Comment Re:When will someone address laptop DC jack weakne (Score 0) 137
Right, better watch out for that zOMG expensive gold plated Apple cable - retailing for a whole fucking arm and leg price of $4.04
Comment Re:Ironic (Score 1) 145
At least you got that far, in chrome on the mac it completely hard locked my machine. And again after a fresh restart. HTML5 demos, now fucking your machine harder than flash.
Comment We have an election coming up.. (Score 4, Informative) 284
Basically:
If the liberals/nationals coalition gets in, we are all kinds of fucked (they have become the religious extreme with their preferences going straight to the Christian Democratic Party and Family First after themselves)
If labor gets in again - we get the only visionary policy any of the politicians have to offer - the National Broadband Network, but they saddle it with filtering, censorship and the lack of an R+18 classification for games.
So the only decent vote left is the Australian Sex Party - which is a civil libertarian group who are anti-censorship, pro same sex marriage and also want to remove the tax exempt status for religious organisations.
Next election we will hopefully have the Australian Pirate party fully formed to be able to run a candidate.
This election is really a case of trying to pick a candidate that is the least awful.
Ugh
Comment Re:Two reasons for SSL (Score 1) 269
I guess startcom are part of the 22 million mismatched SSL servers.... https://www.startcom.com/?app=12
Not exactly confidence inspiring now is it ?
Submission + - Pirate Party Pillages Private Papers (pirateparty.org.au)
David Crafti writes: "Pirate Party Australia has made the move to host the recently leaked ACTA document in order to highlight the lack of government transparency in the negotiation process. We believe that the document is not under copyright, and we are not party to any NDAs, so there should be no restriction on us posting it. We would like to see what the government (any government) tries to do about it. If it turns out that there is some reason that we have to take it down, then we will, but if this happens, it will only validate the document's authenticity."
Comment Re:Don't follow us (Score 1) 387
Because all internet connections need a person at the other end ?
Those data centres with redundant suppliers going into the buildings (not to mention aggregated multiple connections for throughput) through to those remote security cameras and kiosks etc - they all use internet connections and have nothing to do with our population density.
Submission + - Amazon Cloud Adds Hosted MySQL (amazon.com)
1sockchuck writes: Amazon Web Services has added a relational database service to host MySQL databases in the cloud, and is also dropping prices on its Amazon EC2 compute service by as much as 15 percent. Amazon says the new service lets users focus on development rather than maintenance, but it will probably be bad news for startups offering database services built atop Amazon's cloud. Cloud Avenue warns that Amazon RDS should serve as "a warning bell for the companies that build their entire business on Amazon ecosystem. ... They are just one announcement away from complete destruction." Data Center Knowledge has a roundup of analysis and commentary on Amazon RDS and its impact on the cloud ecosystem.
Comment Re:Patent trolls (Score 5, Informative) 267
Except that they aren't patent trolls - they are the Australian Government's science organisation - Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), they have been in this battle for quite a while.
Read up on the WLAN stuff here http://www.csiro.gov.au/science/wireless-LANs.html
Then get back to us when you think that inventing wireless networking technology is easy and doesn't warrant the possibility of being patented.
ESRB Eyeballing Ratings For iPhone Games 72
Kotaku reports that the ESRB is thinking about expanding their game ratings to include games sold on the App Store. They realize that evaluating every single game is not feasible, but they may still be underestimating the amount of work they'd be taking on, and it could negatively affect some developers. Quoting:
"'ESRB has seen increases in rating submissions each year since its founding and has always been able to keep pace,' the ESRB's Eliot Mizrachi told us. 'We have rated more than 70 mobile games to date and will undoubtedly rate more in the future as the market grows.' Seventy? Over the past, what, four or five years? It's a piddling number when you think of the hundreds of games available through the App Store. Further, many of them are mobile adjuncts to console releases, a different sort of beast from iPhone games. Not all of those need or deserve a rating; but if Apple brings in the ESRB to rate games, with the idea that it'll help parents control what their kids buy for their iPods, then unrated games are likely to be blocked by such filters. The incentive would definitely be there to get a game rated. And what of the cost? Getting a game rated isn't a free service; the ESRB levies a fee that covers the cost of looking through the code and rating the game."
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