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Gillard makes tech key part of re-election bid

"FAIL" yourself.

"...most likely slower than 4G."

Except when:

1) Your mobile cell is congested. See: Australian telcos and populated areas.

2) The above doesn't even matter because your house is in a dead zone.

3) You want an actual usable download allowance without remortgaging your kidneys.

I like how you spin providing consumer choice as "crippling" the network. Well played. Early indications are that take-up of the higher speed tiers is much higher than predicted, but let's wait and see what actual long-term take-up rates are before we condemn the entire network, shall we?

Largest ever spiral galaxy spotted - may give birth to dwarf baby

Re: They haven't yet..

Another beer

British armed forces get first new pistol since World War II

Re: "banning guns don't [sic] stop crime"

Oh good lord. Nobody ever claimed it did.

Ten affordable mid-sized Full HD monitors

What more do you want?

"I have 2 of these bad boys"

Congratulations

"What more do you want?"

Accurate colour reproduction is always nice for colour monitors, and that's before you move your head a few degrees off-axis. There's a noticeable colour shift across the screen of even small TN monitors simply because they subtend a non-zero angle within the user's field of view. The pixel density is poor by today's standards. About the only thing it's got going for it is that it's not 16:9.

Re: Tanuki

Is that a true 1536x2048 or a heavily aliased 1536x2048? There aren't many CRTs out there with near enough dots for 1536x2048, regardless of whether it's supported by the drivers.

Exploding stars drive Galactic geysers

On the contrary

Excellent use of the Erg to make a large quantity sound even larger.

Steve Bong's 3D printing special Xmas showcase

I'd rather eat a polylactide replica of a pizza.

PayPal founder funds 'tornado-driven' power plant

Solar Thermal

"Solar thermal" simply describes any system that extracts heat from sunlight for use as an energy source, with or without transport. The CSIRO system uses a "power tower" to collect the solar energy, with air as the working fluid driving a gas turbine engine to generate electricity, but not all solar thermal systems use air as the working fluid, and electricity is not always the end product. A roof-mounted solar hot water system also counts, as a fairly domestic example.

Samsung mobes pwned by ANY APP, thanks to chip code hole

Re: diodesign

The headline still contains a typo.

Ray Kurzweil to become Google's top engineer

Re: Religious/conservative circles?

He tends to piss off scientists in fields in which he is not an expert by making sweeping statements that have no basis in observable reality too.

Terrible reception for Oz spectrum auction

I don't say this often...

...but I'm with the communications minister.

Radio spectrum is another one of those national assets that shouldn't be undersold.

NASA to smash its spacecraft INTO THE MOON

Re: "Lunar Atmosphere"

Lol.

North Korean rocket works, puts something into orbit

Missed Opportunities

I'm disappointed by the absence of "red rocket" in the headline.

Dr Alex Moulton: 'An inspiration for generations of engineers'

Re: Hydrolastic/Hydragas

Rephrase that to "not often found on modern cars"

Hydrolastic/Hydragas

Not being from The Old Country I've never encountered a car with hydrolastic or hydragas suspension. It sounds like it's great for small cars, so can anyone tell me why it's not found on modern cars? Made obsolete by advances in "conventional" suspension design? Too expensive? Hilariously unreliable and/or a nightmare to maintain?

Brit physics student debuts zombie flick shot inside LHC

They're waiting for you, Gordon...

...in the test chamber.

Australian Prime Minister: Mayan calendar 'true'

Re: Goat Jam

Would that be the "rampant leftism" that caused the "global financial crisis"?

Or two unending wars in the middle east?

Or the fact that in many countries it is still dangerous to be homosexual, or female?

Or which is tearing down the education system in the developed world?

Or which has been ceaselessly eroding personal freedoms and privacy in the developed world for decades?

Or, to break out the dog whistle, the issues we currently face with the world's climate?

Do we have many other problems at the moment? Pisspot cult-of-personality "communist" dictatorships don't really count as leftist I'm afraid, even if they are rampant, and those that remain generally don't pose much of a threat to anyone outside their own borders.

Right... that "rampant leftism". And in the end you're talking about what is effectively a centre-right political party anyway. It's revealing; that you believe it's either "leftist" or "rampant."

Julia Gillard is also not responsible for any of it.

NASA planning Curiosity v2.0 for Mars touchdown in 2020

Re: Curiosity 2 would meet it's father?

Or "its" even.

Forget fluorescents, plastic lighting strips coming out next year

Re: Colour temperature

The temperature might imitate incandescent, but the spectrum's usually a disaster.

LHC CMS yields unexpected 'new stuff'

Re: Actually, glass does not flow.

I wonder if they used the word "glass" because the explanation they gave is convenient, despite being incorrect, or whether there's actually some other explanation?

Australia’s new AUD$5m golden visa

Re: Citizenship / Residency, No difference

It's a little more difficult to deport a citizen...

Heroic Register reader battles EXPLODING COMPUTER

Re: Stoneshop

What about the Antec branded PSUs manufactured by Seasonic or Fortron?

