They could 'test' their product by using each pack as energy storage for the factory for a couple of days before giving it the green light.

I guess what I was trying to get across was that matter doesn't have to 'show up' as other matter - it could also be converted to energy via matter/anti-matter annihilation. Probably not a likely scenario, just pointing that out.

So you're saying the Lithium is "running silent, running deep"?

Laugh-a while you can, monkey-boy!

... If we were just short a bunch of lithium, all of the other elements would be higher, percentage wise ...

Perhaps there was some mechanism that caused the 'missing' lithium to be created as anti-lithium that would've then been annihilated. No need to invoke additional regular matter.

911 calls over VOIP.

Read up on jumbo frames.

Did these unintentional releases coincide with solar flares or CMEs hitting the station? Did they occur when the ISS was in the SAA?

Nah, that's NCIS's job. Abby and Probie McGee will handle it!

I know you're being snarky with the SAN you refer to, but in all seriousness Synology makes some VERY righteous SANs at decent prices. A have a (now discontinued) 1010+, and it rocks. I run a VMWare farm off it's iSCSI system as well as use it for iTunes and other streaming services.

No financial interest, just a happy customer.

That has been done and abandoned. HPT (head-per-track) drives were popular way back, but were a bear to keep aligned.

Thorium molten salt reactors are quite capable of load-following. In fact, load-following happens as an intrinsic feature of their design and can be optimized for as described in the linked paper which specifically investigates TMSR's as solar fill-in power sources.

You know, to this day I still hear ads on radio and TV mention something like, "Go to our website and enter keyword XYZ" - keyword? REALLY? In 2014????

You're assuming the quote you pasted refers to chip and PIN - it does not. From the same FAQ I quoted:

This site clearly shows that BofA ONLY offers Chip-and-signature cards - their chip-and-PIN section has NO MENTION of BofA.

Another ref: http://thepointsguy.com/2014/0...

Dang it, replied to the wrong comment.

I think we're all forgetting that in five years, HDDs may be more expensive due to SDDs taking over the bulk of storage duties and the inevitable redirection of production away from HDDs. HDDs might become 'boutique' or 'retro' items like record players.