Hoax News isn't all that bad to me. What really grinds my gears are the Troll News sites. Start with The Onion, then make nothing but "news" posts designed to incite the demographic & political leaning of your choice. Most of them try very hard to hide that they are parody sites.

It's just evil. They are getting clicks & advertising hits by trolling people, most of whom never catch on. I don't get why making a mockery of Grandma & getting her worked up over fake posts about the pope would be a good idea...

I happen to work in the utility industry. Power for lighting both commercial and residential is low single-digit percentage. (Incidentally this is also why daylight saving time is a colossal mistake.)

The incandescent lightbulb ban is just a show. It's political theater. There are dozens of ways to save more power with more bang for the buck.

I have a stash of incandescent I bought last year. I was unhappy with the CFL options, for several reasons. I bought the incandescent bulbs so that I would have the option to keep using them until satisfactory options were available. Yes, LED bulbs are getting better and solve some of the CFL's shortcomings- I'm testing one now.

I just don't like some far away bureaucrat telling me what's best for me. I'll switch when I'm good and ready. Until them, I know what I like- and I've made sure that's an option for me.

Skylab 4 was the mission where te astraunuts revolted.

http://libcom.org/history/1973-skylab-4-mutiny

Sorry to reply to self, but found this on the above article:

Taking into account evaporation losses from the exposed water surface and conversion losses, approximately 70% to 85% of the electrical energy used to pump the water into the elevated reservoir can be regained.The technique is currently the most cost-effective means of storing large amounts of electrical energy on an operating basis...

Tell me again the efficiency of batteries?

This concept has already been developed & deployed at an industrial scale, for decades - only using potential energy storage (pumping water up-hill).

The fact that power is cheap at night, and expensive in the day means Pumped Storage can make (or save) a utility a whole lot of money.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumped-storage_hydroelectricity

Is it just me, or does anyone else need a screen shot of the path in a Kerbal Space simulation?
They I hear the term "slingshot" (from TFS), I imagine a multi-pass loop around earth making a gravitational slingshot out part Earth's sphere of influence.

Don't want augmented reality. Want reality with google in the corner always available.

The privacy concerns are going to kill this technology in its infancy, and we'll have to wait a decade to try wearable tech again.

There's an easy fix to all of this- make a version of Google glass without a camera. Make a read-only device.
I want the Internet instantly accessible. That's far less intimidating that saying I want to upload everything you say and do around me.

This.
There's already all kinds of incentives for companies to outsource the lowest end of the employment scale. A law like this would make it standard practice.
CEO's and executives are going to get their high-end pay. If they don't, some other company that's willing to pay more will get the good talent. Plain old competition. (You can dislike it all you want- that's what's going to happen.) The only way to keep the high-end pay is to get rid of the lowest level of the org chart. It's easy, and it's been done. A lot.

If you thought outsourcing make it hard to get a first job out of college, just wait until this kicks in. You'll have to work overseas just to get enough experience to qualify for the new "entry level" job here.

Dumb idea. Really, really dumb.

If safety is a good thing, and it's a good thing for consumers to prefer safer cars, why not add a decimal point or two?
If two cars are equally qualified in the minds a specific customer - and one car is 0.1 stars higher, why let that car get more sales?

Dude, let the free market drive safety higher! Just like EPA window stickers. Give the customer information. If Tesla really did rank 5.4, then let the other manufactures get some public shaming. Maybe they can respond to purchasing competition & catch up and make their cars safer.

Oh great. Another system to enforce segregation between organic and inorganic.
When will this senseless discrimination end?

Regulation & bans? Sure, that's the ticket! Adding more government into the mix always makes things better!

Look what it's done for the nuclear power industry!

There are many of us who believe that Yellow Fever, Malaria, and many other illnesses would be be extinct if DDT wasn't totally banned.

This already exists. On the way out of work, call a restaurant on the way home. Say "I want to place an order for carry out".
Many places walk it out to your car.
Expensive, but adds almost no time to the commute, and no cooking.

Sounds like a good idea, but you're competing against a plain old "best before x/x/x" text.
I fear that these smart labels could be too sensitive, and give a false report I expired food. Thus telling me I need to throw away perfectly good food and buy more.

There's very little incentive to NOT make them too sensitive.