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Comment Re:Noscript wins again (Score 3, Interesting) 330

Most of the big banks in Sweden allow you to create a temporary (virtual) credit card with a specified limit and expiry date. You type the credit limit and expiry in, push a button and it spits out a new mastercard number. At least one bank (Swedbank, one of the largest in Scandinavia) requires this kind of card for all online transactions.

Comment Re:Home Security Theater (Score 1) 633

The quickest path towards resolving this is genuinely for all non-criminal young Middle Easterners to start ejecting the radical element from within their ranks.

Just like when the IRA was having their campaigns, I should have told them to shut the hell up so I could go about my business? I'm an Australian, although I look Irish due to my ancestors around 4 generations ago emigrating from there. Racism is not the answer.

Comment Re:A return to baseline... (Score 1) 506

Usually stuff like this isn't researched on very big groups and over and over again.

I think sporting bodies have researched this thoroughly. For example, in Australian football (the most popular sport in the country) caffeine was legalised a few years ago. The clubs spent big bucks testing their usefulness, but as far as I know none use them any more.

Comment Re:Perspective (Score 1) 958

When it is thousands and thousands of kilometers to get out of your own country in every direction if you don't can't the USA as a destination it is a bit more difficult to travel to many countries.

I live in Australia, you insensitive clod. I can drive for 25,000km on one highway without leaving the country. Apart from a few pacific islands, New Zealand is the only country within 6 hours flight of me (Melbourne).

And yet, most of my friends have travelled to several other countries. In the time it takes to drive 2000km, you can fly pretty much anywhere it the world.

Comment Re:If a used bookstore can sell used books... (Score 1) 664

(Maybe I shouldn't be too loud about this but I'm sure the Post Office would love to get money from stamp collectors buying and selling their stamps. Or the Treasure Department and coins...)

They already do. Stamp collectors buy stamps and never use them for postage - but they still pay the full price. Same with coins - they are bought from the Treasury.

Comment Re:Very true (Score 1) 386

Mining machinery, oil platform systems, medical devices, robotics repair...any of those would offer opportunities to travel to exotic places and make a lot of money.

At least if you work in mining, the exotic places you get sent are likely to be places you wouldn't really want to live otherwise, for example outback Australia or Siberia.

Comment Re:emacs, emacs, emacs... (Score 1) 1131

If you're just editing text, I suppose vi is just fine.

And so we come to the crux of the debate. The poll does ask about text editors, so I think it's reasonable to rate them on their text editing ability.

Comment Re:Results not supposed causes (Score 1) 439

It doesn't matter why someone is weaving, following too closely, drifting, not using turn signals, not checking blind spots, etc... they should be ticketed just the same.

The problem with this is that there is no way a system that actually tickets people whenever they do these things would be accepted, and since people are distracted while on the phone they don't realise they are doing them.
The threat of an occasional ticket is enough to stop most people from speeding and running red lights because they generally notice when they do those things, and think, "I hope I don't get caught."

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