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This is why I think we shouldn't count MSFT out. They've had it so easy for 10 - 15 years that they have turned to competing among themselves for something to do. Once a real sense…

> Mr Gane said he was confident that the Federal Government would now review the laws surrounding copyright infringement Ominous.

Will be there - great to see there are enough startup oriented Melbournites to make this a possibility!

This is a point I always have trouble impressing on people. They do a simple benchmarks on a tiny code base that pulls some data from the database, spits out some data, and they co…

I reckon there's a whole bunch pushing non-unicode and not knowing it, but declaring UTF-8 anyway. Since the current versions of PHP don't even support unicode (at least, without g…

I don't know exactly what mortgage contracts look like in the US, but the ones I have seen in my country don't say you can walk away. They say you can not walk away. The bank getti…

> Disney removes all other copies, but allows access to the original. But they don't have to - they could banish Mickey from the world if they chose to. Copyright allows them to do…

I think arguing against all censorship is doomed because people will always come up with examples that are very hard to argue with. For example, "what if someone puts detailed plan…

Yes, after deploying it on 2 sites I'm thinking of taking it down and "doing my own thing" because it's just going to baffle non-Australians.

> While you can’t get code into your templates, it’s easy to get UI into your code, which is (almost) just as bad. I looked at Lift a year or two ago and this was the showstopper f…

> does Australia have constitutional or otherwise legally protected free speech No. Australians have no direct freedoms at all. What rights they have are "implied" indirectly from …

The answer is b). I suspect they fully know how stupid their policies are (Stephen Conroy has pretty much admitted it on live TV). What they are attempting is classic 'wedge politi…

You would want to be extremely careful - despite all logic against it, the US Dollar spikes when just about any international crisis takes hold. The dollar's decline might well occ…

I've never understood why America outsources so much half way around the planet for cheap labor when it is available on her doorstep - a short flight, easy transport, same time zon…

> it doesn't look like Google offers synchronization so its utility as a backup environment is quite limited. Actually, my beef with all these services is the opposite: they rarely…

This is amazingly bold. Not because they are shutting down operations or even stopping the censoring - they could have done that in a hundred ways that would save face and leave th…

The app would have to be signed by someone who presumably would have paid the $99 to get the developer account with Apple and thus there would be a way to trace (somehow) the app t…

> as the encrypted cookie can be sniffed, and replayed to the server I think the whole article is premised on requiring a level of security that would presume TLS is being used.

Sure ... but I think Apple has a way of redefining the "high end". Smart phones were already considered expensive when Apple launched the iPhone.

Well, it's not trying to be a "tablet", so it's not lying around the living room. 95% of the time it's sitting in your pocket when not in use, very safe and comfortable.

So how do you explain the iPhone? The smart phone market was well and truly catered for when Apple entered there. Apple's primary method of business is to price themselves in a tie…

Point taken. I would say that satisfying point 3 relieves the need to satisfy point 2 (if I can replace it for less than $50 then I can handle the possibility of coffee getting pou…

It seems to me that the right approach should always have a significant random element, not as a deterrent, but as a check on how well the non-random component is working. The rand…

I think the tablet has plenty of uses, but it's the flaws that hold it back. We actually have a tablet at home and it was very useful on the couch and in various other roles. Howev…