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  1. Re:Well, duh on iPhone 4S's Siri Is a Bandwidth Guzzler · · Score: 1

    So new peak, off peak, caps with reduced bandwidth for off peak and excess charges for peak, with rotating peak and off-peak dependent upon regionalised demands and social function priorities, adjusted fro particular cell capacities.

    All complex on purpose to keep advertised charged cheap and actually billing expensive but, hey you agreed to it. "We Love You Siri". You can expect a whole range of bandwidth sucking, excess usage charge generating apps to appear.

  2. Re:Um on Ask Slashdot: Techie Wedding Invitation Ideas? · · Score: 1

    Then go with small cheap flash drives ie http://www.tmart.com/USB-Flash-Drives/, all you lose is the printing on the disc, so you will need a nice embossed card and a spot to store the drive. Advantage there are a few dvd players out there that can play usb flash drives, creating a reply could still be problematic but with even a 1GB flash drive there is space. Provide a return paid envelope for the drive and you are finished. Oddly enough those drives will likely be cheaper than the customer printed embossed card they are attached too.

  3. Re:Um on Ask Slashdot: Techie Wedding Invitation Ideas? · · Score: 1

    A mini-cd is just a smaller disc that will fit inside any normal cd/dvd disc drive http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MiniCD. As to not owning a computer, assume someone is capable of playing if for them, and will help them create their video response. So giver everyone plenty of time, you can of course include a letter with the invite explaining all, with instructions and people to contact who could provide help.

  4. Re:legally demand on Foreign Data Unsafe From US Patriot Act, Says American Law Firm · · Score: 1

    The weirdest thing about that is those UK extradition requirements extend to all category 2 extradition countries. Where most countries have bilateral agreements, as for you as for me. The UK seems quite content to toss out as many citizens as possible as quickly as possible with it's lop sided regulations.

  5. Re:Stop selling debt to China on WikiLeaks Cable: NASDAQ Folded To Chinese Pressure · · Score: 2

    Stop and think for a second, that debt, who exactly is it owed too. That had to borrow it from someone, now exactly who did they borrow it from (not those people that don't pay taxes by hiding their money in tax havens). Was it by any chance those people that created that debt, that paid for the lobbyists, to buy the politicians to spend the money on the corporations they would borrow it from.

    Now if the US goes bankrupt surely those Americans that the government borrowed the money from will also go bankrupt. Those ones the US government spent billions rescuing them from their bankruptcy by borrowing money from bankrupt organisation, to give to those bankrupt organisation so that they were no longer bankrupt but somehow the government now owes money that at the time didn't even exist.

    So the US government borrowed nothing, pretended it was something, gave it away and then still owed it to the people they gave it too. Who said drugs are illegal in the US, they got to be using some pretty powerful shit for that stuff to be real.

  6. Re:Once you go public... on Top Google Executives Approved Illegal Drug Ads · · Score: 1

    Oddly enough in a lot of countries this case would be considered entrapment. The Feds created the crime, they knew it would slip past Googles advertising review because of google is a numbers advertiser (it has to push a huge number of adds by a huge number of companies over a huge range of products and services).

    So a cunning prosecutor set up a crime, rather than a government department going to warn google about the nature of advertising over a range of products and giving them time to adjust or that department would investigate adds over time (too much hard work and too risky might not get that promotion driving conviction).

    Reality is in most instances, the cheap Canadian pharmacies and given Americans access to life saving drugs that could not otherwise afford but "PROFITS FIRST and LIVES LAST", lets all guess who were the corporations skulking in the background driving this prosecution via lobbyists.

  7. Re:Fearmongering on Railroad Association Says TSA's Hacking Memo Was Wrong · · Score: 1

    The TSA simply needs to change it's name to reflect reality TRVPA The Rich Versus Poor Agency. Don't think so.

    What authority does the TSA have over private jets, how about charter jets, none, not one inspection, not one scan, not one probe.

