As a man, I find the term mostly amusing. However, if one were attempting to actually educate someone of their apparent logical fallacy, it's entirely counter-productive. Simply pointing out to such an individual how/why their viewpoint and behavior is wrong is already going to get their hackles up, and unless your…

If they're so "ECO FRIENDLY" why does all the plastic bags from all the other crap they package in this manner keep washing up on the beaches?

Except that you have to keep pumping water constantly to get the power. Just simply having the pressure there doesn't do anything for you.

Right, but what I'm saying is if you're going to leech power, don't do it inefficiently. You'd be better building the regeneration system into something like a Hippo. http://www.hipporoller.org/

And how long would water have to flow in order to charge one of these lights? If each person has a light to charge, and a pot of water to fill at the local spigot... Well, it's an in-equal exchange. You'd be better off with a windmill driven mechanical pump that can also turn a generating unit while it's at it that…

Right, pressure reducers are common in say, US households. Only, the places they're talking about don't have indoor plumbing, they have a spigot in a village, driven by a pump that likely doesn't produce a lot of pressure to begin with.

Sure, that's great if nature has already done the lifting for you. Otherwise it's basically going to come in one of three forms. Manual, wind, gas generator (or direct mechanical pump).

Uh, the energy has to come from somewhere. All you're doing is leeching energy from the pump that is providing the pressure...

I think this is the first time people have lined up outside a T-Mobile store.

Either that or they're going to announce that they've found a way to grow some really good weed alongside the LHC.

I think a lot of companies are playing it cheap because AWS charges for data transfers between zones and from what I understand only Zone 1 had issues.

You wouldn't have even needed to fail to a secondary location, just a secondary zone within the DC in this case. ONLY Zone1 had issues.

The datacenter had plenty of power on backup systems. There are something like 4 availability zones within that datacenter, and only zone 1 was having issues. One of the disk subsystems started dumping out a bunch of errors. Which, may be a bandwidth/network issue due to equipment failure, or whatever. It wouldn't…

The datacenter had plenty of power. What this article poorly explains, is that only one zone out of four in that datacenter was having issues. The storage systems in that availability zone were taking major errors.

Uh, actually it was EC2-US-East-1 that had issues. There are 4 availability zones within that datacenter. Only US-East-1 was affected.

Why am I not shocked that LA Folk want to hide classical architecture behind prefab crap?

I had SWAT come to my house once, but only because I offered to let the police use my restroom while they sieged a house halfway down the block for 13 hours and were desperate. I think it took a week to fumigate the house.

You'd think that by this time someone would have created a national adoption registry.

Several companies have been developing this for a while. The problem is that it's actually really hard to train your brain to use one of these. It actually gets much easier once you pair it with predictive text algorithms as it becomes much less effort intensive thinking-wise.

Depends how gassy I am while riding a bike.