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  1. Re:invite more people in? on More People In Europe Are Dying Than Are Being Born (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    In Australia where almost all the population is migrant, the first generation of migrants club together because they don't speak the local language. The next generation are bilingual and the the following generation consider themselves to be Australian but cling onto a few traditions from their culture.
    The big turning point for the Italians, Greeks, Turks who came in their numbers in the 50's and 60's was TV shows like 'Wogs out of work' , 'Acropolis Now' + movies like 'My big fat Greek wedding' where they were able to focus on the differences in the cultures and poke fun at both. I can't wait for the first Muslim / Anglo soap opera / comedy where the next generation are comparing cultures and having a bit of fun with the whole thing.
    The Islamic Clerics of the Middle East have called to shots for centuries and are now under threat from the population requesting a democracy. A democracy focuses more on human rights and freedom's which would seriously de-power them and make the are more multi-religious.
    They are focusing on bringing down our democracies by brainwashing their Islamic supremest goons and sending them out with the other refugees and attacking the democracy by using its weakest point, its freedoms. We must stand up and show them / educate them that democracy covers all religions equally and no one religion is more supreme than any other.
    99% of the Muslims who migrate to our country do so to embrace democracy participate in education and comply with the laws of this country.
    Large numbers of Muslim migrants speaking a different language has its problems but nothing that is impossible to overcome.

  2. Re:Just a laptop. on Can Your Hardware Top 18 Years and Ten Months? (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    I have a bunch of Dos machines here that have the original 70 and 100 Meg seagate hard disks in them that have been running virtually non stop since 1991. The original 286 motherboards all died when the NiCd batteries leaked after a few years and were replaced with pentium 100 motherboards somewhere in the mid 90's.
    These are running in a data centre and have a nice stable environment which must help.

  3. Re: Income inequality has *RISEN* under Obama?!?!? on Why Do Americans Work So Much? · · Score: 1

    "Everything is new under Obama. Before Obama there was no terrorism, "

    9/11 was in the making from Afganistan which was pre Obama

    " no debt, "

    http://www.factcheck.org/2012/... Long before Obama

    "no healthcare premium increases, "

    And no healthcare for the poor

    "no illegal immigration, "

    http://immigration.procon.org/... say no more

    "no deadlock in government, "

    And no ability to make any changes because of the self interested capitalist groups who are in power.

    "no economic downturn, "

    GFC started in 2008, Obama took office in 2009

    "no corporate welfare, "

    Should have let the banks all die

    "no cronyism and more."

    The US has always had that

  4. Re:Surrounded? on North Carolina Town That Defeated Solar Plan Talks Back (newsobserver.com) · · Score: 2

    US should be building its solar farms out in the desert, not over farm land.
    Solar farms will grow anywhere, food cannot.

  5. Re:Typical of those poorly trained... on Air Asia Pilot Response Leads To Plane Crashing (wsj.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Flight 447 went down fundamentally because the two of the tree pilots ( one in particular) didn't know the fundamentals about flying and held the aircraft in a stalled state until it hit the ocean.
    It amazes me that neither of these pilots owned a license for a light aircraft which is mandatory for all Airliner pilots in my country (Australia)
    The other issue on the airbus is if you pull the stick back until the stall warning goes off then keep it there until the aircraft pitches further up, the stall warning stops when the pitot tubes can no longer get a reliable wind speed.
    Does anyone know if these pilots had light aircraft licenses?

  6. Re:What usability problems really look like on Charge Rage: Electric Cars Are Making People Meaner In California · · Score: 1
    Is this really the best way or an interim solution? If cars are so slow to charge, why are they building the batteries int the cars? Why not make the batteries replaceable like they do with the automated forklifts in factories?

    Drive your car in to the charging station, battery is ejected from the side or dropped down from underneath and a fully charged battery installed, drive away.

  7. Re:That's what Nokia, Moto, and Microsoft said on Former GM and BMW Executive Warns Apple: Your Car Will Be a "Gigantic Money Pit" · · Score: 1

    It doesn't matter about the car, as long as it looks good, oozes style, the Apple fans will queue up to buy it, and there are a lot of Apple fans.

  8. Delivery to where? on Amazon Tests Delivery Drones At Secret Canada Site After US Frustration · · Score: 1

    Where are they planning to deliver to exactly?

    They could be delivering to a closer distribution center or to the end customer?

    If the delivery is to a distribution center then it is very inefficient given the small payload, if the delivery is tot he end customer then where would you leave the package? Drop it on the driveway where it would get run over by the owner? What about trees, power cables and other obstacles? Leave the package out in the rain? Would it land an leave the package on the ground or drop it an d potentially break the package.

    Sounds like a good idea but I struggle to see how this would work

  9. Re:The BBC doesn't have much latitude here. on Jeremy Clarkson Dismissed From Top Gear · · Score: 1

    Have you ever watched any of the spin-off Top Gears, like Top Gear US or Top Gear Australia?

    We don't need Top Gear Australia - We already have http://www.mightycarmods.com/

  10. I wonder how well the satellite is really going? on Indian Mars Mission Beams Back First Photographs · · Score: 1

    I notice that the images have either been coloured or are very blurred.

