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  1. Maybe people are waking up? on Tesla To Close a Dozen Solar Facilities In 9 States (cnbc.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    Scams have sold most solar panels after all. Hopefully this is a sign people are finally waking up to the giant fucking scam PACE is. Government working as mafia leg breakers for extortionate loans sold to naive people, but it's all kosher because it sells solar panels ...

  2. They are designed to be alignment immune, one designed especially for the iphone would be much smaller. The standards are just a giant pile of compromises too. Assuming Apple can get a patent license, a custom wireless charger would probably significantly more efficient than the existing standards too.

  3. Re:Given that it impacts food supply on A CO2 Shortage is Causing a Beer and Meat Crisis in Britain (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe people were selling naked futures and making it impossible to see the shortage coming?

  4. Re: ICE employees? on GitHub, Medium Remove Public ICE Employee Data Repository (obsceneworks.com) · · Score: 1

    PS. of course MS13 members don't need a tax paying employer.

  5. Re: ICE employees? on GitHub, Medium Remove Public ICE Employee Data Repository (obsceneworks.com) · · Score: 1

    Fines are a capricious tool which will just be used to punish political enemies over technicalities.

    The solution is e-certify and ID laws.

  6. Re: ICE employees? on GitHub, Medium Remove Public ICE Employee Data Repository (obsceneworks.com) · · Score: 1

    Just for the sake of argument, lets say until they have family detention centers back and have enough DNA testing machines and technicians to quickly establish parenthood, you let anyone with a child on their arm through no questions asked (a tracking bracelet is fairly useless for those who don't intend to abide by the law any way, one phone call and someone will come to take it off in seconds).

    What do you think the consequences will be?

  7. Re: ICE employees? on GitHub, Medium Remove Public ICE Employee Data Repository (obsceneworks.com) · · Score: 1

    The current administration lost access to the existing family detention center because lawsuits have made it impossible to have them certified.

    http://www.theeagle.com/news/l...

    They literally can not detain the kids with their mothers like it happened for most of Obama's terms.

  8. Hey Doxxing, fun ... on GitHub, Medium Remove Public ICE Employee Data Repository (obsceneworks.com) · · Score: 0

    Anyone know what Beau's address is?

  9. Re:Looks good/makes sense except... on New 'Tent' Assembly Line Is 'Way Better' Than Conventional Factory, Says Tesla CEO (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Automated paint shops aren't Tesla specific, they might already be perfectly able to run at the originally intended rate.

  10. More room for manual assembly? on New 'Tent' Assembly Line Is 'Way Better' Than Conventional Factory, Says Tesla CEO (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    Didn't they say they tried to automate too much? If so all this room is probably needed to allow more manpower to work in parallel.

    Whatever works.

  11. Re:Backseat Engineering on Uber 'Neglected' Simulation Testing For Its Autonomous Vehicles, Says Report (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    In the case of Tesla I also lay blame with the regulators. At least for Uber and Google the regulators thought they had professional test drivers (which in Uber's case wasn't true, they had a professional diagnostic screen watcher ... which did her job, which was not paying attention to the road as the car killed someone).

    In Tesla's case we know the system as designed insures there will often be no one paying attention behind the wheel, yet the system as designed requires the driver to pay attention. Tesla's system is unsafe by design. Regulators should have never allowed this nor keep allowing it. It will continue to kill people and it's only by accident it keeps being the occupants of the Tesla instead of innocents.

  12. Re:Evidence of necessity? on President Trump Directs Pentagon To Create New 'Space Force' Military Branch (defensenews.com) · · Score: 1

    You can put a lot of small rods and their deorbiting rockets on one big rocket and have them sit there in orbit, firing a couple ignoring all potential AA and with almost no early warning and saving the rest.

    An ICBM needs a big payload to justify going intercontinental. Hypersonic cruise missiles are the alternative to rods, but rods are better in some ways.

  13. "However, the Treaty does not prohibit the placement of conventional weapons in orbit"

    Lasers, ballistic and kinetic weapons are perfectly okay ... as far as the treaty is concerned.

