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These terms remind me of penny stock toxic financing schemes. I look forward to the inevitable pump and dump around IPO time.

Doesn't MacID already do this with Proximity Wake? [Http://MacID.co]

Reservoirs are but one source of California's water. Groundwater is another. Whether recent rain has had time to percolate and recharge aquifers instead of running off remains to b…

Note that this article is 2 years old.

Define large...

Since Mythbusters proved that finding a needle in a haystack isn't that difficult, I propose that the term be changed to "finding a needle in the ionosphere." [Not applicable to or…

I see you're not familiar with Federal Code Title 49 Subtitle B Chapter V Part 571. In layman's terms that's Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards which regulate among other vehic…

Will its propulsion system involve sucking and blowing air over a "special" airfoil to increase the air's velocity?

I agree wholeheartedly. It seems this device just creates more points of failure (e.g. lost/dead phone, urinary tract infections, interference, etc.) for a little convenience. Self…

HR Haldeman wasn't incredibly angry. I knew him and his family. One anecdote is that around 1990 Nixon was in Santa Barbara. Bob knew when Dick's motorcade would be passing by and …

Wow! This is so badly written (spelling, grammar, logic)...

Well it is TechCrunch (where it's and its are seemingly interchangeable).

In California, building codes are tightly integrated with fire code. For example, residential roofs cannot be entirely covered with solar panels because a firefighter may have to p…

Department of Water Resources' reservoir status map: http://cdec.water.ca.gov/cgi-progs/products/rescond.pdf

Why do you want to know?

Was this created using a new-age corporate bs buzzword generator? "Optinaut"? COOD (Control Our Own Destiny)? Oooh, better trademark that genius mantra! How about sharing with the …

Hmm, the old search-and-click-article-through-Google-News trick isn't working. How about a summary, OP?

The Internet was pretty civil before the riff-raff got easy access. USENET was fun, informative, and most groups had more than a modicum of civility. Any site that monetizes with a…

I made a side trip to Wuppertal when I visited Köln because I'm a monorail enthusiast. The system was amazing for its time and its safety per passenger-distance is quite good for r…

>Data says[ sic ]: Windows XP Firefox users are much more likely to have 0 addons installed than the Firefox users in general This sounds like the Tor browser . . . If this is the …

For more context, at just over 11 cubic km it's roughly twice as large as Shasta Lake[0]—California's largest reservoir. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shasta_Lake#/media/File%3A6…

The psychological challenges are interesting. Psychiatrists and psychologists often need to vent to a peer to deal with being the person who counsels others. I imagine or hope that…

An unfortunate domain name choice...