And yes, the actual article uses percent of support calls made as the sole deciding factor to rank which platform is most unreliable. I'm beginning to understand why nobody reads the articles here... you really aren't missing much.

So... what this study is telling me is that, if I want my phones to be considered reliable, I can just create a mobile operating system that's so confusing and has so many software problems, that any hardware calls I DO get will be dwarfed by the sheer quantity of calls from people stymied by crashing programs and bad interface designs, and will therefore have a lower percentage of hardware-related calls.

I suppose it's too much to ask for something like support calls per thousand units sold, broken down by problem type?

Formatting errors galore...but I think you get the idea. If we are blessed by the presence of an editor, would you mind making the title say "taken down"? Thanks.

There was a documentary about this on NHK (Japanese broadcaster)... In the aftermath of the disaster in Japan, some of the victims were using electric cars as portable generators to power chargers for cell phones so that people could call home. There was even some kind of ad hoc relief organization set up around people bringing in EVs from outside in order to do this.

Mitsubishi has also released a device for its iMiev vehicle that allows homes to use power from the car. Nissan's Leaf also got a lot of press coverage because of a similar adapter they were developing (may be out now, I don't remember) - supposedly an electric vehicle at full charge can power a Japanese home for an entire day (including nonessentials like TV). This is also getting a lot of attention due to the power crises in Japan; the car can be used as a power source during peak hours and recharge while off-peak. Not sure how smart that is for battery life, though, nor do I know how they deal with the grid issues you mentioned. I imagine it would be similar to using a home solar panel as a supplemental source, which is becoming more common in Japan. Again, not sure what they do to interface with the grid, but I know they can sell power back to the grid as well as use it for themselves.

-- Joren

Get the Addon Compatibility Reporter. Mozilla recommends it to get around this very problem... I found out about it via their FAQ page. This disables checking for compatibility so you can test the extensions and report to their devs that they are still working (or not).

Randomly saw this article from 2009 a few minutes before seeing this Slashdot story. Seems she had quite the career:

"Gloria Gordon Bolotsky was a gifted mathematician who, after working for the Brooklyn Navy Yard in New York, moved to the University of Pennsylvania for a position at its engineering school. She was chosen for a secret project that would use her skills and moved with the group in 1947 to the Aberdeen Proving Grounds in Maryland."

Then that's a problem, because with the economy as it is I don't think we have the resources to design and build psychopathic manors large enough to house each corporation. Plus, the work required to ensure that each manor was sufficiently psychopathic... nevermind the environmental impact statements...

It didn't originally; now it does. The typo stuck around longer in the RSS feed than it did on the main site.

by the government of a famous athlete

Ok, I guess I must have missed the headline where Tiger Woods had formed his own government.

My post was funny, but it was intended half-seriously. The summary seemed to be stating that the difference in information concentration was responsible for gravity, which created an odd word-picture in my mind... almost as if information was being held under "pressure" that was contrasting against the vacuum of space, and it wanted out, and so the fleeing information from two objects brought them together.

...on second thought, yeah, why don't you go ahead and bring out the car analogies...

In his theory, gravity exists because of a difference in concentration of information in the empty space between two masses and its surroundings.

So... information wants to be free?

That which you quoted is section 2b. This was *already* given to them by the original order as signed by Ronald Reagan. Obama isn't granting them the rights under 2b, because Interpol already had them all along and nobody noticed. Please see the original order: Executive Order 12425. Notice that 2b is not listed in the "exceptions", meaning that they have the rights under 2b.

If you're weighing traffic, sure. I figured they were weighing connectivity - an analogous question might be, "how much does your corporate network weigh?" Being part of a network doesn't require actually using it

Of course, you'd still have to decide whether/how to amortize time spent off the network (e.g. computer is off, phone is outside of data plan area, etc).