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  1. Average cost per page printed on What Do You Do When Printers Cost Less Than Ink? · · Score: 1

    I guess when buying a printer instead of only looking at the cost of the machine and/or its consumables, it might be worthwhile calculating what the average cost per page printed would be.

  2. Sue the electricity companies too on Australian ISP Argues For BitTorrent Users · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It's important to consider that the studios are claiming that ISPs should be responsible for what their customers do with their service. That is, that "iiNet was responsible for customers downloading movies illegally and then burning them to DVD to sell or share with friends." To me, that's the much more interesting matter.

    The studios should then sue the electricity companies for providing electricity to people's DVD burners.

  3. Re:Needs to pass Parliament first on Some Of Australia's Tubes Are About To Be Filtered · · Score: 3, Informative

    It seems Senator Brown (Greens leader) has already spoken of this here. His colleague Senator Ludlam has been doing some investigation...

  4. Needs to pass Parliament first on Some Of Australia's Tubes Are About To Be Filtered · · Score: 4, Informative

    For this to come into force properly, the Government will need to pass legislation through Parliament. While they can get it through the lower house easily, the Senate will be much harder. In the Senate the Government will need the support of either the Coalition or all the cross-benchers (Greens, Family First and Xenophon) in order to gain the majority. I know the Coalition intends to vote no and I can't see Greens supporting it, so it will fail to pass.

  5. Good article on KDE Running on Mac OS X · · Score: 5, Insightful

    A neat article.

    However, I can't think really why you'd want to be running KDE on Mac OS X when you already have such a neat (IMHO) interface. I suppose it's good for a laugh, too.

  6. I don't believe this. on Recovering Secret HD Space · · Score: 0

    This is very unbelievable, however, I am waiting for someone to donate a HDD to scientific experiment and test it out. Maybe I might donate my old 1.7 gig. I might be able to get some 2 gigs out of that baby.

  7. Another advertising tactic... on Funny Things You've Seen on Resumes? · · Score: 0

    Well, I supposed putting a little humour in your resume would just be another advertising tactic. Like putting something that almost shouldn't be there, making your ads funny is a great way to get attention. I love it when ads come up with something funny*. I suppose that reading large amounts of resumes would be a boring job, and maybe those who are reading will remember the ones that bring a little sunshine into their day.

    *My favourite being an NRMA (insurance agency) ad where the four horsemen of the apocalypse come up to an insurance saleswoman and complain about how all their good work was just wasted by people 'being too fair in the insurance business'.

  8. Well done on Retooling Slashdot with Web Standards · · Score: 0

    I think that this is a welcome wake up call. However, I am more than sceptical about the three figure savings. But still, if it takes the combined power of a squadron of nuclear penguins to generate a slashdot page, I really think that it is time for an upgrade (and a rest for the squad).

  9. pun on Security Update Fixes the Screen Effects Hole · · Score: 0

    There's a hole in my screen?

    I'm glad they patched that up before I noticed.

  10. I smell a rat. on Mac OS X Update 10.2.4 Resets · · Score: 0

    No one I know has had these problems when upgrading to 10.2.4. Allthough 10.2.4 is devidable by 2 and 10.2.3 isn't, I can't see a problem.

    Perhaps this is one of the 'trolls' we so often here about. I think we are letting our imagination run wild if we think it's a MS plot. A anti-mac plot, maybe.

  11. Aquisition on P2P Software for the Mac? · · Score: 0

    I have found Aquisition very good compared to Neo. Neo doesn't have a search feature that I am aware of. However, Aquisition seems to always have it's files 'Waiting'. Waiting for what? It seems to never give over and actually download.