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  1. Re:The graphics suck on Bully Trailer Hits the Web · · Score: 1

    ugh, just to counter, the PS2 is capable of MUCH better graphics than THAT. This is simply rockstar re-using that horrid gta3 engine again.

  2. Re:Hmm on Australia Conducting Electronic Census · · Score: 1

    If you don't get given the paperwork by someone then filling it in's not your problem.
    And afaik they hand out the forms a good week before the count date.

  3. Re:WOW! but.... on Microsoft Hit With 280m Euro Fine · · Score: 2, Insightful

    No... it's a regulated market, and the EU has quite a bit of say funnily enough.

  4. Re:Most other countries did it two centuries ago on Is Simplified Spelling Worth Reform? · · Score: 2, Funny

    "We've already changed English spellings before. And we're likely to change them again, without permission from any queen."

    Yes and we find your colourful simplified spelling of already simple words absoloutely delightful, however I don't see many others using it for fear of looking... well, American :-P

  5. Re:Most other countries did it two centuries ago on Is Simplified Spelling Worth Reform? · · Score: 1

    By that logic shouldn't you be speaking some dialect of native american right now?

  6. Re:What really should have happened on Australia Wants to Regulate Internet Streaming · · Score: 1

    As much as I hate our PM, this is actually what he suggested. Or even more "liberal" really, he called for channel 10 to excercise better self-regulation and to simply take it off the air.
    One of his better responses I must say.

    The most irritating part about this is going to be the knee-jerk reaction and pendulum swinging the other way, I imagine there will be weeks of public debate about the strictness of our censorship laws and as a result they will probably tightened in the end.

    All because of bloody channel 10 not knowing when to stop flogging a dead horse, sad.

  7. Re:For those who are confused... on Australia Wants to Regulate Internet Streaming · · Score: 1

    Out and out wrong, they are not facing charges.

    Something tells me if it was truly that serious the "victim" wouldn't still be in the house.

  8. Re:FSM Strikes Again! on Scientists Find Missing Link in Bird Evolution · · Score: 1

    She's a witch!

  9. Re:After 25 Years, I Finally Figured It Out on The Amazon Technology Platform · · Score: 1

    creepiest. post. ever.

  10. Re:Your product resembles a legal product... on RIAA Sues XM Satellite Radio · · Score: 1

    It's called time-shifting from memory.

  11. Re:UK on The NSA Knows Who You've Called · · Score: 1

    I'll go right ahead and point out that those CCTV camera's aren't in your home, like, say, a telephone.

    I'm not saying what the UK does is good... but videoing public space isn't inherently bad, as cops can be walking around there watching everything anyway, it's just there's not the resources for that.
    Also isn't the UK cctv thing public record? As opposed to this which seems a bit more secretive.

  12. Re:One word: videoconferencing on T-Mobile Releases New Card, Outlaws VoIP and IM · · Score: 1

    uh.. yes you're right it could?

  13. Re:Something is Rotten on Busting People for Pointing Out Security Flaws · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It is a fact that programs get released with known bugs, it's actually an economic certainty for commercial programs.
    It is a SAD fact, that some of these known bugs are security vulnerabilities, one would hope that security bugs top the priority list but they do not, useability most often comes first.

  14. Re:/me confused on T-Mobile Releases New Card, Outlaws VoIP and IM · · Score: 2, Insightful

    As another poster pointed out, moving from a pricing model of 0.99cpm for phonecalls, to unlimited phone calls for 39.99 a month, is NOT cost-effective for the phone company.

    They want to sell you the mobile broadband AND still keep their existing voice carrier market, ie have their cake and eat it too.

  15. Re:... where's all that bandwidth going again? on T-Mobile Releases New Card, Outlaws VoIP and IM · · Score: 2, Funny

    That's right, REAL men type at (7*10^3)/8 characters per second! ;-)

  16. Re:Quantum Computers on Ageia PhysX Tested · · Score: 1

    Computing least-cost algorithms in N time?

    There's a fair few useful algorithms that aren't in P but are in NP.

  17. The best drunk gaming experience yet! on The Public's First Look at Wii · · Score: 1

    Seriously, how much more fun will Wii games be to play when drunk than with a traditional gamepad??
    I find that even when off my dial I can still play games with the traditional controllers fine because it requires so little complicated movement. Although my decision making process within the game is another story entirely. ("I thought he was friend!" "... he's covered in spikes")
    But just imagine actually having to be able to point accurately at things to play the game, becomes a damn fine drinking game itself.

  18. Re:Exercise? For gamers? on The Public's First Look at Wii · · Score: 1

    Pretty sure you can plug a GCN controller into it.
    But anyway who says you have to stand? And they're specifically NOT targeting the hardcore gamer types.

  19. Re:Geeks and Nerds on Tearing Down China's Great Firewall · · Score: 1

    If you're going to berate people about the semantics of it then you are most definitely BOTH.

  20. Re:Anything can be stolen on Growing Diamonds for Better Information Security · · Score: 1

    Read the reply below yours.

  21. Re:Anything can be stolen on Growing Diamonds for Better Information Security · · Score: 1

    Gee, too bad those silly boffins at Melb Uni don't have you there advising them.

    Public notice: If you see the word "Quantum" in a topic summary, and have no bloody clue, and are too lazy to research it; go right ahead and skip over it.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_cryptography

    In short, theoretically you cannot eavesdrop (successfully) on a link using quantum encryption. So that makes "practically" completely out of the question when someone has managed to get it down to single photon transmission.
    Apparently there is funky stuff that people can do when using more than one photon, but the whole point in this research is that they negate that.

  22. Re:Wait on Growing Diamonds for Better Information Security · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Presumably if they've managed to get access to the optical network and wanted to DoS it, they could just cut the fibre.

  23. Re:What's the date? on NASA Hacker Gary McKinnon Interviewed · · Score: 1

    the "free energy" thing should immediately tip you off that he's a complete wackjob

  24. Re:On physics on Comparing PC Game Physics · · Score: 1

    A backflip if they're standing on the edge of a building maybe, otherwise that's an intersting brand of physics you have going there.

  25. Re:"do no evil..." on Google Sued for Allegedly Profiting From Child Porn · · Score: 1

    You sir, are completely batshit fracking loco, and need to have your keyboard license-revoked.

    I mean honestly, the kind of ill-informed stupid rubbish you just spouted may rub off on someone!