I could be wrong
However I am fairly sure that the SATA ports on nForce2 boards are not built into the southbridge, they have their own controllers speratly on the board and simply hook into one of the other buses, they are not straight into the south bridge
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In Australia at least, we have tax collected on all purchases from Australian companies distributing goods and services to people located in Australia.
Ie. the GST (Goods and Servicecs Tax), similar to VAT in England, and other systems around the world.
The Americans really need to implement a flat tax rate across the country at a federal level for this kind of thing. Having lots of different tax rates is fine if you are only selling your goods in one area, or you are big and can afford the complex tax software.
An internet tax system will hurt small businesses unless it is a simple flat rate everywhere, or tax is played from the purchase point. ie. Order from New York pay New York tax, although this system would be rorted as well as companies move to areas with the lowest tax rates.
Is this meant to be a replacement for the EUCD or an additional law.
It appears as though they would be mutualy exclusive, which is definetly a good thing. Any Europeans who follow these things know for sure.
At any right sweet if it passes, but it is still only a draft and the Media Groups will be lobying hard for changes so one can only hope it remains unscathed.
A long time ago I went camping with a bunch of friends at a camp site. A couple of guys went to sleep and the rest of us stayed up talking.
At about 1 in the morning one of the guys got up and proceeded to walk down to the toilets. He walked straight passed us, ignoring everything we said to him.
So we ran after him and he was completly asleep. Freaking scary because he got all the way to the toilets, about 200m away through trees and over guide ropes. He then walked all the way back moving around the trees and steping over the ropes again, completly oblivious to us talking to him and trying to figure out if he was awake. He proceeded to get out his sleeping bag unroll it and climb in and go to sleep(some more sleep anyway).
Nothing is worse then sleep walkers cause they move around normally but act as if you are not there if you try and talk to them.
I somehow doubt that this will go through the Senate* in Australia as the opposition (Labour Party) and independents/greens/democrats will block it because they dont want to tow the American Line and a lot of the non-Liberal politicians are making their claims to fame by not being pro-American but pro-Australian.
Although I do not doubt that we will get a watered down version there has been too much bad publicity (at least in the circles that care/understand) about the problems with the DMCA that we shouldn't end up with such draconian measures. Also we have the ACCC (Australian Competition and Consumer Commision) who have done a good job looking out for the little guy in the past ( with a fair amount of thanks from the community), and I dont think that the opposition party is willing to risk further destroying our rights and alientating the constituents for the Liberals policy glory.
nich
*Senate - We have a two house sytem, Lower House and Upper House(Senate). The government is whoever holds the majority in the Lower House, currently Liberal Party (mainly look out for big business and John Howard(Prime Minister) is seriously Bush's lap dog.
You have to actually look at how much each group pays in tax. For example of all the people currently earning in excess of 300K how much do they pay in tax as a percentage of their total income.
These style of figures are useful, looking at which groupd pays the most tax is mainly irrelevant what is important is how much tax each person pays as a percentage of their earnings
Australian radio station, only commercials are for station related stuff and for the ABC, our public broadcasting company, and these are fairly rare adds. You can get it over the net just goto
http://triplej.abc.net.au
JJJ is the best station in Australia because it is payed for out of taxes and they don't make money so they don't have to conform to everyones demands for addvertising $$
Sure they might be really small, but won't they have huge problems with supplying enough fuel/electricity to keep them in the air for long periods of time?
I mean sure cool you can fly a littly x10 butterfly up to look in your neighbours windows but if it can only stay there for a minute, whats the point?
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Of all the fiber going from Australia to our nieghbours only about 5% is lit at the moment. And as many people have said this is because it is not economically viable for the varying companies to light up the cable as it will effectively ruin them. Most of the dark fiber here is not actually owned by the major providers, Telstra & Optus, it is owned by venture capatalists who betted on their being a huge demand for bandwith. Unfortuantely for them they lost out, noone wanted it and they will lose more money by using the cable than they will from having it lay dormant, until it is useful.
I would argue that the only reason companies are at all enviromentally friendly is because the potential loss is insumountably higher when dumping toxic waste illegally.
Look at a lot of companies these days compared to 10/20/30 years ago and ask yourself why have so many become more ecologicaly friendly?
Look at McDoanld's for example (this is based in Australia i can't comment for the rest of the world). Here they have changed almost all of their packaging materials to be friendlier to the environment because of the way people began reacting to the ridiculous amount of waste they were producing.
