Comment Erm... (Score 1) 240

by Wienaren on Friday October 02, 2009 @05:11PM (#29621309) Attached to: Sony Prototype Sends Electricity Through the Air

DNRTFA, but what happens if someone steps into the "beam"? BBQ anyone?

Comment Re:Depressing, but not uncommon (Score 1) 1251

by Wienaren on Tuesday August 04, 2009 @05:56AM (#28938115) Attached to: Student Sues University Because She's Unemployable

Thank you. IMHO, this is the best posting on /. for ...erm.. decades.

Comment Re:Better than mplayer? (Score 1) 488

by Wienaren on Sunday April 05, 2009 @05:31AM (#27464029) Attached to: VLC 0.9.9, The Best Media Player Just Got Better

VLC's behavior in this regard has been annoying me for ages. IMHO, the window size should be the deciding factor, not the video size. If the user opens a window, resizes and positions it, the app never should relocate and/or resize it. Period.

Comment Re:Why is that annoying? (Score 1) 1127

by Wienaren on Tuesday February 17, 2009 @10:54AM (#26886375) Attached to: Draconian DRM Revealed In Windows 7

*replies above quoted text* Amen.

Comment Re:...as a constitutional amendment (Score 3, Funny) 1127

by Wienaren on Tuesday February 17, 2009 @05:46AM (#26884137) Attached to: Draconian DRM Revealed In Windows 7

Are you writing this on a Windows 7 machine? Probably a DRM problem with text copying/pasting then.

Comment Re:Is this that important ? (Score 1) 434

by Wienaren on Friday January 09, 2009 @02:34AM (#26383127) Attached to: Attempt To "Digitalize" Beatles Goes Sour

"The Beatles wrote straight-up, standard pop music." Something Britney isn't capable of and never will be. QED.

Comment Here's how's done (Score 1) 823

by Wienaren on Wednesday December 24, 2008 @11:54AM (#26223575) Attached to: Configuring a Windows PC For a Senior Citizen?

Simple: Not.

Comment Erm... (Score 1) 580

by Wienaren on Wednesday October 08, 2008 @12:42PM (#25301387) Attached to: Steve Jobs Patents "The Dock"

Amidock anyone? When was that? 1991?

Submission + - New Australian laws will censor terror DVDs

Submitted by on Monday April 16, 2007 @03:34AM

An anonymous reader writes: Within a few weeks, Australia may introduce new laws to censor films and literature deemed by the government to be supportive of terrorism. This is not the first time material has been censored in Australia, which has previously censored films and banned publications, including one titled Defence of the Muslim Lands (censored in mid 2006 by Attorney-General Phillip Ruddock). The proposed laws are aimed to target material such as a DVD by Feiz Mohammad containing some of his past controversial sermons calling for jihad and comparing Jews with pigs. The Office of Film and Literature Classification previously classified this DVD as "PG", suitable for viewing by anyone under 15 years of age with parental guidance.