There have always been con men, selling snake oil to unwary victims. I bet that when the idea of mutually beneficial exchange of goods or services was first conceived, the very next thought in their heads was "how can I use this to gain something without giving something away".

FirstEnergy also warns that natural gas prices will not remain low forever. Years from now, they say, their coal plants and nuclear operations will be more economical and consumers will be thanking them for keeping them open.

The proper course of action would be to view that as an investment opportunity, which will pay off in the future, and invest in keeping those coal and nuclear plants serviceable until then. But I guess asking the government for a handout looks better in quarterly reviews.

What is it with today's fascination with streaming everything? Few weeks ago, I went on a car trip with some friends, and the music in the car was played entirely from smartphones connected to car audio system via bluetooth, streamed from one music service or another. That is, until the signal got bad, and everyone just sat silently, feeling stupid, because nobody had any music files stored locally.

I know this anecdote calls for a "then I saved the day with my SD card full of mp3s" kind of ending, but there isn't one. I didn't get enough sleep the previous night, and was happy I could doze off without their weird music disturbing me. :)

Isn't it a desirable state of things, not to be reachable from work outside of work hours?

Maybe I'm just not seeing the connection, but why does the summary talk about a web server if the issue is with FTP?Edit: Sorry for the doublepost, damn trains and tunnels. :-)

Maybe I'm just not seeing the connection, but why does the summary talk about a web server if the issue is with FTP?

Hookers and coke aren't cheap.

Doesn't Qt also store its strings as UTF-16 internally? I haven't seen complaints about that.

I think it would be useless on tech sites, because the campaign is focused on increasing awareness, while visitors on such sites are usually well aware of the net neutrality issue.Plus, a spinning widget like that would probably be lost among other similar widgets on an average nerd's noscript- adblock- requestpolicy- toting browser. :-)

Everything old is new again. With added bling (read "bloat") for the masses and/or PHBs!

Right, because we live in an all-or-nothing world, and moderation doesn't exist.

Well, it is hard to make drama on a mostly empty site. Expect things to get rougher once more people come (and I hope they will, this site rocks).

Likewise. When I read names of the companies behind this, first thing that popped into my mind was "Where's the DRM?"

Still, no matter what RAID level you use, a failed disk _does_ mean that you need to arrange its replacement. So less failures = happier life.

I tried sending an e-mail to that address, but nothing seems to have happened. Not that I'm complaining, the poor guy is probably on his own in this.

Sounds interesting, but I think I'll wait a few years to let them improve on reliability. I hate disks failing.

Indeed, and even then it will likely be very expensive. Still, it is indeed pretty cool, and might save lives down the line.

If many surgeons "recognise this layer as an important part of the surgical anatomy of the cornea", is it really a _new_ layer that's been discovered?