Corporations always look at the bottomline first, but there are more potential losses than just Government imposed fines. Also there is very little wrong with the corporate world, it operates as it always has, the problem is the inability of people to except that if they want something to change they have to do something, not just point the finger and whinge.
I shouldn't dignify this with a response. However the concept of unleashing waves of automatic gunfire on people during a riot is about the stupidest thing you could do and would almost guarntee that you are a dead man. Do you expect no one else will fire back, or the the police will give you a gold star for valiantly protecting yourself?
I don't think if you go down to a basic level I am sure most people would have to agree that there is almost definetly life on other planets. The real argument that exists is wheter or not their is intelligent life on other planets.
Perhaps perhaps, I am not all in favour of completly banning firearms they do have sensible applications and I have shot rented single load.202 rifles at target ranges, I am in Australia it is about the only weapon I can fire without a license. My major argument is that guns increase the abilty of Joe average to do more damage to people faster. Arguing that firearms pose no problem is stupid.
I understand the argument that there will never be a real world situation where there are no guns. It won't happen. I would like it to but introducing crap legislation to try and get there will have littly to no effect on criminals in any way.
I also understand that the majority of violence related to firearms is not masacare style. Its not one guy going crazy and unloading his clip into the unwashed masses, those were just meant to show the maximum damage the average person could ever do to in a crowded area.
However how many situations will you be in where someone pulls a gun on you and you have the opportunity to pull your weapon out of it's holster and shoot the perpertrator before he drops you dead. Of course there will be situations where someone breaks into your house and you can scare them off, however outside of Hollywood and those rare World's Stupidest Criminals where the guy puts the shotgun down on the table and the clerk grabs it off him, in the real world if someone already has a gun pointed at you then you are either dead or he wants something. If he wants something from you pulling out your own gun is only going to guarntee he/she shoots you, no questions asked. Yes you might get lucky and they miss you, it has been know to happen but arguing for guns on these grounds is ludicrous as you are endangering your life and potentially the life of anyone near you if you draw your weapon.
As for the inability to get rid of weapons, this is very true. However what if you make it harder in the future for these same people to get another gun. If they want it enough yes they will get it. However maybe next time the crack head will rob you with a machette, a much easier to defend against weapon. For starters you can just run like hell. The andrenalin will pump and you wont stop till you reach Canada. Sure its not the best answer but it is an improvement.
Yes I recognize that guns get reused, and that people can make their own, but making a gun is not exactly trivial especially when you are after something complicated like a full automatic weapon.
My main point is that restricting guns is good, yes people should probably be able to access firearms and responsible people should be able to own them. However what type of guns should be heavily limited by both calibre, size (as in hand gun v rifle) and firing mechanism (as in semi/full auto v single load/hand guns you have to manually load (I am unfamiliar with handguns and I am referring to the ones you need to pull the slide back each time you fire a bullet)
Finally I suggest you put a big sign outside your house reading
Shoot to kill zone
and see what kind of reaction you get. (I know I am being feceitious but hey what the hell)
Exactly what guns are you all allowed to carry around? In Australia the law is very stringent on the rights of individuals to own weapons stating along the lines of:
You must have a licence to get a gun
The more powerful a weapon (read semi/full automatic) the harder they are to get, moving towards out right banned
Getting a handgun licence is also very difficult due to the ability to hide a gun on your person at all times
You have to have appropriate storage mechanisms for all guns (read locked away from little kids)
This basically means that if you want a gun you are limited to single load rifles unless you can prove that you really need something else, mainly professional shooters, although a lot of their weapons must be stored at a gun club in their big safes. This system is great and although yes there are some unfortunate incidences of violence in which the perpetrator used a gun they are quite low and this is a Good Thing IMHO.
Please note I didn't say gun-related violence as a gun only increases the damage someone can do when they become violent it does not dictate their choice to become a violent person.
Although this may seem crazy to you Americans even though you have the right to bear arms why do u all need to semi/full automatic weapons. I can understand the need for maybe a 9mm pistol for home defence or perhaps a single load rifle for target practice/hunting. But anything else is overkill and this whole we want guns it's in the constitution is ridiculous.
There is a massive difference between restricting what guns you can get and whether or not you can get any guns and it is barely a slippery slope. Wouldn't you feel a lot safer if you knew that it was harder for any want to be crack head to pick up a full-automatic weapon. Don't you think you would be better off if less and less people had access to the more powerful guns.
