Why can I never find any definitive study on the effects of powering down daily on the hard drive life span (or any other affects on the PC)? Even this/. discussion has opinions split down the middle it seems. Anyone?
If GM food has been around for 13 years and nothing hugely alarming has come to light, then I'm siding with the scientists ("close to 150 governmental and/or industry-financed studies, and at least 47 peer reviewed articles in scientific journals have been published to attest their safety"). You have a good point - I'm sure someone's going to throw a bug in there at some point, and it will probably kill people. But it looks like the rate of that happening will not be higher than the rate of some random natural disease (of which there are infinite mutations) getting into non-GM food and killing people. The number of people that avoid starvation due to the increased output of GM food I think justifies the continued use too.
And lastly, I think I remember reading an article about scientists dismissing the public's worry over much-tested GM food, as opposed to real possible dangers where there's not enough testing like nanotechnology. The example (that I cant find now) was the idea of a company making current-conducting fibers used to make a sweater that you can plug your cell phone in. But like all fibers in all sweaters, microscopic bits wear off and you inhale them. What happens when enough of these get into your bloodstream. Do they interfere with your body's normal electric activity and screw up your heart rhythm?
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Apparently this post angered a lot of people, with all the troll mods, implying I intentionally rattled off iphone fanboy stuff to piss people off. Maybe thats what I get for not being clear (btw, drinking and/.'ing dont mix well). But truth is, I'm opposite of fanboy. I bought an old HTC with windows mobile just before iphone came out because the cost ratio. I didn't think iphone was worth triple the price. I just read the parent and was curious about the current market share, found a website that showed it (clearly and accurately I thought), so I posted it to./ for all to be informed.
I also think that trends will flatten out. MS will always have a slight edge in the corporate niche b/c they make it hard to impossible to sync your non-MS phone with Outlook, and competition like Android will make all the players innovate more (I have my fingers crossed that Google apps keep delving into corporate so that we can use their calendar instead of Outlook). I saw other posts that say the iphone reception in Europe was luke warm, I'd appreciate links or a graph to satisfy curiosity.
Allright, thats my defense, hope I dont piss more ppl off when they disagree, or see spelling errors, or notice I wrote the year wrong (dam, how drunk was I?).
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Graphs showing iphone is indeed 'blowing up' competition
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* Palm is dead everywhere but in the North America, where it is falling sharply.
* Symbian is huge everywhere besides North America, but obviously has the most to lose with the iPhone being released around the world next year. Don't expect Symbian to post these numbers on their website as they have in the past.
* Microsoft's mobile strategy is failing miserably. They don't crack 10% anywhere but in North America where they are behind RIM and iPhone and dropping.
* Blackberry, while strong in North America, has a much smaller global market share.
* Linux is big in China and Japan but insignificant elsewhere.
* The iPhone has grabbed 27% of the North American smartphone market. This is obviously on the sharp upturn.
* Apple is poised to be the number one US Smartphone vendor next year if trends keep up."
I heard the install was faster/easier, and it was. You're right about the support - never tried it, but I did want to contribute to the open source concept, and $ rules the world. I knew those above me wouldn't notice an extra $20 on each pc, but they were scared of 'non-professional software', so to be able to tell them there was support was a necessary safeguard.
Oh, btw, they were using that excel sheet to keep track of a fleet of buses (this co was archaic in their IT dept when I got there). A radio dispatcher was frantically telling the bus drivers there was a computer problem and to 'hold tight' for 15 minutes till I got there, then 5-10 more minutes to figure out MS file recovery wouldnt cut it, and 5 to install SO from network and fix the prob. The only serious occasion that pitted MS vs SO and the results were stark. So no Im not on Sun's payroll, but the story ought to be a commercial, and I walked out like a hero so I'm happy to tell it.
It would be so easy to just install StarOffice on each computer (keep Word), and ask the more technical departments to start using it, if only to save docs in Word format at first. I did this with the last company I worked at, nobody ever even complained. The cost was very minimal, and it actually saved a lot of money and time when an excel file corrupted itself. MS could not open it, but SO opened then re-saved it in MS format, then it worked fine.
At first, the hackers did not immediately appear to try stealing any U.S. government data. Authorities quietly monitored the hackers' activity, then tripwires severed Internet connections
If you find evidence of a break-in, its possible the attackers are also connecting in a way you haven't yet detected. Hope they know what they're doing. Given their reputation, I doubtit.
