SKorvus - Slashdot User

Comment What kind of boondoggle is this? (Score 5, Insightful) 177

by SKorvus on Monday December 24, 2007 @04:08AM (#21803842) Attached to: Palau May Get Satellite Power In the Next Decade

They're paying $800 per watt, when a company is now shipping solar panels that cost under $1/watt, AND have a single, expensive point of failure? What is the point of beaming solar energy down from space, to a tropical island?

Ground-based solar including panels and batteries could be built local to each home or village, at a fraction of the cost of this over-engineered idea.

Submission + - Hardware Failure at LAX Strands 17,000.

Submitted by ExplodingTurnip on Wednesday August 15, 2007 @12:35AM

ExplodingTurnip writes: The Los Angeles Times (registration required) reported today that a hardware problem at Los Angeles International Airport stranded more than 17,000 passengers for several hours on Saturday. The hardware failure occurred on the LAN used by the US Customs agency. From the article: "Saturday's breakdown was the result of a hardware malfunction that prevented access to the agency's local network. It was finally pinpointed and fixed by agency employees and another computer contractor nine hours after the system crashed." Airport officials criticized US Customs for not having a contingency plan, taking too long to fix the problem and for not relaxing passenger inspection standards during the entire debacle.

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