Disney (they own ESPN) has always negotiated the contract such that if you want to purchase ESPN you must purchase ALL of ESPN's channels. Oh, and if you offer it on your base tier package then you must offer all of it on the base tier package.

Don't like it? Fine no Disney/ABC/ESPN channels for you! And no Marvel or Star Wars titles. And no Muppets while we're at it. You want to tell your kid he can't watch Disney because YOU wouldn't pay for ESPN Classic?

BlackBerry has one of the best mobile browsers going. Have you tried https://m.uber.com/

As Tomhath stated your suggestion is still not cost effective. If it were they would be using it extensively in West Texas wind farms. As it is now they routinely shunt generated electricity straight to ground because the grid cannot handle the capacity being generated. For costs to come down production and operating costs need to become more efficient. Perhaps Tesla's program will be able to do that.

You can't train an employee to care about someone else's data. If you make them take the course they will. They might even retain some of the message but when it comes time to put it into action it better not be more complex than pressing a button cause something else more important is calling their names.

I wasn't even aware the creator of QT had been incarcerated.

Cool box but really bad design. This guy was able to fix all of the heat problems for ~$15

I'm averaging less than $50 month for two lines at Ting.

My guess is the Microsoft tax is not in play here. Intel is most likely installing Windows 8.1 with Bing which is free for low end hardware. Unless you consider the need for beefier hardware than Linux part of the tax that is.

Says the coward posting AC.

Godwin is disappointed in you.

I think D-Link has excellent security. The minute you try to use it the hardware dies. I have some of the old metal box Netgear desktop switches that will outlive me. Almost all of my D-Link products have died prematurely.

Aw! Now I remember.

In an unregulated market the power line company charges a flat government regulated fee to carry the power and maintain the lines. If the line company needs to adjust the fee they must ask for a rate adjustment. The line company at no time owns any electricity on the lines. The electric providers purchase electricity from generation utilities and contract with the line company to deliver the power to the consumer. If power goes out you call the line company for service but for billing issues you call the electric provider.

In a regulated market the power company is generator, line carrier, and electric provider. They can purchase extra power if they need it from third parties but it is tightly regulated.

Historically incentives for home electric generation have guaranteed a certain price minimum for anything sent to the grid. This works in a regulated market because the price is regulated but it doesn't sit well in an unregulated market because the price may be significantly more than the current market rate. Of course if you made it fairer many homeowners would cry foul even though it wouldn't be. But at some point that decision must be made and no politician wants to be the one to take something away from his constituents.

The $50 version would have multiple languages.

It's not surprising they didn't know about the side effect given that they aren't even sure how it works to alleviate pain.