I agree its not necessarily the schools or police's fault. But this really supports my argument since doing a research paper in high school: ban *hand*guns at least. Handguns are designed to kill *people*. Hunting, home protection, fighting your government can all be done with shotguns (actually more intimidating to intruders than handguns anyway). But if you want to shoot up a school building, then quietly walk out of it, you would want a couple handguns that are easily concealable. I wonder how much the number of killed would have gone down if this killer walked into or out of the 1st building with a huge shotgun under his arm, and someone saw him and phoned the cops with his location. 2 hours! Somebody would likely have seen him, and it likely would have ended sooner.
The way it could hurt the industry, according to the argument I've seen, is if this is vaporware. If enough people, especially ones who would have taken the loan plunge, instead sign up for Citizenre and wait. Wait for 6 months, then a year, then 2 years, then 3. And finally the company is exposed as not having the capital, manufacturing, or intent to ever produce a product for them. Then all they're left with is their address and contact info on the list of every MLM co in the world. They will be extremely distrustful of the next company to come along and offer them solar. It is a good business plan, once the prices come down, but it doesn't look like that will happen for 5 years or so. So there will, undoubtedly, be another company to come out with the same plan. If this next company is legitimate, then I'd hope people use the 2nd company, without any doubt or hesitation, so we can get underway to a clean future, hopefully in time. That will be impossible, if they have a bad taste in their mouth from Citizenre.
And of course, existing solar companies are afraid that if enough people wait, demand might go down for their product, possibly killing off a few of them. This directly and immediately hurts the industry.
But like I said, I'm not sure. Hopefully enough people use Citizenre as a launching point, where they learn the importance of the product, if not actually getting it. Hopefully Citizenre will turn people into activists, instead of turning activists into business skeptics. I guess that depends on how *honest* people like you are about the company with your 'customers'.
Unfortunately, the pricing structure doesn't encourage anyone to be honest, does it. Even looking at this slashdot story, it looks like it was artificially modded.
relevant joke worth the read (somebody tell me if true):
I always wanted a hopped up muscle car when I was
younger. I couldn't afford one. Now I can, and I have one. It is a '70
Mustang, and her name is Bessie. Bessie is the prototypical juvenile,
male-caveman, scratch you crotch and drink cheap beer car. Chromed
engine, dual exhaust, 250 horsepower, big tires, tra la la la.
I'm driving Bessie on Beach Boulevard behind an ancient guy in
a beat up truck. He decides to turn in front of me without a blinker.
I accelerate to swerve and avoid him, and this asshole, overaerobicized
woman jumps in front of my car with her hand up.
Meet Ethel, the neighborhood busybody/nuisance. She proceeds to yell
in my window, "Hey, slow down you fucking idiot." I'm a well-bred,
mellow guy by nature, so I ignore this. As I drive away, she yells,
"asshole" at me again. Twice? Fuck that. I turn around and drive up
next to her.
"Do you have a problem?" I ask.
"Yeah, why are you driving like an idiot?"
"I was driving like an idiot? How, exactly."
"You were speeding. I watched you."
" You were? I see. How did you measure my speed?"
(Ever the interrogator, I am.)
"I heard you."
"So, you measured my speed by ear?"
"I can hear."
" How fast did you HEAR me going?"
"Look," she says, "I don't have to take this. Here comes a cop.
I'll wave him down."
THE POLICE? This woman is a trip. She waves him down, and proceeds
to tell him that she observed me speeding.
"What happened?" he asks. I told him the story, and told him that I
accelerated to an indicated 33 mph (the speed limit is 35) to avoid
a collision.
"Are those mufflers legal?" Ethel asks.
She's pushing it. I reply, "I have a C.A.R.B. exemption for them."
I give the paperwork to the cop.
She tries to find another thing to screw me with. She says "What
about those big tires? They CAN'T be legal. " I began feeling little
overheated gears in the back of my head start to turn.
"These tires were available on the 1970 Boss 429, " I told the
cop, " Which makes them street legal as a replacement."
Ethel gets angry. She whines, "So you're not going to give out any
tickets to this asshole?"
The cop says, "No, I am not."
I've about had it. So I say, "Sir, this woman told you that she left
the street at the corner, and she met up with my car here. According
to Title 39, pedestrians have to cross the street at a right angle.
This woman admitted she crossed at a 45-degree angle, which is a
ticketable offense."
"What?" The cop looks confused.
"Also, she told you that she walked in front of my car to stop me.
