Except the fake ones covering comes unstuck a week after you get it.

Or the covering starts scuffing after one use.

Where the genuine one will still look perfect after years of use.

If your buying something that you know is a fake for fake prices, this isnâ(TM)t an issue.

If you are buying something that claims to be genuine for close to genuine prices, itâ(TM)s a massive issue

Itâ(TM)s Oracles switch to charging for a license to develop in Java is what is going to kill it.

Weâ(TM)ve already got vendors switching to other technologies for their web based apps.

So this is the Furmi Paradox Great Filter?

All civilisations rise to the point they run out of ideas, remain trapped on their own world failing to manage it until a climate event of their own making silences them.

Bummer. I had higher hopes.

Hahah. Really? You are comparing 30 metres of cable manufactured to Cat 5e standards in a clean dry environment to kilometres of twisted pair wires buried in the ground 30 years ago with multiple connections where it's just twisted together sitting in pits full of water with plastic bags as moisture protection?

You are either a troll or ignorant. I'll leave the world to judge.
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To bloody right!

$25B for FTTN which will be limited to 25Mb/s by that ancient, expensive to maintain, copper. When Netflix (30% of US evening internet traffic) expects to be streaming 34Mb/s hidef video by 2014. How is that making good use of the spending and enabling Australia for the future?

Better to spend the $50B ($70B..whatever) up front on FTTH now and be good for the next 50 years.
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Haha.

They are sharing their opinion ON THE INTERNET, where there is no direct social interaction and they can take time to consider and the express fully formed ideas rather than talk the ideas out.

Seems like strong introvert behaviour to me.

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As a non-US citizen, fuck off!

The US has to comply with local laws in most of the world. They only get away with it in the couple of countries they have destroyed and the one that's too busy fighting itself to seriously object.

Bugger this external/peripheral connector stuff.

Stick these transceivers on the CPU/Memory/GPU silicon, have them all connected via fibre and get rid of this stupid front side bus bottleneck.

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That's stupid.

If you start trying slowly stab me to death with a fork, I'm going to PUNCH YOU IN THE FACE. And then have you charged with assult.

If you shoot me with a gun, I wont have that satisfaction.

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Interested in ....stuff? Ask someone else.

I was under the impression that politicians wanted to ban them cause each time you pull that assault rifle trigger a person dies and you can pull the trigger VERY fast.

Lot less dead people if the next person to go postal is carrying a bolt action rifle. And very few casualties if they are carrying a knife.

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Sure people kill people, but they are much better at it when they have a gun.