Comment Not people (Score 1) 336
For fucks sake, they are animals, not people.
Treat them humanely but not as people.
What's next? rats?
42 Artificial Intelligences Are Going Head To Head In "Civilization V" 52
rossgneumann writes The r/Civ subreddit is currently hosting a fascinating "Battle Royale" in the strategy game Civilization V, pitting 42 of the game's built-in, computer-controlled players against each other for world domination. The match is being played on the largest Earth-shaped map the game is capable of, with both civilizations that were included in the retail version of the game and custom, player-created civilizations that were modded into it after release.
Comment Re:Nearest neighbour (Score 1) 213
As much as we dont like the situation, Tasmania is still part of Australia and technically, not a neighbour.
Imagine my surprise when I moved down to Tasmania from Sydney. I thought I was emigrating.
Comment Re:News? (Score 1) 165
Pine Gap has been in operation for 25 years and has always been a US listening post. Nothing new here.
25 years as the Joint Defence Facility that is, prior to that it didn't officially exist.
Comment News? (Score 1) 165
Pine Gap has been in operation for 25 years and has always been a US listening post.
Nothing new here.
Comment He's a fake! (Score 1) 242
This announcement was made as the producers had admitted it would be impossible to keep the identity of the new Doctor quiet until November.
The real new Doctor will be unveiled at the time of regeneration.
Comment Damian Lewis (Score 1) 249
He's ginger.
Comment No worries (Score 0) 97
Site is working OK for me
Comment 6 legs bad, 8 legs good! (Score 1) 84
I want my octopod!
And I want it to climb walls.
Comment Pay to look at Apple stuff? (Score 2, Insightful) 73
Historical or not, who is going to pay $15 to look at a bunch on old Apple computers?
Comment Re:There is a 100% DC Coming online soon (Score 3, Funny) 63
It's a pity then, that Tasmania is connected to the rest of the world via a dialup link.
Comment Easy choice (Score 0) 208
Step 1: Get the Agilent catalogue
Step 2: Buy (at least) one of everything
Step 2: Buy (at least) one of everything
Comment Re:Supply chain mark-ups (Score 2) 70
This harks back to a practice among IT companies some years back called (I think) 'transfer pricing'. By charging the local branch of the company a very high cost price, the item could still be sold at a high price with little markup to be taxed in the local jurisdiction.
Comment Bugger! (Score 1) 333
I bought one of these yesterday!
Comment Re:Opt-out (Score 1) 212
Nice try, but this has nothing to do with the Australian Government.
Telstra and other ISPs are implementing a blacklist that is managed by Interpol.
The same system is in use by some ISPs in the UK and other European countries.
And as far as the list goes, it is actually very conservative in its definition of child pornography, only classifying sites depicting minors under 13, not under 18.
Nothing to do with the Australian Government? You've go to be fucking joking. Do you think that Interpol asked Telstra and Optus to please start filtering this list of sites? It was the government who 'requested' the ISP's to start filtering. Interpol just happen to have a list that the Australian Government has decided to use. Interpol has a lot less power than you seem to think.