I agree it is impossible to stop someone getting any gun if they have the resources but if you make it hard enough there will be less available and eventually all the existing guns will be thrown in the river or retrieved by the police.
I think America's biggest problem is that there is a large number of Americans that think they should have guns and that it shouldn't be some little sissy.202(the old old 1902 rifle style, I haven't used one in a while so this could be the wrong type) single load hunting rifle but army issue AK-47, or whatever it is that they use these days.
Just because your forefathers were all gun toting revolutionaries that built the USA from nothing to its greatness today, doesn't mean you all have to be ready to do it again.
Guns don't kill people, people kill people is essentially what you are saying here.
Although technically ture your argument is heavily flawed. If someone cannot get access to a gun and they choose a knife or a sword then their maximum scope of damage is severely reduced. Assuming I have a 9 bullet handgun I can kill 9 people from a reasonable distance before anyone can do much about it.
Switch to a knife I can probably get 1 or 2 before everyone figures out what I'm doing and eith runs away or overwhelms me
Switch to fists I'll be lucky to kill 1 person unless they are alone and killing 2 people is almost completly out of the question.
The idea that guns have nothing to do with violence is absurd, with a gun I can kill anyone very quickly, as my choice of weapons is reduced so is my ability to unleash quick and deadly force and thus I can kill less and less.
Please dont claim guns are completly irrelevant in how violent a society is as it is an insult to the intelligence of the people around you.
I have two e-mail addresses at home, one that I have been using for about 3 years and it receives a lot of spam, but everyone has it so it is difficult to change. While the other one I created around the same time and then never used. Both names are the same except the unused email address has '83' appended to it.
I needed to use the second address a couple of days ago because I was sick of getting so much spam and decided I would start sending everything through the '83' address. When I logged in to the account for the first time in about 2 years there were a grand total of 2 Messages in it, both from my ISP.
Which basically means no one has tried to generate or brute force my account. It's with iPrimus in Australia, they are reasonably large probably second or third for users in Australia. So they would make a fairly good target for spammers.
The article says it doesn't output carbon monoxide, so what exactly does it do to the composition of the air around it? Any scientists/chemists around? If its taking hydrogen out of the air surely after a certain amount of running you will begin to have unsafe ammounts of oxygen/carbon dioxide in the air supply nearby?
Also why advertise it primarily as a UPS when you could, with a little work hook it into your houses main electrical supply like solar pannels and save on your electricity bill~?
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It looks so peaceful,
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And safe from those pictures.
I guess that's why we're only "Mostly Harmless"
If only people would look at these images and realise why everyone should chill out and relax.
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I was going to be a tree huggin hippy but my laptop kept running out of power
How does one hook up any other IDE device when using an IDE Hardware RAID.
If you want to stick in a cd-rom/burner or anything else how does it work, everything online assumes you already know what you are doing in this respect
In Australia, as many of you should remember the selling and installation of modchips was proven to be legal for playing back ups and imported disks in Australia:
The ACCC (Australian Competition and Consumer Commision) media release.
If someone wants to play import games on line they should be able to and all the checking process should not be placed on wether or not someone is "modchipping" the hardware.
Some games are never released in Australia or take a long time to come her. Althhough at the moment it does look like we will be getting all of the games that can be played on-line their is no requirement of Microsofts part to continue this trend and the idea that just because were not in America should mean we can't play a certain game on-line is ridiculous and Microsoft should stop been such control freaks.
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I could be wrong However I am fairly sure that the SATA ports on nForce2 boards are not built into the southbridge, they have their own controllers speratly on the board and simply hook into one of the other buses, they are not straight into the south bridge nich
Ie. the GST (Goods and Servicecs Tax), similar to VAT in England, and other systems around the world.
The Americans really need to implement a flat tax rate across the country at a federal level for this kind of thing.
Having lots of different tax rates is fine if you are only selling your goods in one area, or you are big and can afford the complex tax software.
An internet tax system will hurt small businesses unless it is a simple flat rate everywhere, or tax is played from the purchase point.
ie. Order from New York pay New York tax, although this system would be rorted as well as companies move to areas with the lowest tax rates.
Here I was thinking that priests were meant to be pillars of the community, not getting pissed off their nut on the cheap.
It appears as though they would be mutualy exclusive, which is definetly a good thing. Any Europeans who follow these things know for sure.
