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Comment: Re:Indonesian, Korean and french (Score 1) 227

by skegg (#43788517) Attached to: Australia Makes Asian Language Learning a Priority

You'll hence probably find the average Australian is quite sceptical of the motives for this legislation

Likely, in some negotiations, China hinted at a small desire for an increase in the learning of Chinese in other countries. They would consider it a "personal favour" if we would accommodate. Next item on the agenda: the status of Chinese government approval on the selling of rare earth minerals to Australia.

Comment: Re:This is against current food movements. (Score 1) 241

by skegg (#43788305) Attached to: 3-D Printable Food Gets Funding From NASA

Mate, you can get a machine for under a hundred bucks, and the capsules are around 70 U.S. cents (give or take).

In my opinion, pod coffee is good. (Not great ... but good. Certainly better than soluble coffee.)

And with the convenience of having a couple of coffees at home / the office for under 2 bucks a day, while I'd be ticked off if the manufacturer ceased making the capsules in a year or 2, I wouldn't be starting a class action lawsuit.

Comment: Wish they'd do one for doctors (Score 1) 43

by skegg (#43776943) Attached to: Book Review: Locked Down: Information Security For Lawyers

My, how I've become irate over the years with medical practitioners having such lax (nay, absent) IT security policies.

I'm sick of doctors installing random software off the internet.
I'm sick of doctors connecting their computers directly to the internet, with nothing but Windows as protection.
I'm sick of doctors throwing unencrypted DVD back-up's in their trash.

The list goes on ...

Comment: Re:I love it... (Score 2) 658

by skegg (#43650223) Attached to: Adobe Creative Suite Going Subscription-Only

Curious ... I notice that you say:

The software runs locally it's just licensed in the cloud.

which implies it's essentially the same software.
However in my local newspaper the Managing Director of Adobe Australia and New Zealand says:

We didn't want our research and development teams to be maintaining two different tech platforms – one in the cloud and the one purchased every two years.

which implies Adobe would be burdened by having to maintain a cloud & off-line version of the software.

I believe you, and suspect the software is the same, and that Adobe is just full of shit.
However unlike you, for me this reinforces my distrust of Adobe.

Comment: Re:Be happy that their data is secure? (Score 1) 238

by skegg (#43382313) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Dealing With Unwanted But Official Security Probes?

Sigh. The situation is still warped in Australia.

I once changed doctors, and asked for my records to be transferred.
The doctor I was leaving said that his notes belonged to him, and that he wouldn't transfer those.
(Even though all those notes were about me !)

I don't know what the law is, but that just doesn't sound right.

"And do you think (fop that I am) that I could be the Scarlet Pumpernickel?" -- Looney Tunes, The Scarlet Pumpernickel (1950, Chuck Jones)

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