The fact that it's not just a rise on CO2 or the fact that a growth in one season is not a trend is exactly what the deniers will batten on to as proof positive that human mediated climate change is not happening.

A large part of the denialists increasingly strident position is that there might be climate change happening but that humans have had little to no impact on it so continuing to burn fossil fuels won't have an impact.

I'd be fascinated to see the evidence that have been decades of alarmist and bogus predictions.

Yep totally agree that because the Govt might be able to brick your phone the ability to lower theft rates should be withheld from the populace.

Of course bricking your phone makes it much harder for them to listen to your phone calls but needs must.

Oh sorry /sarcasm

Just because both sides of your Govt are broken / corrupt doesn't mean the system is right.

I may have forgotten to mention that being in Australia the concept of unlimited bandwidth is a fairy tale that reportedly Yanks get.

I have one of the better plans in Australia at 4GB. Most are around 1 or 2 GB at most and come with usurious prices if you exceed the limit, ie 15c a Mb .

I think I'll go right on complaining about services that use data when I don't want them to.

Ah when you have no idea blame it all on M$. Lolz.

Someone above hit the nail on the head when they commented on the price of bandwidth that Ads take. Not only ads. If I keep an app I pay to get rid of the Ads naively thinking that was the end of the intrusiveness of Ads popping up. However when resetting a stats on a game I had paid to remove ads from I was a tad annoyed to find that the app was sending data about the phone on a weekly basis. A bit of digging around found most were doing it. Tie that in with the recent flurry of permissions that allow games to read contact details etc and the Privacy issue is quite large.

Apple should be bought in on the suite as the bandwidth use is much greater. My daughter being an Ebil Fruit empire captive is starting to have trouble as the Apps are chewing up the 1.5 Gb of data she gets a month. Of course the phone companies then gleefully charge 10c a Mb for data over the cap. Until she switched to IOS 7 it hadn't been an issue.

The assumptions that manufacturers and app providers have the right to take data when they feel fit without obvious permission is becoming an issue.

I'm surprised there is any software to release given the mainly manual nature of our voting system. I'd be more concerned that the transposition from Paper ballots to Paper Tallies to a Computer might be inaccurate. More likely than the software organising the results would be flawed in my opinion.

The books were absolute shite.

For once the screen version was true to the books.

Gee I'm surprised that Farmers may not accept the evidence.

From a local perspective given that the Aussie farmers took over 50 years to understand that clear felling was causing the erosion they were bitching about it is not that great a surprise that their Swedish confrères are equally unable to understand reality.

Now if someone can prove that Farmers are the keystone of right wing blindness and not just religion the world will be explained.

However you can and should blame the dumbarses world wide who have been waging a campaign against vaccination based on at best a misunderstanding of the facts and at worst deliberate falsification of evidence.

Pertussis mutating and reducing the effectiveness of the vaccine is a bad thing. However I've yet to see a credible report that if the vaccination rate remained at pre noughties highs that mutated virus would have gained a foothold.

Of course replacing Idjits unwilling to compromise with bigger idjits even less willing to compromise is a good thing for democracy.

I hope Tony Abbot is in his not able to comprehend the written word mode right now as he'd take comfort from the nutters apparently winning.

Odd the court is against Tenure for Teachers, not that I disagree, but any suggestion that Tenure protections be removed from Judges would be ruled unconstitutional by the Judges.

The reasons that would be put forward for not removing Tenure for Judges apply equally to Teaching.

Oh yeah this. Of course removing the permission from an App like say Kindle or a game that has no need to read SMS or phone calls would have course remove the ability to secretly and maliciously steal and sell metadata.

That would be an evil Google wouldn't allow.

If Comcast is as unscrupulous as Aussie IP's, fair bet, you can guarantee they'll charge more for wireless access and limit the home access rather than limit the higher grossing wireless access.

Letting any company abrogate rights without consent is asking for trouble.

Look at the start up costs of light or heavy rail vs a more energy efficient car especially for areas where Public transport is spotty or non-existent.

Building driverless bus lanes would be a good idea but the Nimby's would shoot it down initially. The start up costs are still very large.

And take the brain dead moron who decided that Sdcards being mountable as drives rather than a media was deprecated and educumate him/it/her.