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Comment Re:In Space (Score 1) 512

by Rosonowski on Friday June 26, 2009 @04:16AM (#28478993) Attached to: Beamed Space Solar Power Plant To Open In 2016?

Electric cars. Response: whoa whoa whoa, batteries contain toxic chemicals!

Well, yeah, I think that the 10^4 grams of various concentrated acids and reactive metals and other nasty things needed for a battery, across 10^7 or so personal vehicles, if there isn't a very good program in place to process the spent cells, could cause a very big problem.

Comment Re:Stupidest lawsuit ever (Score 0, Offtopic) 574

by Rosonowski on Monday July 30, 2007 @05:20PM (#20048769) Attached to: Apple Sued Over iPhone Non-Replaceable Batteries

Not in all places... I know in North Carolina, your car will not pass inspection with a cracked windsheild, but you're not actually required to have a windsheild, so you can just take it out to pass inspection.

Glitch Has Users Fuming, Google 'Frantic' 349

Posted by Zonk on Thursday April 26, 2007 @05:53PM from the look-before-you-goog dept.

netbuzz writes "A problem with Google's Personalized Home Page feature has apparently cost a lot of users their carefully crafted doors to the Internet. And Google, which says it is frantically searching for a fix, also acknowledges that it is not sure if it will be able to recover the lost settings. 'The problem is the latest in what seems a regular stream of technical glitches and availability problems affecting Google's online services. In the past six months, Google services like Blogger, Gmail and Google Apps have all experienced significant technical issues that have left users fuming. The problems highlight one of the risks of relying on hosted applications providers, which offer to house software and its data for individuals and organizations. Google is one of the biggest cheerleaders for this software provisioning model, which many see as a viable option to the traditional approach of having users install applications on their own PCs and servers.'"

RIAA Wins In Court Against UW Madison 200

Posted by Zonk on Thursday April 26, 2007 @03:56PM from the when-you've-said-wisconsin-you've-said-it-all dept.

Billosaur writes "A judge has ordered the University of Wisconsin-Madison to turn over the names and contact information for the 53 UW-M students accused of file sharing over the university's networks by the RIAA. 'U.S. District Judge John Shabaz signed an order requiring UW-Madison to relinquish the names, addresses, telephone numbers, e-mail addresses and Media Access Control addresses for each of the 53 individuals.' The ruling came as no surprise to the university, which had previously rejected the request of the RIAA to hand out their settlement letters to alleged copyright violators on their campus. The school feels the RIAA will have a hard time tracking down who did the file-sharing anyway, as the IP addresses the RIAA has for the violations may be mapped to computers in common areas, making it difficult to determine just which people may have made the downloads."

Comment Local opinion (Score 1) 409

by geekgreg on Friday July 19, 2002 @10:40AM (#3916497) Attached to: 100th Anniversary of Air Conditioning

I've lived just outside Buffalo my entire life, and I can tell you that Buffalo's weather is like a person with multiple personality disorder. Monday you're sledding, Wednesday you're in shorts, indoors, with the AC on, praying because you fear Judgement Day has arrived. But on the same token, most people around here regularly wear shorts in the Winter, HAVE multiple personality disorder, and often times think it's Judgement Day.

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