They've be MUCH more secure when they're 6 feet under.

Confirm Radical Islam as our national religion!

Time to get me some 40 virgins! And hope they're not ugly, hairy GUYS!

Seriously.

This option exposes the company to the least amount of possible damage the user could do.
Lock all his accounts down.
Obtain password lists to any external (but still company) resources this person may have had.
Hand him his check.
Thank him for his work.
Watch him clean out his desk.
Escort him out on his 2 week vacation.

People think it's rude and heartless.
I've seen people leave companies on ostensibly "friendly" terms, only to come back and find that said "friend" fucked them over, delete a bunch of stuff, stole things, etc.

So, give the outgoing employee your respect, but DON'T continue to give them access to company resources.
The amount of money lost in "productivity" is inconsequential compared to the time and money that could be lost by someone cleaning you out.

And sure, it's never happened to YOU...until it happens to you.

So she can finish bottoming out the economy, put the country into full repo, and then all government forms will come with 17 pages of ads and all government websites will auto-load crapware and malware?

May Fiorina burn in hell!

I currently have a $250 bill in collections from those jackasses at AT&T.

Several years ago, my landlords booted Comcast out and went with some fly-by-night Satellite/DSL reseller.

I'm eligible for 4G Service through Clearwire, but I'm on a SW facing of a brick, concrete and steel building, with the nearest antenna being NE of me. So I would get 1 bar connectivity most of the time. Totally untenable for anything other than web surfing.

As such, I'm stuck on AT&T DSL. I'm currently grandfathered into a 6Mbit/512K plan.
Recently I'd started getting notices about exceeding my bandwidth cap.
So I took a look at their business DSL. A bit more expensive, but at least it was a controlled cost, unlike capped consumer service.
I ask to make sure I can still maintain the same speeds I have now, as my upstream speed is BARELY able to accommodate my IP phone (heavy internet traffic causes my phone to start chopping up).
I get told "yeah yeah yeah" to pretty much everything I ask.
The day they show up to do the switchover, I get told that I'm getting 3Mbit/384K and went "whoa".
Apparently they stopped offering 6Mbit in my area because most of the lines are in need of replacement. And AT&T isn't going to invest in infrastructure in this area until they are FORCED to (due to fear of being getting fucked over the way Comcast was).
I immediately cancelled. Yet they stuck me with a $250 bill.

For what? A service I never used and never should have been sold? All because one of their sales-fucks wanted to make quota?

Uh uh!

A company who hosts its servers in random people's houses?

While an interesting social experiment, this looks like a very self-limiting market.

Currently a LiON system is about 3x the price of a Lead Acid installation. Granted, the LiON has a smaller physical footprint and power spec due to efficiencies in LiON tech. But 3x the cost is 3x the cost. Maybe Tesla can bring that cost down some. Otherwise doing an solar install in locations other than sunny places like Nevada/Arizona don't make economic sense.

There's also the issue of thermal runaway.
Granted, current lead-acid batteries have a thermal runaway problem, but LiON is more prone to it due to the higher energy densities involved.

Lead Acid doesn't normally light up when the casing is breached.

Look up Lithium Ion fire or cell phone battery fire online and watch videos of LiON batteries burning VERY vigorously.
What happens if a home user's $45,000 worth of LiON goes Kurgan and decides it'd rather burn out than fade away?

And this is why you're a know-nothing AC on Slashdot and not a nuclear scientist!

No. I'm chastising environmentalists who do sloppy work and write sloppy papers with a definitive bias.

As for bothering to read what they wrote on the subject. How do YOU know that I didn't read?

As for being stereotypical. You OBVIOUSLY don't know me.

I'm all for using clean forms of power generation where they make sense.
I'm all for leaving this planet a cleaner (from WHATEVER forms of "pollution") place than I found it when I first popped out.

What I have a VIOLENT bias against is sloppy, yellow-journalism-style publication and coverage. Boldly presenting "facts" for a thing without covering the caveats.

I want to proceed into the future.

I want that future to be a bright, clean and safe one.

I DO NOT want to go stumbling into a future set up for me by a bunch of shysters and snake oil salesmen. Dystopia wouldn't even BEGIN to describe how bad that could be.

*Klaxon*

Oops!

While the Doomsday clock is an evocative metaphor, nearly 70 years, and mission drift (was originally only encompassed destruction by nuclear war) have rendered it impotent and corrupted.

[Zombie] Rrrh. Brains. Rrrh. Brains.

[Cornered Victim] Ah! I'm doomed!

*VEEOOOP!*

[Zombie] Ah dammit! The battery just ran down again! What the fuck? I was just getting to the good part!

[Cornered Victim] Uh. I'm... Doomed?

[Zombie] Oh put a sock in it! Just...just...get out! I'll shuffle you down LATER! Goddamn Glass! I can operate with this six inch hole clear through my torso! *Waggles hand in the hole* And this thing can't last long enough to record a chase and a bit of brain feast! I shoulda just bought a frickin' GoPro!

[Zombie] Rrrh! Brains...

[Trapped victim] AGH! I'm DOOMED!

*VOOP!*

[Zombie] DAMN! My Google Glass ran the battery down again! Now how am I supposed to document my brain feastage!

[Trapped Victim] ???

[Zombie] Oh just get out dammit! I'll shuffle you down NEXT TIME! Damn tech! I can operate with a six inch hole in my chest! *Waggles a hand in the hole* And this thing can't even record a decently long chase-down and brain feast! Shoulda bought a damn GoPro!

Costa Rica is roughly 20,000 Square Miles.
That's about half again the size of the NYC metropolitan area.

Rewrite it to read "Tiny country you can walk across in a couple days...."

Second, they're down on/near the equator. Long days. Mostly great weather. Now compare to Chicago, with roughly 30 days of snowfall a year (mostly in a period of 8 months)

Third, they got helped by high (even for them) rains, allowing their hydro resources to run at a higher capacity.

And, as others have noted, funny that eco-nuts are normally so averse to hydro power because of environmental factors.
But when it helps achieve things like this, NOT A FUCKING PEEP.

Yes. Insuring condensation. Assuming there's even a cold air return in that crawlspace.

Sorry AC.

I READ the original post.

I'm saying that he's being unrealistic wanting to put it in a crawlspace with no environmental controls.

Even a completely fanless solution in an environment like that will collect dust in megaton quantities. And you can't hard-seal the device away to avoid moisture because it'll overheat in short order. Simply dumping dessicant packets in with it won't offset the moisture issue, as it'll condense out of the air and onto every surface.

Sure, if he wanted to forego his next automotive purchase, he could probably find (and afford) an environmentally hardened unit that would do MOST of what he wants.

His other option would be to convert the crawlspace into a semi-finished, insulated, environmentally controlled room. However there may be monetary or logistical problems there.

But, in the long run, he's better off building an silent or near-silent HTPC and putting it in an environmentally controlled area. Either integrated into his entertainment center, or tucked away in a closet with adequate venting.