@Standish: You really need a dual core motherboard, like the EVGA Classified SR-2 and use that with the Xeon Weshmere's rather than i7's.

@KevinO: Well he does run a huge foundation and gets rich people to donate 100's of millions of dollars to charity. I think that would qualify as him having something to do.

@James Valentine: How is it sad news when both Google and Verizon deny the claims? It seems no one really knows the story (or cares), and the two companies being "accused" both deny the story.

@Zordon: I believe you can still buy it.

From the source article: "Battery acid is splashed on captive fish to make them leap frantically."

They captured the elusive champagne-ninjas on film in #1.

@tinalaohu: It's basically acting as a fuse, the weakest link in the circuit will go once it can no longer handle the current in the circuit. Since the wire and leads of the resistor offer less resistance than the resistor itself, it then experiences a "thermal event" (at my first job I was told to use that an not…

This video automatically reminded me of college electronics lab and someone exploding an electrolytic capacitor, it shot 20 feet across the room. Good times.

@junior ghoul: Magnetism is a crucial part of many technologies we use now and will likely be depending more on for the foreseeable future. Electric motors and generators, hard drive density, "rail gun" launching, high speed trains, electromagnetic research... the list goes on. As they understand how to make…

A little bit of cable management and help from an industrial seamstress would class that up a few levels.

@mir88i: The original article seems to say "Up to 20 times per minute", but the Wind Power site doesn't have any specs I can find. I imagine that 20rpm is a typo or mistake.

@Arquib: Forget the keys to the internet, I would like to know more about this epidermic earthquake.

@Sidetalker: It's basically inductive charging. There are variations, such as tightly and loosely coupled. A transmit coil induces a charge and current in the receiver coil. Many of the systems you can buy today transmit over less than half an inch.

@MajorGroove: "Going to be"? It already is less efficient, just much more convenient in many situations. Many companies are out there making different types of wireless chargers for phones, lights, game console controllers, etc.

@bazookafox: I would imagine that almost everyone that has an Android phone has a Google account, whether or not they use it is another thing.

Verizon has had SIMs for years. For example the BB 8800 and Tour both have them.