Posts by Gweilo

protected?

"It will make it easier for the nanny states like Australia and the UK to protect their citizens from seeing what comes naturally."

Really? How? Will all the porn on other TLDs just disappear?

Why would anyone move a porn site to a domain that is going to be blocked in a great number of places? They may feel compelled to put up a mirror site in .xxx, but no one is going to give up their .com.

Was not "put bacl"

"Shop put film back on shelfs.

This seems fairly ok, surely?"

Not okay.

1) Plural of shelf is shelves.

2) The film WAS NOT PUT BACK. See

http://www.blockbuster.co.uk/product/dvd/serbian_film__a/255311.htm

"We're sorry, but the title you requested could not be displayed."

serifs are cool

"On a computer screen, it takes less time to read a sans-serif font like Arial than a serif font."

Really? Sez who?

Whenever given the option I change the font of a webpage to a nice serif one (my current favourite is Georgia as a screen font). Often when faced with a page of Arial I click the "Mode" button in Opera to remove the formatting and leave me with nice clean SERIF font that is much easier to read.

So I doubt the basic premise of this story too: who says Arial is easier to read than Bodoni?

Sure, Bodoni's fine lines requires sharp, high res printing, but given that it's very pleasant to read.

See http://screenfont.ca/fonts/today/interim/ which is an examination of fonts used for subtitling, and why Arial, despite being the default, is one of the worst.

reproduction

Even if the colonists are sterile, they could bring some frozen sperm and ova along, kept in a lead-lined fridge. Of course, a good proportion of colonists are going to have to have medical qualifications anyway.

increasingly????

"where liquid is increasingly becoming a common tool for terrorist use"

Increased from zero to zero, as far as I know.

There has NEVER been an actual attempt to blow up a plane using the notional "liquid bomb". Some idiots were planning to, were busted before they had even bought a ticket, and the bomb would have been unlikely to have worked anyway.

At least there was one attempt to use underpants. Yet still a great number of passengers board planes WEARING UNDERPANTS!

Fly safe: Go commando!

months?

"after encryption is cracked in a few months"

A 50-character password? More like untold trillions of years. However, often a search through file remnants in "deleted" parts of the disk can find a clue, unless whole disk encryption was used.

hypochondria

"there is mounting evidence that these transmitters can...

disturb sleep

lead to hormonal imablances

some people even get rashes after these masts are installed?"

Because there isn't any actual evidence, just fear.

I note that fear can cause all those symptoms.

In any case, billions of people now have cell phones and live near masts without ill effect.

J O K E

"This is not about taking away his right to free speech, only about him writing something on Twitter that someone thinks is a threat."

According to the article, nobody thought it was a real threat. They were criminalising something that was obviously -- to EVERYBODY involved -- a joke. "Shouting fire in a crowded theatre" is different, it's quite reasonable to assume that's a real warning.

Aussie rules

" Their defense should have been that they are a satirical site - end of story."

From your spelling, I assume you're American. This does not hold in Australia. You actually are supposed to show that you have a commercial interest in a name to have a .com.au.

If they'd had "stephenconroyisawanker.org.au" they would have had a case, I think.

Bar on another planet

@Lusty: Why assume, it's right there in the quote

That's not referring to the SURFACE pressure of the planet, but deep in the interior.