Its a good thing because states shouldn't be allowed to prohibit municipalities from installing/running their own infrastructure (whether it be water pipes, power lines, telecommunications infrastructure, transit systems or whatever else).

Have some sort of system where there it something on the track that gets picked up by the train so that at any given time the train knows exactly what the maximum speed is at that point. Then engineer the train systems to ensure it never exceeds that speed (even if there is a throttle failure causing the throttle to be in the wrong place, the speed regulation system would be a separate system and clamp the speed anyway)
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Now there might be failures in the speed regulation system but it wouldn't be able to make the train go faster, only slower (meaning the worst that could happen is a train going slower than it should be)

1.Ensure 100% that the ads can't serve me viruses, worms or any other nasties (and that they aren't trying to get people to install such software via the ad)
2.No ads that play audio
3.No ads that cover the content
4.No ads that contain elements pretending to be UI or otherwise attempting to mislead people into clicking on them. (including things that try to get people to install spyware, adware or other undesirable software)
5.No ads for anything that is illegal, of questionable legality or attempts to defraud or scam people (online gambling, porn, get-rich-quick schemes, questionable weight loss schemes that don't actually work etc)
and 6.Geolocate my IP address and serve me ads for things actually available to me here in Australia. No more ads for US-only things please. (that includes US charities, lobby groups, special interest groups, things like AARP etc)

Of course ad providers will do none of these things so I will continue to block their ads.

Too bad there are many countries in this world (even countries that claim to be free countries) where owning a knife that can be opened one-handed like that would be illegal :(

The only thing I have on my keychain is house keys. (I dont own a car)
In my bag I usually have my keys, my wallet, my Nokia N900 Linux phone and the case for my prescription sunglasses (the glasses will usually either be in the case or on my face)

Yeah but enough of the customers of the site being blocked for failing to pay GST wouldn't know how to use things like that to push the site into GST compliance.

Given that the Australian government is about to introduce an internet filter (thanks to new anti-piracy laws designed to let big media companies force ISPs to block overseas pirate sites), it wouldn't be that hard for the government to simply block via the filter any web site that refuses to comply with the law and hand over the 10% GST (and the appropriate records of how much Australian customers spent on the site)

I bet if you had proper high speed rail (of the European or Japanese kind) linking Grand Central to Union Station in DC it would be FASTER than taking an airplane between those 2 cities.

Not only that, taking the train has so many advantages over flying. The seats on any train I have ever been on have more legroom and space than economy class on even the best airlines. No need to pay through the nose for checked baggage or other addons. No need to be at the airport 3 hours before your flight (that will probably leave a hour late anyway) or hand over all your liquids as you pass through security. (although the way things are going in the US, it wouldn't surprise me to see the feds and TSA wanting to put security checkpoints at not just Amtrak stations but long-distance bus stops as well)

But would whatever lobby group represents all those yellow cabs allow the city to replace all those profitable airport cab trips with trips on the train?

Google could say to OEMs that if they want the Google Play Store and all the other Google apps, they have to ship the newest Android version (i.e. no more shipping devices running FroYo or Gingerbread or Ice Cream Sandwich anymore if you want all the Google stuff).

What are the OEMs going to do? Fork Android and forgo all the Google apps? (and things like the Google Play Services middleware library)

And it would be no different to how Microsoft wont let OEMs ship old version of Windows or Office anymore, even on older hardware designs.

Bank of Queensland.

My bank gives me a simple "export" button that lets me pick from several export formats (including csv and what I think is some sort of Quicken format).

Wouldn't it make more sense to send take-down notices (or if necessary, file lawsuits) against the owners or hosting providers of the sites directly?

Same with any pirate site or other illegal content they want to block, its better to go after the child porn sites directly than to try and block them at the ISP level...

+1 to this, when I moved into a new apartment, I ruled out whole suburbs just because they had crappy internet. I am currently getting DSL sync speeds of about 9/1 or so which is more than adequate for my needs (including all the crap I watch on YouTube and various YouTube clones and downloading large git trees and big files related to various game mods I work on)

If that was true, airlines wouldn't be changing any number of routes from having a few flights a day on big airplanes to having many flights a day on smaller planes.