It's true, coal burners and mud sharks are destroying Europe.

They're just testing the post net neutrality internet, citizen.

How are they converting nuclear radiation directly to electric power? Thermocouples?

Exactly. Anyone who torrents, uses newsgroups, or HD netflix knows that 250g is nothing.

In my area there are two "competitors", and they both cap at 250g. They also, coincidentally, sell bundled cable service.

That 250g data cap will stay (or get worse) unless the FCC does their job.

...but, what's keeping 4TB internal drives off the market?

The 4TB Deskstar has been out for a while...where are Seagate and WD?

I can't stream video content because Comcast and AT&T enforce a monthly 250GB data cap.

They assure me that everything is well citizen.

I'd gladly give up GPS (not that we'd have to) for actual broadband competition in this country.

The cable/telecom monopolies in this country are among the most corrupt and egregious offenders.

And you are irrelevant.
And quite frankly, eventually they will cripple or legislate away any alternatives you have.

You can't "legislate away" people's inability to afford your product.

The American Dream

Once you've gone IPV6, who's going to want to go back. You'll be a Comcast customer until FIOS, DSL or whatever other competition might actually exist catches up.

Speed is useless if they disconnect your connection for using it.

Unlimited 1.5/256 DSL > than any of Comcrap's 250GB capped plans.

Wake me when these idiots offer a plan that doesn't include a 250 GB monthly data cap.

You're forgetting the 2nd ammendment. It's there for a reason.

250+ million armed civilians will get you some hope and change.

Wall St. is strangling the economy. Not the president, not congress, not even the lobbyists.

Outsourcing, H1Bs, downsizing, hostile takeovers, monopolies, mergers, automation, corruption, bribes, slave labor...you name it...it's all in the name of putting profits before human beings without exception. We used to have decent protections against these things, but since Reagan they have been systematically dismantled by both parties.

Shareholders & Boards of Directors are paying Lobbyists, and Lobbyists own Congress. If you believe otherwise...you are simply wrong.

Corporations are Sociopaths with shareholders profitting from the blood and suffering of those who get trampled in the process.

I remember reading about supernovae being so bright they could be observed during the day, brighter than Venus for instance.

From History of supernova observation

The supernova SN 1006 appeared in the southern constellation of Lupus during the year 1006 CE. This was the brightest recorded star ever to appear in the night sky, and its presence was noted in China, Egypt, Iraq, Italy, Japan and Switzerland. It may also have been noted in France, Syria, and North America. Egyptian physician, astronomer and astrologer Ali ibn Ridwan gave the brightness of this star as one-quarter the brightness of the Moon. Modern astronomers have discovered the faint remnant of this explosion and determined that it was only 7,100 light-years from the Earth.[7]

It looks like this one will top out at magnitude 9 at best, making it appear like a dim star at night. How is that this supernova, if it's so close to us, appears so dim?

Can anyone clarify this? I thought type I/II supernova have roughly the same energetic magnitude...so if this one is only 21 million light years away, why isn't it brighter?

Edit: Nevermind, I figured it out. 21 million light-years vs. 7,100 light-years (the example above) is 5 orders of magnitude. It's faint because it's very very far away.

IP laws will do nothing but slow the development of this technology and make it more expensive. If the government won't step in and federalize this (gas prices are killing our economy), then I'm glad China is there to ignore IP laws and make a car we can drive ASAP at less cost. The inventor(s) should be rewarded, handsomely, but our current patent system is a mess which serves big business first, and the consumer last...if ever.

The sooner we get solutions to rising gas prices the better, regardless of how that happens.