At any right sweet if it passes, but it is still only a draft and the Media Groups will be lobying hard for changes so one can only hope it remains unscathed.
At about 1 in the morning one of the guys got up and proceeded to walk down to the toilets. He walked straight passed us, ignoring everything we said to him.
So we ran after him and he was completly asleep. Freaking scary because he got all the way to the toilets, about 200m away through trees and over guide ropes. He then walked all the way back moving around the trees and steping over the ropes again, completly oblivious to us talking to him and trying to figure out if he was awake. He proceeded to get out his sleeping bag unroll it and climb in and go to sleep(some more sleep anyway).
Nothing is worse then sleep walkers cause they move around normally but act as if you are not there if you try and talk to them.
Although I do not doubt that we will get a watered down version there has been too much bad publicity (at least in the circles that care/understand) about the problems with the DMCA that we shouldn't end up with such draconian measures. Also we have the ACCC (Australian Competition and Consumer Commision) who have done a good job looking out for the little guy in the past ( with a fair amount of thanks from the community), and I dont think that the opposition party is willing to risk further destroying our rights and alientating the constituents for the Liberals policy glory.
nich
*Senate - We have a two house sytem, Lower House and Upper House(Senate). The government is whoever holds the majority in the Lower House, currently Liberal Party (mainly look out for big business and John Howard(Prime Minister) is seriously Bush's lap dog.
If you don't vote you don't have the right to complain because you are saying you don't care who is elected.
Im not American btw and I am not trying to attack you, just trying to make a point
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You have to actually look at how much each group pays in tax. For example of all the people currently earning in excess of 300K how much do they pay in tax as a percentage of their total income.
These style of figures are useful, looking at which groupd pays the most tax is mainly irrelevant what is important is how much tax each person pays as a percentage of their earnings
nich
Australian radio station, only commercials are for station related stuff and for the ABC, our public broadcasting company, and these are fairly rare adds. You can get it over the net just goto
http://triplej.abc.net.au
JJJ is the best station in Australia because it is payed for out of taxes and they don't make money so they don't have to conform to everyones demands for addvertising $$
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I mean sure cool you can fly a littly x10 butterfly up to look in your neighbours windows but if it can only stay there for a minute, whats the point?
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Look at a lot of companies these days compared to 10/20/30 years ago and ask yourself why have so many become more ecologicaly friendly?
Look at McDoanld's for example (this is based in Australia i can't comment for the rest of the world). Here they have changed almost all of their packaging materials to be friendlier to the environment because of the way people began reacting to the ridiculous amount of waste they were producing.
Corporations always look at the bottomline first, but there are more potential losses than just Government imposed fines. Also there is very little wrong with the corporate world, it operates as it always has, the problem is the inability of people to except that if they want something to change they have to do something, not just point the finger and whinge.
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I understand the argument that there will never be a real world situation where there are no guns. It won't happen. I would like it to but introducing crap legislation to try and get there will have littly to no effect on criminals in any way.
I also understand that the majority of violence related to firearms is not masacare style. Its not one guy going crazy and unloading his clip into the unwashed masses, those were just meant to show the maximum damage the average person could ever do to in a crowded area.
However how many situations will you be in where someone pulls a gun on you and you have the opportunity to pull your weapon out of it's holster and shoot the perpertrator before he drops you dead.
Of course there will be situations where someone breaks into your house and you can scare them off, however outside of Hollywood and those rare World's Stupidest Criminals where the guy puts the shotgun down on the table and the clerk grabs it off him, in the real world if someone already has a gun pointed at you then you are either dead or he wants something. If he wants something from you pulling out your own gun is only going to guarntee he/she shoots you, no questions asked. Yes you might get lucky and they miss you, it has been know to happen but arguing for guns on these grounds is ludicrous as you are endangering your life and potentially the life of anyone near you if you draw your weapon.
As for the inability to get rid of weapons, this is very true. However what if you make it harder in the future for these same people to get another gun. If they want it enough yes they will get it. However maybe next time the crack head will rob you with a machette, a much easier to defend against weapon. For starters you can just run like hell. The andrenalin will pump and you wont stop till you reach Canada. Sure its not the best answer but it is an improvement.
Yes I recognize that guns get reused, and that people can make their own, but making a gun is not exactly trivial especially when you are after something complicated like a full automatic weapon.
