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  1. Re: There's an add-on for that.. on Firefox 44 Deletes Fine-Grained Cookie Management (mozilla.org) · · Score: 1

    Care to share the name of such add-on? Many thanks.

  2. I hope that the ATO is getting their fair of the GST on these ransomware demands.... The lack of tax on overseas purchases are taking our jeeerbs!

  3. Re:I hate FPs like this. on Wayland 1.5 Released · · Score: 2

    I don't write Linux code, but even I know what Wayland is.

  4. Obi-Wan on Mac OS X Mountain Lion Gets Three Million Downloads In 4 Days · · Score: 0

    I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened.

  5. Apache OpenOffice on Apache OpenOffice Releases Version 3.4 · · Score: 1

    Dead Man Walking.

  6. Stealing underpants for real cash on Winklevoss Twins Finally Give Up Fighting Facebook · · Score: 2, Insightful

    1) intend to launch a social network based on academia but do hardly anything
    2) ???
    3) profit!

  7. BBC and AP on NYTimes Unveils Online Subscription Plan · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    While I'm paying for BBC news in London via the TV license, I won't miss the Murdoch machine that much. I do read the NYT once a day, but if they put up a paywall then I won't bother - there is simply enough news to go around. Murdoch put a paywall up on the London Times last year, which I stopped reading daily. Their readership plummeted. Obviously the London Times was a test bed with a large audience, you from what I've read, NYT will do everything they do not to make that same mistake. Time will tell if they have struck a fair enough balance between free and paid-for material.

  8. Re:The opposite??? on Apple Asks Security Experts To Examine OS X Lion · · Score: 1

    a great deal of these 'vulnerabilities' in OS X are from open source software projects which release the advisories.

    i guess you haven't seen any security updates from Ubuntu/Redhat or any other UNIX, before have you?

    when you release a UNIX distro with a ton of software using many different packages, frameworks and programmers with varying levels of appetite for security completeness, you are going to run into a myriad of issues.

    MS also have their issues, but you can't compare apples with oranges.

  9. Re:Poor Geeks on Geekiest Marriage Proposals Ever · · Score: 1
    Or be a legend like this bloke:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkx1mDcvk6E

  10. Trailers here on Duke Nukem Forever Release Date Revealed · · Score: 1
  11. Re:Who cares on Hosting Company Appears To Be Violating the GPL [Resolved] · · Score: 1

    couldn't agree more with your analogy...

  12. Who cares on Hosting Company Appears To Be Violating the GPL [Resolved] · · Score: 0

    Spare me, a network utility.... Must be a slow news day.

  13. NBN waste of money on Australian Telstra Monopoly Dead · · Score: 0, Troll
    Our politicians have just blown a cool $43 billion (in some sources over $58 billion depending which paper you read) of our money on a network that will most likely be obsolete in years to come.

    http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/opinion/billions-to-be-spent-on-dubious-benefits/story-e6frg6zo-1225961705602

    Not only that, but it benefits for city folk are heavily debated, while the country folk will reap much of the rewards. I don't have a problem with country folk, but I do have a problem with us subsidizing their life choices by living remote from services offered in heavily populated cities. Hell, I'd love to move out to the countryside, and have all the services offered in a city location.

    I lived in Sydney for 35 years before recently moving to London for contract work, and the last 6 years of that I had a 20 MB pipe, without the need for Telstra - the peddlers of an over the top expensive product.

    The govt all the long wanted Telstra to stump up for NBN and when the pollies rubbished their proposal, it seemed like the smaller operators had a chance to collectively provide services at an equal rate.

    Anyway guys, the NBN may come to your door, but in order to use it you'll have to shell out up to $450 and $750, and up to $3,000 to get a connection. Good luck with that.

    These public-private consortiums are ruining our country, hiding our debt and placing the burden on the citizens to stump up extra for services that should spearheaded by govt - if they deem them so important.

  14. Re:saturated market on Bill Gates Doesn't Work At Microsoft Anymore · · Score: 1

    better yet, double-penetrate them both at the same time

  15. Re:A-level == first year of study? on Exam Board Deletes C and PHP From CompSci A-Levels · · Score: 1

    Mod this up.

  16. Think of it another way..... on Why Are Digital Hearing Aids So Expensive? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Invest in yourself that money to start hearing. It wil help you get a job easier and may improve your relationship your wife due to clearer comunication although it's not clear if that's a problem :) Back in 1982 I spent about $US5,000 on at the time a top of the line non PC computer for the work I was involved in. To put that into perspective my house which I bought around the time cost about $US28,000.

  17. Re:APC SmartUPS on UPS Setup For a Small/Mid-Size Company? · · Score: 1

    A great working example to answer the question and to provide a good sample of ideas. Thanks for sharing.

  18. Cisco on IEEE Ethernet Specs Could Soothe Data Center Ills · · Score: 4, Informative

    Cisco / VMware has done some work in this space, abeit it is a Cisco / VMware solution.... The Nexus 1000V basically provides an overlay to the virtual networking stack from VMware and places it into an appliance with a Cisco CLI. It can then be hooked into the usual Cisco management suspects. The solution makes sense because it also gives back control of the network aspects back to netops, instead of the server ops/virtual ops... http://www.vmware.com/products/cisco-nexus-1000V/

  19. Re:UK citizen? on Hacker McKinnon To Be Extradited To US · · Score: 1
  20. Chair? on Mark Cuban's Plan To Kill Google · · Score: 1

    You mean, it doesn't involve chair throwing!?

  21. Easy fixed.... on Google Under Fire For Calling Their Language "Go" · · Score: 1

    Go++

  22. That's easy. on Company Laptop, My Data — Can They Co-exist? · · Score: 2, Informative

    No.

  23. Re:SharePoint? on How To Manage Hundreds of Thousands of Documents? · · Score: 2, Informative

    We use SharePoint in a large enterprise although its pretty good at mashing together websites - unfortunately its really poor at search. I think Search 4.0 may improve the situation, but its nowhere near Yahoo, Google or other search technology. Technology doesn't solve all problems, I'd say this said company needs to focus on strengthening business process and implementing some user awareness programs.

  24. Tethering - Countries? on Apple's WWDC Unveils iPhone 3.0, OpenCL, Laptop Updates, and More · · Score: 1

    Did Apple mention which respective countries and carriers will support tethering?

  25. what about .sex and .xxx??? on An Argument For Leaving DNS Control In US Hands · · Score: 2, Interesting
    What a load of hogwash.

    If USA were truly pro-free speech they would of permitted the implementation of .sex and .xxx namespaces.

    Its nothing to do with what I think about porn, it has a practical use that allows people to quickly identify with the subject matter and to allow software to classify it as so.

    The conservative government simply did not want this to happen, and they have successfully lobbied hard to stop these practical namespaces to be implemented.

    Creating an Internet wasteland of "filth" may have some merit, but I highly doubt it will lead to an increase in people watching it. Most large, modern cities have "saucy" areas, but just because they are there doesn't mean every citizen visits everyday.

    I still believe this process needs to be apolitical as noted, without government intervention - its the only way. I do not accept that the US has a higher ground than other forward thinking countries in this matter.