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  1. Less Power? Easy on Microsoft Boasts of Tiny Energy Saving With IE · · Score: 1

    Use a dark colour as a background instead of white when drawing pixels.

  2. Re:sigh on Australian Police Move To Make 3D Printed Guns Illegal · · Score: 1

    Depends what country you hail from. For most countries, the police don't have to worry about a rifle (let alone a semiautomatic one). Australia is one of those countries. I'd like to help the police keep it that way.

  3. Re:Make metal ilegal too... on Australian Police Move To Make 3D Printed Guns Illegal · · Score: 4, Insightful

    We have millions of registered guns in Australia. We like our huntin' too. But handguns and automatic weapons have never been a part of the culture.

    Agreed. I'm all for free speech and everything but I don't want a gun culture society. We've seen what that becomes with the US. Americans don't see it but everybody else thinks it is madness. Guns are just not necessary in modern day to day living.

    I support the NSW police, aka government, on this one 100%. Make the possession of printing instructions for a weapon of this type illegal (as is the possession of certain types of images) but not the printer itself (images in general).

  4. Deal with it on Ask Slashdot: Dealing With Unwanted But Official Security Probes? · · Score: 1

    Where I used to work, the security guys used to do the same thing. It is a good thing. They are doing their job by making sure everything is secure. Expose weaknesses before the real thing happens.

    Now, do your jobs and make sure your systems are secure and don't allow anything through.

  5. Re:Wake me up, when September (April) ends.. on How To Communicate Faster-Than-Light · · Score: 1

    I'd have to start posting in rubber panties and booties.

    Fuck yeah. Pwned.

  6. Re:April fools again? on How To Communicate Faster-Than-Light · · Score: 1

    .. why doesn't the future simply publish the RFC?!

    Maybe they did. Maybe tehy did.

    This could be it. Prove it wrong.

  7. Re:it's called editing on Oculus Rift Loses Doom 3 BFG Edition From Launch Package, But Gains TF2 · · Score: 1

    Shame your comment is going unmodded. Points for polite, level headed, response.

    Personally, I don't care if I'm not getting a game with it. I'm using linux anyway and will be pointing this device at 10's of petabytes of real 3D data. I'll be too busy to play games.

    Still cannot wait.

  8. EMC are terrible on What EMC Looks For When It's Hiring · · Score: 1

    Almost as bad as IBM. We'll never go with them again.

    With clear data and compute specification, the sales and 'specialists' said it was easy and could put something in place that would last and expand well into the future. We received a terrible storage solution (don't know who signed off on it). Didn't (couldn't) scale and didn't perform. When things went wrong with it, they couldn't even diagnose it. What was the point of the support contract? Truly awful.

    Never again. Avoid at all costs.

  9. Re:It's not a failure on IBM's Watson Gets a Swear Filter After Learning the Urban Dictionary · · Score: 1

    Or penalise it under certain conditions when it uses it. That way, give it a chance to be natural.

  10. Re:Comment on Movie length on 'Hobbit' Creates Big Data Challenge · · Score: 1

    At a small country town (~10,000 people, a lot of older folk) in Australia where I saw the LOTR trilogy each boxing day, the cinema had intermissions. Was fantastic. About 10-15 minutes. Made the film really enjoyable since you can stretch and all sorts. Cinema probably even makes more money since a lot of people re-snacked.

    I wasn't expecting it for Fellowship and had made the toilet sprint prior.

  11. Re:$140B = $50 / person on Nationwide Google Fiber Deployment Would Cost $140 Billion · · Score: 5, Informative

    It is more like $500. Still ridiculously cheap.

    Only governments can do this sort of thing properly. Pity Americans don't trust their government.

  12. Re:Will MATE make it into RHEL? on Fedora Adds MATE and Cinnamon Desktops to Main Repository, Releases Beta · · Score: 1

    I really recommend you give Gnome3 a chance. There is a lot of hate towards it that I don't understand. It is just new ... that's all. It still does everything I expect from a window manager.

    I even like it. Took a little while but I also have an older machine with Gnome2 and I find it almost unusable and archaic when I have to use it. I really, really recommend you give gnome3 a good chance.

    ps. I was also mister no transitions, no wobbly windows ... don't waste my cycles with gnome2.

  13. Re:$85000 camera? on Camera Technique Captures New View of Space & Time · · Score: 1

    Yeah? What would those three lines of code be exactly? Time to put your money where your mouth is.

