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  1. Re:Space agency launching what? on South Australia To Be Home To Australia's New Space Agency (abc.net.au) · · Score: 1

    But South Australia won and it's closest equatorial point is 26 degrees south, a similar distance to the equator as Cape Canaveral's 28 degrees north. Having driven through outback South Australia I can personally attest to how remote and rugged a lot of that area is. It isn't ideal for launching rockets because it is a long way to transport equipment and for folks working out there it is boring and a long way to travel back to family/friends.

  2. Re:Shorts are running scared... on Elon Musk Calls Boss of Tesla Troll Who's Heavily Invested In Oil Industry (electrek.co) · · Score: 1

    I cannot prove it but there seems little logic to them having revenue issues. Their production rate continues to grow month on month, so each month they have more customers taking deliveries than the last and hence more revenue coming in. At the same time their cost of production set up must be slowing, I say this because surely their main costs are in building production lines and they are now well established, yes there are tweaks i.e. changing robots in the cell packing but compared to the numerous other steps in producing a car these are just tweaks to fix bottlenecks. Also they reportedly are still receiving more paid reservation than they can produce so again they will be bring in additional revenue there month on month.

  3. Re:99% shit on Thanks To Valve, More Than 1,500 Games Are Now On Linux · · Score: 1

    So are 99% of unreferenced statistics, including this one.

  4. Performance isn't everything on Phoronix Lauds AMD's Open Source Radeon Driver Progress For 2014 · · Score: 1

    My old radeon 3650 based laptop runs hot on the open source driver compared to old FGLRX drivers that support it. So, hot that at times the thermal protection shuts it down when running computational intensive processes for 10+ minutes. So performance isn't everything at times.

  5. Re:Kudos on Anonymous Hacks Westboro Baptist Church · · Score: 1

    Exactly, intent is huge in the eye of the law in terms of Murder Vs Manslaughter. WBC folk have intent to be indecent and upset, if that was not their intent this would be a freedom of of speech issue though.

  6. Re:Kudos on Anonymous Hacks Westboro Baptist Church · · Score: 1

    I would think they could be charged with disturbing the peace, even if they don't say anything. I would think that any right thinking Judge would realize this is not a freedom of speech issue but a deliberately protagonist group. They themselves have publicly stated many times that they like to upset people.

  7. Phew on Microsoft Patents Whacking Your Phone To Silence It · · Score: 2

    As long as they don't Patent dropping annoying phones in a glass of water, I think there might be some prior art on that one.

  8. Re:Drug test the final standard? on Lance Armstrong and the Science of Drug Testing · · Score: 1

    I used to think he was clean then you see graphics like this, http://i.imgur.com/i3mwd.jpg, that show the number of doped world class riders he bet and I know that his performances are too good to be clean.

  9. Re:A tad longer than that on Where Are All the High-Resolution Desktop Displays? · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Looking around my office most people sit about 20" from their monitor but hold a smartphone 12" away from their face. With 20:20 vision are humans able to see 326ppi at 20"? I would guess not.

  10. Ordinary phones are used to organise crime too on In AU, Film Studios Issue Ultimatum To ISPs · · Score: 1

    Isn't making ISPs responsible for the data they carry the same as making ordinary phone companies responsible for the conversations that they carry?

    I mean normal phones are used to organise criminal activities every day but I am sure most of us would not be happy to have every conversation we have monitored. Even if you are doing nothing wrong there is the danger of things being taken out of context and inappropriate privacy exposure.

  11. Re:WinMo trap on Analyst Predicts Android Overtaking iPhone In 2012 · · Score: 1

    Yeah, short term they know that they won't have to think about anything else.

    But long term they know they have just aligned themselves with MS.

    Think long term and strategic rather than short term and tactical.

  12. Re:Doesn't have a built in update mechanism? on Microsoft Rushes Internet Explorer Patch · · Score: 1

    I am sure there are plenty of us that have built computers for relatives that would not know about patches and are definitely the average or below user. In my situation some of these people live hours away and talking the aforementioned situation through on the phone would be about as much fun as shaving your testicles with a cheese grater.

  13. Big on Holmes Comet Coma Grows Bigger Than The Sun · · Score: 1

    And I though my name sake holes was big!

  14. Poor wine guys on Microsoft OneCare Last in Antivirus Tests · · Score: 1

    This will be a sad day for the wine guys. Even when Microsoft try not to they can still run 17% of malware, last time I saw someone try to run malware through wine they couldn't get any of test apps to run 100% perfect :-) What a strange world we live in when Microsoft who doesn't want something to work can't stop it, and the wine guys who would feel complete if it did run can't get it to. Wouldn't it almost be in Microsoft's interest to contribute to wine to get malware working 100% on linux.

  15. Plastic shells prove there is a god. on Plastic Packages Cause Injuries, Revolt · · Score: 1

    Plastic shells prove the existence of god, because only Satan himself could have invented the evil that is plastic bubble packaging!

  16. Re:Too much buying power... on Wal-Mart Controls Modern Game Design? · · Score: 1

    Actually Wal-Mart doesn't get it power from consumers, it gets it from shoppers.

    Consumers consume stuff.
    Shoppers buy stuff, Wal-Mart is far more interested in the people who buy stuff.

    In the terms of games it is what parents will buy that is important.

  17. Re:Here on the Ring of Fire... on Australia Pushes Geothermal Energy · · Score: 1



    But then the subject changes to football and the fact the All Blacks always loose to australia, then nz just doesnt have any come backs to such comments :)


    Earth to Oztiks,

    OMG you are a troll. Have you seen how your teams are performing lately, I guess you could boast about cricket, nope aussie sucks at that (how did the ashes go again). How about Rugby union, nope you have lost your last 6 tests in a row. How about league, no Australian was last in the tri nations. You recently got your butts kicked in netball by NZ. There is not a lot left. I guess you are the best in the world at AFL, an aussie only sport.

    Shit, is there anything Australia has won at recently?

    So, be quiet before we send over a small troop of kiwi girl guides to invade you and declare Australia the "West Island". I think that is all it would take, hell you can't beat anything else!

  18. Re:Here on the Ring of Fire... on Australia Pushes Geothermal Energy · · Score: 1

    Hi Jo,

    I was in your comp.sci.fundamentals course this semester.

    After living in Australia for a while I have realised it is actually just a big hole, in fact up to 15m below sea level that all of central Australian drains into.

  19. Re:Debian? Red Hat? on The Company Everyone Loves To Hate · · Score: 1

    Red Hat? Debian? Pricing their products at *zero*

    No, Redhat/Debian are free. There is a difference.

  20. Re:Already available in Australia on 3G Internet Access Via PCMCIA Card · · Score: 1

    Sorry but the parent was talking about Orange Australia, they are a separate company.
    Have a look at theire web site

  21. Re:Niagra? on Jonathan Schwartz Shows 32-Way UltraSPARC Chip · · Score: 1

    > Is that like a cross between Niagara and Viagra? Yes, the designer was standing on his head watch the water flow straight UP when he came up with the name :-)

  22. Re:command line is bad? on Fedora, SuSE And Mandrake Compared · · Score: 1

    You may want to try this cool thing called Google some time there are 2,950,000 Hits on Linux Howto you might be able to be able to find the FM there. It all comes down to how you define documentation I guess......

  23. Re:PPCP (PowerPC Please) on NVidia Releases Linux Drivers Supporting 4K Stacks · · Score: 1

    Quite the challenge for a PPC user to upgrade to Windows that would then be able to use the Windows driver...... but you desire to sell you karma to the devil is appreciated :-)