A citizen can't detain someone without probable cause, under Terry v.
Ohio (My new favorite case). Since she couldn't measure my speed, she
had no probable cause to detain me. That is an indictable offense."
The cop says, " But, I didn't see any of this."
"But," I said, "I did, and, as an officer of the Court, I can
demand her arrest. I'll agree to dismiss the Illegal Detention charge,
but I want her cited for not crossing at a right angle and Hazardous
Conduct on a Public Street."
The cop called his Lieutenant, and after the cop told the story, he
authorized the summonses.
She went home with $215.00 worth of traffic tickets, and they are worth
a total of four points against her license, as well as the appropriate
insurance surcharge!
Of course, if she demands a trial I won't prosecute. But the look on her
face as she walked away was more than enough satisfaction for me.
Yea, I've passed the bar, and I'm on a mission from God.
I cant think of any type of being known to man that doesn't expand at the limit that their resources allow them to. If beings like that exist on Earth, they are in the great minority. I think the Fermi Paradox's idea that aliens would colonize the galaxy is based off what we have observed of life here on Earth. Maybe there are transhumans out there fitting your description, but they would be far outnumbered by the aggressive/expansive types, like us humans.
Unless, I guess, the transhumans felt the need to control the population of the lower life forms (which btw makes them a little aggressive, no?). In which case, we should probably shut the hell up and quit broadcasting our existence before we get sprayed with galactic RAID.
"The point here, though, is that the proposal being discussed in this story is not to reverse global warming, but merely to slow it."
I disagree. I think Gore is not as slow as he talks, and recognizes that this will do little by itself. He believes that if the population actually succeeds in convincing governments to halt CO2 production, it will not be soon enough to keep us from starting those feedback loops that will keep CO2 levels rising despite our efforts. In order to speed our efforts, we should be coming up with technology to remove CO2 at the same time as limiting our production of it.
I drive a motorcycle, so Im for it, but there's a lot of businesses that would gripe, and restricting business is political suicide. If you add a tax break to businesses to your plan, however, I'm for it. Ok, now that we've decided, lets write congress with our demands.
Seriously, we all need to get together to do something. Im not yet sure about the latest thing I've gotten into, but everyone should at least register their belief somewhere.
Here's my fav site so far, has all the issues of Global Warming mapped out. A graph is worth a thousand pictures. Found it through wiki's entry on global warming.
My proposal will feature Openoffice. I present to you, Megacorp, a product that will save money on even that 10% of the business that travels. The look and feel is even more similar to Google docs than MS, thereby not confusing the highly intelligent executives any more than necessary.
There will have to be multiple, complex solutions to this coming energy crisis, but 2 things will have to happen: 1) The public as a whole is going to have to be better informed and concerned enough to force the politicians to move, and 2) A huge majority of the public is going to have to make a few changes.
Which green solutions are best is sometimes debatable. But there is a new company that seems to best cover both 1&2, and it is one of the 'no-brainer' solutions. Citizenre will be renting solar panels out, letting them almost immediately save everyone money, while making each customer a sales person, familiar with product and issues. Its 100,000 panel/yr manufacturing plant is scheduled to come online in September 2007. They're currently using 2005 average power bill prices, and will switch to 2006 on Jan 31, 2007. The rate my Dad locked in, just by registering on the website, was 37% less than his current bill.
Your comment was moded up but I dont see any replies. This backs up my theory that almost everyone reading/. agrees with you, but very few do anything about it (with the American population even worse). What can we do? Who knows the most important outlets for this cause? To me, the only thing I have been able to think of is political solutions (after reading Collapse...Jared Diamond) - voted for Gore & Kerry, and *donated* to both them and green pty as well ($ is probably more powerful than a vote). Bush has spent $400 billion to create a terrorist state, while removing us from Kyoto. Whos with me that we HAVE to remove corporate sponsorship of the presidency?
Idea has some merit I think. And how about that easy 'report spam' button on gmail? Stats could be collected, and see how many other reported spam pages have similar html characteristics, thereby identifying auto-gen'd pages. I get almost no spam in my gmail account, I thought it was because of the report spam button. (I'm no expert though)
Slashdot Mirror
Why can I never find any definitive study on the effects of powering down daily on the hard drive life span (or any other affects on the PC)? Even this /. discussion has opinions split down the middle it seems. Anyone?
