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  1. Re:Coincidentally... on US Electrical Grid On the Edge of Failure · · Score: 1

    A link that compares several countries (in german, but the countries should be easy to read) prices in dollar cents: http://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/13020/umfrage/strompreise-in-ausgewaehlten-laendern/

    Where on earth did they get their figures from? They say Australia pays 11.68c/kWh. I know I pay ~28c/kWh in AU... real figures here: http://www.originenergy.com.au/files/necf/NSW_Electricity_Residential_AusGrid_Standard%20Published%20Rate.PDF

  2. Limited usefulness on New Keyboard Accessory Shocks Users When They Try To Go On Facebook · · Score: 1

    Seeing as 78% of FB users are mobile ( http://techcrunch.com/2013/08/13/facebook-mobile-user-count/ ), this seems to have a limited market.
    In fact, many people (myself included) would be "forced" to use FB mobile, since it is blocked by the corporate firewall.
    Maybe someone could write an Android version, which activates the phone's buzzer until the browser is closed.

  3. Re:The current government is doomed. on Australian Government Rejects Data Retention Law After Report · · Score: 1

    They are hated by the major media conglomerates and are going to be destroyed in the next election by the media.

    FTFY.
    All the alleged hate towards the Labor Party is spin by Murdoch/Fairfax.
    No reasonably intelligent person I have met, has indicated that they'd prefer Abbott over Gillard.
    The Opposition / media have resorted to bully tactics, since they have no substantial basis on which to attack Labor/Gillard.

  4. If I fill my car with ethanol instead of petrol, does that make it a new car?

  5. Re:Inconvenient on US Postal Service Discontinuing Saturday Mail Delivery · · Score: 1

    So, I get this note in the mailbox that I have a package that is too big for the mailbox, I have to pick it up at the PO. But, I leave for work before the PO opens, return after it closes, and it's 50 miles away so I can't sneak down there during lunch.

    This was a problem until recently in Australia too.
    Now Australia Post have started using self-service parcel lockers. Works great.
    Sign up for the service, get a user id, then anyone can send a parcel to "John Smith, Parcel Locker <userid>, <mail sorting centre>, Australia"
    24hr access to the lockers. I get an email & an SMS when a parcel arrives, containing the code to open the locker.
    I have 48hrs to pick up my parcel, before they take the parcel away and file it in the office.

  6. Re:Still half the price on 2012 Set Record For Most Expensive Gas In US · · Score: 1

    In Australia we pay about US$5.50 to US$6.00 a gallon. A$1.30 per litre (cheap petrol) is about $3.40 for a US gallon.

    How do you get $3.40/US gal? 3.78L/US gal * AU$1.30 * 1.04 (exchange rate) = US$5.10

  7. Ask on a pen forum on Ask Slashdot: The Search For the Ultimate Engineer's Pen · · Score: 1

    Why don't you ask this at the Fountain Pen Network? http://www.fountainpennetwork.com/

  8. Re:I'm still waiting on Raspberry Pi Reviewed, With an Initial Setup Guide · · Score: 1

    haven't peculated up to the top yet. Soon I hope.

    Peculating is what many CxOs do when they get to the top. I suspect rather, that you are trying to 'percolate'.

  9. Re:How possible is it that it was an inside job? on Hackers Steal $6.7M In Bank Cyber Heist · · Score: 4, Insightful

    How could an investigation rule out a possible inside job?

    In Soviet Russia, inside job rules out possible investigation.

  10. Re:From XKCD to life?? on iPhone Auto-Combusts On Australian Airplane · · Score: 1

    High voltage is of course a completely different scenario, luckily one most wont have to deal with... Like a water cooling system next to a 132kV transformer... ugh...

    Actually, HV transformers CAN be water cooled: http://www.abc.net.au/cgi-bin/common/printfriendly.pl?http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200410/s1221697.htm (In this case, it was a 33kV/11kV transformer)

  11. Last Post on Steve Jobs Dead At 56 · · Score: 1

    ... RIP. Not a fanboi, but a great contribution.