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• Jun 24th, 2011 @ 7:35pm

  (untitled comment) (as Kaotik4266)

  on Australia, Once Again, Seeks To Censor The Internet
  Nice to see my government representing my interests...
  /sarcasm
• May 27th, 2011 @ 5:02pm

  Re: Re: (as Kaotik4266)

  on Academic Publishers Attempting To Eliminate Fair Use At Universities [Updated]
  It's triply hilarious (especially given the use of "your") if you consider it as a reference to you needing to throw up!
• May 7th, 2011 @ 5:12pm

  Re: (as Kaotik4266)

  on When Copyright And Contracts Can Get In The Way Of Art
  Da na na na na na na na, na na na na na na na na, Buddha!
• Apr 5th, 2011 @ 4:08pm

  Re: I'm laughing hysterically (as Kaotik4266)

  on Phone That Can Search The Internet & Display Ads Patented; Everyone Sued
  Good god, man! Put a warning or something when you link to TV Tropes... or at least throw a rope when people fall in!
• Mar 27th, 2011 @ 3:41pm

  Re: Forum for trolls (as Kaotik4266)

  on Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt
  I'm a little disappointed that second one doesn't actually exist...
• Feb 11th, 2011 @ 5:39pm

  Re: Re: BBC Kill Off (as Kaotik4266)

  on While BBC Wants To Kill Off A Bunch Of Websites, Geeks Quickly Archive Them
  And even if it was the case that they had to pay for domain names for all 200 sites, it would cost just under £1250GBP a year (£6.21/domain) if they bought them off Go Daddy, assuming they couldn't get some kind of bulk discount and they used .co.uk domains (Go Daddy doesn't list a bulk discount for .co.uk domains). If they used Go Daddy's .info domains and got the bulk discount they could do it for less than £1000 a year (£4.96/domain) which is about the cost of a MacBook Pro. It's not negligible, but neither is it exactly a huge outlay for the BBC.
  (Also, these are the renewal prices, not the heavily discounted first year prices which, for .info, come to less than £50).
• Dec 20th, 2010 @ 8:53pm

  Re: Re: Re: Learning something new every day... (as Kaotik4266)

  on Feel Like Being A Neighborhood Snitch? There's An App For That!
  And intelligent people use units that make sense. There's a reason they're called Standard International units.
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pu_illAgCPg
• Dec 16th, 2010 @ 5:41pm

  Re: Re: Maths anyone? (as Kaotik4266)

  on Record Labels Angry That Hadopi Isn't Kicking People Off The Internet Fast Enough
  I'm also a complete twit who can't read. It's 50,000/day. Not 50,000/month. Should be corrected now (including the date of the number of internet users statistic), giving just over 3 years. Duh.
  
  Let this be a lesson to me to actually check stuff before I post it! >.
• Dec 16th, 2010 @ 5:29pm

  Re: Re: Maths anyone? (as Kaotik4266)

  on Record Labels Angry That Hadopi Isn't Kicking People Off The Internet Fast Enough
  Ah. The AC above me's source says the statistic giving the number of internet users is from June, while I've assumed it's from January (Wikipedia just said 2010). This means my spreadsheet will slightly overestimate the time reqired.
• Dec 16th, 2010 @ 5:23pm

  Re: Maths anyone? (as Kaotik4266)

  on Record Labels Angry That Hadopi Isn't Kicking People Off The Internet Fast Enough
  By that metric it would take just under two and a half years to disconnect all current subscribers (44,630,000/50,000=893 days=2.44 years). That's still an overestimation, however, as multiple internet users would, in many cases, share the same connection. The average French household contains 2.5 people. Assuming this ratio also works for internet users/internet connections, it would take less than a year to disconnect all internet connections (44,630,000/(50,000*2.5)=357 days=0.978 years).
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_number_of_Internet_users
  http://www.nati onmaster.com/graph/peo_ave_siz_of_hou-people-average-size-of-households
  
  Assuming, however, that el_segfaulto's value for the rate of change of the population is correct and constant at an increase of 25,000 people per month and the proliferation of internet usage remains constant (and that all internet connections may be detected by Hadopi), it will take just under 153 years to disconnect all internet connections.
  
