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  1. It's come along way... on Google Bans Online Anonymity While Patenting It · · Score: 1

    [quote]So does Google now believe that there's a genuine 'risk of disclosing a user's real identity'?[/quote] Beat that siri, bet you don't have emotional opinions

  2. Re:Children are born on The Passing of the Personal Computer Era · · Score: 1
  3. Re:meh on Apple Announces iPhone 5 · · Score: 1

    That would be jobs at the iphone 4 announcement

  4. Re:No Loseless support? on Opus — the Codec To End All Codecs · · Score: 1

    And Australian in the case of you by the looks of it. Cool.

  5. Re:No Loseless support? on Opus — the Codec To End All Codecs · · Score: 1

    Nice!!!

  6. Re:No Loseless support? on Opus — the Codec To End All Codecs · · Score: 1

    Is that a new sig or do you change your sig based on what you happen to be commenting on at the time?

  7. Re:Android is a toy on Toys R Us Unveils Android Tablet For Kids · · Score: 1

    Well I don't know about of course... That's a pretty strong statement considering most smart phones don't even have dedicated dialer buttons

  8. Re:What helped me... on Ask Slashdot: How To Begin Work In IT Freelancing? · · Score: 0

    Sorry I probably did not tweak my advice well enough for your specific position, feel free to skip step 1. As step 2 will help with step 1 later on, and then when you want to kill your PHB become a freelancer angain!

  9. What helped me... on Ask Slashdot: How To Begin Work In IT Freelancing? · · Score: 5, Informative

    1. Get some experience not doing freelance (know the tools of the trade) - Dont just default to freelance because you can't find a job. 2. Create a Website with a portfolio of your work. (this does not need to be for actual customers, could be ideas you have come up with and made, eg for web development create some word press sites / joomla or similar, create some sites using the language of your choice, for me that was PHP and the whole LAMP stack. and some sites using a framework like Yii (or what ever). and mingle in some JQuery / JS / LESSCSS. 3. Profit??

  10. interesting... on Rare Form of Autism Could Be Curable With Protein Supplements · · Score: 0

    I have a nephew with autism and any progress would be welcome in treating it. Although its one of those things where so much of it feels like that's 'his' personality and treating it feels a bit strange... also would be interesting on the affects of treatment on someone like this girl... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnylM1hI2jc&feature=youtube_gdata_player

  11. whats he worried about? on Secret Service Investigating Romney Tax Hack Claim · · Score: 0

    According to Wikipedia... "As a result of his business career, by 2007, Romney and his wife had a net worth of between $190 and $250 million" Im not kidding... 2 people I admire greatly are collectively worth about $150M, and I can tell you that most of us live just like us day to day (although by choice). One drives a Holden Statesmen and the other a Mazda MX5. They eat plain meals, "meat and 3 vege", show at "Lowes" and live a simple life. Maybe Romney is still in touch even as a successful business man, maybe that helped him get to where he is?

  12. Re:Flamebait on Windows 7 Overtakes XP, OSX Struggles To Beat Vista · · Score: 0

    Or maybe it wasn't flame bait since they didn't mention Linux. Maybe it was perspective?

  13. Re:Jesus Christ... on Steve Jobs Reincarnated As a Warrior-Philosopher, Thai Group Says · · Score: 0

    He has a Steve Jobs you insensitive clod

  14. Re:If we're talking about my Mother-in-law... on If Extinct Species Can Be Brought Back... Should We? · · Score: 0

    My mother in law was a saint you insensitive clod!

  15. Re:A Review? on Windows 8 Is 'a Work of Art.' But It's No Linux · · Score: 0

    you must be new here

  16. Im surprised just how many /. folk seem to come from church / creation backgrounds. Like many of you I was brought up on this type of indoctrination and as I have gotten older (i am currently in my mid 20's) have questioned more and more of it. I think many of you are failing to give religion the 'respect' it deserves... I dont think any particular mainstream religion is true anymore, but I also fail to see how evolution / naturalism can account for matter in general and life in particular, seriously how could it given our current understanding of cosmology? and the huge leap between evolution of physical matter to evolution to an imaterial consciousness... Some form of religion makes much more sense IMHO... But the problem is, each particular religion can be shown to be bogus, which leads me to my current position, which is god/s or whatever initiated the big bang and guided evolution or provided consciousness to creatures but otherwise has never interfered again, which explains the lack of miracles present in the christian church at least...

  17. Was on 2gb recently... on Man With World's Deepest Voice Can Hit Infrasonic Notes · · Score: 1

    Tim was a guest on Alan Jones talk back radio station in Australia a few days ago. Here is a link to the interview where you can here some of his stuff. http://podcasts.mrn.com.au.s3.amazonaws.com/alanjones/20120824-storms.mp3

  18. Re:Slightly exaggerated I feel on Serious Problems With USB and Ethernet On the Raspberry Pi · · Score: 1

    Im also a happy Raspberry Pi owner, havent had any known problems with ethernet or usb, i am using a 2TB USB3 external HD with its own power source. In any case, I would happily fork out another ~$35 for a new and improved one if I had the described problem.

  19. cant... on Is Sexual Harassment Part of Hacker Culture? · · Score: -1

    Is there anything wrong with a sub culture having a different policy/ view? Obviously there are degrees and workplace policies need not apply in every environment.

  20. gospel... on Zeus Trojan Hits Blackberry Devices · · Score: -1

    this is good news for rim... means they got noticed...

  21. Re:Seizures on Anonymous Helps Turn In Hacker Who Targeted Charity · · Score: 0

    Shhh (its the later)

  22. Re:Seizures on Anonymous Helps Turn In Hacker Who Targeted Charity · · Score: 0

    Anonymous is any hacker who hacks and doesnt get caught... If you get caught, you are no longer by definition anonymous (permanently safe much).

  23. Re:Seizures on Anonymous Helps Turn In Hacker Who Targeted Charity · · Score: -1

    That is one of the funniest things I have read in a long time hahahahahaha

  24. all the way down

  25. Re:Speed of light on Speed of Sound Is Too Slow For the Olympics · · Score: 0

    It hasn't... I tried being all technical (as a first year maths teacher) and observed that the sound from the gun was taking time to reach us, and some mum next to me with stop watch was like, 'we go by the smoke'