    Who funded 911, would that be one of the richest countries in the world all to capable of providing funding for charter flights fully loaded with explosives, Saudi Arabia. Yet not even a hint of exploratory probing.

    So the 1% are enacting legislation and regulations to keep a tight grip and control of the 99%. No flights, no train and no bus. Random house searches will soon be required because of course you drive car from private to part of the 'public' transport system, public roads, chauffeur driven limousine of course exempted.

    So a blatant a glaring exemption, chartered flights and passenger quote readily allowed to board with loaded assault rifles and explosives. Kill the pilot, set the autopilot and then bail out, an instant cruise missile.

  8. Re:No shit! on US Plummets On World Press Freedom Ranking · · Score: 1

    You will find the progressive left treats Uncle Tom Obama the president who failed to prosecute some of the worst corruption in the US Administration in history.

    Do not confuse what mass media presents as the progressive left with what is actually the progressive left. Tell me have you heard the cheers for failing on universal health care.

    Of course the US has to grades of reporting the embedded media, whose job is to create the masquerade of corporate correct advertising as news and independent media (those who routinely get arrested, beaten, pepper sprayed and, their equipment confiscated).

    Not to forget it is not press 'Freedom' to deliver PR=B$ (lies for profit advertising) as the news, regardless of what the political right thinks and that includes Uncle Tom who is so far out the right that he no longer recognises universal health care as a political centre policy.

  9. Re:Another politician with half a brain? on EU ACTA Chief Resigns · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Also he is now free to tell all and sundry, as often and as loudly as possible exactly why he quite. He is basically in the best position to deliver a swift kick in the goolies to ACTA in Europe.

  10. Re:Um on Ask Slashdot: Techie Wedding Invitation Ideas? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Simply send out mini cds with a video invite and request a video response. Compile all the responses (positive) with the invite and make it all part of the wedding DVD. Could also be done with small thumb drives they are pretty cheap now, but if the mini cd is commercially printed it can be made more appealing.

    Have tattooing equipment brought to the wedding and have each guest carve a reminder of the committing required to make a marriage last on the backs of the bride and groom ;D.

  11. Re:Sanity to prevail? on Australia Likely To Get 18+ Game Rating · · Score: 1

    PC Gaming has one thing going for it that console games will never really have, a huge range of discounted really cheap games delivered by steam etc ie less than $10 dollars. What kills discount console games, the console licence fee. Also PC games leave you TV free to play DVDs in the background.

    Guess who in reality attacks PC games, not the games manufacturers but M$, Sony and Nintendo. The only time I have ever had a game console was prior to the advent of game capable PCs and have not had one since.

  12. Re:Music/Movies = alcohol? on Filesonic Removes Ability To Share Files · · Score: 1

    There is nothing extreme about considering going to a theatre to watch a movie as a lame night out, only relegated to bored and absolutely have nothing else better to do. There's plenty of more entertaining interactive experiences on the net. When you go out, your really want to interact with people not sit in some darkened hall getting pissed off when people interact with you.

    So it has to be a really good story really well told, to make up for the general lameness of the activity. Now new kinds of publicly shared interactive computer activities will likely become popular. Maybe pubs with M$ table top http://www.microsoft.com/surface/en/us/default.aspx, where you interact with other people in a social situation (needs applications for this kind of venue) M$ might need to invest in a series of public venues around the world to drive that idea forward.

  13. Re:It's been done on High School Students Send Lego Man 24 Kilometers High · · Score: 1

    Not that complex really, a light weight pressure relief valve that opens and release pressure at a value lower that then tensile strength of the balloon. Then there would be a choice of balloon colour to absorb heat.

  14. Re:Misleading to call it "non-copied" on Non-Copied Photo Is Ruled Copyright Infringement · · Score: 1

    In this case a totally false analogy.

    Here is a simply business example. I want some art work a bus in front of Big Ben. They come across the original photo and dislike the framing. So now they a denied the ability to take an alternate photo and use it for the next fifty years. http://tinyurl.com/86wy5u2 well crap all london double decker buses are blue ( and look there are a bunch with buses in front of big ben, umm)

    Big Ben also ain't no technicolour edifice, I'll ket you guess what colour it is. Of course what colour are the skies over London typically known for, big hint here it ain't for being clear blue.

