The company should create an account and Noah should just tweet to his followers to follow that new account if they so wish. Problem over. All the company wants is the damn followers, so why not just let them choose on their own.

If machines are used to the point that productivity becomes so high that many items become extremely inexpensive, then fewer people will need full time jobs in the first place, more people will work less and enjoy the benefits of a modern robotic world. The fact is before machines life was hard. Yes, no machines to take your place, but you worked virtually all day scraping out a meager existence which offered inadequate nutrition and limited options for shelter.

Remember that machines have made many things extremely cheap. Imagine a house being built with future concrete printing machines. A quality, strong home could cost a fraction of what a typical house is today. You could pay it off in 5 years, free and clear.

Just another perspective that shows there can be a bright side to automation. Maybe the ideal use of people is engineering and maintaining of machines and personal interaction with other people. Maybe working 70hrs a week and getting carpal tunnel is not an optimized use of a human being.

The space station would have a great advantage over a 0G plane. You get the time to be creative. However, there will be a few issues with Newton's Laws.

I do not mind them not actually having a working implementation. I worry that vague descriptions without a description of a specific implementations makes for patent trolls. I know that they always try for the most broad range possible, but some patents seem to seem more like generalizations than anything specific.

I suppose I could patent this:

Bovine LCD panels.

Claim 1: Use modified LCD panels to create displays to allow the manipulation of cattle in agricultural and slaughterhouse environments.

I could be quite vague on exactly what wavelengths or polarization schemes I had in mind in my patent, so even when someone comes up with an idea using different techniques from what I have created, their ideas would still fall under my patent.

Too many patents also seem to be nothing more than adding networking to it or using it in a different industry. We need to have it down to a specific quality or technique involved, so we can be certain what the inventor intended and to allow others ample room to innovate without being under continuous assault from patent trolls.

Capitalism is not the problem. It is corporatism where they state is too powerful to begin with and the corporations direct it to benefit them. Huge bloated companies would perish with true free markets. The state keeps the markets from getting too free.

When the state is not working for the corporations, it is working for itself consuming so much of the economy it drags everything down.

Government is the problem and freedom is the solution!

Great post! Great data!

The one thing that could really stink about these lights will be the replacement cost post warranty. I doubt they will be 10-20 bucks at Autozone. Early on they may be several hundred dollars each when compared to other high end laser products.

Using a kill-a-watt or other real measurements, most PCs do not consume 300 watts unless stuffed with drives and doing Setiathome, bitcoin mining or folding@home.

I recently setup an old P3 as a skype gateway and it only uses 45 watts with a standard power supply. It runs an ATI RAGE 3D IIC. That video card is well burned in, has no fan and runs just fine. I actually have another mainboard for that system, so I can repair as needed in the future. It does the job and lets me turn off all the more modern power guzzlers when not needed.

I used to keep my workstation running all day and night to support that phone gateway. It used 115 watts. My newest PC is a quad Athlon II which consumes between 100-150 watts depending on what it is doing. So the newer hardware may not be more efficient, especially for small specific jobs. Plus, I do not have to use an otherwise powerful system to do much of nothing. I have added another task to that little skype gateway, too. It is my download machine. I download my big stuff onto its drive, so again I may turn off my other machines. That P3 is saving me money by doing all the small stuff that needs a machine to be on all the time.

I wish I could have a browser only system without Windows or Linux. I have always hated needing a whole bunch of OS just to run a browser.

However, the issue will be how far do they go. Networking and being able to save to a flash drive should not be too difficult, video handling will be a must and then it gets tricky. Printers? Games? External applications?

The only benefit I can see is if this new OS is light, very light. Potentially they could provide a more secure platform if they keep the bloat out. The less lines of code the better.

Unions and government are the reasons, plain and simple. Together they have a list of rules that would drive anyone insane. Now, put it into code!

You almost got it right listing the green house gases. Water, CH4 and then CO2. CO2 is a poor greenhouse gas. The long term record that blows the lid off the "recent" AGW are the ice cores and that show temperature leads the CO2. Add into the mix that the sun is proving to be anything but static and that makes most of the models pure BS.