If GM food has been around for 13 years and nothing hugely alarming has come to light, then I'm siding with the scientists ("close to 150 governmental and/or industry-financed studies, and at least 47 peer reviewed articles in scientific journals have been published to attest their safety"). You have a good point - I'm sure someone's going to throw a bug in there at some point, and it will probably kill people. But it looks like the rate of that happening will not be higher than the rate of some random natural disease (of which there are infinite mutations) getting into non-GM food and killing people. The number of people that avoid starvation due to the increased output of GM food I think justifies the continued use too.
And lastly, I think I remember reading an article about scientists dismissing the public's worry over much-tested GM food, as opposed to real possible dangers where there's not enough testing like nanotechnology. The example (that I cant find now) was the idea of a company making current-conducting fibers used to make a sweater that you can plug your cell phone in. But like all fibers in all sweaters, microscopic bits wear off and you inhale them. What happens when enough of these get into your bloodstream. Do they interfere with your body's normal electric activity and screw up your heart rhythm?
Apparently this post angered a lot of people, with all the troll mods, implying I intentionally rattled off iphone fanboy stuff to piss people off. Maybe thats what I get for not being clear (btw, drinking and /.'ing dont mix well). But truth is, I'm opposite of fanboy. I bought an old HTC with windows mobile just before iphone came out because the cost ratio. I didn't think iphone was worth triple the price. I just read the parent and was curious about the current market share, found a website that showed it (clearly and accurately I thought), so I posted it to ./ for all to be informed.
I also think that trends will flatten out. MS will always have a slight edge in the corporate niche b/c they make it hard to impossible to sync your non-MS phone with Outlook, and competition like Android will make all the players innovate more (I have my fingers crossed that Google apps keep delving into corporate so that we can use their calendar instead of Outlook). I saw other posts that say the iphone reception in Europe was luke warm, I'd appreciate links or a graph to satisfy curiosity.
Allright, thats my defense, hope I dont piss more ppl off when they disagree, or see spelling errors, or notice I wrote the year wrong (dam, how drunk was I?).
Graphs showing iphone is indeed 'blowing up' competition
http://blogs.computerworld.com/canalys_figures_in_iphone_clear_winner_in_north_america/
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* Palm is dead everywhere but in the North America, where it is falling sharply.
* Symbian is huge everywhere besides North America, but obviously has the most to lose with the iPhone being released around the world next year. Don't expect Symbian to post these numbers on their website as they have in the past.
* Microsoft's mobile strategy is failing miserably. They don't crack 10% anywhere but in North America where they are behind RIM and iPhone and dropping.
* Blackberry, while strong in North America, has a much smaller global market share.
* Linux is big in China and Japan but insignificant elsewhere.
* The iPhone has grabbed 27% of the North American smartphone market. This is obviously on the sharp upturn.
* Apple is poised to be the number one US Smartphone vendor next year if trends keep up."
I heard the install was faster/easier, and it was. You're right about the support - never tried it, but I did want to contribute to the open source concept, and $ rules the world. I knew those above me wouldn't notice an extra $20 on each pc, but they were scared of 'non-professional software', so to be able to tell them there was support was a necessary safeguard.
Oh, btw, they were using that excel sheet to keep track of a fleet of buses (this co was archaic in their IT dept when I got there). A radio dispatcher was frantically telling the bus drivers there was a computer problem and to 'hold tight' for 15 minutes till I got there, then 5-10 more minutes to figure out MS file recovery wouldnt cut it, and 5 to install SO from network and fix the prob. The only serious occasion that pitted MS vs SO and the results were stark. So no Im not on Sun's payroll, but the story ought to be a commercial, and I walked out like a hero so I'm happy to tell it.
It would be so easy to just install StarOffice on each computer (keep Word), and ask the more technical departments to start using it, if only to save docs in Word format at first. I did this with the last company I worked at, nobody ever even complained. The cost was very minimal, and it actually saved a lot of money and time when an excel file corrupted itself. MS could not open it, but SO opened then re-saved it in MS format, then it worked fine.
At first, the hackers did not immediately appear to try stealing any U.S. government data. Authorities quietly monitored the hackers' activity, then tripwires severed Internet connections
If you find evidence of a break-in, its possible the attackers are also connecting in a way you haven't yet detected. Hope they know what they're doing. Given their reputation, I doubt it.
