I design near field low frequency RFID readers.

It's kind annoying to WiTricity claim they invented something (resonant charging) that the LF RFID industry has been doing for the last 30 years. ie Very HiQ coils to efficiently transmit to passive RFID tags (which also have HiQ resonant coils).

Magnetic fields can be well directed by permeable materials like ferrites, but as soon as you have to bridge the air-gap, you get 1/r^3 power loss. Can you do phased array effects like steerable antennas like the article claims? Yes, but probably not in a way that is beneficial to bridging the air-gap loss.
Here is a challenge. I give you 4 little round neodymium super magnets, and I'm going to let you rotate them into whatever static position you like, with the goal of producing twice as much magnetic attraction a distance 4x their diameter. Think you can do it?
Besides terrible efficiency you are also limited in power as described in ESTI EN 300-330-1
There is a specific allowance for magnetic near field from 119 to 135kHz of 70dBuA/m.

As for safety. These magnetic fields are fairly benign. We have thousands of these transmit at the legal limit on big 1200mmx600mm air coils, and have to our knowledge have not had an incident (ie with a pacemaker).

Why does the USA have such ludicrous damages amounts?
As a product manufacturer, I know it is damn hard to take any idea into profit in the bank.
The idea (ie patent) makes up 1% of the actual effort needed. Taking that idea and actually making it work properly, marketing it, setting up distribution and service networks take up most of the effort.
The USA court system places way too much monetary value on the actual patent.

Plus it has proper side tabs with the Tree Tab control. Something chrome removed a couple of years ago.

Sometimes bailouts are worth it. Take Rolls Royce for example. They went broke designing a 3 shaft jet engine, were bailed out by the govt, and are now hugely successful. British Leyand on the other hand....

Wow, sounds like a sucky culture in the USA.
I employ >50 (Australia: including >10 engineers) and I don't expect anyone to work more than 40 hours.
Sure, I could be richer if I flogged my salaried staff, but life is more than about work.

So what about domain connected computers that don't use a Microsoft account as typically found in most businesses; can they be upgraded?

I'm with you. IPV6 addresses are just unwieldy. They should have made it 64 bits not 128 bits. ABCD:1234:ACDF:5678 would have been much more manageable.

Actually, Google could add a lot of value here.
They could create a vote buying system, much like their reverse auction ad bid system.

Have each senator put up the issues they are happy swing vote on and then have all the interest groups bid away.
It's probably the next logical step in what is effectively now a bribe based system of legislation.

A pittance. we run 10vms on a single R720 which cost 15k and will last us 5 years and requires a few hours maintain economic a month. Way cheaper than 'the cloud'

Huh? This article is about an application processor (imx6), and you are comparing it to a cortex M microcontroller (PSOC series which is more equivalent to the freescale Kinetis series)
They are different things.
Freescale are offering 10 years guaranteed availability on much of their range, have great documentation, and have moved their build environment over to yocto.

Which is why I don't use chrome. Tree style tabs on ff is still the best implementation of tabs I know of.

That's weird. The link I followed showed the whole article without registration.

You raise a great point.
(btw the min wage is just over $17AUD/hr, so I was wrong at $20)

I found this WSJ article that adjusts for cost of living. Interesting to see where the USA is.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/au...

Australia has a minimum wage of around $17USD/hour (around $20AUD) which increases 20% if you are a casual. Our poor people do well.

You know how everyone whines about big corporates making too much money; well this is the best way to redistribute that wealth.
Paying your poor people well, helps lift them out of poverty.

The problem is cars that come over rises or banked coners.