One of my doggies was running around like crazy on XMAS day, rubbing her bum along the floor ... licking her bum like mad ... so I checked it out ... pulled up her tail and there it was 5cm of worm sticking out ... ran to the toilet, picked up a toilet and 20s of pulling later I had a 35cm worm lying on the floor boards ... Moral of the story: Dogs need virus/worm protection too and the next day there were two tablets going down her throat.

of course it still a problem, especially if you read what happened to me this morning....
Our sales directors computer (dell) has real trouble accessing the net (very very slow) whenever he tethers his laptop with his Galaxy S. I have the same laptop and phone but use Fedora14 and tethering gives me real good speed (considering) .... his is Win7 using Trend Micro (included when buying the dell) . When I turn Trend Micro off it performs well, loads the web-pages at the same speed as mine does.

So there would be no surprise to me if a lot of machine run without virus/internet security because those machine become a real hog/snail/whatever .... so users cant be bothered!

Television, PS3, computer to play games (2 cores), topfield7100, my girlfriend's laptop (2 cores), my lappy (2 cores), wifi and two Androids!

Almighty US Dollar ... you're kidding, right?
Its been overtaken by our miserable currency ... and the only thing that almighty in our country are the crocks up in Darwin ;-)

Things that came to mind:

1. It will show us what a lot of us already know, we're fucking up the place.

2. It would be more sufficient to actually do sth. about stopping stuffing up the place instead of thinking about stopping the stuffing up and collecting data about what we are actually stuffing up so we can stop stuffing up the place.

3. make a cup of tea and have a minced pie, after all its xmas.

Sorry, this ain't News. Whoever thinks this is news should have probably read the news a few weeks/months/years back. The reaction of the bank is completely expected. Yawn!

52 (weeks in a year) / 4 ( seasons in a year) * 2 (hemispheres) = 26.

It does ;-)

I think slashdot needs to apply for a new http error code at w3, something like:

    601 slashdotted fault, no server response
    602 slashdotted slow, some server response
    603 slashdotted dead, fallen over

would you please carefully read the ENTIRE message including the very last word, please!

..... until you get older ... much older ;-) THAT lubricated finger in a plastic glove trying to find that gland (if the finger cant find it you're in luck).

That is YOUR point of view with your CURRENT knowledge. Maybe in the future people will know it was (albeit a very very very sad one) a very necessary event required and needed for the future.

No news to me, been getting BETTER results for years. Next car will be the Golf TDI, same deal.

The subject result was taken driving to Geelong from the eastern Suburbs in Melbourne to the city part of Geelong and back, 2 Adults, 2 Kids, two big dogs plus some toys, so 1/3 of the journey was city driving, the other 2/3 freeway.

just because to stay anonymous ... I can give myself whatever name it will be with a matching email address ... soooooo what's the point?

God's ten commandments aren't adhered to ... well at least a major subset of them. How can you expect the rest of the population to listen to administrators when they suggest "don't use IE"?

shit hits the (cpu) fan ;-)