We need far more information in order to call the science complete, or even accurate. I would feel better about the science, if the researchers were not on the governmental teat as they lay the groundwork for the justifying the government run our lives down to our damn thermostats.

One simple solution for complex passwords would be a barcode reader. It may not be perfect in all situations, but I have used them and they act like keyboards, so it is easy to setup. The hard part is finding cheap ones, but I picked up 3 CueCats from BG micro in the past and they provide me with what I need for home use.

However, if they have your hash, then they are already inside, so you lose. If physical access to a system is an issue, you will need to encrypt the entire disk and keep you system off when you are not around.

I found that good passwords are not that hard to remember, if you do not change them. Extreme complexity seems quite the bitch, but when you type them everyday, your fingers tend to remember. I have several such passwords and I almost have to type them to actually remember them character by character.

Sentimentality may be an issue, but some stuff can be nice to have for buying it again is not an option.

I still like having some old pentium stuff for the socketed flash to be used for programming. Also, for low level projects where having the ISA slots can be useful for prototyping proof of concept. However, having more than a couple is overkill.

I tend to keep one all media drives I get my hands on. You never know when some client will bring in a 5 1/4 floppy or a 4mm dat tape in. I used an old hard disk's interface board just this week to save files off a dead drive some IT hack shorted out while upgrading. His great advice was telling them tough luck!

When I give lost data back to a client it makes me love my job. When you fix hardware you can feel useful, but virtually any hardware can be replaced for a fee. When you return the irreplaceable, you really feel like you matter, even, if only for that client on that day.

Get an antenna, if you have a good selection of stations. Try TVFOOL.com for more info.

I suggest the 8 bay bow-tie from Winegard. It has the advantage of not taking up too much space and it is made in the US. You have to assemble it, which can be a con for some. It was not difficult to put together. The pro is if you are mounting in your attic you can assemble it after you get in the space. The box was about 4ft X 8in X 8 in.

The gain is on par with other bow-ties, though some say the gain is a bit less. However, I am in the Chicago area over 60 miles away and receive all the Chicago stations, including the VHF (which they say should not work, but WBBM (ch 12) comes in perfect).

From my antenna I get NBC, ABC, CBS, CW, WGN, My50, ION, Qubo (kids), PBS ( both 11 and 20), independent 26, MeTV, MeTooTv, Antenna TV, Fox and other sub-carrier offerings on those channels.

Also, use the RG-6 Quad Shielded cable, it prevents excessive signal loss. Having a good antenna without a good cable is just plain nuts. I received all those stations without much trouble and no pre-amp. I just use a distribution amp in the house. I am feeding 2 tvs easily.

I did add hulu and netflix to round out my options. It works great. The kids find some of the Disney and Nickelodeon on netflix, so the bitching is easing a bit. All for less than standard cable. I may eventually drop hulu, but I will wait and see what they do. I may be surprised. Netflix is just an extreme value! BTW, hulu is off my mythtv (DVR) and netflix off the Wii.

The DSL line sucks for my streaming, but it works (768k business class). I may need to move up to something better, but the the ISPs will rape me unless I buy video and voice. The biggest issue I think is not having a good choice for ISPs that offer a fast pipe with no cap at a reasonable price.

Well, there is a debate that the 16th Amendment was not ratified correctly. Also, the 16th mentions income, which was meant to mean investment income, such as corporate profit and dividends.

It did not mean the fruits of your labor. You do not profit when you work for an employer. You make an even trade of your time for some money. You would not consider bartering as profit, it is an even trade. In fact, one ruling said that the 16th did not create any new form of taxation.

That is why the income tax is "voluntary". If you fill out the form, then you owe. It is a scam, but the scammers have guns and prisons to lock you up in!

I agree. The web could be considered an electronic catalog and ordering system, but it is still mail order.

If you truly want to be fair, then it must go both ways. Every brick and mortar store should be forced to card every customer to determine where they live. They may be tourists that should have to pay sales tax for another jurisdiction. The B&Ms would cry like babies, if they had to do that. That is funny for they are asking web stores to do that for 7500 jurisdictions.