I concur - it's probably with the extra $1.6k you could FLY to the US, have an effectively free holiday pick up a copy of the software while you're there, and come back

Nothing a roll of duct tape couldn't fix.... or a soldering iron.

Duct tape over the camera and solder the output lines for a cassette deck... err mp3 player... to the mice in on the tv... play porn music on a loop...

There are infinitely worse things in the world than copying content... in fact, almost everything you can possibly do to another human being is worse than this... yet we don't see this sort of pursuit of people smugglers, priests, or pedophiles.

I used to think "poor suckers, can't afford a tablet or decent phone" when I saw people reading on ebook readers on the train...

After getting headaches while reading on my phone and test driving a co-workers kindle...

I bought myself a Kobo Touch - now I feel like a right flaming idiot!

I will never go back to reading on the phone, or my touchpad.

Long live the ebook reader!

Hell, even the most demanding brats have written less demanding letters to santa than these guys have written to government.

I guess it's a case of "If we ask for everything in the world, perhaps they'll give is the least scary sounding thing so we'll go away for a while" - whatever happened to not negotiating with terrorists...

If Sony can do it, why can't the little guy.

10 "We're not catching any terrorists"
20 "They must be out there, cast the nets wider"
30 "We're still not catching any terrorists"
40 "We know they exist somewhere, clearly we're not looking hard enough, cast the nets wider!"
50 goto 10

http://www.johnston-independent.com/property_rights.html - He'd get my vote... if I was in his electorate.

In summary, thanks to a 1991 high court ruling that (frankly) upholds "Common Law", police can only enter a property as far as your front door and must leave when asked to do so unless they have a warrant.

Ummm, pretty sure that statement was released as part of a press release because I've heard/read it before

I'd almost rather have to deal with terrorism first hand (in the off chance it ever actually happens) than deal with the government every waking hour that is immediately effecting our lives

PS, welcome to Australia, Stephen Conroy tried almost exactly the same line.

Pedophiles are *always* thinking of the children.

I did this in the last election - and apparently so did a great chunk of others, that's how we ended up with a minority government... Didn't improve anything though.

Have you tried to do dictation on an android? it sux...

Considering the gene pool around these parts, I'm not sure I want to be part of it.