We ended up getting an edited version of it. Woo.

This just in: Australian Government stupid. News at 11...

I thought Brosnan was better, due to his ability to deliver the dry humour. Craig Daniel Craig, OTOH, takes himself a little too seriously.

Then, as a fellow Aussie IT geek, I have a "whoosh" for you. The only thing that is "cringable" in this matter is Senator Conroy.

In Australia, we don't bother getting permission for security tests either. We just dress up as Bin Laden, and pretend to be Canadian...

The stupid thing about what you're saying is that the patent system itself is Government interference. If you want the Govt to stop interfering, remove the patent system.

Hell yes, your hair's a mess.

If you don't read Bloom County, then you probably won't get it. That doesn't make it offtopic.

I just bought an HTC Desire, which is running Android 2.1. It's absolutely fantastic to use.

I have but one complaint. The RSS reader is a PITA to put a feed into unless it's a predefined/preapproved feed.

Dear Google;

Please, can we have an icon/button somewhere on the browser that shows that there are RSS feeds associated with that web page, and an integrated way to subscribe to them?

Thanks

-beav007

But that's all I side issue anyway. The question is this: what were Apple tracking to enforce this limit? The name on the card? I doubt it - how many John Smiths are there, after all?

What is concerning is that they may have been using the CC number to enforce the limit. Yes, a non-bank entity, recording and storing your credit card details, in an online, searchable database.

Standard PSTN is 2 wires per line, not 4.

In Australia, the standard lead-in (pit to house) is 3 pairs, but with only 1 pair live.

Personally, I think that identifying Windows services as harmful is right on the money...

If we're now stacking in 3d, why are we still using square (instead of cubic) measurements?

Lots of Linux nerds wanting a shareholder certificate to burn?

Here's a grab I took on August 14 (our time), 2007 of what happened to SCOX for posterity. This was the 70% in SCO share prices following the decision that Novell owns the Unix copyrights.

Doesn't that then make the assessment more likely?

Sounds great, but I think I'll wait for the Debian-approved version.

I think the difference here is that the US Govt is happy to let big business create legislation, as long as the campaign contributions keep coming (see software IP patents, DMCA, etc).

The EU doesn't like companies (or other countries) trying to boss them around. If only our politicians in Australia had balls :(