I bet not.

I don't quite understand how any of it works, but I don't think its all that simple to run a good push service over a shitty public IP network.

Not to mention that you would need some sort of good 2 way gateway in order for it to see any sort of wide adoption. Look at all of people with iPhones that come with "unlimited" data, but some tiny limit on text messages. You don't see too many of them using email to SMS gateways to get out of paying for texts do you?

The fact that people still use SMS in an era of ubiquitous mobile IP is undeniably stupid, but its up to the telecoms to change that.

Umm... more to the point, its a water gun. Am I the only one who doesn't want a water gun by my computer?

On the other hand, just today I was contemplating building a servo mounted nerf gun, that would seem to be more appropriate for use by an "IT guy".

Diskkeeper's contention seems to rely on the First Amendment to the Constitution, which is a higher law than the one you cite. It doesn't matter what state or federal law says if that law violates the employer's constitutional rights.

Now whether the employer actually has a constitutional right to force his employees to take Scientology classes is up for debate, but you can't win that debate by citing any number of lower laws.

Well, I can't find any really great numbers, but heres what I have:

According to the article from the Economist linked below 1.3 GW of solar energy pass through every square kilometer of space (presumably this is near Earth).

According to Wikipedia, nuclear power plants on earth had a total capacity of 366 GW in late 2005.

So by some rough calculations, assuming 100% efficient panels we would need ~280 square kilometers of solar panels in space just to gather as much energy as we can currently produce with nuclear power.

Today, even highly experimental solar cells don't reach 50% efficiency. So 2 * 280 = 560.

Now I can't find any good numbers on the efficiency of this "beaming" energy back to earth, but I'm going to throw out that 10% would be generous, its probably way less. But assuming 10%, 10 * 560 = 5600 square kilometers of solar cells in space just to get as much useful power as we get from our dismal nuclear setup today.

And thats not to mention the size of antennas you would need on either end to beam that power, or the safety issues involved (you think windmills or low frequency submarine radios kill a lot of birds, how about a 3.6 TW microwave beam?)

Yeah, and a trip to the west coast after the Lewis and Clark expedition would only have been for historical reasons and maybe bring back a few more notes.

Can anyone recommend a phone with some sort of useful text filtering capabilities? I receive nagios pages via an email->SMS gateway to my iPhone, but its worthless. There is no way to group the pages, each one shows as a separate "conversation" in the SMS interface. There is no way to do any sort of expression matching to select a ringtone (or for any other purpose). Deleting n pages requires 2(n+1) operations on a not especially responsive touch interface (all the shiny animations take forever).

Can third party apps on Android handle SMS? Any other platform? Ideally I would like to use regexes to group texts into "conversations", to determine what tone or vibration should occur, and ideally be able to tidy up the message a bit (the email->sms gateway loads it down with information I already know).