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  1. Re:Why still 32bit builds? on Lost Opportunity? Windows 10 Has the Same Minimum PC Requirements As Vista · · Score: 1

    Because Windows RT runs on ARMv7, so the code remains 32 bit clean.

    If a handful of people wish to run Windows 10 on their 10 year old Athlon XP/Pentium 4, they can.

  2. Re:SubjectsInCommentsAreStupid on Elon Musk: We Must Put a Million People On Mars To Safeguard Humanity · · Score: 3, Funny

    I wouldn't call Khan an environmentalist.

  3. Re:Can we rename Mars... on Elon Musk: We Must Put a Million People On Mars To Safeguard Humanity · · Score: 1

    It has been done before, mate.

    A utopia by that name was founded in the South American nation of Paraguay way back in 1893.

  4. Re:Simple answer on David Cameron Says Brits Should Be Taught Imperial Measures · · Score: 1

    Well 0 is still cold but our summers get as high as 45, which is hotter :-)

  5. Re:Feet and inches on David Cameron Says Brits Should Be Taught Imperial Measures · · Score: 1

    At least in the wool industry here, fabric is measured in microns.

  6. Re:FP? on David Cameron Says Brits Should Be Taught Imperial Measures · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Australia made the transition back in 1974.

    You'll survive.

  7. Re:Simple answer on David Cameron Says Brits Should Be Taught Imperial Measures · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Water freezes at zero and boils at one hundred.

    What could be simpler?

  8. Re:Depending on local ordinances... on Energy Utilities Trying To Stifle Growth of Solar Power · · Score: 2

    That's the economic miracle of privatisation. Sell off voter-owned infrastructure to foreign owned cartels who then bribe politicians with donations.

    Thanks, Jeff Kennett. :(

  9. Re:More disturbing.... on Man Walks Past Security Screening Staring At iPad, Causing Airport Evacuation · · Score: 1

    Not for a couple of years at the federal level.

    But scaring the proles coincides with bombing Islamic State to smithareens.

  10. Re:The terrorist won. on Man Walks Past Security Screening Staring At iPad, Causing Airport Evacuation · · Score: 2

    When it comes it airport security, pretty much.

    There's $AU630M in extra funding to security agencies, some of which will be spent on the latest high-tech toys at airports. Australia doesn't currently do finger-printing or eye scanning but expect that to be standard for any flights bound for the USA.

    Obama, or rather his 3-letter agencies, will be keen to insure "terrorists" never get on a flight to US airspace, which involves sympathetic nations rolling out new protocols and technologies in each departure terminal.

  11. Re:Is it that much of a problem? on At CIA Starbucks, Even the Baristas Are Covert · · Score: 1

    A minute or two, actually.

    Tap previous grounds into a knock-box, rinse portafilter, grind beans, tamp them down, draw espresso shots, steam milk, style a love heart in the froth.

    That's just for a caffe latte. The slow pour-over filter coffee nerds rave about is an art form that takes a while...

  12. Re:Uh seriously? on BT and Coke To Offer Free Rural Wi-Fi In South Africa Through Vending Machines · · Score: 2

    If they'd stuck with the original formula that contained traces of cocaine, of course...

    In South American regions coca is available over the counter in dry leaf form (for mastication during highland walks) and in tea bags, obviously at lower concentrations than the white powder rich folks snort.

  13. The Neighbourhood on Drones Reveal Widespread Tax Evasion In Argentina · · Score: 1

    Since it wasn't mentioned in the article, the neighbourhood in question is Nuevo Quilmes.

    Google's satellite imagery indeed shows some very low density housing. I guess we're talking the mega-rich who moved out of Recoleta.

  14. Re:Fine! on Microsoft On US Immigration: It's Our Way Or the Canadian Highway · · Score: 2

    The Salish Sea straddles Washington State and British Columbia if Microsoft want to move HQ from Redmond to Vancouver!

  15. Re:Dual Typing? on Rosetta Code Study Weighs In On the Programming Language Debate · · Score: 1

    Type inferred languages often allow you to sidestep type inference by explicitly declaring the types using a semicolon following the declaration.

    Microsoft's TypeScript follows that convention when augmenting ecmascript, e.g.

    function add(left: number, right: number): number {
            return left + right;
    }

  16. Re:Compiled Strongly-typed Languages -vs- Scripts on Rosetta Code Study Weighs In On the Programming Language Debate · · Score: 1

    (I believe he was referring to Haskell.)

    Java's boilerplate isn't a great advertisement for static typing. For a more modern perspective running on a virtual machine, F# and Scala provide OO semantics atop a Hindley-Milner-Damas inspired type inference but with perhaps too much esoteric functionalness for the average mortal!

    One wonders if RoR would have existed if someone had managed to craft a killer web framework on, say, Ocaml a decade ago.

  17. Re:Yay SA! on South Australia Hits 33% Renewal Energy Target 6 Years Early · · Score: 1

    Coles and Woolworths are typically open 'til midnight across Melbourne.

  18. Re:They need to get their shit together on South Australia Hits 33% Renewal Energy Target 6 Years Early · · Score: 1

    The current federal government panders to polluting industries and skeptics, particularly to luddite senior citizens. A 20% renewable target nationwide is ahead of schedule, which prompted lobbyists to commision a report favouring a roll-back because it would hurt big business.

    We have a bypartisan 5% emissions reduction by 2020. Yes, 5%, which is a joke of a target if they were actually serious.

  19. Re:Wuppee on South Australia Hits 33% Renewal Energy Target 6 Years Early · · Score: 1

    Just one state, which has a minority of the country's coal mines.

  20. Re:Works particularly well in SA/Victoria on South Australia Hits 33% Renewal Energy Target 6 Years Early · · Score: 1

    Thanks, South Aussies!

    I'd hate that this importation would be an excuse for Napthine (or whoever's runing the place post November) to sit on their hands and do nothing. The Coalition government in Victoria slashed climate action in response to Gillard's carbon tax at the federal level.

    I would hope both sides launch policies during the state election campaign as a response to Abbott and Palmer repealing the legislation, since Direct Action is dead.

  21. Re:With a name like "use-less-d"yes on Fork of Systemd Leads To Lightweight Uselessd · · Score: 1

    Well google have BoringSSL, perhaps it's a trend of stupid names for forks in seeking to discredit the upstream...

  22. Re:Why not support a current project instead? on Fork of Systemd Leads To Lightweight Uselessd · · Score: 1

    It needs a hyphen if use-less, rather than useless is intended.

  23. Re:Err... on Fork of Systemd Leads To Lightweight Uselessd · · Score: 1

    Don't the "haters" regard systemd as some all-encompassing Hurd-like wannabe, except whereas Hurd runs on top of a microkernel (mach), systemd bootstraps linux? :-)

    A "Hird of Unix-Replacing Daemons" might otherwise be a good description of systemd...

  24. Re:At least they were arrested on Australian Police Arrest 15, Charge 2, For Alleged Islamic State Beheading Plot · · Score: 2

    In this case, I believe, for one or more of them is Afghanistan. i.e. they were child refugees from the post 9/11 conflict whose homeland we bombed to smithereens.

    Now grown up, they've become radicalised in Sydney by foreign born clerics.

    We don't have the death penalty here.

  25. I just read about the Tim Mclean case. What's even more horrific is that PETA sought to gain publicity for animal rights by running an ad. Eeek!