..and, hey I would have appreciated this even more, thanks and acknowledgement..
Just leaving this here since it appears to have been overloked
In the UK at least,"Brillo" is a brand of soap-infused wire wool pot scrubbers.
Just sayin'
Actually, has there been any contest where the goal is to write the most useful program that can be stored in a tweet?
Yes, sort of
.. when the price of oil (the biggest expense for them) dropped like a rock end of last year, did the airlines lower ticket prices or remove fuel surcharges? Nope.
The exploding star, which was seen in the constellation Eridanus, faded over two weeks — much too rapidly to qualify as a supernova. The outburst was also about ten times fainter than most supernovae, explosions that destroy some or all of a star. But it was about 100 times brighter than an ordinary nova, which is a type of surface explosion that leaves a star intact. "The combination of properties is puzzling," says Mario Livio, an astrophysicist at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland. "I thought about a number of possibilities, but each of them fails" to account for all characteristics of the outburst, he adds.
We can put this discovery on the bottom of a very long list of similar discoveries by Hubble, which this week is celebrating the 25th anniversary of its launch.
Maybe they did it to justify the West dumping all the broken electronics onto a barge and sailing it to India where it becomes somebody else's problem.
This was my first thought. Sounds like a scheme to export an ever-increasing scrap battery problem to the under-developed world, while circumventing the over-developed world's stricter regulations about safe disposal.
India has an average of between 2000 and 3000 hours of sunshine a year, depending on the region, making a far stronger case for solar power and other innovative lighting solutions, such as the recycled plastic bottle solar pipe light mentioned by thunderclap.
"In the letter, Sony [...] called on the government to help make the internet safer." http://www.buzzfeed.com/tomgar...
How does the government doing anything to "the internet" help secure private data on a private corporate network?
Makes one wonder why you can't get a guy from India with an MBA to run a company at a 1/3 of the pay.
The value of a program is proportional to the weight of its output.
