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  1. I'm no car expert.. on How We'll Get To 54.5 Mpg By 2025 · · Score: 1, Insightful

    but if people would buy on fuel economy rather than power/torque we'd get a lot more bang for our oil buck.

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    ServersINseconds Australian web hosting.

  2. Keyloggers coming to a PC near you... on NSA Official Disputes Chief's Claim That Agency Doesn't Collect American Data · · Score: 2

    When did it become permissible to build data profiles on everyone, including your average law abiding citizen?

    Investigating "terrorists" is one thing, but openly (or in this case secretively) spying on everyone is now considered ok by those in charge?

    The "system" is corrupt.

  3. Re:Car analogy - well sort of on Gloves Translate Sign Language Into Auditory Speech · · Score: 1

    Agreed.

  4. Mixed message on UK ISP Asks Religious Groups To Set Parental Controls · · Score: 1

    We can envisage a situation where people would only block known malware sites... and they can allow everything else.

    That appears to be not the desired situation. They're marketing it at parents, but taking a bet each way.

  5. Re:Who's this CowboyNeal? on CowboyNeal On Dota 2, Modern Games, and Software Development · · Score: 1

    He's real. If he wasn't, what was the joke?

  6. Car analogy - well sort of on Gloves Translate Sign Language Into Auditory Speech · · Score: 1

    Close palm, raise middle finger. Universal language at it's best.

  7. Squishy on The $45 Windows Laptop · · Score: 1

    Netbook...800x480 pixels resolution.

    I feel like I haven't horizontal scrolled in ages.

  8. Re:Confidence on ICANN Mistakenly Publishes Applicant Addresses · · Score: 0

    Thanks man. +5 funny,informative,interesting, and insightful all in one. You win Slashdot tonight my friend.

  9. Confidence on ICANN Mistakenly Publishes Applicant Addresses · · Score: 5, Interesting

    How can anyone have confidence in ICANN's systems when they repeatedly screw up? At something like $180,000 an application, you know, maybe, they might be more careful.

  10. So the majority use it for... on The Poor Waste More Time On Digital Entertainment · · Score: 1

    So we waste technology for entertainment eh? Isn't this just the tip of the iceberg of the technological revolution? I call bullshit. Where's the percentage who use it to expand their minds?

  11. Detailed review of competition on EU Offers Google Chance To Settle Prior To Anti-Trust Enquiry · · Score: 3, Insightful
    The European Commission appears to be quite specific and detailed in it's requests. It's encouraging that a body has enough resources to protect even slight issues regarding competition.

    That said, "slight" might be worth millions to Google / its competitors, especially as smaller firms have complained as well as Microsoft.

  12. What debris? on Testing AI Methods With FlightGear · · Score: 2

    What are we looking for here? Remnants of an aircraft or ship? What other debris is out there?

    Am I wrong in thinking that leaving a busted up craft to sink isn't the worst crime? It's not much pollution. Is this to help looking for bodies?

  13. Re:bandwith of flash drive or SDHC card on Swedish Researchers Expose China's Tor-Blocking Tricks · · Score: 4, Insightful
    The important part is that the information gets through.

    Unfortunately spreading pro-freedom propaganda will get you sent to jail once you try to disseminate it further.

    Revolution in China is inevitable (IMHO). Attempting to improve the current status technologically is a noble cause, by those who are free, for those who aren't.

  14. On the positive side... on Supreme Court Approves Strip Searches For Any Arrestable Offense · · Score: 3, Funny

    Indecent exposure just became a whole lot more fun.

  15. How to beat the system? on Bill Introduced To Ban Sale of MA15+ Games To Anyone Under 18 in SA · · Score: 4, Informative
    So most of us realize prohibition doesn't work, so as a non-gamer, I'm curious as top how the l33t get around the ban.

    Is there a black market for R18+ games? Can you just torrent them?

    Surely Aussies don't just accept that the games are censored.

  16. Discrimination on Ask Slashdot: How Have You Handled Illegal Interview Topics? · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Why is Slashdot STILL posting "articles" with 15 pages containing two or three sentences per page?

    Even then, the link is to the last page. Here's a slightly better page.

