You won't get a Macbook for under $2000 unless you go the old, slow plastic models.
If you're ordering a Dell, do it through the Education Store http://www.dell.com.au/epp or wait for Lenovo to put Thinkpads on sale again.
Um, no, it's not. The VIA processor is a piece of shit compared to Intel's Atom technology, and it's also more expensive than other models running Atom processors.
Just because certain Senators don't support it in its current form doesn't mean that the ALP's not going to try and come to a compromise solution with them. Further, it's important that this gets as much publicity as possible so that Labor/FF/Xenophon don't find themselves with a Senate majority...
Any ISP that volunteers to test these filters is going to get slaughtered in the marketplace.
EDIT: Tbh they should trial it in Conroy's electorate office.
Anyone who's pro filtering should install this on their computer or stfu: http://www.download.com/China-Channel-Firefox-add-on/3000-11745_4-10900446.html?tag=mncol;txt
Both of those things are already illegal.
This kinda stuff is always going to be at the whim of the legislature, and once you start doing it an evolutionary growth of the criteria for what makes content offensive is inevitable.
The Chinese government has murdered more people than every act...
So basically the government should view all content before I do and pass judgement on whether or not that particular content is of benefit to society? What happens when someone like Conroy's in charge who despises any viewpoints that aren't his own?
Furthermore, if somebody's hellbent on...