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  1. Re:Thanks for pointing out the "briefly" part. on Half of Germany's Power Supplied By Solar, Briefly · · Score: 1

    before or after you add int he cost from illness caused by pollution? Before or after CO2 impacts?

    After. And the costs get worse when you start factoring in capital costs, opportunity costs, etc.

    I've heard that in a few years solar will be cheaper than coal in China. So....

  2. Re:Great job David! on A Bike Taillight that Goes Beyond Mere Taillighting (Video) · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    I do expect my investment in an onboard camera to pay off, unfortunately, when one of these bumbling fools gets too darn close for comfort. Sorry, but stupidity should pay a price in real life. Why should I get stuck with the bill because I drive carefully and you do not?

    Well you are driving around in a massively dangerous thing that destroys the lives of so many people, that's why you should pay when you hit a person. Because when cars are driven too fast, anything above 30 km/h, they kill people.

  3. Re:2 kinds of countries in the world on Comcast Predicts Usage Cap Within 5 Years · · Score: 1

    Regulation is only part of the problem, I've heard complaints about the US being too conservative against new broadband tech. One of the reasons why you are getting usable broadband now and not 15 years ago.

  4. Those can not be real costs on Comcast Predicts Usage Cap Within 5 Years · · Score: 1

    Here in Sweden we pay up to $8000 for a fiber connection to a house, there are lots of appartments that get it a lot cheaper though (for free).

  5. Re:Familiarity on Microsoft Cheaper To Use Than Open Source Software, UK CIO Says · · Score: 1

    I've never understood what exchange+óutlook actually gives you, please enlighten me. I supported a couple of houndred people using exchange in grad school, the most complicated question I got was how to make your address book sync properly. It might be all those extension that people write for Exchange, which sync to strange places.

  6. Re:Recruiting policy on Microsoft Cheaper To Use Than Open Source Software, UK CIO Says · · Score: 1

    I support a few Motif apps at work. but what is this "without any problem" phenomenon you speak of?

    Indeed AFAIR Motif Apps were a problem back in the day.

  7. Re:No way I could trust a self-driving car on Volvo Testing Autonomous Cars On Public Roads · · Score: 1

    Once self-driving cars hit the road in any numbers, it will become really, really expensive to try to be a jerk in traffic. No speeding. No lane cutting. No tailgating. No weaving. No nothing - just follow the traffic flow and the law to the letter and spirit or you will get reported. And of course your insurance rate will like go up, simply by being a human driver.

    It's not clear that they will be allowed to record all that, at least not in Sweden, which this story is about. Privacy problems and all that.

  8. Re:Ingress on Google Plus Now Minus Chief Vic Gundotra · · Score: 1

    I would recommend Mozstumbler or openwlanmap instead. They do the same thing basically.

  9. ... badabom on UAV Operator Blames Hacking For Malfunction That Injured Triathlete · · Score: 2

    Thats the same kind of person who blaems typos on there keyboard.

    I see what you did their!

  10. Re:If it's such a great development environment... on Unreal Engine 4 Launching With Full Source Code · · Score: 1

    In the old times, FPS was not about multiplayer. I stopped playing them around the time it became like that.

    That would be around 1996 when Quake was released.

  11. Re:really? on Church Committee Members Say New Group Needed To Watch NSA · · Score: 1

    The devil you know.

  12. HR is not on your side on Prominent GitHub Engineer Julie Ann Horvath Quits Citing Harrassment · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Which is why in civilised countries we have unions and employment law.

    I was a bit sad when I read that she had to request HR to be present at a meeting with the boss, you need a union on your side when you have those conversations.

  13. Re:If you want to hoard bits... on How Do You Backup 20TB of Data? · · Score: 1

    If I were doing this with drives, I'd grab an 8x SATA card, 8 4TB drives, an external hot-swap shelf, and setup RAIDZ-2 with compression on it. .... Cost is about $1800. That's totally a backup. A second set of backups is another $1300.

    Can somebody compare the cost for tape?