    So red double decker bus, with grey Big Ben and grey skies is a well known association used for many years by many people. So these copyright interpretation is horrific. It pretty much would force the majority of web sites on the internet to shut down until they come up with alternate layouts for their web site.

    For the defence lawyer to lose this case, well, they gotta pretty much suck and the defendant should sue. All this can be demonstrated by a goggle image search, ohh look, no different on Bing http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=london+bus&qpvt=london+bus&FORM=IGRE.

  15. Re:IF it can be done it will be done on OzLog: Unlimited Private Data Retention For Australia? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    These people have no idea at all. I have younger relatives who don't have an email address at all, preferring to do everything via social networks. Then there is of course Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo et al.

    Then there are tools like this Track Me Not http://cs.nyu.edu/trackmenot/. Tools like this will extend to every communications medium to flood records with junk connections, basically multiply by a factor of thousands the information to be stored.

    Computers are great at filtering and correlating data, they are even better at creating junk data making any filtering and correlation impossible, GIGO.

  16. Re:respond? on MPAA-Dodd Investigation Petition Reaches Goal · · Score: 1

    You seem to have forgotten he has quite successfully 'poisoned' that access. He has a taint and any meetings between current Senators and him transfers that taint to current Senators. In terms of power play, after he threatened those current Senators, they can enhance their power by colluding and as a group deny him access.

    You think these a normal relationships. These are all personal power plays driven by ego, narcissism and psychopathy. At the heart of of it all insatiable greed and a drive for total dominance over all others with deeply perverted sexual overtones.

  17. Re:respond? on MPAA-Dodd Investigation Petition Reaches Goal · · Score: 1

    Consider his employers stance. One of your employees had a rush of ego and his little head grew bigger than his big head and started to do his thinking for him.

    You might consider this person 'special', an ex-US senator but to his employers he is just a talking head and a bag man, nothing special.

    So is it of more value to keep the talking head bagman or to toss him to the sharks as a example of pretend justice for being an ego driven idiot who lost control and substantively devalued his worth.

    So in reality how difficult will it be to replace him, can they find someone better, can be burned without taking anyone else with him, is it worth reminding the others of exactly how dispensable and replaceable they truly really are keep those con-men on their toes and to prevent them developing delusions of how powerful they are.

    I suppose it all boils down to how good that wanker is at begging and pleading for a second and convincing his employers that he will make up for it rather than him having to bend over, drop his draws and take one for the cause, if it is in a typical US for profit prison, several.

  18. Re:Bad idea on Pirate Bay To Offer Physical Item Downloads · · Score: 1

    Depends in they are designed from scratch, based upon a fair use view, are generally generic in design and cost far more to 3D print than to manufacture under normal circumstance and neither the 3D design nor the printed product are sold.

    So in reality not much different from manufacturing your own, for your own use, which is not illegal.

  19. Re:Psychics != Physics. :( on Psychics Say Apollo 16 Astronauts Found Alien Ship · · Score: 1

    Personally I have no problem with a family member getting hold of information they couldn't be trusted with and being administered 'a sure to obfuscate the information' pharmaceutical cocktail of the psychedelic variety. The CIA when they shut down the public remote viewing were rumoured to have kept a private for profit version ticking over ticking over in a research laboratory on the US Virgin Islands, CIA contractors never being the sanest people in the world.

  20. Re:Next step on Apple's iBooks EULA Drawing Ire · · Score: 1

    Come now, takes thirty percent of of sales income regardless of number of sales or income generated and if they refuse to sell it, you can not take it elsewhere, they kill off your competing work. Imagine spend two years writing a book and some Apple marketdroid doesn't like it and just turns around and tells you to bin it, end of story.

