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Comment Re:Apple? (Score 1) 192

Yup, same here. It's frustrating that my wife and I both have an iPhone 4. She's on Optus and I'm on Telstra. Both of us will have "full reception" but she can't access any websites/youtube/facebook/etc. and I can. It's even more embarrassing for Optus when I tether her phone to mine because she can't access the data she's paid for. Optus even called her up the other day and offered here an in-home "mini-cell thingo". To which she repeatedly told the moron that the phone uses WIFI AT HOME!!! IF YOU WANT TO FIX MY ISSUES YOU'LL HAVE TO IMPROVE CELL-RECEPTION AT THE SHOPPING CENTRES I FREQUENT. She can't wait to switch to Telstra (boy did I never think to hear those words come out of her mouth, let alone mine, considering how hopeless Telstra are with the rest of their communications)

Comment Malicious copyright groups (Score 1) 121

What I don't understand is why these copyright failures don't use what is already in place. All they need to do is file an Order 15A for discovery with the court and the ISP will happily hand over the information required. Since this whole fiasco with iiNET had started, there had been exactly zero Order15A's applied for by AFACT. iiNET even told them exactly how to do it but were then painted as pirate-harborers and sympathisers. This entire argument by the industry is malicious at best. We have a judicial system here for a reason. A plaintiff just can't order a defendant around with "evidence" without that "evidence" being validated by a judge/magistrate with a court order. Here's one comment from 3 years ago that still holds true today: http://whrl.pl/RbBoKk and his followup for more detail http://whrl.pl/RbBoMh

Comment Mountain out of a molehill (Score 1) 244

I don't get the fuss over this from /. and other tech sites (I'm glaring at you Ars Technica). The *ONLY* thing that has changed is they've removed the 30-day limitation. All the other restrictions in place have been in place for years. There is absolutely *NOTHING* stopping you from creating another account if the old one expired.

Comment Re:This is covered quite well (Score 1) 427

- Enable unsigned scripts to run. Preventing .ps1 script files from running by default is a shit workaround for not having an execute bit, and is totally useless. Just turn it off.
Because the execute bit is far superior to only running digitally signed approved scripts from approved signers

SharePoint can be managed via direct SQL database queries from anything, with some care.
Assuming you don't ever want help from PSS.

Comment Re:where are the ISP's With IPV6 and routers / mod (Score 1) 321

Already out there and have been for years. They sell IPv6-capable modems too.

One of their biggest issues was dealing with a "prominent NA router vendor starting with C" where their LNSs and other hardware would fail spectacularly running certain common dual-stack configurations. It took them years to develop a stable patch for it.

Comment Re:Status Bar??? (Score 1) 537

Overall, though, I truly believe that the features for 4.0 are ones Firefox users like - speed, HTML5 support, stability.
Is that at the expense of HTML 4 features like the Title tag? Currently, FF4 only shows the title in the tab and when you have more than 3 tabs open, it's impossible to read it. At least FF3.6 shows the active tab's title in the main FF Title bar so you could at least read the current one.

Comment Re:Bullshit. (Score 1) 356

Any time a new patch comes out, the new items can't be seen until the servers come up because they get "data mined" by sending API requests to the servers using random itemids.

Requesting an item id that the realm has not "seen" since coming back online from maintenance/restart will likely result in your client being forcefully disconnected. It's one way Blizzard stop data mining in that fashion.

Comment Re:I don't get it... (Score 1) 833

The whole thing seems to be on a purely honor system, sure the moderators there might be able to prune out all the 'Penis McBoobsfaces' that are going to be showing up over time

Fair point. A more subtle problem with a fake name is if your account gets hacked by a gold seller. Good luck proving who you are if you used a fake name and you can't access the account because the password's changed.

Comment Re:You are not now nor have you ever been anonymou (Score 1) 833

And what if the userbase isn't made up of entirely adults? This is wow we are talking about. I bet their are millions of minors who play.

Since this is Slashdot, I'm 100% sure you didn't read any comments posted prior to yours. Two words: Parental Controls. https://us.battle.net/account/parental-controls/index.html?rhtml=y

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