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  1. The same thing we do every New Years on Ask Slashdot: What Is Your New Years Eve Tradition? · · Score: 5, Funny

    Get uncontrollably drunk and yell at fireworks.

  2. Re:Plain text on LinkedIn Password Hashes Leaked Online · · Score: 1

    I bank with Suncorp and the only way you can move money out of your accounts is with an extra password that's provided by the bank or an RSA token.
    I'm not saying that the password is secure, but that it's not the most important part of securing themselves against fraud.
    They'd rather give the majority of users a better experience on their system and let the people who need to move money have a secondary requirement that prevents fraud.

  3. On to plan B. on Company Accidentally Fires Entire Staff Via Email · · Score: 1

    Dom Portwood: So, uh, Milton has been let go?
    Bob Slydell: Well, just a second there, professor. We, uh, we fixed the *glitch*. So he won't be receiving a paycheck anymore, so it'll just work itself out naturally.
    Bob Porter: We always like to avoid confrontation, whenever possible. Problem is solved from your end.

  4. Re:Blasphemy isn't a crime in India on Indian Man Charged With Blasphemy For Exposing "Miracle" · · Score: 1

    So is it saying that the laws are absent in tradition, but then the Britished repealed a law that didn't exist?

  5. Re:Blasphemy isn't a crime in India on Indian Man Charged With Blasphemy For Exposing "Miracle" · · Score: 1
  6. It's completely ridiculous! on Indian Man Charged With Blasphemy For Exposing "Miracle" · · Score: 1

    It's not blasphemy if a guy goes and proves that there's a leaky pipe, what if a plumber had come onsite to fix it?
    If he rocked up and said "Nah he's just a cunt" that'd probably be closer to the "hate speech" India's blasphemy laws refer to.
    How can you expect your society to move forward if you allow people to be persecuted for not believing in God.

    Plan: Register Atheism as a religious organisation, sue everyone who says God exists because we see it as "hate speech insults or attempts to insult the religion or the religious beliefs of any citizen with deliberate and malicious intention to outrage their religious feelings."

  7. Google team up. on UK Surgeons Are the First To Operate In 3D · · Score: 4, Funny

    Google soon to provide a street view style map of my insides.

  8. Re:And the patents are... on Facebook Countersues Yahoo Over 10 Patents · · Score: 1

    They would only have to own them prior to filling suit.

  9. Re:bait on YouTube Partially Unblocked In China · · Score: 1

    I think you hit the nail on the head.
    Crushing the next generation of opposition before it starts?

  10. Are people actually annoyed at this? on Google Using ReCAPTCHA To Decode Street Addresses · · Score: 1

    I don't see how anyone can be pissy they're doing this.
    They already list the number of the house on maps.

  11. Re:IMHO Apple is becoming a scummy advertiser on Australian Consumer Watchdog Sues Apple Over iPad Marketing · · Score: 1

    Eh?

  12. Re:IMHO Apple is becoming a scummy advertiser on Australian Consumer Watchdog Sues Apple Over iPad Marketing · · Score: 5, Informative

    Let's have a look at 4G around around the world shall we?
    http://www.worldtimezone.com/gsm.html
    Oh look! It would appear that THE MAJORITY OF THE WORLD uses the 900/1800 GSM band.

    Apple intentionally mislead consumers, and they were warned prior to the iPads release by the ACCC that what they were doing was in breach of advertising laws.
    I've spoken to many CEO's (I work helpdesk for a private hospitals) who wanted to order the iPad and when I told them it wasn't 4G compatible in Australia they were all shocked to hear it. I would assume this is the same with many other consumers as well.

  13. Re:Graft on FTC Attorney Joins Microsoft · · Score: 5, Insightful

    They just don't even try to hide it anymore, do they.

  14. A million monkeys can complete Shakespeare... on A Few Million Monkeys Finish Recreating Shakespeare's Works · · Score: 3, Funny

    But could they direct better versions of planet of the Apes?

  15. I've red Peter Pan enough to know... on Steve Jobs Dead At 56 · · Score: 1

    That after a disappointing iPhone 4S release many people didn't believe in Apple.
    "I do believe in Apple, I do believe in Apple, I do believe in Apple"

  16. Probably due to spending money on advertising on Chrome Set To Take No. 2 Spot From Firefox · · Score: 1

    Here in Melbourne for about 4 months Chrome had an excessive add campaign in one of the main train stations.
    That coupled with the youtube and TV ads they're really catching the lay-person market for web browsing.

  17. Re:Yeah. clueless morons. on Obama Admin Wants Hackers Charged As Mobsters · · Score: 2

    That's the whole point.
    They're well aware that 99% of the cyber-crime doesn't happen where their laws can reach, the rhetoric is for the justification so they can then use it for other purposes .
    They do the same thing here in Australia (and probably every other country) all the time.

  18. Re:The 80's on The Uncanny Valley Explained · · Score: 1

    Replicate the experiment with the participants using illicit drugs?

  19. The 80's on The Uncanny Valley Explained · · Score: 2

    Must have been a very uneasy time for society.

  20. May as well offer free porn as well. on WSJ and Al-Jazeera Lure Whistleblowers · · Score: 1
    Wikileaks was there to "stick it" to the "man", where as these corporations are looking for ways to maximise profit.

    It's pretty disgusting/misleading to promise anonymity when clearly they're not going to think twice about selling you out if they get a gentle nudge.

    Shouldn't journalists with integrity have the inside scoop? The ones that will go to jail instead of giving up their source?

  21. Re:Wasn't this the promise of... on Just Months After Jeopardy!, Watson Wows Doctors · · Score: 1
    Yeah but did they beat someone at Jeopardy?

    Also aren't we suppose to have flying cars by now?

  22. Re:NAB has them too on 8000 Credit Cards' Details Compromised In Australian Bank Breach · · Score: 1

    It's called a cash advance.
    Since they now have pin numbers on Credit Cards you can withdraw from ATM's using it.
    The interest rate on cash advances are generally the same or 1% higher than the cards (If you have a base rate of like 11% or a little higher they will be about 19-20%) interest rate except they apply straight away.
    So you're not paying that much interest on top of them anyway.

  23. It was more than just CommBank on 8000 Credit Cards' Details Compromised In Australian Bank Breach · · Score: 2

    All of the big 4 had to cancel and re-issue a heap of cards not just the Commonwealth Bank.

  24. Re:They're the same? on Australia Reveals R18+ Video Game Guidelines · · Score: 1

    If you read/compare the guidelines they're completely different.

    No restriction on themes
    Things that are completely permitted: Language, Drug Use, Nudity
    Sex can now be simulated.

    What I am interested in is that RC doesn't seem to have changed and would allow the classification board to block content on the same merits they used to.

  25. Re:Lets face it. on Users Want Matte LCDs While Glossy Screens Dominate · · Score: 1
    They are definitely not designed by pale creatures.

    This is the work of a marketing department that knows exactly how to sell shitty things to stupid people.

    "Oooo shiny!" Is what I the common selling point is.