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  1. Re:Now maybe we can get some decent internet limit on Australian Telstra Monopoly Dead · · Score: 1

    500GB download assuming you upload as much as you download...

    Furthermore, there is no on or off peak on that internode plan. It's a flat terabyte, anytime.

    Add to that the fact that your upload speed will usually be 1/10th or less than your download speed and it doesn't seem too bad unless you're a super heavy user. I manage to burn my way through most or all of 200GB a month pretty easily.

  2. Re:Sigh, on Australian Telstra Monopoly Dead · · Score: 1

    Hear, hear. Every time someone tells me the NBN is a waste of money I want to strangle them. But that would not be polite. Thank you for your level-headed and rational argument.

  3. Re:Can get even worse on The Binary Code In Canada's Gov-Gen Coat of Arms · · Score: 1

    Ahahah, that's fantastic.

    My mum's actually got a Japanese character tattooed on her shoulder - but she's a PhD specialising in post-WWII Japan and can actually read a bit of Japanese.

  4. Re:Australian Tokay makes me sad on Australia Adopts EU's Geographical Indicator System For Wine · · Score: 1

    All the Rutherglen wineries are fantastic. I think I've tried that Tokay, I remember the guy who I talked to when I was tasting it told me about the situation with the naming, I don't recall what the replacement name was but I know it was stupid.

    I'm also disappointed at the ban on the name "port". I rarely drink but when I do it's usually port. Next time I feel like a bottle I won't know what to buy!

  5. Re:begs the question on Making Ubuntu Look Like Windows 7 · · Score: 1

    I said "lol" instead of laughing, once. I immediately felt ashamed and went outside for a while.

  6. Re:SPHREAKING on Gaming Foursquare With 9 Lines of Perl · · Score: 1

    They make kava ice cream? As in, from the roots of the kava plant?

    Huh. How about that.

  7. Re:It's true! on Kids Who Watch Popeye Cartoons Eat More Vegetables · · Score: 1

    Hey. I don't tell you how to cook.

  8. It's true! on Kids Who Watch Popeye Cartoons Eat More Vegetables · · Score: 1

    Hah! I used to use popeye to get my sister to eat her spinach (and other green vegetables)! It was the only reason she'd eat them!

    I wonder if it'd still work, she's a teenager now and doesn't eat any bloody vegetables.

  9. Re:Thank God on New York Times Bans Use of Word "Tweet" · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I use twitter, not so much for tweeting as for following others. I find twitter is very useful - not for following friends and family, but for following certain companies, people etc who give small bites of useful/interesting information that lends itself well to the microblogging format.

  10. Re:Uhm? on Canonical Bringing an Instant-On Ubuntu · · Score: 1

    My windows 7 box from a cold start boots to desktop in less than a minute. 'course, my vista laptop never got anywhere near that, nor my XP computer. :P

  11. Re:Finally! on StarCraft II To Be Released On July 27 · · Score: 1

    I've got a while to go before I could be a grandfather, I'm counting on cybernetic augmentations. ;)

  12. Re:Finally! on StarCraft II To Be Released On July 27 · · Score: 1

    Well it was all going to be fine until you put that idea in my head, thanks.

  13. Re:Finally! on StarCraft II To Be Released On July 27 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm going to be pwning noobs until "pwning noobs" is a ridiculously outdated term and then I'll beat my grandkids at whatever game they're playing and I'll go "Yeah! I pwned you little noobs! Old school!" and they'll groan and go "graaaaandpaaaaaa". It'll be awesome.

    Is it bad that I want to troll my hypothetical grandkids?

  14. Re:Last I checked... on Kid Health Experts Attack Video Game Summer Camp · · Score: 1

    Ahahah, I remember when I thought high school teachers knew basic math as well. Those were the days.

    I went to a public school and got anywhere from 1-3 hours homework per class per day. Which is anywhere from 5-15 hours worth. Never did any of it myself, of course, because there were no real consequences for me besides the odd half lunch detention and I aced all tests anyway. Fuck them if they think I'll do their inane work. If I'm doing inane work I'd better be getting paid for it.

    Good ol' public schools.

  15. Re:Not Unusual on Photos of Chinese Sweatshop Used By Microsoft · · Score: 2, Informative

    Relevant reading on the work culture. Take with a grain of salt of course, it is anecdotal.

  16. Re:Not Unusual on Photos of Chinese Sweatshop Used By Microsoft · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Exactly. It's normal work culture in China. This is nothing but western spin trying to make Microsoft look like the devil.

    I mean, I'm not fond of them either, but.... I was going to say they should stop at outright lies but this is journalism after all.

  17. Re:Cool. on At Last, Flying Cars? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Tape a fleshlight to a roomba. :D

  18. Re:Yelp on Yelp To "Clarify" How Advertising Affects Listing · · Score: 1

    I read it like that for years.

  19. Re:Don't Need One... on Self-Destructing USB Stick · · Score: 1

    I remember an article in, argh, it was either Atomic MPC or PC User, where they put a variety of USB sticks through various tests, submerging them in water, submerging them in coffee, hitting them with various objects, etc, and half the expensive ones died early on and eventually the rest of them did too... Except for the cheapo no-name generic one. Which didn't stop working until they destroyed the USB connector with pliers.

    Course this was a few years ago. The brand names have caught up at least a little now. :P

  20. Re:Not Bloody Likely on Lord British Claims He Owns the Moon · · Score: 1

    What?! You mean my several hundred square kilometres of moon land are worthless?!

  21. Re:And I'm a Duke of Sealand on Lord British Claims He Owns the Moon · · Score: 2, Informative

    I think the real history of Sealand is actually a little more ridiculous than uncyclopedia's page. After all, there was a mercenary war.

  22. Re:Meh. on No More Firefox For Windows Mobile · · Score: 1

    Oh, that's not too bad.

    Ok guys, I can cover freedom for... twelve people.

  23. Re:Cost effective? on Here Come the Linux iPad Clones · · Score: 1

    If these morons think I'm going to trade in a 2 week+ battery life on my reader for a god only knows how short battery life on their crappy pad devices, they've got another thing coming.

  24. Re:if everyone ignored the quacks... on Use Open Source? Then You're a Pirate! · · Score: 1

    As a cap'n, I assume. If you were serving, under, say, Henry Morgan, he'd shoot you for even thinking about plunderin' any wenches' booty. He was a bloodthirsty bastard, but a bloodthirsty gentleman bastard, and "his" rum doesn't do him justice.

  25. Re:the game on The Grown-Up Video Game · · Score: 4, Informative

    With good reason. It's xkcd with every last panel changed to a hand-drawn goatse. With hilarious results.