Interesting that the Army is not permitted fixed wing aircraft or heavy boats. The Airforce isn't permitted heavy armour/troops...

and yet the Navy is allowed both.

How the heck did that get worked out?

I hated... HATED... "Natural Scrolling" when it first came out. But I gave it a week. You push up on the trackpad... screen goes up. You push down, screen goes down. It just feels.. natural.

Now when I use another computer the scrolling just feels weird.

Bad analogy.

Code obfuscation is more akin to locking your door, and then hiding the key behind the pot plant.

The only problem there is that it won't be long before those cameras start taking photos of everyone, regardless of speed. That data, along with everything else, can then be used to track you.

It's just a side-effect that they can make some extra coin from those people that are speeding.

Is this the same Yahoo! that turned over data to the Chinese, which resulted in a bunch of people going to prison?

http://money.cnn.com/2006/02/08/technology/yahoo_china_b20/

Seems like a convenient PR stunt to me.

This is the same Amazon that just won an $800m bid to host the CIA's cloud computing system?

Uh huh.

Q. Why did Australia get all the criminals, while the US got all the religious nuts?
A. Australia won the coin flip....

Your house uses more than 10kw? I really have to ask, what the heck are you doing??

I have a modest 4x2 house, with a stay-at-home wife and 2 kids. Big screen TV, and all the other creature comforts and I wouldn't even come close to use 10Kw.

In this instance I have to say 'you're doing it wrong'.

And this is one reason why caped internet plans are actually in the customers interest. If you use more, you pay more, so it's in the interest of the ISP to keep you downloading stuff as fast as humanly possible.

The only time they do throttle you is when you hit your monthly quote. Then they "shape" (throttle) your connection to entice you to upgrade your plan to something more suited to your usage requirements. At which point, you click the "upgrade plan" button and you're back up to speed.

Sure, Unlimited internet is all good in fantasy land, but I really can't see how it's a sustainable business model unless you're paying for a business-grade connection on a megabit per second basis.

...and no doubt Google will count each instance as an activation...

Easy... And it almost happened, right up to the point where Google started shipping Android. Apple made the hardware, Google provided the online services. Google and Apple were best of friends.

Then Google decided to make handsets and entire OS to directly compete with Apple. Fast forward to present day, and here we have this mess.

I'm in the male 25-35 demographic. I have disposable income. I don't play multiplayer games.

Guess which gaming company doesn't get my money...

So why hasn't anyone else built something better already?

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Standard home page.
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Remember, trust but verify.

Wow... way to show your total lack of understanding.

Firstly, the Australian economy is in pretty good shape comparatively. (Mostly held together by Western Australia and Queensland)

Secondly, the Mint is required by law to hold a certain amount of gold. What difference does it make if that gold is in house-brick size blocks or moulded into this coin?

The Mint isn't selling this coin, they just made it for funzies.