How about having your can opener/coffee maker/etc. with a battery to wirelessly charge and not have to have cords all across your counters? How about LED under counter lights that don't need cords, or electric plugs?

I can think of a dozen good uses for this. Now whether it's worth the end cost is a debatable subject.

Ideally, the charge transmitter and charge receiver should have a built in short range communications path, and the transmitter would only turn on when it received a request, and then would turn off once the receiver indicated it was full.

I have. It was yummy, if a bit stringy. But that's a common problem with free range animals. Now the retriever next door that's kept on a chain in the back yard and over fed shamelessly... I bet he'd be good eating.

At least, that's what he wants you to think...

Howbout...MaybeCrypt? Wouldn't want to use FalseCrypt...

I've got it! SchrödingersCrypt!

It's getting harder and harder to find Gopher servers.

Is that simile to cleavage?

Exactly. Technically they are correct, because, with no current independent Scotland, there are, of course, no Scottish banks. However, it is absurd to think that the new Scottish government, once it is formed, wouldn't have a set of well structured banking laws ready to be implemented as part of the initial implementation vote. There will also be a long line of financial interests ready to instantly start banking in a new Scotland, as soon as their chartering papers can be signed by the new bureaucracy.

The Vote No group's arguments about Scottish financial ruin are equivalent to them arguing that the streets are going to be in chaos the day after the vote, because there will be no legal speed limits, stop signs, or traffic control. The Vote No campaign is mostly financed by the existing oligarchs who are afraid they wont be fast enough and agile enough to become one of the new oligarchs.

Also, as far as movement across boundaries and access to markets, that is all part of what setting up a new government is all about, and it gets handled before formal independence and the coverage of the U.K. legal structure goes away.

To anyone who sues over this chuck of space rock I claim, fine, I'll send it right to you...

Problem solved...

I'd rather be lost in the crowd than be put under the spotlight.

No, Google, just needs to change their automated response email to:

"It is most gratifying," it said, "that your enthusiasm for our service continues unabated, and so we would like to assure you that the guided missiles currently converging on your location are part of a special service we extend to all of our most enthusiastic clients, and the fully armed nuclear warheads are of course merely a courtesy detail. We look forward to your custom in future lives ... thank you."

or the more gentle:

"Google would like to apologize to users for the continuing problems with this service. We are currently awaiting the loading of our complement of small lemon-soaked paper napkins for your comfort, refreshment and hygiene. Meanwhile we thank you for your patience."

Or just a simple, heartfelt, complete lie that every other company uses for their automated response: "Thank you for your request or comment, Google takes all customer feedback very seriously and you will be contacted by a customer service representative as soon as possible."

They never need to acknowledge that "as soon as possible" is shortly after the heat death of the universe.

Let me guess, you either are a cop, or have never actually had any real dealings with an LEO?

I saw my first 4K display, 32", the other day, running native 4K content off it's internal hard drive.

The difference between it and the same 4K display beside it, up converting off a Blu-ray player was stark, and the difference between even the up converted 4K Blu-ray images and the 1080p displays running off the same Blu-ray source was absolutely obvious and clear.

I wanted to play with the settings on 4K Blu-ray display and the 1080p displays to see if they had been deliberately crippled to make the 4K native look better, but this particular store had everything locked down.

I love SpiderOak. The only thing I still use my dropbox account for is sharing files too big to fit through people's email systems. Sharing a file in SpiderOak is still a bit of a pain. As long as I don't care about the security or privacy of it (which is most of the files I'm transferring) dropping it in my dropbox folder and right clicking to get the HTML share link is about the fastest way to move a couple hundred Mb to five or six people.

You know what? I already have a great "free encyclopedia that anyone can edit". It even has a pretty decent Table of Contents called Google.

It's far more complete than Wikipedia, and in reality, no less accurate. Which should be taken as damning praise of the wikifools.

While this sounds ludicrous on its face, (Really? Driving to different cities just to surf anonymously?), I would have suggested connecting via a VPN, or chained VPNs depending on your paranoia and tolerance for network delay. If every time you connect you set your opposite end point to a different country each time. Especially if reconnecting frequently as noted in 10).

12) If you have to go through this much trouble to function on the Internet, seriously reconsider your life and lifestyle. Is it really worth it?