User: pompomtom

and I know why...

On: Slovenian e-Government

On the map, I cannot find the World Trade Center buildings in New York,

Someone blew them up.

try Gods of Music

On: CEO of RIAA Speaks at P2P Conference

This is probably something like what you're after.

Re:What Utter Bombast

On: Microsoft Calls Viruses "Industrial Terrorism"

As the others, I've really only heard that accusation levelled at the US.

mod parent up!

On: Neighborhood Area Networks?

By George, he's GOT it.

Sig

On: Microsoft Shuts Auction Doors On Old Windows

Why you'd better try harder!

I've bought marijuana with a debit card.

On: How Feasible is a Cash-Less Society?

and pills.

erm.... kill who exaclty?

On: First-Person Account Of Today's Attacks

You don't even know who did it!

RTFA

On: Diablo 2 Items Bringing Home the Bacon

Which specifically points out that in Diablo II, this is NOT the case.

boewulf

On: The Funniest Joke in the World

I bet you it's got fuck all to do with beowulf clusters...

Re:you left out...

On: .au's Reclusive Administrator Elz Deposed

"Clever country" tch!!!

What backward thinking... now we have the "knowledge nation"....

you left out...

On: .au's Reclusive Administrator Elz Deposed

Given the apparently poor track record of the Australian government on Internet, privacy, security, and free speech matters,

...social justice, taxation, welfare, indigenous relations, Liberal party corruption....

Re:.au?

On: .au's Reclusive Administrator Elz Deposed

Yes, I believe it does.

Privatised? What a huge bloody surprise!

On: .au's Reclusive Administrator Elz Deposed

Asking THIS federal govt to take responsibility for something which could be flogged off to some mates... you've got to be pulling my chain!

Deposed by reason of insanity perhaps.

sounds like....

On: The Ultimate Cubicle

You mean, an office?

Re:There is even a parallel to the MPAA/RIAA

On: All Aboard The Technological Revolution

Yeah, like the causes of the civil war had anything to do with slavery....

It's NOT illegal, it's compulsory licensing.

On: Brazil Breaks Patent to Make AIDS Drug

Basically Brazil breaks the agreed internation law and makes the stuff for free

Bullshit. It's not illegal, it's compulsory licensing and it's allowed under the same international treaties that make the patent valid.

Apparently people are willing to allow those with the guns to do it,

Which has always been the way governments are created... through the legitimated monopoly on the means of violence.

Re:Data tax

On: RIAA To Target CD-R

Im not going to pay anymore taxes becuase other people decide to pirate music or other stuff on that

erm, yes you are.

Way to fucking GO!!

On: Brazil Breaks Patent to Make AIDS Drug

There's a time and a place for all this profit-minded patent shite.

AIDS ain't it!

Re:People are becoming consumers, not content crea

On: Broadband Crackdown

Or vice versa?

Re:Stephen King, author, dead at 54

On: Judge Demands Details Of FBI's Keylogger

He's been doing it for weeks....

Re:Battle of the Titans

On: AOL Desktops On New PCs

I doubt someone is going to attack a company as large as Microsoft for a measly $52,000.

I WILL!

Buckets,

pompomtom

Re:300bps?

On: TRS-80 Laptops Still Plugging Along

I see your point on the maths, I'm just saying what I remember.

I was using a 300 baud accoustic coupler (seen Wargames?). I imagine latency would be quite an issue, now you mention it, as the stuff I typed would be echoed by the BBS, so it's a two way trip through a couple of 10Mhz pc's...

Buckets,

pompomtom

Re:300bps?

On: TRS-80 Laptops Still Plugging Along

I don't know about 33cps, but when I used my old 300baud modem, it was slower than typing.

Buckets,

pompomtom

Re:Once again I miss out on everything

On: Another Nasty Outlook Virus Strikes

[blockquote]I have to run Lotus Notes at work (pity me! :-)) [/blockquote[br][br]I, too, use Notes at work, and I'd prefer the virii...

Buckets,

pompomtom

there's something like this in Oz

On: The Great .us Giveaway

....which was mentioned hear a while ago. Thing is, it's still going to be the same ol' landgrab. The Oz version is designed so that everyone can register their family name for an email domain. Hate to say it but I bet there's more Smith families than mine in Oz. I'd be guessing that the yanks have more than one "bob's shoe store" too....

Buckets,

pompomtom