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...worried about supply." "If the company is German, it will experience any shortage or blackout from a distance," he says. "But [the blackouts] will happen in Spain. And blackouts are political issues. They cost votes." But even a safe supply needs to feel like good value to the end user. In truth, it is far from clear that energy consolidation benefits the European economy or the consumer. Yes, theoretically it's an improvement if energy suppliers can easily shift their gas or electricity around the region. But the market needs enough competitive players to make it work. So while Brussels...
...failings of the American system, the existence of impact litigators, contingency lawyers, and activist civil rights law firms means that there’s the chance of a remedy when things break, as opposed to a series of online click-through User License Agreements (ULAs) that replace Constitutional rights. They often include a codicil that says “we reserve the right to change this agreement at any time without notice...
...account holders complete the free registration process, they are given their own home page that features everything from a personalized daily planner to highlights of blogs that have recently mentioned their name. A “Blogcrastinate” button at the top of every page swiftly diverts the user to a completely random blog, and a “Campus Chatter” feature identifies the most common words and phrases showing up in posts. Just before the official launch, “campus chatter” was preoccupied with outgoing University President Lawrence H. Summers, Chuck Norris...
...indeed proud of the swanky redesign of the Registrar’s website, we remain too often unmoved by what’s under the hood. In addition to the disappointing delays in grade delivery, the Registrar’s attempts to better accommodate students with a more user-friendly site frustratingly lacks online transcript request processing. Such a feature is undoubtedly technologically feasible, and would save time for both students—who would be spared long walks and the experience of writing $2 personal checks—and the registrar—who would no longer have...
...Yahoo! is all about the people," says Caterina Fake, co-founder of the wildly successful photo-sharing site Flickr, which Yahoo! purchased last year. Flickr symbolizes the Yahoo! approach. Its collection of tens of millions of photos is all user generated and user cataloged. Participants themselves "tag" the pictures by typing in keywords that let others search the photos. Yahoo! last year also acquired del.icio.us, a social-bookmarking website that lets users share their favorite sites, music and other findings--allowing others to effectively look over their shoulders to find interesting stuff. "We're applying the wisdom of the crowds...