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  1. Re:So WTF do the non-depressed do with the interne on Depressed People Surf the Web Differently · · Score: 1

    Depression lowers your sex drive, so no.

  2. Better beaches on Aussie Parliamentary Inquiry Into Software Pricing Announced · · Score: 3, Interesting

    If we lose the better beaches tax does that mean that New Zealand has better beaches than us?

  3. Re:Year of the Linux Deadtop on Slackware: I'm Not Dead Yet! · · Score: 1

    I think he means the toaster from that skit is an appliance.

  4. Re:"Unsurvivable" weather warning? on Data Safety In a Time of Natural Disasters · · Score: 2

    You are not going to survive only if you stay. If you are smart and evacuate you might not have time to get your data out as well.

  5. Re:TRS-80 model 100/102 on Ask Slashdot: What Is the Best Note-Taking Device For Conferences? · · Score: 1

    Actually the display is 8 lines x 40 columns

  6. Re:How Dare those Liberal Communists!!! on Australian National Broadband Network Releases 3-Year Plan · · Score: 1

    But the Liberals are not Communists they are conservatives. :)

  7. Re:Did it without RedPower2 addon on 16-Year-Old Creates Scientific/Graphing Calculator In Minecraft · · Score: 1

    It's not fake, I have seen people build simple CPU's in Minecraft before. This is just an extension of those efforts. The only barrier to creating it is the simulation limit of the redstone in Minecraft itself. Which is why the machine is 3D and not 2D.

    And there are many more of those

  8. Re:For those of us who don't know... on 16-Year-Old Creates Scientific/Graphing Calculator In Minecraft · · Score: 1

    Not a Zombie a Creeper.

  9. Re:Apple becoming a patent troll? on Google, Motorola Ordered To Provide Android Info To Apple · · Score: 1

    I'm sorry but the concept of patent troll existed before Android.

  10. Re:Apple becoming a patent troll? on Google, Motorola Ordered To Provide Android Info To Apple · · Score: 1

    [blather]... so Apple isn't a patent troll

    Only according to Apple apologists, fanbois, and spin doctors. For the rest of us, Apple is burning karma at an alarming rate and has already declined significantly in terms of respect for the corporate brand. Apple is doing its best to establish a reputation for rapaciousness over engineering excellence.

    People only use the term "patent troll" in this context because they don't know what it means. They saw it used elsewhere and are so emotionally invested in what they are saying they don't check if it means what they think it does. Then other people misuse it as well and the cycle goes on.

    Wikipedia has an ok definition of it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patent_troll

  11. Re:"Ritalin gone Wrong" on Aderall Or Nothing: Anatomy of the Great Amphetamine Drought · · Score: 1

    Sounds like the child does not have AD/HD but rather the influence of the parent(s) is causing problems.

  12. Re:Origin on Crysis 2 Most Pirated Game of 2011 · · Score: 1

    DRM does not make people pirates. They already were pirates if they are downloading a cracked version. I'm a paying customer, DRM just puts me off their titles. I have limited money to spend so I just spend it on other games that don't have DRM. Piracy is a hassle compared to purchasing proper legit games with minimal DRM.

  13. Re:Origin on Crysis 2 Most Pirated Game of 2011 · · Score: 1

    Oh rubbish people who pirate don't care about DRM. People who care that much about DRM will not buy the product. Paying customers are put off by draconian DRM systems and they vote with their wallet and buy games from other publishers.

  14. Re:Old Plant? on Lax Security At Russian Rocket Plant · · Score: 2

    If it is vacant then who is paying the power bill? The lights are on and the lift works.

  15. Re:Uh....slashdot? on Before the iPhone, Apple's Stunning Phone From 1983 · · Score: 2

    The stylus technology may have come from the Apple Graphics Tablet. The display is a high res (for the period) B/W LCD.

  16. Re:Slashdot: now part of Microsoft on ITC Judge: Motorola Mobility Infringed Microsoft Patent · · Score: 1

    How many factories does Google own? And, what physical products do they sell? In view of their vast financial empire, they own very few physical assets, and produce even fewer. The vast majority of Google's "products" are Imaginary Property. Or, what elitists tend to refer to as "Intellectual Property".

    I say Google is a patent troll, along with Apple, and a lot of other companies. They aren't quite as repulsive as some of those east Texas companies that have never marketed a damned thing in their history, but they are still patent trolls.

    FTFY. See how dumb it sounds.

  17. Re:Not a competitor on Sub-$100 Android 4.0 Tablet Coming Soon · · Score: 1

    Apart from carrier IQ obviously....

    The iPad is not a phone.

  18. Re:Not really... on Sub-$100 Android 4.0 Tablet Coming Soon · · Score: 1

    I's that an iPad 1 or a 2?

  19. Re:Simple solution on In Australia, Immunize Or Lose Benefits · · Score: 1

    I also now realise it is impossible to get fake immunisation certificates. Since you don't show the Tax Office the proof of immunisation, Medicare does and the Tax Office talk directly to each other. The only way around it is the Conscientious Objection Form.

  20. Re:Double Standards on In Australia, Immunize Or Lose Benefits · · Score: 1

    Article 25. (1) Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control. (2) Motherhood and childhood are entitled to special care and assistance. All children, whether born in or out of wedlock, shall enjoy the same social protection.

    Article 25 of the Universal Human Rights Declaration. Also please read article 30. Your right to not get immunised destroys others right to Health as laid out in Article 25.

    Article 30. Nothing in this Declaration may be interpreted as implying for any State, group or person any right to engage in any activity or to perform any act aimed at the destruction of any of the rights and freedoms set forth herein.

  21. Re:Double Standards on In Australia, Immunize Or Lose Benefits · · Score: 1

    Public health is secondary to human rights, just like security, and if I need to oppose vaccination to oppose to support human rights, I will.

    Public health is a human right. Maybe you should look up what human rights actually are.

  22. Re:Simple solution on In Australia, Immunize Or Lose Benefits · · Score: 1

    Medicare handles the certification. Medicare is a Federal Government agency. You want to fake a Federal Government document to get more from the Tax Office? Have a nice time in prison.

  23. Re:Are the taxes reduced? on In Australia, Immunize Or Lose Benefits · · Score: 1

    It is only wrong if you are American, Australians don't see it that way. Our system is called Medicare and is paid for from taxation. If you are poor you pay less, there are a few medical exemptions for payment. If you are rich and don't have private insurance you pay more. No you can't opt out of it, you can't opt out of paying for road maintenance either.

  24. Re:Falsifiable on Droughts Linked To Global Warming · · Score: 1

    The theory assumes thing if these things are not true then the theory is false.

    • That humans are burning fossil fuels to make energy
    • That this burning releases CO2 into the atmosphere
    • That the levels of CO2 in the atmosphere are rising
    • That the increase of CO2 in the atmosphere is not accounted for by natural causes
    • That CO2 is a greenhouse gas and therefore will cause temperature rise in the atmosphere
    • That the global temperatures are rising
    • That the temperature rise is causing the climate of the earth to alter

    You may not agree with those but they are falsifiable statements.

  25. Re:That's because the "tablet market" doesn't exis on Tablet Makers Try To Beat iPad's $500 Pricetag · · Score: 1

    Your post makes no sense in relation to what I said.