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  1. Re:That might sound fine on Australia Gets 8Mbit/s Broadband now, 20Mbit Soon · · Score: 1

    I was at a camp recentley (3-4 weeks ago) and we had a talk from the guy who was head of ACS (Australianb computer society) and he was basicaly saying that Australia's current internet connections are crap and that what you really need these days is speed >10 and as even as high as 20. i dont know if this was exaduration or not but thats what he said. They have apprantley been baduraging the Australian goverment to upgrade such things. Few people know that they played a major role in implemention of the now strong stance on the use of camera phones. Fiber is the way of communications. My science knowledge is limited on new developments but as far as i know the speed of light is the fastest speed possable. If so lets just start lying as much fiber down as possable all over the place. the lines themself's i dont think would change that much just the way we send information along the lines. I think i can rember reading on here somewhere that scientsts are been able to get 100gb a sec over fiber lines or something with new tcp/ip standards

  2. Re:Dont get your hopes up on Australia Gets 8Mbit/s Broadband now, 20Mbit Soon · · Score: 1

    Knowing my luck i wont put one in my eachange. According to some isp i was looking at the other day (iprimus) i think i am withing the range of my exchange to get the full spead out of it. Ill move my router out into the pit infrount of my house if it would increase my speed. but knowing my luck it wont be happening to me soon. On another note because one isp is starting it, all other isp's will have to eventually aswell or risk being left out so other isp's will start doing it soon. Telstra could gain the upper hand by burrying applications for dslam instlations and quieltley installing them as fast as possable beting the compertition to the market. Now would some isp please install a dslam on the CASTLE HILL exchange and ill be happy. Now at 8 up and 1 down. would be enoug to run a few more servers off my connection. Wonder if this will lead to drops in the cost of prices of hosting for games websites etc.

  3. Re:A LOT more new stuff... on New Apple iPod with Photo Capabilities · · Score: 1

    Why not just get the iriver h300 series with colour screen and usb host support? No need for a 3rd party device just plug the camera in via usb and copy the files over and with the coulour screen just view the pics.

  4. Re:EBags on Advice On Notebook Backpacks? · · Score: 1

    Personally i perfer Crumpler. There quire abit more expensive but in my mind well worth the money

    http://www.crumplerusa.com/ for the US page or http://www.crumpler.com.au/home.php for the Australian one

  5. Re:If you need a hand... on Internet Censorship in Australia? · · Score: 1

    http://www.reallifecomics.com/ for today (Thursday - September 30, 2004) explains the polical mess that Aust is in atm. this comic really does represent what some of the tv adverts have been like

  6. Bugger off on Internet Censorship in Australia? · · Score: 1

    Well all i can say is bugger off if parents wasnt to use such software they can go and buy it for there computers the idear of making a nation wide thing is just plain stupid. This election is bringing up some of the wierdest idears in a long time. Hell this along with the labor Medicare Gold idear was probley thought up at the local pub the night before when they were all offf there faces. If you want to stop your kids looking up stuff they shoulden't try http://www.netnanny.com/ and shelf this idear before you look even more stupid

  7. Re:LASER on Logitech Gives A Mouse A Laser · · Score: 1

    i saw this a few weeks ago. Some wabpages had it listed but only one was in english and it only had about 10 lines on it. I only just got an mx510 so im slightley anoyed. I thought this may be a fake when i first saw it but by the look of this it inst

  8. Re:why? on How Google Could Overthrow AIM · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Oh so the google bot will be reading our messages in hopes of supplying adds related to what i am sending messages to people about?

  9. Re:How long before they can DDOS a powerplant? on Internet-Enabled Thermostat · · Score: 1

    Im sure even if they set a password the manafactures will leave a back to just to keep there ego inflated. Hell look at MS they Do. Even if they do have them password protected most people will just set it to "password" or something and a nice well scriped worm with a nice sized dictionary file could be released and peoples power bills could start to increase.

    Some company made a movie on this. Cant rember what it was call, Pritty crap but it proved a point. The story line was basically that everything in every household was controld by a computer systedm and all it took was one disgruntled employe to to wright a virus and kill a few million people! - Next we will have them AI controled and it will be something right out of the TERMENATOR. Airconditoners leping off the walls firing lazers at us!

  10. Re:easy on Mitnick Speaks About Hacking · · Score: 2, Interesting

    you got it in one. and in most cases it is as symple as that allomst. If anyone is really intrested try his book the art of deseption its quite good. hell workd on my comp teachers at school i got one of them to verbally tell me his password.

  11. Re:Who the hell reads subjects? on Our Friend, The Meter · · Score: 1

    Well most of there Curencey. Just as usualy the us trying to be special buy bring diffrent to the rest of the world. Althow have to admin our goverment desided to adopt a standard for digital TV unlike the rest of the world so you can anywhere in Australia buy a digital tb you can only buy decoder boxes starting at around $800

  12. Who the hell reads subjects? on Our Friend, The Meter · · Score: 1

    The US is ment to be one of the most advanced countries in the world and is using one of the oldedst and anoing systems of measurment. Your currencey is based on the decimal system it wouldent be to hard to change everyhting to metric, everyone has the base idear. Would have been harder for the uk there momeny works off like base 6 or something