    You pay about ~$1800-$2500 for tapes, a tape driver, and SAS card, depending on vendor, an extra 27 tapes to store 20TB again would be about $700. The big win is that the tape setup take less space, changing tapes every 800GB is not so hot though, but you get used to it. I've used 4 tape drives in parallel to be able to backup all data generated durng the day, it's ok, you learn to handle that with the morning coffee.

  14. Re:Buy a "Hello Kitty" wrist strap. on Ask Slashdot: How Can I Prepare For the Theft of My Android Phone? · · Score: 1

    Except a 2 year old

  15. Re:Elegant isn't important. on Electric Bikes Get More Elegant Every Year (Video) · · Score: 1

    "Bicycling is the most energy-efficient way to move,"
    nope.

    Yes it is. (I'm not going to bother with the rest since it's just your opinions)

  16. Re:so its a moped? on Electric Bikes Get More Elegant Every Year (Video) · · Score: 1

    You can not get a good bicycle that cheap, sure you can spend lots of time renovating old bicycles, but they probably did cost a lot more than $150 when new.

  17. Re:Not in my experience on Electric Bikes Get More Elegant Every Year (Video) · · Score: 1

    Out of about 80 bikes that are locked outside my building, only 4-5 are racing bikes. If I was in the Netherlands, Germany or Denmark it would be more like 1 / 80.

    Far less than that, normally people do not use racing bikes for everyday use. I stood in a busy bicycle intersection and saw ~200 upright bicycles not one racing bike.

  18. Re:Still ugly on Electric Bikes Get More Elegant Every Year (Video) · · Score: 1

    If you just ride an hour or two on the weekend, then a cushy seat and upright posture feels comfortable. If you ride many more hours per week it's a prescription for saddle sores

    I've biked 300km during three days in upright position, it's easy and I had not problem. Further, there are thousands of people doing at least 100 km a week in upright position over here.

  19. Re:Citation Needed on Game Developers' Quest To Cross the Uncanny Valley · · Score: 2

    'and narrative-driven adventures can seem more like interactive movies than games'

    Citation Needed

    You can watch The last of us as a movie instead of playing it. It's 4-7 hours depending on how much gameplay there is I guess. But live streaming or editing your game sessions is big business now, so I guess it might just be a shift in what is considerd entertainment.

    "I make videos of me doing stuff, so you don't have to!" - Washington.

  20. Re:Opportunity: yes. Mandatory: No on Should Everybody Learn To Code? · · Score: 1

    If all phones were unlocked and open sourced this would not be a problem, a phone from 1999 would be pretty ok to code on. That's one reason I really like GPL for consumer products.

  21. Re:clickbait on Should Everybody Learn To Code? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Though for me Logic 101 was a lot better for my thinking than learning to code.

  22. Re:commies! on Edward Snowden Nominated For Nobel Peace Prize · · Score: 1

    They have less than 7% of the seats in the parliament. I would say that the racist party is a lot worse. a funny thing about that

  23. Re:Most visitors... on Ask Slashdot: How To Reimagine a Library? · · Score: 1

    Actually, I recently bought a book on Google Play (but I guess it's the same on all platform) and I could start reading in 5 seconds. In the end I returned the book because it was DRM riddled, which was also pretty fast (20 seconds), but it's still cumbersome to manually return those 15 books you want to leaf through.

  24. paranoid people shouldn't use Wifi. on Mozilla Is Mapping Cell Towers and WiFi Access Points · · Score: 1

    Considering how easy it is to map APs I don't see why they should have to care about _nomap.. I don't see why you would want opt out.

  25. Re:Mapping Wifi? What for? on Mozilla Is Mapping Cell Towers and WiFi Access Points · · Score: 1

    t would seem that its essentially useless as soon as a certain percentage of SSIDs change.

    Then you map it again. It's not that hard especially if it works ok for ~2 years, and you manage to get an installed base during that time. Every time a phone says "i can see X Y Z", and Z isn't in the DB you will now that Z is near X Y.