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  1. RF proof wallet on Estonia Tests "Contactless" ID-Cards · · Score: 1

    just keep your card in an RF proof wallet, then YOU choose when to give away any details.

  2. electronic keys on Passwords - 64 Characters, Changed Daily? · · Score: 1

    I know of several companies that use sycronised password generators. You have a gizmo that changes its seed number every 6 minutes, you login, get a number to enter into your gizmo and it generates a responce number. no more password: password

  3. NOT YET!! on Australia to Get Software Patents and Anti-Circumvention Laws · · Score: 1

    The Labor party will only pass the FTA if the Government parties accept 2 amendments, protection of local media content and our low cost medical drugs, else it will oppose it. I'd rather not see it happen at all.

  4. oh dear on Patriot Act Used to Enforce Copyright Law? · · Score: 1, Funny

    would the last free minded person leaving the USA please turn the lights on...

  5. still OK on Second Post-Apple Newton Life? · · Score: 1

    The 2000 and 2001 are still hard to beat on features, writting stuff for Newton was pretty good too.

  6. King Waves on Ship-Sinking Monster Waves Revealed · · Score: 1

    King Waves are reported often in Western Australia where a wave of over 10 metres heigh swamps fishing boats, usually without injury. They seem to occur near reefs on relatively calm day and a product? of a number of small waves coming together for a short distance and then dispersing. A neighbour turned around in time to see a wave 10 metres high 'sneek' up on his boat and held on as it moved over the boat, all over within a few seconds.

  7. diversity does not belong in schools on Software Monoculture in Schools? · · Score: 1

    what do you expect? the school system is there to prepare you for life, and the reality of life is that diversity and choice exist as a token part of our beliefs. It gives use a warm fuzzy feeling to know that choice and diversity exist while the vast majority choose the same drinks, eat the same food, dress the same way, listen to the same (boring) music and use the same operating system. Um, you must also learn to deride and ignore anyone who actually chooses to move away from the 'norm' and tread a different path.

  8. your distance will be wrong on Cheap Cell-Phone Detector · · Score: 2, Interesting

    mobile power output varies and is controled by the phone, you can't derive distant by looking at power output.

  9. A total pain on 3D Mouse · · Score: 1

    I have experimented with a few 3D ideas over the years and the big killer, which I can overcome, is that there is a large amount of phyical effort required to hold an object in the air. Currently you rest you wrist in a surface, but with a 3D device there is no surface. What you need to do is ... send me money for the answer.

  10. out of the closet on Computer Gaming PCs Try To Stack Up To Consoles · · Score: 4, Interesting

    all of our home computer are in the areas where people live. 2 are in the lounge rrom for viewing DVDs, writing, gameing, browsing etc. We moved away from the TV as our central entertainemnt medium and now use our computers for a whole lot more of our recreational time, i.e. cold nights...

  11. Re:Another way to increase reception for tv or rad on Cardboard WiFi Antenna Upgrade · · Score: 1

    there are auto-adjust ants for HF to VHF, I have no seen them for this sort of part of the spectrum.

  12. I just wish that it get spelt correctly on Our Friend, The Meter · · Score: 1

    metre and litre, not meter and liter. The US corrupts everything, imperial pint are not the same as US pints etc, bah!

  13. a new market... on Next Generation Stun Guns? · · Score: 1

    ...for plastic garbage bags! shockproof vests!! or those cheap plastic rain coats. Oh yer,this will work.

  14. um?? on Invisible Cloaks, Translucent Walls · · Score: 1

    so it is a description of a sensor, ie camera, and emitter, LCD or plasma panel? sure the cloak sounds good, but to make a window in a wall requires? a camera and a plasma display? Wooot I've done, I made a breakthrough!!! wake up ppl!

  15. Re:Free Trade is Good Period on Australia-US Free Trade Agreement Examined · · Score: 1

    As nice as the FTA concept may sound, once where are restrictions put into the agreement, by both sides, then it's not 'free trade'. I have yet to find anyone in business that is able to say that the FTA is a real benefit for Australia. Sure a number of non producing individuals like it, but the people who actually work in business etc see some danger in it. It has been shown that the US businesses see it as a weapon to open up 'markets' in Oz, but the reverse does not seem to be true. If I am wrong, show me, but I truely fear the potential changes that will be forced on Oz as a result of it.

  16. earliest prior art on Microsoft Receives Patent For Double-Click · · Score: 1

    based on the term 'hardware', then every keyboard has this feature, key repeat. press once for a single charactor, hold down for multiple characters, or Apple's use of a single key to enable different features based on the number of time the same key is pressed, was in the old accessibilty options.

  17. Re:$450 mistake on Microsoft, Sony Announce iPod Competitors · · Score: 1

    so i didn't read it carefully enough. Anyway it's easy to find a $50 MP3 player, it's capacity and config that sets the price, you wont get much for $50.

  18. $450 mistake on Microsoft, Sony Announce iPod Competitors · · Score: 1

    the article says $500, not $50

  19. backing the trend on In The Works: Windows For Supercomputers · · Score: 1

    with Linux and Mac doing desktop clustering, it was only a matter of time before M$ had to show something to big business, more a token effort than a real push, IMHO.

  20. In Oz.... on New York State Classifies Vonage As Phone Company · · Score: 1

    This is one of the the reasons that in Australia we separate Telephony service providers from carriers. In Oz a company that offers Telephony products and services, regardless of the carrier used, would be a 'Telco' and governed by the applicable laws etc. It's then a fine line between providing VOIP equipment and offering VOIP services to others.

  21. WHY Bother??? on Successful PearPC/Mac OS X Install Documented · · Score: 1

    it'll never run at anywhere near native speeds, and the apps you want to run will seem like tar on a cold morning. You can buy a old iMac for the cost of setting up a PC to do this and still end up with the same 'speed'. Run X86 Darwin with the Aqua clone WM.

  22. bELKIN gAMEPAD AND SCREEN? on Via-based Handheld Game Console Runs PC Games · · Score: 1

    (damn caps lock) It's my Belkin game pad, fitted with a screen!! Yes that what they must have used.

  23. or they could close the store... on FairPlay v2 Reversed, Playfair Back Online · · Score: 1

    Apple has a record of just dropping stuff and walking away. Sure it sells iPods, but if the business changes a little then they could/will just drop the online music store and walk away. There is no profit for Apple in selling the music, only in supporting iPods, if piracy threatens the business, then Apple will do it's usual trick of sacking the department and moving on. For personal use, OK, but I know that not everyone is that honest so it is being used by someone to pirate music, there is no real excuse, just because you can do the same by other means, does not make it right. It is alway a few that stuff things up for the rest of us.

  24. Crap on Ask About Running Windows Software in Linux · · Score: 1

    One item runs LINUX on Windoze, not vise-versa, the other two don't seem to actually lead to a product...must be vaporware candidates. And if they aren't free, where is the advantage?? The OS is not the only problem with windoze, inconsistancy from app to app is my main complaint, and thats not addressed by running win-apps on Linux.

  25. Re:MP3 or CD on Building A Museum Listening Station? · · Score: 1

    Now that I think about it there are chips used in short message recorders for a couple of bucks that would also do the job. You could possibly get a complete unit for 5-10 dollars from some Asian importer.