Do what i did... Change the setting of the power button to "Hibernate". When you go to sleep, just push the little button... Problem solved. No more flashing.

Nah! they are just desperate for sex...

Wow, i'll send that Whoosh right back to you...

Who knows, maybe spam is just Skynet's way to make us forget about it... Maybe it's just a plot to camouflage itself.

I'm a robot on tank treads, you insensitive clod...

Signed : Johnny 5

Paramount later settled their dispute with Winston only because they really wanted to make the sequel.

My moma always said that watching a movie sequel is like eating an entire box of chocolate, just after you finish eating an entire box of chocolate. It usually makes you sick to your stomach...

Wow.. I think you mean, we have everything in common with the rest of North America except our language. Thinking we are so unique is mostly arrogance, and nothing else.

Actually there is a law in the province that force all commercial signs visible from outside to be at least 51% in French... It's a stupid law, voted by the Partie Quebecois a while ago. It's not really respected, especially in Montréal (chinatown in particular). With the Liberal party as the government, there is not really a language police and most people don't give a damn anyway at commercial signs. Sadly, i'm pretty sure that when the separatist come back to power (which is sure to happen in a 2 party system like we have), we'll hear about it a lot more.

Wow... You're saying you're too lazy to learn your native language correctly and that it is somehow the government's fault???

Learning to write correctly in French is not that difficult for anyone that works a bit on it. The language law have nothing to do with you having to go to English school to get a degree. A bit of work would have gotten you a degree in French. I guess it's easier to blame the government though.

And by the way, i'm a French Canadian that got a degree in a French University and that also went to English school to be bilingual. I guess it wasn't that difficult.

Only on Slashdot could this post be modded "informative"

Does that mean that Slashdot is the only source of information you use?? You must find it strange that so many thing happen over and over...

The article cites Quebec in 1989 as an example, yet today Quebec doesn't seem to be the desolate Fallout style wasteland where everyone is fending for themselves and millions die that the article infers might happen.

The fact that it's a "danger from outer space" is what strikes the people's imagination. However, sun flares are not the only event that can cause large problems to the power infrastructure. The 1998 ice storm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998_Ice_Storm caused way more damage to the province power infrastructure than the 1989 sun flare. My parents had no electricity for 43 days in the middle of winter that year. Worrying about really rare and unpredictable events make some people forget that much simpler and common events can cause a lot a of damage sometimes too.

It's time to build a really damn huge tinfoil hat...

Ericsson has achieved data transfer rates of more than 500Mbps in what it said is the world's first live demonstration of a new VDSL2-based technology.

That should improve their mobile phone business a lot!!!

What?? a cable trailing behing me you say?? I have no idea what you mean!

You're being a bit pedantic. His answer is perfectly correct to the closest multiple of 10%... You're the one that added the 2 significants digit constraint. 70% is a good approximation for a test destined to people that are not specialists in the domain.
Don't be too fast to tell people they are wrong, especially when you quote a percentage (70.9) that is in itself an approximation of the real number...