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  1. Lucky he's in Victoria on Australian Teen Reports SQL Injection Vulnerability, Company Calls Police · · Score: 1

    If he lived in South Australia, detectives could confiscate his computers without having to obtain a search warrant (they are issued a "general warrant" removing a layer of oversight that most other states have).

  2. Gave up. on CERN Launches Line Mode Browser Emulator · · Score: 1

    Figuring out how to view a website took too long. No obvious way to do after looking at the help pages and list of commands. Typing in a web address results in nothing happening.

  3. NSA on Microsoft Has 1 Million Servers. So What? · · Score: 1

    Is there a way to get the NSA to disclose how many servers is has? Or Google for that matter? Sifting audio and video data for key words or copyrighted content must consume huge resources.

  4. Power source on Wi-Fi Light Bulbs Shipping Soon · · Score: 1

    I was hoping it would be powered directly by the Wi-Fi radio waves and use LEDs. That would be cool.

  5. My Two Cents on What Keeps You On (or Off) Windows in 2013? · · Score: 1

    Windows XP allows me to do what I want (I'm not the power gamer I used to be). Pretty much every PC program runs on it.
    Don't have a huge budget so don't buy Apple computers. I would use Linux if there were a similar level of apps to PC. Even iOS might not have a broad enough range of apps to satisfy my needs.

    I did not find the Mac easy to use the last time I tried, even something as simple as opening a new tab in the background with the mouse was a nuisance. Maybe I would like a modern Mac if I got used to it but XP/2000 was Microsoft's crowning achievement in the OS arena and I'll keep using it until I want an OS that can utilise more than 4GB of RAM. Which might not be too far off.

    I have a laptop that came with Windows 7. I installed Ubuntu but the Wi-Fi driver was vastly inferior to the windows one, only booted it up a handful of times.

  6. Sorry on Missile Test Creates Huge Expanding Halo of Light Over Hawaii · · Score: 1

    ...but this was not worth a Slashdot story.

  7. Permanent DST on Is Daylight Saving Time Worth Saving? · · Score: 1

    As a late riser living at 35 degrees latitude, I would personally prefer permanent shift to daylight savings time. It helps me to psychologically handle getting up earlier in the day.

    I travelled north (in Australia) where there is no DST in late December and the sun set way too early in the day there for my liking, 6:15pm.

  8. Question on Aaron Swartz Commits Suicide · · Score: 1

    Suicide or suicided?

  9. Double standards on DOE Asks For 30-Petaflop Supercomputer · · Score: 1

    It's pretty cynical that western governments want to tax harmless carbon dioxide (eg. in Australia) and limit our energy consumption through constantly jacking up the rates yet build extremely power-hungry installations in order to crunch all the data needed to surveil the citizens and build a profile of them.

  10. More on Anti-GMO Activist Recants · · Score: 1

    Just read TFA, I suspect he's been drawn into the orbit of the "skeptics" movement (deliberate quotation marks) who have blind faith that the government is only there to help people, that no corruption of regulatory agencies takes place, that there is no fraud in science etc...

    On a side note perhaps what he really meant to say is that with the growing population we need GMO food to kill everyone off who is unable to access a strictly non-GMO diet. And the more crops that become GMO the harder that becomes. We could be only a few generations away (60 years?) from the unwashed masses disappearing into extinction. Then that seed vault in Svalbard that was created by private financiers for absolutely no reason whatsoever will be put to use.

  11. Bought off on Anti-GMO Activist Recants · · Score: 1

    I wonder how much was paid for such good PR for companies like Monsanto pushing these untested and unsafe foods onto people. Did this Lynas see the recent long-term Russian study on rats? Now that's actual science, not mere assurances.

  12. External election on Julian Assange Runs For Office In Australia · · Score: 1

    It spins me out that he can do this while not in the country in person. But hope he will get elected so there's one less waste of space from the establishment parties (Labour/Liberal) in Parliament.

  13. Re:Code is now a Buzzword on System Admins Should Know How To Code · · Score: 1

    I definitely think it's a case of people think it's cool to use code as a verb.
    Nerds trying to break away the externally imposed stereotype perhaps and make programming trendy.

    I remembered that fads and being cool tend to be confined to teenage and maybe early 20s years so I'm guessing that demographic has started this and is on a mission to create a new definition for "code".

  14. Code is now a Buzzword on System Admins Should Know How To Code · · Score: 1

    Using code as a buzzword seems to have caught in within the last year or so, I now see it on a regular basis. And I always think "what programming language are they referring to?", apparently html is also included.

  15. Uses on Quantum Teleportation Sends Information 143 Kilometers · · Score: 1

    Now, if we can just use it with missions further than the earth's orbit we'll be cooking with gas.

    I wonder how much data can be transmitted with this technology.

  16. Adelaide humour on Mars Curiosity Rover's First Road Trip Planned · · Score: 1

    Yeah, send it to Glenelg!

  17. Demonoid clones? on Demonoid Domain Names Up For Grabs · · Score: 1

    The webmaster says the site will return but still, I think he should release the platform the site runs on so that Demonoid-like sites can be created.

    Otherwise where's the "whack-a-mole" factor that people mention when a major site is taken down.

  18. The cure: The Original Bittorrent client on uTorrent Adds "Featured Torrents" Ads — With No Opt Out (Yet) · · Score: 1

    uTorrent just seems to have become a clone of "BitTorrent" somewhere along the line. BitTorrent looks and works identically except it's bug and ad-free. Problem solved.

    Going back to the version 2.x uTorrents is the other fix.

  19. Re:Net Worth? on The Boy Who Loved Batman · · Score: 1

    I believe he mentioned that, it was only like $7,000 in the late seventies.

  20. Net Worth? on The Boy Who Loved Batman · · Score: 1

    Was is his net worth, he refused to divulge it when he was interviewed by Ian Punnett on Coast to Coast AM several months ago.

  21. Egos on Wikipedia As a "War Zone," Rather Than a Collaboration · · Score: 1

    It depends on how inflated the ego is of the existing editor (or yourself if you have contributed a lot to a page).
    When I used to contribute some pages were truly co-operational with multiple people (hopefully) trying to get a decent article together.
    On other pages you came across someone who "owned" that territory and would often undo or edit new contributions rather than welcome some new input. These were definitely "war zone" pages. And lets not get started on the overwhelming armies of content deleters, when that hit it was like 5 people with pitchforks encountering a Roman Legion, there was no way to ever win that one.

  22. Europe on 350-Year-Old Newton's Puzzle Solved By 16-Year-Old · · Score: 0, Troll

    The benefits of not having IQ-lowering Fluoride added to your water... http://www.fluoridealert.org/iq-studies.aspx

  23. Re:Short lived on Australian ISP Wins Case Against Movie Studios · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Western governments will not let their populations have a free and open internet without a fight.

  24. Re:Rest in peace, Mr. Tramiel on Jack Tramiel, Founder of Commodore Business Machines, Dies At Age 83 · · Score: 1

    Hi, thanks for the recount, may I ask when this meeting took place?

  25. Bill Gates on 'Of Course We Are In a Post-PC World,' Says Ray Ozzie · · Score: 1

    Bill Gates, please go back to Microsoft, at least you were relatively contained there compared to your current efforts to reduce the world's population without its consent.