I fully agree, but given the average age of judges, he probably doesn't know what the word "upload" means. :-)

.... do use a primary key of Lastname + birthdate, and then verify secondly with address or first name ....

Which makes me remember what happened to me ten years ago. "Just of the Boat" :-) in Canada I signed up for my companies healthcare. Got a first dental claim cheque but it had on it the wrong company name. Called the insurance guys and, long story short, there was another guy in Canada with the same last name (which is a weird Dutch one "Van Schatter", not your "Smith" or "Johnson") but also the same birthdate. Which is pretty rare, but he also had the same first name (again, not "Joe" or "Brian"), now that becomes creepy. OK, the address was different.......

You're so right, but it is even worse. There is lots of unnecessarily added stuff (like glucose) in our food, but it happens even more in cheap food (read: processed food) than fresh food (read: expensive food). And therefore the part of the population that could really need a "health boost" simply can't afford it. Hey, a single cucumber in my supermarket is more expensive than a burger in the fast food chain around the corner. Which should be completely the opposite. How tough is it to grow a cucumber and put it on a truck, while even a simple burger involves tens of ingredients and processing steps.

The worst is that this is all a matter of politics. Because Ohio has been a swing state for years and years, every president in the last decades has been pushing money to subsidize the production of corn. Sometimes with the argument that Americans need methanol (which recently caused a severe "tortilla problem" in Mexico), but most of it ends up unnecessarily in our food. As an example, glucose gets added to meat products like burgers. Mind you, even "0% fat yoghurt", made for the health fanatics among us, still has sugar products added. Check it yourself, read those damn "ingredients" small print on the labels. And BTW, I prefer the full-fat stuff, but still I want to decide myself if I like to add sugar or not.

The food industry is really, really sick. Lack of diversity, full of political lobbyism. 100% about money.

When it comes to how to cure this problem, first of all I agree with a former poster who said simply "let capitalism do it, and stop subsidies". That would absolutely be a good first step. Still I think that with something as important as food (which is the underlying foundation for health care) I wouldn't like to keep "the market" without control. Better have some stricter rules. Like banning hormones in beef, which currently results in you eating testosterone in your BigMagic. They are also in your daughter's burger, who - because of that - is now having her first period two years younger than the generation before her.

The missing piece in the article:

by 2020, nobody shall be seriously injured or killed by a new Volvo

From the post it is not completely clear, but I guess this sporked OpenSolaris will still include the possibility of zones. Now I know Linux has similar features, but Containers/Zones have been a hit in the Solaris world from day one. And are widely used, including production environments where it does the segmentation / isolation of Oracle databases.

(I'm former Sun guy, been there, done that.)

In future, it won't be enough to let a consumer make the decision on when to consume and encourage him with discounts in low peak hours. The model should be that for those loads where "time doesn't matter" we (the consumer) can indicate our constraints and then the electricity company will work within those boundaries. Of course, the more lenient the consumer is, the better rate he gets.

For this example, if I park my car at the office I don't care if the battery gets reloaded at 11 am of after lunch. As long as it's done before I drive home at 5 PM. Same for the return trip, the car could be rechared at 11PM or at 3AM, I don't care.

The crucial thing here is that fore heavier, but also time independent loads like this, your utility company gets control over when you are using electricity. We're still quite a bit away from that, but with smart grids, that's the way we're going.

And it will all benefit green power that produces electricity at "unexpected moments".

True unlimited is the way to go.

Unlimited simply means that the 90% of users with low usage are subsidizing the 10% with high usage.

When I go to McDonalds for just a burger, I don't want to pay for your Big Mac with super-sized fries.

A fair plan with metered use makes most sense. Problem is of course that too many Telcos and ISP's have scrapped the word fair from their spelling checker.

This is a very good step!! Phonebooks are useless already because they don't contain cellphone numbers. Not that I would suggest that those should be included.

And grandma anyway can't find her reading glasses.... :-)

I ditched my "generator powered" light on my bicycle

Those are not a temporary fad that doesn't really work. In Holland (where there are more bicycles than people) those dynamo's are the standard way (at least were before LED lights) of powering bicycle lights.

It was the next progression after the carbid lantern, so I guess that started around WWII, maybe even earlier. At least I'm from 1957 and I can't remember anything else.

| I suppose the easiest option for long-term support of such devices would
| be to emulate the floppy drive itself, and make a memory card reader that
| plugged into a floppy bus.

This exists already:

http://news.directindustry.com/press/sigmatek/compact-flash-floppy-drive-cff-011-retrofitting-for-35-floppy-drives-13981-35685.html

Don't know anything about this product, just googled for "floppy flash", but it seems someone thought already about this.

>
> But it's not 'nazi-wrong'.
>

You mean 'Wall-Street' wrong !! That's IMHO a better analogy.

This Goldman Sachs guy (OK, he was only partnering with GS, but still) that made $ 3 billion while screwing various pension funds. Compare that to 'stealing' some bandwidth from a telco company. Yes, both wrong, but......

she must have bought it with 40% off, told you it was 20%, and kept the difference :-)

Yes, but with seven windows. And I didn't see curtains .....