Meanwhile I've been running Antec PSUs almost exclusively for more than a decade. No problems so far.

Just bought an Apple product? Need support NOW? Drop an F-BOMB

Re: Or you could try

Hah, the alt on that one is even better!

Re: heyrick

Sounds like your tape recorder was detecting a sound rather than interpreting it.

Samsung Google Nexus 10 tablet review

Re: AC @ 08:23

The ipad is "retina" because that's what the marketeers decided to call it, nothing more.

Texan schoolgirl expelled for refusing to wear RFID tag

Re: Dammit

AC @ 04:04: Fair call that.

AC @ 15:35: Claiming your religious freedom is being infringed when it isn't still adds nothing to the debate.

You've got the right idea...

...but I've a feeling 30 seconds in a microwave might just result in plenty of external signs that it's been zapped.

I'll just go and put my office access card in the microwave to test this... Be right back!

Dammit

On reading the RSS blurb I thought "yeah, stick it to the system". And then I saw it was about religion.

She really could have left out the superstitious BS. It adds nothing to the argument whatsoever.

Apple DID buy social video network - check out this BONKERS lawsuit

Re: New Apple product?

Ooh, how would that work I wonder. A fixed magazine that when emptied means the firearm has to be taken back to a Genius Bar for reloading?

.WTF? Governments object to .sucks, .army and .airforce

Re: localzuk

Your scheme sounds like a sneaky way to make the whole system unworkable.

I like it.

Whoops. I withdrew that because I decided it was a bit of a silly thing to say. Didn't beat you to the punch obviously.

To elaborate, a lot of the Australian warnings (and there sure are a lot of them) appear to be about consumer protection and and competition law. They appear to be worried that the claiming of generic terms and descriptions for entire markets could turn out to be anticompetitive, which I don't think is an unreasonable concern.

Sam Sung found in Apple Store SHOCKER

Re: How old is he?

I don't presume to know anything about him but around here a lot of East Asian migrants adopt a western or westernised name because it's too difficult for the locals to pronounce their birth name.

If that's the case, bonus points if he chose the name himself.

Design guru: Windows 8 is 'a monster' and 'a tortured soul'

Re: dipique

You remind me of those people who freak out the first time they use a task manager when they notice "idle process" is "using up" all their CPU time.

Re: Matt_payne666

That's all well and good.

Except when "pretty" gets in the way of "functional".

Thank BRIT eggheads for new iMac's sexy seamless knife-edge

Re: dotslash

I see what you did there.

I need a wink icon.

Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 game review

Damn

Was hoping for a review of Mass Effect 2.

You sure those screenshots aren't photographs?

Sydney Uni boffin wants database to track smokers

Re: Root of all Evil

"He wants everyone to have a boring life."

He wants to make buying tobacco products more difficult. You seem to be suggesting that smoking (and nothing else) makes life exciting. Or is it merely buying tobacco products that makes life exciting?

Re: Good luck with that...

"Not everyone hates us smokers."

Only non-smokers?

Word wonks insist GIFs are really JIFs

Re: Was the vulture logo created by a jiffics artist on jiff paper?

My real scientist friends pronounce PNAS as "P.N.A.S."

I pronounce it "P-NAS" because I'm an immature jit.

Black Ops 2 blunder has Mass Effect on buyers

You think they're disappointed?

I bought Mass Effect 2 and it installed Mass Effect 2.

Supersymmetry takes an arrow to the knee

Who laughed at the Higgs boson?

Re: whack-a-mole

So you're saying when one possibility is ruled out, they switch to working on (a likely more difficult) one that hasn't been ruled out yet, to try to get to the truth?

Who knew science worked like that?

Goatse.cx opens up again - as an email provider

Re: Was going to the site to have a look

JPGs are typically silent.

Microsoft Surface Touch keyboards self-destruct – and more

Re: Will it

Evidently even in a children's toy blender*.

* If such a thing exists?

Bitcoin Friday sale event kicks off with deep discounts

Re: Ole Juul

Between 1992 and 1996 Australia phased in polymer banknotes for all denominations, so we have a fair amount of experience with them.

I've never found sticking together to be a serious problem but they will if they're flat and they get wet or contaminated, a situation in which sticking together is the least of your worries if you're dealing with fibre banknotes. People handling them will quickly get used to the change; you never hear of handling or counting problems here.

They're more expensive to produce and they do eventually fall apart but they're impermeable, waterproof, are much tougher than fibre banknotes and thus last far longer, at least Australian ones do.

Facebook's IPO was a disaster? RUBBISH, you FOOLS

Re: DougS

"But at half the price, it is twice as good of an investment as it was in May :)"

"Good" is not the word I'd use. It's like saying HIV's twice as good as cancer because it takes longer to kill you. It's a false dichotomy and neither alternative is good.

And if $20 is twice as good as $40, then is bankruptcy infinitely better than $40?

Re: DougS

Your "positive" scenario assume that Facebook's share price will grow. Have you checked its P/E lately? Either there's something particularly special about the company that not many people can see, or the share price still has a long way to fall.

Optus to shutter Unwired

Wow

Unwired still has customers?!