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  1. Re:I'd buy it! on French Bees Produce Blue and Green Honey · · Score: 1

    Actually here in Australia, they do make green tomato sauce (ketchup) from green zebra tomatoes, tastes fine. http://www.ipm.iastate.edu/ipm/hortnews/files/images/green%20zebra%20tomato%20copy.preview.jpg

  2. Re:Hell yeah! on French Bees Produce Blue and Green Honey · · Score: 1

    But it is food colouring, the colour is from the M&Ms processing. Still be cool to see, maybe with natural colouring agents misted onto flowers for the bees to collect.

  3. Re:Interesting questions on Virgin Galactic's Quiet News: Virgin Now Owns The SpaceShip Company · · Score: 1

    The private space industry can do this because they are standing on the shoulders of NASA and the like. This is good though, as now NASA is free to get into more advanced research and exploration.....if they get funding....

  4. Re:Interesting questions on Virgin Galactic's Quiet News: Virgin Now Owns The SpaceShip Company · · Score: 1

    I don't have a great problem with them earning lots more, though 450X base rate seems unreasonable, but I do dislike how the rich and super-rich don't want to pay taxes, this is harming society. They want good little consumers to buy and consume their stuff, but now they don't want to pay their workers as full time employees with good benefits, they want someone else to pay the workers and have them buy their stuff. If there or no good jobs, eventually demand will fall as people just wont have enough for the new stuff.

  5. It was only a matter of time on Shakedowns To Fix Negative Online Reviews · · Score: 5, Insightful

    People and businesses value their online reputations, so these protection rackets were always going to come.

  6. Re:What could possibly go wrong? on New Cell-To-Cell Communication Process Could Revolutionize Bioengineering · · Score: 1

    Mod parent funny!

  7. Re:Remember the old addage on TypeScript: Microsoft's Replacement For JavaScript · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Yet. They're at the Embrace stage, how long until you have to use their "optional" extras, or it breaks something, or even throws up a harmless error that freaks bosses out. Remember the DR DOS windows error?

  8. Re:As they should on Google Kills Apps Support For Internet Explorer 8 · · Score: 1

    I was just thinking this, the Medicare side of DHS (Dept Human Services in Australia) has Firefox built into their images as they are XP based and IE8 is crap. Lots of internal stuff uses IE, but Firefox is their for newer sites and some internal stuff.

  9. Re:'Fair Use' is not sufficiently well defined on The Algorithmic Copyright Cops: Streaming Video's Robotic Overlords · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I agree, they shouldn't be allowed to run these bots until they have a perfect algorithm, which will be never. These high profile examples should be enough to allow the EFF to do something? The bots should at the very least have to "request" a violation check, not an immediate take-down.

  10. Re:I find this hard to believe on Australian Attorney General Pushes Ahead With Gov't Web Snooping · · Score: 1

    I bloody object to it and I'm writing a letter to my federal member right now! I heard Roxon on the radio only yesterday saying that there is a need, but it must be balanced with privacy. Complete switch in less than 24 hours, that's not on.

  11. Re:Transparent Aluminum on Wood Pulp Extract Stronger Than Carbon Fiber Or Kevlar · · Score: 1

    I know this is modded funny, but, yes, who does need it if you have CNC?

  12. Re:frist on Behind the Scenes With Samsung's Factory Workers · · Score: 0

    I was going to mod this down, but your sig made me laugh, I really enjoyed the Minsc character in BG2.

  13. Re:Ha on Promiscuity Alters DNA and Boosts Immunity In Mice · · Score: 1

    I don't know, I thought "Yuck" as I read "protect them against the disease-causing bacteria they are exposed to from mating with multiple partners"! I've seen some scary stuff if you know what I mean, you don't necessarily want to hit anything you can get....

