Using someone else's login to access a computer...... so I am a felon each time I buy something with my wife's amazon account.

There needs to be a serious effort made to roll these laws back, or complaints about Google+ requiring real names on account will soon be the least of the concerns of anyone who ever tries to go on line for any reason.

Said the Earth.

are doomed to think they have (re)invented it.

This is so true I have quite a few patents and I see it every day while doing art searches the number of patents claiming things that anyone with even a half way decent understanding or education in the field would recognize as already having been done "way back in the good old days".

The AC isn't on the generator, but the air movers are, and the refrigerators and the sump pumps, kitchen lines for a toaster over, and a line n the garage so my elderly relatives can start the snow blower if I'm not home, some other water pumps. I'm not lecturing, although since you can't be bothered to read what I wrote about having to design for the surge load or the generator stalls, because I not being the genius that you apparently are, can't tell in advance when the power is going to go out and have everything turned off before the generator tries to start up.

Given that the generator keeps my house from flooding in long heavy rains, my pipes from freeze because I don't have heat in the winter, or the food from going bad during a rolling summer blackout. I would say that most people can't afford *not* to have plans for backup power. If you live somewhere that the power goes out a lot in bad weather this isn't "luxury" for the rich, its called a cheap investment to avoid much higher weather related losses

All the replies complaining that I can't possible need 10KW should go and read some list like this
http://www.generatorsales.com/wattage-calculator.asp
and look at both what you would want to run not just for a short time, but in the case of a generator for say days at a time in a major outage, and also since my generator is auto start/auto switch over, look at the *peak* loads that might be generated by devices like sump pumps air conditioners, the various submersed pumps in the house to pump 'stuff' from the basement sink/bathroom/washing machine up to the level of the septic system, refrigerators, at the time the power fails. Also remember that when you bring the power back on many devices that weren't even running will still give you a turn on power surge. If that is higher than the generator's capacity it will stall and fail to start up.

So no it doesn't use that all the time, but when the power goes out an this single battery system for multiple houses kicks in, who is going to remember to turn off their AC? Who is going to say "well the other people will turn off their AC so I can leave mine own" Thinking "if I optimize I can make the power last X hours" isn't how it would work out in the real world for most people. And if it doesn't work for most people then it isn't as great an idea as people think.

Lets see, my 10kW generator doesn't even power my whole house, and a 10kWH battery set is supposed to provide electricity to 5 houses for 2 hours, that would be 1kW a house. Somehow this seems to be a new use of the word "provide" I was not previously aware of.

500 times faster and 1000 times smaller and this should have a title even mentioning NAND because why?

It would be like going "New SRAM just produced is much faster than DRAM!!!!" without bothering to mention those minor issues of size, cost, power, etc that make SRAM != DRAM.

When H.F.T. first came out the approach of "buy when its going up and sell as soon as it ticked down" made some people a lot of money, because the H.F.T was just piggybacking on some human that had decided to move the stock for some reason that made sense. Now that so many of the trades are from H.F.T. algorithms what you have are computers piggybacking on computers moving the stock price all by themselves, and thus we have a feedback system with less and less damping as the percent of the trades that don't involve a person gets larger and larger.

Which of the many suggestions to prevent H.F.T. should be implemented is a whole topic by itself, but at this point H.F.T is now actively harming the purpose of the stock markets, that of providing a way for companies to get liquidity and for people to be able to *invest* in companies. It was good while it lasted for some people but it is time for H.F.T. to be consigned to the history books.

Just because no one is buying Samsung Tabs doesn't mean no one is buying Android tablets, I have to agree with Bellal6, the OP is a fanboy.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/248776/androids_tablet_share_at_39_percent_as_sales_triple_says_study.html

Realizing how many links there already were to the page in question from other sites, the fact that it still doesn't appear in the googlecache now seems quite strange. Either that or there is some other tag I am missing that is preventing any indexing of the site.

Actually you can't look it up. I was surprised when I did a search for the link that no hits from the actual site came up. So I tried forcing the link in googlecache and still got nothing so I checked the page source at petitions.whitehouse.gov and all the links have no-follow on them. Strange really, why would such an exercise in open government want to make sure there were no search engine results that brought people to the petitions or any record of what had appeared on the site.

I'm thinking someone needs to set up a shadow copy of the site with links to all the pages created on petitions.whitehouse.gov so they get seeded into the search engines, since supposedly the no-follow only stops the initial indexing, if the page gets in from some other link it should stay in the search engine.