El Presidente

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microwave voice/data links and rain

I think Telstra runs the microwave links used by the NTG and others. As I understand it rain is OK if there's no obstacles. PS. Large groups of bats flying through count as obstacles. Unfortunately there's no TCP E_ACID_CRAP_BOMBERS packet.

Nokia to tackle Apple, HTC with Linux

Quote from rec;369507: Now this could be awesome. Really awesome. Or! -- and bear with me here -- it could be a total abject failure like every single other linux-based smart phone ever.

The Computer: A Homo's Devil Machine

Quote from Harbinger;368962: the sign is intentionally ironic you fools. she's carrying a rainbow flag ffs. You and your fancy-pants "sarcasm" and "insight into the obvious". Pfft.

Backhaul fund announced

It is, of course, purely coincidental that these are generally in marginal seats.

Dreamworks vs Pixar: Story development

Quote from grandinferno;366872: Yeah, without fail I get bored within 10 minutes of watching these Disney cartoons and find myself sitting there for the next 20 minutes wishing it was a Pixar film. Then I usually turn it off... Dreamworks != Disney. Pixar belongs to Disney. In fact there was something like a "revers…

Best takeaway pizza in darwin?

Damn, talk about your necrothreads. I have to say that it was good reading some classic El Presidente zingers, though. I think pizza-eaters in the thread fell into two camps. The first camp is "give me the barnyard", where the pizza should be wide and piled high with ingredients and cheese. Pizza King was the undisp…

dotSydney tld???

**** no. Flash-only sites are the festering puss-filled boils on the hairy crackhole of the internet. Besides, that's just trying security through obscurity. For the last 12 months I have, quite literally, lied awake at nights sweating about how to secure the whole mechanism from end to end. I still do. Flash is not…

Super 7's $90mil lotto draw

Quote from Knight Of Nih;366735: not last week, there was no winners Now you know why I used the qualifier "usually". Bigger prize pools attract more players. More players mean more duplicate entries. This is particularly true of lotto numbers below 31 as many people play some version of a birthday. If there are mor…

dotSydney tld???

Quote from Aegis;366581: you mean as blatantly obvious link farming sites? or is your site high profile enough to warrant an actual knockoff site going up? (in which case you should be raking in enough cash to be able to buy out most variations of your domain anyway) For the site I am building, a major problem will …

dotSydney tld???

Aegis -- problem is that you get squatters and particularly phishers on other TLDs. If I hold the .com and someone scumbag has the .net and .org, you can bet dollars to donuts they'll use them against my interests.

dotSydney tld???

It just annoys me that I already have to buy .com, .net and .org on top of .com.au if I want to protect my domains from being squatted. Adding more TLDs just multiplies my expenses for no gain whatsoever. None.

dotSydney tld???

The registrars have been pushing for more TLDs because it increases their potential revenue. Every TLD is another "0/year for tens of thousands of domains. It forces companies to buy their name in more TLDs to prevent squatters and phishers. Basically it's retarded bullshit and shouldn't be allowed. They should be …

Terrorists on Air France flight?

Quote from Kagetsu;365978: No, my thoughts though are why aren't large commercial aircraft fitted with regular tracking capacity. every 30 seconds updates the possition of the aircraft from the GPS and send it back to base. That itself requires very little additional technology. Sure it was out of range of radar (wh…

Terrorists on Air France flight?

I sincerely don't know why they don't do that. But I have a strange hunch that the guys who design these devices for a living thought of your suggestion, studied it, and rejected it for some pretty darn good reason. Off the topic of my head, the main problem is, which satellite does it connect to? And how? So far as…

Terrorists on Air France flight?

Quote from Wrathlon;365947: So if they have locator beacons, why is it so goddamn hard to find? Because a tiny little emitter has to be heard in a search area the size of the UK.

Nokia 5800

Quote from Jay;365920: It's a bit like the wii to the 360/ps3. :p Including the fact that it sells more and is more profitable per unit.

Terrorists on Air France flight?

If it were terrorists, somebody would have claimed responsibility. Nobody has claimed responsibility. Right now the smart money is on hitting very nasty weather. It happens.