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more about #california more comments → EBone: I'm meeting with PG&E later this month and I can't wait to rattle their cage about this. more » Molbork: As great as the idea is, if transmission issues are solved, I don't think I would want to support such a system. The major problem I see is, that an ... more » Panzer23: And now I will build and Ice Palace and a ridiculous suit to control the sunlight!!!! HAHAHAHA *menacing laugh* Sigh, what a horrible movie more » exoren22: I remember is SimCity 2000 when the microwave power station would get misaligned and all the people living around it fried. I would love to see that i... more » PotteryBarnClearanceSale: Couldn't they build a few nuclear plants for the same amount of money? Space? That's really expensive right now. more » Azuaron: According to Kurzweil (the futurist who's accurately predicted the growth of a number of information technologies), in 10 years ground based solar pow... more » ebotee: How will it hold up to all the space debris we made that is in orbit? more » Nathan Obbards: Year 2016: ''And in other news, Californians across the state are inexplicably suffering higher rates of cancer than any other state across the US." more » OCEntertainment: Actually, I've been wanting that Android indicator for a while. Being constantly on for chat is convenient sometimes, but some of my more chatty frien... more » BeyondtheTech: That guy looks almost like the California governor on TV in the movie "2012!" more » Nathan Obbards: Who wants to bet that Bada becomes Lamea? Also, seriously, Ferrari styling on a netbook? Seriously? more » Andrew Pollack: These guys make ATMs. ATMs do not miscount. They do not fail to log transactions. They do not do these things pretty much ever. Interestingly, if ... more » Sticks Calhoun: Hah! This is Diebold Election Systems renamed. What a terrible company. One of many things that makes me ashamed of my government. #californiavotingma... more » Stevox: How f*ucking hard is it to add numbers?! Security should have been the *only* thing requiring serious attention. #californiavotingmachineinvesti... more » Wburg: Guess what? External antennas. I'm sure we'll have a way to passively bring signal into the car, they're doing it in airplanes now. You might even get... more » -
#solarpower
California Approves Orbiting Solar Panel Deal, Aims for 2016 Launch
Remember Solaren, the company that's trying to launch those space-based solar panels, the one that signed a deal with California's biggest power utility company? The whole plan got even closer to reality today, after getting approval from California legislators. More » -
#remainders
Remainders - Stuff We Didn't Post (and Why)
Samsung's Bada Mobile OS to Launch in Early 2010...Google Talk Knows When You're on Android, and Likes It...California Passes New Efficiency Standard for TVs...Acer Ferrari Netbook's Tackiness Burns My Eyes... More » -
#voting
Voting Machines With Disappearing Logs Finally Under Investigation
We knew how you could hack a voting machine, but California has discovered that some of its machines practically invite you to play. Machines made by Premier Election Solutions are finally under investigation for their faulty, omissive, easily alterable logs. More » -
#cellphones
California Cool Cars Block the Sun, Cellphones and GPS
The metal oxide coating California's "Cool Cars" regulation mandates for car windows starting in 2010 doesn't just reflect sunlight—it also bounces the signals for cellphones, GPS navigators and, um, parolees' ankle bracelets, making reception noticeably crappier.Updated. More » -
#airplanes
Video of Crazy 747 Supertanker Pilots Risking Lives to Fight California's Fires
Please disregard the Fox News anchors' babbling, and focus on the amazing video of the 747 firefighting supertanker in real action over California. Excuse my French, but those pilots are fucking crazy, flying such beast so close to the fires. More » -
#epiphanies
Google Street View Car Sees the Light
God has been found, and in the most unlikely of places: Southern California. Well, either it's God, or the Street View cameras take a second to adjust to bright light, coming out of a tunnel. Probably God, though. [Thanks, Jordan!] -
#goodvsevil
Space-Based Solar Panels May Be Used for Energy-Saving Good or Catastrophic Evil
A Californian power company is looking at launching giant, reflective solar panels into space to beam clean energy back to us on Earth. But the tech was originally designed for Bond-villain-like weather control. More » -
#solarpower
California May Get Some Power From Solar Space Cells By 2016
The idea of harnessing solar power from space has been around for a while; Asimov included it in at least two of his stories that I remember—but may finally be a reality come 2016. More » -
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#reward
AT&T Putting Up $100,000 Reward For Cable Cutting Vandals
AT&T has announced a $100,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of the saboteurs that recently cut fiber optic cable in the San Jose region. More » -
#crime
Vandals Cut AT&T Fiber Optic Lines In San Jose Affecting Thousands
Police in San Jose are investigating two incidents involving severed AT&T and Sprint fiber optic cable that knocked out landline, cellular and internet service to thousands of Silicon Valley residents. More » -
#boom
Mythbusters Explosion Breaks Windows, Tosses Women Off Couches
The Mythbusters' passion for explosions got a little out of hand earlier this week when they detonated 500 pounds of ammonium nitrate a mile outside of Esparto, California. Perhaps two miles would have been better. More » -
#omgstfu
Teenager Tallies Up 14,528 Text Messages in a Month
A 13-year-old girl in California racked up 14,528 text messages in just a month, which calculates out to 484 a day and 20 an hour. Dear Lord, it's that damn Cingular commercial come to life. More »
