Exactly. The extremely long captcha would not work for me at all - forcing people to use the facebook login, so its conveniently a neat little trick connecting People to IP addresses.

After seeing a post on here, Ive switched to Lotus Symphony, which I have been much happier with. It feels like a much better replacement to me, and I now use it full time over Open or Libre Office.

Lol. So true. A mate of mine worked for them. He had an accounting background on top of a CS degree. One week he would be providing consultant advice on naval ship building, the next week on running a national train system - despite having zero experience in either of these activities. To put it simply, the powers that be, needed consultants, and PWC kindly stepped in and took plenty of their money!

Australia did exactly this, we were running good surpluses and did fully pay our debt before the Global Financial Crises. It definitely helped us weather the storm.

We still dont have Samba 4.0 yet..

I have noticed this on one of my machines, and tracked it down (in my case) to a pause when ever Flash is loaded. It only happens on one of my machines, and its damn annoying..

Agreed..

A. Clean coal doesnt truly exist yet. There are a few trial plants around, but nothing commercially viable. Note that the industry does confuse scrubbing with carbon capture when talking about "clean coal".
B. The energy requirements for carbon capture will be huge.

The simplest way is to use your coal beds as unconventional gas resources. Coal Seam gas is much better than coal, easier to collect, transport and use. Coal Seam gas is becoming the major target of producers around the globe. Both Australia and the US are putting alot behind it, and that would be the direct reason for the reduction in coal use.

The Sony Viao Z-series laptops have just been announced and include a light-peak connected dock. Its only a couple of weeks away - so Apple wont be the only one with Thunderbolt.

Despite having "excellent" karma, I haven't been given mod points in over a couple of years. So its not me...

Reading the comments, and my own experience, it seems that everyone gets 20.21 bogomips regardless of the hardware software combo. Using his tcc to compile a reasonably simple and portable version of bogomips, (from http://djwong.org/programs/bogomips/) I get a very reasonable value of 1.96 on my Firefox 4 running on a Pentium 4 3.0Ghz. (Note that some edits are required to get it to compile with tcc)

Because Australia has had a long standing policy of limiting uranium mines to a total number of 3, there has been very little exploration for uranium deposits. Hence, even the known concentrations of uranium in Australia are largely unexplored. As the 3 mine policy has been scrapped, uranium exploration has begun again, and new deposits are being found in large numbers. The Australian Uranium reserves are vastly understated.

Dont believe it. In Australia, you can be booked for DUI on any vehicle. There have been some famous cases over the years including bikes, horses and skateboards.

Yes, we've been evaulating the OCZ Cards - and they are much slower in real life then the benchmarks suggest. Note that the FusionIO has a FusionIO Duo - which pulls 1.5GBytes a sec. This seems to be the holy grail of speed atm.

Australia lost most of its "quasi-professional" activists when it removed compulsory student unionism. Most of them were funded by the student unions, and without similar funding, the (typically jobless and usually student) activists have no money to get to the protests.