Comment On the positive side... (Score 3, Funny) 747
Indecent exposure just became a whole lot more fun.
Comment How to beat the system? (Score 4, Informative) 161
So most of us realize prohibition doesn't work, so as a non-gamer, I'm curious as top how the l33t get around the ban.
Is there a black market for R18+ games? Can you just torrent them?
Surely Aussies don't just accept that the games are censored.
Comment Discrimination (Score 5, Insightful) 714
Why is Slashdot STILL posting "articles" with 15 pages containing two or three sentences per page?
Even then, the link is to the last page. Here's a slightly better page.
Anyway, on-topic, do you really want to work for a company that requires you to know your legal status prior to a job interview? Discrimination is disgusting, and as much as it may hurt, you're better off being knocked back for the job than having it present 40 hours a week.
People need to feed their families, but degrading one's self respect by accepting work where it happens is only inviting more trouble.
Comment Server-level encryption (Score 1) 345
I'm starting to think that more server-level encryption will be the way of the future. With running a site comparing Australian web hosting plans, perhaps adding more detailed encryption categories will promote their use.
Usability Testing Hardy Heron With a Girlfriend 846
toomin writes "Reviews of the latest Ubuntu version, 8.04 Hardy Heron, are everywhere, but most of them are undertaken by geeks familiar with Linux. This guy sits his girlfriend down at a brand-new Ubuntu installation and asks her to perform some basic tasks. Some of them are surprisingly easy, others frustrate and annoy. There are lots of little usability tweaks he stumbles upon just by seeing the desktop experience from the point of view of the mainstream user."
Submission + - UK's War-On-Terror^H*6Carbon Emission?
mattford63 writes: "So, with the UK's capital starting to charge 4x4 drivers twenty-five whole sterling per day for the privilege of driving I began to wonder what other UK activities contribute heavily to the carbon foot-print of my fair island.
My question is what percentage of the UK's carbon foot-print has the "war on terror(tm)" contributed on a yearly basis? Surely missiles aren't fitted with catalytic convertors (if not why not?). And, assuming it's high, will the UK take this into account when it calculates whether or not it will meet it's emission targets?"
My question is what percentage of the UK's carbon foot-print has the "war on terror(tm)" contributed on a yearly basis? Surely missiles aren't fitted with catalytic convertors (if not why not?). And, assuming it's high, will the UK take this into account when it calculates whether or not it will meet it's emission targets?"
Da Vinci Code Message Revealed 96
Ironsides writes "The message embedded in the Da Vinci Code ruling earlier this week has been cracked. The message reads 'Smithy Code Jackie Fisher who are you Dreadnought' and is a reference to an event from about 100 years ago. The encryption scheme itself was based on the Fibonacci number Sequence which is the same one used in the novel."
In2TV Goes Public 99
An anonymous reader writes "It looks like AOL has finally released In2TV, allowing us to watch some of our favorite shows on the internet. It looks fairly promising." In2TV has managed to bag four major advertisers right from the start but if you want to watch on anything but a WindowsXP machine you may be out of luck.
Oracle Boss Says OSS Needs Big Business 157
Rob writes "Oracle Corp's CEO, Larry Ellison, has maintained that open source projects are only
successful when major technology corporations get involved and doubted that open source
will have a major impact on the software areas in which the company operates. Speaking at
Oracle OpenWorld Tokyo Ellison also confirmed that the company had inquired about
acquiring open source database vendor MySQL AB and denied that Oracle's
recent open source acquisitions were designed to harm its rival."
