Little efforts such as these will only help those that Quizo69 are opposed to politically, as it will divide/split the vote and power of the side Quizo is on.
It is like the the U.S. Ralph Nader might as well have a "Bush/Cheney 2004" t-shirt, because that is what his campaign helps.
That's not true. In Australia, we have a preferential voting system, where voters rank candidates in order of preference. The lowest-ranked candidates are eliminated and their votes passed on to people's second preferences until one candidate has a clear majority.
Hopefully they will be as impartial through the use of automation, which is where google gets it's impartiality from.
Considering that Google removedIndymedia from its news sources a few months ago, but retains such worthwhile sources as the RIAA, I say that automation does not necessarily lead to impartiality.
Us/. users may have an unfair advantage over people new to computers here. Removing unneeded letters is how we fit everything into DOS 8.3 filenames!
Honestly, since Windows got long filenames in 1995, and other operating systems having had it for longer, who has really had to do that?/.ers and other technically minded people may have some advantage, but so would people who use SMS or IM frequently.
One of the reasons I use Linux is to avoid ads and spyware. Now if I choose to use Mandrake, I can only avoid spyware... but for how long? I think I'll just stick to Slack, like I have for the past few years.
Should you decide to get Mandrake, you have two options:
1. Freeload, and put up with the 'horror' of a little advertising. Bandwidth costs money. So does putting together a Linux distribution, if one's time is worth anything.
2. Pay for it. No ads. Simple.
Offensive behaveyor. LEts see, that means i can have all religious sites off the internet, as they offend me.
Actually, religious sites are probably one of the few categories that this law couldn't cover, since under section 116 of the Australian Constitution, the Commonwealth is not allowed to prohibit the free exercise of any religion.
So what if there's no DVD playback software?
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The only thing missing is WinDVD or any other playback software, a program that should come with EVERY DVD drive!
I'd be quite happy to purchase a drive that didn't include software that I may already have, or can't use on my operating system, in the purchase price.
But MS has a dillema: to use mouse gestures a user has to read the documentation and memorize what action does what, ( it's a power user tool), but I think reading the docs and memorizing cryptic mouse movements is a bit too much to ask from the average IE user!
I wish Opera (and any other browser implementing mouse gestures) would adopt a system similar to that used in some video games with complex manoeuvres: when the user holds down the right mouse button to perform a gesture, arrows should appear around the pointer to indicate which directions perform specific actions, similar to this page. It should be enabled by default, but able to be removed once the user is familiar with the gestures.
Hmm... I'm hoping you're not a US citizen, because if you are -- you really slept through civics, didn't you?
No, I'm not. I heard that he got re-elected, and I looked around a little bit to check. One article I read said that Bush gained more power in the 2002 election, so I assumed that it was him who actually faced election, not just Congress.
Oh, well. At least I got some karma for my embarrassment.
(which, unlike the Bush administration was elected)
Dubya is currently enjoying his second term as U.S. President, after being re-elected in the 2002 presidential election. While the legality of the 2000 election is dubious, I haven't heard anyone seriously question the 2002 one.
My car is fairly old (1985), and quite a common model around here. It only has a radio tuner, but I've noticed that some cars of the same model had a cassette player too.
So, I rang the manufacturer, who was kind enough to post me the wiring diagrams, bought a cable with a headphone plug on one end, and a DIN plug, and soldered them together. Now I can connect whatever I want (cd, mp3, anything) to my speakers without having to buy a separate car unit, and without having something in the dash that just screams 'steal me!' (a big concern in my area).
You can thank Slashdot for another useless article summary and title. The process is actually talking about Natural Gas, not Gasoline.
Just because when you say gas, you mean gasoline, doesn't mean the rest of the English-speaking world sees it that way. In Australia at least, the word gas refers to natural gas or LPG (which used to be quite popular as a car fuel until the price difference between it and ordinary unleaded dropped), and the stuff inside your car is called fuel or petrol.
As for the lusers out there who buy $40-$60 ieee1394 cables at best buy, and have learned to pop in a disk and see an installation wizard pop up, so they can dutifully click OK and I ACCEPT a few times... That is the beloved desktop, that we think linux should strive towards?!
I'd love it if Linux had more popularity. Right now it is a pain in the arse trying to find hardware that is properly supported under Linux. I currently have a scanner on loan from my parents which I have to boot into Windows to use. Why is that? Because there isn't enough demand for a Linux driver.
Another reason is that I consider the Constitution of the United States to be the single greatest document ever known to man.
