They say on the front page that they are experiencing unexpected and sharp increase in volumes of orders. That means they are delaying all shipping for 48 business hours. Since working hours are around 8 hours normally, this means 6 days delay at least on shipping when people order from this website. But that is something they should not do, since it is unlikely they are going to get what they did order.

They are also faking reviews and other such things. Claim and information on the fake reviews can be found in the comment on the site I am linking to.

Details: http://www.sitejabber.com/reviews/www.kleargear.com

And deny they do. In fact, they are so paranoid about this that is on edge of schizophrenia. It is often not the author of the lyrics who own the copyright. It's the company since most of this is for hire. There are exceptions, but they are rare and not so common.

The lyrics are also often under 'exclusive rights' for some time, often for up to 5 years (sometimes shorter and sometimes longer). I have been reading about this since I was checking for publishing on short stories that follows similar model in terms of copyright and exclusive rights.

While this is in part true. The advances in solar sells for home might change this in the long run. While not everyone might be able to set-up solar sells many people might and that is going to lower the power demand. This has not happened yet for many reasons at the moment. But progress and advancements might change that.

About nr 1: I don't know about this batteries. As there are sometimes flaws in them and for that same flaw they often burn mobile phones, laptops and such things. Batteries are improving with time, but it is going to take several more years until something new appears.

In regarding nr 2: While this is extremely difficult to trace due to shell within a shell holdings (and sometimes shell within a double shell in a tax haven) this is happening. As the oil industry did destroy the public transport in the U.S at the start of the 20th century. That is easy to look up.

Her is an interesting news report on what is taking place in big oil. It is all power and corruption.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/christopherhelman/2012/07/16/the-worlds-25-biggest-oil-companies/ (Warning! Has audio advertisement!)

Here is how big oil got Tesla cars banned in Texas by using side routes that they do have and are not afraid to use.

http://elitedaily.com/news/technology/big-oil-state-texas-bans-the-sale-of-teslas-electric-cars/
http://stateimpact.npr.org/texas/2013/09/10/why-tesla-lost-the-fight-to-sell-cars-in-texas/

It is no surprise that the oil lobby is jumping on this. Even when in reality it is more dangerous to be in a car that runs on oil or gasoline than lion batteries. While batteries are not risk free, they are considerable lower risk than using oil and gasoline cars.

Oh dear..... This is not going to end well is it.

Top performers burn out fast and do not return to the IT field.

Iceland is spying on it's population and the laws have been adjusted to account for that several years ago.

The real issue is that terrorist networks tend not to use any sort of mobile or internet communication today. Some idiots do, but as the horrible Boston bombing did prove this surveillance did not change anything (dragnets never do). It is also fact that warnings that were issued got ignored by the FBI and NSA. I am not sure if any explanation for why that has has been given today.

This surveillance is excused by the "global war on terror(ism)". While the reality is that it is being used by governments around the world to spy on the population. All laws in the EU/EEA (not sure about Switzerland) have been adjusted so surveillance data is at minimal kept for 6 to 12 months.

What does the public about this. It's easy, nothing, it just yawns and moves on to whatever is popular today and tomorrow.

Just run Windows ME and then you never have to worry about NSA.

The Kernel is a yellow journalist paper in my view. There style and coverage is nothing else, they are not to inform. They are just out there to gain publicity and clearly some income, they don't run any advertisement and have no income from the looks of it and don't seem to be an subscription magazine either.

I wrote a longer article here on this, http://www.jonfr.com/?p=8058

Disclaimer: That is my website.

I see that russian part of slashdot has modpoints (I got mod down to troll for this fact). The fact is the fact.

This is not a question of when, since it has already happened. Now they are banning and making enemy out of homosexual people (both men and women). This is just the first step. Next step is to create some big foreign enemy, so far Putin has not yet done that since he is not ready. His military is not yet ready for such actions. In the meantime he is going to continue to increase his power in Russia and in the end cancel out already weak democracy in Russia.

He started on that the day he got into office and he is not going to stop until he gets what he wants. What Putin wants is a Stalin era power with him in control. We already know what Stalin did to the russian people and now Putin is going to do the same in due time if he is not stopped by powers inside Russia (if he has not already crushed them. As I think is most likely the case already).

I do not know how long this is going to take for Putin to implement. But my best guess is less then 20 years from now, depending on factors and what he can do in Russia and what the global reaction is going to be when the time comes.

No. Just normal mass murdering dictatorship. Before you know it we are going to be in World War 3 with Russia and Putin. It is just going to take few more years until that happens. Since Putin is not a stupid man and knows what he is doing.

Data stored on hard drives are just in the physical form of the universe they are in. While our environment is in 3-D that might not apply on quantum level. I am not sure yet, since I currently do not study in this field of science. I am just interested in it as is.

You can only store data in 3 dimensions in quartz like materials. The problem is writing and reading and I just don't think the technical level is just there yet. They are now testing 5 dimensional storage. I am not sure how stable that is (due to quantum factors that is impossible to predict for) in the short and long run.

I am sure they are going to work out the issues in the end. It might take 30 to 100 years until they do so. I am not up to speed on how the progress has been going in this research.

Information:
http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/2013/jul/17/5d-superman-memory-crystal-heralds-unlimited-lifetime-data-storage
http://www.southampton.ac.uk/mediacentre/news/2013/jul/13_131.shtml