Opt-out? Oh wow, that's so nice. It's very clear that no regular person actually wants to be subjected to your company's "service". If I ran a company that went through your trash (you know, to track the content...) before the collectors came to get it, you'd probably be rather annoyed to find out that it was opt-out.

there is no way this is the first post

The network wont be fully funded by the government. Hence the carriers are taking on some risk aswell.

Coincidence? .. hell yes. Conroy didn't need Telstra in the trials. He just needed a single isp, there's more than one in Australia. Rudd does need Telstra to build the network, Telstra knows the other carriers cant get credit to actually build the damn thing without the government backing it. Telstra knows the other carriers are there so it looks like there was a fair try, at not giving all the business to the dominant player. This isn't Conroy being stupid or evil, this is Telstra toying with him (You could argue he deserves it though).

"Darwin is based on BSD Unix" Quite horribly. They address space co-located the bsd layer with a Mach microkernel. Mach is terribly inefficient . They should rip it out, or replace it with L4.

You need to run a 'nuclear launch control' ? http://www.ertos.nicta.com.au/research/sel4/