The infamous 'advertising as news' or more commonly called infotainment, so often they miss the 'this is an advertisement' message they are meant to insert with this cruft.
Windows I buy it because I don't have a choice as it's comes with the hardware I want except phones or music players, hmm, now how well is windows doing a platform where people actually have a real choice, ever file servers.
Windows the only reason it's popular because you don't get to choose, the great hardware divide proves it, where ever there is real choice windows looses. The only feature that the majority of people would be really interested in with windows 8, how well does it talk to Android;D.
There will be a massive push to drive up Facebooks income by any means possible to ramp up the valuation of the company regardless of the consequences. Choke the chicken too hard and it never comes it just dies.
That's exactly what is, repeat, is going to happen. They will use Facebook shares as junk bonds to buy in revenue by buying other tech companies and then market that as increased revenue, they will add new charges everywhere they can think of and they will push against people's addiction to facebook. They will do everything in their power to create a Facebook fiscal bubble.
We are talking Goldman 'we don't give a crap show me the money now' Sachs. All they need is one year pump and dump and kaboom, the pension funds get stuck with another lemon.
More interestingly than that, the argument against a bill of rights is not that it guarantees rights but that it limits them. You only get the rights as defined without a bill of rights all rights are yours and must be challenged in a court of law to take away any implied on non-limited rights. Bill of rights, these are you rights and not one bit more and we will use interpretive law and corrupted courts to limit them based upon wealth.
So a pyrrhic victory. They'll end up spending $5 to shut down a $2 licence fee. Still a criminal act to interfere with a computer network which is the only reason it is being done in Russia. With Uncle Tom Obama at the helm they can guarantee that the US Department of non-justice will turn a blind eye to this computer network hacking even if they start shutting out content that doesn't infringe copyright it just competes.
This is all about shutting down a competing publishing network, one that distribute from content creator to end user with half a dozen greedy useless parasitical middlemen in between.
Marketing manipulation in promoting the city and denying people access in order to generate desirability so that instead of paying people to inhabit the test site people will pay to inhabit the test site.
Getting the right sort of people to inhabit the test environment is not as easy as it sounds and getting them to do it with least cost to the developers is obviously a high goal.
It is not about abandoning privacy in that city it is about giving doctorates in psychology and developers the opportunity to manipulate you via your whole environment and monitor and adjust inputs until desired outcomes or failures are achieved.
Truly lab rats in a maze. Without people the city is pointless they are just conducting a exercise in market manipulation in order to gain the least costly volunteer group willing to sign the lives and minds away.
Disrupting traffic flow by manipulating light patterns will simply result in ever increasing levels of failure due to complexity. Once traffic jams occur, a green light has no affect as the road in front beyond the traffic light is blocked by other traffic.
To bias every light in a single individuals simply generates a traffic jam in the perpendicular direction obstructing other individuals. In more rush hour just one car break down at critical points can generate a traffic jam that delays people half an hour, this extended delays generate higher opportunity for break down due to extended idling increasing potential for traffic jams.
If they are going to stay playing games with rush hour traffic to favour the rich, then I for one will stay paying games with five hundred dollars run down old cars and living them at choke points during rush hour whilst I go grab a sanger and a pint and watch the chaos. I'm sure others will join in on the game and create permanent grid lock, hard to tow away a car if the tow truck can't get to it.
Nuclear radiation is bad and generally to be avoid. The interesting story here is state police cars with built in radioactivity detectors, obviously either checking for dirty radioactive weapons, nuclear weapons or newly arrived aliens hot off the star ships skulking about in their human skin suits;).
How far does this testing occur, is it only a single state dissolving into professional paranoia or is the whole of the US in on this detection of radiation sources.
To correctly 'test' the prediction, where's the test and let's see statistically how many adults can pass it. If the children's parents do no better than the children, perhaps this is an education begins at home issue.
Don't forget testing some should fail and some should do far better, if to many pass the test was to easy, if to many fail the test was to hard. Comparison can then be drawn on the change of questions over time as well as the ability of adults to pass those tests.