    Anyway, on-topic, do you really want to work for a company that requires you to know your legal status prior to a job interview? Discrimination is disgusting, and as much as it may hurt, you're better off being knocked back for the job than having it present 40 hours a week.

    People need to feed their families, but degrading one's self respect by accepting work where it happens is only inviting more trouble.

  17. Server-level encryption on Safeguarding Data From Big Brother Sven? · · Score: 1

    I'm starting to think that more server-level encryption will be the way of the future. With running a site comparing Australian web hosting plans, perhaps adding more detailed encryption categories will promote their use.

  18. Re:Who knew? on Efficiency? Think Racing Cars, Not Hybrids · · Score: 1
    I work in London, UK

    When travelling I tend to say I'm from Melbourne, Australia, but most people should recognise where London is I'd hope....

    I wonder how many people say they're from New York, USA? Probably none.

  19. Re:I'm in. on NASA Offers $5000 a Month For You to Lie in Bed · · Score: 5, Funny
    GEORGE: (Vowing) Well, I'll tell you this, though - I am never doing.. that , again.
    ELAINE: What, you mean, in your mother's house, or all together?
    GEORGE: (Definite) All together.
    (The next three lines are said at the exact same time)
    ELAINE: Oh, gimme a break..
    JERRY: (Skeptical) Ohhh yeah.. right.
    KRAMER: Oh, like you're gonna stop?
    JERRY AND ELAINE: C'mon..
    GEORGE: You don't think I can?
    JERRY: No chance.
    GEORGE: (Daring) You think you could?
    JERRY: Well, I know I could hold out longer than you.
    GEORGE: Care to make it interesting?
    JERRY: Sure, how much?
    GEORGE: A hundred dollars.
    JERRY: (Pointing) You're on.
    KRAMER: (Butting in) Wait a second, wait a second. Count me in on this. (Clicks his tongue)
    JERRY: You?
    KRAMER: Yeah.
    JERRY: You'll be out before we get the check.
    ELAINE: (Smiling) I want to be in on this, too.
    GEORGE AND JERRY: (Rejecting) Ohh, no. No, no, no..
    ELAINE: Why?
    JERRY: (Showing difference) It's apples and oranges..
    ELAINE: What? Why? (More 'no, no, no's from Jerry and George. Persistent) Why?
    JERRY: Because you're a woman!
    ELAINE: So what?
    JERRY: It's easier for a woman not to do it than a man.
    ELAINE: (Sarcastic) Oh.
    JERRY: We have to do it. It's part of our lifestyle. It's like, uh.. shaving.
    ELAINE: Oh, that is such bologna. I shave my legs.
    KRAMER: (Making a point) Not everyday.
    GEORGE: Alright, look, you want to be in?
    ELAINE: Yeah!
    GEORGE: You gotta give us odds. At least two to one - you gotta put up two-hundred dollars.
    KRAMER: No, a thousand!
    ELAINE: No, I'll - I'll put up one-fifty.
    GEORGE: Alright, you're in for one-fifty.
    JERRY: (Nodding) Okay, one-fifty.

  20. I'm in. on NASA Offers $5000 a Month For You to Lie in Bed · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Can I bring a friend? In all seriousness, what if you need to rub one out?

  21. Re:Battered spouse syndrome writ large on PS3 Lines Already Forming In America · · Score: 1
    ...Adopt a starving Brungarian refugee


    Easier said than done...

  22. Re:The Rise & Fall of My Country on House Panel Approves Electronic Surveillance Bill · · Score: 1
    If the technology for governments to monitor (spy?) on citizens like this was around earlier, they would have found a reason then too.

    They're attempting to use technology and "terrorism" to achieve their agenda, and citizens unfortunately are not well represented on the issue.

  23. Offline on What is the Best Calendar? · · Score: 5, Funny

    I've got a sexy Drew Barrymore calander which works for me.

  24. Here's a good tip for geek Aussies.... on Top Ten Coolest Laptop Cases · · Score: 0, Redundant
    Try a Crumpler bag. They're not only extremely well built and comfortable, but extremely stylish as well.

    They're fashionable to the point that non-geeks use them for regular bags. Shit website though.

  25. May I suggest.... on Google Accused of Bio-piracy · · Score: 5, Funny

    Gnetics?