How does a painfully slow USB connection compares with a painfully slow Internet connection?

A good solution would be to do with "Total Protection Solutions". They have a warranty of 20+ years and their product is really robust. It could probably do what you are looking for, though, they are not cheap.

http://www.tpscanada.ca/

You have to remember that the more MOVs you have, the better chance you have to absorb a lightning strike.

Mod Parent Up,

Although I would really like to see fusion reactor, it seems that fission still has a lot to give with Thorium reactor.

There is also some deposit in Canada.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoidas_Lake

I have been to a conference in 2009 where the speaker was talking about a mine which would open in a few years.

And it is much easier to have one good centralized filter/catalizer than many small one on a great many cars.

Thimerosal contain 49.6% Mercury (by weight)!

I understand that the amount of thimerosal is not massive in vaccine, half of it is mercury. It is not "in such minuscule amounts it doesn't harm anyone" as you said.

The EPA guideline state that you should not give to an infant more than 0.1 microgram of methylmercury per body weight per day.

Also, you can find up to 2 or 3 microgram of thimerosal per ml in a vaccine. Half of which is Mercury.

Most pediatric vaccine comes in doses of 0.5 ml, so it would make 1 to 1.5 microgram of mercury. If a baby weight 3.5 kg (just born, first vaccine of Hepatitis B) or 4.5kg (1-2 month - second vaccine of Hepatitis B) this will be a dosage of up to 0.43 microgram per kg or 0.33 microgram per kg.

THIS IS NOT MINUSCULE.

And this is considering that the EPA dosage is not already too high.

Just to point out that most likely, these magnets will probably be less tolerant to high temperature. If you look at the B/H curve of Neo Magnets, when they are under the influence of strong magnetic field, their demagnetization temperature point gets lower.

Also, as pointed in the text :

How many of the people who installed dd-wrt did that?!?

Personally, I was worrying about that until I read that quote. I mean, I installed DD-WRT at my uncle's house and my parents, but I never enable remote management. So all in all, I'm not planning an emergency upgrade anytime soon.

I like the idea of a capacitor, but I think it would be more feasible with a battery bank, because of the cost of the capacitor

If I take the numbers of 356 Volts, 1000 amps and 10 minutes, you get 213.6 MegaJoules! (59.3 kW-h). That is a lot of energy! but if you continu with those numbers and try to figure out the capacitor you need, it is going to be huge

At 1000 Volts, you need 427.2 Farads. That is not going to be cheap, even with supercapacitor. But you could have 50x 12Volts lead-acid batteries with 100 amps/hour each and you would get those 60kW-h that you need. (You would actually need more because you cannot take a battery down to 0% charge)

Anyway, this would only be feasible in some sort of power station. You would go to the "Electrical-fuel" station where they would have this capacity to fast-recharge your car. My guess is that it would still take a long time to charge it at your house, unless you have a lot of money to spend on a special charger with a 200+MegaJoules capacitor bank in it.

Parent is correct, also, a little software based on steghide does exactly what is mentionned here... It would be just a matter of putting everything in a firefox extension and you could have something much better than hid.im (although it is a good idea)

I really like the idea where, instead of a blob of color with no real meaning, you could use a representative image, like a movie-poster image...

I guess House will just have to order his Vicodin from Canada!

This is interesting, because you would not like any malaware/software company to dictate what the antivirus company does, but at the same time, what does that mean for other cases (not in court... yet) like the fact that Microsoft makes it hard, in vista, to read/mount any ext2 partition???

( I just read this this comment

There will be nothing left

Actually, you are saving more than 50% because you still pay for only 13 Watts (as it is said in the article). Also, the poor power factor is not that problematic, because usually, in power substation, you can find capacitor bank to compensate... I admit you still need to wire for more current and you will create more current loss through the wires, but you are still winning because you need a lot more less power.

As long as they don't charge for poor power factor! (when that will be the case, I bet they will include the electronic to compensate)