that "nail.exe" and "aurora.exe" were always listed alongside "btdownloadgui.exe," the user interface that downloads/uploads when using BitTorrent. Okay, this is only for BitTorrent, the mainline client that Cohen wrote. What about the hundreds of other BT clients available? javaw.exe for example: Azureus, but it could be a variety of other Java programs too..

No wonder none of the victims (or spyware experts) seemed to know what site Aurora was coming from--there was no site. It would have never occurred to the end users that it could have crept in by another means altogether," he said. Oooh, make it sound all secretive and stuff. Here's a tip asshole - you need to download a torrent file to use BT and 99% of the time this torrent comes from a web site. (I guess you could get them off P2P apps or friends but that ruins most of BTs allure insofar as there is some sort of responsibility attributed the uploaders, and people will post comments about a bad release, at least on tbsource-based sites).

Because BitTorrent strips digital files into tiny shreds and reassembles them locally once a user completes a download, it has emerged as the perfect place to bundle adware programs among the bits, without the end user ever knowing. This is the main thing that's pissing me off. It makes it sound as if dodgy pieces are being sent around the net and reasssembled into a legit file, infecting it with spyware. BitTorrent uses SHA-1 hashing to check the validity of the pieces. The ONLY way that such a thing could happen is if there was no hashing on your client, or if the ORIGINAL torrent was infected. Some people have claimed to be able to generate SHA-1 hash collisions but there is no current practical implementation (and LOTS of processing power is needed). Additionally, for these collisions to be meaningful is MUCH harder, just read the recent /. article on Meaningful MD5 collisions and see how long it has taken for the long-since-broken MD5 algorithm to be so 'hacked'. Additionally, this is a far cry from embedding a full-blown executable to an unrelated file. And how exactly do you make it execute? e.g. if the users are on Windows, how do you change the .rars or whatever the file is packaged in to have a .exe extension? Doesn't work at all.

A BitTorrent user downloading a movie clip only becomes aware of the associated adware after the files are reassembled. See above point: the supposed infected files aren't even executables to start with.

"Although Bit Torrent is a file format and not a P2P Network ... [it] is the fastest growing protocol for file sharing online. Many top Bit Torrent sites such as SuprNova, Lokitorren and Bit Tower support millions of downloads daily," said MMG, which lists PartyPoker.com and Hotbar.com among other clients on its roster. Glad to see the article is so up-to-date. TorrentBits.org and SuprNova.org Go Dark
LokiTorrent Shut Down
And BitTower? Can't say I've heard of it but googling for it yields this (haha, "Here are your heroic search results"?) and this, which appears to be down.

This article is FUD and the people who believe it all need to learn a little more a

There is a hypothesis doing the rounds that nanobacterial metabolism is responsible for depositing mineral plaques from solution.

http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&q=nanobacter ia+olivine&btnG=Search&meta=

Notably, the microfossils found in the martian meteorite are thought to be of nanobacterial origin.

The same typical people will come on here and post about how they hate M$ and this is their fault because having an enemy gives them a sense of self and identity as part of the /. groupthink. Of course as usual /.'ers miss the point. This story has more to do with international relations than M$. But as usual /. bias comes through. /. cares more for rumor, gossip and bias especially if it's directed at its supposed enemies. Anyone who points this out of course will be modded down accordingly.

I've been running XP Pro on an SATA Maxtor for a year now, booted and isntalled from the CD.

I'm guessing you have a customized XP disc. I can't find the MS Knowledgebase article re: SATA on XP (the search is shit), but check out other people's experiences.

Dude, Arthur invented the Clarke belt, nuff said...

http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&q=Clarke+bel t&btnG=Google+Search&meta=

Today I can send and receive data from one speck of sand in the islands of Hawaii to my own back yard somewhere in rural NSW via:

#1 Satellite phone (400 kbps downstream)
#2 2-way Satellite Ku-Band internet
#3 low-orbit HAM packet satellites (With nothing but a laptop, some software and some transciever gear with a decent Yagi)
#4 Commerical downstream-upstream rental, aka Panamsat.
#5 Making a cell phone call from any region supporting modem links.
#6 Future layout of long-distance VHF/UHF Wireless networking.

And yes, every thing is dependant upon what Arthur C Clarke conjured up back in the FIFTIES!

Now all we need is idiots like Optus/Telstra and the Australian government to permit the use of high-bandwidth high-frequency public pipes on satellites.

It's never been easier to get off-grid yet still remain online.

Phoa, dayam, how did u get that password?

Thats the planetary password for a air sheild i know!!!

http://www.google.com.au/search?q=spaceballs+the+m ovie

who's yo daddy?

There's a few options.

You could try VLC, it's a brilliant movie player for mac and seems to support flac, haven't tried flac files myself though (I know it plays ogg).

Alternatively, you could install fink and then xmms, a popular media player on Linux that I know plays flac (with the right plugin). Of course, for this you'll need to startx each time to get a working X11 server and then launch xmms from there... you won't get drag 'n drop with the finder etc. but it might work... I'm not a mac guru, I'm a Linux user who recently bought an iBook...