Comment Oh dear (Score 1) 136
Hope these don't come to Australia, I'm regularly surrounded by dangerous levels of Sulphar Dioxide and Methane gas!
Comment Re:What is Australia thinking? (Score 1) 275
I think the Moon and Sixpence in Perth has it, but that's a British pub. The brits seem to like it for some odd reason!
Comment Re:What is Australia thinking? (Score 1) 275
Fosters
Does anyone in Australia actually drink that toilet water? The only person I've witnessed drinking it was my Grand Father.
Comment Re:Recent Fedora (Score 1) 360
.... Which version are you using?? I've been using 9.10 for quite some time, first release where I haven't done things by hand. 9.04 was garbage and 8.10 was close, but not quite there. The network manager in 9.10 is very simple and "Just Works"
Comment Re:Available only to subscribers (Score 1) 115
Today, but what about tomorrow? This does not instill confidence was my point.
Then you get the CentOS of the Ubuntu world. They can't just lock it up and put $$ in front of it, that's the beauty of open source. No confidence lost here, just perception on your behalf.
Comment Re:There is no piracy on the PS3 (Score 1) 279
and many MMOs don't have piracy either.
There are off-line servers for the likes of WoW, you can play without paying a dime, there are others too. Some MMOs even have a single player mode built in (hellgate: london)
You didn't mention another group which is people who pirate because they just don't want to pay.
Group 1#
Comment He seems to be upside down (Score 1) 118
Oh yeah -> Upside-down-ternet
Comment Re:You, sir, lack imagination (Score 1) 280
Maybe the case for this movie, but not the point I was making. I think it's even illegal to possess X18+ material in the state I live in.
Comment Re:You, sir, lack imagination (Score 1) 280
There is a site where RC is discussed refused-classification.com
The thing that bothers me is this quote from 9 Songs Classification
The thing that bothers me is this quote from 9 Songs Classification
The X18+ classification means that the film can only be legally sold or hired in the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory from premises licensed to sell X18+ videotapes and DVDs. Only people aged 18 years and over are able to buy and hire such films from these premises.
So only the people in the ACT (where the Federal Parliament resides) and the northern territory, which only has a population of roughly 230,000 (to put that into perspective, Victoria's capital Melbourne has around 4million people). So the only people who can legally purchase or hire X18+ material are either Federal Politicians or a bunch of people in outback australia who probably live too far from a video store anyway. Go figure!
Comment Re:Resistance Of Change (Score 1) 511
Google has the most muscle, but you still can't use their Tasks + their Calendar + their email in the same rich client (not the browser).
Why tie yourself to a client? Wean yourself off using a client, I did a few years ago when I couldn't be bothered re-configuring mine and I've never looked back. There are some quite cool tools in Google labs and I've structured gmail around the way my brain operates. Best thing is I can access it from my phone, my computers at work, my computers at home, my fiancé's computer, my mates computer and still get the same experience as if I was using it on the one machine.
Comment Re:Basically? (Score 2, Interesting) 511
I hoped I wasn't the only one!
Comment Re:Microsoft's slowness and Windows 2005 (Score 1) 631
If only I had mod points, this certainly isn't funny, but sadly it should be insightful.
Comment Re:So... WTF is "Free Public WiFi" really doing? (Score 3, Informative) 422
I don't think it was malicious and can confirm this was a significant issue at my work place. There was a hotfix that prevented it from happening and it was definitely addressed in SP3. Microsoft Windows Silent Adhoc Network Advertisement
Comment April Fools?? (Score 1) 104
I'm sorry, but this is all too good to be true, I had to check the date twice! Now all we need is for Conroy to admit he's completely wrong and step down!
For a good laugh, you should complete the "Vote Now!" on the left hand side (no login required)
For a good laugh, you should complete the "Vote Now!" on the left hand side (no login required)
Killer Convicted, Using Dog DNA Database 97
lee1 writes "It turns out that the UK has a DNA database — for dogs. And this database was recently used to apprehend a South London gang member who used his dog to catch a 16-year-old rival and hold him while he stabbed him to death. The dog was also accidentally stabbed, and left blood at the scene. The creation of human DNA databases has led to widespread debates on privacy; but what about the collation of DNA from dogs or other animals?"
