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  1. Re:Not sure who the market is here? on New, Privacy-Oriented, FOSS Web-mail: Mailpile · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I disagree that the normal user has accepted their email is not secure. I'm fairly certain that most normal user's have no idea that email is insecure.

  2. Wargames on First Petaflop Supercomputer To Shut Down · · Score: 0

    So essentially this thing was a real life WOPR.

  3. Damage done on GTK+ 3.8 Released With Support For Wayland · · Score: 0

    Doesn't matter. GTK dev's (and GNOME dev's) can't be trusted. I'll use QT from here on.

  4. Linux based? on Microsoft's SmartGlass For Android Reviewed · · Score: 1

    Android uses Linux as its kernel but I wouldn't say it was Linux based. It's userland is java based. They could easily use another kernel if they so wished.

  5. Re:Please Donate on Aussie City Braces For Worst Flood In 118 Years · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, the majority of the (now) 75 missing are from Grafton, which has a population of about 200.

  6. Hold up on Pacific Northwest At Risk For Mega-Earthquake · · Score: 1

    Isn't the "Pacific Northwest", ie, the northwest portion of the pacific ocean actually Japan/Russia? California and it's quite clearly geography fearing population (generalization) is actually on the east side of the pacific.

    Panic over!

  7. and so it begins on Zombie Pigs First, Hibernating Soldiers Next · · Score: 2, Informative

    They'll only reanimate the parts that watch TV, rent movies (repeatedly in a variety of formats, buy mobile phones (repeatedly in a variety of formats) and leave of the rest of the dissident free thinking ganglion parts dormant.

  8. Upgrade the damn thing! on New DoS Vulnerability In All Versions of BIND 9 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Honestly, why do they insist on running such an important backbone infrastructure piece on a no longer support Microsoft operating system is beyond me.

  9. Re:So much for pirate ethics on How Piracy Affected the Launch of Demigod · · Score: 1

    That's in Idaho ain't it?

  10. Simple credit crunch fix on Obama Calls For Nuke-Free World · · Score: 1

    1) Ban nukes making old style wars valid
    2) Start old style war
    3) Make loads of stuff
    4) Corporate America rejoices
    5) Profit

  11. Rationality check on 3D-Based CAPTCHAs Become a Reality · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Let's see now. If the spammers and robot makers went outside, done something worthwhile and produced something the world badly needs (food) then this nonsense wouldn't exist, I could surf in peace and the starving millions would live a little longer. The very existence of CAPTCHA's proves the human race is badly in need of a reset.

  12. What does this have to do with wheelchairs? on Review: Resident Evil 5 · · Score: 1

    There's a disabled joystick shown at the top of the article.

  13. Oops, there goes our upstream on Citrix XenServer Virtualization Platform Now Free · · Score: 1

    Citrix XenServer is built on CentOS. CentOS is built on Redhat. Redhat are dropping Xen like a hot potato and moving to KVM. Guess who's upstream support just went byebye?

  14. Re:Talk to a patent lawyer on Best Approach To Keeping a Virtual World Protocol Free to All? · · Score: 1

    Last I knew talking to your patent lawyer doesn't get you free advertising.

  15. Re:What Rights? on EU Will Not Divulge Microsoft Contracts · · Score: 1

    I can't believe you just said lose instead of loose! IS THERE NO GOD?!?!

  16. Re:Times are different now. on Australian State May Give Students Linux Laptops · · Score: 1

    How about he gets steered towards a playground with some outdoor implements instead? I can't see any valid reason for a 7 year old to have a computer.

  17. Lets still the cries of the users. on Spore DRM Protest Makes EA Ease Red Alert 3 Restrictions · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It's clear to me that this new DRM scheme has nothing to do with users and everything to do with the used game market. Spore would be pirated whether it had DRM or not, EA aren't stupid. Those are lost sales either way. However, the DRM scheme basically removes Spore from the used game shelves so any potential players that come along later on when it hits the bargain bins, will have to buy the legit EA copy and not the five dollar cheaper used. That's money out of Gamespots pocket and into EA's.

    Online activation will be a win for EA and developers, they just have to get the balance right, and/or for the users to get used to it. Meanwhile, EB and Gamespot will be hurting.

  18. BBC is not a profit driven business on BBC's iPlayer's Prospects Looking Bleak · · Score: 1

    And there I thought everyone paid a license fee to pay for the BBC. Surely someones dropping a ball (or a globe) and somehow forgot to commision advertising to "profit".

  19. Something noone has mentioned.. on Award-Winning Ad Taken Off Air In Australia · · Score: 1

    The complaints and fears may have something to do with the fact that 2 children in the last 2 months have died in Australia from accidentally locking themselves in cars and not being found until a couple of hours later by which time their little are well and truly toasted (temps get up to 70C in a locked car here). It's probably a fear of the ad teaching the kids its ok to go and get in mums car rather than people thinking they'll drive off with it. Let's be rational here.

  20. Re:Looks great to me on The Gameboy Micro Reviewed · · Score: 1

    OMG.... I've found him! I've found the other Atari Lynx owner!!!! I've been looking for you for years. Let's play linkup?

  21. Happiness on Online Gambling Running Out of Steam · · Score: 1

    I've stopped playing (well I never started) because I'm generally happy. Only unhappy people gamble.

  22. Oz Tivo on TiVo-Like Service Coming To Australia · · Score: 5, Funny

    Perhaps, Australia being upside down, Tivo make work the opposite and actually put decent programming onto the TV rather than take it off.

  23. Remember Australia? on Anti-HIV Virus Developed · · Score: 1

    Can anyone see a 21st century cane toad disaster in this?

  24. Bogus on Where Will IBM Drop Windows? · · Score: 1

    This is quite bizarre as IBM has only recently for the first time signed an Enterprise Agreement with Microsoft so they can use MS Office instead of the antiquated Lotus WordPro and its pals.

  25. Robot? on Your Own Mecha · · Score: 1

    It doesn't actually walk around though does it. It rolls on tracks. Plus, being its not really a robot as it needs someone to operate it, morelike the lifter in Aliens but nowhere near as mechlike. This is just a novelty forklift truck. Yawn.