Hey, it's not raining at my house. Moreover, we're going to have dinner in a little while.

Is Slashdot trying to out-twitter Twitter?

Your pharmacist has sold your prescription data to some shady third party for advertising purposes. Somehow they managed to loophole that out of HIPAA - it's a 'service' for your own good - or something along those hallucinatory lines.

Supposedly you can opt out but you first have to know if you got opted in.

I'm actually surprised that this hasn't generated much flack, but there are so many things to get angsted at I think that most people are just overwhelmed. Personally, I ran out of extra angst a long time ago.

While I don't hold myself out as an expert in rack mounted UPS systems, I can safely say that APC is pretty bad after tossing a bunch of them out shortly after they're purchased.

I have found the folks at Don Rowe helpful for power inverter stuff. In my case for marine applications. I really like the KISAE inverters / UPS - have three of them that have been running for over a year in some fairly tough conditions.

But there has to be a better professional vendor than APC. Even their mid range stuff is put together like typical Chinese consumer electronics. The KISAE units are much better finished and have beefier PCB boards, mountings and hardware.

That's nice. I pay $80 USD to get 5 mbs and have to pay long distance charges. And I live in the US, a third world country.

And your opinion is worth .... ?

No, with Elon it's more of a religious thing.

Sort of like saying Mass.

You're using APC still? Are you mad? Or is '50 Shades of Grey' your favorite TV show?

There are so many decent UPS / inverter-charger systems out there. Ones that use real batteries. APC is just expensive junk.

I rather thought that energy companies had a few extra dollars running around. Exxon's 2014 revenue was over 400 billion. Surely they could fund a few studies all by themselves.

Looks like you lost your mind AND your Return key. You might want to turn around and retrace your life to see if you can find them.

This isn't just landing approaches. It's following planes as they fly all over the country.

What are you suggesting? Thousands of spotters with binoculars and CB radios? So commercial flights are to be restricted to a time slot between 10 AM and 3 PM in the summer only?

Goodluckwiththat.

It was supposed to be a funny, guys. Jurassic Park. Dinosaurs.

Randall would have figured it out.

How about this concept: Maybe that is all that they set it up for. The rate limiting step of the Airway Traffic Control system just might be somewhere else so there would be no need to do anything else.

I do find it concerning that the system comprises of 'two million lines of code'. Last time I heard that metric was "Jurassic Park". And we know how well that turned out.

You don't need to be very 'tech savvy' to use an iPad. When they first came out, I gave one to my now 84 year old mother. She's still using the iPad 1, still doing email (it's for old people after all), her calendar, Flickr and a couple of simple apps and games.

It's pretty much perfect for her.

If IBM doesn't screw up the software (doubtful) this could well be useful. And, of course, IBM could easily port the software to Android or even Windows Phone - we're just talking about a fairly simple hardware platform.

I wonder if there is a UID / age divider between Slashdotters who think positively vs. negatively about tattoos. It's been fun reading about the rather disparate views here. Personally, I would agree with you (in contrast to my usual disagreements about your politics) - it's a nice concept that rarely comes across as a net gain for the individual. I've seen a few tattoos that actually look good on the person, mostly it is a complete fail.

Ha. New Orleans must be losing it. Up here in unHipster Alaska you see quite a number of heavily tattooed folk carting around iPhones, iPads and various other iAccoutraments. These are typically working class folk - fisherman, lumberjacks (yes, we have them), cannery workers and such who happen to make a lot money (at least at times) and think that shinys are worthwhile expenditures. Yeah, it looks a bit, shall we say, different, to see some heavily muscled guy in beat up work clothes sipping a grande quadruple shot mocha and daintily tapping away at his MacBook Air. It is a very strange world at times.

Now, it isn't obvious that this guy and his cute friends are the prototypical iWatch purchasers but I'll wager there is going to be some overlap here.