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  1. Re:Public Confidence? on E-Voting Undermines Public Confidence In Elections · · Score: 1

    So why incorporate a system that requires the some of the most politicking? Fact is they believed that politics was the only way for individuals to be free as they possibly can. As do I tentatively , but the system is seriously out of kilter.

  2. Re:United States of America's Government Conspirac on Vint Cerf on Why TCP/IP Was So Long in Coming · · Score: 1

    I'm Australian and we just sacked the bloke who loved your Congress...... besides tubes are generally referred to as pipes here.

  3. Re:Public Confidence? on E-Voting Undermines Public Confidence In Elections · · Score: 1

    I would guess that USA citizens would believe 1776...

  4. United States of America's Government Conspiracy on Vint Cerf on Why TCP/IP Was So Long in Coming · · Score: 1

    Well, someone has intercepted the Australian packet because it hasn't made it here yet. I've been waiting patiently at the end of our pipe.

  5. Re:Unfortunately... on Web Hosting For Privacy Activists? · · Score: 1

    Australia has quite restrictive laws that don't seem to be enforced. Perhaps because "she'll be right, mate."

  6. Re:Cool-Push down stairs. on Recording Music Without the Recording Industry · · Score: 1

    Thats okay, I do it for fun anyway. PS. I'm a kept man...

  7. Re:Both sides... on You Used Perl to Write WHAT?! · · Score: 1

    You could equally argue that they did...

  8. Re:In archaic terms... on The iPhone Meets the Fourth Amendment · · Score: 1

    and +2 for remembering that far back...

  9. Re:In archaic terms... on The iPhone Meets the Fourth Amendment · · Score: 1

    Australian cops are good in an emergency, but tend to be arrogant and misuse the system. Most Queenslanders I know of (I'm a taxi-driver, okay?) "know" of a cop (friend of a friend) who drives home drunk, 'confiscates' drugs, and harasses some stereotypes. The actual truth is probably that there are some bad eggs in a reasonably good batch.

  10. Re:Great News... on Bill Gates Calls for a 'Kinder Capitalism' · · Score: 1

    But supply in this case is technically infinite. As people learn to tap into the magic (only knowledge is required, no innate ability) the magic supply grows to meet demand. If there was a requirement of a particular class or genome etc to copy data, then your argument for higher prices would make sense.

  11. Re:every single industry... on Mystery Malware Affecting Linux/Apache Web Servers · · Score: 1

    Having thought carefully about this most serious question for extremely small values of a commonly used and often quoted measurement of time, I have carefully arrived at the conclusion that I would have to go with the latter developer of said secondary software.

  12. Re:zOMG, THE FOSS!!!11!! on Mystery Malware Affecting Linux/Apache Web Servers · · Score: 1

    Wus. I want more baby, Ooh yeah! You know I love it!

  13. Re:Perl and rationality on PHP In Action: Objects, Design, Agility · · Score: 1

    One wonders how you communicate at all, as very few languages can purport to be rational... especially the one in which you posted.

  14. Re:Perl 5 to Perl 6 on perl6 and Parrot 0.5.2 Released · · Score: 1

    so evolution is a committee composed of anthropomorphised Laws of Nature?

  15. Re:Where and When? on CIA Claims Cyber Attackers Blacked Out Cities · · Score: 1

    Just an addendum; yes often there are switches, circuit breakers, etc...out in the suburbs but they are normally fail-safe and dumb. A tech mostly has to come reset them when they are set off.

  16. Re:wouldn't in animate objects be easier then? on Teleportation — Fact and Fiction · · Score: 1
    There was an episode where Scotty...

    Seriously I vaguely remember Scotty rigging up something to make it work site to site for one story line. I'm not a good trekky.

  17. Re:Where and When? on CIA Claims Cyber Attackers Blacked Out Cities · · Score: 1

    When you say a few blocks ... I don't believe they have switches at the transformer for x blocks that are connected to the internet (possible just expensive and probably uneconomical . I was an electrician and have worked in the local power supply division of an Australian power company at a remote mining community. The stuff I was working with was mostly 40+ years old, but we were updating some aspects of the distribution. It would be the switch yard that has the switching and rapid interrupt devices that are connected to a controller that obviously is connected to the internet. That would take out at the very least take out most of a suburb i.e. 20+ blocks or 5 - 10 transformers (hypothetically). In some parts of Australia it could take out virtually the entire town. Hey, switching yards here tend to be small and old + extensions.

  18. Re:I don't believe it on 10-year-old Microsoft Ticket Resurfaces? · · Score: 1

    I met a lady who had her phone # so long it was oringally 2 digits! (This was in Qld Australia.) My parents have had their phone # for longer than I have been alive (30yo) and I have had my mobile # for 8 years.

  19. Re:Better than that, what they need on NASA Wants Fast Moonbuggies and Solid Lunar Lander · · Score: 1

    Most of the long tail scenarios are such that are the most economical and rapid production. Most if not all extraction processes have alternative processes that on a relatively small scale are more efficient. Their problem for commercial enterprises are that they are slow, often extremely slow. We are going to be waiting around anyway, why not have these types of processes doing the slow extraction. Yes, they aren't perfect, but they are something! (Which is almost always better than doing nothing. Almost.)

  20. Re:THE NEW COMMENTS SYSTEM! on Sun Buys MySQL · · Score: 1

    Well, I want more than fifty posts at a time! You are lucky if 1 in fifty are worth reading... grrr... of course, now this post is counted as the kind of noise in signal people don't want.... sheesh....

  21. I bags this statement. on CES 2008 Hall of Shame · · Score: 1

    You are educated stupid - an evil ANDROID, your opposite brain destroyed by Evil ONE

  22. Re:When do they say, "Just Kidding!" on ZFS For Mac OS X Source Code Available · · Score: 1

    Cool I did it too!... well it was more away from a filesystem...

  23. This is rediculous. on Ford Claims Ownership Of Your Pictures · · Score: 1

    It isn't as if you put it on the car yourself. Car manufacturers don't give you an option not to have the logo on your car. Following their line of thinking, they should pay you for advertising their logo for them.

  24. /.'s Microsoft icon change on EU Launches Yet Another Antitrust Probe Into Microsoft · · Score: 1

    The borg should be replaced with bulleye target.

  25. Re:Plan 9 on ZFS For Mac OS X Source Code Available · · Score: 1

    Basically despite being community developed, Lucent retains the "intellectual property" of each version of Plan 9. Effectively they can pull the license anytime and return to the proprietary system. For home use shouldn't affect anyone but business use would be vulnerable.