  Someone want to check my working to make sure I haven't stuffed up somewhere?
  https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AllmFR1j-8TPdFZRLUoyYTdja1d1ekFBYk9wb0VvLXc& ;hl=en_GB&authkey=CJrV0fgC
• Dec 16th, 2010 @ 3:59am

  Re: Is Ricky Gervais the original Anonymous Coward? (as Kaotik4266)

  on Author Tries Honest Approach To File Sharers: Not Upset, But If You Want To Support Me, Here's How
  Oh god Thankyou for sharing that Daily Show clip! It's the funniest thing I've seen in a long time! :D
  (Totally off-topic, I know, but it's seriously hilarious!)
• Dec 14th, 2010 @ 12:40am

  Freaky... (as Kaotik4266)

  on Musician Releases Album And Explains Why File Sharing Isn't That Big A Deal
  That's quite freaky timing - I just received an email from DFTBA saying my copy of his CD has shipped!
  
  The album sales are actually handled directly by his label, DFTBA, rather than BandCamp. http://dftba.com/shop/products/This-Is-Me-%5BCD%5D.html
• Nov 2nd, 2010 @ 4:17pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Wait what? (as Kaotik4266)

  on Virginia High School Says Barring Students From Doing Outside Research Helps Them 'Think For Themselves'
  I'm *pretty* sure it's not incorrect. It's a weird and obscure way to put it, though.
  
  Crux, Latin for "cross", in this context referencing Jesus carrying the cross to his crucifixion to describe a heavy burden that is difficult to carry.
  
  There you go. Having religious relatives *does* come in handy once in a while!
  
  *THE MORE YOU KNOW!*
• Nov 2nd, 2010 @ 3:51pm

  Re: Psychological (as Kaotik4266)

  on One Dunkin Donuts Tries To Abolish The Penny... Until Customers Demand It Back
  Absolutely! I wish they'd get rid of the 5c coin as well because they're effectively worthless these days and you can't get rid of the bloody things!
  
  Also, probably stating the obvious but credit card (and debit card, eftpos, online etc.) transactions are still not rounded and go to the cent.
• Apr 19th, 2010 @ 12:38am

  Re: Got to read Telstra's fine print to see how bad it is (as Kaotik4266)

  on Frontier Communications "Testing" To See How Users Respond To Being Ridiculously Overcharged For Bandwidth
  Yeah, up until a few years ago I had a plan with Bigpond (quite an old one, granted) for 256/64kbps, 12GB/month at $59.95 per month! And that plan was called something like "Liberty-unlimited". Yeah. So I switched to Internode. A very good move! That said, by American standards it's still shocking...
• Apr 18th, 2010 @ 2:28pm

  (untitled comment) (as Kaotik4266)

  on Frontier Communications "Testing" To See How Users Respond To Being Ridiculously Overcharged For Bandwidth
  You want bad broadband plans at stupidly high prices? Come to Australia.
  http://www.bigpond.com/internet/plans/adsl/plans-and-offers/
  That's Telstra Bigpond's list of plans and it's really hard for anyone to provide significant competition because they almost exclusively have to rent from Telstra!
• Apr 15th, 2010 @ 2:32pm

  Re: Re: (as Kaotik4266)

  on IBM Helps Florida Predict Just How Delinquent Your Child's Going To Be
  You reckon? I'd be pretty damn nervous! They're deciding how you're going to be dealt with for probably the next few years, based on a you-don't-know-how-reliable system.
  
  I'd say that's a pretty fair reason to be nervous! ;)
• Mar 12th, 2010 @ 3:46pm

  (untitled comment) (as Kaotik4266)

  on Screenwriters Claim Sony Copied Their Plot For A Video Game
  That's a beautiful quote from the judge at the end!