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  1. Re:RTFA on Australia To Build Fiber-To-the-Premises Network · · Score: 1

    100km - that'll barely get you out of sydney! Over here in the west it'll get you to Northam (and there's plenty of people en route). I can see the unions whinging BIG TIME about this: Union rep: "Nope, its over 40 degrees, we ain't working" Conroy: "Of course its over forty degrees - you're in Meekatharra" if there are overruns, it won't be the government's fault...

  2. Re:Filtering on Australia To Build Fiber-To-the-Premises Network · · Score: 1

    Imagine the beautiful, eye-catching and people friendly websites we could build if we knew that the good people of Oz had the bandwidth to download them before they get bored and turn to the Yellow Pages. Sure you still have blockage at the host's end - but that will be allieviated too! I want my AFL Supercoach Team up faster than that, thank you very much!

  3. Re:Why We Don't Need Paperless Statements... on April Fools Sees Fake Extra Millions For Users of Brokerage Site · · Score: 1

    NAB - formerly the National Australia Bank

  4. Re:I smell a huge lawsuit on April Fools Sees Fake Extra Millions For Users of Brokerage Site · · Score: 1

    Funny. I worked in a bottlo a few years back where someone put the $20 bill tray into the $50 (in the atm) and visa versa. Some guy went to get out $60 and wound up with $150 - then came up to the counter, reported the error, gave us the $150 and took $60 in return.

  5. Re:Joke's on them on April Fools Sees Fake Extra Millions For Users of Brokerage Site · · Score: 1

    Soo, whatchy'a doin' next March? Coz that sounds like one hellavu prank that I'd contribute to..

  6. Re:Avatar on Nine Words From Science Which Originated In Science Fiction · · Score: 1

    Avatar first appeared in ancient Sanskrit religion (as Avatara originally, then derived to Avatar)

  7. Re:Rabbit hole! on Nine Words From Science Which Originated In Science Fiction · · Score: 1

    It was.

  8. Re:Forgot to mention on Nine Words From Science Which Originated In Science Fiction · · Score: 4, Informative

    Not the point of the article though. Gibson created (amalgamated) the word cyberspace, but it wasn't in Neuromancer - its was Burning Chrome. The concept behind cyberspace (artificial reality) was first espoused by Plato, before the birth of Christ.

  9. Re:Text from Google cache on Nine Words From Science Which Originated In Science Fiction · · Score: 2, Informative

    Yes, while his brother Josef sits grinning at the irony of your post...

  10. Re:Blame open source on Coders, Your Days Are Numbered · · Score: 1

    What software engineers need to do is form a new company, that only hires the best; creates excellent software (driving up revenue - and yes, this involves a business analyst to help with requirements); and leaves the mediocre coders to their competition.

  11. Re:Yet another example of incompetence on Obama Calls For Nuke-Free World · · Score: 1

    Obtained illegally from where? Break-and-enters on legal weapon owners? So by inference, if those people who were broken into did NOT have rifles - or handguns for that matter, there would be less firearms in the US to commit violence with? I believe it was Michael Moore who published that piece of insight (Stupid White Males) and while I appreciate Moore is biased and trying to make a living - he has an excellent point.

  12. Re:Yet another example of incompetence on Obama Calls For Nuke-Free World · · Score: 1

    I'm *seriously* hoping capt. Nurb of the moron brigade isn't suggesting gun ownership actually decreases murder rates?? Here's a cute map: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Map-world-murder-rate.svg of important note: *the US has the second highest rate of murder in the Western world (after South Africa) *The countries with a higher murder rate than the US have all had major economic setbacks in the last twenty years. How would this map look if all countries in the world had a good, strong and growing economy for fifty years??