I can see it now in the police interview room..... I swear officer, how was I to know that a next to new $800 laptop with no manuals or documentation purchased of some crack user on the street for $60 was stolen.

Trust me she knew it was stolen and she is blowing smoke up everyones proverbial.

I raise your 1980's Star Trek ipad for that shown in the 1970's english childrens show "The Tomorrow People"

http://www.reghardware.com/2011/02/07/apple_ipad_tomorrow_people/

What about metrosexual or gay men/woman as they cross the lines. Anyone trying to define sexuality as a yes or no (just ask a biologist what is natural and they will laugh at you) based on a set language subset is in for a demoralising hiding.

Australia has extreme weather ie hot/cold and huge storms and floods but if you visit Queensland you will notice 1 in 5 homes in the suburbs has a solar array now (1 in 3 were my relatives live). My relatives live in Queensland and have 1 solar array for power and another for hot water, their bills went from $430 per 1/4 to $180 and it was virtually free thanks to the government (state and federal).

Apple are not the only electronics supplier gouging Australians, take a 16Gb Asus transformer Android tablet US price US$399 Australian price US$549. Its so bad now that most Australians with any internet skills are buying their electronics in the USA and paying the shipping costs and are still saving $200 for every $1,000 spent. It gets even worse for laptops, the Australian price for Lenovo thinkpads is nearly twice the US price now.

With Linux this isnt such an issue, as everyone knows you just tell the package manager to install vlc and it gets it from a trusted server and even does a hash check to make sure the final copy of the file/s downloaded are correct. Seriously someone should create a windows application manager apt for windows or something. Seriously right now most people using windows who want to install FOSS software are finding it hard to separate malware from the real deal. Windows 8 will have an app store but how receptive Microsoft will be to having FOSS applications listed (and for how long) on their service is up in the air.

You seriously need to go to Israel and see how the local officials and zionists treat their Arab citizens. It's common practice for Zionist officials to re-assign property as being abandoned or derelict if an arab family lives in it so they can move a zionist family into it, even if the arab family have lived there for 30 years and have paperwork to prove ownership of the property. Then you have the local police standing by while zionists stone arabs and break their windows to force them out of their homes. If that isn't ethnic cleansing I don't know what is. People keep saying Israel is a democracy. I say Israel is a democracy for jews and screw everyone else.

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) has a great podcast under their investigative journalism show called background briefing taking an in depth look at why hiring people MBA's is starting to lose it's shine and why savvy business owners are now thinking twice before hiring someone with an MBA. To make a long story short Universities are teaching the technicalities of of modern day business dealing but failing to teach students that some times they have to get their hands dirty and deal directly with the product and the customers and stop playing with spread sheets.

A Link to the podcast can be found here

Apple's beef is with the bezel of certain Samsung phones looking remarkably like earlier iPhones.

Yes but the early iphones look exactly like the the award winning LG prada, you know the full screen mobile phone with a silver bezel around the edge and icons in a checkerboard layout that was released a year before the iphone.

They have elections and councils in Prisons? (remember this is Australia)

That old chestnut, the only reason they sent convicts to Australia is the English couldn't send them to the USA any more. FYI more convicts were sent to the USA than Australia, we only had a few ships before the english gave up as we released them when they arrived.

The record and movie industry pundits must be laughing, instead of them having to protect their IP like every other industry the UK tax payer now has to fork of funds so some smack sniffing BMW M series driving record industry exec can screw the artists and the public.

I remember when we had paper notes, one of the big problems ignoring tearing etc is that if you left a note in your pocket then put said bit of clothing in a washing machine you end up with a pile of paper mulch. With the new polymer notes this isn't an issue. I remember someone mentioning that the Australian reserve gained a few million a year thanks to people forgetting they have money in their pockets before they threw their clothes in the wash.

I have found the best places to get good working (1080p) cables on the cheap that actually work are PC builder shops PC/console and game shops. Go for the braided ones with gold plugs not the cheap plain black ones with silver plugs (I find they dont give me full HD even though they say they are 1.4 certified). I recently paid AUD$17 for a 5 meter braided (blue) HDMI cable and it works fine, made in china of course but who cares as long as it works and looks like it will last. Avoid retail electrical shops as their cheap cables are utter crap and their working cables are $60-100.

The Asus transformer android tablet within the first week sold out in most places in the USA. I think the issue is Android tablets have just now really started to have big name backing so comparing an android tablet to a second gen iPAD is a weak argument. Come back and look at the tablet market in February next year when quad core tablets hit the shelves running android 3.2 and the iPAD is still using the same A5 cpu.

I have seen a few so called 3D tittles now and to be honest my brain keeps telling me it isnt 3D and all I am seeing are two images with one closer than the other. Bit like getting part of a picture and another part and placing them at two set distances. For me thats not 3D, in real life objects are at random distances not two set points. I have talked to a few people now and they admit that they have a similar issue with this fake 3D thing the movie industry are kicking out,