Posts by Shane 4

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Here in Australia, There are constant horror stories of airbnb owners houses getting trashed from parties or fights breaking out.

Understandable for the owner wanting to protect their property or even use footage to give to police as evidence if a fight/stabbing occurs.

Camera was not in bathroom or bedrooms so I doubt the intent was for some pervert to spy on anyone in that way.

You don't really want the camera's standing out like dog's balls if you will pardon the expression, They are likely to get smashed or covered.

But at the same time concealing them is always going to look dodgy from others point of view, Even though it's more aesthetic.

It's a catch 22, You list your place as having a security camera and no one will want to rent it, You don't have one and risk having your place trashed with no evidence.

Maybe there needs to be some perks from airbnb company for clients renting places with cameras, Along with better deals/perks on insurance for owners having cameras?

And obviously change public listings to display a symbol for having cameras or not.

Pfft spiders,

It's the drop bears you gotta watch mate!

Is this a competition to see who can roll out the worst broadband?

Aussie here, Hold my beer.

You haven't seen our NBN!

meh

The way the world is going with congestion, We will be lucky in future if the cars are moving more than 2 metres an hour anyway!

Should be be taking it a step further and trying to get people off the road completely,elevated walkways, more barriers.

I'd be more worried about flying cars(yes still waiting) zooming over your house, Now that is going to be a nightmare!

You thought hoons were bad doing burnouts or donuts down the road at 2am, Just wait till they are trying to do barrel rolls over your house. o.O

Always remember the "Yet" part when it comes to A.I. vs humans in anything!

Says I am an Irish hurler(sport).

They kind of got it right,

Do have a bit of Irish blood in me(Grandfather was Irish) and I have been known to hurl(vomit) after a big night out on the p!ss.

And?

I mean come let's be real, Who doesn't mind a bit of bum biting?

Take what you can get, I say!

More PC BS

Can I give a little tip to any corporation out there, Hire the best person for the job regardless of gender,age,race,belief or watch your company go downhill in future!

You end up with a mediocre workforce instead of a top one, That man or woman that may have had 10+ more years experience on the job could have been huge company growth, But instead you chose the straight out of college person with a bit of paper that has a stamp on it, With also hardly any experience just because they are ......

To me hiring based on gender or race instead of experience and qualifications is discrimination and your company should be sued or cease to exist!

Idiots

All politicians should be made to live in glass houses, So they have no privacy at all.

Hopefully then at least one of them might have a working brain cell to see the problem.

What next?

How about a compulsory RFID tag under the skin, We can laugh about it now but just wait.

It won't be sold as national security of course, It will be some sort of "convenience" for modern day laziness that affects us all from time to time, Just swipe your arm to pay for groceries.

Sounds good in theory, Until you start getting all those ads in your mail box from places you have just been, Only this time it's not the virtual world but the real one!

It has got to the point where they think the only way is to track everyone on the planet so they may prevent some sort of bad event, But it won't stop it.

There will always be a few that just snap for no reason, May have been a model citizen then something random has happened in life that has triggered them to go on some all out rampage. No backdoor in anything is going to help stop it.

Once again all I see is band aid fixes to bullet wounds, Typical political nonsense.

Dangerous?

Most dangerous wildlife we have here would have to be the 4WD/SUV drivers who think they own the road!

Study on 2 minute noodles next, Then I'm set for life!

Yes I I know the results will probably be the opposite, But we can dream can't we?

Impressive effort on his part!

I thought my lot was bad,

I had AU$3500 worth of loose change over 20+ years, Weighed 55kg.

Too lazy to try and spend it so it just piled up.

Was 5 trips all up to get it down there, Put it through coin counter machine, Spat out a dozen New Zealand 20c pieces, Way too similar and shops/petrol stations don't check!

Word of advice, Make sure there is no sticky tape AT ALL left on any coins, You will jam the machine up and annoy the staff.

Also don't be behind a mum with kids piggy bank, Guaranteed there will be a button in there that jams the machine. ;)

pr0n folder and you know it!

Not bitter

Didn't get paid and not bothered.

I wouldn't be either if I had 21 macca's stores, Would already be rolling in money from last century when it was popular.

Bunker FTW

Looks like the penthouse sweet might not be the best purchase, If you buy the bottom floor you get a nuclear bunker when it sinks enough!

What is addictive?

You could make up just about anything to say it's addictive, Isn't life itself addictive?

Don't know about you lot, But I certainly look forward to waking up each morning!

If it is broke DO fix it!

Until I can open folder in a new tab group(which every other browser does including IE), Then Edge isn't even worth using for me.

A simple yet very useful function that many people use and are still requesting on win 10 forums/suggestions, But it's not there in Edge.

Also I want to open a new tab to my own choosing such as Google search, Not some top sites and suggested content, Top Sites or blank page crap.

So how about they fix Edge before even bothering to offer money to use it!

Idiots

Looks like it's official then, We have a bunch of corporate idiots running the show that don't have a clue about tech.

If they build FTTP we don't need to upgrade the network which will save money and wasting time re doing it, By the time NBN is done it will already be time to dig it up and re do the copper because it can't handle future bandwidth needs.

