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Comment Aren't most large scale utilities... (Score 1) 502

by cl3v3r on Tuesday August 05, 2014 @08:53PM (#47610767) Attached to: Why Morgan Stanley Is Betting That Tesla Will Kill Your Power Company

...heavily regulated/subsidized/driven by municipalities?

LA DWP, for example, essentially has the backstop of ratepayers/taxpayers for whatever financial missteps or misfortunes they might suffer.

Hard to go out of business when you're not driven by market forces.

Comment The more you tighten your grip... (Score 2) 204

by cl3v3r on Tuesday August 05, 2014 @08:34PM (#47610621) Attached to: Edward Snowden Is Not Alone: US Gov't Seeks Another Leaker

...the more star systems will slip through your fingers.

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki...

Comment Didn't they already have this thing... (Score 1) 125

by cl3v3r on Monday August 04, 2014 @09:22PM (#47604073) Attached to: Robotic Suit Gives Shipyard Workers Super Strength

...called a forklift?

Yes, we use tools to move things that we can't - is an exoskeleton that has a 3 hour battery life really more effective than your plain old forklift?

Comment Dammit, I got fooled again. (Score 2) 172

by cl3v3r on Monday August 04, 2014 @09:19PM (#47604061) Attached to: Sony Tosses the Sony Reader On the Scrap Heap

I thought minidisc was the bees knees. Then the Clie. Now the Sony E-reader bites the dust. I need to find a different brand :(

Comment If it bleeds, lt leads. (Score 2) 390

by cl3v3r on Monday August 04, 2014 @09:15PM (#47604049) Attached to: "Secret Serum" Used To Treat Americans With Ebola

Flu deaths aren't nearly as sexy as hemmoraghic fever. Someone passing away while sweating and shivering is nothing compared to having your internals turn to goo. This scared the shit out of me, no matter how small of a scale ebola currently is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T...

Submission + - LinkedIn busted in wage-theft investigation (forasach.ie)

Submitted by fiannaFailMan on Monday August 04, 2014 @08:57PM

fiannaFailMan writes: Following an investigation by the US Department of Labor, LinkedIn has agreed to pay over $3 million in overtime back wages and $2.5 million in liquidated damages to 359 former and current employees working at company branches in four states. The Fair Labor Standards Act requires companies to have record-keeping systems in place to record overtime hours worked and to ensure that employees are paid for those hours, requirements that the company was not meeting.

Submission + - SpaceX Chooses Texas Site For Private Spaceport

Submitted by AcidPenguin9873 on Monday August 04, 2014 @08:06PM

AcidPenguin9873 writes: Today, Texas Gov. Rick Perry and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk announced that SpaceX has chosen a site at Boca Chica Beach, Texas, as the location where SpaceX will build its rocket launch facility. The Boca Chica site, at the southern tip of Texas near Brownsville and South Padre Island, had been competing with sites in Florida, Georgia, and Puerto Rico, but had been named the frontrunner to land the site by Musk when he testified to the Texas state legislature in 2013. The spaceport will be the first privately-owned vertical rocket launch facility in the world, and will target commercial customers. State and local governments have pledged to provide a total of about $20 million in incentives to attract SpaceX to the site.

Submission + - Why shop at Amazon when you can pirate ebooks there? (torrentfreak.com) 1

Submitted by Nate the greatest on Monday August 04, 2014 @07:02PM

Nate the greatest writes: Remember "Pirates of the Amazon"? In 2008 a couple college students from the Netherlands released a browser plugin that made it easy to browse Amazon and then download pirated content via The Pirate Bay. That plugin didn't last long, but imitators keep popping up, including TorrentThis and a new Chrome extension. The Russian pirate site LibGen just released a plugin which enables readers to browse Amazon's book sections and then find pirated ebooks on LibGen's servers. Much to my surprise it can be found in the Chrome web store. How long do you think it will be until Google takes the extension down?

Submission + - Hotel fines $500 for every bad review posted online (pagesix.com)

Submitted by mpicpp on Monday August 04, 2014 @06:17PM

mpicpp writes: A hotel in tony Hudson, NY, has found a novel way to keep negative reviews off Yelp and other sites — fine any grousing guests.
The Union Street Guest House, near Catskills estates built by the Vanderbilts and Rockefellers, charges couples who book weddings at the venue $500 for every bad review posted online by their guests.

“Please know that despite the fact that wedding couples love Hudson and our inn, your friends and families may not,” reads an online policy. “If you have booked the inn for a wedding or other type of event ... and given us a deposit of any kind ... there will be a $500 fine that will be deducted from your deposit for every negative review ... placed on any internet site by anyone in your party.”

In response to a review complaining of rude treatment over a bucket of ice, the proprietors shot back: “I know you guys wanted to hang out and get drunk for 2 days and that is fine. I was really really sorry that you showed up in the summer when it was 105 degrees ... I was so so so sorry that our ice maker and fridge were not working and not accessible.”
Oddly, the hotel didn’t respond to a request for comment.
If you take down the nasty review, you’ll get your money back.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/08/04/...

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