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  1. Re:Detestible Putrid Excrescence on Rupert Murdoch Claims To Own the 'Sky' In 'Skype' · · Score: 1

    Yes, they are his children

  2. Re:Indexing on A Pointed Critique of Thunderbird 3's Performance Compared to v.2 · · Score: 1

    Using http mail (hotmail + gmail, via thunderbird plugins)

    Within gmail settings you can enable POP, IMAP and SMTP, and hotmail has had free POP and SMTP access for some time now.

  3. Re:Next election will be crucial on Australia Waters Down, Delays Internet Filter Policy · · Score: 1

    No she won't. They'll just pass legislation for the filter just after the election and then have three years to distract the electorate before the election after that.

  4. Re:noscript users... on New Batfish Species Found Under Gulf Oil Spill · · Score: 1

    Obviously you haven't been listening to the blue whales themselves

  5. Re:Terrible summary on ITER Fusion Reactor Enters Existential Crisis · · Score: 1

    We're all guilty of confusing a bat shit crazy vocal minority of any general group as being representative of the aims and views of that group. Other people have made a similar mistake in response to this article. But the author of the summary, while not in the summary itself, did clarify that they were specifically talking about "anti-nuclear environmentalist organizations" rather than "anti-nuclear environmentalist organizations".

    If anything such a response is representative of how knee-jerk we've become in response to the polarization and poor signal-to-noise ratio of the news where someone is always attacking someone or something else.

  6. Re:externality on National Academy of Science Urges Carbon Tax · · Score: 1

    Sorry, but the US != the world

  7. Re:DRM, restrictions, outcry on iPhone SDK Agreement Shuts Out HyperCard Clone · · Score: 1

    you must be a lawyer

    I'm not.

    Who cares if its legal

    If you're going to try to seek a remedy using the legal system, you better care.

    Its wrong

    I don't disagree with that sentiment. But at the same time, if the sentiment is strong enough, you, I or anyone else is free to choose to not buy apple products. While the Apple "ecosystem" is locked down by Apple, you can choose to have nothing to do with it.

    Apple sucks

    -1 troll or +1 insightful

  8. Re:DRM, restrictions, outcry on iPhone SDK Agreement Shuts Out HyperCard Clone · · Score: 1

    Lawsuits aren't typically about what is right. They're about what is legal. The two just happen to coincide a lot (but not necessarily a lot in the samples we view on here)

  9. Re:Limey on Facebook Calls All-Hands Meeting On Privacy · · Score: 2, Interesting

    We are not the consumers any more, we are the product.

    Consumers are the product. Advertisers deliver this product to their customers. The way I've always heard the term "consumers" used in the media reminds me of cattle. Every producer and provider wants as much consumer pie as it can eat, and we best not spook the consumer or it'll take a break from its mindless consumption.

    But if you meant that we aren't the customers any more; you're right, we aren't. Being a customer is what you want to be, not a consumer.

  10. Re:You don't say on South Park's Episode 201 — the Expurgated Version · · Score: 1

    Personally I thought "turning the other cheek" was supposed to invalidate the "eye for an eye" deal of systematic revenge rather than precluding justifiable self-defense.

    I believe that the gun-toting Americans that he was referring to are the God-fearing "Christians" that seem to quote more of the Old Testament than New who instead of loving-thy-neighbour espouse the killing of anyone who is different in the way many fundamentalist extremists of any religion do

  11. Re:Category:Pedophilia on Larry Sanger Tells FBI Wikipedia Distributes "Child Pornography" · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yet the emerging trend of dressing children in clothing that is tarty and/or has sexually suggestive slogans printed on them is A-OK

  12. Re:Could be worse on Warner Brothers Hiring Undercover Anti-Pirates · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Someone is far less likely to sue a 'poor student' than a rich company for improper takedowns.

    I've got two words for you: Vicarious Liability

  13. Re:speaking of NASA on Shuttle Extension & Heavy Launcher Bill Proposed · · Score: 1

    Where would you get the atmosphere to re-pressurize the module from, without having to wait for the next resupply visit bringing some up?

  14. Re:I'm not optimistic on Google, Yahoo and Others Fight the Aussie Filter · · Score: 1

    Actually, upon investigation it's even more unfortunate than that. Because senators are elected for two terms (effectively six years) at a time, Stephen Conroy isn't up for re-election this election unless the government pulls a double-dissolution election.

