Nonsense. Any manufacturer is (or should be) liable for making an inherently unsafe or poor product, and should be aware of--and engineer against--reasonable & likely misuse cases. Moreover, if solutions to implement increased product safety are reasonable and will result in a significant end-user benefit, companies should be implementing them. This should apply to guns as it does to everything else.

For example: Lawnmower decks were lowered decades ago to reduce the likelihood of having your foot be errantly beneath, and guards & other implements were added to lawn mowers to greatly reduce the likelihood of dangerous projectiles. Handle grips were added to stop the motor and/or blade when released. We're not now going to take those off and say "buyer beware." If you should still disagree, claiming the owner is responsible for all "proper use," let's point out the "You're holding it wrong" poor reception debacle attributed to Steve Jobs and the iPhone.

In short, the manufacturer does not "simply make the product." Their responsibility extends well beyond that.

RTFA. Or at least hover over the link to it. "Tantrum" isn't editorializing by Slashdot, but exists within the article itself. At best, it's repeating editorializing without taking a neutral tone.

After reading the Stanford study a few weeks ago, I actually asked a medium-scale organic farmer directly about this (he's apparently well-known in the Minnesota organic farming community, and has been doing it for like 20 years). His comment: organic pesticides do exist, but they're not practical for anything other than your home garden.

Modded "informative"? As a homebrewer and craft beer connoisseur, this is totally false. Let's not judge a book by its cover, eh? Canned beer--and really most other canned food--used to be taste awfully worse than its non-canned counterparts, at least before the advent of plastic lined cans... Now-a-days, you can buy some really fantastic craft beer in cans. Moreover, it has fewer detrimental effects due to light spoilage (aluminum being opaque and all), and you can also take it to places you can't take bottles.

Difference is, from an environmental permitting perspective, the data center isn't responsible for the power plant, but IS responsible for their own generators. And permitting even small units are becoming somewhat of a hassle in the states. When they do run, they can really belch out nitrogen oxides in surprising quantities; despite the "emergency" nature, some environmental regulatory agencies will look at these engines as "operating all the time" units, and will regulate them accordingly strictly.

Sometimes, they'll even make you build on to the short, stub stack on the top of most of these generators, increasing the height to exceed any nearby building height. This added stack is surprisingly costly, and may mean you're relocating the generator onsite (i.e., to anchor it to a building wall, as opposed to trying for a freestanding, 50' stack 8" in diameter).

Given these hassles, I can see these farms moving away from emergency engines.

There's a very real danger of an actual free market. I've been looking to buy an ebook--instead of a hardcover--for the next book in a series I'm reading. Eff HarperCollins. The ebook is listed at $15 on Amazon, right next to Amazon's listing of the _hardcover_ book for $16. How does real-world printing machines, paper, and transportation costs add up to $1? They don't, of course. Someone is artificially controlling ebook prices.

The more slapdowns like this, the better. The only danger is to obsolete business models.

Mod parent insightful. The first thing you'll see for any next-gen system is the same IP being rehashed for another go-around. Metroid, Mario, & Zelda, and that's just Nintendo's IP. It's like the while DVD vs Bluray debacle: same story but new shininess, so please buy it all over again.

...lest we forget aftermarket sales. It's a physical disc that can be sold & resold. These people are not pirates, but their purchases are not going directly to the game production company as attributable to that particular game, either.

Hasn't hit the national airwaves yet? I heard about it this morning on NPR, and the report stated that the locals have claimed it a "state of emergency", presumably for receiving/requesting emergency funds to combat it.

http://minnesota.publicradio.org/features/npr.php?id=158911307

I don't see how that's going to work at all. Wouldn't most modern browsers block popups, especially those not at all affiliated with the target site? Wouldn't most third-party DNS providers warn you of a redirection as some kind of hostile activity? Wouldn't a NoScript (or similar) browser also defeat some/all of these "notification" methods?

Take a look at the presentation on the parent site: https://ip.sandia.gov/techpdfs/Sandia%20Cooler%20presentation.pdf

There's an underside view of the mechanism, itself. As others have said, it's a spinning heatsink on top of a baseplate, and the presentation includes a visual the thermal interface between plate & die. I imagine arctic silver isn't going anywhere. The airgap is between the spinning heatsink and the baseplate (also well-illustrated in the presentation).

Piggybacking on this comment, the two senators obviously didn't read the recent WSJ (or was it NYT) article specifically on the benefits of videogames. They had found that gamers--ESPECIALLY gamers who play violent video games--are significantly (like 25%) faster to arrive at the correct decision to a given problem compared with their non-gamer collueagues. Basically, the whole article was a giant middle finger to everyone who's ever said gaming is good for nothing.

Your car probably also costs $250-400/mo in payments, and additional maintenance and repair costs. It's easily an additional $10/day in that, alone--which brings your daily commute to $16---making your cost-benefit analysis a bit more difficult, especially considering you do get added benefit for off-work use of a personal vehicle.

Birth control.

See, this is what I don't understand---maybe someone can explain it--because it seems like a perfectly cogent thing to say even for a muslim. Mohammed was NOT a god, but just a prophet. He WAS just a man. So why then is he treated as divinely as god?