I don't really agree with most of this comment- but I do agree he should have kept them with him.

Wife and I learned the hard way when we had a bunched of stuff stolen out of our luggage flying from ORD to IST- if something has monetary and/or sentimental value, always keep it with you.

Turkish airlines sent us $100 check for the $500+ stuff that was stolen.

Excess energy on the grid is a real issue, especially if there has been a significant wave of people adopting these systems. If there isn't demand for all the electricity being pumped onto the grid, there has to be a place to dump the energy. This is an even bigger issue with wind and other intermittent sources.

If the grid is overwhelmed and there is no demand, should folks expect to get paid for that energy, which could actually cost the utility money to dump somewhere?

Something else to bear in mind- the utility has to operate base load plants no matter what.

Recent literature indicates that these issues can be overcome (one example from Utilities Policy ), but that the process will take time. Utilities are a very conservative industry and are often slow to adapt new systems because they have stringent boundary conditions.

Just playing the devils advocate here- I'm sure profit is a part of it.

I know this is a joke- but at least in those cases you can choose whether to use the companies products or make informed decisions that will protect your privacy. Facebook is optional- making phone calls is not.

Sometimes it seems rare that personal rights and business interests intersect- but that is happening here.

The NSA activities are really harming the credibility of the federal government and that will hurt everybody where it matters- the pocketbook.

They could have bought insurance for a lot more than 44 people with $300 million.

MSRs look great on the drawing board.

The salts are corrosive and solid at room temperature.

On site chemical processing of the salt stream with fuel and FPs is required.

Huge proliferation risk.

Chemical plants are much more accident prone than nuclear reactors.

Interesting and elegant concept. There is a reason that the technology has been pursued only half-heartedly since the demo facilities the 1960s.

My understanding is that this only applies to newly purchased phones, starting today, 1/27.

Any phone purchased on 1/26 or before can still be legally unlocked.

Please correct me if I'm wrong.

I went to the University of New Mexico at 14. Graduated at 19, Summa Cum Laude with a B.S. in engineering. Masters from Purdue at 21. I'm now 23 and a semester away from my Ph.D.

Believe it or not, I am extremely social!

My girlfriend, who is a foreign national, started her University studies at 16.

It is all about individual cases. Great to see more flexibility in the educational system.

"The iPod has sort of lived a long life at number one. Things like that, if you look back to transistor radios and Walkmans, kind of die out after a while, " he said. "It's kind of like everyone has got one or two or three. You get to a point when they are on display everywhere, they get real cheap and they are not selling as much."

He's basically channeling Yogi Berra, who once said of a popular restaurant, "No one goes there any more. It's too crowded."

He points two popular products, the transistor radio and the Walkman, and said they both died. But he neglects to mention why they died--they were replaced by new technology. The transistor radio was replaced by the Walkman. The Walkman was replaced by the portable CD player. The portable CD player was replaced by the MP3 player. The iPod is currently the #1 MP3 player. Until a new technology comes out, there's no real reason for it to become less popular.

Check out NASA's Space Weather site or the Stereo pictures NASA is getting and you will not wonder what is going on on the back side of the sun.