I agree its not necessarily the schools or police's fault. But this really supports my argument since doing a research paper in high school: ban *hand*guns at least. Handguns are designed to kill *people*. Hunting, home protection, fighting your government can all be done with shotguns (actually more intimidating to intruders than handguns anyway). But if you want to shoot up a school building, then quietly walk out of it, you would want a couple handguns that are easily concealable. I wonder how much the number of killed would have gone down if this killer walked into or out of the 1st building with a huge shotgun under his arm, and someone saw him and phoned the cops with his location. 2 hours! Somebody would likely have seen him, and it likely would have ended sooner.
I got my company to buy 20 or so licenses of StarOffice. Is Sun profiting from that?
The way it could hurt the industry, according to the argument I've seen, is if this is vaporware. If enough people, especially ones who would have taken the loan plunge, instead sign up for Citizenre and wait. Wait for 6 months, then a year, then 2 years, then 3. And finally the company is exposed as not having the capital, manufacturing, or intent to ever produce a product for them. Then all they're left with is their address and contact info on the list of every MLM co in the world. They will be extremely distrustful of the next company to come along and offer them solar. It is a good business plan, once the prices come down, but it doesn't look like that will happen for 5 years or so. So there will, undoubtedly, be another company to come out with the same plan. If this next company is legitimate, then I'd hope people use the 2nd company, without any doubt or hesitation, so we can get underway to a clean future, hopefully in time. That will be impossible, if they have a bad taste in their mouth from Citizenre.
And of course, existing solar companies are afraid that if enough people wait, demand might go down for their product, possibly killing off a few of them. This directly and immediately hurts the industry.
But like I said, I'm not sure. Hopefully enough people use Citizenre as a launching point, where they learn the importance of the product, if not actually getting it. Hopefully Citizenre will turn people into activists, instead of turning activists into business skeptics. I guess that depends on how *honest* people like you are about the company with your 'customers'.
Unfortunately, the pricing structure doesn't encourage anyone to be honest, does it. Even looking at this slashdot story, it looks like it was artificially modded.
relevant joke worth the read (somebody tell me if true):
I always wanted a hopped up muscle car when I was younger. I couldn't afford one. Now I can, and I have one. It is a '70 Mustang, and her name is Bessie. Bessie is the prototypical juvenile, male-caveman, scratch you crotch and drink cheap beer car. Chromed engine, dual exhaust, 250 horsepower, big tires, tra la la la.
I'm driving Bessie on Beach Boulevard behind an ancient guy in a beat up truck. He decides to turn in front of me without a blinker. I accelerate to swerve and avoid him, and this asshole, overaerobicized woman jumps in front of my car with her hand up.
Meet Ethel, the neighborhood busybody/nuisance. She proceeds to yell in my window, "Hey, slow down you fucking idiot." I'm a well-bred, mellow guy by nature, so I ignore this. As I drive away, she yells, "asshole" at me again. Twice? Fuck that. I turn around and drive up next to her.
"Do you have a problem?" I ask.
"Yeah, why are you driving like an idiot?"
"I was driving like an idiot? How, exactly."
"You were speeding. I watched you."
" You were? I see. How did you measure my speed?"
(Ever the interrogator, I am.)
"I heard you."
"So, you measured my speed by ear?"
"I can hear."
" How fast did you HEAR me going?"
"Look," she says, "I don't have to take this. Here comes a cop. I'll wave him down."
THE POLICE? This woman is a trip. She waves him down, and proceeds to tell him that she observed me speeding.
"What happened?" he asks. I told him the story, and told him that I accelerated to an indicated 33 mph (the speed limit is 35) to avoid a collision.
"Are those mufflers legal?" Ethel asks. She's pushing it. I reply, "I have a C.A.R.B. exemption for them." I give the paperwork to the cop.
She tries to find another thing to screw me with. She says "What about those big tires? They CAN'T be legal. " I began feeling little overheated gears in the back of my head start to turn.
"These tires were available on the 1970 Boss 429, " I told the cop, " Which makes them street legal as a replacement."
Ethel gets angry. She whines, "So you're not going to give out any tickets to this asshole?"
The cop says, "No, I am not."
I've about had it. So I say, "Sir, this woman told you that she left the street at the corner, and she met up with my car here. According to Title 39, pedestrians have to cross the street at a right angle. This woman admitted she crossed at a 45-degree angle, which is a ticketable offense."
"What?" The cop looks confused.
"Also, she told you that she walked in front of my car to stop me. A citizen can't detain someone without probable cause, under Terry v. Ohio (My new favorite case). Since she couldn't measure my speed, she had no probable cause to detain me. That is an indictable offense."