Is it really willingly when they lack knowledge of what is being done to the data, or they lack the ability to cloak or obscure their data and when they need to make use of the services to search the internet.
In order for choice to really exist should a new search service be created government funded, that displays no adds and keep no private data and actually does give all citizens a true choice.
Often government regulation ensures the majority people have a choice. The majority might decide many services are far to privacy invasive and use the legislative rights to get laws enacted to enforce privacy requirements.
The FBI is becoming lazy, full of government appointees who have no idea what they are doing, looking for easy short cuts, basically get computers to do their thinking for them. The computers can watch everyone all of the time and just tell the FBI who to arrest and then the agents get the credit.
Privacy, at it's core is the difference between a free person and a slave. A slave has no right to privacy, none, not in their person or not in their few minor possessions. Kind of reminds you exactly what the TSA does to people, turns then from citizens to slaves, not everyone of course, special people better people, the people with real power, they fly private or charter and the TSA under Uncle Tom Obama stays well away from them, including and especially all of Obama Hollywood friends.
If you hate slashdot so much how come you keep returning, full of ad hominem rebuttals, you value discussion only when it is your own and every must agree with you. You twist words to suit your ego, competition law of the jungle, is hardly the Olympics ding bat, that would be more accurately gladiatorial combat but, your the plotting and scheming type that hates to be exposed for what they are.
You in actual gladiatorial combat, the law of the jungle, actual competition and not just 'oh that's right' a game. Have you ever actually really competitive for anything as a man and no as slimy scheming, sociopath.
You over weaning ego is really showing through with that line spacing, 'You Must Be Heard' over all others. In billions of years of the past and billions of years of the future, you really honestly think I care that much about today's monkey games. As you life draws to a close and you desperately seek a controlled protected environment in the vain attempt to live forever, know your fear that one that grinds at you, that you desperately try to bury away by buying stuff and with juvenile displays of ego, is most definitely not mine;D.
Humans are a social species, we do not compete individually unless we are sociopaths, we compete collectively. Go run screaming into the wild, naked, absent of language and with no tools and see if you really are a lion or some wimp short haired monkey with delusions of grandeur that completely, utterly and totally cease to exist outside of protection via the group, via 'society', via social cooperation. That a minority using the tools of mass media the psychopaths and their minions the narcissist have distorted the reality and requirement of human social cooperation, does not make it real.
Mr. Lion eat, or be eaten, that's the law of the nature, you so funny (I can see you now butt naked screaming trying to chase down bison, all teeth and fingernails, no tools their design came from cooperative effort). PS don't be a dick with line spacing, it's really rude to try flood slashdot pages like that, grow up.
You can't be seriously asking for a public confession of espionage on slashdot, what next you want them to waterboard themselves, maintain stress positions, go without sleep, starve, freeze and play bad music too loud. It's right there in that magenta folder marked top secret just shoot me in the head right now;D.
For an object of that size to have an iron core means it is the debris of another planet. Simply insufficient mass to allow gravity to maintain a inner molten state and promote the refinement of iron from the collection of accumulated dust.
Sure it's an very old chunk of debris that over the aeons has accumulated new layers of dust, but it hardly is a proto planet, wrong type of core.
So pieces of Vesta found on earth on pieces of the planet Vesta was once a part of found on earth. Astronomers so hate catastrophic planetary formation, is just so terrifying this science had it not too distant roots in denial of meteor impacts for the same reason. Yes we could all get wiped out, random probability based upon out lack of knowledge, and just as likely to happen on 12 of December 2012 as in the past for the Dinosaurs or not happen at all for millions of years.
Galaxies collide, suns collide and planets collide, get over it already.
Innocent until proven guilty in a court of law? FAIL.
"Washington, we have a problem." as a RIAA/MPAA driven Justice Department driven by Uncle Tom Obama send justice hurtling out of control. Steal the stuff, fire the employees, threatening them with extended homosexual rape in US prisons (don't deny Americans routinely comment on it and it is publicly acknowledged http://www.hrw.org/news/2007/12/15/us-federal-statistics-show-widespread-prison-rape).
