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  1. Re:Difficult? on 'They Can Sue, But They Can't Hide' · · Score: 1

    It pays to keep your mouth shut (or even lie) about your profession

    Well a Lawyer wont have any problems with that part.

  2. Make it Government Wide on Australian Tax Office Adopts Open Source Software · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I dont see why they dont do this government wide as China is attempting. The amount of money saved on licensing would hire a lot of staff for support and training. Thus the money previously paid for licensing would be directed into the local IT workforce, creating jobs, producing local IT experience and knowledge that can then boost the local industry instead of watching all our tax money go offshore...

  3. HaHaHampsters on Hamster-controlled MIDI · · Score: 2, Funny

    Honda use them to power engines, these guys use them in synthesis, what else can hampsters do?

  4. Dialogic Telephone boards use x86 on Is the x86 Ready for Consumer Appliances? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Dialogic Telephony E1/T1 cards have used 386 chips as embedded chips (mainly for encoding/decoding) for quite a while now. The architecture is obviously good enough for the job.

  5. Re:Possible defense? on RIAA Countersued Under Racketeering Laws · · Score: 1

    INAL either but, and I hate posts like this but its just like trying to tell the court you were unfairly signalled out by the police for speeding when there were cars driving faster than you. Its doesnt matter, the court looks at whether you are guilty or not. Just because there are other people that are guilty, doesnt mean that they will let you off. And no doubt the RIAA will try to identify and prosecute ever single user of Kazaa that distributes music, they will just do it in batches as not to piss every single person in the US off.

  6. Re:Retro Space Taxi on A Way to Save Hubble? · · Score: 1

    And how many technicians, scientists and engineers do you still know working that know how that works... The problem is that we've lost alot of the knowledge on these systems and its not just as simple as rebuilding them from the plans. All the manufacturing and support systems have moved on so that makes the designs as good as dead.

  7. Re:Thailand... on Microsoft Develops XP 'Light' for Thailand · · Score: 1

    You got ripped off. You should have tried her sister, MeLoveYouLongLongTime.

  8. Re:i don't get it on Europe Joins Race To Send Humans To Mars · · Score: 1

    Well I for one agree with you. So what if we contaminate what is there. Our current scientific understanding is that there is nothing there that is useful in its current form to us, to other senient beings or to any other form of life what so ever. If our contamination doesnt effect life that how can there be a problem. If a tree falls in the forrest but there is no one to hear it does it make a sound? If we contaminate a planet and there is no life to know about it, so what?

  9. Been There and seen that before on Comcast Targets Internet "Abusers" · · Score: 1

    This exact same scenario happened in Australia. When Broadband Cable first came out here, it was Essentially Unlimited. Then the providors put the Excessive Usage limits, where users that exceeded an arbitrary usage (often things like 10x the telco defined average usage), they were given a warning and then blocked,banned,sin-binned etc. Next the teleco's put hard limits down, basically around 3Gb. So people that had bought in on an unlimited contract were suddenly limited to three gigs. On a good cable, this is an absolute joke. Many pissed off customers. Now the limits have started to go back up, mainly due to good competition from ADSL providers.

  10. Re:older than 70s... on Forgotten Electronics of the 70s and 80s · · Score: 1

    Blah.... I'm just 4 years behind the rest of this planet. :)

  11. Re:older than 70s... on Forgotten Electronics of the 70s and 80s · · Score: 3, Informative

    wire recorders were first invented in the late 1890's. They started to catch on in the first part of this century and became big around 1910-1920. In the 20's to 30's wire was used by radio broadcasters for recording broadcasts. It was overtaken by magnetic tape in the 50's. this device would predate transisters and led's by probably at least 30-40 years.

  12. Re:I was thinking about this on Australian Firm Asks SCO To Detail Evidence · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Why favour your so called "republican" approach. From where I see it, everyone loses. The companies fight it out in court, costing everyone loads of money. It drags on for years, and then the consumers suffer as well. In the Australian Method, Our ACCC clamps down heavily on any company thats in breach of the Trade Practices act. And in most cases its done quickly as well. In this instance, the consumers are at a much greater advantage + theres more incentive for a company to not act illegally.

  13. Re:double-blind, controlled test, please? on The Successor to AC'97: Intel High Definition Audio · · Score: 1

    The digital filtering in Cooledit is not perfect, and it will alter the audio that is passed through it as well as allowing small amounts of frequencies greater than the limit to pass. So unfortunately your test will not prove much.

  14. Re:SCO complied, sorta on SCO Files Response To Demand For Evidence · · Score: 2, Funny

    What, they have developers? I though the company was all lawyers now...

  15. The Code on DVD-Jon Breaks iTunes Encryption For Linux Users · · Score: 2, Informative

    Link from the article to directly download the code: http://developers.videolan.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi /vlc/modules/demux/mp4/?cvsroot=VideoLAN

  16. Re:USE HTML on Microsoft Releases Changelist for Upcoming XP SP2 · · Score: 1

    PDF???? Why not just post it in HyperText Markup Language. That way we dont have to load other viewers to view it. Come on, this is the internet people.

  17. Re:They're selling... so what? on Bluetooth Shipments Exceed 1M per Week · · Score: 3, Informative

    Thats because you must live in the US. The US must be the most technologically backward country when it comes to mobile phones. And mobiles (limited power) is where bluetooth does its best.

  18. April the First? on FCC Adopts Broadcast Flag Scheme · · Score: 1

    This is as stupid as the evil bit.

  19. Re:His $4 million website. on Spam And Alston - From Luddite To Pin-Up? · · Score: 1

    Coz it was no investment. He was a luddite that got ripped off.

  20. His $4 million website. on Spam And Alston - From Luddite To Pin-Up? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    For those that dont remember, Richard Alston is the Communications Minister that spent $4 million on a website. I dont car how many good deeds he does, he is still the worlds worst luddite. References for those who dont remember: $4 million website or $4 million website And he couldnt even spend that money on the local economy. His view of technology is that it has to be done with the big multi-national companies, local ones dont even get a look in (see the whirlpool link). Obviously the companies prefered are the ones that are likely to hire him as a consultant either now or later on.

  21. Been done before - quick patent it on Gyroscope Gives CellPhones 'Tilt Control' · · Score: 3, Informative

    Is it like this or this or this And this goes back to 1999. Ahh but its on a phone now. Quick, I'd better patent it before someone else does. Bah.. Old idea. Just a new application.

  22. Re:Harder in the US on Telstra To Put Linux On Desktop · · Score: 1

    Cant you just not accept the Windows license agreement and then get your money back on Windows?

  23. The SA Government is not legislating for OSS on Telstra To Put Linux On Desktop · · Score: 1

    This is a landscape that is changing quite rapidly in Australia. The South Australian government is actively trying to pass a bill mandating that all government departments use open source software in preference to Microsoft, et al, where practical. I think you will find that the South Australian Government has already canned that idea. The premiers comment was that they will refuse to support any legislation either way but departments should be basing their software decisions on their own circumstances and merit.