I agree. The speedo sticky label was a nuisance, but eventually everyone here in oz "got" metric measurements. I still think in feet and inches, but measure in metric, especially those metric volts and amps on my DMM! Lots of things and info from the US are marked in both imperial and metric anyway.
My kids (eldest nearly 40) know nearly nothing of the old imperial system...

you're a bit late to the the party! AS has already been explained, UNSW is University of New South Wales (one of the older universities in Australia). Maybe Slashdot editors should insist the ALL acronyms, esp. the US ones, be explained at least once per article.

Paper and pencil voting still works reliably for other countries - such as here in .au!!

Since you mentioned that you come from the land of the free (ride for bankers and other folk who produce no tangible works..). Australia is not the only country where the idea that research organizations funded by the community via the elected government helps defray the considerable costs of doing the research by patenting and licensing new innovations is customary - try the UK or France..
I can't speak for your form of government, but the last time I filled in a Tax Return, there weren't armed soldiers at the door to collect the money...

According to news reports here in AU, CSIRO expect to keep about half of the settlement proceeds, the rest will go to the Commonwealth, probably to pay all the lawyers' fees, long lunches and mistress costs...

Funny, I got the impression that Raspberry Pi was yet another extension of the BASIC Stamp/PICAxe/Arduino idea; a neat hardware wrapper around a microcontroller, but in Pi's case a processor with enough grunt to run Linux.
Maybe not a robotics platform particularly, but who knows what crazy repurposing of the board is just around the corner?
(Disclaimer: I haven't got a Raspberry Pi, but a motley collection of Arduini and friends, steppers and techo stuff!)

Ben Miller (he was on QI with Rob Brydon on ABC1 on Wednesday Night)