Indeed. And according to the ITU, HSPA+ is "4G" and you can use the iPad 4G on Telstra's HSPA+ network, thus achieving a "4G" connection.

The problem stems from the fact that in Australia only Telstra's LTE network is advertised as "4G", and it is this network that the iPad is not compatible with. So, technically you can get a 4G connection on the new iPad, but Apple may be in trouble if it is determined that their advertising leads customers to believe that the device is compatible with the Telstra-advertised "4G" network.

I didn't see any mention in the linked article about what makes these features particularly odd. It says parts of the crust are tilted and raised by several kilometers in places. This is pretty commonplace geology caused by plate tectonics here on Earth (we call them mountain ranges). If Mercury has a liquid mantle, would we not expect to see similar folding and up-thrusting there? Is this different because of the size, shape, speed of movement?

I once saw an ad for a digital bathroom scale that claimed it "never needs calibrating" and was "accurate to 0.1%". I immediately called bullshit* on this in my head and am glad to know that I was justified in doing so.

* Note that this was in Australia where we actually measure our mass in kg, rather than our weight in lb. It may well have been that accurate as a weighing machine, but not as a "massing" machine.

In Sydney $20/day is the "early bird" rate for people who arrive before 9:30 and want to park all day. Casual hourly parking in the city during the day is much more expensive - anything from $10-20 per hour for a private car park, and $7/hr for government-metered street parking. In any case, parking your car costs more than any return bus or train ticket, before you even count the cost of fuel.

Honestly, I'm not sure. I think it depends a lot on what part of the city you live in, and what other options there are. If the bus is a horribly inefficient but cheap way to get around, then only desperate people will use it. If you have bus-only lanes, pre-paid ticketing and other things to make the bus as fast or faster than a private car, the demographics change. In places like Sydney or London, most of the city's white-collar workforce come in to the city by bus or train/metro.

The amount of damage caused by a falling cable would depend very much on its composition and geometry. A thin "tape" of high-strength material would rapidly slow down due to air friction, and a large proportion of it may simply burn up.

I know you're joking, but in a lot of large cities a car is unnecessary, and commuting by car is a very expensive option even if you have one (due to high fuel price, $20+/day parking, opportunity cost of driving yourself when you could be reading Slashdot on the bus, etc.) My wife and I earn enough to keep a nice car, but choose not to own one. We both have bicycles for commuting, and sublet our appartment's car spaces which more than covers membership in a car share program and rental cars when we go on holiday.

Gate One is something that is installed on a server, not your computer.

Nothing needs to be installed on your computer to use it, other than a compatible, modern web browser.

The administrator of the website using Gate One can install Gate One modules (not browser plugins) on the server, and you the user will immediately have access, via your web browser, to the funcationality that those modules provide.

or gold

Do you think that when you deposit money in the bank they put a pile of cash in the safe for you?

Almost all modern currency is bits.

CouchDB has native map-reduce indexing of arbitrary fields of the stored data. Doesn't appear to be anything new here in that regard.

Lazy loading doesn't necessarily mean load-on-demand. Why not bring up the main interface, then fire off a bunch of asynchronous jobs to enumerate plugins and such? You could even cache the list of plugins from last run to populate the menu and be right 99% of the time.

I'm running two identical LCD panels here (1600x1200). Looking at the OP's image on my primary DVI-driven panel looks nice. After dragging it across to the VGA-driven one there's noise all over it -- fine horizontal lines flickering up and down. I never realised how bad the signal was before.

Interestingly, moving the image horizontally on the DVI-driven panel results in a lot of flicerking and visible tearing. Doing the same on the VGA-driven panel does not.

Two guesses what business AC is in :-)

There are any number of valuable things that your landlord would be unlikely to accept as payment. Carbon nanotubes, for instance. So, Bitcoin is not (yet? ever?) a viable currency, but that doesn't mean it doesn't have value.