Geek Thing #1103

A slashdot thread about a Wimax mobility card deployed by an australian ISP. Hilarious !!

Aussie :

As an Aussie, I'm sick of seeing submissions on Slashdot from other Australians that hype the Australian angle to every story. This is typical Australian insecurity. Since we are isolated down here at the opposite end of the world to the USA and Europe, most Australians see a need to shout "Don't forget about us!!" constantly, as if to remind the world that we are still here.

If this technology was being trialled by an ISP in any other country, the story would primarily be about the technology, maybe with a note about where it was being trialled. But since this is being trialled in Australia first, the headline and summary hype up the Australian angle. Hopefully one day us Australians will be secure enough that we can stop constantly worrying about what everyone else thinks about us.

Non-Aussie :

You aussies have computers?!

Aussie [ Geek first ] :
Yeah, but we run into problems, because the endianness switches once you are south of the equator.

On the plus side, it allows us to run MacOS on our AMD/Intel beige boxes.

A proud aussie pitches in -

Yes we do, do you Americans have brains?

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Non-Aussie :

(My deepest apologies, but I can't pass up the opportunity)

I think the submission only makes such a big deal out of it because it must have been really tough to develop this while fighting off dingos and kangaroos and crocodiles and throwing boomerangs around and playing didgeridoos.

Americans outnumber aussies

Non-Aussie :

throwing boomerangs around

if you throw a boomerang and it doesn't come back,
what do you call it?

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a stick

I love that joke. Ya, I know, I need help :-)