In the darkest depths or Mordor, I met a girl so fair

Have you implemented it yet?

I generally reframe the statement to if you've got nothing to loose. People seem oblivious to the fact that these sorts of laws are a boon for organised crime and committing fraud on a massive scale.

Encryption represents the front line of the fight for maintaining freedom and the net is the battlefield.

Many locals would agree and it is a long sort over goal for the country. When the country was presented an opportunity for its own Bill of Right in the 1980s many of the shock jock radio announcers lobbied heavily against it and it was defeated.

I hope that some day one of those radio announcers are on the business end of not having those rights. As for the many morons who voted against the Bill it just shows how sadly apathetic many Australians have become, largely due to Murdoch and the News empire that grew up in Australia before becoming an American company.

Faux News is the enemy of freedom in the land of the free.

Yes, and many times it happens to promote American interests because our politicians are too spineless to stand up for themselves. No one likes it and the Trans Pacific Partnership is a fine example. We are not even allowed to see the text of a bill that is to be passed into law.

They are things that everyday Australians object to and I'm certain everyday Americans would find it offensive too.

No they are not and many reasonable educated Australians would agree with you. We need a Bill of Rights more than ever. If you are prepared to make your views known to Australian politicians it would be most welcome.

I think the come and go of Concorde represents the peak of hydrocarbon based jet flight technology. Supersonic passenger services are unlikely to return in a form that is economically viable.

I wish I'd had a chance to travel on one.

Get an interception warrant. The government has access to enough legal vehicles for dealing with people obstructing justice and it's not as if there isn't a case for encryption already. It is illegal to open mail that is not addressed to you. The difference is that where an envelope reminds the holder to respect another persons privacy, encryption enforces a persons right to privacy.

Governments are not too happy with things that put peoples rights firmly with the people who own the government in the first place.

Very, very cool.

It used to be that SLASHDOT knew the difference between hackers and crackers. So the media is telling us what geek/nerd language is and how to use it. Allow me to FTFY:

A cracker gains illegitimate accesses to a computer system.

A hacker accesses systems so that they can learn. i.e. You don't learn to hack, you hack to learn.

It's bad enough hearing hipsters go 'lol'. Get.it.right.slashdot.news.for.nerds.not.noobs

Absolutely!

They just don't want to share the sandpit with any of the other kids.

True that, and if the platform doesn't do what you want then there is little point using it.

Thanks for being reasoned.

• Imagine there's no Beowulf cluster,
• it isn't hardware dude,
• no target architecture to compile for
• and no fanbois too
• imagine all the ratbrains
• computing their little peeeeiicccceee
• - whooohoooo

After reading pages of you trolling anyone who has said anything about Apple products the evidence suggests that you are quite a toxic individual. I watched a documentary about the science behind Apples marketing acting on the same parts of the brain as religion does. You're what they were talking about, more than a iFanboi.

You're an iDevout.

What concerns me is I do know Apple users who are actually nice people so I hope that they don't display the traits that you do if they cross whatever threshold you crossed. Are you an Apple professional? Is this how they all behave?

The difference between you an me is you think Apple's products are genius for what they are and I think they are genius for how they make you think that. For that Job's creation is genius.

But you are not. You are a product called an iDevout iFanboi of the iJobsian iEvangelical iChurch where the iClones all iWorship and iPractice their iFaith.

I would suggest you take your own advice however I find your thin skin to be absolutely fucking hilariously entertaining.

Were I to use Apple Music on my collection, the user experiences I read about tell me I would have some pretty rare recordings deleted. Apple wouldn't care so I'm quite happy to manage my music collection myself and not allow Apple that control so I experience that frustration.

Alternatively Mr iFanboi, you have a thin skin when Apple gets criticized because your substantial personal investment in their products makes criticism feel personal. Like someone calling you an iFool, iFanboi.

Indeed, my iFanboi friend did not deserve the time to proofread because he always pops up to troll anyone that looks vaguely like they are criticizing Apple. Though 'snyde' apparently means someone with a mental disorder to the urban dictionary.

I found Gnome2 very customizable and it suits my workflow so there is little point spend my time on a mac. The Mac's UI does not seem like it is worth the investment in time when I can just use a linux box and the Apple hardware isn't any better than a T series lenovo.

The iFanbois attitudes are a particularly unattractive feature though.