There is one problem I don't think you see. The way a cell phone works is that it communicates with a cell tower, that cell tower uses phone lines at some point to route your call. If everything goes to a VOIP based phone system and the power goes out, there is a pretty good chance you will lose your cell phone as well. Currently this doesn't happen because the phone lines carry their own power, so the ones hooked into your cell tower are still up. With a VOIP network, when the power goes out, so does your cell phone.

If you just open it, and then refresh the page it will show the image.

I would disagree. People will adapt to any unit system they know. Really the proof of this is the system we use in america. It is quite possibly the worst collection of units I could think of, with there being NO consistency in conversions. While you say that the gram is too light, I doubt that people that use it think so. Mainly because they know the system. I know I would much rather use a system where the units make sense.

So how bad are Nazis that take part in insider trading?

In my area the absolute cheapest broadband I can get is $35/mo + $5/mo modem fee. The gotcha there is that the company will only allow their modems on the network, and they don't sell them. Also if you go over a gig of downloading in a day they cut your bandwidth to 4Mb, then if you download over another 500MB(I think that is the cap) they cut you to 768K. Check it out http://www.ctrol.com/

Will playgirl do a centerfold for crusty the clown?

That made me think of this: http://xkcd.com/570/

Not that I disagree with your sentiment here, but why is it always scientists just assuming they are right without doing actual studies?

I mean, yes scientifically what we know says this *shouldn't* have any effect on the crop. But how many articles do you see in a month in the format "scientists discover/observe phenomenon X that was previously thought impossible"

You would think that by now we would stop saying "that's impossible" and start saying "that's improbable"

Actually both you, and your parent post are correct. They are pointing out why the compromised grid is so concerning(aside from the obvious). Couple that malware with this knowledge and you can very effectively take out power for the west coast by targeting a very small subset of stations.
What they are saying is that the outage like we had several years back can be triggered fairly easy, and even scarier, since we are compromised already, someone sitting at a computer could probably just turn off power for all the west coast.

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8 miles...really? I drive farther than that on my *daily* commute. God forbid you have to spend the 12 minutes in the car it will take you to get where you are going. Unless you hosted the servers in your basement prior to this move I doubt that it's going to be that much more time on your part to get to the servers.

There is a big problem with their logic. If the internet has taught us anything it's that the harder you try to regulate, or get rid of something, the more likely it is to stick around. Just look up the Streisand Effect http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect
For every one hacker they take down, 2 will pop up in their place. Why? Because you are giving them exactly what they want. Hackers operate for 2 main reasons 1.) Because it is a challenge, and 2.) For the prestige earned when they pull off a great hack. By focusing on them this way you are simply just making the game more exciting for them.

Not that we haven't made some amazing advances, as much as it is more difficult to impress us. Take for example early America, there were no cars, no one was flying. Education was non existent and people basically thought that anything beyond a plow and carriage was impossible. Now fast forward to today. Flying is commonplace, computers are everywhere, we have been into space. Technology has truly taught us that nothing is impossible. So instead of saying things like "wow soon we will be able to use a contact to monitor a persons health" or "whoa we are experimenting with using nanites" we just simply say why didn't this happen sooner? Our problem isn't that this stuff isn't amazing, it's that we now KNOW that the sky is the limit. I mean if someone created a teleporter tomorrow we would think that is cool, but not earth shattering.

Whenever I am buying something online, I always research it. I read forums, sites with reviews, and blogs. Typically you will get everything from "this sucks, don't ever buy it, touch it, or think about it again" to "this thing is the best ever, it gave me true happiness!" The truth will lie somewhere between. Do your research, find that gem of truth that is common across all sources. But then again it is only $5.99

The thing that annoys me is people who seem to think that they have a right to keep a photo from appearing online just because they appear in it. It's not like the person went into your house, pulled out your photo album and uploaded those photos. If you don't want to appear in a photo a person may or may not put online, don't go out in public. It's as simple as that