Their owner's infrastructure?

When you're on a cable modem with caps, this can be a real problem. I've dozed off watching a YouTube video after a long day at work. Woke up 5 hours later to find it streaming out videos as fast as it can. The next you know, you've busted your cap.

From what I saw on the video, it was only about 1 1/2 seconds between when the pedestrian 1st became visible and the car hit her. Admittedly I was doing the old " 1 one thousand, 2 one thousand" thing, but I don't think I'm that far off. I recall seeing reports years ago that human reaction time to any sudden situation is about 2 seconds. I do think that if the safety driver had been looking more at the road and less down at whatever was in her lap, she would have shown that look of shock and surprise a little sooner. I don't believe that would have saved the pedestrian.

Being off frequency causes more serious problems than just clocks being a little off. It is hard on electric motors and other electrical devices and causes electric interties not to work. +-0.5 Hz can cause load shedding and shut down the grid.

They're only hurting themselves. People have been taking cameras and recording devices to events since it was possible to do so. Few, if any, get anything marketable. It's part of the social experience. To be able to say, "I was there, see..!!". The NFL has learned this lesson and spends a lot of money trying to make sure people have connectivity at the stadiums so they can share where they are and what they're doing. It's part of their advertising budget, to make the experience go viral and to encourage others to want to do this as well.

A few years ago (the early 2000s), IT admins were arbitrarily denying all incoming email from Yahoo and Hotmail accounts because they saw most of their problems with spam & malware as coming in this way. Those same IT admins tended to have a low opinion of anyone using those services for their email. If insurers can demonstrate a track record of more issues from people that use those services (or any other services), they have a right to adjust rates accordingly.

I avoid printing like it's the plague. I just don't want to file and store the damn paper. 98% of the time a PDF works just fine for me. I just print things out for people who insist it's still the 20th century. I have a decent HP laser I bought new about 5 years ago that I use most of the time when I'm forced to print something. I can also use my office's Minolta laser when needed.

When I was a kid, soda normally came in 6 1/2 oz bottles. The only place I even see 12 oz any more is in a few vending machine. I normally see them starting at 32 oz in the convenience stores.

Nothing like a little competion to inspire progress.

Exactly how does one tell the difference? It appears ChromeOS (or Chromium) is Linux (Gentoo) with a Google-built desktop and a custom set of tools. All the distros come with their own sets of tools. Is it required to have an approved UI to be considered Linux? Is there some sort of "official" approval committee?

When the Chevy Volt came out, by the time you took into account the pollution footprint of the manufacturing of the batteries and the life expectancy of the vehicle, etc. The Volt had a larger pollution footprint than the Hummer. The lithium is mined in one county, shipped to another for refining, shipped to another country to make the batteries, and yet another to be installed in the vehicles.

I wonder if this would be more useful as a seismograph?

If you like to see one of them get actually going, support one of them. There was ony one I seriously looked at so far. They sold out before they got going and I lost interest.

Now all you have to do is come up with enough evidence to get charges brought and a conviction. Plus. You need to figure out who has juristiction. If they were just telling stories or giving out information, that would be free speech. These guys are asking for money under false pretenses, this makes it fraud.

it shouldn't make any difference who looks at it. Linux and Unix are generally considered more secure than Windows but all the source code is available for anyone to look at.