So forget justice this is all about nothing but a corrupt betrayer in the highest office in the United States a true Uncle Tom and out of control greed and corruption.
In a competitive society, those that lose ie it is competitive and people lose. The failures end up out of work and with no means of support. That is the nature of capitalism. Singapore is a city and basically relies upon a controlled population and in affect exile to surrounding Malaysia and exploitation of Malaysian labour to create a stable wealthy 'city' society.
Where full countries are involved, you must deal with the failures who can not effectively cope with a competitive society. These individuals left in those circumstance obviously resort to crimes and the rest of society becomes the victims of those crimes. Unemployment at 8% represents millions of people.
So you believe in punishing the children of the poor for what, hmm, being born. The children are at fault for the action of their parents. You believe in trying to arrest them after they have resorted to crime to survive, tough luck for the victims, you believe in slum areas where the pathetic losers should contained and their betters can go for bargains, cheap sex and to mock them.
You believe in turning first world nations into second world nations with rampant crime and, corruption because you don't want to pay tax. You also believe in lies http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_welfare_in_Japan. Japan the jobs for life country hardly compares to US disposable labour and the social disruption it generates.
Obviously pointing at China means, you just like your tiny minority of psychopaths believes everyone but you should be getting paid around fifty cents an hour and be grateful for that pittance as they kiss your feet, and grovel for crumbs. So Chinese autocracy is better because they get to execute the bothersome poor who clamour for democracy.
LED lighting represents a new era in lighting technology where the light fixture becomes pretty much invisible with light being it's only output. Simple flat panel fixtures, variable output and variable colour. Illuminated door handles, using motion sensors to illuminate the part of the passageway you are in, illuminated stair treads or even very low wattage led ceilings where the whole ceiling is the light fixture. We are really only scratching the surface of LED lighting and if it wasn't for patent loaded prices, LED would far more rapidly take over.
The dependent on your circuit has nothing to do with surge protection and everything to do with, replacing the existing board and including surge protection in the new board, as well as neat stuff like ELCB http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_leakage_circuit_breaker to protect yourself and your family. So the idea is, if your redoing your electrics to improve them, starting with a new circuit breaker board might be a good idea.
I am sick of the repeated lie, don't worry ours is safe, on it's own heh heh. Compound affect, a modern US airport would have to be one of the most dangerous places to be. There more than anywhere else they should be taking steps to reduce exposure not add to it.
So let's start seeing some real numbers on total exposure. Drive to Airport exposed to airport radar, stand under bright florescent for a couple of hours, everybody using mobile phones lots of people in very close range, go through xray, exposed to extra radiation during flight, land at another airport with radar, couple of more hours under florescent lights, then go to beach and get sunburn. Skin cancer rates rising, use sunblock? Now we need a 24 hour a day 7 day week radiation block and they haven't finished yet. They'll keep adding in more 'safe on it's own devices' until future current youth will pay a huge price when they finally become short lived adults.
So Dells 'Project Sputnik' looks like another exploratory plunge into Linux specifically with an sharp eye out for Android.
So is this another solid indication that Android is going to be making a run at the desktop. A very subtle grab for developers and as they use the devices they will inadvertently tweak them for regular users, create that whole OS ecosphere, that Dell is obviously working to be a part of.
Every time Linux has gotten to this stage M$ has crippled it by dramatically reducing prices and, strong arming suppliers. Of course Linux now has the server market and Android has the mobile market, all that's left is the gap in-between, the desktop, 'CRUNCH'.
It seems they are getting a little bit more heated up about this issue than you would normally expect. Perhaps Patti had focused due diligence on Scott's other endowments more than his intellect. Hiring "Terry Bird of the law firm Bird, Marella, Boxer, Wolpert, Nessim, Drooks and Licenberg, which is is said to specialise in litigation and internal investigations", sounds like some sort of collusory action going on here. First year income $1 million plus $2 million bonus if approved by the board and $1.5 million cash bonus and a restricted stock award valued at $6.5 million (there's plenty of room for an inverse bonus in there). Not bad first year salary, not that would certainly pay quite for some canoodling.
