Professor Shane (series of tubes) Ross.... Has a nice ring to it:P

The power grid is a relic of the past. It has been long over due for decentralised power. It seems to me that the power industry has kept this from happening for quite some time. Wouldn't it be nice to have the equivalent of a "Mr. Fusion" to power your whole house for decades. Even if you could generate ALL your power, I'm sure some law would be passed that will enable to energy industry to "charge" (aka gouge) you a nominal fee for the privilege.

This way, severe weather or terrorists, domestic or foreign wouldn't be able to disrupt power on a large scale basis as easily as they could now.

And don't forget that local, state and federal government will try to TAX the FUCK out of you for using electricity instead of over priced gas. They'll claim that you are STEALING use of the roads that are paid for with "gas taxes". Mark my words..... They WILL try to fuck you with an lubricated utility pole to regain all the lost revenue from declining gas sales. They may make it illegal for you to recharge your car off solar without giving them their "cut". Force you to use only an "authorised" recharging unit from any power source so they can "bill" you.

Let this be a lesson to the in-numeral clueless computer users (appliance operators) who share the entire contents of the hard drive to "file sharing" software, you got what you deserved.

Only if you pull my finger.....

I have been waiting for something like this for storing family photos, slides, 8 and 16mm family films. If I remember correctly, Kodak sells 300+ year CDR/RW and DVDR/RW media. This would be suitable media for me. However, 1000 year media? I don't even know if our family line let alone the human race will still be around in 1000 years. But, it would still be cool to have the option..

Now my phone will ask why it's 4:20 all the time ;)

"Just reading the summery makes me worried about the slew of "Moon landing never happened!" posts that are on the way"

As for me, I think we did go to the moon. However I feel that these so called images will be doctored to remove evidence of the alleged "ruins" that are littered across its surface..

Isn't this what Luke Skywalker's uncle did for a living? I thought it was a given that you could condense water out of thin air.... My refrigerator does this all the time.

Guess that decision to produce the Hummer over the EV-1 has come back to bite GM in the ASS big time!

The thing I hate most about CFL bulbs is the radio interference they create. I get enough RFI in my area from dimmers, touch lamps, CFL lamps, switching mode battery chargers, plasma TV's, computers, monitors, yard lights and the controllers in LED lamps! Any method to perpetuating good old incandescent lamps is welcome news to me. If you could see the RF pollution that radiates off consumer electronic devices (not to mention the power grid) you would SHIT your pants!

"You buy Microsoft software, and you buy it once and for all, the cost that we tell you is the total cost for ownership."

You can't really expect me to think that people in Africa are that fucking stupid to believe this line of bullshit...

If the government would quit running fucking Windows, hire some IT guys who know their ass from a hole in the ground; maybe we wouldn't have so many problems on the cyber front.

I ran SuSE 6.3 through openSUSE 10.3. I recently tried to upgrade to openSUSE 11.1, what a mess. STILL no 1920x1200 from the boot menu and after the upgrade, knetwork manager was broken. I couldn't connect and fix anything! So I installed Ubuntu 8.10 on my Thinkpad T61p, everything worked, after applying the latest updates and installing the nvidia driver, everything just worked. Almost everything, I don't seem to be able to set up the 56k modem for dialup if I need it, oh well.... Now that I have been running it for a while I like it. There are a few cool tools I miss from KDE, but I can always install them later. Ubuntu is the Linux distro I would recommend to a Windows user who wants to try something different.

GREED... Telcos and ISP's will charge what ever the market will tolerate, period! Don't expect to see anything like this in the US, politicians are bought and sold to the highest bidder. The RIAA, Telcos and ISP's will conjure up the "rampant piracy" boogie man in order to charge all sorts of fictitious fees and sur charges to line their pockets... Oops, I mean combat piracy as a ruse to gouge the shit out of you for your Internet access. Anyone else remember when the Telco's petitioned congress to charge you extra fees to have 45Mb synchronous fiber to your home by 2006 way back in 1995?