The cop says, " But, I didn't see any of this."
"But," I said, "I did, and, as an officer of the Court, I can demand her arrest. I'll agree to dismiss the Illegal Detention charge, but I want her cited for not crossing at a right angle and Hazardous Conduct on a Public Street."
The cop called his Lieutenant, and after the cop told the story, he authorized the summonses.
She went home with $215.00 worth of traffic tickets, and they are worth a total of four points against her license, as well as the appropriate insurance surcharge!
Of course, if she demands a trial I won't prosecute. But the look on her face as she walked away was more than enough satisfaction for me.
Yea, I've passed the bar, and I'm on a mission from God.
I cant think of any type of being known to man that doesn't expand at the limit that their resources allow them to. If beings like that exist on Earth, they are in the great minority. I think the Fermi Paradox's idea that aliens would colonize the galaxy is based off what we have observed of life here on Earth. Maybe there are transhumans out there fitting your description, but they would be far outnumbered by the aggressive/expansive types, like us humans.
Unless, I guess, the transhumans felt the need to control the population of the lower life forms (which btw makes them a little aggressive, no?). In which case, we should probably shut the hell up and quit broadcasting our existence before we get sprayed with galactic RAID.
"The point here, though, is that the proposal being discussed in this story is not to reverse global warming, but merely to slow it."
I disagree. I think Gore is not as slow as he talks, and recognizes that this will do little by itself. He believes that if the population actually succeeds in convincing governments to halt CO2 production, it will not be soon enough to keep us from starting those feedback loops that will keep CO2 levels rising despite our efforts. In order to speed our efforts, we should be coming up with technology to remove CO2 at the same time as limiting our production of it.
I drive a motorcycle, so Im for it, but there's a lot of businesses that would gripe, and restricting business is political suicide. If you add a tax break to businesses to your plan, however, I'm for it. Ok, now that we've decided, lets write congress with our demands.
Seriously, we all need to get together to do something. Im not yet sure about the latest thing I've gotten into, but everyone should at least register their belief somewhere.
Here's my fav site so far, has all the issues of Global Warming mapped out. A graph is worth a thousand pictures. Found it through wiki's entry on global warming.
My proposal will feature Openoffice. I present to you, Megacorp, a product that will save money on even that 10% of the business that travels. The look and feel is even more similar to Google docs than MS, thereby not confusing the highly intelligent executives any more than necessary.
Was wondering what all the lawyer-speak was before the show started tonight.
There will have to be multiple, complex solutions to this coming energy crisis, but 2 things will have to happen: 1) The public as a whole is going to have to be better informed and concerned enough to force the politicians to move, and 2) A huge majority of the public is going to have to make a few changes.
:)
Which green solutions are best is sometimes debatable. But there is a new company that seems to best cover both 1&2, and it is one of the 'no-brainer' solutions. Citizenre will be renting solar panels out, letting them almost immediately save everyone money, while making each customer a sales person, familiar with product and issues. Its 100,000 panel/yr manufacturing plant is scheduled to come online in September 2007. They're currently using 2005 average power bill prices, and will switch to 2006 on Jan 31, 2007. The rate my Dad locked in, just by registering on the website, was 37% less than his current bill.
If you live in the US, and would like to sign up under me, sites are:
http://www.jointhesolution.com/solarnevada (as customer)
http://www.powur.com/solarnevada (as sales associate)
To ruthlessly give someone else commission, www.citizenre.com.
Your comment was moded up but I dont see any replies. This backs up my theory that almost everyone reading /. agrees with you, but very few do anything about it (with the American population even worse). What can we do? Who knows the most important outlets for this cause? To me, the only thing I have been able to think of is political solutions (after reading Collapse...Jared Diamond) - voted for Gore & Kerry, and *donated* to both them and green pty as well ($ is probably more powerful than a vote). Bush has spent $400 billion to create a terrorist state, while removing us from Kyoto. Whos with me that we HAVE to remove corporate sponsorship of the presidency?
For availability, this site automatically tells you where to buy PS3:
http://www.coreground.com/playstation
I hear you can even set up an SMS msg to let you know when one is available.
Idea has some merit I think. And how about that easy 'report spam' button on gmail? Stats could be collected, and see how many other reported spam pages have similar html characteristics, thereby identifying auto-gen'd pages. I get almost no spam in my gmail account, I thought it was because of the report spam button. (I'm no expert though)