Comment Re: Topology (Score 2) 378
You guys still have CDMA?
Comment Tldr (Score 2) 406
TLDR: Was hippy, got better.
Comment Did they ever (Score 1) 275
Did Microsoft ever say they didn't read your messages? You're pretty silly if you believe any service that doesn't explicitly enter into a binding contract wouldn't be reading your data - particularly if it's free.
Comment Re: Bloat (Score 1) 466
Efficiency? If that what you think the big difference is, you might as well be using Windows.
Comment Re: Having solved all of the world's other problem (Score 1) 153
Because the average age of a Redditor is probably 14.
Comment Re: Need expert opinion (Score 2) 107
If it were pointed right at us, my understanding is our ozone would be ionised pretty quickly. Clearly that would not be a good thing.
Comment Not new (Score 5, Informative) 288
I am a programmer in Sydney, Australia, and for a few years I have had a contract management company handling all my sourcing and negotiations. They get 2% and I make the final decisions on accepting the work. The demand for non permanent programmers to tackle one-off projects is huge here, especially from the financial sector. Conversely the supply of decent people to fill it is low.
Comment Re: Somebody, quick! (Score 1) 412
It's because there are too many kids on the /. lawn these days.
Although I recall there were a couple of years I felt the same and left altogether. Perhaps this is a cyclical thing.
Comment Re:More accurate to say "More resilient chips"? (Score 1) 68
Not to be too pedantic about it, but I'm very touchy about biological metaphors being inappropriately applied to technology (lets we forget how amazingly complex evolved biology really is compared to even our most advanced tech). FTFA, it sounds like they don't really "heal," they just reroute around the damage. But the damage is still there. It's more analogous to network packets being rerouted around a bad server than a biological entity actually replacing damaged cells.
The brain is known to reroute signals in order to restore lost functionality in stroke victims, so (without having read TFA) I would group this under healing.
Comment Re:It's one of few anonymous ways to obtain bitcoi (Score 1) 437
I agree it is a matter only a matter of time, but it appears that most people have given up (at least anecdotally) on FPGA systems simply on a rumour and maybe a prohibitively expensive prototype someone once threw together.
Or perhaps I just haven't been reading the right scriptures.
Comment Re:It's one of few anonymous ways to obtain bitcoi (Score 1) 437
Has anyone actually laid their hands on one of these purported ASIC miners? I see a lot of hyperbole, pictures and hand waving on videos - but to me they appear to be vapourware with nothing other than pre-order status.
Comment Re:Valve / Steam... (Score 1) 371
I sure wouldn't want other countries which buy our imports to say to us "wait that's not fair; it only costs you guys $40/tonne to export iron ore and we're paying $150/tonne. We're going to get the government involved to try and fight that somehow".
They did, it was called the "Free Trade Agreement".
Comment Re: BBQ (Score 5, Informative) 289
I think this was intended to be a joke, but actually kanga meat is available in most supermarkets here.
Comment Re:not sure "shame" will have much effect (Score 3, Informative) 336
How about the service provider connecting those home computers to the net?
Comment Re:Correct me if I'm wrong (Score 1) 248
Actually the bee only dies because the stinger is barbed and it rips it's guts out when it pulls away.
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