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  1. List of existing exceptions. on What Would You Ask For in Copyright Law? · · Score: 1

    If you look at the PDF document linked in the story, hop to page 38 and you will get a list of the current exceptions to Australian Copyright Law. Some of what has been asked for has already been covered there. (Free for educational, governmental and judicial use - making backups of programs and data etc).

    Most of it is quite reasonable, to me anyway.

  2. Re:Too late to the game on Symantec Launches Anti-Spyware Beta · · Score: 1

    Names like "Lavasoft" and "Spybot" don't inspire corporate confidence...

    Yet.

  3. VR is dead. on What Ever Happened to Virtual Reality? · · Score: 1

    Because noone wants to wear those silly headsets. The technology was cool but the application was clumsy.

  4. Heh. on Firefox Site Visits Up 237% · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Keep those figures going for a couple of years and then I'll be impressed.

  5. Bot vs Bot on Homemade Mecha Walks in Japan · · Score: 4, Funny

    Still waiting paitently for the day they're armed with real weapons and used in arena style fights to the death.

    Clearly they'd never be used against real people.

  6. Re:Top rated? on Aussie TV Networks Fight BitTorrent · · Score: 1

    We get everything from Joe Schmoe Show, to The Bill, to Monkey Magic. Not much drama on the air is produced locally so the commercial stations just fish for stuff that will probably air well over here.

    Except for all the fucking gardening and renovation shows, there's four to every channel.

  7. Re:xp/2003 only? on IE7 Details Emerge · · Score: 1

    Likely they really want 2000 to die, it's very stable, excellent hardware support and doesn't use product activation which makes it rather popular for people who don't require an OS preinstalled for them. There's no real control over it for Microsoft. The only logical move for them is to leave big gaping holes in the OS that will scare everyone into upgrading.

  8. Running Servers on American View On Korean Broadband Leadership · · Score: 1

    With fast Internet access so commonplace, I'm wondering if Acceptable Use Policies in Korea allow the running of servers - something that I look for. In Australia you usually gotta change to an overpriced plan for that to be allowed.

  9. "Hello World" on Why MS is Not Opening More Source Code · · Score: 1

    Evidence of juniors programming major applications?

  10. Authentication on New Spam Zombies Use ISPs' Mailservers · · Score: 1

    My ISP requires me to authenticate against their server when I send mail. In theory, that should negate the problem right?

  11. Re:Lazy on Oh! Super Toaster! · · Score: 1

    No, we're so incompetent that we would hurt oursleves trying.

  12. Missing from reviews on What Makes a Game Review a Game Review? · · Score: 1

    I'd like to see more reviewers make comments on the quality of the game levels themselves. This is something that is more important with first person shooters. Some games I've played (Jedi Academy, Serious Sam) have seriously fun gameplay but the levels sometimes are very bland. Both architecturally and in texturing. I figure thats a field that not many people take into account.

    Obviously this becomes more difficult because of the extra detail the games offer means so much more effort needs to be put into the design of a map to make it up to par, but when someone makes levels which are truely breathtaking (American McGees Alice) then they should get big points for that.

  13. Re:Is this necessary on Windows Longhorn to make Graphics Cards more Important · · Score: 1

    Crashes will be much more rare, and when they do happen, will (if executed correctly) be transparent to the user. The system will recover from a crash, and many times the user will not even be aware that an error occured.

    Well I hope that's a configurable option. The last thing I want to do is spend five minutes trying to figure out where Winamp went. And it's a bit cheeky, don't you think, that they try to hide the fact that something is failing rather than letting you know that there's a problem?

  14. Getting it with messages from my Telco on The Illiteracy of Corporate American E-Mail · · Score: 1

    My mobile carrier sends you a message when someone leaves a voicemail. It says: "Pls call 321, you have 1 new message waiting." It's funny because after all this time it hadn't registered with me that a Telco is sending a tacky abbreviation in an auto-generated message until I saw this article. I guess after seeing so much of it you just learn to filter most of it out.

  15. My PC is my audio station on How Do You Handle Home Media? · · Score: 1

    It's hooked up directly to my amp and sound system. Any CD I buy is immediately OGG'd and the original put in a safe place. Other than that I prefer watching video on a proper TV, the image just seems a lot clearer on a TV rather than an LCD screen. And I have no interest in piping a TV signal into my machine to encode it badly and take up a whole chunk of disk space.

  16. Re:Awww, Microsoft is so sweet on Latest Version of MyDoom Exploits New IE Flaw · · Score: 3, Funny

    So there wont be an exploit released Tomorrow? :D

  17. Not really... on Dell Infringes on Patent by Selling Overseas? · · Score: 1
  18. Re:Some Equations on Frame Dragging by Earth Reconfirmed · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Maybe 'fried' instead?

  19. Re:Johnny Howard Strikes Back on Australian Prime-Minister Sends Spam · · Score: 2, Informative

    Yes. The Australian anti-spam act made exlusions for charity organisations and political parties. The labour party supported this legislation when it went through parliarment so they have no platform to complain about this either.

  20. Re:More than meets the eye, here on MSIE 7 May Beat Longhorn Out The Gate · · Score: 1

    Personally, I don't think the driving factor behind IE7 is a vessel to implement new technology, although they wouldn't pass up the oppertunity. I think it's more to do with the security alerts recently announced that apply to IE. Some ActiveX vulnerabilities and that Ject thingy that ran around for a while. I'd imagine that with so many glaring problems with the current version that they were compelled to get them fixed.

  21. Re:Ozzy OS developers should jump the tasman on ma on Australia to Get Software Patents and Anti-Circumvention Laws · · Score: 1

    Australia and New Zealanad already have their own free trade agreement, quite a close one too. Whatever laws or regulations that Australia would inherit from the States as a result of that FTA would probably spill over into New Zealand as well.

  22. Euphamism of the Week on MS admits Newsbot Biased Towards MSNBC · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...first among equals.

  23. Re:BOINC has issues... on BOINC Project to Search for Gravitational Waves · · Score: 1

    How long ago did you try doing this? I've been using BOINC since they advertised it publically on the old Seti@Home site (around two weeks ago) and I've had no problems at all on the client side. And that's using it on two machines too.

    Perhaps you're experiencing some legacy problems that have been fixed by now?

  24. Re:Sarge postponed? on Debian Project Votes To Postpone Policy Changes · · Score: 1

    Sure, why not... once the source gets released.

  25. ISP's will lower their prices when... on Broadband Usage Up 42% In The U.S. In 2003 · · Score: 1

    ...they have the infrastructure to support a flood of users all abusing the speed of their connections at the same time.

    At least with dialup each client was physically limited to ~5k/sec.