Ms is constantly cheated over in China like any other western nation. All of the overhead leaves their chinese operations as a huge money loser. Now they have to pay taxes to China and then gets to post a loss on us taxes. Total Insanity

Yes I do, when he is making money off of my work, I get paid. Let me guess you are one of those complete scumbags that expect friends are your slaves?

Short lived for lead acid? last time I had a solar setup my lead acid batteries lasted 10 years.

And this was 15 years ago, today the newer lead acid tech is even better.

Grid intertie systems are available that failover to local battery storage.

Then the answer is having a couple of military in full battle dress holding guns to the heads of the CEO.

Yes I said heads. One gun pressed into the forehead, the other a shotgun jammed into his junk. The marines must YELL at full volume all the time at him.

Why is the power grid so crummy?

Simple. Pure unadulterated greed. The power company does not want to spend the money making it not crappy.

I still have SDLT tapes that are still readable after 15 years. Hell I have Bernoulli disks that are still readable. The one working like new drive was packed with it along with an assortment of SCSI cables and a current working SCSI to USB adapter and a linux driver on a CD. hopefully if anyone needs to read that data in the future they will figure it out.

I actually did the same thing 3 years ago for a friend. he arrived with a stack of 9 track tapes and a desktop tape drive. Luckily I was able to find an older PC with an ISA slot and installed the card linux had drivers for it and even had the tools to convert the data to standard ASCII. Read all 20 tapes and handed him a DVD disk with the contents of all the tapes. Made a cool $2000 for sitting and watching tape spin. it was cool.

No, that is the targets that are currently KNOWN. That does not mean that there are none in the US.

All OSs have major intelligence value. The vast majority of laptops in the west run Windows or Apple.
OTOH, around the world, Windows represents less than 33% of all servers, which makes them a minority. Why would anybody target this 33%, but leave the other 66% which runs on larger sites? Because Windows is EASY to crack. Simple as that.

They did NOT say to abandon AE. They said that just as certain that global warming is occurring, that it is impossible to solve with only renewables. And considering that the human population increases, as does its demand for more energy, it is obviously impossible to grow AE fast or economical enough. Nukes really have to be added to the mix. Not large ones, but small ones similar to what Babcock has with mpower.

Assuming that NSA/GCHQ are behind this, then they will be targeting what they can and what ppl run. More than 1/3 of the servers in the world are Linux alone. Heck, Russian AND Chinese gov. has moved pretty hard to Linux. The fact that NSA/GCHQ has NOT written to that, indicates that they are going after the easy thing.

Sienmans was using windows for that. Of course, NSA/Israel targetted it. BUT, that is a SITE SPECIFIC set-up. When you have a foreign nation that makes heavy use of Linux, then you should be targeting it. Instead, NSA/GCHQ targeted windows because it is easy.

So punching someone is grounds for murder now, is it?

Sad. Sad, sad, sad, sad, SAD state of affairs in this world nowadays.

At least in the "Wild Wild West", both men had guns.

OK, here's a site with an interview with IDEO's designer. It has the key pictures without the UI from hell.

This is the Eric Schmidt vision of the future. People will still go to offices and have meetings. They'll just have better cars and presentation tools, and better delivery services for physical stuff.

Will we really need that many office workers? That's the huge question. Given the head counts at newer companies, probably not.

3% loading...
Page with 3 icons loads. Click on first icon. Background sound loop of birds chirping with wihite noise and gap at the end of the loop starts. That's all that happens.

Firefox 33 on Ubuntu reports: Media resource http://automobility.ideo.com/a... could not be decoded. automobility.ideo.com
TypeError: e[0].play is not a function main.js:1
TypeError: e[0].pause is not a function main.js:1

Don't they test their code?

It's ok to be a murdering thug if you wear a badge, right?

Disgusting.