I never understood why they didn't allow the use of these as "portable hard drives". Apple only marks up their iPads $100 per 32 gigs. They could sell 2x the i-devices by simply adding some bluetooth support.

I have a strong suspicion that the many resource depletion posts we see on here employ faulty forecasting techniques.

In this case, the article never mentions anything about how prices adjust to:
-demand
-supply constraints
-externalities

It's through prices that all those things communicate and avoid dire situations.

and just how good and maintainable is that code?

It's, at best, outdated and, at worst, costing the US economic losses.

Messing with sleep is reason enough. If you get people out of step they're more likely to:
-make mistakes
-work less/put less effort into work
-be angry/experience negative emotions

And the list goes on. All of those lead to significant economic losses in aggregate.

This was one thing I didn't quite grasp when I first hit particle physics in college. It really did seem like many things were invented to explain experiments..and thus they explained experiments.

way to kill the "we're all going to die" buzz

Am I wrong for thinking this means you just need a string of totally random numbers from 0-9? (or even a-Z, 0-9)

I mean it exists in a legal grey water, I think. I'm talking about sites like pornhub.

In a world where people throw away pennies or leave them lying on the street 99.99 is 100.

It's even less accurate when you know the price is 99.99.

It's a very old marketing ploy and I expect better from a /. summary...Yes, it's very cheap, but urg

This is /. We don't read the articles. We maybe read a sentence from the summary and the title of the post then say whatever comes to mind first.

I worked for a lightning research lab in college. From what I remember, lightning can strike up to 60 miles (?) from the host cloud if the internal charges of the cloud are "right" for it. My take away was if you can see bolts of lightning then you're (possibly) within range.

I tell people this when they bring up iphone vs android. From a developer point of view, I prefer the iOS/objective-C/Apple way.

This is with the huge caveat of general happiness on my part. Android's making everyone run linux. I've always wanted to see Windows knocked off the top spot (for economic and CS/IT reasons) - and it's finally happening

It just screams like a post someone made without any philosophical background.