I wonder if China might be more likely to just sit on their hands and let the USA and NK duke it out in a conventional battle. This would cause the US to drag itself into economic despair even faster, allowing China to become the superpower sooner.

Here is a torrent link for the latest edition....

I just leave the important emails unread on my phone until I action them.

You are supposed to wash your face with that water spray. Very refreshing for your pleasure.

I remember feeling a genuine sense of loss when I sold my 500 and later my 1200. I have never felt the same emotional connection to any of the PC's I have owned since. I will always have a soft spot for the old Amigas.

We have a federal election less than one month away. Unfortunately, I think it's mainly the minority of geeks and nerds which fear it and understand these plans. How do we mobilise the rest of a generally apathetic nation in 3 weeks before a federal election to rally against this?

I agree, there are either a lot of normal people getting screwed over (pardon the pun) thinking "honestly, I thought she was 18 your honour", or there are a lot of dumb people who don't realise how little privacy they have left on the internets when they go hunting for the blatantly underage stuff.

The company I work for had hundreds of the affected GX270's deployed at remote sites, and they were all supplied from Japan. This meant you couldn't get any support at all until you had the service tag transferred to the new country you were in. At the peak of the bad cap problem with the GX270's Dell would really drag their feet transferring the tag so they didn't have to deal with supplying the motherboard. I must have spoken to several Dell engineers who didn't get the memo about keeping their mouths shut about the bad caps because most I spoke to knew full well what what going on.

Whoop Whoop! Its the FUN POLICE!

Isn't that standard ops already? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9/11_conspiracy_theories#Flight_93

Sorry, I disagree. FFS, if you have an open network you deserve to get owned by whichever network snooping person is driving past.

If you choose to broadcast unencrypted in range of a public road that google are driving along, IMHO stiff, you are broadcasting into the public domain. Anyone reading /. should know better and I cant believe all the Holier than Thou attitudes to this. Google are slimy suit wearing advertising types, but hell, these fools were asking for it.

Would there be all this uproar if Google collected data on people which didn't have a front door (or any form of physical entrance security) to their house?

ENDRANT

Nice to meet you. I stopped using stopped using BT because I was afraid of getting sued. Now I use encrypted usenet.

Bingo, I paid to see it at the cinema, why cant I keep a divx copy? What's next, will I be punished to recall scenes in my mind without paying?

Ring ring... "Ticking? No its not the ticking type... No, it doesn't have a timer... No! FFS it doesn't tick... No its not one with a countdown... For crying out loud it blows up when I ring ring you! we went through this... Ok.... No you hang up... No YOU hang up...."

I wish my wife was that flexible