Once you get up to huge US corporate executive salaries and collusory board rooms there is ample room for all sorts of corrupt practices. Salary kick backs, you vote me and I'll vote you, you employ me and I'll employ your family and or company.
Forget the direct hit nonsense for the majority of homes a direct hit is impossible. Lighting is not strike any point on the affect. Large areas of ground and large volumes of air with sufficient difference in charge to generate the affect and the lighting will strike to the closest highest energy difference points. Very few houses are ever at risk. For by far the majority you are only really worried about a lighting strike on the power grid in close vicinity and on your circuit.
So dependent upon your circuit board, add the in-line fuse into your board and then still use surge protection power boards for computers. If you circuit board is really old and will not accept that kind of change, time to consider a rewire, your house might go up in flames from bad wiring insulation long before you have any lighting strike problems.
That is the real crux of the situation, so what is the driver, what is really going. Same old, same old, a bunch of psychopaths with their narcissist minions are preaching nationalism, race and religion in order to drive conflict from which the psychopaths can gain profit and power. Palestinian land is not just stolen, someone is stealing it and the selling it or even better renting it, all behind the cover of nationalism, race and religion. The other side also has it's share who seek to further inflame the situation in order to guarantee their personal power.
The whole thing is spread even further beyond the boundaries of the country in question. Surrounding countries are using it to draw focus away from autocratic countries. Even crazier the country in question the highlights the surrounding autocratic countries to draw attention away from the big land rip off (only a very small minority gain huge benefit from the stolen land while the rest pay exorbitant rent, oh but your're fulfilling your religious heritage and should be happy to sacrifice).
Every war, every conflict has at it's core psychopaths who drove the conflict for their own benefit. There never were real reasons of nationalism, race or religion, they were all just lies, lies repeated again and again for thousands of year. We have been allowing a tiny percentage of psychopaths to get us to kill each other, so those psychopaths can call themselves chiefs, kings, emperors and presidents or what ever other make believe title they come up with. Stupid gullible pawns, fighting the psychopathic games of insane inhumane individuals.
Freedom of speech is the right to express 'opinion', it is not the right to lie or deceive, to present something as true or factual when it is not and it most certainly is not the right to benefit by those lies.
The TSA was designed by private interests for the benefit of private interests. Those flying private or charter never need fear. Everyone else, well, ultimately you are the enemy of the 1% and a threat to their existence, a threat that needs to be controlled and taught it's place. You or your family have no right to privacy not of their possessions or of their body. Upon demand you and you family will present themselves naked to be physically molested at will. When the real intent of the TSA is corrupt don't be surprised when the organisation becomes corrupt. Reality want change then demand TSA conduct the same activity for private and charter flights, watch how fast the law changes after that.
Now add that uplights provide the best quality illumination by reflecting light off ceilings. So rather than typical ceiling cornices, run strip leds around the perimeter of a room, with switching control to allow various switching patterns for dimming ie all on, 1 in 2 on, 1 in 3 on etc. Of course no goofy light fittings like chandeliers or fake oil lamps etc. just quality energy efficient controllable lighting example http://www.leyton-lighting.co.uk/led-tape.asp.
Which is exactly why economist never understand why companies go belly up when they get caught ripping off their customers while the companies psychopathic executives wander off with the bonuses and golden parachute. The world is littered with bankrupt companies employing your thinking, whilst companies that demonstrate and maintain integrity can survive centuries.
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The infamous 'advertising as news' or more commonly called infotainment, so often they miss the 'this is an advertisement' message they are meant to insert with this cruft.
Windows I buy it because I don't have a choice as it's comes with the hardware I want except phones or music players, hmm, now how well is windows doing a platform where people actually have a real choice, ever file servers.