    Kinda make me think that the satellite might be spinning or something.

  11. Re:Multiple devices, works great on Ask Slashdot: Is iOS 8 a Pig? · · Score: 1

    I had excessive delays on my ipad 3 when I upgraded to ios 7, the solution was to perform a reset on the device, ios 8 upgrade was un-noticed.

  12. Re:Might want to tighten the bolts on those sabers on China's Island Factory · · Score: 3, Informative

    We/Google shouldn't be calling it the South China Sea.

    Vietnam call it the Eastern Sea, lets face it, more of the sea is closer to them.

    Philippines call it the West Philippine Sea

  13. Re:I don't see the problem. on Russian Government Edits Wikipedia On Flight MH17 · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    It is too early to be writing about who shot down the plane. There needs to be an investigation first.

  14. Re:Sooo on Police Using Dogs To Sniff Out Computer Memory · · Score: 1

    "pinpointing a thumb drive containing child pornography" I didn't know a dog could read the content of a thumb drive.. What happens if the drive contains other content?

  15. Re:On behalf of all network specialists, on Latin America Exhausts IPv4 Addresses · · Score: 1

    There are plenty of addresses, almost 1/4 are unnecessarily owned by large American companies. http://cse1.net/recaps/img/6-m...

  16. Re:He turned job termination into career terminati on IT Pro Gets Prison Time For Sabotaging Ex-Employer's System · · Score: 1

    Pretty stupid on the company's part too.
    Certainly gives credence to the process of removing any passed and access then ejecting the individual out the door before telling them that they are fired.

  17. Re:Undefined on Autonomous Car Ethics: If a Crash Is Unavoidable, What Does It Hit? · · Score: 1

    if (aboutToCrash) {
    Display(BSOD);
    crash_and_burn(lock_computer_in_endless_loop);
    }

  18. Re:Keeping Our Priorities Straight on Oklahoma Moves To Discourage Solar and Wind Power · · Score: 1

    As this threat to growth becomes more evident, investors will become less attracted to investments in the utility sector.

    It's about time that power companies realize that their most important goal is not in providing customers with a quality source of electricity, but in making investors as much money as possible.

    Title: "Only in America"

  19. Re:Victoria on Your Car Will Tell You How To Hit the Next Green Light · · Score: 1

    They tried this in our city where they put up variable speed limit signs depicting the best speed to drive so that you could pass through the next set of lights without stopping. Other motorists saw this as an advantage to overtake and get ahead of the slower drivers.
    They eventually removed the variable speed limit signs and gave the whole thing up as a bad joke

    Such is human nature.

  20. Re:Japan, a land filled with lies ! on UN Court: Japanese Whaling "Not Scientific" · · Score: 1

    The whaling is 100% scientific.
    They shoot a harpoon at a whale and it dies.
    The scientific research is trying to work out why the whale dies.
    The keep shooting harpoons at thew hales and they keep on dying
    On it goes...

  21. Re:Combined with the ringing phones ? on Engine Data Reveals That Flight 370 Flew On For Hours After It "Disappeared" · · Score: 5, Funny

    The aircraft is currently parked on a remote jungle runway in Sumatra taking Grand Theft Auto to a whole new level..

  22. Re:for the record on Apple Demands $40 Per Samsung Phone For 5 Software Patents · · Score: 2

    Or seeking to inhibit other phone companies from making *any* good smart phones, thereby giving the consumer less choice and increasing the odds that they will buy an apple device.

    Sounds like a worried manufacturer to me. Since SJ has gone there haven't been any significant innovations from the Apply camp.
    If this graph is anything to go by, the executives/lawyers will be looking to justify their existence: http://qz.com/120917/the-smart...

  23. Re:Thoughts on China Deploys Satellites In Search For Missing Malaysia Airlines Flight · · Score: 2

    Radar is line of sight. So a plane at 11000 meters, can be seen about 375 km away from the radar installation, assuming a radar at ground level.

    If your radar is within 200km of the plane, the plane would fall below the radar horizon at about 5km altitude.

    Given the description of the plane's flight path, if it was being tracked by radar from Kuala Lumpur, then "dropped off the radar" would have been closer to 10km altitude than to 5km.

    Why do they not have satellite location based reporting on the planes providing the planes position every five minutes? Expand the ACARS system to give the position of the plane. This would help the searchers narrow down the location where the plane was lost.

  24. Upgrade to what? on Microsoft's Attempt To Convert Users From Windows XP Backfires · · Score: 1

    Windows 8 - An OS designed to tablets, pretty ordinary user experience on a desktop
    Windows 7 - No upgrade path from XP, user must be on Vista to upgrade to Windows 7
    Ubuntu - Slower and less than reliable
    Apple - Ditch the PC and get a Mac
    ChromeOS/similar - Still looking at options
    Android for PC - Could be the ideal timing

  25. Re:How to fix: Windows 7 on Microsoft's Attempt To Convert Users From Windows XP Backfires · · Score: 1

    There's nothing that XP does that 7 doesn't do better.

    Have you tried searching for a word in a file???
    Searching for a file name or a word in a file used to be separate options, now there is only one choice, the file name.
    Apart from the general name changing to make the OS look different, this really annoys me.