Well, it'll prevent further breaches... as long as the whole piece of paper burns!

I have a car. I choose not to drive it when going out for drinks. It's called being a responsible adult, you douchebag.

And it was $75 to go a distance I'd previously been in a taxi for $35... it was a nicer ride, but way too expensive to use regularly.

Not sure if you realise... but when you're on a work computer, all your internet requests usually go through some form of proxy server - which is how your IT department finds out what you access regularly and blocks it. Clearing your browser history is useless since every request is logged in a centralised server before it goes out to the net.

I tip my hat to you, sir! :)

Amusing, but it is absolutely ridiculous that if you want to buy 3 copies of Adobe Creative Suite in Australia, it's cheaper to fly to the US and buy them there, then fly straight back. And that's just one example, there's even the Steam Ripoffs site to show how much we get shafted for games.

You're completely mistaken. That was the case, years ago, but these days, I think you'll find that Amazon's sales business is now about 1/3 of their total business, with the remainder being cloud services provisioning. That's a direct quote from the Amazon account manager I had at my last job, and probably out of date now since it was stated close to two years ago to me.

I pay for Game of Thrones and True Blood through my Foxtel subscription in Australia - $100/month for the privilege of two shows I enjoy for a grand total of 6 months of the year. The rest of the time, I can't find anything to watch on my ridiculously overpriced satellite TV connection, everything else i'm interested in requires forking over an additional $30 or $60/month - so pardon me while I illegally download the rest of what I want to watch. Give me something worthwhile, at a decent price, and I'll pay it, but when I spend $1200 and mostly cannot find TV shows worth watching on this overpriced crappy satellite tv network (and I don't even get movies or sport at that price!) then please excuse me while I illegally download the rest of my content.

Be honest. You pirated their software just as much as everyone else ;)

Optimist!

Malcolm Turnbull, or Tony Abbott, is that you?

Sounds far better than a couple of managers I've had. One asked for our advice, which we duly gave, and he ignored, going with a contractor's more-expensive and convoluted suggestions every time - he was sideways transferred when it became apparent that he was getting kickbacks from this contractor. The next manager asked us for options, which we duly gave, and a recommendation as to which we thought was best and it's reasons, and so he chose the cheapest each time, regardless of budget... I then left when they gave the control of the IT department to the HR manager, after that IT manager quit.

... and to think i commented in this thread instead of moderating, only to find this. Mod parent up!

The original site is loading perfectly here... rendered in under 0.2 of a second.

C:\Users\crafty munchkin>ping slashdot.org

Pinging slashdot.org [216.34.181.45] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 216.34.181.45: bytes=32 time=256ms TTL=241
Reply from 216.34.181.45: bytes=32 time=255ms TTL=241
Reply from 216.34.181.45: bytes=32 time=252ms TTL=241
Reply from 216.34.181.45: bytes=32 time=254ms TTL=241

Who would've thought a TPG 15mbps link on a dirt road would beat an Internode 19mbps link! :P