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  1. Re:...and camp the passing lane on Couple Who Catch Cop Speeding Could Face Charges · · Score: 1

    Here in South Australia, we have an overtaking-only-in-right-lane law, but only for roads with a speed limit of >= 80km/h.

    That said, drivers over here are generally quite sane, although you'll see some idiot queueing across an intersection every now and then.

  2. Re:As good as it sounds... on Cancer Drug Found; Scientist Annoyed · · Score: 1

    There is only one thing worse for the company than curing diseases - someone else curing diseases.

  3. Re:Webmail on Sen. Ted Stevens Introduces "Son of DOPA" · · Score: 1

    Books are just as useful as the internet

    Not necessarily - they are often out of date, and have a mediocre search function.
  4. Re:Guilty by association? on Google Accused of Benefitting From Piracy · · Score: 1

    and asks you (not forces you at gunpoint; merely asks you) to drive him across state lines, then you have a reasonable obligation to say no, or in some way not help in the bank robbery.

    What kind of nutcase jury would convict for something like that? Given that the bank robber got that far, it's a fair assumption that he/she has some sort of weapon; you'd be crazy to refuse.

  5. Re:I thought us Aussies were taxed weird on California Balks At Internet Sales Tax · · Score: 1

    My understanding is that during/after World War Two, the states agreed to let the Federal Government collect taxes and disburse them to the states. As far as I know, GST isn't any different. Besides, if it was a state matter, we wouldn't have had that "We have no plans to introduce a GST" moment.

    Of course, this means that Canberra can make the states do anything by denying them taxes if they don't bend to their will.

  6. Re:Honestly on Interview With Jailed Video Blogger Josh Wolf · · Score: 1

    is that it may show some illegal or unethical behaviour on his part - In which case, he deserves all he gets.

    If that is the case, then your constitution would protect him from being forced to do such a thing. Few modern legal systems require people to incriminate themselves.

  7. Re:"United States government politics" on EU Bans Sock-Puppet Blogs · · Score: 3, Funny

    Without intelligent lifeforms? We're a country of bloody Einsteins compared to New Zealand!

  8. Re:First thing I thought of... on EU Bans Sock-Puppet Blogs · · Score: 1

    How hard would it be to find the IP addresses of a competitor and hack or backdoor or botnet his machine and start spamming websites with bogus false advertising?

    How hard would it be to find the IP addresses of the competitor who did this and have the company sued, and those who authorised the scheme charged?

  9. Re:The site was Dugg last night on Yahoo Pipes · · Score: 1

    A perl script would find the dupes and be able to check the link with WWW::Mechanize. The job must have been outsourced.

    To a country that doesn't have access to the internet.

  10. Re:Well, I guess that proved ME wrong... on Yahoo Pipes · · Score: 1

    And so are named pipes, and file descriptors generated by the pipe(2), and a million other things. Or someone could simply be talking about "pipes" in reference to network links.

  11. Re:One Lease Per Child on One Laptop Per Child Security Spec Released · · Score: 1

    Wow. So someone else has the power to brick my machine remotely?
    No. It only bricks it IF all three of the following are fulfilled:
    1. The government that purchased the laptop asked the OLPC people to activate the feature.
    2. The owner hasn't disabled it.
    3. The laptop hasn't had access to the server for a specific amount of time (three months, I believe)

    The owner is easily able to turn this off. It's nothing to do with DRM.
  12. Re:Processor info? on Why Does Skype Read the BIOS? · · Score: 3, Informative

    The CPU is identified with the CPUID instruction, not with any sort of BIOS access. Such a scheme would be wasteful and more complex.

  13. Re:Change the name on Ogg Vorbis Gaining Industry Support · · Score: 1

    As was said before, Ogg is the name of the container format. Ogg Vorbis is simply a Vorbis stream inside an Ogg container. Calling it Ogg would make it nonsensical.

  14. Re:Change the name on Ogg Vorbis Gaining Industry Support · · Score: 1

    The pronunciation is not immediately obvious, it's hard to spell correctly unless you stare at it for a while
    Not immediately obvious? How much more unambiguous can you get?
  15. Re:It's apples fault on Vista - iPod Killer? · · Score: 2, Informative

    You don't need iTunes to copy things to the iPod. The only Ipod-related lock-in is the iTunes Music Store. There are lots of applications around to copy music to the iPod. Gtkpod, Ephpod, Amarok, a Winamp plugin according to another poster.

    The reason that you don't just have drag-and-drop is for performance; a database is much faster than reading every file.

  16. Re:Software & money on Nvidia Faces Class Action Lawsuit Over Vista Drivers · · Score: 1

    Drivers aren't just in support of hardware; they're required by hardware. When the card was advertised to work on Vista, but didn't, they sold people a thousand-dollar paperweight.

    The drivers may as well be part of the hardware. If you bought a car after being told that you would get air-conditioning included for free, would it be wrong to have a go at them for false advertising when they did no such thing?

  17. Re:$700,000?!?! on Apple Ordered to Pay Blogger Legal Fees · · Score: 1

    Who else would legal fees go to?

  18. Re:It's Cooked on Hubble Telescope's Main Camera Shuts Down · · Score: 1

    do wire shorts smell in space?
    The smell that is normally associated with shorts is ozone, which would not be produced without some oxygen around.
  19. Re:Well, let's see on An Essay On Subscription Television · · Score: 1

    Really? I have a set with all of the discs from less than three months ago, and I haven't seen any.

  20. Killed? Probably just natural selection. on Who Killed the Webmaster? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If there were so many webmasters back then, in the world of "flaming skulls, scrolling marquees, and rainbow divider lines", as the article states it, perhaps the world has just come to its senses and the clueless "webmasters" have died off, leaving the sites to competent programmers and designers.

  21. Re:Selling porn? on Canadian Phone Company Selling Porn · · Score: 1

    If you had a really specific fetish and there was a site for it, I could see paying for it rather than having to settle for whats mainstream

    That's true. Plenty of videos of nurses on the trackers, most of which have a senior nurse come in. But how often easy is it to find a video of Senior Administrative Nurses?

  22. Re:Cannot say I disagree. on Gentoo On Server Considered Harmful · · Score: 1

    You realise that portage supports binary packages, right?

  23. Re:Does this consitute eves dropping? on Using AI to Monitor Kids Online · · Score: 1

    The one thing that Windows XP Home got right is the user account control. Parents can easily set up kids accounts that cannot install software

    No they can't. A well-written app can just be installed in the user's home directory.

  24. Re:People can pick locks too... on Blu-ray Protection Bypassed · · Score: 1
    It helps to prevent people from buying counterfeits.

    How does DRM help you there? A digital signature would be sufficient to prove that the content is real.

    What's to stop counterfeiters from getting the real disk's key, like has already happened several times, and encrypting the movie with that?
  25. Re:Why slower? on Walking Molecule Now Carries Packages · · Score: 1
    but on that lengthscale, gravity doesn't matter!

    But inertia does.