  14. Re:Evidence of necessity? on President Trump Directs Pentagon To Create New 'Space Force' Military Branch (defensenews.com) · · Score: 1

    Just look where the competition is investing. Fast and hard to stop conventional weapons are seeing a massive surge, which is to say hypersonic cruise missiles. Russia, China, India, Taiwan ... all seeing major R&D for them.

    Space gives you something even better, rods from god. I'd say there is more necessity to it than say JSF for conventional military superiority.

  15. Re:So they found an alternative? on Australia Discontinues Its National Biometric ID Project (gizmodo.com.au) · · Score: 1

    Insinuate people loyal to your cause either directly or because of ideological blinders put on by your propaganda in government, education, the media and the judiciary. Import massive amounts of foreigners, preferably with high fertility, strong religion and low IQ (slight problem in Australia compared to Europe) and allow the domestic economy to become owned by foreigners (easier in Australia than Europe).

    Social cohesion, wages and most welfare relevant to the low fertility native population gets destroyed, discouraging them from breeding further because they don't really want kids to grow up in such an ever more nasty society ... while the foreigners used to far worse, see it as gibmedat heaven and breed nonestop. Hey presto, genocide.

    Oh, you meant genocide on the foreigners instead of white genocide ... well that's easy, they usually have ethnic phenotypes to distinguish them and once a genocide really gets going a few false positives really won't slow things down, that's just human nature. That's the future you choose though, I'd rather just close the borders and assimilate what's already here.

  16. Being able to write memory safe code in a memory unsafe language is not enough, you need machine validation that only the memory safe constructs are used.

    C and C++ programmers given the freedom to do so will inevitably create exploitable bugs because of memory unsafe programming.

  17. Re:What does he actually know? on Eric Raymond Shares 'Code Archaeology' Tips, Urges Bug-Hunts in Ancient Code (itprotoday.com) · · Score: 1

    A memory leak in Java code might get you a DOS attack, a buffer overflow in C might get you complete owned.

    Apples and rotten oranges.

  18. Re: Wait, all of us? on We're All Getting Dumber, Says Science (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    Giving gibs to a couple ex-African lottery winners doesn't help Africans, it only helps Americans and Europeans who came from Africa.

  19. Re:the real crime is lab test duopoly on US Files Criminal Charges Against Theranos's Elizabeth Holmes, Ramesh Balwani (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    It's curious how only a completely desperate company was willing to jump into that market, what's the big hurdle preventing other companies from trying?

  20. Re:Witch hunt! Russian scare. on Kaspersky Halts Europol Partnership After Controversial EU Parliament Vote (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 2

    Reciprocity suggests there is an equality in the exchange, there is not. It's quid pro quo.

    The EU sells out it's citizens to US demands, it gets to have a little more safety for the time granted back, while continuing down the path which makes it unsafe.

  21. Re:Evidence? Who needs evidence? on Kaspersky Halts Europol Partnership After Controversial EU Parliament Vote (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 2

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    That is what Kaspersky did "wrong".

  22. Re:Witch hunt! Russian scare. on Kaspersky Halts Europol Partnership After Controversial EU Parliament Vote (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    That doesn't protect the EU though.

    Kaspersky has been the prime antagonist of US internet intrusion based spying worldwide. Which is why propaganda against them has gone into overdrive. The EU is killing our best defense against US spying, then again the EU has always been a tool by which the US can control Europe, so no surprises there.

  23. Electricity to liquid fuel to energy is a very inefficient route ... you might get 25% of the energy back you put in, compared to >90% with batteries.

  24. Re:There are many roads to lowering emissions on To Hit Climate Goals, Bill Gates and His Billionaire Friends Are Betting on Energy Storage (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    What do you do with countries which are beyond the tipping point such as Burundi? Where overpopulation already makes any chance of developing a decent economy a pipe dream and TFR is 6?

    I see only three solutions for a country like Burundi, mass displacement of people which risks destabilizing any country they move to and setting it on the same path, Malthusian collapse or some kind of top down imposed limit on their population growth. The last one seems to me it would cause the least human suffering, shame "human rights" make it a non option.

  25. Re:There are many roads to lowering emissions on To Hit Climate Goals, Bill Gates and His Billionaire Friends Are Betting on Energy Storage (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    That's economists. Meanwhile cornucopians will say more people will mean more innovation, will mean better lives. While liberals will say you're racist.