Incandescent technology isn't being banned, just being pushed to evolve a little. If you need to dim look for 29, 43, 53, and 72, watt halogen bulbs. These replace 40, 60, 75, and 100 watt standard bulbs respectively and comply with the new law. These are marketed under the Eco Smart brand by Phillips, Super Saver by Sylvania (Made in USA too), GE also sell them. These are more pricey than standard bulbs and the Sylvaina ones are 1/4 inch less in diameter, but are a suitable replacement.

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Since it was a military satellite, they can destroy as many of them as they want, we don't need them to be able to find an excuse to NUKE.

No, they will win a trip to federal PMTIA prison as decrypting communications without authorization is a violation of the communications act of 1934 as amended as well as other laws.

I guess nobody interferes with his bird chucking time.

Gas tanks are easy to bypass and in this case could probably have been empty for the test, the batteries not so much.

Kodak may not have, but Olympus and Polaroid teamed up to made The Olympus C211 camera which is similar to what is being discussed in the article, but used Polaroid film and an optical printer instead.

I could have chosen the power outage one as our power did go out. I did not choose that because our outages were momentary and with the exception of our HDTV and cable box nobody was affected by the electronics going off as my mom's computer was on standby (it can ride through momentary outages with the filter capacitors in the PSU alone in standby), and I have a lot of things on Uninteruptable power supplies including my CRT TV, DVD recorder, and cable box. Hint, look around at Hamfests for UPS units, I got working ones for five bucks each.

Your DirectTV will be affected by this test. All providers are required to carry national messages, this includes DirectTV, Dish Network, and Sirius/XM.

I actually intend to listen to the test and possibly record it as it will hopefully be the only time I ever hear them issue an Emergency Action Notification as this first test will come across as a REAL national emergency until the test message starts.

Please turn in your geek card at the door. USB has a maximum of 127 devices including hubs per controller. Each computer has multiple controllers anymore.