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  1. Re:Passwords are for luddites. on LastPass Reporting a Security Breach, Including Authentication Hashes and Salts · · Score: 1

    I dare say his problem isn't about the recentness of the word "app" but rather the overuse by PR drones.

  2. Re:Deniers on Top Advisor To Australian Gov't Says Climate Change is a UN Conspiracy · · Score: 1

    Yeah, telegraph.co.uk is a pretty good authority on these matters.

  3. Re:Could it be Micro$oft ... on Australian Electoral Commission Refuses To Release Vote Counting Source Code · · Score: 1

    How would the system assign votes to identities? The ballot papers are anonymous, and Australian elections are supposed to be a secret ballot.

  4. Re:Correlation vs causality. on Did Large Eyes Lead To Neanderthals' Demise? · · Score: 3, Funny

    Lies. Neanderthals live among us, just take a look at your co-workers.

  5. Re:Ratings cost money on Australian Govt Forces Apple, Adobe, Microsoft To Explain Price Hikes · · Score: 4, Informative

    You know what, you're right! That $5000 spread across every Australian customer definitely does equate to 50% more per copy!

    http://www.classification.gov.au/Industry/Journey/Pages/CGnonA/Step3.aspx

  6. Re:Angry, Dumb Fanboy Meltdown on Sony To Make Its Last MiniDisc System Next Month · · Score: 1

    Not even. Blu-ray is fine, if you're still interested in the dying optical medium.

    Blu-ray isn't a shitty non-standard that nobody else uses, however.

  7. They'll be back on Sony To Make Its Last MiniDisc System Next Month · · Score: 0

    Don't worry, Sony will just create another "god damn fucking piece of shit oh god i hate you sony please die in a ditch" proprietary format.

    Haven't bought any Sony products that require it (except a PSP, but you can but microSD adapters these days), and never plan on doing so.

  8. Re:no p2v for unix? on Ask Slashdot: Finding Legacy UnixWare Installation Media? · · Score: 1

    That would create image.raw in /local/ on the remote machine. That command is piping the output of dd if=/dev/drive on the remote machine, over ssh, to the input of dd of=/local/image.raw on the local machine.

  9. Re:Um on Business Tier For Australia's NBN Brings Big Possibilities For VoIP · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This isn't for today. This isn't for tomorrow. This is for the next 20-30 years you f*ckstick.

    Imagine if the government of the time had the same thinking when they built the Sydney Harbour Bridge. We'd have 1 lane each way, totally inadequate. Technology expands to fill limitations and if something beneficial doesn't come of investing in those 50 lines within the next 30 years, I will personally reimburse the Australian public for all expenses incurred in providing the service.

    Good infrastructure isn't laid by asking "what is adequate for now?".

  10. Re:uBI and aCTIVision do it too on EA Outs Battlefield 4, Plans To Charge $70 For New Games · · Score: 4, Interesting

    >ubi
    >activision
    >worse than EA

    Yeah nah. EA are scum, always have been. Activision just rehash their crap and charge $15 for map packs without shame but they know that they provide a service and at least respect their paying customers. EA are the worst kind of hypocrites, flooding the market with crappy sports titles and generic cod-clones and then claim to be "a driving force of innovation". They say they will never do sales like steam sales, because it devalues games. Have you seen Origin lately? Sale Sale Sale Sale. Not only that, you try getting support on your title. I'm sure if you've kept up with gaming news you know all about EA's retarded banning policy, and how they handled people criticising Bioware. EA spit in the face of their customers.

    Ubi just have crappy drm and price gouging. They aren't actively malicious like EA.

  11. Re:Next they'll turn off the power on BART Defends Mobile Service Shutdown · · Score: 1

    That doesn't mean that shutting down the tower is a good solution. The only acceptable solution is A) expand the capacity of the call centres. This is a fairly simple one, and doesn't require stopping me calling my loved ones before my train falls into a pit of lava or whatever and B) education, while seemingly a ludicrous proposition in the USA, it's a bit worrying if your nation's average citizen is so dumb they cannot coordinate a group effort to call 911 instead of all jumping on their phones and calling 911 themselves. This might require a cultural shift.

