Posts by Stewba

Huawei very happy to be on Map Of Tasmania

Conspiracy Theory 1

Seeing as we have broached the hacking subject, a conspiracy theory seems appropriate :P

China play the long game, UTas is a big player in Antarctic Science, so my conspiracy theory is that china will slurp the information from UTas to strengthen their own claim in Antarctica and better enable them to start doing 'mineral research'

Microsoft steps up Windows 10 nagging

Why don they just remove the red 'X' exit option forcing you to alt-f4 out of the update ... if you're going to try and trick users into updating then be serious about it !

Australia's marriage equality vote should take place online

Great Idea Malcolm

I'll set up the facebook poll now!

Turnbull: NBN won't turn your town into Silicon Valley

Re: I call Bulls*&$

I usually read long comments expecting to get a big long rant that makes no sense ... I'm a bit dissapointed to find you have nailed it ;)

The only thing I could possibly add, is that all of the plans that were reviewed in Turnbull's own review were better than cost neutral (ie they all made a return) ... Turnbull just did what he usually does and followed the money. Whenever you read/hear someone spouting about cost, then they haven't even read the reviews for the systems they are talking down

Dell dangles dongle PC at enormo-display-desiring road warriors

I really can't see this taking off. A mobile phone can do all those things, and more. Tablets aren't that big anyway. Failing all that, I'd rather take a raspberry pi style device (not a raspberry pi itself, but a tiny form factor computer)