My Australian paypass card works fine in the US at the (very) few shops which have the logo.

It's obviously pretty rare because you sometimes have to convince the cashier to look at the little screen and see that it says approved.

While I agree that you shouldn't send a bounce for spam messages after you have accepted it, there's still a nice way of doing this. Simply reject the message before you've accepted delivery. You'll provide useful feedback to false positives and you won't get bounce backs to random addresses.

Conroy is a senator. His electorate is the whole of Victoria.

Since almost everyone votes for the party (above the line) there are two possibilities that will result in him loosing his seat: a) he's moved from his current top position in the labor list to #3 or #4. It's still possible for him to get elected again if he's at #3 but unlikely. He's currently one of the leaders of the Labor Right faction in the Labor party, so even going from #1 to #2 position is unlikely.

b) is for Labor to get less than 1/6 of the vote in Victoria and then still not get anywhere with preferences which is quite unlikely.

Fake!

Brian Kernighan would have checked the return value of that printf.