  12. Re:Mac OS X *did* have Spaces before Lion on Ask Slashdot: Which Multiple Desktop Tool For Windows 7? · · Score: 2

    I disagree.
    Virtual Desktops don't really need names, "Desktop n" is quite good enough. You can reorder/arrange your spaces by dragging them, the only thing that lion really changed was that all desktops are in a single row now, which makes sense considering the swipe gesture to move between spaces. The addition of full screen applications as their own space more than makes up for the loss of vertically aligned spaces. You can still configure programs to open directly to a certain space so I'm not sure what you mean by configuring your spaces, the removal of the system prefs panel is moot because it had barely any options besides layout of your spaces anyway.

    4 Desktops for Mac, 1 fullscreen terminal that is always open, then 1 fullscreen virtual machine so I can swipe between operating systems!

  13. Re:...why? on Doctors "Fire" Vaccine Refusers · · Score: 1

    The possibility that there are enough of these idiots for herd immunity to be ineffective? I suppose that would play right into survival of the fittest though.

  14. Re:Reflexive /. Gates bashing in 3...2... on Bill Gates Looks to Reinvent the Toilet · · Score: 1

    So then you would say that religion has never started a war or fight? Exactly. Just imagine how different the middle east would be if they weren't fighting over "god said this is MY land" "no, god said this is MY land" (massive simplification but whatever.) Admittedly, people who just want to kill each other will find another reason.

  15. Re:Not so bad to have different systems. on Why Does the US Cling To Imperial Measurements? · · Score: 1

    Considering most TV shows and movies come from America, would one not assume that the aliens use the imperial system?

  16. Re:My favourite android hack on The 10 Best Android Hacks · · Score: 1

    And there are more red M&M's in my 1kg pack than there are total M&M's in my 100g pack!

  17. Re:Not true on Auto Industry's Fastest Processor Is 128Mhz · · Score: 1

    I think you missed the point. It's a goddamn xbox car.

  18. Re:New Vegas... What about mutants? on Construction On Spaceship Factory Set To Begin In the Mojave · · Score: 1

    Soon the workers will start wishing for a nuclear winter!

  19. Re:You don't need to be technical to test on Bethesda Criticized Over Buggy Releases · · Score: 1

    I agree. I have been playing new vegas since release, and didn't think it was particularly all that buggy (compared to other bethesda games upon release). Then I realised how much I have used the console, especially for small things such as toggle clipping so that I can get out of a badly designed area, that any less experienced person wouldn't know about and would have to revert to a save from possibly ages back. Many bugs could easily have been spotted and fixed by hiring unemployed nerds like myself with a decent understanding of the engine (from a player/modder perspective) for minimum wage and letting us run riot.

  20. Re:Obsidian on Bethesda Criticized Over Buggy Releases · · Score: 1

    You played over 137 hours, and complain it was $60? That's less than 50c/hr, which is a far sight better than you'll get for a DVD or at the cinema.

  21. Re:Obsidian on Bethesda Criticized Over Buggy Releases · · Score: 1

    personally, I have it set so that the cinematic kill stays as my view, so I can pull of 3-4 headshots in "seconds". Good bye fiends!

  22. Re:There are still non-torrent filesharing network on Looks Like the End of the Line For LimeWire · · Score: 2, Funny

    Don't get your panties in a knot, the virus he doesn't have disabled his spell-checker so he didn't know.

  23. Re:RL location is no exuse for AUP violation on Microsoft Suspends Gamer For Being From Fort Gay · · Score: 1

    exactly why said investigation is BS?

  24. Re:Next step to prevent PC piracy on DRM-Free Game Suffers 90% Piracy, Offers Amnesty · · Score: 1

    This is very relevant, for me anyway. I used to buy maybe 1 or 2 games a year at a brick & mortar because I'd save my pennies and pay overpriced australian prices for it, $80 for a game. Now I have access to a credit card, I've bought more games than I can count (and have had time to play) on Steam for roughly the same budget.

  25. Re:But that is now on Flight of the Desktops · · Score: 1

    because it's very easy to upgrade those in a laptop, compared to a desktop.