Secondly why are they praising gigabit speeds on old HFC, Why don't they also tell the truth and say that those gigabit speeds are SHARED by all in the street, So you will be lucky to get any where near gigabit speeds especially during peak hour you may not even get 100mbit. They will be making you pay for the "gigabit speed" though regardless.

Study

Who funded the study?

Philip Morris?

Buffering

He is right sort of!

But it's not just your ISP and speed,Especially if he is talking about youtube, It is because they changed the way a video buffers with DASH(Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) and it sucks compared to the old way that would let you buffer the whole video and skip through it whenever you like. Even with a 100mbit connection youtube now sucks and stutters so much I find that I have to drop the quality settings down to 720p to have decent playback.

There is extensions such as youtube centre that disables DASH, But it doesn't seem to work for me, Others have had success.

Next iphone should have been number 1 on the list. As a joke, because it's Apple!

Driverless cars at number 2

Netflix(Australian catalogue) 3 It's not a joke unfortunately

Smart TV's recording you and sending ads at 4

Encryption(lack of and government backdoors) at 5 The real number 1

Nobody cares!

Hey look everyone, It's the boy who cried wolf....... again!

Even if it's true, No one cares Nork.

You offer nothing on the world stage other than threats and parades of synchronised dancers, Go back and play in the corner of the room, NOW!

Both parties need to stop being a parent!

First they uses tax payers money to hand out to single parents and bludgers, Then it gives baby bonuses to new families like a grandparent would do to help out, Next is first home buyers grants like a mum/dad would chip in for their kids.

Now it is acting on behalf of a parent in censoring things from minors, My advice to all you in government positions is GTFO!

What next RFID chips implanted in newborns, So they can be tracked at all times?

We can all laugh now but just you wait what the future holds, When they are just left alone to pass any law they like, All in the name of "protect the children", "terrorism" or "national security".

Forget Nth Korea,Pretty soon it will be Malcolm Jong-un leading the democratic people's republic of Australia!

Edge

Glad you pointed the last part out, It is the only reason I don't use Edge.

I need to be able to open all my bookmarks in tabs with one click, So I have gone back to IE for now.

More competition is good!

Only use two local suppliers, It's either Scorptec or PC Case Gear when I buy parts, Another option same price or cheaper would be nice, Also might help on availability when some parts are in short supply

Speeds

I am on Telstra cable 100mbit which is already 3 times faster than the NBN obsolete crap government wants to roll out over here.

I can confirm ever since Netflix arrived here, The cable speeds have become a joke especially around peak time as everyone wants to use the net or stream.

It must be the reason why Telstra gave us cable users DOUBLE the monthly gb allowance from 500gb to 1tb, That was as soon as Netflix came here to try and make up for the crap speeds we now get.

So thank you Netflix for the extra 500gb from competition but also damn you for halving my speeds. lol

"no sea level rise danger", Says some scientist writing from the safety of Washington, Probably in a high rise building.

Try telling that to some pacific islanders who are already feeling the effects of sea level rise, Of course there is a danger depending on an individuals current situation. What can be debated is what is causing it but that is not the headline!

I think they forgot one of the zero's on the price!

I know the Aussie dollar is crap at the moment but the iPhone 6s 128gb launched at $1529! o.O

Could get an entire pc for that money.

And I thought $800 was steep for my imported Note II a few years back. lol

Can't see myself ever paying over a grand just for a phone but I am sure many out there do and good luck to them!

Those are only minor things to most of the normal users out there, I am more annoyed by the need to use a Microsoft account to actually use most of the new features in Win 10 like cortana.

Still many of us out there who prefer a local account only for their main pc.

Also the new Edge browser has 3 flaws which will piss off a lot of people out there, Can't open multiple tabs in any of your bookmark folders in one click or any clicks that I can see, Can't open a new tab to a page of your choice such as google search home page, It's either top sites(full of crap like facebook,twitter,amazon etc etc), top sites with news or a blank page. No custom option to open a new tab to a site of your choice.

And the last one is a simple one, Be able to sort your bookmarks by name, Have to currently drag each one to where you want it, A nightmare if you have 100+ bookmarks.

One other thing missing in edge which they will be adding later is extensions, So you can use your ad blocker and themes etc Should have been there from the start in my opinion!

Gone back to using IE/Firefox and Chrome until they can sort the mess out in edge browser.

It is fast though, I'll give it that.

Other than that Win 10 is pretty good, Basically what Windows 8 should have been, It is quite snappy and managed to set up EVERY driver for every piece of hardware I have, Which was a first for me ever. Usually always something windows manages to miss as I have enthusiast parts.

I think if you use the MS account you are going to get screwed, Marketing and spying on you galore.

I would rather just give up the new features like Cortana personal assistant and just use a local account.

Stability and speed please

All I care about is NOT seeing, "internet explorer has stopped working".

Give me a stable browser that can have at least 10 tabs open without one of them crashing, And then causing the page or tab to not be able to close, Usually requiring a complete browser shutdown and restart. Damn that was annoying in IE.

I like IE's easy layout, Firefox's functions and Chromes speed, Now merge them all into one browser. ;)

Yeah, But can it run Crys..... ahhh forget it I'll get my coat.