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  1. Re:Vote for the Pirate Party on Inside Australia's Data Retention Proposal · · Score: 1

    I never said they were bad partys but that average voters don't vote for them because they perceive them to be wasted votes. Hence why I suggest they should form a coalition to pool their issues into one voter block and garner more power for the issues they care about.

  2. Re:Vote for the Pirate Party on Inside Australia's Data Retention Proposal · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Australians hardly ever vote for parties with silly names. I propose the form a a coalition with other parties with civil liberties in mind and drop the silly names. We also have The Australian sex party. They get bugger all votes because "working family's" won't vote for a single issue party or a party with a silly name.

    I know it is frustrating but it is one of the issues that we face and that is one possible solution. It also concentrates the civil libertarian vote to gain more power.

  3. Re:Vote em out I say on Inside Australia's Data Retention Proposal · · Score: 1

    Vote below the line for a third party candidate. Preference them close to last. Those two parties have been in collective power since 1928. Vote the power sharing fascists out!

    Get people you know to do the same. Explain to them why it's a problem. That if people keep voting for them we will get more of the same. Point to the hung parliament in the UK as an example of it beginning to work.

  4. Re:Vote em out I say on Inside Australia's Data Retention Proposal · · Score: 1

    Vote below the line for a third party candidate. Preference them close to last. Those two parties have been in collective power since 1928. Vote the power sharing fascists out!

  5. Re:First 3D games? on Sony To Launch First 3D PS3 Games On Friday · · Score: 1

    If the developers had included a single user with color blindness in their QA testing they could have avoided it. Bad QA IMO.

  6. Re:First 3D games? on Sony To Launch First 3D PS3 Games On Friday · · Score: 1

    Yes but it's not how current 3D works. Current 3D is using stereoscopic vision to judge distance and not vectoring and other abilities the brain uses to judge distance when vision is impaired to only one eye. 3D perception is often slower in those individuals as well.

  7. Re:cool idea but why? on Microsoft's Glasses-Free 3D Display · · Score: 1

    To clarify I was referring to the gimmick that is to emerge where one would be forced to interact outside the screen space. Push button in stereoscopic position z three feet in front of the screen. Kinect will probably make this sort of interaction plausible.

    I was in no way suggesting these things should not be made I was just lamenting that I and others like me would be left out. As I am somewhat of a gamer it does make me a little sad that I will miss out on a lot of games and I hope that "traditional" games don't die off altogether.

  8. Re:Privacy? Really? on FBI's Facebook Monitoring Leads To Arrest In England · · Score: 1

    So you are only protecting yourself from the person that stole/finds your phone if you lost it.

    That would be the point. Also to keep my "friends" from snooping on me.

  9. Re:Where's the applications? on Fermilab Experiment Hints At Multiple Higgs Particles · · Score: 2, Funny

    What would be the point of that? People in the future would already know the outcome.

  10. Re:Privacy? Really? on FBI's Facebook Monitoring Leads To Arrest In England · · Score: 1

    I delete my history every time I send or receive text messages for privacy reasons. My phone has a tiny memory footprint of personal information related to me. Maybe four hours of call history, no text message history and a small list of professional contacts. My private contacts are kept on the only physical media I trust, my brain.

  11. Re:Privacy? Really? on FBI's Facebook Monitoring Leads To Arrest In England · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Unless you're muslim, those fuckers do it all the time.
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2010/apr/22/south-park-censored-fatwa-muhammad
    There is one example with 1.0 seconds of google, I will leave it as an exercise for karma whores to find other notable examples.

  12. Re:So... the only problem is the penis? on Chatroulette Working On Genital Recognition Algorithm · · Score: 5, Interesting

    What they need is a rating system, like /. The trolls still troll, but the amount of people exposed to the troll is greatly reduced and it ruins most of their fun. Sure they can continue to use it, but you could redirect them to other random trolls. That way all the trolls get to look at each others cocks, and people who aren't that interested in cock will get to the people they want to interact with faster.

  13. Re:cool idea but why? on Microsoft's Glasses-Free 3D Display · · Score: 1

    I can deal with non interactive 3D, it's when the games begin the gimmicky decline to 3D interaction that will totally screw me. Lack of depth perception will make those sorts of games unplayable for those of us who are stereoscopically challenged.

  14. Re:I do not think it means what you think it means on Apple Censors Ulysses App In Time For Bloomsday · · Score: 1

    This is why book stores are not in decline. Plus having a bookshelf with actual books on it in my home is awesome.

  15. Re:Yes But Drawings of Nudes? on Apple Censors Ulysses App In Time For Bloomsday · · Score: 1

    Yeah but illustrated nudity (and poorly at that)? What happens if I made an app that let you clothe South Park characters and you start with two peach colored circles with eyes and mouth on the top circle? What is that, child nudity?

    In Australia "depiction" of someone "who appears" under eighteen will count as child porn yes.

  16. Re:Yea right on Porn Sites More Infected Than Thought · · Score: 1

    I blinded her with science!

  17. Re:Fulltime wearer of Glasses on Sony To Launch First 3D PS3 Games On Friday · · Score: 1, Troll

    So if you're one eyes Sony just put you at a disadvantage in racing games. Another reason to hate sony I guess.

  18. Re:First 3D games? on Sony To Launch First 3D PS3 Games On Friday · · Score: 2, Insightful

    As for your "fake simulation on a 2D image" is like calling video a "fake simulation of moving pictures using still frames", technically its correct, but if its enough to fool the eyes, its very much the real deal :)

    Only if you have two functional eyes. Non- depth perception 3D is perfectly acceptable to use with only one eye. New polarised glasses do nothing for those with only one eye, if games start going in the direction of requiring depth perception of the type requiring two eyes, that just fucks up gaming for them. Sure they could still enjoy a movie but playing a game where they have to interact at $distance?

  19. It's not violence on Violent Video Games Only Affect Some People · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It's sex people get really pissy about.

  20. Re:A One Click Solution? on Australian Police Ask Facebook For Police Alarm Button · · Score: 1

    We really don't. It's a bad example of beer. We keep the good stuff for ourselves. ;)

  21. Re:australia? on Australian Police Ask Facebook For Police Alarm Button · · Score: 1

    They could also purchase it as advertisement in the for of, you guessed it, a button.

  22. Re:australia? on Australian Police Ask Facebook For Police Alarm Button · · Score: 1

    Seeing as everyone has to vote or be fined I'm guessing most of the voters are sheep.

  23. Re:australia? on Australian Police Ask Facebook For Police Alarm Button · · Score: 1

    Then have the AFP petition the government for Ad revenue and they can have their button.

  24. Re:australia? on Australian Police Ask Facebook For Police Alarm Button · · Score: 1

    The real problems started in Australian politics when the christian fundys managed to get a guy into parliament.

    A guy? You're not looking hard enough. Both major parties are full of them. This election vote below the line for a third party candidate. Some good ones whose stated goals are protecting our freedoms are., Australian democrats, Greens, Australian sex party, Pirate party. In order of my personal preference. You may also wish to give these partys you last preference, Liberal party, Labor party, Family first.

    You have to go back to 1928 to find a non labor or liberal party in power in Australia. Time for a motherfucking change.

  25. Re:Wrong answered with wrong modded informative on Why Some Supermassive Black Holes Have Big Jets · · Score: 1

    black holes do not absorb dark matter
    http://www.universetoday.com/2010/03/22/astronomers-find-black-holes-do-not-absorb-dark-matter/#more-60422

    So this would suggest the darkmatter particle has no mass, travels faster than light or both?