It depends whether you consider a "vote" to be a song choice, or a person who voted.

Voters submit a list of their favourite handful of songs, they don't pick one. Triple J usually picks the number of song submissions, not the number of people who voted, since it's the songs themselves that they count.

A lot of the votes aren't by australians. Triple J streams worldwide for free and they have extremely good taste in music. Their charter requires, by law, that they do not have any ads except to promote music and culture, which means they promote music and festivals that they think are interesting, but don't collect any revenue for it.

So there are plenty of people around the world who tune in.

The event is several hours long, and it takes place on a national public holiday when everyone is off work. I've been invited to more than one party, to spend the whole day listening to music, drinking beer, eating bad food and trying to find some shade and/or water (bloody hot here this time of year!).

When did a european spy agency pay the largest security firm in the world to put a back door in their encryption?

There is nobody in the world as bad as the NSA.

Or even better, just tell google they have to stop selling services in Europe for a period of time, say 90 days. So nobody in Europe would be allowed to buy ads off Google while the ban was in place.

This would give competitors, who presumably adhere to EU law, a chance to step in and earn some revenue of their own.

Bullshit. The only way to improve is for people to point out when something is below standard. Complaints should be encouraged. You just shouldn't give credence to all of them.

And since it's impossible to settle, it's a total waste of time to even think about it. I don't know what the most often-run piece of code is. I don't have any idea. And I'm pretty sure nobody else on /. does so what's the point of even reading comments? I wouldn't be here if I wasn't bored out of my mind...

This really is the worst ask /. I've ever seen. I wish they'd asked something interesting, like "what did you have for breakfast?" at least I can answer that with some hope of knowing the answer.

It's not a dupe, it's just that everyone installs from source on OpenBSD, so signing the binary never made much sense.

My workstation PC is a mac with a pair of 27" displays, possibly a third coming. I write server side linux software on it at my day job, Mac/iOS software as a hobby (open source stuff).

And I can write and compile software on my iPhone. As soon as I commit any changes to github, within a few seconds the mac mini we have in the cloud will start running tests and doing a build, which I can then download onto the iPhone to execute it (assuming it's an iOS app).

If it's a Windows or Mac app, I can VNC into some hardware running that platform and test it there.

I was an emacs user... but none of the many linux servers I ssh into have it. I'm not going to install emacs three times a week, so I learned vi instead.

Anyway, control+a is hard to type on an iOS keyboard (possible, since a good terminal emulator adds a control key, but not productive).

My iPhone can do everything I can do on my workstation. The screen is too small to be productive at some tasks, but it can do everything.

Sure, I can't access a bash prompt on localhost, unless I jailbreak it, but I definitely have an ssh client and have logged into my server many times... even solved a catastrophe once using just my phone, vi works surprisingly well using the iOS keyboard.

They could but an iPhone is very heavy so it would add something like $20,000 to the cost of the launch.

Every gram is critical.

My Leopold keyboard was pretty cheap (~$100), has hard PBT plastic key caps (which are a widely used standard design and replacable), the switches are guaranteed to last at least 50 million presses *for each key* and are mounted to a thick steel plate that feels stronger than the desk it sits on top of. The switches are also commonly available and can also be replaced with a bit of soldering, but i've never heard of them failing (monitor falling on them might do it). I dunno about cat piss but liquid generally only harms low voltage electronics when it is corrosive (eg coke) so I think it would be fine - especially if you clean it quickly.

There are perfectly good keyboards available today, if you bother to look.

Landlines also get swamped during emergencies. Been there, done that. Mobile phones have proven themselves more reliable in my experience.

Cordless phones are a pain in the ass, I want to be able to walk around on the phone, and I mean walk around outside or down the street, not just inside the house. Having two phone numbers also sucks, I want to have one number... and I want it to work whether I'm at home or at work or out for dinner or visiting my dad for three weeks. I also want it to be *my* phone number, not shared between me and whoever else lives in my house or apartment.

Could be true for the guy you're talking about, but I've got a cordless phone that's bundled with my broadband. I only use it three or four times a year.

And I've been through two category 5 cyclones (hurricanes) in the last three years. When the landline phone and tv and dsl dropped out, my 3G kept on working and was a lot more interesting than the radio (which is packed with even more ads when there's a cyclone...). Once the mobile did drop out, but only because a major datacentre got flooded *by ocean water* and the diesel generators ran out of fuel. They had to wait for the sea level to drop before they could refuel them... this took out both cell phones and landlines by the way.

In the following two weeks without electricity, I didn't have any problems keeping my mobile phone charged. The landline and adsl were constantly dropping in and out as they did repair work, but cell phones had priority because they are used by emergency services. So my phone and 3G always worked.

OK so lets say you're browsing the web, and you get a text message.

So you go into the text messaging app, read the message, and then go back to the browser. What happens if you press the button now? Does it take you back to the messaging app, or go back in the browser history? The answer to that is different in every app on android.

On iOS, it will always go back in the browser history, or take you to the previous screen *in that app*.

What are you talking about? I run my own software all the time by clicking "build and run" in Xcode. It's a piece of cake!

Or perhaps you mean it's a pain to run *other people's* software on an iPhone? That just depends how they choose to deploy it. If they were "open" and gave you the code, it'd be as easy as clicking build and run.

The locked down app store isn't perfect, but I really do like the security. I like knowing that an app being able to read my address book is a huge scandal, unlike on PC's where it's just assumed everything can do that. The benefits of iOS are more than worth the drawbacks I think.

The difference is, the water company is profitable no matter how much water they sell to you. If you use far more water than any of your neighbours they will charge you a lot more.

But if you use a far more 3G data than almost anyone else (2GB would classify as doing that), then you still pay the exact same amount as they do. If they were to charge everyone by the bit, then "normal" usage of around 100MB would cost what you're paying right now for 2GB.