I know that nobody is looking at this two weeks later, but...

Why do you think that changing your password frequently would help? If the baddies get your password, the money's gone within a few minutes.

No, the whole problem is that the proposed filter is MANDATORY. There is no opt-out. Labor has changed its election promise significantly.

Software is not a product of nature. .... It must be written, you don't just discover it.

Go back and read PoIR's essay linked to above. He proves the exact opposite of what you just said (Goedel numbers, Turing equivalence, etc.).

IBM most certainly did say that. You're very selectively quoting. The full quote is:

Patent protection has promoted the free sharing of source code on a patentee's terms--which has fueled the explosive growth of open source software development.

The first part may arguably be true (although I don't believe so, since patentees never seem to actually reveal their patented source code). But the second part is the bullshit that the GP was referring to.

Hey, my WordPress hosting is on DreamHost. There's no way that will take less than 3 seonds per iteration. So I'm safe from your DOS. Oh, wait...

I heard a story once (no idea of the truth) that the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) used to be called the Vertical Assembly Building. But they got tired of dumb tourists asking "What's a vertical?".

The article describes Coonabarabran as being the "central-west NSW location". Now, Coonabarabran certainly isn't very far west in NSW. But, then I realised that they mean population-wise. There aren't too many people west of there!!!

It's ok - it's SimWitty. Good work Slashdot editors!

I've never heard of simwiddy and Google returns nothing except this article. Anybody???

That, and he probably wouldn't recognise it as beer...