I wonder how the reviewer would go evaluating the Aberciser manufacturer's claims.

Would he get a little shirty when he didn't get washboard abs and tons 'o' chicks?

Or would he have a good look at what the thing actually was and begin his evaluation from there?

I couldn't agree more. In fact, every "negative" review I've heard/read has come down to unrealistic expectations of what a device with these specs can do.

As I said earlier to someone ... we could make some happy campers if those people disappointed with their Raspis passed them onto those people disappointed they haven't got one yet ...

Heh, I bought a Beagleboard about a month ago because of the wait for the Raspberry pi.

Maybe they are in cahoots with each other ;)

You could always give it to me.

Then we solve both our problems :)

If only the Raspberry pi I ordered April 2nd had been delivered yet. Register expressions of interest indeed.

purchased for my C-64 in about 1983-84 when I was 12 or 13.

Except ... living in Canada at the time meant long distance charges for connecting to the servers in the US.

When my parents got the bill for my "free" service they took away the modem :(

... but, thankfully, not the C-64. BASIC and the Zork series kept me occupied enough until they gave it back to me. Except when I got it back my allowance didn't go too far with the long distance charges. Something like 2 or 3 hours a month, as I remember.

Hmm, I feel like I need a shower after reading this.

I also feel like this is Slashdot's answer to "Penthouse Letters".

Because it's become an ideological issue. It's a Labor party policy so, ipso facto, rusted on conservatives hate it.

So they sit in waiting for the inevitable cost blowouts, delays, pork-barrelling, and logistic implosions that befall every large infrastructure program and use them to hammer the Labor party over the head with. And the faithful take their cues from that.

Had the conservatives introduced the NBN it would be the other way around.

I predict that once the NBN is completed and its value demonstrated it will become like Medicare - both sides of politics, regardless of ostensible ideology, will regard it as a "good thing". I mean, can you imagine the Coalition ripping out the fibre from people's homes?

Pro Tip: Never call an individual or group "ignorant" in the same sentence you confuse "their" with "they're".

It detracts from the rhetoric somewhat.

we want everyone to know it.

will now have its address block(s) added to the blacklists of Hulu, Netflix et al

I mean, seriously, how many times will the "tech savvy" users of this site fall for ruses like this?

As if anyone who reads Slashdot wouldn't be able to find out;

• 1) How to use a VPN, and
• 2) What VPNs are out there.

Please ... just stop.

or step the fuck off this site

Of course ... the simplest explanation is that a magical sky-daddy waved his hands around and created everything. Case closed.

Let's get over our silly preoccupation with gaining systematic knowledge through observation, hypothesis, and experimentation and just say "God did it".

I mean, since scientists only possess a faith analogous to your average Christian's (for instance) faith, we know science has achieved nothing.

Vaccines? God did it.

Electricity? God did it.

Modern agriculture and food production? God did it.

The myriad of other "advantages" humans now have at their disposal? God did it.

Let's stop this ridiculous pursuit of "knowledge" when we can all just sit back and say "God did it".