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  1. Re:Best quote on Gosling: Partnership with Microsoft Meaning Less and Less · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Hey if you don't like our American moderation system then you can GEEEDDDOUT

  2. Re:Calm down on Student Logs Teachers Keystrokes · · Score: 1

    Why send him to jail for logging a few keystrokes? I'm sure a hefty fine would be more then adequate to a student with very little money. Its probably more effective then three months in gaol.

  3. Re:Beat you on Torvalds Joins Anti-Patent Attack · · Score: 1

    And you are infringing my Patent on stinging replies.

  4. Re:Upload still 256k!!! on Australia Gets 8Mbit/s Broadband now, 20Mbit Soon · · Score: 1

    I always thought that any one connection required a minimum upload speed to be able to ack enough packets to reach its full speed. Anyone know what upload is required to reach 8mbit?

  5. Re:Bah...lucky Australians on Australia Gets 8Mbit/s Broadband now, 20Mbit Soon · · Score: 1

    Its not that good, basically its only available in capital cities, and even then its limited. Furthermore they have obscenely small caps and the going rate for over use charges is 10 cents a meg. This can really really add up.

  6. Re:It seems odd to want privacy on the 'net. on EFF Asks How Big Brother Is Watching The Internet · · Score: 1

    The short answer is that whilst SSL can be broken it would take so long that it wouldn't be worth the effort.

    There is a possibility of a "man in the middle" attack where a hostile computer is routing all your computers traffic through theirs. When a SSL connection is requested the attackers computer opens a SSL connection with you and requests one from the proper site. It then decrypts your info then encrypts it again to send off the the destination. This is hard to do but not impossible.

  7. Re:Wouldn't it be something... on EFF Asks How Big Brother Is Watching The Internet · · Score: 2, Funny

    I believe in soviet russia they already are.

  8. Itunes getting progressively worse on Cracking iTunes' DRM with JHymn · · Score: 0

    Can someone tell me at what point Itunes started becoming more restricted in what it did instead of less? The newest version of Itunes has limited sharing of music to 5 users per day, and it reapplys DRM to your decrypted music.

    The first "feature" of Itunes is very annoying because we have six people using Itunes in my household and this invariably means the last one to turn on their computer gets no ones music. Previously it was 5 connections max, someone disconnected and you could connect with another machine, it wasn't such a huge issue but it still was annoying.

    Does anyone know how to get around these restrictions?

  9. Re:One button mouse flamage here on Will Mac mini Lead the Charge to Smaller Desktops? · · Score: 1

    I always assumed the reason why you couldn't order a two or three button mouse with your apple was to force software vendors to make their software one button friendly.

    The way I figure it as soon as Apple allows people to get multibutton mice with their computers software companies will update their requirements to included a multibutton mouse.

  10. You mean... on Kahle v Ashcroft Appeal Filed · · Score: 5, Funny

    You mean this comment is my own property for 95 years just because I wrote it...

    Stay back fools and don't quote me. You'd better believe I'll protect my rights!

  11. Re:I don't see the interest for this being too gre on Napster to Offer Movie Downloads · · Score: 1
  12. Re:who diddled you? on NYT On The Internet And Child Molestation · · Score: 1

    Dude if I was just starting to get interested in girls at 11. If I had of told my friends that was that I did that with my baby sitter I would be a living legend.

  13. Re:They should probably avoid Slashdot on Using The Web For Linguistic Research · · Score: 1

    Thats true but only in japan.

  14. OMG! on Using The Web For Linguistic Research · · Score: 1

    I woulda thght such a thng was unpossible.

  15. Re:Easy Short Term Fix on The Evolution of the Phisher · · Score: 1

    I like to go to these sites and enter a heap of my own creations for account numbers and passwords such as:

    user: Fuck
    pass: You

    or assuming they are using some sort of script to verify their passes

    user: I_am_a
    pass: Phisher

  16. Re:In A Word... (Off Topic) on MelbourneIT Lapse Permitted Panix Hijack · · Score: 1

    Tip from the wise:

    Fosters starts to taste exponentialy better after the seventh jug. That said ugly women start to look better after the fourth so read into that what you will.

  17. Re:Forget DRM on Bollywood New Releases Available via Video-On-Demand · · Score: 1

    Employ Professional Rippers? What, are you saying that the employees at the movie studio, professionals in handling film and converting it with no loss of quality to many different formats should be ignored for some guy running a few programs off the net?

  18. Re:Possible Reasons for satellite loss on Intelsat Loses Another Satellite · · Score: 1

    I heard the work experiance kid lost it.

  19. Re:Interesting stuff on Is Atlas Holding Hipparchus' Lost Star Map? · · Score: 1

    I've just realised that it apears (at least to me it does) that the acient greeks knew that the word was round ages before someone actually sailed around it to prove it was.

    Was this mainly due to the churches influence on science or was it just an easier way to represent the world then as a flat block?

  20. Re:Creative seems more portable. on Creative Gunning For the iPod · · Score: 1

    I have an Ipod and I think its great, however it is not the be all and end all of mp3 players, there is a number of aspects Apple could improve and the first one would be the crippleware known as iTunes. I'm sorry but there should be no reason why I can't take my ipod over to a friends place, plug it in and copy what music I like to my own Ipod. I'm sure it is probably of questionable legality however it is VERY annoying and all my friends have asked me at one stage why they can't do it. It is a severly lacking feature of the Itunes software and if anyone knows of an alternative I would gladly take it. And don't even get my started on apples manditory quicktime installation and its stupid "we will never make our apps look the part in windows" design theory.

    If Apple doesn't improve their game they are going to lose marketshare to more free players. The player itself is good, however it would be of great benefit if it supported mp3 audiobooks, I have a great feature on my Ipod that I can never use because I have my books on tape, converting them to Mp3 will allow me to listen to them but unless they are in some shitty drm format I can't use the audiobook specific features.

    Also the battery life is pathetic, I also have a sony network walkman (aac crippled peice of shite) that has the same storage and boasts a 30 hour battery life, and that is real life, I've actually had it play for around 30 hours straight just to see if it could.

    The ipod still needs a lot of work.

  21. Re:Doens't care, eh? on One Last Campout for Star Wars Fans · · Score: 2, Funny

    Loseek Pan-bum?

  22. Re:Wha...? on Plant a Seed, Get Sued? · · Score: 1

    Monsato are a terrible company, they have suppressed research showing that their growth hormone that most American farmers are pumping into their diary cattle can cause serious health issues to those who drink the milk produced, namely cancer.

  23. Re:Thank God! on Creationist Textbook Stickers Declared Unconstitutional · · Score: 2, Informative

    Every day you can see diseases evolving to resist medications that were designed to kill them. These are diseases such as golden staph and so on.

    Futhermore in Australia we now have rabbits that are almost completely immune to the miximitosis disease, and they are born like it too. That is what evolution is all about people, small changes over a few decades can pile up to make a large change over say a million years.

  24. Re:Any article that doesn't mention the problems.. on Today in P2P · · Score: 1

    It wouldn't be nearly such a huge problem if people didn't have to put up with pathetic upload speeds on their dsl connection. For example I have a 256/64 connection, If I were to download something that took say 5 hours I would have to have it maxing out my upload bandwidth for at least four times that. And during that time I can't use the internet properly because all my upload bandwidth is used by bittorrent.

  25. Re:Who Advertises With These Firms on Who Invests in Spyware Companies? · · Score: 1

    Thats just like Disney not being responsible for its third world sweatshops just because one of their subcontractors is actually in charge. Disney knows damn well its happening and they don't care, and its the same here.