I'm printing it out now, nothing like someone claiming the impossible to make you want to try and prove them wrong.

This whole story reminds me of the Simpsons "Bart vs Australia" (I think they have an episode to cover every situation)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTdOQjmbAHY

It's actually not that easy to get in the Australian Federal Senate.

1. It's a first past the post style count.
2. There are 2 ways of voting, above the line or below the line
3. People like Assange will never be endorsed by a political party and thus you need to vote below the line to vote for them, only parties have boxes above the line
4. The number of boxes below the line and the fact you have to mark all of them if you vote below means almost no one does

The only exception to this rule is if they are so extremely popular in their home state, aka Nick Xenophon that they can get people to do it the hard way

Currently Nick X is the only Independent in the Senate.

Or you can do the weather from one

http://au.tv.yahoo.com/sunrise/video/-/watch/29296424/grant-the-nuclear-pharmacist/

Reactor info
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OPAL

Forklift LPG tanks are of the same design as your BBQ bottle just larger, they are however mounted on their side and you can't fill them when they're like that, Add in the fact that your average forklift doesn't travel really fast driving it to a service station to fill up is not a good use of it's time, so you get the gas man to deliver an entire bottle and swap it over.

Looks like they need to try harder, they must be paying one of the highest rates for a multinational corporation.

OT Why can't I log in via the drop down box at the top right, does it not support user names with spaces?

For the tl;dr crowd

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MicKTV0pN9c

What so this is a US site now?

Where is the .us domain on the end then?

Pfft, I'm off to Bunnings it's 10am here already and they've been open for hours already, blink and you might miss 2012.

True just went back and checked my email from August 2010 and there is the notice.

Subject: Changes to NEW DynDNS.com Accounts
Message-ID: bfd1113cf66806ecb6d56590e45d7736@marketer.sendlabs.com
Return-Path: marketer@bouncelabs.com
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2010 14:39:14 -0300
From: "DynDNS Support"
Reply-To: support@dyndns.com

Hello:

As you may have seen, we are making some changes to Dynamic DNS accounts.
Instead of making the changes without notice, we wanted to give all of our
existing customers a heads up and explain why we are making these changes.
What changes are you talking about?

Previously we allowed each Dynamic DNS account to have 5 free hostnames and
you could select them from 88 different domains that we own. Now this will
be limited to 2 free hostnames from 18 DynDNS branded domains.

Also, we are increasing the number of hostnames that come with a DynDNS Pro
upgrade. Previously, each DynDNS Pro upgrade gave you the ability to add 25
additional hostnames. We are increasing that number to 30.
Why are you making these changes?

There are a number of reasons that we thought it was important to make
these changes now.

    1. Having 88 free domains to choose from was overwhelming for many of
our new users. By reducing this to 18 it makes it easier for people to get
started.

    2. By limiting the free options to the DynDNS branded domains, it helps
grow the awareness of our services. Although we are happy to offer our free
services, we simply ask that you help spread the word to other people who
might find our paid services helpful. We have to pay those bills somehow.

    3. Looking at the stats of our users over the past 12 years, we see that
the vast majority of people only use 1 free hostname. Our support team has
seen a lot of confusion caused by the five free hostnames, so when you
combine that with the normal use case, it just made sense. We are allowing
the 2nd hostname for those who need to create a WebHop to access your
hostname. If you are going to need more than 1 or 2 hostnames there's a
good chance you are using us for something important. If that's the case,
we simply ask that you pay $15/yr for the DynDNS Pro upgrade, which
provides a number of other benefits.

    4. If you are using our services for business critical needs, you should
consider our Custom DNS service.

What will happen to my current account and hostnames?

Nothing, as long as you keep your hostnames active and up-to-date. If you
allow your account or hostnames to expire, you will have to select from the
new domains instead and will be limited to the 2 free hostnames. To ensure
you aren’t affected by these changes, upgrade to DynDNS Pro for just
$15/yr. Again, there are a number of other benefits to upgrading.
You're just trying to force us to pay you, aren't you?

No, not really. As long as you keep your account active, you won't be
affected by these changes. We would never want to have a user feel like
they were forced to use our services. This does not seem to be a very good
business model to us. You do your part (log into your account or update
your hostname monthly) and we will do ours (continue to offer free Dynamic
DNS services to you).

--
Chris Widner
DynDNS Ninja Squad Sensei

I got curious so I looked this up.

1. He is Finnish not American so why should he get US research dollars
2. He is a convicted criminal for fraud .... the whole thing was a scam.

Rainer Partanen

So the solution is a reputation system ????
How do we get a reputation level for a site ????

Catch 22 here I think.

FYI For those who didn't bother to read the links in the article the proposed systems increase the number of parties involved

A fridge is all you need

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNJ4c0B-s1Y

Just before the 8 minute mark

For KDE it's in System Settings -> Workspace Appearance -> Cursor Theme

Or are you running Gnome + KDE and can't work out which System Settings is which?

They have done exactly that

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-07-14/scientists-call-in-the-navy/2795700?section=world
asking the Royal Australian Navy to take nine of our floats up into that area on the next rotation to the gulf.