    This type of clause from Eula's always cracks me up "Upon the termination of this License, you must cease all use of the Apple Software and destroy all copies, full or partial, of the Apple Software." literal legal interpretation because they didn't mention "in your possession" you have to destroy everyones copy globally. They still of course own the right to distribute your work regardless of you destroying everycopy of iBook Author.

    Of course the imfamous software clause is there, all in capitals mind, "DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES AND CONDITIONS WITH RESPECT TO THE APPLE SOFTWARE AND SERVICES, EITHER EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES AND/OR CONDITIONS OF MERCHANTABILITY, OF SATISFACTORY QUALITY, OF FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OF ACCURACY, OF QUIET ENJOYMENT, AND NONINFRINGEMENT OF THIRD PARTY RIGHTS." Basically this software is crap regardless of any advertising to the contrary.

  21. Re:Nokia and RIM on Apple Announces Most Profitable Quarter in History · · Score: 1

    Your Apple marketdroids are just so funny. Are you saying every tech company out there should shut it's doors or just contract for pennies to Apple. Keep in mind those Apple profits indicate that those companies (and their employees) are totally getting screwed over.

    So genius should Apple contractors all shut their doors because they are not generating Apples profits, even though they provide most of Apple's product, quite a crazy worm in the Apple thought.

  22. Re:Hmmm on Amateur UAV Pilot Exposes Texas River of Blood · · Score: 1

    Search warrant, WTF? These kind of premises that require a licence to operate under any normal sane regulatory conditions, that licence allows immediate health and pollution inspection at any time with out warning. Kind of pointless to have government health officer who can't inspect a plant for health code violations.

  23. Re:Wow. Get a load of that. on US Embassy Sanctioned Lawsuit Against Aussie ISP iiNet · · Score: 4, Informative

    Correct, precedent is set and in any future case this evidence as well as precedence will be submitted. Note losers pays so iiNet got a major chunk of it's money back, this evidence could be used in a "Barratry, Maintenance and Champerty" case to gain further damages http://www.lawlink.nsw.gov.au/lrc.nsf/pages/DP36CHP2. Major case, major investment but a good chance of succeeding, another countries involvement especially a country with a clear reputation for threats of trade and military intervention will likely leave a vary bad taste in any independent Australian judges mouth.

    Especially now with the US forcing thousands of armed and fully loaded marines Marines, in fact they will be the largest armed and ready for conflict force in Australia, so targeted at China or an independent Australia and it's resources (once in will Australia ever be able to remove them and how much larger will their numbers get).

    Separation of powers works in Australia, and the high court routinely hands down judgements against the government http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_High_Court, strict literal interpretation of the laws and constitution as written and any changes to the constitution require a public referendum.

  24. Re:What about pipelining and keep-alive? on Google's SPDY Could Be Incorporated Into Next-Gen HTTP · · Score: 1

    Even better to combine multiplexing with better ISP proxy routines. Where regular checking is done for the mirrored version versus the original source. So with enforced net neutrality the adds can be delivered from the local mirror based upon correct alignment of add to content, without theft of content via altered or added adds.

    Mirrored adds will substantively reduce traffic across ISP boundaries. Of course the source would want to validate the accuracy of the mirror/proxy and also for the capitalist world correctly account for hits.

    Enforced and audited net neutrality allows for many traffic efficiencies, greed does the exact opposite exacerbates traffic loads.

  25. Re:Any news? on Piratbyran Co-Founder Says Stop DDoSing Polish Sites · · Score: 2

    It is impossible to 'pretend' to be 'Anonymous', there is no such thing as a false flag 'Anonymous' attack. Any one and any time can conduct and any kind of activist activity in the name of 'Anonymous' and that factually is an activist activity by 'Anonymous'.

    'Anonymous' would be quite content for any government department or corporation to attack itself, a lot of those organisations behave in a psychopathic insane manor, so, 'Anonymous' would consider it normal behaviour for those organisations to attack themselves, each other and us.

    'Anonymous" celebrates false flag as mission accomplished ;D.