I had a 21" Sun CRT . During a clean a shed clean out that my friend was helping me with and I said "Be careful, that things fricken heavy, I'll move it if you want", he insisted he'd be right. He went to pick it up like a normal CRT, safe to say he put it down and then picked up with a lot more knee bending and exclaiming "F*** me that thing is heavy!".

I used it as a TV on one of my early Mythbox setups for a while, but it bent the desk it was sitting on, so I ended up buying an LCD.

I know some female friends that get migraines and are prescribed viagra to control them. So it would seem this has been thought of.

It's just the horrible way it was built, they are just tiffs and you can get them manually. However there are a couple of plugins that solve the problem. Firefox Addon and Chrome Addon

Yep, my wifes VW New Beetle ate my 10mm socket last time I changed the battery. It disappeared into the engine bay, never to be seen again!

Well they already have loops of cables behind servers to ensure that no one could have a possible advantage. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-04-11/kohler-high-frequency-trade-parasites-at-heart-of-asx/3943052

Anyone with a mind set in reality will understand how didiculous that is!

With have a subsidised/protected automotive industry. All it does is artificially inflate prices. GM/Ford still come crying to the government for handouts every few years.

Even better when read with a New Zealand accent!

Some of the more flexible Deployment platforms can deploy just about anything, but a well designed MSI is far easier. That said I've come across many, many poorly designed MSIs, which are just as much hassle as anything else.

Obviously you don't work where I work. I allow plenty of stopping distance, have blind spot mirrors and sharp acceleration is a near impossibility with diesel Ute (Pickup Truck) and yet I face at least 1 or 2 morons every day I drive to work. My wifes fears for my safety when driving to work and that's living in Capital city in Australia.

So in summary, what you are telling me is that with all the sharp breaking/swerving I have to do as a matter of course on my daily commute, is that I'm a bad driver? I for one, wont be accepting a company that requires such an invasion of my privacy.

But the question is, would Carrier IQ have been found if it wasn't for Android being open and how long before Apple decided that they wanted to collect more data? Open Source doesn't give you automatic protection, however eventually someone will stumble upon something and go "hrm, this is weird, I wonder what it is".

I'm pretty sure there are already some _good_ laws to prevent these kind of privacy invasions, how are those working out in this case? These big companies only respect the laws that they think can't get away with. When they get busted and a class action is started, they go through the motions and hand out a few vouchers stating "Sorry, we messed up", then continuing doing what they can get away with.

Sensible approach, requires checks and balances, so big media's sketchy evidence won't pass. It's also makes it too hard for them to squash the little guys like in the states. http://www.theaustralian.com.au/australian-it/isps-anti-piracy-proposal-rejected-by-entertainment-sector/story-e6frgakx-1226208551936

That might work in America, but I'm not so sure it will work here. Time will tell I guess.

I hope I'm not the only one where the exact sound sequence played out in my head and a reminder of the perverse sense pleasure enjoyed whilst watching 100 lemmings explode, bringing the computer to it's knees.

So what about upload speed? Really, that is the achilles heel of all of these technologies. Also how many people are going to live in the zone that gets 100mbps or will it be like where I live, suburban area Perth with a cable run 4km from the exchange (don't mind that the exchange is abount 1.5k away via the road) and getting ADSL1 speeds, but paying for ADSL2+ (which is actually cheaper as it's not provided by the semi privatised monopoly called Telstra).

It doesn't require a book to use, but rather to configure. Well if you want to get fancy with your configuration anyway. The Out of Box experience is well suited to managing software development (It's not just a bug tracker, it's a full software development management suite), however if your using it for something unrelated to software, it takes some tweaking.

We are using it to replace a completely custom developed .NET piece of garbage and there hasn't been a road block that isn't crossable or at least worked around. It's extremely powerful, which means things can get a little complicated. The documentation is pretty good and I haven't struggled much in getting my head around the concepts.