  14. Re:ya know on Valve Reveals Gaming Headset, Teases Big Picture · · Score: 1

    Because we've had to wait for miniaturisation to catch up to the idea. Just cause something fails once does not mean it will fail always.

  15. Coincidence? on For Android Users, 2012 Is Still the Year of Gingerbread · · Score: 1

    I've spent all day trying to update my wife's phone (gt-i9000 2.3.3) and my phone nexus s (4.0.3) with zero success. I don't want to root them.

    Most of the time has been spent with the gt-i9000 since it is the most out of date one but every attempt has failed. The documentation for doing this is shit. The resources for doing this is shit.

    I only have linux (F17) at home. If I can't do it then it is little wonder that others cannot.

  16. Re:News Flash on Study Shows Marijuana Use In Teens Correlates To Decreasing IQ · · Score: 1

    More than that ... a telephone survey study compared *perceptions of*

    Citizen Science: If everybody deem something to be true, then it must be.

  17. Re:Best Preference on Ask Slashdot: IT Contractors, How's Your Health Insurance? · · Score: 1

    I think this must be something about Americans and their innate hatred of all things government.

    Here, the government runs lots of things. Sure, some of those things are a money pit. But that's because if government didn't do it then nobody would. Yet, that particular service means something to some people even if it is not for me nor anybody I know. That's why they do it. It is pretty easy to sit on the sidelines and make calls about the inner workings you are not even remotely aware of. Government are still people and most people care.

    It is like the comment above yours just now ... the poster only cares about him/her self. How many times can one person mention "I" in a discussion about looking after everybody? Not to mention that insurance has a little habit of saying 'no, that's not covered' when it suits them. It is fine when you're young and healthy, but the point of the original question is what to do when you are not young and insurance doesn't see you as profitable?

    Good luck, mate. I hope all you guys get all the love and respect you deserve.

  18. Re:Vitamins on Ask Slashdot: IT Contractors, How's Your Health Insurance? · · Score: 1

    I understand the thought process there but it is when you are healthy that it is best to get stuff checked out.

    I'm 34 and very healthy. I went to a gastroenterologist to get an endoscopy and colonoscopy (bowel cancer is the biggest preventative killer here for men) and they found a nice large 1.5cm polyp. Two seconds later, it was gone. Had I not been screened, it probably would have killed me by age 50.

    I won't gamble with my health.

  19. Re:Best Preference on Ask Slashdot: IT Contractors, How's Your Health Insurance? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Yup. I dropped by to say pretty much the same thing: Move to a country that gives a fuck about the health of its citizens.

    Wealthiest nation on earth, my arse.

  20. Re:Just like something out of the US old south on Australian Billionaire Wants To Build Jurassic Park-Style Resort · · Score: 1

    I's say with his funding to set up the LNP that he's already brought the dinosaurs back to Queensland.

    Nicely played.

  21. Re:Awesome! on Australian Billionaire Wants To Build Jurassic Park-Style Resort · · Score: 2

    I've meet Clive a few times. He is made out to be a crazy coot but the man is actually quite intelligent. He loves science. He has a *lot* of money and will be making a *lot* more in the near to medium future. He's happy to donate just for the possibility. He loves thinking big.

  22. Re:lets hope ubuntu fallows on Fedora 18 To Feature the GNOME2 Fork MATE · · Score: 0

    Cinnamon Challenge?

    In all seriousness, I've grown to quite like gnome3. Sure, it has its quirks, but so do they all. You should try Windows 7. First time in 12 years I've had to work with it, and talk about poorly designed, bad user experience and total lack of reconfigurability. Gnome3 is to Windows as single malt scotch is to lolly water.

  23. Re:If anyone wondered what to use the Q for on XBMC Ported To Android · · Score: 1

    Grab the Intel Compiler (non-commercial free for linux) and recompile the codecs. Make sure that '-O2 -xHost' flags are there. Experiment with the '-parallel' flag as well. Mixed success with '-ipo' flag.

    My old chip (machine turned off so can't get you /proc/cpuinfo, but is a core duo) was suddenly able to play h264 1080p .... barely, but could do it.

  24. Re:We're growing apart, Google. on Google Killing Off Mini, Video, and iGoogle · · Score: 1

    Nice.

  25. Re: iGoogle will be missed... maybe on Google Killing Off Mini, Video, and iGoogle · · Score: 2

    Agreed. Gmail, Calendar, Documents, Chat, Quick Notes all on a single landing page. It was quite convenient.