Windows the only reason it's popular because you don't get to choose, the great hardware divide proves it, where ever there is real choice windows looses. The only feature that the majority of people would be really interested in with windows 8, how well does it talk to Android ;D.
Ohh Crap!
There will be a massive push to drive up Facebooks income by any means possible to ramp up the valuation of the company regardless of the consequences. Choke the chicken too hard and it never comes it just dies.
That's exactly what is, repeat, is going to happen. They will use Facebook shares as junk bonds to buy in revenue by buying other tech companies and then market that as increased revenue, they will add new charges everywhere they can think of and they will push against people's addiction to facebook. They will do everything in their power to create a Facebook fiscal bubble.
We are talking Goldman 'we don't give a crap show me the money now' Sachs. All they need is one year pump and dump and kaboom, the pension funds get stuck with another lemon.
More interestingly than that, the argument against a bill of rights is not that it guarantees rights but that it limits them. You only get the rights as defined without a bill of rights all rights are yours and must be challenged in a court of law to take away any implied on non-limited rights. Bill of rights, these are you rights and not one bit more and we will use interpretive law and corrupted courts to limit them based upon wealth.
So a pyrrhic victory. They'll end up spending $5 to shut down a $2 licence fee. Still a criminal act to interfere with a computer network which is the only reason it is being done in Russia. With Uncle Tom Obama at the helm they can guarantee that the US Department of non-justice will turn a blind eye to this computer network hacking even if they start shutting out content that doesn't infringe copyright it just competes.
This is all about shutting down a competing publishing network, one that distribute from content creator to end user with half a dozen greedy useless parasitical middlemen in between.
Marketing manipulation in promoting the city and denying people access in order to generate desirability so that instead of paying people to inhabit the test site people will pay to inhabit the test site.
Getting the right sort of people to inhabit the test environment is not as easy as it sounds and getting them to do it with least cost to the developers is obviously a high goal.
It is not about abandoning privacy in that city it is about giving doctorates in psychology and developers the opportunity to manipulate you via your whole environment and monitor and adjust inputs until desired outcomes or failures are achieved.
Truly lab rats in a maze. Without people the city is pointless they are just conducting a exercise in market manipulation in order to gain the least costly volunteer group willing to sign the lives and minds away.
Disrupting traffic flow by manipulating light patterns will simply result in ever increasing levels of failure due to complexity. Once traffic jams occur, a green light has no affect as the road in front beyond the traffic light is blocked by other traffic.
To bias every light in a single individuals simply generates a traffic jam in the perpendicular direction obstructing other individuals. In more rush hour just one car break down at critical points can generate a traffic jam that delays people half an hour, this extended delays generate higher opportunity for break down due to extended idling increasing potential for traffic jams.
If they are going to stay playing games with rush hour traffic to favour the rich, then I for one will stay paying games with five hundred dollars run down old cars and living them at choke points during rush hour whilst I go grab a sanger and a pint and watch the chaos. I'm sure others will join in on the game and create permanent grid lock, hard to tow away a car if the tow truck can't get to it.
Nuclear radiation is bad and generally to be avoid. The interesting story here is state police cars with built in radioactivity detectors, obviously either checking for dirty radioactive weapons, nuclear weapons or newly arrived aliens hot off the star ships skulking about in their human skin suits ;).
How far does this testing occur, is it only a single state dissolving into professional paranoia or is the whole of the US in on this detection of radiation sources.
To correctly 'test' the prediction, where's the test and let's see statistically how many adults can pass it. If the children's parents do no better than the children, perhaps this is an education begins at home issue.
Don't forget testing some should fail and some should do far better, if to many pass the test was to easy, if to many fail the test was to hard. Comparison can then be drawn on the change of questions over time as well as the ability of adults to pass those tests.
Is it really willingly when they lack knowledge of what is being done to the data, or they lack the ability to cloak or obscure their data and when they need to make use of the services to search the internet.
In order for choice to really exist should a new search service be created government funded, that displays no adds and keep no private data and actually does give all citizens a true choice.
