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  1. Have a look at the one of the graphics showing the amount of energy loss when using solar energy with 1. hydrogen-driven cars vs. 2. BEVs.
    You might not be that convinced about hydrogen anymore!

    https://phys.org/news/2006-12-hydrogen-economy-doesnt.html

    An important factor in the discussion hydrogen vs. BEV, however, is the consideration/chance whether the BEV's will be capable of storing the excess solar energy during the daytime for the time it is needed in the evenings.....

  2. Avoid Chrome, get Brave or Iridium on Firefox Marketing Head Expresses Concerns Over Google's Apparent 'Only Be On Chrome' Push (medium.com) · · Score: 2

    What should you do if your favorite web site prefers the Chromium engine, but you yourself hate the spyware Google created around it (named Chrome) ?
    Look for a well supported Chromium-based browser:
    There is not only Brave but also **Iridium Browser** (https://iridiumbrowser.de).
    They claim adherence to European data protection standards, as well as having an reproducible and audible build process.

  3. Re:Chrome Sucks -- Try Iridium on Chrome Now Accounts For 55% of All Web Browsing (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    What should you do if you love **Chromium**, but hate the spyware Google created around it in Chrome ?
    Look for a well supported Chromium-based browser: I tried **Iridium Browser** (https://iridiumbrowser.de).
    They claim adherence to German data protection standards, as well as having an reproducible and audible build process.
    There might be other Chromium-based browsers, too, but with that one I'm quite happy for some months now....

  4. Re:Complacency Broken on Google Has Quietly Dropped Ban On Personally Identifiable Web Tracking (propublica.org) · · Score: 1

    ... Does anyone have any recommendations for Chromium-based browsers with optimized privacy and security such as SRWare Iron or Comodo Dragon? How about privacy-based secure e-mail services such as ProtonMail?

    For those of you interested in data privacy and security but wanting a mainstream browser engine:
    https://iridiumbrowser.de/
    It is based on Chromium but maintained by a group of German companies mainly making a business out of services around Open Source.

  5. Scary... on New Algorithm Could Help Predict Future ISIS Attacks (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    To me it seems these algorithms could be also used for monitoring (and later suppressing) the forming of ANY other political movement, too .... It is becoming more and more important that there are limits of what might be considered a"terrorist movement"! (Ofcourse, ISIS is one, but what about an unwanted political movement, e.g. in Turkey, Germany or Spain...)

  6. Try CM12.1 (Lollipop 5.1.1) as an alternative... on Motorola Marketed the Moto E 2015 On Promise of Updates, Stops After 219 Days · · Score: 2

    Try CM12.1 (Lollipop 5.1.1) as an alternative and become independent of Motorola's update policy: Here is a link to the respective threads on XDA!

  7. Another similar idea: Die Ofenmacher on Engineers Aim To Make Cleaner-Burning Cookstoves For Developing World · · Score: 1

    This is not really totally new news! Another effort to develop a cheap (approx. 8 Euro) useful cooking stove with a chimney is described here: http://ofenmacher.org/index.php?sfwi=201&sflng=1&sfcr=&sfci=103651 by the German non-profit group 'Die Ofenmacher'. The stove avoids injuries and respiratory problems, while reducing the amount of wood needed. It also provides an employment opportunity for local stove makers!

  8. Further optimizing readability on The World's Smallest Legible Font · · Score: 1

    This reminds me of the Slashdot article on how humans actually process words while reading This opens up chances for even further optimization by focusing on enhancing the readability of letters that mostly appear as first or last letters of words !

  9. BMW hydrogen strategy on California Drivers Can Tank Up WIth Hydrogen · · Score: 1

    What BMW is doing with hydrogen can be found here: http://www.bmwworld.com/hydrogen/hybrid.htm:

    BMW plans to offer a car that runs on both petrol and hydrogen within the next four years.

    BMW chief executive Helmut Panke said he would include a hybrid 7-Series car in the company's catalogue soon.

    "By the time we have those cars, we will probably have a number of hydrogen fuel stations at our retail centres" in the United States, he said. He said there were only a few hydrogen fuel stations in the US at present.

    BMW has already driven a test fleet of hydrogen-powered cars through several countries. As petrol prices push higher, the prospect of alternative fuels has become more popular among some drivers.

    California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has promised to build hydrogen fuelling stations every 32 kilometres along major California highways.
    ...