  15. I'm not optimistic on Google, Yahoo and Others Fight the Aussie Filter · · Score: 4, Insightful

    A number of factors are likely to keep Stephen Conroy in after the election this year.

    In Australian election ballots for the senate we select one box above the line or number all the boxes below the line. To elaborate: below the line we number all of the possible candidates in order of preference (and we have to number all of them in order for that vote to be valid. Above the line we choose one political party who will be choosing the below the line preferences for those voters. Such preferences are selected based on the principles of the political party, on a reciprocal basis or for attempted political gain. This was how we ended up with Steve Fielding.

    Due to the extreme number of senate candidates in Australian state and federal elections (last time I voted in the South Australian state election I think there was 46) most people elect to have their favoured political party choose their preferences for them. Based on the traditionalist attitudes of voters that revolve around biases, prejudices and/or traditionalism (my family has always voted for party X) the parties with the most senators tend to be Labor and Liberal, Conroy being a Labor senator who was elected even during the years that the Liberal/National Coalition had a majority in both houses of government.

    As I now live in Victoria I'll certainly be voting in favour of candidates that are not him in the election some time this year. However I don't trust the preferences of other parties, nor do I want to re-elect members of the party of fear and xenophobia, so I'll be voting below the line.

    But you can count on the majority voting above the line.

  16. Re:Prepare for the appeals! on Landmark Ruling Gives Australian ISPs Safe Harbor · · Score: 1

    Sure. Just like I have district and magistrates burgers which are obviously of lesser quality than supreme burgers.

  17. Re:Carbon allowance trading is a big scam on Huge Phishing Attack On Emissions Trade In Europe · · Score: 3, Insightful

    What to do with the tax money? Subsidize R&D for renewable energy, subsidize renewable energy generation and fund more substantial public transport systems that actually have a hope of competing with cars. Yeah, I know that in practice this likely won't happen because governments like to lump all tax revenue into one huge pile. But in the same vein, cap and trade isn't going to work because governments insist on throwing free rights to their heavily polluting lobbyists

  18. Re:In a related development... on Researchers Pooh-Pooh Algae-Based Biofuel · · Score: 1

    Yeah, because Steve Ballmer is *still* CEO of MS.

  19. Re:Hope and Change, baby! on Obama DOJ Sides With RIAA Again In Tenenbaum · · Score: 1

    The Republicans and Democrats are two cheeks of the same ass alright. But there are some emerging alternatives.

    Am I the only person who is subjected to imagery of shit emerging from between ass cheeks there?

  20. Re:even if Avatar is out of the theaters... on 2-D Avatar To Be Pulled From Theaters In China · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I thought that the Cuban export of importance to the US was a large vocal population of disenfranchised Cuban expats in a swing state

  21. Re:Lone Wolf on Why Firefox's Future Lies In Google's Hands · · Score: 1

    IE gained market share because it came bundled with Windows. Or do you not remember the whole antitrust thing?

  22. Re:Males are not a population on Human Males Evolve At a Faster Pace Than Females · · Score: 1

    Also having more resources doesn't guarantee that you're better at procreation, just that you're better at providing

  23. Re:Assassinate the original owners on How To Judge Legal Risk When Making a Game Clone? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    But then their estate could sue

  24. Re:Why do you eschew choice? on Apple Fails To Deliver On Windows 7 Boot Camp Promise · · Score: 3, Informative

    While I consider my aluminium macbook to be of excellent design and hardware quality, the first generation macbook that I had before this was absolutely atrocious. Random reboots, dying batteries, malfunctioning chargers, wireless that wouldn't connect under bootcamp and an optical drive that required prying a second disc half way in to be able to eject the first disc.

    On the topic of the article, Vista drivers work fine, but one thing I did not appreciate was having to (though easily) find a work around to Apple's arbitrary restriction on limiting the installation of x64 drivers to the macbook pros. Not sure what the stupid rationale would've been for that as the drivers work fine and nobody would've chosen to buy a macbook pro just to run Windows x64

  25. Re:national character? on Aussie Gov't To Introduce Bill That Would Require ISP-Level Censorship · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Us Australians don't want this except for the lunatic fringes that exist (as they exist in every other country). However, like everywhere else politicians here like to pull the tough-on-crime/think-of-the-children card when it comes to appeasing the large number of voters that favour 'shoot first and ask questions later' responses to perceived problems