Posts by Thorne 1324 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Apr 2012
Telstra is doing this so they don't have up upgrade services while waiting for the NBN to come in.
Why spend money on DSLAMS if you need to rip them back out in a couple of years (or less)
Pirates are a good excuse to to reduce traffic to delay upgrades to save money. Nothing more. Nothing less.
"I was recommend a super-soaker filled with a mix of vinegar and cola. The cola sticks and the vinegar tastes foul when they try to clean their coat."
I'd recommend caffine free diet pepsi. It tastes truely disgusting. No additives needed...
Actually, long term, asteroid mining will be worth a fortune. Material in space costs $20K per kilo to get it there. Whatever you can make up there will be siginificantly cheaper and easier than getting from the Earth.
The survival of the human race depends on getting off this rock. Already too many people living here so the more you can ship out the better. The key to this is facilities in space and whomever can build and control these will make a fortune.
Little Johnny can find hardcore stuff that makes Playboy look tame using Google in three seconds flat.
Type your perversion in, turn safe search off, select videos or images and suddenly all the smut you could ever watch in a life time at your fingertips.
Just shows what a total waste of time these watchdogs are...
"10-30 years in prison and fines/legal fees that would bankrupt J.R. Eweing is utterly disproportionate. Aaron Swartz wasn't a serial rapist, murderer or child molester - any of whch might deserve such punishment. He was a misguided guy who broke the law."
But hacking and/or copyright infringment is a far more serious crime than rape, murder or child molestation...
But JSTOR isn't the creator, just the publisher. JSTOR collected money for access to the journals but none of that money went back to the creators of the journals which was the whole argument.
JSTOR got given the journals for free and charged for the access for everyone else.
"Just yesterday I saw on the telly that at CES there is a diet fork that vibrates if you eat too fast, and it of course comes with the obligatory iPhone app to upload your eating habits to the cloud."
And it links to facebook so if you eat too much it changes your status to "John Smith is a fatty fat fat"...
"And is it anywhere near the 4.5 billion years that Earth needed to have a technology using species?"
If it wasn't for religion we could have been a lot more technologically advanced well beyond what we are now.
Perhaps the aliens weren't so stupid which explains why they can make spacecraft capable of flying between stars.
The aliens who did invent religion are most likely still at home killing each other with rocks...
"If a US company aids and abets a computer based crime, and then adds insult to injury by brazenly flouting due process, then an extradition request must be made against its management."
A crime where? France where the compainants are? America where Twitter is? or Iran where hating Jews is a national past time?
Welcome to the legal murk that is the internet. This whole effort is a total waste of time. Odds are the person who made the comments isn't even in France. Even so can you prove the person accused made the comments or did someone do it because he didn't secure his wireless? Was it done from a wireless hotspot? Did a hacker frame him?
Thousands upon thousands of dollars wasted on blood sucking lawyers and years later these idiots will realise they were trolled and there is SFA they can do about it.
Someone called you a bad name. Harden the F up cause there is nothing you can do about it.
The future of warfare isn't big honking robots. It's small cheap disposable robots.
You have a mech warrior sized robot verses a swarm of cat sized robots. The small robots hide / bury themselves. When the big robot comes alone they attack and climb it. Get to a knee / hip joint and detonate. Crawl to weapon ports and blow them too.
A squad of human soldiers come into their area and they hunt them like velociraptors on crack. Gut them and vanish again.
Take the robots to the Nth degree and you have the nano swarm that eats the big robot and builds a second swarm out of it's corpse.
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