I'm glad to see this experiment over. I think it was a major blunder on the part of NCommander to not give this a great deal of public discussion before allowing it to proceed.

While I think you're right that users don't care that's only half of the equation. If this format can offer a 10% bandwidth reduction to a content heavy web site then it offers significant cost savings and will look very attractive in that light.

I'm in NY and used our state health exchange site. While I was eventually able to get it to work, the user interface is very poorly designed and un-intuitive. I also twice encountered HTTP 500 errors which required me to re-login and start the application process over again.

"no energy loss" was obviously a poor choice of words, but I'm guessing they're referring to the signals within the detector itself which would be very small distances where the difference in attenuation between optical and metal conductors could be very meaningful.

Don't neural cells use electrical potential (ie electrons) for signalling? Why is this novel?

Agreed. I'm still hopeful that SN comes out of their tribulation ok, but I'm much less optimistic than when it launched. At this point |. looks like the best site in the bunch.

I haven't used Firefox OS, but my understanding is it's aimed at lower end smart phones (modest hardware specifications) in emerging markets where there isn't already necessarily a heavily entrenched Apple/Google bias in phone sales. This page lists the devices with specifications and availability.

Oops, rounding error.

OT: Is there no way to edit comments on |. ?

Maybe I missed the sarcasm, but it seems like 3/14/15 will be the special one.

A botnet is exactly what it is. I feel the euphemisms of "implant" (malware) and "implant network" (botnet) to sound very much like newspeak.

From the number of comments on SN, they aren't there either. I'm worried folks have scurried back to the other guys.