There was an article maybe a year or two back about TV standby power. It was about the same. 10 watts to as much as 15 watts. I'm sure the new fancy phone home TVs use even more in standby mode.

Well, I can vouch for the fact that we have over the last 12 years replaced just about all of the water heaters in our rental houses. The water heaters which were replaced were built in the 70s and 80s. I guess I can expect something 30 years old to fail. In fact, it probably wouldn't have failed even after 30 years if we would have checked and replaced the anode. However, the new water heaters which we have replaced them with have already had problems within just a few short years. We have had to replace pilot assemblies, thermocouples, and one has a safety device with a well known calibration problem which causes it to fail and close the dampers so that you can't light the water heater. The suggested fix is to replace the water heater because the safety is not considered field serviceable. The safety device on that unit failed after about a month of operation. One month of use seems entirely to short for a water heater, especially compared to 30 years or more for the previously installed unit.

Seems kind of unlikely. At least where I live, the upper crust drives fancy sedans. The lower class drives fancy trucks and SUVs and the middle class drives cheap econoboxes.

When I was recently laid off and applied for unemployment, I discovered that signing up for unemployment requires MSIE. Well, a lot of sites say that, so i tried it in Firefox. It didn't work, the workflow just went in circles. Then I tried it in MSIE and found the same thing. However, when i read very carefully, I noticed that it said that it had to be a specific, no longer supported version of MSIE. I set the compatibility level to that version, and then it worked. But I am sure everybody that has been laid off from work knows how to override the automatic updating of MSIE and set the compatibility level back to an older version.

I have worked in Tech for over 25 years as well. I would say that it has been my experience that there are more males involved in tech, but that it is far easier for a woman to be promoted to management than for a man. Also, pretty much all of my managers in tech, whether male or female, were not very tech savvy.

Oh I KNOW that they store it in a multitude of locations. What I want to know is what kind of technology they are using such that when their system crashes they manage to lose the data on ALL of the multitude of locations. That must be some pretty fancy technology.
Or they don't really store it in multiple locations.

Yes, exactly. just like Comcast offers service to the address of the house you are going to buy. At least until after you buy it.

I guess the same thing that happens when the Amazon location with your data burns down.

How about instead of allowing a trillion guesses per second, you only allow one every two seconds. Then it would take an average of a googleplex of years to happen upon the correct password.

I have a different guess. My guess is that big banks are banks and have to obey the banking regulations and so they can't afford to compete with companies like Paypal which doesn't have to obey the banking regulations even though they act as a bank.

I will not use a service that enjoys all of the benefits of being a bank without having to abide by the regulations of being a bank. Obviously this article indicates that they are being held to SOME of the regulations of being a bank, but clearly they are not being held to all of them. A bank cannot just decide to freeze your account except under specific and documented circumstances.

A multimillionare woman complains of being passed up for promotion? How rich are the guys (I assume they are guys. For all I know, they are also women) that got the promotion( if there was even a promotion to be had)?

Well, he is known somewhat in Rally, which I will concede, but he is most known for X games and Drifting, which other people may consider racing, but I don't.

I've seen several posts in this thread where the install was scheduled, and Comcast still reneged.

Yes, you must, but I'm not sure why. I've heard of those three. Ferrara is an actor who has appeared in one movie of note. Foust is a race car driver of little note, and Wood is a guy that is on Top Gear US. Their attempts to mimic the UK capers fall flat, they had guests on for maybe a season before the guest starts realized it wasn't worth it, even for two bit reality show idiots. The shows are week after week of station wagons and SUVs. I still watch it, but it has nothing on the original.