Even if there is a forced arbitration clause, they have to spend money to send council to court to defend it (send it to arbitration), or you get a summary judgment. You are giving the company two options, spend to defend their behavior, or let the judge make their customer service decisions for them. The way I see it there are limited outcomes to this approach. 1. The company doesn't defend, the judge issues a summary judgment and the customer walks away with their preferred solution and further tags the company with court costs. 2. The company defends, paying money for council on principal to try to send a chilling effect to others. At best the company gets the case thrown out or sent to arbitration. However, the company is out legal costs and may pursue tagging the customer with those costs. The customer may or may not be able to afford them. If the chilling effect strategy is pursued, the liklihood of recovering those costs is low. If a sufficient number of customers engaged in this, the unrecoverable legal costs for the company could place them in jeopardy and subsequently management could be susceptible to opportunistic shareholders/creditors. This strategy also has a good liklihood of becoming a PR nightmare if not carefully managed. 3. The company and customer negotiate a settlement. That will also incur legal costs and cost more than proper customer service in the first place. These 3 outcomes rely on the customer actively pursuing legal relief. Companies with deliberately poor customer service are depending on legal remedies not happening.

I barely got 30 minutes out of it before the usage limit was reached. I still have another 15 minutes to wait until the limits reset.

Hopefully NASA gets the Free Nights and Weekends plan, otherwise the roaming charges might get pricey.

I saw the foul-up on coinmarketcap yesterday and took a screenshot for a laugh. I will admit I did get a bit excited to see Bitcoin's spot price of $799 billion. :D

Under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), password sharing is illegal in the US. This was backed up by the Federal Appeals Court in 2016. I would be quite careful before using a service like this. Relevant link here

Does this mean that NASCAR won't be able to race in California? What about diesel-powered cargo ships, are they no longer able to port in California? California also has a massive military presence, will they be exempt? Too many questions that need answered first.

What about the other 75%? Is it a problem with the testing instrument or was there something else?

I'm waiting until the technology and costs become such that it could be assigned as a college class project. Students would love that.

He may be a researcher, but this study wouldn't pass any US IRB board as sanctioned research.

I would like to see this printed on a metal 3D printer and then see if it 1. reasonably works and 2. is a cost-effective alternative to OEM.

It would only be fair that if the bank doesn't process my deposit in a timely manner that I disable something of theirs.

I see you have been to Tucson before.

I had my undergraduate students build something similar back in 2009 on top of a Roomba platform, which in turn was based on ideas from Kurt's "Hacking Roomba" book. This solution was featured in Make Magazine volume 27 http://makezine.com/27/ It was the same principle, build a remote surveillance platform that could be driven over the Internet and they did it for under $200. How is this solution (5 years later) any different? I'm not asking to be mean, I would like to know if this solution is somehow technologically superior to something done 5 years ago or were the authors simply unaware of prior development?

I patented pitchforks and torches. Here are some spoons instead...

You missed the important one. 1. What is the single biggest source of heat for Earth... the sun. 2. What is the single biggest driver of variable temperature on the sun... sunspots.

Yet not a one climate model (to my knowledge) takes into account the biggest heat source and the biggest driver of that heat source.

If I were to omit the largest variable in my field of science I would be ridiculed and thrown out of the profession. So until then I'll treat climate science like the rest of the humanities as pseudo-science.