It used to be a state responsibility until about ten years ago, when the federal government took over collection and distribution to the states. Unlikely to happen in the US, but you never know, power might one day be wrestled from the local governments. For imports it is collected at customs on items worth over $1k. I have never seen any reference to it for electronic goods---with the exception of high-value goods at customs, the consumer never has to pay GST directly.

What happens when the Australian gov't goes after the company to pay up and finds out that its nothing more than incorporation papers locked in a file cabinet?

Whoever ran the company gets charged with tax evasion. See here.

I recall someone on /. saying that their chemical plant offered 10% of any savings if one could find a way to cut costs, capped to $10M. So it seems not just to be the financial industry.

Or the Commonwealth. And probably continental Europe and Asia as well, though I'm not sure about those.

Radar can measure instantaneous speed using the doppler effect.

In which case everyone is still speeding, just at the same speed. Fighting increased enforcement will be an uphill battle when so many people ignore the law without a second thought.

Here there is once price for each discipline, irrespective of the location. Anyone can go to any university in the country for the same price: $8859/year for the higher paying professions, down to $5310 for those that bring less fortune, and $4429 for areas that are suffering shortages (maths and the sciences at the moment, though nursing used to be on the list as well).

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HECS#Commonwealth_supported_students

Strikes.

It was an audio signal generator based on a Wein Bridge oscillator that used a light bulb for amplitude stabilisation.

LG had released a similar phone before the Iphone, the Prada.

Some telecom gear uses GPS for time synchronisation, so when that disappears, things can break.

This article claims that it is not the IMEI but the Temporary Mobile Subscriber Identify (TMSI) that is tracked, the key word here being "Temporary".

The version that was given in Adelaide provides some details---the ID that is tracked appears to a temporary one, rather than the IMEI.

While I assume that they still use RADAR or LIDAR for the detection, in South Australia cameras at intersections normally handle both both red-light and speed.

ChipKit supposedly works for 32-bit PICs (it is owned by Microchip), though I'm not sure what is available for PIC18.

Since GPS is spread spectrum, access to the code would allow far better performance. The analogy I suppose being that it would be easier to speak over white noise than someone speaking the same language with the same voice as the other person that you are trying to communicate with.