Yep, if you really must use obsolete units, post a translation alongside - e.g., "310mph (500km/h)". You're writing for nerds, not your confused grandparents!

My best friend's a sponge - we share 70% of the same genes.

What do you mean, "how do you measure it"? This is Slashdot, we don't measure things, we make them up!

Or, in Chrome, open a new tab and in the right hand side bottom corner there's a link that says "recently closed". It doesn't get much easier than that!

Even if anarchy was attainable in this universe, it would be unworkable - as it would require every member of the population to spend 25 hours a day in meetings, trying to agree on how to run the world.

Don't forget Murdoch tried keeping up with the times and failed dismally - he bought MySpace, which he later sold at a massive loss. He's totally incapable of getting to grips with the modern world.

However, the issue here is that the NBN will compete with his Foxtel cable TV network - making the result of a big of capital investment totally redundant. So business opportunities don't really come into it.

Not disputing what you say, but video disks were around in the early 80s. When i was working (as a games programmer) for Thorn EMI in London in 1982, they were working on interactive video disks. These were 10 inch disks as far as i remember.

CUPS didn't even exist in 1993! It was lpd back then. I don't remember when CUPS first popped up in RedHat or whatever i was using at the time, but it was as long time after 1993.

Maybe. But whether or not information wants to be free, the crucial question to ask is "is piracy actually costing me anything?" The stupid assumption made by the music and film industry is that every pirated copy is one copy less that they'll sell - which is clearly nonsense. Just because someone takes something that is available for free doesn't mean they'd pay for it if it wasn't. I'm sure the vast majority of people who read / listen to / watch pirated material would never have paid for it anyway, they would have been doing something else for free instead.

So unless you can prove that the people who are reading the pirated version of the magazine are people who would have bought it if it hadn't been pirated (which is mostly pretty unlikely), then it's a complete waste of time and money trying to fix something that isn't really a problem. It would be much more productive to put those resources into building up the paying customer base.

It's not really about religion at all - the catholics and the protestants are different ethnic groups - the protestants were imported into Ireland from Scotland by the British, deliberately to cause trouble there

But you're completely wrong about the geography. No part of Ireland has never been a part of Britain (not within recent geological time, anyway). "Britain" is the name of the island that contains England, Wales, and Scotland ("Great Britain" is just a pompous contraction of "Greater Britain", which is the island of Britain and all the little islands around it - not including the island of Ireland and its little islands). The six counties of Northern Ireland are part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. I assume (but don't know) that before the 26 counties of the Republic of Ireland gained independence from London, that was called the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

Yeah, the first computer i worked on had a drum (and a paper tape reader and a punched card reader). Well, there were two of them - one had the drum, the other didn't. The one with the drum could boot from software stored on the drum, but the other one had to be booted by toggling in the paper tape bootstrap, running that to read in the card reader bootstrap from the paper tape, then running that to read in the operating system off the punched cards. I've got no idea of the capacity of the drum - but it must have been quite a few kB! It had helically arranged heads, i remember that much!

The first computer i ever worked on had a drum, a paper tape reader, and a card reader. And we would toggle the bootstrap in on the front panel.

Yeah, i remember i upgraded my first notebook (a Digital HiNote, with a 486sx processor) to 12MB RAM (in about 1995).

But i remember around that time, too, some computers still using 256kB and, maybe 512kB RAM SIMMs. 286s and PCs i think. And even hard drives in the sub-1MB range (MFM and RLL, anyone?)

It may be small, but it's always there! As much as i kinda hate the fact (i've got a Nikon D90), my phone's my main camera now too.

Some dumbarse actor stole my name and he's the only one that comes up on the first page. I'm top of the second page though!