Why "X" ...
... when "?" is more appropriate.
Posts by Wombat
19 publicly visible posts • joined 7 Dec 2008
Australia to issue passports for males, females and... X
Reg reader lost for words over blank HP keyboard
Microsoft spends $7.5m on IP addresses
Australian Liberal MPs splurge on sticky, delicious ... toner
Horror AVG update ballsup bricks Windows 7
World's most advanced rootkit penetrates 64-bit Windows
International Telecom Union drags self out of past
Steve Jobs chops student hack down to size
Australian Senate censors print link to cartoon
Sunday 25th July 2010 23:18 GMT
The back end of somewhere
Coming soon to you – Julia GillRudd's Australian Republic of Socialist Emirates, (ARSE) with the enthusiastic support of the red Greens.
Because we will only be able to get to 50% of the websites, the internet here will be known as half-ARSE.
Defunct mines, of which there will be many, will become known as Bob Brown's ARSE holes – symbols of having been well and truly screwed.
The Green Police will wear Brown shirts (made from hair, of course), and be called ARSE-kickers. The under-cover recycle bin Police (as well as traffic cops) will be called ARSE-creepers.
Electricity will be generated by ARSE-wind, supplemented by gas-fired power stations.
Border control will be such that nobody will need to enter ARSE from the back any more - it will be wide open to all - after all, that's already Brown's policy.
And after Red and Brown have finished this great country will no longer be worth a crap to live in.
Footnote: Bob Brown, the leader of the Greens, looks like holding the balance of power. He's a radical communist and a very open homosexual.
Aussies face 10 year browsing lock-up
Monday 14th June 2010 08:09 GMT
I'll tell you why
You asked "I don't quite understand, has no one pinned them down (say on a national tv show) and asked why?
Because this bunch of socialist idealogy-driven incompetents decree such regulations without ANY prior discussion. Usually the first time anybody learns about their crap is when it's too late. Furthermore, the media is so intimidated and tightly dominated by Rudd (our PM and wannabe world leader) that they're shit scared to publish anything that might offend him.
'Draw Mohammed' page removed from Facebook
'Switch to Century Gothic to save the planet'
Brazilian uni readmits miniskirted student
Hotmail phish exposes most common passwords
Oz gov suggests world's worst copyright protection scheme
Google name 'worth $100 billion,' says Strategy Boutique
Aussie protests over Great Firewall
Monday 15th December 2008 23:52 GMT 
@AC
It's not about accessing illegal material. It's about three concurrent issues:
One, the overtly socialiast government is striving to control access to what it deems acceptable (whether legal or not);
Two, even at 99.99% accuracy, filters would block millions of legitimate sites;
Three, our largest (and monopolistic) telco sells 256K ADSL as high speed broadband. Even as a web services business I've tried for 4 years to get better than 1.5M ADSL, and I've finally achieved 1.6MB / 384K on a static IP, that costs me AUD 200 per month (that's around GBP 85 per month for all of 5GB traffic).
What performance hit do you think I can afford, simply to pander to a left-wing religious zealot filtering everything I access?
That's a down-under smiley - everything's upside down here.
Brit ISPs censor Wikipedia over 'child porn' album cover
Sunday 7th December 2008 20:27 GMT
Too much anon
The more I read comments on The Register articles, the more prominent Anonymous Coward appears. Over 40 items this article alone. He who knows everything about everything, and has a variety of (sometimes self-contradicting) opinions on everything else.
I need to ask the question - is this his personal blog, or is he one of the fortunate few with nothing to do all day?
Biting the hand that feeds IT
