Australian Scientists

[Super Nova]

Yanks still use paper money.

I think they have been trying to improve them. I don't think they will go plastic soon or ever.

[Neferti]

Wonder if that Aussie counterfeit bank notes technology is used in the States: use a $100 bill here and watch the clerk try to determine if the note is counterfeit or not.

Aussie $100 bill



American $100 bill. They have changed it a little.

New Security Features

The advanced security features – the 3-D Security Ribbon and the Bell in the Inkwell – offer a simple and subtle way to verify that a new $100 note is real.

More here - http://www.newmoney.gov/uscurrency/redesigned100.htm

[Super Nova]

I am going to copy some extracts from the following site:

http://www.whitehat.com.au/Australia/In ... ionsA.html

[Super Nova]

Computing
##Samba software was initially developed by Andrew Tridgell at the Australian National University in 1992 . It enables interoperability between Unix-type systems and PCs and can be found as an important part of most Unix and Linux systems all over the world.

##Moldflow software - Between 1970 and 1978 Colin Austin developed software that allowed computer simulation of the injection moulding process. This allowed designers of moulds to eliminate much of the lengthy and costly process of test mould designs by trial and error. Today Moldflow software is used by many leading manufacturing companies throughout the world particularly in the area of aircraft and automotive manufacture.
##DQDB (Distributed-queue dual-bus networks) were invented by Robert Newman at the University of Western Australia in the 19980s. The algorithm combines the combination and distribution of a range of data types across networks and as such forma major part of the communications infrastructure of many cities throughout the world.

##Uniloc Software Protection was invented and patented by Ric Richardson of Sydney in the 1990s and allows a user to work with a trial version of software and, after purchase, 'unlock' a full version using a registration key. This invention was funded by previous inventions by Richardson including the 'Shade Saver'. The software was copied by Microsoft who later (April 2009) lost an approximate half billion dollar damages award for stealing the technology. At the time the damages awarded were "the fifth-largest patent jury award in US history"http://www.canberratimes.com.au/news/na ... orypage=0.

##Internet WiFi or Wireless LAN IEEE 802.11 as used in an in virtually all wireless enabled laptops, smartphones and tablets (estimated at 800 million devices worldwide and central to devices such as the Apple iPod and iPad) was developed by an Australian team at the CSIRO headed by Dr John O'Sullivan. Although wireless networks had been around since the 1970s, they were too slow for connecting to the internet. Using a technique known as multipathing which O'Sullivan had developed for radio astronomy, the Australian team developed the most commonly used version of WiFi today. It was patented in 1996 and adopted as the industry standard in 1999. In 2009, after many companies had been using and profiting from the technology without obtaining the appropriate licences, CSIRO won a court case protecting its patent rights on the technology, and recouping the considerable unpaid licence fees from manufacturers of laptops and wireless-enabled smartphones will help finance further innovation projects in Australia.

##Google Maps was invented by Danish-Australian brothers Lars and Jens Rasmussen and developed by an Australian team in Sydney. [They also then invented an interface to which they initially gave the very Australian name of Walkabout. It was launched in 2009 under the name Google Wave but has since been withdrawn by Google in August 2010 because "it did not lure the sea of users the company had envisioned". However, White Hat would not be surprised if many of the embedded ideas of Walkabout appear in future computer products.]

[Super Nova]

Design Improvements

Sometimes people come up with design improvements which, although not being 'inventions' in the true sense of the word, can be important in their own right. Here are a few Australian ones.
##The Dual Flush Toilet. Although Australians in water-scarce circumstances have long used a variety of devices to restrict the amount of water used in a flush toilet (including placing a brick in the cistern) the dual flush cistern with two buttons (one for full-flush and one for half-flush) was a design improvement that helped save water.

We are the king of dunnies

[Neferti]

I am going to copy some extracts from the following site:

http://www.whitehat.com.au/Australia/In ... ionsA.html

Like I said,SN, Aussies have invented a lot more than we are given recognition for. So have the Scots. Many of these inventions have been claimed by the Yanks.

Australia needs more money for R&D. We don't have to rely on The Federal Government for this. A few people leaving some money in their Will for certain "causes" (medical research and so forth) so that these Organisations can offer Scholarships for people to do research would be helpful and something to be proud of. Your children do not need everything you have attained and besides, a Scholarship called, say, The Neferti Scholarship for, say, The John Curtain Medical Centre, would have your name up in lights for years to come. Might even help put Australia on the map.

[Super Nova]

When an aussie makes it big in the US I think they have an obligation to come back and spend some of it on local R&D for the next generation. They forget where they got the upbringing that made them special/different to the yanks.

Personally I think aussies are better and more creative than the yanks with a stronger work ethic. That's my experience. We solve problems differently.

We should provide tax incentives for this. Expatriated money for local investment in R&D should be so low and we should play to their ego and make them Order of Australia members for doing so. Hell knights them if we could.

The trouble with our expat made good is they get more recognition OS than they do at home. We still have the tall poppy syndrome. The yanks worship the successful... we still try to tear them down.

Also, do you know that as an expat I am not wanted back home. People want to employ people who worked in Australia for a long time. There is no recognition of the experience gained OS. Were as in the UK it is prized. Pisses me orf. Bloody stupid country.................... I love it..... but wish it would understand it's advantages and make the best from it. It is sad really.

[Rorschach]

Australians want government to invest in Australia and Australians... One Nation was a party that was created due to this issue being ignored and the major parties selling off Australia and putting others first.

[Neferti]

Australians want government to invest in Australia and Australians... One Nation was a party that was created due to this issue being ignored and the major parties selling off Australia and putting others first.

Australians, in the main, want The Government to cover (look after) them for everything, wherever they are, and they don't want to pay any TAX ....

I've no idea about what One Nation was on about. Do you?

[Rorschach]

Australians want government to invest in Australia and Australians... One Nation was a party that was created due to this issue being ignored and the major parties selling off Australia and putting others first.

Australians, in the main, want The Government to cover (look after) them for everything, wherever they are, and they don't want to pay any TAX .... that's not true...

I've no idea about what One Nation was on about. Do you? yes.... I know a great deal about the party... I just posted one item on their platform.