How pathetic does a person have to be to knowingly short change an entire generation for their own gain?

So if it causes some people stress with little benefit (possibly even detriment) to millions of people, it is not a big deal? Sounds like a big deal to me.

Agreed. A universal time is the way to go. Why should everyone change there schedule by an hour twice a year based on something arbitrary? What really sucks is working night shift and having to set the clock back an hour while at work...

I don't see why this is trolling. I will admit that they went off on a tangent about the US getting involved in everything, this is a valid, relevant opinion. I will admit a super suit/exoskeleton thing sounds pretty cool. Just because it is cool and you disagree and think this is a worthwhile endeavor doesn't make TheCarp a troll.

Is the moderation process around here something like this:
Let p represent I agree with the poster's opinion.
Let q represent an up vote.
Let r represent a down vote.
p-->q
not(p)-->r

This bothers me a bit. I wonder how much different our world would be if half of the resources spent on militaries and warfare were spent on other things like health care, research grants, scholarships, or transportation. I wouldn't be surprised if there are companies that make (or hope to) this stuff using the common sales tactic of making the mark feel like they need it and can't do without it. Why does the world benefit from better weapons when the underlying problems that often lead to the use of them aren't resolved? At a certain point, it is no longer about defense. A military needs to be just powerful enough to make an invasion or attack too costly to be worth while and deal with nuisances such as pirates (the boat robbers, not file sharers).

Can someone mod this up?

For some reason, if this goes live, I would expect people to set up honeypots to make material not violated by copyright protections to trigger a false alarm in their system, and the people distributing material that violates a copyright will find ways around it. When enough people do this, the Signal to Noise Ratio will be so bad they will have little choice but to discontinue it or spend TONS of cash on one of two solutions I see (maybe someone has a better way, but lets not give them ideas) One would be buying gobs of processors, storage, and hiring computer scientists that can compare data passing through their system against their own copies using some sort of fancy algorithm. Even if they have a O(n) algorithm, the volume of data the since of the constant and n are going to be rather large and still cost tons of money to operate and maintain. Another solution is an army of monkeys with a bunch of monitors watching/listening to any streaming media passing through their system, which is probably a ToS and copyright issue itself when legal streams are monitored by those not authorized by the copyright owner to view it that way.

Another problem I can see is a large switch to https and other encrypted protocols to make their snooping useless. Pretty much they are going after the low skilled small fries of the copyright violators.

TLDR - I doubt this will work, I think they will only catch small timers, I think big timers will figure out a work around.

I wish I had mod points to give this +1 insightful.

A turd tax? For each turd flushed, one must pay a .$05 tax. It costs money to decompose biodegradable material, its not like things like bacteria and plants are going to eat it...Oh yea, that is how that works.

Maybe connect the toilets to the showers, so one can't flush when another is in the shower? This seems like a joke project a very bored engineer came up with.

I am leaning more towards snake oil, but it might be a good thing. I have often had doubts about the monetary damages claimed in outages/leaks/data theft. Insurance companies providing other types of insurance don't just pay out claims because you said something was valuable, but want some supporting evidence of the value of the claim. Maybe the companies filing claims against their "cyber insurance" policy will have a hard time justifying it, and we will stop seeing exaggerated claims. The reason I say it is probable more likely snake oil is it is pretty hard to put a value on damage to customer trust that can occur when information like credit card numbers is stolen. Does "cyber insurance" cover lost sales?

Maybe the slashdot effect will bring them donors while bringing their servers to a crawl.

Solar panel/automotive power inverter and satellite internet.

So what research or expertise do you have to support the claim that "The melatonin/sunlight interpretation the researchers gave is pretty close to unadulterated bullshit"?

Call it bullshit, but even things that you consider innate should still be held to the standard of peer review publishing. Remember, it was once innate that the earth is flat. People studying "scratch, itch, or not blink" and not too long ago smoking figure out things about health effects of all sorts of things that are innately harmless because there is no immediate affect. Asbestos, lead, and smoking come to mind.

Attacking science, no matter what popular opinion of it is, is dangerous. You didn't die of some terrible disease because scientists figured out vaccines. Engineers using what scientists figured out about electricity, magnetism, and mathematics built the computer you are using to read about this "bullshit". We already have enough anti-intellectualism in this world. There are morons in congress (and people who vote for them) that want to take a religious, "common sense", or tough guy approach to problems even in the face of overwhelming evidence.

Considering sleep quality and quantity is vital to a persons mental and physical health, sleep research is important. There might be some people reading this that have never lived in a rural area and have never been camping that might just have sleep problems that could benefit from this.