  14. Re:Why bother? on Photo Reveals UK Plan: "Assange To Be Arrested Under All Circumstances" · · Score: 1

    They wont do it because then they'd have no reason to demand his return. These people will stop at nothing to get him, they've got the brits talking about violating an embassy!

  15. Re:Why bother? on Photo Reveals UK Plan: "Assange To Be Arrested Under All Circumstances" · · Score: 0

    It isn't the consensual sex that is the issue, but the nonconsensual sex, i.e. the rape and molestation. I'm not sure how you missed or misunderstood that. I didn't misunderstand anything, from what I've seen, the sex was over a few days with him staying there and then much later the claims were made based on some strange Swedish laws about condom use. They wont question him in England, they want him in Sweden, after which he'll be trussed up and sent anywhere they want him. He reported to the Swedish authorities before he left Sweden, they had no questions and let him leave the country. Now they want him back and he's concerned that the change is based on them being willing to hand him over to very powerful people who are very annoyed with him for leaking their dirty secrets.

  16. Re:Why bother? on Photo Reveals UK Plan: "Assange To Be Arrested Under All Circumstances" · · Score: 0

    Serial sex crimes? Having consensual sex over a few days and staying in the morning to have breakfast together constitutes sex crimes? God I'm never going to Sweden, I'll be in huge trouble! The truth is they just want to get him, they'll do anything legal, illegal and eventually criminal to take him out.

  17. Re:The sky is falling...not. on US Court Sides With Gene Patents · · Score: 1

    I can't believe you used the words judge and common sense in the same sentence. I can't remember the last time I read about a major case and thought "Finally some common sense". These judges can't seem to step back and realise that they are completely out of their depth on these topics and the system doesn't really help with getting people who do understand these topics involved. I also have a major problem with how the courts work, it doesn't matter how dumb or destructive a verdict is, if it is legal, it goes.

  18. Re:What was the dose? on Widely Used Antibacterial Chemical May Impair Muscle Function · · Score: 5, Informative

    You should URGENTLY call poisons information if someone eats significant amounts of toothpaste. The Fluoride can and has killed people.

  19. Re:England on Ask Slashdot: What's the Best Place To Relocate? · · Score: 1

    I'm guessing you moved to england years ago, Australia has grown enormously in the last twenty years in terms of culture and sophistication, while retaining the positives of the "fair go". I've been in US/Canada (liked it, too cold), Scotland, France, Turkey and China, they all have major problems unless you're very well off. I'm quietly optimistic about Australia if we can not blindly follow the US+free trade path, take advantage of our proximity to Asia and build a balanced economy not one too reliant on commodity exports.

  20. Re:Too little info on Ask Slashdot: What's the Best Place To Relocate? · · Score: 1

    You are joking about Australians being hard to understand aren't you? Most people find it easier to understand Australian accents than many english/irish/scottish/singaporean ones.

  21. Re:US on Ask Slashdot: What's the Best Place To Relocate? · · Score: 1

    You can say the same about Australia if you're thinking of moving.

  22. Re:Linux is free on Creating a School Computer Lab With Ubuntu For $0 · · Score: 1

    Really? Not once you've installed the AV and all the other crap you actually need to use it.

  23. Re:yes on Political Science Prof Asks: Is Algebra Necessary? · · Score: 1

    Agreed. I had to look up FWIW! lol

  24. Re:yes on Political Science Prof Asks: Is Algebra Necessary? · · Score: 1

    At high school, fine. At uni you shouldn't have to do calculus unless that's your stream.

  25. Re:yes on Political Science Prof Asks: Is Algebra Necessary? · · Score: 1

    Where are you speaking about? I'm Australian an I didn't see anything like that, I resented being made to do some rather specialised units outside my field of study (and frankly aptitude). These subjects should be electives, they may be prerequisites for other units you may want to do, so then you do them. If you want to do mixed units from different areas that's fine, but don't make them compulsory. I see too many people who could be great at some careers kept out because of arbitrary and artificial barriers to entry.