Yes, there was some backlash against 4.0 which by-the-way was meant for *developers* and not end users. But since then there has been no controversy.

We've had a space like this for a few years now and it has been a very successful demonstration of community effort, business and state grants working together. The Edge is attached to the State Library of Queensland and provides maker facilities ("labs"), coworking space, community group meeting spaces and frequently runs workshops for various (frequently open source type) things such as Arduino workshops (run only at cost) and also journalism and (apparently) small business courses.

Probably also worth mentioning that they have one of the most impressive locations in Brisbane and that we also have a local Hackerspace as well.

I don't participate as much as I would like to unfortunately...

OK, true - things have gotten a lot cheaper in the past 5 or so years and I should have made that a bit more clear than I did. However outside of a handful of providers Internet in Australia is still fairly pricey.

This is the norm for us... Though we are finally starting to get somewhat reasonably priced Unlimited* plans now.

* Unlimited plan may be limited

If you're into a specific thing and/or performer you can go straight to the source. Generally you only really need to pay once to get access to download the entire archive.

The power bill that is the result of generating a Bitcoin disagrees indicates your view is invalid.

This is something that has been on my mind. I'm yet to do anything about it though.
A safe deposit envelope/satchel (as opposed to a full box) in a bank is pretty cheap - and I would additionally store the actual paper with the passwords in a "tamper proof" envelope so that I can tell if the passwords have been read since I last visited.

XMPP is what made this happen... BuddyCloud does this ;)

Inter-Stellar Kredits (not so much Icelandic Kroner). Litecoin wouldn't be bad either. Whatever I already have more than most people would be good.

Yes of course - but why Wave over tools provided in a modern social network? Technologically BuddyCloud is similar - and BuddyCloud has protocols documented, and because of their modular nature they don't represent a moving target.

Who else uses it? I know this is a catch-21 sort of thing. I don't see what Wave really offers over social networks (in conjunction with good old email).
How about tickling your fancy with email and a federated social network such as http://buddycloud.com/ and good old email?

I can't imagine what it would have taken to leave a girlfriend like his. Geeks just don't get girls like that... EVER!
At first I was unconvinced of the effectiveness of what he did because he didn't really tell us anything we didn't already strongly suspect (or know) but the dialogue created has successfully provoked public awareness far beyond my expectations. It's reasonably clear that Snowden *could* gain a lot from this - but he definitely hasn't even tried. Anyway, as far as I am concerned he deserves some book deals and lecture tours.

Haiku in a VM and rsync the CDs across. Though, if the tagging is done in BFS metadata then that may be an interesting problem (though not particularly difficult) to solve.

I routinely stop alien invasions. Their lazors are no match for my hands (and let's not mention my other weapon... in my pants).

Your move NSA - what have you done lately?

Sherlock.