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  1. Re:About time, now when will the U.S. wake up? on Canada Rolls Out Plastic Money · · Score: 2

    Aussie money is extremely tear resistent, but once a small tear does occur then they tear in half very easily. Thankfully in 24 years of the system I have only ever had maybe half a dozen notes tear, I have had far more US money destroyed yet I only visit there a few weeks each year.

  2. Re:About time, now when will the U.S. wake up? on Canada Rolls Out Plastic Money · · Score: 1

    Nothing, neither washing machine nor clothes dryers run at high enough heat to affect those notes. I have regularly had notes go through the washing machine and dryer on max temp in Aus.

  3. Re:How do they hold up in a dryer? on Canada Rolls Out Plastic Money · · Score: 1

    I have regularly had my Aussie money go through the washing machine and dryer, I have a bad habit of forgetting to put notes back in my wallet. Neither Washing machine or dryer seem to have any affect on the notes.

  4. Re:The real counter measure on Apple Patents Tech to Stop iPhones Filming in Venues · · Score: 1

    IA : "Officier why did you disable those iphones from filming the incident"
    Officer : "Wasn't me, I know I am not allowed to do that, must have been someone else trying to get me in trouble"
    IA : "Oh ok, your free to go then"

    I know if I was an cop I would carry one with me, try proving it was me that disabled them without actually catching me in the act with the device. In today's litigation happy society they would be fools not to carry one.

  5. Re:Oh good... on Big Drop In Solar Activity Could Cool Earth · · Score: 1

    So somehow 13 years is too short to be anything but error or statistical noise, but somehow merely increasing it to 30 years gives somehow significant data? what a load of bullshit. Not going to argue whether there is or isn't warming as I honestly don't know what the data says, but I can tell you point blank that if 13 years is statistically insignificant then 30 years is not even close to a long enough time frame to be considered significant.

  6. Re:pterry on Terry Pratchett Considers Assisted Suicide · · Score: 1

    My Gandmother is 92, still going strong body wise but has Alzheimers, With Alzheimers you basically become little more than a living shell, no need to worry about nightmare as you can't remember what happen 2 mins ago let alone for the last 50 years. You need to be basically watched 24x7 and can't do anything alone as even if it is one of those extremely rare semi lucid days that could end at any moment leaving you lost. Death comes to us all at least once, Alzheimers it comes on a daily basis, you get to watch as every living memory you ever had dies till you can't even remember those that love you or even where you are or your own name in some cases leaving them constantly frightened and confused. The fact you can't imagine anything worse than death shows you simply have no imagination.

  7. Re:No. on Devs Worried Microsoft Will Dump .NET · · Score: 1

    It isn't MS's job to do the work the OpenGL team should have already done.

  8. Re:And? on Apple Now World's Largest Semiconductor Buyer · · Score: 1

    Users perspective? WTF?? They are discussing semi conductor usage and company profits/size, where the fuck does a users perspective come into it?

  9. Re:This Again on Apple Sued Over Use of iCloud Name · · Score: 1

    The iPhone at the time was a dead trademark, ie the product had not been actively developed from the company Cisco had purchased, then in 2006 they decided to rebadge their voip range as iphone just before apple released their iphone, so the argument there was that cisco were just trying to reactivate their rights to the trademark. The iCloud is an actively used name in the industry for a company, very very different situations.

  10. Re:How did they not know? on Apple Sued Over Use of iCloud Name · · Score: 1

    You don't have to register a trademark, As long as you can prove active use of the name before someone else came along and tried to use it you are protected.

  11. Re:And? on Apple Now World's Largest Semiconductor Buyer · · Score: 1

    printers are also computing devices, but he wanted to exclude those too.

  12. Re:And? on Apple Now World's Largest Semiconductor Buyer · · Score: 1

    Then you better remove all apples non computring devices like ipods, Itunes, the app store and the revenue they make from OSX upgrades etc etc. simple fact is the OP was wrong. apple have a higher profit, they have less revenue overall and less on purely computing devices.

  13. Re:And? on Apple Now World's Largest Semiconductor Buyer · · Score: 1

    And even taking all that out how does that make apple bigger than HP by "A LOT", The OP claimed Apple were bigger than HP, They aren't, they are bigger than a certain portion of HP, but even by chopping out a whole lot of areas it is only a small difference. Basically the OP was full of shit and got called on it.

  14. Re:.NET isn't going anywhere on Silverlight Developers Rally Against Windows 8 · · Score: 0

    If by abandon you mean provide a new set of tools with the same VB style language and a range of tools to convert old code then sure they abandoned it.

