I thought as much, but it doesn't change much. My electric company still isn't going to provide my neighborhood with that kind of capacity.

And yes, I knew I could trickle charge overnight -- we can do that now. But in an article about batteries that can take a full charge in five minutes, that's rather beside the point, don't you think?

Comment above says you'll need 1.3Gw.

My 220v 200A service gives me 44Kw, right?

I don't believe my electric company is going to put the kind of capacity into my neighborhood to let me recharge at home like that.

A battery recharging station next to a substation would work. The only problem is that there isn't a substation on every corner, like gas stations.

BTW, how big do the wires have to be to handle 1.3Gw without getting too hot to touch?

ugh, double negatives make my head hurt.

Sudden outbreak of common sense.

Well, just look how well lack of regulation worked with Credit Default Swaps in the financial markets, e.g., these past few years.

Not that I'm necessarily keen on big government, or more regulation.

Ahem.

It's not about their servers -- how many there are, or how fast they are -- it's about them colluding with the ISPs to throttle other sites.

In a pure capitalist, free market, collusion happens, and I suppose everyone is okay with it.

But the internet was originally built with my tax dollars, and I don't want rich pricks colluding to slow down some content and not others.

Seriously? Okay. The OS that probably works best with this machine is --- drum roll -- OS X.

Without hardly thinking about it it'll serve files via AFP and SMB.

Google will tell you how to enable the NFS server on it. (That's right, you don't need OS X Server.)

Streaming video? If there's open source software for Linux to do this, there's a pretty good chance it'll build on OS X too.

Yup, you'll need a Torx driver instead.

I predict that the added cost of the satellite phone link up will be a show stopper.

They should stop, because I already have an 11G phone.

Instead of "on the internet" now we can re-patent everything with "in space."

Buckyballs in space.

ecommerce -- in space.

software delivery -- in space.

etc.

Talk about them that way -- okay; they're not exactly in the same league though.

UAW autoworkers earn, on average, $28 per hour. That's average, some get much more. http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070924073107AAuGk8O

Chinese sweat shop labor, e.g. at Foxconn, make about $168-176 per month. http://www.china.org.cn/china/2010-06/07/content_20199987.htm

The photo of the student confronting tanks isn't a national security risk.

So they won't have to filter that.

A 27 year old _grand_mother!

Are you serious or was that a typo?

I have nothing against my neighbors wanting a "free," quality, public education for their children, but why should I have to fund it?

(Never mind that my children have already gone through the public school system and are off to college now.)

I thought we understood that governments build infrastructure on the premise that we all benefit in one way or another. Roads, airports, shipping ports, military, etc. Otherwise I could extend your argument to include all those other things and more. I may never drive on the Trans-Alaska highway, fly out of Portland, Maine international airport, but I do believe that by making things better for the people who do use them, we've all receive a benefit. Likewise for me, for the things I use.

And that free public education my children received? If I'd had to pay "the going rate" every year they were in school, I could never have afforded it, so now I'm paying for it in installments through my town or county property tax (or your council tax), and my neighbors will be doing the same, and if not here, where ever I live, or they live. If you look at the big picture it all evens out, more or less.