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  1. Direct link on Google Play Store Mistakenly Removed KDE Connect (twitter.com) · · Score: 1

    To the celebrating parrot

    https://twitter.com/albertvaka...

  2. Data transmission alternatives... on Coders Used Ham Radio To Send Bitcoin From Canada To San Francisco (coindesk.com) · · Score: 1

    See RFC 1149 or RFC 2549

  3. Off-site backup? on Thirty-Million-Page Backup of Humanity Headed To Moon Aboard Israeli Lander (cnet.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    So off-planetary backups will be a thing now?

  4. Sounds like regular engineering to me!

    "I made something awesome, no idea how it works, but it does - don't touch it! You'll break it!"

  5. Re:Read this article via RSS & Feedly... on 'RSS Has Already Won' (brianschrader.com) · · Score: 1

    Yep, read this on Feedly too.

  6. Kache.. pronounced like cache... but how do you pronounce cache :P

  7. Tourists/vistors...? on Trump Signs Law Forcing Drone Users To Register With Government (thehill.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Ok .. and do tourists, visitors to America, people on work visa's, etc, do they need to register their drone if they decided to bring one with them on their trip?

    How is that going to work?

  8. Does this include... on CIA Releases 321GB of Bin Laden's Digital Library (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    ... his porn stash?

  9. And the navigation... on Britain's Newest Warship Runs Windows XP, Raising Cyber Attack Fears (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 4, Funny

    ... control system is assisted by Clippy.

  10. Do one thing? on Steve Jobs Wanted the First iPhone To Have a Permanent Back Button Like Android (bgr.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Except the Home button now does multiple things depending on if you long-press, double or even triple click it?

  11. Re:This looks familiar on The Classic Control Panel In Windows May Be Gone · · Score: 1

    Maybe graphic design is also moving to the "retro" look as with every modern thing these days.

  12. Super PAC... on Lessig Launches a Super PAC To End All Super PACs · · Score: 1

    -MAN? As a non-American, I saw a lot of PAC but still had no idea what this was talking about. Until I Wiki'd what PAC could have possibly stood for.

  13. Re:orly? on Australia's $44B Broadband Network May Settle For Fiber Near the Home · · Score: 2

    Having FTTH was to also not be reliant on the ageing copper network that has been shown to be temporarily fixed at areas with grocery shopping bags. There are regular outages as the copper fails and millions are spent in maintaining patchwork solutions.

  14. Bullying must stop on Criminal Complaint Filed Against Facebook After Girl's Death · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This is undoubtedly singing the same tune that will most likely go on for decades to come but bullying must be brought to a end.

    Parenting can only go so far - it's ridiculous to assume that telling your adolescent and hormonal child to be strong in the face of adversary will stop them from killing themselves. This poor girl left a note apologising for not being strong enough.

    There's also no chance that one parent will lecture or attempt to teach another a child that bullying is wrong - that's, unfortunately, not their place. Of course, one parent could talk to another but that's only if they know.... which if often not the case.

    However, there should be some figure of authority that should be able to do something...

    If bullying is witnessed in the playground, a teacher would usually bring it to an end, and (hopefully) punish the bully - lecture them, make them sincerely apologise, etc. Although there's been ridiculous cases where teachers end up lecturing the bullied - that just infuriates me.

    So, if this would occur in the schools and playgrounds, why not in the digital realm? It shouldn't be Facebook staff, in this case, but it should be the parents at the least. They really need to look after what their children are doing and what's happening to them. Facebook and other social media sites are just giant playgrounds for kids except there's no teachers around and that's always a recipe for disaster.

    Of course, this should be all within reason - don't exactly want parents digitally stalking their kids 24/7 but it's not difficult to just check peoples walls every once in a while...

    Anyway, that's enough ranting - hopefully that all makes sense.

  15. Re:Richard Buckland on How an Aussie University Creates the World's Best Hackers · · Score: 2

    Richard Buckland is currently working on internet voting and the security involved around that.

    Fionnbharr Davies is actually an ex-student of Richard.

    I know this being a UNSW graduate and a student of Richard as well :)

    Fionnbharr was quite the unusual character but quite devoted to his studies cause he just found it fun. No surprises here that he enjoys lecturing for the same reasons!

  16. Seasoned professional photographers... on Is It Worth Paying Extra For Fast SD Cards? · · Score: 1

    ... would take less burst shots than amateurs since they would know when to take a shot after having already framed it in their mind.

    Amateurs (and enthusiasts like myself) can often use burst shooting for shoot-and-pray. Hopefully amongst those photos something good came out!

  17. Re:How is this spoiling? on Data Analyst Spoils the World's Biggest Song Vote · · Score: 1

    I don't think the results were spoiled as such. More that the 'fun' of betting on who would top the list was spoiled - especially given that some betting outlets halted bets on the list as a consequence of the analysis.

  18. Re:Things keep getting worse and wose on Supersymmetry Theory Dealt a Blow · · Score: 0

    Microsoft is licensing out the SUSY theory?

  19. What was violated? on Huge Geoengineering Project Violates UN Rules · · Score: 2

    TFA says that it violates two UN rules/moratoria with mention of one that limits ocean fertilisation projects... and probably something about not doing this sort of thing for commercial gain.

    Can anyone else shed some light as to what was actually violated? Especially with the business man (George) in charge of the project claiming that such moratoria are "myths" and don't apply.

  20. Re:Which Android? on FBI Issues Android Virus Warning · · Score: 2

    A link within these advertisements leads to a website that is designed to push Loozfon on the user's device.

    FinFisher can be easily transmitted to a Smartphone when the user visits a specific web link or opens a text message masquerading as a system update.

    Based on that, it'd be simple websites telling people to download some installer/apk.

  21. Re:Non-existant QA? on In Under 10 Hours, Google Patches Chrome To Plug Hole Found At Its Pwnium Event · · Score: 1

    Depends on what was modified.

    Identify the module(s) impacted by the change required for the fix. Apply the fix. Test the fix works, then regression test the modules. Given small system then there's probably no problem for a 10 hour turn around - right?

  22. Pinkie Pie? on In Under 10 Hours, Google Patches Chrome To Plug Hole Found At Its Pwnium Event · · Score: 5, Funny

    So a My Little Pony hacked up Chrome?

    I await the fan art for this visual image!

  23. Re:A bright idea? on Water-Prospecting Lunar Rover Prototype Built · · Score: 1

    To find the ice, a rover thus must operate as close to the dark poles as possible, but not so far that it can't use solar arrays for power, Whittaker said. Polaris thus has three large solar arrays, arranged vertically to capture light from low on the horizon. The solar arrays will be capable of an average of 250 watts of electrical power.

    So, I guess it'll be in craters that are shadowed by the depth of the walls of the crater, but by not too deep of a crater so as long as the panels are taller than them?

  24. I got a couple calls from them... on Regulators Smash Global Phone Tech Support Scam Operation · · Score: 2

    Which I found amusing at first, especially since I run a Mac ;)

    The first time they called, I hung up immediately since I had better things to do. The second time, though, I got fairly annoyed at the guy who sounded like he was on the other side of the world in a shack somewhere. I wanted to probe him and ask questions - he claimed to be calling on behalf of my ISP, but did not disclose a name. He wouldn't answer any of my queries and kept on talking and talking - until silence and hung up.

    And here I was planning on setting up a Virtual Machine and let them tinker with it to see what they did if they ever called me again - guess that ain't going to happen any more!

  25. Re:Nicola Roxon can go bum herself with a dead fox on Australia Attorney General Proposes New Laws To Stop Twitter Trolls · · Score: 1

    Freedom of speech? What's that?