@isabelle — References? Haven't been much of a history geek, but it does sound like an interesting read. I'm just a knowledge geek, I guess. :)

Not just wireless stores - I work in a call center that did Nextel support pre-merger. Only problem - our county wasn't covered, at all, by Nextel. So, out come the network engineers to install a microcell on our roof. That served us a number of years until Nextel Partners came in and built out towers for our county.

Heart-clicked for being the voice of reason here. I'm a big fan of the free range parenting style - its what I grew up with, and I can't stand the thought of raising my children in fear. My girlfriend is a touch more paranoid but remembers growing up with much more freedom and she's working on it.

Our datacenter at work always had overheating issues because we had a pair of undersized units struggling to keep up. We recently stepped up to massively overkill Liebert that keeps a rock solid 60F temperature — which would be fine, except for the added wind chill factor of the 10HP blower in that thing. Whenever I…

Thank you for a little Tuesday pick-me-up.

Motorola Mobility is handsets & cable boxes.

They're making a big deal about it because the shoddy dictionary management has been the top complaint in their support forums for months. I think it might be too late for me - I've jumped ship for Switfkey X. It sucked a bit loosing swiping, but the prediction engine is lightyears beyond Swype and more than made up…

You may have built your servers for quiet, but you won't find an enterprise rackmount that was designed with that consideration. They're packed full of redundant screaming 40mm fans. I'll admit, I'm envious of your setup. Someday, with time and money, I'll probably have some sort of closet full of custom rackmounts…

What to do with an old server — Part it out and sell the chassis to a scrap yard. Or Craigslist it if you're in an area where it would sell. Try to find a room in your house where you could stand to have a dustbuster running 24/7.

Really seems like lots of rules and guides for what I once hoped was common sense. If you receive an announcement, a general "to whom it may concern" or other broadcast-style email message, you should never, ever reply-to-all. If it's a group conversation with multiple participants, reply-to-all. Oversimplification,…

Poor analogy. If the authorities identify a child pornography site within their jurisdiction they should do all they can to shut it down - it clearly violates the law in their jurisdiction, and any benign activity on the site (trading recipes? Discussing sports scores?) are secondary to that grievous crime. The same…

Don't know if I'd call that easy - ever hang a door? PITA already, then add electrical wiring to the jamb, hinges, door, etc. But yes, possible.

Typical Yanko design — It makes itself worthless because A) there's no easy way to make get power into a moving door and relying on batteries this thing will invariable be dead in an emergency and B) the door handle is practically useless once the flashlight is removed.

Security through obscurity doesn't work. The government was certainly not unaware of the problems, but clearly hasn't corrected them. With more attention on the issue, there is more motivation to implement real security.

I would be thrilled to see standardized power connectors on laptops. Especially if it's right-angle side-mounted. Unfortunately, being USB, I doubt it'll pivot. I guess we could get fancy cords that would have the pivot.

The plug and socket would both need to support 100w for that much power to transfer. A standard USB device won't draw more than 5w regardless of how much is available (and I'd imagine the spec would offer some backwards compatibility to prevent 100w from being delivered unless a compatible plug is inserted). And a…

I came down here to 2nd the recommendation for Remote Transmission and add one for Torrent-fu, but you beat me too it. Definitely a winning combo (and Torrent-fu supports uTorrent and a few others too).

Its an overhead view from behind the fixture. Mounted on the tub it would follow conventional layout.

And there's the reason I actually scrolled back up and watched the video. Gives me hope for the world after all!

Hint - Stop once you've got the hydrogen, it floats better than helium.