No it does not cause problems. In Australia, solar inverters shut off when the grid voltage reaches 250 Volts, it is what they are designed to do. The utilities sometimes jack up the grid voltage to shut down the solar inverters, that way they don't have to pay for the electricity they produce.

That is just the BS cover story

Just imagine the crimes that can be solved once they have the populations DNA on a database?

There will be arrests following the samples for unsolved crimes committed years ago

"is widely being interpreted as an attempt by Kim Jong Un to keep officials loyal and scared."

Sounds like Stalin all over again....

"The purge was motivated by the desire to remove dissenters from the Communist Party and to consolidate the authority of Joseph Stalin. " http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Purge

I have two:

One is permanently online as an Apache2 web server with the output graphs from my Solar array and Weather station using RRDtool. The weather information is also shown on the web page of the local yacht club.

The other is where I can test new software and new peripherals.

I chose the Raspberry Pi for its low power consumption, 2 Watts from a Samsung phone charger.

I built up a number of servers in the late 80's and fitted them with Seagate 100 Meg drives, 4 in all. Apart from about 5 occasions where the equipment has been moved to different buildings or floors or the power supplies replaced, they have been running virtually non stop for 23 years. I have a few spares in my bottom draw to replace them with but I am starting to think they might just last through to retirement.

The driver has admitted to driving the car after an accident, ignoring all warnings until told that the car had a problem so big that it was going to stop ( on fire). I would be interested in seeing the insurance companies response this this...

Protect pedestrians from bad drivers?

More like protect drivers from preoccupied, non observant pedestrians.

Let Darwinism run its course.

Nickel Cadmium batteries were the only ones that required full discharge to keep them healthy. Lithium Ion batteries deteriorate quicker if they are fully discharged.

Maybe that is the problem

Do we perhaps have an opening here for Android for PC?

A cheap computer not necessarily maketh a cheap satellite.

There is lots more than that; solar panels, batteries, regulators, rotation / positioning thrusters, antennas. Then there is temperature management and the housing of the whole thing.

I guess the low power consumption leads to low weight which in turn leads to a cheaper launch cost.

They should have just contracted out the building of the establishment to the Chinese in the first place.
Would have been cheaper!

I simply refuse to purchase any goods from the USA, not because I believe I will be purchasing an inferior product , quite the opposite. It is because I know they will use imperial threads / spanner sizes on their bolts and I *hate* the hassles this creates..
I am sure the rest of the world who are mostly on metric think the same. Imagine what could happen to the manufacturing industry if they began to use metric measurements?

Very true
This was my experience with the Y2K program. I looked at what was being done and commented that it wasn't addressing the whole issue. The response: "We need to look like we are being seen to be doing the right thing so we cannot be sued for negligence" rather than actually putting in a technically correct solution.

Why bother with complex security measures?

(1) It costs money
(2) There is no measurable profit
(3) There is no measurable increase in productivity
(4) There is no measurable increase in share price
(5) The bozos who make the decisions usually don't understand the issues anyway

Only once the proverbial hits the fan will something be done and even the it will probably be blamed on the power lines sagging onto a tree on a hot day...

Looking at the flame out of the back of the craft it looks more like a raw fuel dump than something that will sent the spaceship into supersonic flight.