No doubt. I recall when they were begging for any surplus equipment folks could donate to keep them running. I tossed them a few bucks just to help get them going. The freetards can complain, but I still think they're awesome. Just registered two domains with them.

That'll definitely kill it. Verizon will force folks to subscribe to their cable service and offer it as an add-on or something horrible like that. I can't see how Verizon won't resist squeezing all the blood out of Netflix like everything else they do.

I'm going to go hug a Redbox today.

My family has been battling MRSA for quite a while now. That shit is a bitch. Now another super bug on the loose?

I tell you what folks. Think the Black Plague. It's only a matter of time. Science turns out some wonderful things, but you can't fix stupid people. Seriously, do we believe we can beat Mother Nature? Look at gen mod crops, the pests are already adapting. We might winning for now, but we're going to loose big some day.

Have a nice day!

It's hard to argue with free. And frankly in the many years I've worked with Red Hat, I've only needed support once or twice and in those cases the support was useless. Google'ing for answers is faster and more effective.

We have regulations because of abusive and unethical behavior. If industries have no other motive than to profit then we see all sorts of trash and burn tactics that may get some folks a bonus, but at some point someone is going to pay. Yes regulations hurt businesses. My point is that businesses shouldn't behave in a manner that will result in the need for regulations. We're lucky that the US is still willing to try to keep things in balance.

To quote Publius Cornelius Tacitus “The more corrupt the state, the more laws.” Nuff said.

Regarding offshoring, I don't really have a problem with it as long as it's intent is to supplement a businesses workforce. I do have a problem with replacing workforce with foreign nationals. At some point if everything is outsourced, we'll see our middle class collapse, and thus businesses won't have customer base anymore.

I agree. There are a lot of myths regarding storage sanitization. I do think it is too simplistic to say one pass of zeros will do the trick every time, but i'd give it a high probability of doing the job.

More interesting reading for the inclined: http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/

A log splitter works 100% of the time. No doubt. No myths.

I thought the point of having an electric car was to avoid using gasoline? If I have a drained battery at the end of the day and you assume that I have a combustion engine as a standby, I'd have to use petroleum to get home. FAIL. If the car is electric only and relies on the grid to charge, I'd end up walking home. FAIL.

Now if we were talking about some sort of super capacitor that can drain and then be quickly replenished this may have a useful effect to normalize daytime power usage, but only for short durations. An extended drain would be unacceptable. I don't think the monetary reimbursement would entice folks at all because vehicular range is king.

Overall I think this wouldn't work well.

I had a 2 Bluray plan and dumped it for streaming only. My kids like the kiddie show and I don't like them watching commercials so I don't care much about selection. I now rent from either Redbox or Vudu. Netflix seemed to be doing pretty well, but someone really fsck'd up in my opinion.

I believe this and I'll tell you why. My wife and I are both prone to geekish behavior. I've resorted to calling myself a nerd, because I have a HAM license, I do electrical engineering for ha ha's, and I'm a Unix Admin by trade. Both sides of our our families have engineers, and otherwise brilliant and nerdy types of folks.

One of my daughters has been diagnosed on the Autisim Spectrum as PDD-NOS. Very smart kid, but she's obviously autistic. I see some traits in my other daughters too, but they are considered "normal" (whatever that is right?). All of our four girls have been raise in the same manner. We're very health conscience and do all the oraganic/natural things possible. Nature vs. Nurture if you ask me??? I say both, but with a stronger bias towards Nature. There a quite a few things that our out of parents control and it seems like there are weird chemicals in everything these days.

Uh. Yeah. I think FCC rules prohibit encryption. And we are talking about radio, not wired communications.

You want privacy? Use a phone. Unless you're at a DEFCON gathering.

One of my favorite amps is my 40 year old Marantz 8b and and 38 year old Tannoys. Just a volume knob and a good music source. My diy daily-driver amp is perhaps 6w and folks are generally surprised it's not a lot of power.

Most folks don't use much more than 1w for normal listening. In any case, the speakers matter far more than the amplifier as far as sound quality goes.

That's just plain wrong. Using RAID 1, your data is fine, not matter what controller you use. It may be a pain to extract, but your statement is misleading. Recovery does become more difficult if using any other RAID other than a plain mirror.

If recovery is a primary concern then mirror your disk with hardware, and then stitch them together with JBOD if your hardware allows it or with software.

I especially liked Netflix because the Bluray rentals were a steal. I'd expect bluray fanatics to be unfazed. I don't watch enough of anything to pay for a steep increase so I'll be bumping down to streaming only. The kids use it all day, and aren't exposed to the crap advertising. For recent releases I'll use Vudu since my Bluray player supports it.

Actually a film type capacitor can be even more dangerous where they generally have a lower ESR. I have 600uF 500v metallized film caps that would probably blow a hole in the wall if it had a serious internal short.

A cap is a cap either way. I suppose the same danger applies to the battery pack too. Oh well.

Does anyone fail to see the problem of having what would likely be several Farads of high voltage stashed away in the body panels? I would expect if fully charged the capacitors if shorted, in a fender bender or whatever, they would leave little trace that they or anything that touches them ever existed. Just a spot of charred metal and the smell of electrolyte.

And what about the aging of capacitors or capacitor failure? It's certainly exiting when a small capacitor goes POP! Imagine when one of these suckers blow your doors off while you're driving!