In this case the shit is free, and its the disposal that costs money.

So were you like me, and totally avoided the sequels?

In common vernacular of an EE you refer to voltage as power with the understanding that there is current being supplied. EG This device is powered by a 9-volt battery. So the the use of power in TFS and TFA is not out of line.

The paragraph form TFA is:

Also while current is a needed aspect, the level of voltage is a defining factor in electronic design.

At least link to the actual story, rather than the discussion of the story.

Hyphen Hate? When Amazon went to war against punctuation.

Jeez. That was in the second paragraph of TFA.

And from reports I see in the local news, loaded as well.

Quote is from TFA, not that I'd expect you to have read it.

Except that most people don't seem smart enough to discern the wheat from the chaff, and believe 100% what their preferred news source is saying.

You owe me for the last hour I spent watching all their videos.

The best comment I saw on Ars, was that as a response to these AG tactics by the MPAA and RIAA, Google should remove all references to the MPAA and RIAA from its search results. There doesn't seem any reason that google *has* to index your site.

Back in the day I had a friend who worked for a phone company. As a part of their QC they had a speaker in their office that was connected to various random landlines in order to keep a check on call quality. (In hindsight the choice of lines is a bit suspect)

He told me a story of one call they heard, about the mother of little johnny calling up a phone sex line (but not knowing it was one) and wanting to know what all these charges were for. The phone sex worker tried to sidestep the issue by saying that little johnny was just talking to "friends". The mother replied "but little johnny has lots of friends". At that point the phone sex worker drop all pretense as to what the calls were about, and the last thing the mother said was "wait until little johnny's father gets home"

Damned auto correct. Surprised.

One thing mentioned in Marc Rogers article that I am also surpassed at is how do you miss that much data flying out of your network?

A couple of years ago I was a customer site and had to download and install some updates onto an HMI system. Less than 5 minutes after starting this, my client's IT people had connected to the system in question and were poking around trying see why that device had suddenly started consuming network resources. Their attempts to shut it down were annoying to me, but at least they were on the ball when it came to knowing what was normal and what was not normal on their network.

Well its a good thing that this floating facility is not in the pacific then.

Just watch out for the mutant Kangaroos and the hot girl driving the tank.

You are comparing Apples to Oranges, by saying you are fluent in english, but just get by in other languages. This Skype system has the potential to enable you to communicate fluently in other languages.

And yes I know what it is like to get by in other languages vs fluency having previously gotten by in Russian, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish and suffered various misadventures because of it.