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  1. Re:No app monopoly means no jail means no breaking on Apple's War Against Jailbreaking Now Makes Perfect Sense · · Score: 2
  2. Re:Many fine australian table wines on Chemists Build App That Could Identify Cheap Replacements For Luxury Wines · · Score: 1

    Strange, it's getting hard to find a bottle of Australian wine in Australia for $7 (retail) that you'd actually want to drink!

    Some either we locals are getting ripped off at the checkout, or Yanks have less discerning palates.

  3. Re:Almost on Beer Fridge Caught Interfering With Cellular Network · · Score: 1

    I stand corrected. I haven't seen it in a pub in Victoria nor bottleshop since the early 90s.

  4. Re:Software robot? on Beer Fridge Caught Interfering With Cellular Network · · Score: 1

    Agreed, a 'bot' might be nothing special in terms of coding, if you know how, but it *is* established terminology.

  5. Re:G'DAY MATE on Beer Fridge Caught Interfering With Cellular Network · · Score: 1

    Well no you'd have trouble finding any beer for 79c.

    Australia has one of the highest costs of living in the world even, arguably, higher than your beloved Canada.

  6. Re:Software robot? on Beer Fridge Caught Interfering With Cellular Network · · Score: 1
  7. Re:G'DAY MATE on Beer Fridge Caught Interfering With Cellular Network · · Score: 1

    You can find XX and Sol at any licensed mexican restaurant in Australia and, obviously, Corona too.

  8. Re:G'DAY MATE on Beer Fridge Caught Interfering With Cellular Network · · Score: 4, Informative

    That's the name of the brewing company that makes cat piss such as Victoria Bitter, Carlton Draught, Crown Lager etc.

    Foster's Lager, the beer, was bought out by foreign investment a couple of decades ago and is no longer brewed here.

  9. Re:Doctor Who is Dead. on Matt Smith Leaves "Doctor Who" · · Score: 1

    That 'frizzy haired' woman is Alex Kingston.

    She also played Moll Flanders, who was married to Daniel Craig. James Bond - a fellow that goes around saving the world and regenerates every few years through a different actor.

    Q.E.D. James Bond is a timelord!

  10. Re:Who's next? on Matt Smith Leaves "Doctor Who" · · Score: 1

    he's not British.

  11. Re:What I would like from the next series on Matt Smith Leaves "Doctor Who" · · Score: 2

    Nimoy leaking scientific equations to Pegg's Scotty was a homage to Doohan's Scotty in an earlier time travelling movie (ST IV) - i.e. Transparent Aluminum.

  12. Re:a majority of actors? on Matt Smith Leaves "Doctor Who" · · Score: 1

    Tom Baker at age 79 could still bedazzle audiences if his Little Britain narration is anything to go by!

  13. Re:Who's next? on Matt Smith Leaves "Doctor Who" · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Nick Frost.

  14. Re:Loons running the asylum on Taking Action For Free JavaScript · · Score: 1

    Poignant username! :-)

  15. Re:Want the code? on Taking Action For Free JavaScript · · Score: 0

    Your grandma is likely to do this?

    The idea is to provide a 'safe' experience within Gnu IceCat (firefox).

    Grandma will be able to click on any US government website and feel safe RMS is protecting her! When grandma visits a blacklisted site, RMS will issue a popup window telling her that the FSF prevented evil men from stealing her lifesavings.

    Tinfoil hat et alia but that's the idea - to block harmful scripts.

  16. Re:WHAT popular perception? on Taking Action For Free JavaScript · · Score: 2

    node.js? :)

    *ducks*

  17. Re:Loons running the asylum on Taking Action For Free JavaScript · · Score: 1

    Nevertheless the side effect of "loony and fringe" may well be security.

    Browser exploits are a community concern. By publishing a stallman-endorsed whitelist of non-harmful JS, turning off JS for all but approved sites could become easier for laypeople.

    Is this the sanest way of approaching this? Well I'll let you be the judge.

  18. Re:Dual SIM, Dual OS on Why Everyone Gets It Wrong About BYOD · · Score: 1

    Obviously Apple is a non-starter. But Android is open source.

    I'm not saying off the shelf solutions exist but any startup could create a niche by supporting one device and targeting virtualization solutions for that hardware. requires some partnership with chip vendors, device makers and big corporates.

    I'm thinking of the reverse of what you suggested. The company still supplies you with a work phone, with an "enterprise" image loaded. The worker then has the freedom to load a "personal" guest profile, even using a second SIM to maintain the work/life separation.

    Possibly that's a slight improvement over "here's a blackberry. if you want a personal communications device, carry a second phone in your other pocket "

  19. Dual SIM, Dual OS on Why Everyone Gets It Wrong About BYOD · · Score: 1

    Partition the phone into work/private.

    The 'work' profile runs whatever your corporate masters inflict upon you. It's for work calls only.

    The 'home' profile uses its own SIM and runs inside its own OS. You can load Android, FireFox OS, Ubuntu, whatever - it's you're personal space with your environment, private contacts, phone contract & data plan.

    When an employee leaves, the personal profile could be easily exported to be transferred to another phone (the image is just carried across to the hypervisor running on the new phone).

    Dual SIM tech exists. Hardware virtualization exists (arm v7a extensions).

  20. Re:The YAPPing language is for dogs on Dao, a New Programming Language Supporting Advanced Features With Small Runtime · · Score: 1

    Haskell's not on your list and came out in 1990, it's still hunky-dory, no? :-)

  21. dao used to be a common coding acronym for Data Access Object, viz a wrapper around sql.

    (Then they came up with POJO)

  22. Re:Free copies of office on Aussie Government Proposes OpenDocument As the Standard Format · · Score: 1

    This announcement, yesterday, did coincide with the visit of Bill Gates to Australia.

    Coincidence?

  23. Re:PETA is good! on PETA Wants To Sue Anonymous HuffPo Commenters · · Score: 1

    Yeah they still have that 'Sexiest Vegan Next Door" competition.

    But I draw the line on their faux foods section. Vegan quesadilla?? Hello, you're missing the point - by definition it's a tortilla with CHEESE.

  24. Re:Energy a bit more important than Beer on German Brewers Warn Fracking Could Hurt Beer · · Score: 4, Funny
    I get my science from Matt Damon

    Are you saying he's another Hollywood tree-hugger distorting facts in order to sell movie tickets?

  25. Re:Summary is Crap on Google Unable To Keep Paying App Developers In Argentina · · Score: 1

    It's a nice place with welcoming friendly people.

    But their economy went bust around 2001 with the collapse of the peso and is now struggling again with rampant inflation and such currency restrictions.