    I like the sentence about Arnies promise to plaster the highways with hydrogen fuelling stations every 32 kilometers :-)

  10. Re:Does this work for non native speakers? on Can You Raed Tihs? · · Score: 1

    Just to give some input on this for non-native speakers (My mother tongue is German):

    My English is sort of okay - reading and speaking as well. As opposed to the Indonesian, I didn't have any problems in "deciphering" the text in the introduction.

    Maybe it also relates to language similiraties between English and German, though this seems less likely to me....

    What about this:
    It would be interesting to have some test put up on a website to measure understandig of this type of texts from people from around the world !!!!

  11. Making the DMCA's impact apparent to everyone on IEEE Adds DMCA Clause for Submitted Papers · · Score: 1

    Yes, just an additional comment (whose importance should not easily be underestimated):

    Especially when it comes to the European scientific community (of which I used to be a part of), the existance of the DMCA will now be made clearly apparent even to "elderly" researchers and, therefor, hopefully, to the political bodies. The consequences can be easily imagined!

    If this is the case, this step by the IEEE might even be a good one :-)

  12. Lightning in Southern Bavaria (Central Europe) on NASA's HETE Coming Down · · Score: 1

    Here a link to the text of the Bavarian state-owned news channel that reports mysterious lightning effects yesterday evening in Southern Bavaria around Munich, Germany:

    http://www.br-online.de/news/aktuell/
    (Look for "Mysteriöse Lichterscheinungen über Südbayern - Weltraummüll?")

    And for convenience the Babelfish translation (since the original is not linkable):

    "Mysterious lightning effects over Southern Bavaria - Space debris?

    Munich: In the sky over South Bavaria it gave several fire balls and optical phenomena yesterday evening. Hundreds anxious humans addressed themselves to the police. Particularly in the region "Bayerischer Wald" and Garmisch as well as in Munich long lightning effects were to be seen around 22:30 for several seconds. Pilots of airliners and military jets announced similar observations over radio. There are no reports about injuries or damages. The space authority NASA had announced that on weekend space garbage over Central Europe could fall. Yesterday it could not yet acknowledge a connection with these optical phenomena however."

  13. Re:Issues with the euro in day-to-day life on The Euro · · Score: 1

    >>> There's no 25 cents coin. Someone tell me why, because I don't understand it. Specially since a coffe here is about 125 pesetas, which is roughly 0.75 euro. We've got 2 and 20 cents coins, but anyway, I don't know why there're no 25 cents coins.

    I like this comment :-) For me being from Germany this question doesn't make sense (we dont have 2,50 Euro coins (and the former 25 Pfennigs) either !!) But its refreshing to see how one can become accustomed to longstanding habits .... Cheers to the Spaniards!

  14. Comparing Apple/OSX and Sun/Solaris on OS X Vs. Linux On The Desktop · · Score: 1

    When reading this it comes to my mind that Apple and OS X in this situation also somewhat resemble Sun and Solaris. Porting to Solaris to x86 only had a somewhat limited success. Sun's trying to get out of a somewhat limited market by expanding into the software business into the enterprise, e.g. network management, is also taking a long time....

  15. Bruce Schneier on SOAP on Web Services - More Secure or Less? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Bruce Schneier had an interesting statement on security and SOAP:

    <a href="http://www.counterpane.com/crypto-gram-0006. html#SOAP">CryptoGram Newsletter on 2001-June-15:SOAP</a>

  16. SuSE Inc. is a sub of SuSE AG, Germany on Linus And Alan Settle On A New VM System · · Score: 2, Informative

    just for the sake of correctness:

    SuSE is a wholly owned subsidiary of SuSE AG, Germany. Although its US web site doesn't explicitly state that it may be deduced from
    http://www.suse.com/us/company/legal/index.html
    ...

  17. Web service for downloading executables diffs on Mozilla 0.9.2 Storms Out The Gates · · Score: 1
    As far as incremental download goes, that is a packaging issue and not something the mozilla development team should be expending time and energy on. If you want to set up your own mirror to offer incremental downloads, go ahead ;-)

    I guess some Web Service based on SOAP should be set up on the Mozilla site that allows comparing a checksum of a local (extracted) file (from the nightly executables' tarball) to the tarball's contents on mozzilla.org.... Offcourse I could also host this Web Service, but my Internet access doesn't have the bandwidth :-)

  18. Re:Mozilla shrinking on Mozilla 0.9.2 Storms Out The Gates · · Score: 2

    Wouldn't it be nice to have the Mozilla code be packaged into "components" of a size somewhere between 100K and 1MB!?!? An installer should then be able to download only the parts that have changed from build to build....

    (Offcourse this is a feature that brings advantages to those users of the nightly builds, only - I assume that, every of these parts changes from release to release quita a bit)