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  1. Re:We know on Last Days For Central IPv4 Address Pool · · Score: 1

    And ISPs giving IPv6 addresses mean little if customers have no equipment that handles it. Why don't most CPE support it? Most makers don't write the full software suite. They tweak what the chipset providers write. Complain to Broadcom and others.

  2. Re:From laughingstock to leader on Australia's National Broadband Network To Go Ahead · · Score: 1

    Many competitors have stated that the Telstra tax is a larger cost than international connections. In some cases servicing some area of Australia are more expensive to use Telstra monopoly than sending data from Sydney around the globe to Perth.

  3. Dishonest lawyer on Lawyer Offers $1M For Proof His Client Could Have Done It; Oops · · Score: 0, Troll

    Wow, a lawyer not up to his word. Trying to weasel out of it by saying it was a joke. I hope Cheney Mason loses. It'll probably be the only way anyone will get justice against anyone with Cheney in their name.

  4. An Australian on Tomorrow's Science Heroes? · · Score: 1

    Dr. Karl. He has nice colourful shirts and plenty of books.

  5. Re:Let it collapse on Ranchers Have Beef With USDA Program To ID Cattle · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It's hard to think of any industry that likes any increase in costs. They all fight it. Why don't they look to Australia? We already do similar. We have the largest cattle station in the world. It managed to adjust. Plenty of small operations too. They managed. It would be easier for all operators to swallow if some kind of levy is used across the industry. Then your only issue then is imports.

  6. Re:It's always the same 90% on Australia To Build Fiber-To-the-Premises Network · · Score: 1

    It is maybe you that needs to do some research. Some suburbs currently have FTTH and do have 100 mbit. Internode Home Fibre is one such product. I'm sure there are suburbs serviced by other carriers too. Some cable people currently get towards 30 mbit. As for your slow international connection then that is your network stack tuning, source, ISP or other issues. I can pull data at 700 KB/s from Astraweb's newsgroup service on ADSL 1 connection.

  7. Alternative tools on 1200-Baud Archeology · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Probably would have been useful for the person to look at how C64 emulators and people handle transfer C64 tapes to PC.

  8. Re:Why Guam? on How To Build a $188M Submarine Cable System · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Perhaps so they can have lower cost bandwidth to the rest of the world and connect to other carriers at Guam?

  9. Consumer rights on Valve Responds to Steam Territory Deactivations · · Score: 5, Interesting

    What about those that were and are in regions of the world where importing software is allowed like Australia?

  10. Re:Fury...building... on 802.11n May Never Happen Due to Patent Concerns · · Score: 1, Insightful

    CSIRO deserve the income. What common good? For all the foreign chipset makers to profit from something CSIRO owns patents for? Perhaps the the n people could approach CSIRO about suitable royalties.

  11. Not enough thought in the idea on A Sunshade In Space To Combat Global Warming · · Score: 0

    It's all well and dandy to reduce the light coming to earth so the greenhouse gases don't trap as much heat. Problem is the last 50 years the amount of light reaching earth surface has been reducing following research by Israeli, Australian and other scientists that were also doing research on rainfall and evaporation rates. They found air pollution was a major factor as it made more water droplets form which absorbed some light. I have no idea how it affected the greenhouse effect though. If only the main greenhouse gas layers were lower than many of the water drops formed because of the air pollution then we could just pollute the air with more nitrogen based compounds to reduce the greenhouse gas effect. The old beat up car fuming badly could be prolonging life as we know it :)

  12. Re:Pirates make a superior product on Pirates Vs. Publishers · · Score: 0

    No DRM infection on downloaded software? Most "warez" do not adjust the installer (I remember Red Alert 2 which had protected installer too) but only modify the running executables after installation. Any baggage that is installed with the game is still there.

  13. Re:What's the maximum partition size in WinXP/Win2 on Seagate Rolls Out 400 GB SATA Drives · · Score: 0

    You could maybe try XP ntldr etc. then. I have been using 2K and XP copying stuff between them fine and both boot properly, although via XP bootloader (installed in a FAT partition).

  14. First 400GB drive announcement? on Seagate Rolls Out 400 GB SATA Drives · · Score: -1, Redundant

    I thought Hitachi already annouced such drives...

  15. Re:Umm... on Multiplayer Linux Games · · Score: 0

    5 year old? 1998 was the introduction of the P2 or when P2 was mainstream wasn't it?

  16. Re: the future? on Microsoft to Charge for FAT File System · · Score: 0

    If you want something simple and scalable then try how CBM organised their floppies from 1541 etc. It can be done dymanically for a scalable directories and files although it does allow nasty file fragmentation.

  17. Re:Irresponsible. C64 are safe for Internet. on Finally: Broadband for the Commodore 64 · · Score: 0

    Seems you're ill informed. Read only floppy? Most are read/write and people used hard drives too. And there was atleast 1 virus than ran on C64 but it was no biggy.

  18. Re:Perhaps broadband should charge 'per megabyte'? on Death of Decent Australian Broadband · · Score: 1

    Well, it's the same in regional areas, like unlimited dialup is often 300-450MB. Oz+NZ sucks for the net. Lucky we are not some African peoples considering how much they pay though.

  19. Re:kiwi's on Death of Decent Australian Broadband · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    It is but too many dickheads around the world get us confused.