  15. Re:Sounds like they're got inside access on Daily Sony Hacking Occurs On Schedule · · Score: 1

    What you are describing is a massive failure on sony's part still. I work for a massive corporations IT that has literally hundreds of departments and subcorporations both foreign and domestic, Every one of them has no choice but to submit to the head corporations IT security standard, it is not an option regardless of how independent they are. That is how most normal corporations work, if sony doesn't then they deserve everything they get.

  16. Re:Tiny Battery Life on Kogan Beats Samsung and Acer With World's First Chrome OS Laptop · · Score: 1

    3.5 hours is just plain aweful. My Asus gets a comfortable 5 hours, significantly more if all I do is browse the web. Even my work laptop that I use for dev that sucks enough power to make it hot enough to cook an egg on gets 3 hours.

    So what they have here is a netbook with low specs, low storage, extremely poor battery life and requires you to have constant internet access to be usable, hmmmmm yeah I can see those simply flying of the shelves.

  17. Re:Ha Ha, mine goes to 11 on Cheap GPUs Rendering Strong Passwords Useless · · Score: 1

    There hasn't been a need to grow with moore's law. "Most" people in the security community have considered strong passwords to be in the order of 14+ Characters (We use 16 minimum here) with a mix of upper/lower/numbers and symbols for a very long time, hence why passphrases have been the recommended approach for a very long time now. While computing ower has curtainly made these faster to calculate you are still looking at many years on average to effectively crack a strong password. The examples given in the authors posting would have been considered weak passwords a decade ago.

  18. Re:And? on Cheap GPUs Rendering Strong Passwords Useless · · Score: 1

    It does present a significant barrier, you have to remember the article is garbage, it talks about strong passwords being easily cracked but then only gives examples of weak short passwords. Having hashes of strong passwords even with GPU's is still a multi year piece of processing to recover a password (or at least a potential password).

  19. Re:Pasteurization on New Superbug Strain Found In Cows and People · · Score: 1

    Actually it is more that once you cook a steak beyond medium rare you may as well be eating a cheap piece of supermarket meat as you lose all the flavour anyway. What is the point of being in a restaurant if any old piece of crap would have kept you happy. PS: even a well done piece of meat only takes 3 or 4 minutes each side, 20-30 mins is cremated.

  20. Re:Hmm.. on Bubble Bursting On the MMO Market? · · Score: 1

    Yes I was on a PVP server. perhaps I just got unlucky with my server choice.
    between the constant idiotic chuck norris jokes and people getting absolutely flamed for asking questions it was horrible. Not to mention we even had one guy on our server that got so upset in his arguments and insults that he decided to then devote his time to ensuring we lost every warfront by running shards for the other team.

  21. Re:Annoying.. on Sony Compromised, Again · · Score: 1

    There are all sorts of reasons they might not be able to copy all the data. SQL Injection attacks can often be limited by the server side field limits that your returning the data in or the size of query results. if you have to return 20 rows at a time it can take quite a while to suck down a million records.

  22. Re:Hmm.. on Bubble Bursting On the MMO Market? · · Score: 1

    Wow is going strong and has a horrible community, But man the rift community sucks balls so bad, it is hostile and uncooperative, if anything I would say it consists mainly of all the worst aspects of the wow community. After reaching max level in Rift and getting completely bored with its lack of innovation and content I dumped it, The funniest part of the article is him praising trion for there content.

  23. Re:The Doctor needs a break too on Daleks To Be Given 'A Rest' From Dr. Who · · Score: 1

    I can still enjoy old episodes, I can even enjoy most all of it including most of the david tennent stuff (most). Age has nothing to do wtih it. The current stuff is like watching a soapy combined with inspector Gadget and Lost.

  24. Re:keep daleks, get rid of writers on Daleks To Be Given 'A Rest' From Dr. Who · · Score: 1

    They have made the doctor into some twisted version of inspector gadget with this season. He seems to have no clue but always manages to stumble into the solution. This is not what Doctor Who was meant to be, at least not to me. An overarching story is fine, the odd plot twist is fine. A blundering idiot for a doctor with stupid love stories and that idiotic River theme they have going seems they have finally lost the plot, it is now more like a soapy than the different and cool scifi show I fell in love with.

  25. Re:The Doctor needs a break too on Daleks To Be Given 'A Rest' From Dr. Who · · Score: 1

    You pretty well nailed my exact thoughts. After over 30 years of eagerly watching anything and everything Doctor who I am finding the new stuff more and more cringe worthy, The current season is beyond apalling, perhaps the show needs a rest again till they can find some decent writers that can rediscover what made Doctor Who such a long lasting show in the first place, and it certainly wasn't the shit they are currently churning out.