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  1. Re:20 Million users contributed feedback on Users Being Migrated To New Version of Hotmail · · Score: 1

    For sites that mess up with the +, you can always add a period somewhere in the middle of your email address, as all sites will deal with that correctly.
    With gmail, foobar, foo.bar and f.oobar all end up at foobar@gmail.com

  2. Re:Zippo on The Unauthorized State-Owned Chinese Disneyland · · Score: 1

    Why is china nibbling on their own foot?
    A war between China and the US would be a lot more evenly matched than you realise, sheer weight of numbers friend.

    "Let China sleep for when she awakes, she will shake the world" - Napoleon Bonaparte

  3. Re:Another reason to live int the USA? (trolling!) on Australian Teachers Try To Shut Down Website · · Score: 1

    Yes and when people are arrested for these stupid laws, the media pick it up, and the people go "err, no, that's fucking retarded" and the law goes away.
    If your country is actually ever taken over by tyrants, they're not going to need laws, and they won't care about the constitution.

  4. Re: Should have known. on Australian Teachers Try To Shut Down Website · · Score: 1

    Really gotta disagree with the "one-party state posing as a two-party state" comment, the divide between labor and the liberals is a chasm if you compare it to the republicans and democrats, also, in this country the minor parties do have the possibility to make a difference.
    95% of people being led by packer, murdoch and stokes is true and a terrible thing though.

    Don't think you can really take offence to the schools filtering their own internet connection though.

  5. Re:Another reason to live int the USA? (trolling!) on Australian Teachers Try To Shut Down Website · · Score: 4, Informative

    Guessing you've never actually lived here...
    Australia has thousands of stupid laws that the majority don't agree with, we have an effective way of dealing with these, ignore them.

  6. Re:Before this gets out of hand again... on Digg.com Attempts To Suppress HD-DVD Revolt · · Score: 1

    Digg is paid for (in part) by ads, which rely on hits from users.
    I'm not sure which definition of the word 'censorship' says that it only applies to the government, but it's wrong. While diggs censorship is legal, that doesn't make it NOT censorship.

  7. Re:RS-232? on An Open Source Hardware Development Tool · · Score: 1

    I'm sure there are, but grab one of the converters and chuck a multimeter on it sometimes, see if it lines up. Hell, most laptop serial ports don't.

  8. Re:RS-232? on An Open Source Hardware Development Tool · · Score: 1

    The voltages required by the serial port spec tend to disagree with usb somewhat.

  9. Re:This makes no sense on First Successful Demonstration of CO2 Capture Technology · · Score: 1

    The energy supply on earth is limited now? And here I was thinking we were constantly absorbing energy from a giant furnace.

  10. MOD PARENT UP on Nintendo's Sale Dominance Gets Noticed · · Score: 1

    I've never wished I had mod points so much in my life.

  11. Re:I'll probably get modded to hell for this... on Women Are Fleeing IT Jobs · · Score: 1

    Unionisation is purely about collective bargaining, there's no reason you couldn't collectively bargain to have an on-call situation.

  12. Re:Not very reassuring. on Blackberry Network is Down · · Score: 2, Insightful

    This is a ridiculous statement, quite often those things you stated rely on email, as it is a means of COMMUNICATION, and in quite a few businesses, the primary one. Supply chain is worthless if crm can't communicate with them, ditto for manufacturing, payroll is worthless if they can't communicate with accounting or HR. Also note, for those things the phone is not an option, it must be in writing. Try to keep in mind that many, many businesses do not reside in one office, or one building, or one postcode, or one country, before you make a silly comment like "e-mail is not critical".

    And even putting aside all that, it depends on the business, for an IT consultancy, network admin, software dev house, e-mail is pretty fucking critical.

  13. Re:Too far? on Ontario Proposes School Cyber-Bullying Law · · Score: 1

    Like you, I haven't rtfa, but I'm going to go right ahead and assume that "Bullying" doesn't apply to teachers or criticism of the school.

  14. Re:Old DEC gear on Fun and Profit With Obsolete Computers · · Score: 1

    I very much doubt it, my judgement of the state of vic roads is based purely on a "user" perspective ;-)

  15. Re:Old DEC gear on Fun and Profit With Obsolete Computers · · Score: 1

    Ha, great comment, and of COURSE it had to be VicRoads ;-)

  16. Re:Best for learning programming on Fun and Profit With Obsolete Computers · · Score: 4, Insightful

    yes but these gigahertz cpu's also have gigabyte sized memory that you can chew through to see optimisation effects. The funny thing about complexity is it always scales

  17. Re:but on Researchers Chill Mirror to Near Absolute Zero · · Score: 1

    The unit size for Kelvin and Celsius is the same, it's only the zero-point that moves.

  18. Re:Let's see, here... on Electrically Conductive Cement · · Score: 2, Interesting

    actually that sounds like a pretty brilliant way of printing simple "wires" on things.

  19. Re:So basically they invented on Georgia Tech Unveils Prototype Nanogenerator · · Score: 1

    Just... no, not even close.

  20. Re:Read the article.. not the summary- no time lim on Chinese Govt Limits Kids to 3hrs of Online Gaming · · Score: 1

    Lucky they have you to tell them what's best for them then.

  21. Re:Profit? on Publishers Scrambling for Wii Titles · · Score: 1

    wtf? Because they couldn't sell the media centre software from their online store or anything like that...

  22. Re:Wii on Researcher Has New Attack For Embedded Devices · · Score: 1

    Have you got a link to this? I'd love to see it.
    The port I think you're referring to is the debug port on the dvd-rom btw, as this is what all the hacks I know of at the moment use.

  23. Re:Royalties on EU Rejects Microsoft Royalty Proposal · · Score: 2, Funny

    Well one would hope that 5.95% of nothing is... :-)

  24. Re:Not a bug. on The Top 21 Tech Flops · · Score: 4, Interesting

    This is false, a bug causes undefined, undocumented behaviour, had the systems with the Y2K BUG popped up an error message saying "this software is not meant to run past 30/12/1999" as well has having this behaviour documented, then you would be right.
    As it is I'm not aware of any systems that did this.

  25. Re:Old concept, doesn't work on Harvesting Energy in the Sky · · Score: 1

    Not sure about this, 10km sounds infinitely doable to me, unlike the distances required for a space elevator.
    The article made it sound like the biggest obstacle is the engineering to minimise maintenance, which sounds about right.