As soon as I read this above, I got irritated :

The second is that the solution has to scale well, even for a company like Yahoo that probably gets so many complaints about user conduct every day that it would be impossible to read them all.

If your business model is based on your customer being unable to actually reach a real live human being, your company either should be set up to avoid complaints whenever possible, or your company is going to get a (probably well-deserved) reputation for crap customer service. But people like the submitter who expect that big companies can't have a big enough support staff to cover their complaints are part of the problem...

Outsourcing your customer service overseas isn't always a great solution, but it's almost always better than conducting 'customer service' through emails that involve cut & paste from FAQs.

Lensflare. JJ Abrams certainly agrees.

I will probably watch any sequel or TV series, but as mindless entertainment (nothing wrong with that per se, we all need a bit) not as the stimulating diversion that regular Star Trek provided (well, until the mid/late 90s).

I would say until DS9 went off the air. Sure, there were bad TNG & DS9 episodes, but on the whole, the characters were interesting, and the story kind of went somewhere.

Sure, but would any of them have had any (positive) effect on the hallucinations?

Yes it can. Capitalism is the most efficient producer of common and uncommon goods mankind has ever devised.

'Common Good' as the OP is using it is a good that isn't owned by an individual or company. Usually those are things that the government is involved in the creation of because it's either not going to be profitable, or making it profitable would make it far more difficult to use.

I made it almost seven days with increasingly large dose of caffeine. By the last day, I drank 3 pots of coffee in under twelve hours, and then I started having extremely vivid visual hallucinations. That's when I decided I was at my personal limit. (And then I slept for over 24 hours.)

I've had some similar experience. One semester in college, I had a terrible schedule - almost all my classes were before lunch. The previous semester, I had gotten used to staying up very late since my I didn't have a single class before 2 PM. When I decided to try and stay up late, and then just take a nap in the afternoon, my grades in calculus, history, and physics suffered. But my creative writing class I did very well in. My computer science class was an even split - I came up with some very well-optimized code, but my documentation was horrible, and sometimes by the time I met up with the rest of the group to get all the modules working together, I couldn't even remember how it did what it did.

The only Sony product I could find in my house is my stereo amplifier. And that's almost twenty years old - it still works wonderfully,though. I wonder how many of the products their making today will last that long...

1. Reject Technology

2. Criminalize Customer

3.???

You're only supposed to use the ??? when the next step isn't obvious. Since 'Buy off legislatures to support your failing business model' has been their tactic for years, it's not a very secret step.

as bad as being a baby axe murder

think of the baby axes?!?

Oh, and remember that speed cameras don't go to criminal court (nor do normal speeding tickets, it's only if you're going fast enough to get a criminal reckless driving charge). There is a pretty noticeable difference in the standards for parking tickets, camera-issued tickets, traffic tickets, and criminal charges.

A lawyer that specializes in traffic law will get a miscalibrated radar gun thrown out of court without breaking a sweat. If somebody didn't getting a lawyer... well, you know what they say about people who represent themselves in court.

Polygraphs have been disallowed for this exact reason, while fingerprints are allowed, and DNA markers above a certain statistical threshold (one in one hundred thousand, IIRC). Any counterexamples?

solar event will cause transient events that will recover in a few seconds

A normal event, sure. But a repeat of the 1859 solar flare would likely damage many satellites not in the Earth's shadow at the height of the impact. Is the whole GPS constellation set up to handle that type of event? Or would more than half the satellites go down in a hour?

With one or two satellites below the 24 constellation, the accuracy isn't going to be impeded any noticeable amount. Any GPS reciever that can take DGPS signals might well not even notice.

The real concern is a major solar event - if they're having a big issue replacing one every other year, imagine if a major solar storm took out a dozen at once.