Often government regulation ensures the majority people have a choice. The majority might decide many services are far to privacy invasive and use the legislative rights to get laws enacted to enforce privacy requirements.
The FBI is becoming lazy, full of government appointees who have no idea what they are doing, looking for easy short cuts, basically get computers to do their thinking for them. The computers can watch everyone all of the time and just tell the FBI who to arrest and then the agents get the credit.
Privacy, at it's core is the difference between a free person and a slave. A slave has no right to privacy, none, not in their person or not in their few minor possessions. Kind of reminds you exactly what the TSA does to people, turns then from citizens to slaves, not everyone of course, special people better people, the people with real power, they fly private or charter and the TSA under Uncle Tom Obama stays well away from them, including and especially all of Obama Hollywood friends.
If you hate slashdot so much how come you keep returning, full of ad hominem rebuttals, you value discussion only when it is your own and every must agree with you. You twist words to suit your ego, competition law of the jungle, is hardly the Olympics ding bat, that would be more accurately gladiatorial combat but, your the plotting and scheming type that hates to be exposed for what they are.
You in actual gladiatorial combat, the law of the jungle, actual competition and not just 'oh that's right' a game. Have you ever actually really competitive for anything as a man and no as slimy scheming, sociopath.
You over weaning ego is really showing through with that line spacing, 'You Must Be Heard' over all others. In billions of years of the past and billions of years of the future, you really honestly think I care that much about today's monkey games. As you life draws to a close and you desperately seek a controlled protected environment in the vain attempt to live forever, know your fear that one that grinds at you, that you desperately try to bury away by buying stuff and with juvenile displays of ego, is most definitely not mine ;D.
Humans are a social species, we do not compete individually unless we are sociopaths, we compete collectively. Go run screaming into the wild, naked, absent of language and with no tools and see if you really are a lion or some wimp short haired monkey with delusions of grandeur that completely, utterly and totally cease to exist outside of protection via the group, via 'society', via social cooperation. That a minority using the tools of mass media the psychopaths and their minions the narcissist have distorted the reality and requirement of human social cooperation, does not make it real.
Mr. Lion eat, or be eaten, that's the law of the nature, you so funny (I can see you now butt naked screaming trying to chase down bison, all teeth and fingernails, no tools their design came from cooperative effort). PS don't be a dick with line spacing, it's really rude to try flood slashdot pages like that, grow up.
You can't be seriously asking for a public confession of espionage on slashdot, what next you want them to waterboard themselves, maintain stress positions, go without sleep, starve, freeze and play bad music too loud. It's right there in that magenta folder marked top secret just shoot me in the head right now ;D.
For an object of that size to have an iron core means it is the debris of another planet. Simply insufficient mass to allow gravity to maintain a inner molten state and promote the refinement of iron from the collection of accumulated dust.
Sure it's an very old chunk of debris that over the aeons has accumulated new layers of dust, but it hardly is a proto planet, wrong type of core.
So pieces of Vesta found on earth on pieces of the planet Vesta was once a part of found on earth. Astronomers so hate catastrophic planetary formation, is just so terrifying this science had it not too distant roots in denial of meteor impacts for the same reason. Yes we could all get wiped out, random probability based upon out lack of knowledge, and just as likely to happen on 12 of December 2012 as in the past for the Dinosaurs or not happen at all for millions of years.
Galaxies collide, suns collide and planets collide, get over it already.
Innocent until proven guilty in a court of law? FAIL.
"Washington, we have a problem." as a RIAA/MPAA driven Justice Department driven by Uncle Tom Obama send justice hurtling out of control. Steal the stuff, fire the employees, threatening them with extended homosexual rape in US prisons (don't deny Americans routinely comment on it and it is publicly acknowledged http://www.hrw.org/news/2007/12/15/us-federal-statistics-show-widespread-prison-rape).
So forget justice this is all about nothing but a corrupt betrayer in the highest office in the United States a true Uncle Tom and out of control greed and corruption.
How about just goofy.