[snip] The Constitution puts the power into the hands of free men and not the government.
If you love it so much, what are you doing about the people at Guantanamo Bay who have been denied their constitutional rights ever since shortly after 9/11?
I personally think it's stupid for a government to be more concerned about what the U.S. is doing and how they stack up to the U.S. than to be concerned about it's own people.
Governments are concerned about the U.S. because the U.S. has just demonstrated that they have no qualms whatsoever about invading another country if it has something they want. Do you honestly believe that Iraq poses a credible threat to the United States? Put simply, governments are concerned about what the U.S. is doing because they don't want to be on the receiving end of America's 'justice', 'liberation', and whatever else you may choose to call it.
Thurmond's supporters went on to point out that nearly all of the countries unwilling to attack Iraq have adopted the metric system, and the 'coalition of the willing' have not.
I know this is a joke, but Australia is part of the 'coalition of the willing' (even if the Australian public isn't) and we have been using metric for quite some time now.
7) More use of color. Humans are remarkably sensitive to color coding, but for some odd reason, current GUIs only use color for asthetic purposes.
And some humans aren't (sensitive to colour coding). Colour should by all means be used to enhance information, but it should never provide information that isn't otherwise available.
Sealand isn't a real country, so no, they don't have their own ccTLD.
Neither are a number of places with their own ccTLD. Off the top of my head, the Cocos Islands (.cc), Christmas Island (the infamous.cx), and the Heard and McDonald Islands (.hm) (all part of Australia) come to mind... have a look here for more info.
Slashdot Mirror
http://dnsbl.net.au/files/show.wmv. wmv
http://www.ianai.net/jokes/DailyShow.ScottRichter
http://www.badmonkey.ca/files/show.wmv
Links to the Scott Richter clip!
All three of the above links are /.ed! Is anyone willing to host a .torrent?
Little efforts such as these will only help those that Quizo69 are opposed to politically, as it will divide/split the vote and power of the side Quizo is on.
It is like the the U.S. Ralph Nader might as well have a "Bush/Cheney 2004" t-shirt, because that is what his campaign helps.
That's not true. In Australia, we have a preferential voting system, where voters rank candidates in order of preference. The lowest-ranked candidates are eliminated and their votes passed on to people's second preferences until one candidate has a clear majority.
Hopefully they will be as impartial through the use of automation, which is where google gets it's impartiality from.
Considering that Google removed Indymedia from its news sources a few months ago, but retains such worthwhile sources as the RIAA, I say that automation does not necessarily lead to impartiality.
sites like this exist only to allow me to make use of my protected right to a backup.
Er, not in Australia.
Real, law-abiding people getting screwed by the RIAA (or its AU equivalent) legal machine does not make sense.
The Oz equivalent to the RIAA is the ARIA.Us /. users may have an unfair advantage over people new to computers here. Removing unneeded letters is how we fit everything into DOS 8.3 filenames!
Honestly, since Windows got long filenames in 1995, and other operating systems having had it for longer, who has really had to do that? /.ers and other technically minded people may have some advantage, but so would people who use SMS or IM frequently.
Damn you to the deepest depths of hell, Slsadhot edirots, this story has so little karma leverage it hurts.
You cannot earn karma for comments that are moderated as funny. Try being insightful or informative instead of using running jokes that were lame even when they first started to appear.
One of the reasons I use Linux is to avoid ads and spyware. Now if I choose to use Mandrake, I can only avoid spyware... but for how long? I think I'll just stick to Slack, like I have for the past few years.
Should you decide to get Mandrake, you have two options:
1. Freeload, and put up with the 'horror' of a little advertising. Bandwidth costs money. So does putting together a Linux distribution, if one's time is worth anything.
2. Pay for it. No ads. Simple.
I thought Sharman Networks was incorporated in Australia. How can they use a foreign law like that?
What goes around comes around.
Offensive behaveyor. LEts see, that means i can have all religious sites off the internet, as they offend me.
Actually, religious sites are probably one of the few categories that this law couldn't cover, since under section 116 of the Australian Constitution, the Commonwealth is not allowed to prohibit the free exercise of any religion.
The only thing missing is WinDVD or any other playback software, a program that should come with EVERY DVD drive!
I'd be quite happy to purchase a drive that didn't include software that I may already have, or can't use on my operating system, in the purchase price.
But MS has a dillema: to use mouse gestures a user has to read the documentation and memorize what action does what, ( it's a power user tool), but I think reading the docs and memorizing cryptic mouse movements is a bit too much to ask from the average IE user!
