Thanks for the information. I can't confirm that from my own experience, but I'll be wary.

I have had some bad experiences with Strathfield however ... they are definitely a shop-of-last-resort.

JB's not bad, but I have learned to never pay their ticket price on electronics. I always ask for, and get, a discount.

Sorry but I patented that idea^H^H^H^Hbusiness method.

... runs to submit patent application for switching legal strategies with a period of between 0.5 to 4 seconds ...

Probably not a wiki; we should be using git repositories for working on laws.

Anybody can commit their suggested changes, but getting them merged will be really difficult.

I thought the same thing. Clearly software incompatibility is a nuisance only when it's somebody else's software. If it's my flash crap, being asked to upgrade or install is a feature.

This looks like a job for geekmyride.org.

I think they should do it annually. Or maybe monthly. It's important to keep showing how silly these Islamic preachers are, with their medieval worldview. We have one in Australia too; Sheikh Hilali, former (?) Mufti of Australia and speaker of the quote comparing immodestly dressed women to raw meat left out in the sun. He wasn't talking about their suntan.

Can we devote like every Sunday to BoobQuake day?

I know, I know ... with the acres of flesh on display during the summer months in most enlightened countries, it's surprising that the cities haven't all come tumbling down with the resulting quakes.

Of course people are complaining about the abuses too. This is an organisation which holds itself up as a source of morality and virtue, not to mention divine revelation, infallibility (the Pope!), control, retribution and forgiveness.

The purpose of the Confession is to forgive a person for their sins, yes? The priest has some power delegated by jesus, so they claim, to forgive sins before death.

The commission of such appalling acts by members in good standing of the Catholic Church really brings into disrepute the whole concept of Catholicism :- it doesn't give you an improved morality; the Pope is clearly as fallible as the next guy; how can they dictate how people should live their lives if the priests themselves are sometimes such disgraces to humanity?

I'd think that priests, being professional god-botherers, would be expected to have a deeper connection to the deity than you or I. If god doesn't punish paedophile priests and instead allows the Catholic Church to hide their abuse and move them around to rape some more, finally allowing them to die of old age in comfort and avoid earthly punishment, that really (a) calls into question the existence of a loving, caring god, and (b) indicates that said priests do not believe that god exists any more than I do.

The Pope deserves to be worried. As far as I can tell, backlash against the Catholic Church is very much mainstream now. Big changes are coming, and nobody knows what they will be.

Does the Pope dare to enter Britain later this year? He may be arrested or at least subpoenaed. Will he hide in the Vatican, effectively becoming an exiled spiritual leader of millions? Or will he fall on his sword for the good of the "Holy Mother Church" (his words)?

NAT or no NAT - any protocol which requires connections be accepted on varying port numbers is going to cause problems. Examples - SIP, BT, most IM protocols for file send.

Best is if there's a netfilter module for the protocol; it can watch the traffic and open up holes dynamically for related connections.

Verisign just told me they're going to truncate the list of eligible email addresses down to a more manageable 6.

how do you manage server security on a tight budget with literally no system admin (except for me and I know I'm a n00b)?

You do the best you can. Sheesh. Learn about the system and how to secure it. It's not slashdot's problem you're under-funded and under-resourced.

There's a triangular spectrum. Corner 1 is how much you're willing to pay. Corner 2 is how much you're willing to learn and do by yourself. Corner 3 is your probability of getting r00ted. If you don't want to spend any money on sysadmin and you don't want to spend any time to secure your system, then expect to get r00ted sometime.

The Theory of Evolution is our explanation to account for these observations, including natural selection, genetic mutations and other factors. The explanation fits the evidence very well.

Actually the NASA footage showed Dr Who and the Tardis and aliens, so it was incredibly important that the videos never see the light of day.