In a competitive society, those that lose ie it is competitive and people lose. The failures end up out of work and with no means of support. That is the nature of capitalism. Singapore is a city and basically relies upon a controlled population and in affect exile to surrounding Malaysia and exploitation of Malaysian labour to create a stable wealthy 'city' society.
Where full countries are involved, you must deal with the failures who can not effectively cope with a competitive society. These individuals left in those circumstance obviously resort to crimes and the rest of society becomes the victims of those crimes. Unemployment at 8% represents millions of people.
So you believe in punishing the children of the poor for what, hmm, being born. The children are at fault for the action of their parents. You believe in trying to arrest them after they have resorted to crime to survive, tough luck for the victims, you believe in slum areas where the pathetic losers should contained and their betters can go for bargains, cheap sex and to mock them.
You believe in turning first world nations into second world nations with rampant crime and, corruption because you don't want to pay tax. You also believe in lies http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_welfare_in_Japan. Japan the jobs for life country hardly compares to US disposable labour and the social disruption it generates.
Obviously pointing at China means, you just like your tiny minority of psychopaths believes everyone but you should be getting paid around fifty cents an hour and be grateful for that pittance as they kiss your feet, and grovel for crumbs. So Chinese autocracy is better because they get to execute the bothersome poor who clamour for democracy.
LED lighting represents a new era in lighting technology where the light fixture becomes pretty much invisible with light being it's only output. Simple flat panel fixtures, variable output and variable colour. Illuminated door handles, using motion sensors to illuminate the part of the passageway you are in, illuminated stair treads or even very low wattage led ceilings where the whole ceiling is the light fixture. We are really only scratching the surface of LED lighting and if it wasn't for patent loaded prices, LED would far more rapidly take over.
The dependent on your circuit has nothing to do with surge protection and everything to do with, replacing the existing board and including surge protection in the new board, as well as neat stuff like ELCB http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_leakage_circuit_breaker to protect yourself and your family. So the idea is, if your redoing your electrics to improve them, starting with a new circuit breaker board might be a good idea.
Now just ramp that up a little bit. Don't forget http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3685264, so they are giving you a burst of radiation right before you going to get an extended burst of radiation. Now add in your typical sun bathing holiday and the return trip is even more dangerous. Just to add in that touch more fluorescent lights http://www.arpansa.gov.au/radiationprotection/factsheets/is_cfl.cfm and of course you have a ton of mobile phones in the vicinity as well as airport radar http://www.powerwatch.org.uk/rf/radar.asp.
I am sick of the repeated lie, don't worry ours is safe, on it's own heh heh. Compound affect, a modern US airport would have to be one of the most dangerous places to be. There more than anywhere else they should be taking steps to reduce exposure not add to it.
So let's start seeing some real numbers on total exposure. Drive to Airport exposed to airport radar, stand under bright florescent for a couple of hours, everybody using mobile phones lots of people in very close range, go through xray, exposed to extra radiation during flight, land at another airport with radar, couple of more hours under florescent lights, then go to beach and get sunburn. Skin cancer rates rising, use sunblock? Now we need a 24 hour a day 7 day week radiation block and they haven't finished yet. They'll keep adding in more 'safe on it's own devices' until future current youth will pay a huge price when they finally become short lived adults.
Looking at this different article on the same story http://www.tgdaily.com/software-features/63252-dell-touts-linux-laptop-for-android-js-devs, it seems more about Dell becoming Android friendly. Also targeted at Linux, Android, Ruby and JavaScript developers.
So Dells 'Project Sputnik' looks like another exploratory plunge into Linux specifically with an sharp eye out for Android.
So is this another solid indication that Android is going to be making a run at the desktop. A very subtle grab for developers and as they use the devices they will inadvertently tweak them for regular users, create that whole OS ecosphere, that Dell is obviously working to be a part of.
Every time Linux has gotten to this stage M$ has crippled it by dramatically reducing prices and, strong arming suppliers. Of course Linux now has the server market and Android has the mobile market, all that's left is the gap in-between, the desktop, 'CRUNCH'.