I wish Opera (and any other browser implementing mouse gestures) would adopt a system similar to that used in some video games with complex manoeuvres: when the user holds down the right mouse button to perform a gesture, arrows should appear around the pointer to indicate which directions perform specific actions, similar to this page.
It should be enabled by default, but able to be removed once the user is familiar with the gestures.
Hmm... I'm hoping you're not a US citizen, because if you are -- you really slept through civics, didn't you?
No, I'm not. I heard that he got re-elected, and I looked around a little bit to check. One article I read said that Bush gained more power in the 2002 election, so I assumed that it was him who actually faced election, not just Congress.
Oh, well. At least I got some karma for my embarrassment.
(which, unlike the Bush administration was elected)
Dubya is currently enjoying his second term as U.S. President, after being re-elected in the 2002 presidential election. While the legality of the 2000 election is dubious, I haven't heard anyone seriously question the 2002 one.
My car is fairly old (1985), and quite a common model around here. It only has a radio tuner, but I've noticed that some cars of the same model had a cassette player too.
So, I rang the manufacturer, who was kind enough to post me the wiring diagrams, bought a cable with a headphone plug on one end, and a DIN plug, and soldered them together. Now I can connect whatever I want (cd, mp3, anything) to my speakers without having to buy a separate car unit, and without having something in the dash that just screams 'steal me!' (a big concern in my area).
Might be worth a shot if you like to tinker.
You can thank Slashdot for another useless article summary and title. The process is actually talking about Natural Gas, not Gasoline.
Just because when you say gas, you mean gasoline, doesn't mean the rest of the English-speaking world sees it that way. In Australia at least, the word gas refers to natural gas or LPG (which used to be quite popular as a car fuel until the price difference between it and ordinary unleaded dropped), and the stuff inside your car is called fuel or petrol.
As for the lusers out there who buy $40-$60 ieee1394 cables at best buy, and have learned to pop in a disk and see an installation wizard pop up, so they can dutifully click OK and I ACCEPT a few times... That is the beloved desktop, that we think linux should strive towards?!
I'd love it if Linux had more popularity. Right now it is a pain in the arse trying to find hardware that is properly supported under Linux. I currently have a scanner on loan from my parents which I have to boot into Windows to use. Why is that? Because there isn't enough demand for a Linux driver.
"Sorry links to bugzilla from slashdot are disables"
Only if you send them a HTTP Referer header. Why don't you just get a better browser, or a proxy that will remove the header for you?
Another reason is that I consider the Constitution of the United States to be the single greatest document ever known to man.
[snip]
The Constitution puts the power into the hands of free men and not the government.
If you love it so much, what are you doing about the people at Guantanamo Bay who have been denied their constitutional rights ever since shortly after 9/11?
I personally think it's stupid for a government to be more concerned about what the U.S. is doing and how they stack up to the U.S. than to be concerned about it's own people.
Governments are concerned about the U.S. because the U.S. has just demonstrated that they have no qualms whatsoever about invading another country if it has something they want. Do you honestly believe that Iraq poses a credible threat to the United States? Put simply, governments are concerned about what the U.S. is doing because they don't want to be on the receiving end of America's 'justice', 'liberation', and whatever else you may choose to call it.
Thurmond's supporters went on to point out that nearly all of the countries unwilling to attack Iraq have adopted the metric system, and the 'coalition of the willing' have not.
I know this is a joke, but Australia is part of the 'coalition of the willing' (even if the Australian public isn't) and we have been using metric for quite some time now.
This is war, people. Get it straight.
As has been pointed out elsewhere, no, it is not. Congress declares war, not the president.
I don't know if it's just me, but whenever I see .ie I think of Internet Explorer. No wonder they have such a big privacy problem.
7) More use of color. Humans are remarkably sensitive to color coding, but for some odd reason, current GUIs only use color for asthetic purposes.
And some humans aren't (sensitive to colour coding). Colour should by all means be used to enhance information, but it should never provide information that isn't otherwise available.
Hey, the Enter key is your friend. Why don't you try to get to know it a little better?
I'm not being a grammar nazi or anything, but it would make your post much more readable.
Sealand isn't a real country, so no, they don't have their own ccTLD.
Neither are a number of places with their own ccTLD. Off the top of my head, the Cocos Islands (.cc), Christmas Island (the infamous .cx), and the Heard and McDonald Islands (.hm) (all part of Australia) come to mind... have a look here for more info.
So why shouldn't Sealand get their own ccTLD?
"There is no 'I' in 'TEAM'"
No, just an M and a E.