Go into the group policy editor and set the "intranet Microsoft update service" to localhost. No more updates! There are some other useful settings in the same location.

Bingo! Damn right... it's just laziness. The author can't be bothered coming up with a proper subject line. If that's the case, just leave the default "Re: ..." subject.

http://www.abc.net.au/4corners...

As usual, US is behind it, and other western countries do whatever they say.

Absolutely! A lot of things are remedied by alcohol.

That's correct. 1GB = 1000MB
On the other hand, 1GiB = 1024MB
Are you getting them confused?

The logical extension to this argument is that as the cost of producing, distributing and accessing content approaches zero, increasingly the best content will get the most readership. Newscorp recently announced they are setting up paywalls across all their sites. When people have to pay for content to access it, it not only has to be the best content, but the best by a significant margin. I don't believe this is the case for Newscorp. They'll see a protracted decline unless they can remodel their business to embrace the spirit of the internet, rather than the kneejerk reactions we're seeing.

The hard drive manufacturers are using the units correctly. 1GB = 1,000,000,000 bytes

It's the units used in most operating systems that are inaccurate (although I've seen some Linux distros that use GiB, etc.). They use GB for numbers that are actually in GiB, and it is that difference that causes people distress. But no, it's the drive manufacturers fault! Perhaps they could make it clearer by labelling disks with both units... but let's not pretend they are being anything less than accurate in their labelling.

Putting their crapware on non-removable partitions and reducing the usable drive space, however, is another story!

Your modders say "Funny". I say "Insightful".

Except the frickin' balloon with lights on the cable! ;-)

The enemy just has to follow the balloon to get to the guy. Then the plane crew will be winching up a dead guy.

http://robocode.sourceforge.net/

Enough said...

I think it's time the one-child policy went global.

OK, there may be worse, but admit it - this is pretty bad.

Sounds like the kind of 'private meetings' where large sums of money change hands.

Agreed. Nothing more than the deluded ravings of an Apple fanboi. Move along.