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  1. Re:sex workers? on BBC Uses Skype Links In Murder Hunt · · Score: 2, Informative

    You're aware that "whore" "prostitute" and "escort" all have other literal and colloquial meanings? Also the aforementioned words fail to include strippers etc.

  2. Re:Totally useless on Quantum Cryptography Ready For Wide Adoption? · · Score: 1

    If you're talking about using public private pairs then it's not a solution because they are provably breakable, just not practically.

    If you're not, then what are you talking about?

    Also PP pairs can be beaten by a true man in the middle attack

  3. Re:...use cabled systems. on UK Schools Bans WiFi Due To Health Concerns · · Score: 1

    You'll find that to be one of very few, if any, other papers with those results,
    as other scientists have been unable to reproduce them.

  4. Re:Hate Speech? on The Great Firewall of Canada · · Score: 1

    Hate Speech is generally what you just said, things such as inciting riot.
    To encourage people to persecute/harm a specific group would be considered hate speech.

  5. Re:australia on The Great Firewall of Canada · · Score: 1

    Australia has always had provisions for blocking specific servers from access across the international
    links.
    Apparently the things that are blocked are bad enough that noone has complained

  6. Re:Great Firewall on The Great Firewall of Canada · · Score: 1

    What magical distinction do you make between taking down a site and blocking access to it?
    Presumably the only difference should be that the site isn't hosted in your country.

  7. Re:That's a copout on Creationism Museum To Open Next Summer · · Score: 1

    Noone's doing that here...

    For reference, I'm agnostic, I think both theists and atheists are
    irrational.
    However, my pet dog looks rational next to a fundamentalist ;-)

  8. Re:4000 years of history on Creationism Museum To Open Next Summer · · Score: 1

    You're assuming I'm an atheist...
    The earth is flat, The sun orbits the earth. Those are defining
    statements that can be observed to be true or not true. "God exists" is not, at least lacking a definition of god and in what state he exists it's not.
    I could as easily say "snifflesplugs exist", disprove it.

  9. Re:4000 years of history on Creationism Museum To Open Next Summer · · Score: 1

    A nonsense argument, "it's up to you to disprove.", you cannot disprove the
    existence of an entity that you have zero information on.
    And history, is not anything to point at, for many thousands of years
    we believed the earth was flat, that the sun circled the earth, etc etc.

  10. Re:Overbreadth on Draconian Anti-Piracy Law Looms Over Australia · · Score: 1

    That's assuming that the law is unconstitutional to begin with.
    The australian constitution doesn't have any real equivalent to the bill of rights.

  11. Re:GPL for all? on Sun Open Sources Java Under GPL · · Score: 1
  12. Re:Plenty of racism down under on Google Under Fire Over Racist Blogs · · Score: 2, Interesting

    As a counterpoint, not in either of the places I've lived it's not. Melbourne and a small country town. I've found neither of these places to be racist at all, and in fact when people
    start with the racist crap, others tend to jump on them. (re: Gary Anderson)

    Ah, but then again, neither Melbourne or Kerang are anywhere near Sydney :P

  13. Re:Is it really Google's fault? on Google Under Fire Over Racist Blogs · · Score: 1

    hehe, geez i wish i had mod points for funny atm. +1 for current-affairs reference

  14. Re:It's not LCD, dumbass on Sony Reader Now Available · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Seeing as books/writing are artificial constructs to begin with, that seems to me to be a pretty shaky point.
    What's to stop you curling up with this reader?

  15. Re:GTK+/GNOME file chooser disaster. on GUIs Get a Makeover · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Congrats on picking my pet effing hate, our university servers seem to have that DAMNED gnome filechooser as their only installed one, and as a result both eclipse and firefox use them for everything.
    Here's a fun one, setting an external application as the default action for filetypes in eclipse, can't just type the command, can't use the $PATH var, have to browse around all the bin directories looking for the app you want with that horrible chooser.
    grrr, the eclipse guys do a really good job, but when choosing a "run" application, there should ALWAYS be the option to just type the command if you intend for your product to be used on a *nix variant.

  16. Re:Ribbons on GUIs Get a Makeover · · Score: 1

    fluxbox has got to be one of the best examples of a consistent, customisable, minimalist gui.
    If I could make it run on my windows box as quick as it does on everything else, I would install it right now.

  17. Re:The problem with guis is they don't work on GUIs Get a Makeover · · Score: 1

    command --help , man command etc I'm not saying there aren't things the GUI is useful for, however there are definitely things that are faster with a CLI. Oh, and with any filesystem manipulation? forgettaboutit, the cli is your friend.

  18. Re:The funny thing is... on A Visual Walkthrough of New Features in Vim 7.0 · · Score: 1

    Because notepad fills my files with the number 13 for some unknown reason and I consider that unlucky :-P

    Also because syntax-highlighting, automatic indentation, auto-formatting and now *drool* drop-down auto-completion makes life a lot easier and FASTER.

  19. Re:Thank Howard on Pro-DRM Law May Be Coming To Australia · · Score: 1

    It drives me nuts how as a large collective we are such a politically stupid country...
    How much more crap does the federal govt. get away with than states and local councils?

  20. Re:Besides... on Modded DS Adds Hard Drive For Some Reason · · Score: 2, Informative

    or anything galvanised.
    Though be warned, that crap stinks when the flux dissolves it

  21. Re:oblig on Steve Irwin Dead · · Score: 1

    Obvious to say the least, but i can fairly well guarantee that the stingray that PIERCED HIS HEART was the bigger than the ones your grandpa hauled in on a handline. Hell, I've brought in stingrays on a handline, fortunately i wasn't in the water and they weren't nearly they big

  22. Re:Appliance on The IT Strategy That Makes Google Work · · Score: 1

    Buyer? You mean search users? Come on now that's a bloody stretch.
    What about the rather large amount of webservers using apache and mysql, are they required to notify clients that they are open source and link to the source?
    gimme a break

  23. Re:Star Trek Thesis Wins Academic Award? on Star Trek PhD Thesis Wins Academic Prize · · Score: 1

    grr, rtfa.
    It's a thesis on how storytelling and mythology has changed over time from what I've gathered, and the reason star trek was an obvious choice is that it's a fictional story-telling show that's been running since 1966.
    That's a LOT of data. (no pun)

  24. Re:Too Much Work... on Star Trek PhD Thesis Wins Academic Prize · · Score: 1

    Heh, and it's even longer than you could possibly imagine, I saw an interview with her yesty (I'm Australian) and she said she had to watch most episodes 3 or 4 times... Imagine how goddamn ANNOYING that would be!

  25. Re:Apart from gaming on Linux Hardware Looks at Core 2 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    To run a decent sized lcd at native resolution would be a start... but in all seriousness for anything other than gaming you're right, there's no real need to keep up with the cycle