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Comment Re:Tax Microsoft operating systems (Score 1) 577

I agree to this. I have never gotten a virus in the last 7 years, because my software is more secure, and I know how to use it and configure a machine. Why should I pay a tax for the idiots that cant do the same? A levy for known problem software would work better, while not burdening people that don't have the problem. You buy shit software, you pay extra to keep it clean.

Comment Why would I need to have that application? (Score 1) 211

This is not a flamebait, but a serious question.
I have a Xperia and I can connect my desktop/laptop without any additional application straight to my mobile (linux or windows) using bluetooth/wifi/usb. Why would I write a story "oh I can connect my laptop to my phone"???
I have been able to do this for a while using Fedora/Centos/ubuntu/xp/2000 with my current and previous phone.

Comment Re:NearlyFreeSpeech.net (Score 1) 456

Not sure if it is really relevant, but 2600 (the hacker magazine) sells lifetime subscriptions that work.

Lifetime subscription We'll keep sending you copies of 2600 until either you or we cease to exist. This offer also includes copies of the first three years of 2600: 1984-1986.

and they've been pretty faithful in them since the '80s when they started.

Comment Re:Double-Standard (Score 1) 691

The curious bit is that without his act of terroism, no one would be talking about this bit of foolish tax code.

No, it was not the correct thing to do, but it certainly got us talking. I did not even realize that this problem existed for the coding self-employed, and makes me rethink my next career.

Comment Re:So, what can we (US Citizens) do to stop this? (Score 1) 410

take the angle of a content creator, after all if you are making your own content and putting it online, competitors could easily take you out just by merely claiming you stole their work even if you didn't.

Also good to point out unfairness to ISP's and third parties etc

Here is where you can find information regarding sending people your problems with it. email and snail mail options provided, recommend snail mail for best results.

Comment Decisions, decisions... (Score 1) 631

Hmmmm.....
Pay big bucks to legally play a game that puts me at the publisher's fickle mercy and demands constant internet access - and bandwith - responding with draconian punishment if I fail to provide this.

OR

Pay nothing and get an illegal copy that works fine from the word "GO"

Decisions, decisions...

Comment Re:hmm (Score 1) 148

I'd say it's time for the US to stop relying on Shock and Awe Terrorism and be a good neighbour for a change, but that wouldn't be true.

That's right, it wouldn't be true. The US has been a good neighbor since it formed.

If you don't think so, the taxpayers here would surely appreciate you all returning the billions of dollars in foreign aid that we've been handing out for generations. It seems a mite hypocritical to complain about the lack of "neighborliness" of the US while holding your hands out for the money and other aid we dish out.

I should have just modded you flamebait or troll, but I couldn't let your nonsense stand uncontested.

Can't speak for the US - but Australia uses "foreign aid" to dump unwanted (and often substandard) products. We supply "military advice" to our near neighbours (read PNG and Indonesia) so that Australian companies can continue activities (read mining and Panguna).

I don't support Barnaby Joyces' call to cut Foreign Aid spending - but I will continue to view all foreign aid cynically - and support public scrutiny and transparent accounting.

I suggest you do the same.

Comment Re:Science or Religion? (Score 1) 1136

Statistically significant in this case means (somewhat arbitrarily) there is a 95% or better chance there has been actual warming during the period and it's not just noise. If the confidence level is only 90% then it's not statistically significant but I still wouldn't bet against it.

Jones was only one of many lead scientists in the IPCC. The data he's referring to is the Hadley/CRU data. In the NASA/GISS data the temperature trend is statistically significant.

Your problem with AGW predictions is that you're using the wrong time frame. 5 years of data is merely noise in the time frames of climate research. You have to think in terms of at least 20 or 30 years to be able to filter out the noise of natural variability from the long term trends. Most AGW predictions are made with those sorts of time frames in mind. So you're never going to get your "accurate prediction of temperature changes over the next 5 years without any error," because of the noise.

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