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Comment Re:Clearly McDonald's isn't included ... (Score 1) 322

The last time I ate at McDonald's, I ended up with projectile vomiting that lasted for three days. It was from McDonald's too as it was the only thing I had eaten that day and the previous that had the potential for contamination. (I was a poor student at the time and often skipped meals.) It is amazing how much strength your body can exert to empty your stomach quickly.

For starters, you'd probably had a crappy diet being a poor student and skipping meals. I doubt McD's had anything to do with your reflux apart from the fact it was food. And I know it's hyperbole, but if you're projectile vomiting for 3 days, you need to go to hospital.

Comment Re:And it's mostly areas that have decent ADSL cov (Score 3, Insightful) 121

I'm in a regional (not rural) district and every suburb here has ADSL2+ connectivity. If you can't get ADSL2+, you can still get the pricey ADSL1 8Mbit through Telstra or Telstra wholesaler.

Even though I get 13Mbit~ at a good price, fibre is still very necessary as we're already starting to push the limits of what's available to us today. What I try and explain to people is that this is infrastructure that all communications will pass through for decades to come. It's one of the first times in my life where I can think of the Australian government really being ambitious with infrastructure development. The applications for this will be huge, it's much more than just triple-play. There's the possibility for telemedicine, telesurgery and of course, more telecommuting than ever before.

In 6 months they'll be starting NBN roll-out in my neighbourhood, and I'll be able to get 100/40 for what I think is a reasonable price that will only fall in the years to come.

Submission + - 7000 e-voting machines now deemed worthless by Iri (www.rte.ie)

lampsie writes: Despite spending at least 51 million euro over the last decade buying and storing 7000 e-voting machines from Dutch firm Nedap, the Irish Finance minister has announced that they are now 'worthless'. The machines were originally trialled in 2002 on three regional elections, but a nationwide rollout in 2004 was put on hold after a confidential report expressed serious concern over the security of the voting machines. According to the report, the integrity of the ballot could not be guaranteed with the equipment and controls used. Several years on, and tens of millions later, it looks like the pen and paper ballot will remain for now.

Comment Re:Account security (Score 1) 186

Wrong, the Commonwealth Bank (bank in TFA ) offer 2FA hardware tokens (à la SecureID) as an alternative to NetCode (the 2FA used in this instance). They offer this primarily to customers travelling overseas (and can't/don't want roaming) or those who are frequently out of coverage zones.It's free, too.

Comment Re:Too late (Score 1) 266

No, they won't. When Android was catching up to iOS no money was made by anyone until critical mass was reached. Most users on mobile platforms do not pay for any applications which makes critical mass very important.

Android vs Windows Phone free apps - A case study: Part II. Free apps are yielding great returns on WP7 because the market place is that much less saturated. Although WP7 is far from "critical mass", in 30 days WP7 revenue for this free app was $108.55 with 114,920 impressions vs. Android's $3.44 of revenue and 11,606 impressions. This is just one case study and there are a lot more. Decent money is being made now, even with 3-5% marketshare.

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