Re: The religion of free speech

"If believers in free speech are not so prepared, then there will be no free speech."

We are prepared. We protect free speech by speaking freely and not shutting up just because some nutter threatened to murder people if we don't.

Blowing yourself up doesn't get you to heaven, it just gets you dead

Re: Live and let live @Thorne

"But you're not a wacky lucky underpant extremist so I woudn't expect you to. Hence your comment is, to say the least, mind-numbingly inconsequential."

I don't think there are any underpant extremists but draw a picture of Big Mo and millions of muslim whackjobs will come out howlng for blood so either whackjobs are attracted to islam or islam teaches them to be whackjobs.

"Hardware's cheap, licenses, marketing, R&D and, lawyers are expensive."

Don't forget the logo. It adds hundreds of dollars to the cost of any item

Re: Live and let live

"Irrational belief. Most people have irrational beliefs of one sort or another. A lucky pair of underpants or always doing something in a particular order, always feeling the need to diminish religion."

I haven't strapped a bomb to my ass and tried to kill you because you laughed at my lucky underpants.

There's a point of difference

Re: If they just ignored it

All religions should be forced to read the Oatmeal's "How to tell if you suck at your religion"

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/religion

Re: Semiotics

"Perhaps the rioters were just tired of being threatened, bombed, invaded, sanctioned or destabilized repeatedly?"

Yeah Sydney Australia is a crap place. oh hold on. Isn't it a western country? Why are the muslims calling for beheadings, attacking police and smashing cars in Australia?

Your an idiot!

Re: @solidsoup

"1. The extremists are a few bad apples who pervert Islam and should not cast a shadow over Islam as a religion."

Maybe but they're the nutters we all see. Maybe if muslims bitchslapped these idiots more often then perhaps they all wouldn't get tarred with the same brush

"2. Muslims are very protective of their religion and actively protest any insults."

By burning and killing anyone remotely connected as well as plenty who had nothing to do with it just for fun.

Hint: All we see is what the media shows us and that is muslim nutters burning and killing in the name of their religion. We don't see muslims helping orphans, we see muslims making orphans. We see muslims stoning people to death for dancing, blowing up churches and other sites important to other religions. We see clerics framing disabled children so they can stone them to death. We see children with bombs strapped to them trying to blow people up because that will get them to heaven. honor killings, forced marriages, genital mutilations and so on and on.

No amount of burning, bombing,killing and looting will make the rest of the world respect you. Clean up your followers before asking for respect.

Re: During the meanwhile ...

"Or would you prefer cake? I have cake too."

The cake is a lie

Re: Eyeliner3D

"Still requires a projection surface though. Anyone who manages to project into thin air, without any invisible projection screen, will be undoubtedly very very rich as a result."

http://tokyotek.com/aerial-3d-true-3d-hologram-projector/

Re: Portable St. Jobs prayer booth app

You forgot "Release the hounds!"

Re: If true...

"It would be patented.

Probably already is."

Actually laser keyboards are already being made so yes patents for that are out. You can already get mobiles with microprojectors and laser keyboards.

holograms are getting there but are not quiet ready to be built into mobiles yet. They could patent it but in all likelyhood the patent would expire before the technology get small and cheap enough to build in

Re: Disgusting

One of the patent was splitting data based on a delimited in the data. Even a useless programmer can't go twenty minutes without braking that one.

Really if you look at it all language breaks that patent. Spoken words have a pause between words. The conversation is the data and the pause is the delimited. Written words use space and new line.

Everyonefromnowoneneedstocommunicatewithoutdemilitersotherwiseyouhavejustbrokentheirpatentandwillgetsued

Re: If it was true then

"If it were then even the fandroids would dump their Androids......"

Yes we would but since it isn't, we won't.

Re: I can see why parents want it

If parents want it they can download and install a filter on their own computer right now. Why does everyone need an opt out filter even if there are no children living there.

