Getting big-iron carrier/backbone grade routers and other kit that can do IPv6 just as fast as the current gear does IPv4 is expensive.

There is a federal law that makes it illegal for state authorities, local authorities and community associates/home owner associations/etc to have restrictions on the placement of TV antennas and satellite dishes. Maybe there needs to be a similar federal law regarding solar panels.

My power company here in Australia charges me 0.673700c a day for the fixed connection to the grid and 0.259500c for each kWh of electricity I use. Other electricity providers I have been with in other places in Australia do the same thing (per-day charge and per-KWh charge)

There is no reason utilities in the US and elsewhere can't do the same thing (charge all customers a fixed per-day fee that covers the cost of maintaining and running the network and stuff then charge customers for each kWh of electricity they actually use). Most importantly this should be a change for everyone (with a corresponding drop in actual per unit charges for power to account for the removal of maintainence costs etc from those charges) and not just an extra fee charged only to solar power users.

I would have thought any assets (be they physical or intangible like copyrights) held by Nazi leaders would have been confiscated by the allies at the end of the war, meaning the descendents of Goebbels would have no claim to the copyrights.

The SLS should be scrapped anyway, the only real reason it exists (at least in its current form) is to keep a bunch of contractors in key congressional districts in business after the end of the shuttle program.

The issue isn't "android" per se, its "Google Play Services" which is a big set of (AFAIK closed source and proprietary) libraries that many apps depend on to do stuff. If you want "Google Play Services" on your device you need to follow all the other Google rules. So the EU is saying that Google is using "Google Play Services" (something it has a dominant market position in since its the only provider of many of these services for Android apps) as a way to push other things in the Google stable (and hurting things not made by Google that compete with those other things)

I use SeaMonkey which is the descendent of the old Mozilla suite.
Its got all the same web engine stuff as Firefox does but it doesn't have the crappy UI or some of the other "unwanted" crap from Firefox.

Right now Microsoft has a JIT compiler running on a few platforms that translates .NET byte code into native code. Instead of reinventing the wheel and writing their own JIT compiler for a bunch other platforms they want to be able to run .NET code on, they are instead using something that already exists in the form of LLVM.

They aren't abandoning anything, just using LLVM instead of rolling their own JIT compiler on certain platforms where doing so makes sense.

Whats it going to take to get politicians elected (not just in New Zealand but in Australia, the USA, Europe and elsewhere) that are no longer in bed with the big media companies and no longer giving those companies whatever the hell they want?

WE get nothing at all. But the Congressmen supporting these bills get nice fat cheques from the big corporations who see net neutrality as a threat to their business model (especially those who make their money through the old legacy business model of selling linear channels instead of the new consume-what-you-want-when-you-want business model that entities like Netflix use)

The only times I tend to see UAC prompts are for software installs/update, changing system or privileged settings (e.g. anti-virus settings), running certain older software (games mostly) that need admin rights for some reason or running certain pieces of software that legitimately need admin rights to do their job (e.g. Process Explorer or the tool that I use to log GPU calls for a DirectX app)

The feds cant use a warrant obtained in the USA to require a US based company to hand over physical documents stored in a foreign company, why should they be able to do it for electronic documents?

If the feds REALLY need this data so badly, why dont they just go to Ireland or wherever the data is being held and get a warrant from there?

What SHOULD have happened in this case is that the kid should have been given a few days of detention. All of the teachers should have been made to change their passwords, not type them in when students can see and not let students use them. And the student body should have been given a warning that anyone caught messing with the computers or using the teachers passwords will get a few days detention.

If the same student re-offends (and continues to mess with the computers) they can then be given a suspension.

How do you make the rifled barrels for your AR-15s and AK-47s?
In the US you may be able to easily buy one but in Australia getting a barrel seems to be just as hard as getting a full gun (at least from my understanding)