Comcast does the same thing. I've experienced rare Internet outages and usually wait 20 minutes or so to call to see if there's a problem and the auto answer will confirm that but also say that one can get more information about outages by going to Comcast's home page. Hmmmm. I don't have a smart phone and I'm just out of luck. Ridiculous. I guess I could go to Starbucks or some other public hotspot, but why?

I guess when I saw the first letter in the word Adobe I thought this was Amazon. My first reaction was that you now can't buy the books you might want to read from Amazon and even if you can get them somehow, Amazon will know.

Adobe's tactic may give Amazon an idea. Too bad.

You've got to be kidding.

Someone, if not Microsoft, had better come up with an option to kill this on all Windows computers, phones, tablets, etc. I started to write this and put "kik.." in place of kill. Ya, kick this can down the road.

I wouldn't be surprised if the current Tesla model hasn't outsold the Volt by some large number maybe 10 times volt sales. Which would be considered a fringe vehicle?

I assume these comments are an attempt at black humor.

Immediately after noticing from any place on earth a weapons launch from the moon a laser beam of sufficient energy from the earth might be able to destroy the slow moving moon launched weapon. The speed of light is very high. Of course if the moon based weapon is a laser beam, well, things would be different.

Wonderful. The phone will adjust to fit its contanier, i.e., your body wear. Right now, I'm watching CNBC and they're showing the bending of the new iPhone. One idiot is saying this is by design because it can fit in your variously shaped cargo pants pockets. It's a real advantage for the larger iPhone 6 plus which needs to bend and is easier to bend because of its length.

Good grief. Apple fans in this case are crazy.

NT

If a court order doesn't make you turn over the codes or data on your iPhone you may end up in jail for contempt of court. If that doesn't work, and the cops really, really want the data, then you may end up on an airplane to a country that doesn't care much about your personal safety and have your sensitive body parts hooked up to electric circuits causing serious pain. This of course after the use of rubber hoses or harder objects to damage brittle parts of your body. Whether they get the data or not you may never be seen again with the explanation by the cops that you escaped and they can't find you.

The processes described produces high compression strength. What about tensile strength? Portland cement concrete can be made to have tremendous compression strength but it's strength in tension is poor. That's why bridges made of concrete use steel in tension so they don't collapse under load. The bending of high compression strength glass with low tensile strength will break even with a small force in a drop-collision with a hard surface. It would seem to produce glass that has both high compression and tension strength the glass must be reinforced with a fibers that traverses the full width and length of the glass and is attached at the edges of the glass plate. Of course for clarity, the fibers cannot be so thick to as to create opacity, reflectivity, refraction, diffraction or any other disturbing optical problem. A tough problem to solve.

If the September 18 referendum results in an independent Scotland then the BBC may be in trouble. I've read that the BBC will not be made available there and so will the TV and radio set fees Scots pay for the privilege of watching and listening to the BBC. I assume the total from Scotland is substantial so there's likely to be more job losses at the BBC, probably a reduction in content production and maybe a cut in channels for both radio and TV. Too bad for the lower paid folks, but the high earners will likely make out as usual.

1. If all these sites renew or get proper certificates it'll be a big improvement in cash for the Certificate Authorities.

2. Maybe most of these un-certificated sites will disappear, though it won't mean much for internet congestion if most are not accessed anyway.

3. Maybe swschard's comment that hackers will have a field day is true, although to what benefit to hackers or detriment to site users?

Most of the show's "experiments" are nonsense or the results are obvious. Science isn't done this way. Never was, never will be. I'm waiting for them to do seances and contact the dead to prove something. Or conclude that because they can't contact the dead that need try to invent a new way to contact the dead, so stay tuned.

The second referenced article said Goodland, KS, is in the North East part of Kansas. Goodland, Kansas, is in the North West part of Kansas and is about 20 miles from the Colorado border on Interstate 70. I wonder of these writers can count days as well as they read maps.

The second referenced article says that Goodland, Kansas, is in the NE part of Kansas. This town is in the North West part of Kansas only a few miles - about 20 miles - from the the Colorado Border. Maybe the authors can't count days as well as read maps, so the article may be wrong.

It seems to me that customer service should try to fix things that are broken rather than sell additional services delivered to a customer with a broken set up. Why would I want something new that requires a working system when I can't get what I'm paying for now with a broken system?