- Washington Post: Former US Attorney General John Ashcroft joining security company once known as Blackwater
Good Lord, I'm glad that Bush is no longer president. - A Computer Scientist in a Business School: An ingenious application of crowdsourcing
After discovering that product sales increase when reviews are well-written, Zappos has been using Amazon's Mechanical Turk to copyedit reviews that are submitted to their site. It's a clever use of Mechanical Turk. - CBS-19: Dominion Virginia Power Pushes to Increase Rates
The average monthly bill would go up by $12.76. That's a really, really large amount of money. I'd sure like to see the state extract some concessions from Dominion for this. For starters, they should start buying back green, customer-generated power at a rate substantially higher than the rate at which they sell their lousy coal power.
Pepco is lowering rates for MD by 15%, but it’s temporary. Even so, with Dominion going up(I’ve seen it reported elsewhere at a little south of $10 per customer) and MD going down, Virginians still enjoy cheaper power than our neighbors in MD.
I was under the impression that electricity is currently underpriced, given the decreasing supply and increasing production costs of oil.
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