My main point is that restricting guns is good, yes people should probably be able to access firearms and responsible people should be able to own them. However what type of guns should be heavily limited by both calibre, size (as in hand gun v rifle) and firing mechanism (as in semi/full auto v single load/hand guns you have to manually load (I am unfamiliar with handguns and I am referring to the ones you need to pull the slide back each time you fire a bullet)
Finally I suggest you put a big sign outside your house reading
Shoot to kill zone
and see what kind of reaction you get. (I know I am being feceitious but hey what the hell)
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nich
This basically means that if you want a gun you are limited to single load rifles unless you can prove that you really need something else, mainly professional shooters, although a lot of their weapons must be stored at a gun club in their big safes. This system is great and although yes there are some unfortunate incidences of violence in which the perpetrator used a gun they are quite low and this is a Good Thing IMHO.
Please note I didn't say gun-related violence as a gun only increases the damage someone can do when they become violent it does not dictate their choice to become a violent person.
Although this may seem crazy to you Americans even though you have the right to bear arms why do u all need to semi/full automatic weapons. I can understand the need for maybe a 9mm pistol for home defence or perhaps a single load rifle for target practice/hunting. But anything else is overkill and this whole we want guns it's in the constitution is ridiculous.
There is a massive difference between restricting what guns you can get and whether or not you can get any guns and it is barely a slippery slope. Wouldn't you feel a lot safer if you knew that it was harder for any want to be crack head to pick up a full-automatic weapon. Don't you think you would be better off if less and less people had access to the more powerful guns.
I agree it is impossible to stop someone getting any gun if they have the resources but if you make it hard enough there will be less available and eventually all the existing guns will be thrown in the river or retrieved by the police.
I think America's biggest problem is that there is a large number of Americans that think they should have guns and that it shouldn't be some little sissy .202(the old old 1902 rifle style, I haven't used one in a while so this could be the wrong type) single load hunting rifle but army issue AK-47, or whatever it is that they use these days.
Just because your forefathers were all gun toting revolutionaries that built the USA from nothing to its greatness today, doesn't mean you all have to be ready to do it again.
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nich
Although technically ture your argument is heavily flawed. If someone cannot get access to a gun and they choose a knife or a sword then their maximum scope of damage is severely reduced.
Assuming I have a 9 bullet handgun I can kill 9 people from a reasonable distance before anyone can do much about it.
Switch to a knife I can probably get 1 or 2 before everyone figures out what I'm doing and eith runs away or overwhelms me
Switch to fists I'll be lucky to kill 1 person unless they are alone and killing 2 people is almost completly out of the question.
The idea that guns have nothing to do with violence is absurd, with a gun I can kill anyone very quickly, as my choice of weapons is reduced so is my ability to unleash quick and deadly force and thus I can kill less and less.
Please dont claim guns are completly irrelevant in how violent a society is as it is an insult to the intelligence of the people around you.
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While the other one I created around the same time and then never used.
Both names are the same except the unused email address has '83' appended to it.
I needed to use the second address a couple of days ago because I was sick of getting so much spam and decided I would start sending everything through the '83' address. When I logged in to the account for the first time in about 2 years there were a grand total of 2 Messages in it, both from my ISP.
Which basically means no one has tried to generate or brute force my account. It's with iPrimus in Australia, they are reasonably large probably second or third for users in Australia. So they would make a fairly good target for spammers.
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If its taking hydrogen out of the air surely after a certain amount of running you will begin to have unsafe ammounts of oxygen/carbon dioxide in the air supply nearby?
Also why advertise it primarily as a UPS when you could, with a little work hook it into your houses main electrical supply like solar pannels and save on your electricity bill~?
nich
If only people would look at these images and realise why everyone should chill out and relax.
nich
-- I was going to be a tree huggin hippy but my laptop kept running out of power
How does one hook up any other IDE device when using an IDE Hardware RAID.
If you want to stick in a cd-rom/burner or anything else how does it work, everything online assumes you already know what you are doing in this respect
nich
- Previous Slashdot Article,
- The ACCC (Australian Competition and Consumer Commision) media release.
If someone wants to play import games on line they should be able to and all the checking process should not be placed on wether or not someone is "modchipping" the hardware.Some games are never released in Australia or take a long time to come her. Althhough at the moment it does look like we will be getting all of the games that can be played on-line their is no requirement of Microsofts part to continue this trend and the idea that just because were not in America should mean we can't play a certain game on-line is ridiculous and Microsoft should stop been such control freaks.
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Obviously it is of poor quality as it is not often coloured in?...
nich