* Posts by rxdg

6 publicly visible posts • joined 15 Sep 2010

NASA restores Pluto to league of planets

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RE: Jeckle

Ceres is more massive than Pluto? Since when? Last I heard at the local brewery, it was still less than a tenth of Pluto's mass.

Australian senate slaps data retention proposals

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FAIL

RE: worldwide jurisdiction?

I'd say it's a pretty big loophole if that's the legal definition of overseas companies. ie foreign registered companies. considering most companies these days are registered in cayman/bermuda/BVI. besides, Aus enforcing judgments in UK and vice versa happens on a monthly basis.

iiNet wins AFACT appeal

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Stop

I'd love to be happy about this...

But it was a split decision.

2-1 for iiNet, with the two in the majority disagreeing with each other as to the legal reasoning, as well as both granting leave for appeal.

That pretty much guarantees this will go to the High Court, where afaik it could go either way. Especially given that the judiciary aren't exactly known for being tech savvy.

Groupon to raise $950m in massive funding round

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Go

RE: An unanswered question

Groupon actually posts about a billion dollar yearly revenue (USD). So a $6 billion dollar valuation for a pre-IPO company that hasn't been around too long but growing like crazy is fairly conservative.

Baidu boss: Google don't know China

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Never been to China then...?

A statement like China having a national intranet is just plain silly. Apart from Facebook and Youtube being periodically blocked for various reasons, the majority of the time, internet censorship in China is barely noticeable.

Of course that's not to say there's no censorship in China, it's just not as bad as most people make it out to be.

Doing business in China is very personal, all about getting to the right people. Only recently have Westerners started understanding how to be polite, respectful and friendly all at the same time.

ID fraudsters sell stolen Aus house

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Re: Odd result

In Australia, we use the Torrens land system, in which the title passed to a bona fide purchaser (a purchase in good faith) is always valid, and takes precedence over the title lost by the former holder.

Which means that it's tough cookie for anyone who loses property to an innocent third party via fraud.