It seems they are getting a little bit more heated up about this issue than you would normally expect. Perhaps Patti had focused due diligence on Scott's other endowments more than his intellect. Hiring "Terry Bird of the law firm Bird, Marella, Boxer, Wolpert, Nessim, Drooks and Licenberg, which is is said to specialise in litigation and internal investigations", sounds like some sort of collusory action going on here. First year income $1 million plus $2 million bonus if approved by the board and $1.5 million cash bonus and a restricted stock award valued at $6.5 million (there's plenty of room for an inverse bonus in there). Not bad first year salary, not that would certainly pay quite for some canoodling.
Once you get up to huge US corporate executive salaries and collusory board rooms there is ample room for all sorts of corrupt practices. Salary kick backs, you vote me and I'll vote you, you employ me and I'll employ your family and or company.
Forget the direct hit nonsense for the majority of homes a direct hit is impossible. Lighting is not strike any point on the affect. Large areas of ground and large volumes of air with sufficient difference in charge to generate the affect and the lighting will strike to the closest highest energy difference points. Very few houses are ever at risk. For by far the majority you are only really worried about a lighting strike on the power grid in close vicinity and on your circuit.
So dependent upon your circuit board, add the in-line fuse into your board and then still use surge protection power boards for computers. If you circuit board is really old and will not accept that kind of change, time to consider a rewire, your house might go up in flames from bad wiring insulation long before you have any lighting strike problems.
That is the real crux of the situation, so what is the driver, what is really going. Same old, same old, a bunch of psychopaths with their narcissist minions are preaching nationalism, race and religion in order to drive conflict from which the psychopaths can gain profit and power. Palestinian land is not just stolen, someone is stealing it and the selling it or even better renting it, all behind the cover of nationalism, race and religion. The other side also has it's share who seek to further inflame the situation in order to guarantee their personal power.
The whole thing is spread even further beyond the boundaries of the country in question. Surrounding countries are using it to draw focus away from autocratic countries. Even crazier the country in question the highlights the surrounding autocratic countries to draw attention away from the big land rip off (only a very small minority gain huge benefit from the stolen land while the rest pay exorbitant rent, oh but your're fulfilling your religious heritage and should be happy to sacrifice).
Every war, every conflict has at it's core psychopaths who drove the conflict for their own benefit. There never were real reasons of nationalism, race or religion, they were all just lies, lies repeated again and again for thousands of year. We have been allowing a tiny percentage of psychopaths to get us to kill each other, so those psychopaths can call themselves chiefs, kings, emperors and presidents or what ever other make believe title they come up with. Stupid gullible pawns, fighting the psychopathic games of insane inhumane individuals.
Freedom of speech is the right to express 'opinion', it is not the right to lie or deceive, to present something as true or factual when it is not and it most certainly is not the right to benefit by those lies.
The TSA was designed by private interests for the benefit of private interests. Those flying private or charter never need fear. Everyone else, well, ultimately you are the enemy of the 1% and a threat to their existence, a threat that needs to be controlled and taught it's place. You or your family have no right to privacy not of their possessions or of their body. Upon demand you and you family will present themselves naked to be physically molested at will. When the real intent of the TSA is corrupt don't be surprised when the organisation becomes corrupt. Reality want change then demand TSA conduct the same activity for private and charter flights, watch how fast the law changes after that.
Now add that uplights provide the best quality illumination by reflecting light off ceilings. So rather than typical ceiling cornices, run strip leds around the perimeter of a room, with switching control to allow various switching patterns for dimming ie all on, 1 in 2 on, 1 in 3 on etc. Of course no goofy light fittings like chandeliers or fake oil lamps etc. just quality energy efficient controllable lighting example http://www.leyton-lighting.co.uk/led-tape.asp.
Which is exactly why economist never understand why companies go belly up when they get caught ripping off their customers while the companies psychopathic executives wander off with the bonuses and golden parachute. The world is littered with bankrupt companies employing your thinking, whilst companies that demonstrate and maintain integrity can survive centuries.