Opt out filtering is the first step before mandtory filtering

Re: ISP (on behalf of the state): Would you like us to impose our morals on your lifestyle?

First step is a voluntary opt out filter

Second step is non voluntary filter to filter out the really nasty stuff

Third step is to extend the non voluntary filter to everything that might upset anyone (AKA Nanny State)

The Australian government skipped step one and two and decided to go straight to step three

Re: Every time

"But EVERY TIME they release and iphone it happens and you would have thought they would have learnt by now how many they need to produce"

They tried to count the iSheep but fell asleep

Re: Can we shack the patent office

You want to shack up with the patent office?

Be warned. Apple hog the blankets.

Re: Trying hard not to upgrade my 4S

To quote Fry from Futurama

"Shut up and take my money!"

Re: Hide your stash!

With no bacon he lost the will to live

Re: Idea

"Instead of feeding cereals to pigs which then get slaughtered and eaten, why don't we just eat the food we grow directly? Would make sense in a world of 7 billion people and rising."

Bacon is concentrated cereal with extra flavor

Re: I do not like green (eggs and) ham.

"Six ingredients - two slices of bread, four slabs of bacon."

Wrong. Six slices of bacon

Re: AAAAARRRGGGHHHH!

Crowds of zombie like people eating police officers to stave off the withdrawal symptoms

Re: iPhone owners don't have the time to care...

"Not being able to replace the battery gives you better security? Are you sure?"

Yeah, nobody can steal your battery

Welcome to the United States of Apple

Re: The iPhone event horizon?

It was a iRan

Re: It's time the pirates bought a clue

"Copyright holders are not the problem, pirates are the problem and they will be punished accordingly. Hating copyright holders is wasted energy and foolish as most folks understand the need for copyright laws. Ignorance is not the answer and never a good legal defense."

What if I want something old? What if I want something not released in my country? What if I want to use it in a MP3 or MP4 player?

The copyright holders are the problem as they refuse to follow the customer wants and while they control the laws they will never change. The only hope the consumer has is wholesale ignoring of the "laws" convinces the copyright holders to change their ways.

Me personally, I wouldn't care to own any content if I could stream what I want, when I want. Now look at Doctor Who. The new series plays in the UK Saturday night. As soon as it finishes, it plays in Australia and can be streamed from the ABC website. Have I pirated a copy of it? No. I've already seen it so why bother.

Piracy solved and at no cost to me.

Commercial stations could be doing exactly the same thing but no they won't. Their licencing agreements and fear of technology won't let them. If the moron had half a brain, they'd work with Google to provide localised advertisments integrated that same a commercial TV does now and stream it on demand. They could then have a premium licencing where users can pay a yearly fee and remove the ads. Piracy dead overnight. Until then screw the copyright holders and their lawyers.

Re: Has reducing piracy increased sales?

"My question is: Has this reduction in piracy resulted in a corresponding increase in legitimate sales?"

The answer is no, infact stopping piracy has resulted in a drop in legit sales.

France has brought in a three strikes rule which has seen a drop in piracy and a subsequent drop in sales

Re: No shit

"Most of them aren't customers and don't want to be. They just want free content."

You can still make money from free content. Ok maybe not the $50 the bastards charge for a DVD but still plenty.

Re: let them reap what they sow

Those who live by the patent troll die by the patent troll

Re: The UK poverty line...

"It's always amusing to read of cable thieves. I've never been affected by one. I think it has to do with the poor. You've got to be pretty poor to steal cable."

Ummm no

Copper thieves are a problem everywhere. The poor nick small amounts and the better off use trucks and winches and nick a heap more.

Re: All I can think of is Idiocracy..

"I'd like the people in charge of health to be trained professionals, not a desktop support bod"

What people in charge? There will be a button on the machine that will put a call through to a tech support line in India.

Re: Retina Display?

"They will call it the iEye, (cap'in)"

Actually it's called Eye-fi

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HQAsTBQVis