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  1. Re:sue the carrier as an accompilce in the theft on US Mobile Carriers Won't Brick Stolen Phones · · Score: 1

    It's the same reason we have mandatory immobilizers on cars here. The pros will keep stealing but they prefer to be quiet and not hurt anyone. The idea is to remove the violent/stupid lower end of the 'market'.

  2. Re:Like War on All Video Games Cause Aggressive Behavior, Say Two US Congressmen · · Score: 4, Insightful

    All bribe-takers are also office holders. Something must be done.

  3. Re:Clever on Julian Assange To Run For Australian Senate · · Score: 2

    No immunity, just ask Mary Jo Fisher.

  4. Re:boring on Julian Assange To Run For Australian Senate · · Score: 1

    So someone like Steve Fielding could never get elected. I'm so relieved.

  5. Re:i said i need some more tits on Iran's Smart Concrete Can Cope With Earthquakes and Bombs · · Score: 1

    Mare tits? Kinky.

  6. Re:Google Chrome on Ask Slashdot: Life After Firefox 3.6.x? · · Score: 1

    They need to be more like the Phoenix browser. That took a big platform, stripped out all of the cruft and built a leaner, simpler browser. I miss it.

  7. Re:Get over it already on Ask Slashdot: Life After Firefox 3.6.x? · · Score: 1

    It doesn't. There is a hard-to-find ESR of 10.0 but Mozilla doesn't want anyone to use it and it's only good for a year.

  8. Re:What do you run internally? on Ask Slashdot: What Is the Best Distro For Linux Lessons? · · Score: 1

    Because they're allowing developers to choose. It's all there in the summary if you'd care to read it.

  9. Re:Ubuntu on Ask Slashdot: What Is the Best Distro For Linux Lessons? · · Score: 1

    ctrl-alt-del

  10. Re:Really a big deal? on Australia's Telstra Requires Fibre Customers To Use Copper Telephone · · Score: 1

    That's supposed to be the way in Australia as well. NBN installers come in, install the fiber and rip out the copper. This line from Telstra sounds bizarre.

  11. Re:Nice. on iPad 3 Confirmed To Have 2048x1536 Screen Resolution · · Score: 4, Funny

    Meh, battery life was crap.

  12. Re:Sterilization on Full-Body Scans Rolled Out At All Australian International Airports · · Score: 1

    Front door at Centrelink perhaps?

  13. Re:we have it in pdf, but not in epub on New Book Helps You Start Contributing To Open Source · · Score: 1

    Thanks for the tip. That's much nicer output than I got with latex2html.

  14. Re:we have it in pdf, but not in epub on New Book Helps You Start Contributing To Open Source · · Score: 0

    That's nice, but where's the tex2epub you originally mentioned?

  15. Re:we have it in pdf, but not in epub on New Book Helps You Start Contributing To Open Source · · Score: 1

    Latex2Html produced something and Calibre converted it. I'll give it a try on my reader.

  16. Re:we have it in pdf, but not in epub on New Book Helps You Start Contributing To Open Source · · Score: 1

    And before the pedants jump on you:

    apt-cache search tex2epub returns nothing as well.

  17. Re:No meetings are even better on Ask Slashdot: Are Daily Stand-Up Meetings More Productive? · · Score: 1

    I'd love that but we keep getting the only peripheral to the job, too busy to read anything and needs to be heard middle managers that come to these meetings. They're also the ones that book a room for an hour and get annoyed when the next meeting asks them to leave after 90 minutes.

  18. Re:sure they're helpful on Ask Slashdot: Are Daily Stand-Up Meetings More Productive? · · Score: 1

    We do ours while getting a cup of coffee or waiting for machines to boot or some other 'wasted' time. Cover all of the socialising and the office gossip and important details all in one 'meeting'.

  19. Re:Curious on Ask Slashdot: Are Daily Stand-Up Meetings More Productive? · · Score: 1

    In construction, they call it a toolbox meeting. Get the crew together at start of shift and make sure that everyone knows whats happening and what's required of them. I've found it works well when we're doing upgrades and large scale moves.

  20. Re:End game on Aussies Could Use Elephants To Fight Invasive Species · · Score: 4, Funny

    Cane toads.

  21. Re:Apparently not even compatible? on Super Wi-Fi Isn't Really Wi-Fi · · Score: 1

    Wi-Not

  22. Re:Not in this case on Chevy Volt Passes Safety Investigation · · Score: 0

    Gasoline is not gas. Gas is usually LPG and those things do catch fire.

  23. Re:One more quote on Researchers Find Slew of Flaws In SCADA Hardware, Software · · Score: 1

    Imagine an Apple / Microsoft security non-advisory but with real money and possible jail time involved.

  24. Re:Completely Irresponible on Researchers Find Slew of Flaws In SCADA Hardware, Software · · Score: 2, Funny

    Very funny. We've all known these things are vulnerable for more than a decade and nobody has done anything about it. The shame of these researchers is not divulging the information but in picking such low-hanging fruit. This is like discovering holes in Outlook 97.

  25. Re:Non IT engineers running the show may be at fal on Researchers Find Slew of Flaws In SCADA Hardware, Software · · Score: 1

    It's also the engineers who have moved / been moved into management or sales. If they weren't senior, they'd be out the back accounting for bolts. As it is, we had enough trouble convincing them that a good lawyer can't find a loophole in the laws of gravity and thermodynamics.