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  1. Re:Fiduciary sense? on Rockefeller Fund Dumping Fossil Fuels, Hits Exxon On Climate Issues (cnbc.com) · · Score: 2

    You've never seen electric rail!?

  2. Re:Fun Time with Grammar Nazi on 60,000 Antelope Died In 4 Days, and No One Knows Why · · Score: 1

    Antelope is already plural, like sheep or deer.

  3. Re:I run a WISP. No. on Ask Slashdot: Can Any Wireless Tech Challenge Fiber To the Home? · · Score: 1

    The biggest thing with the fibre (or copper) is if one core/cable isn't enough, you can run another one.

    Whereas with wireless, even with directional setups there is only so much bandwidth in the aether. You can't just run another. So it will only ever be good for significantly less BW than physical lines, because it has to be shared.

  4. Re:Just a question on "McKinley" Since 1917, Alaska's Highest Peak Is Redesignated "Denali" · · Score: 1

    It's Nemacka in Serbian (and similar in all the Slavic languages, AFAIK).

    Germans themselves being 'nemci' - in English this is something like the "Mutes" from "Muteland", since they couldn't speak slavic. Which I've always found rather funny...

  5. Re:It's a hacked Deja Vu on "Hack" Typeface Is Open Source, Easy On the IDEs · · Score: 1

    Ars is making it out as though we've all been stuck on Courier New until this point, but that's ridiculous.

    You say that like it's a problem.

    They'll take Courier from my cold dead hands.

  6. Re:Easier than that on Ask Slashdot: Suggestions For Taking a Business Out Into the Forest? · · Score: 1

    Fridges just use too much power for solar, unless you have a lot.

    Propane is probably the way to go, unless it's a permanent setup in the bush...

  7. Re:An accident waiting to happen on Former Russian Troll Wins Lawsuit Against Propaganda "Factory" · · Score: 2

    But KPRF and LDPR are not pro-western yes men, so they don't count!

    I guess you need to go down to parties with zero popular support to find one that aligns with US dreams for russia.

    It's funny they never report that batshit-insane Zhironovsky*, has 12 times the support, and communists have 20x. That's how unelectable these people the US roots for are.

    *some selected examples:
    - expressed a desire to reunite countries of the ex-Soviet "near abroad" with Russia to within the Russia's borders of 1900 (including Finland and Poland).
    - advocated forcibly retaking Alaska from the United States (which would then become "a great place to put the Ukrainians")
    - Zhirinovsky, who encourages separatism within the Russian minority in the Baltic countries,[17] endorsed the forcible re-occupation of these countries and said nuclear waste should be dumped there.[31][32]
    - advocated hitting some Chechen villages with tactical nuclear weapons.

    There's simply too much great comedy this guy comes up with.

  8. Re:it makes a rational assumption. on Finland Considers Minimum Income To Reform Welfare System · · Score: 1

    New capitalist Russia still lags the US. Hell it is barely back to best years of USSR standard. Capitalism made life expectancy drop like a rock for first 15 years. I imagine it was also shit under the tsar, even worse I'd guess.

    Though Cuba has equivalent life expectancy to the US. So maybe there is more to it than the economic system?

    Just one metric... double the alcohol consumption, and triple the tobacco consumption, per capita. (RU vs US). I'm surprised it only makes 10 years of difference to be honest.

    But yeah, USSR is bad example. You generally had to work unless you were an invalid. It's not the same at all.

  9. Re:Nature of open source on "Father Time" Gets Another Year At NTP From Linux Foundation · · Score: 1

    Yeah I'm not sure either. It's a single packet!

  10. Re:My preferred alternative to Wuala on Wuala Encrypted Cloud-Storage Service Shuts Down · · Score: 2

    So make an encrypted blob and throw it on S3 for 25 cents a month? Something like that that likely won't fall apart overnight, and the encryption is on your end so the NSA can get stuffed.

    What's the point of encrypted cloud where you need to trust the host..?

  11. old clunky junk on You Can Have My TIPs When You Pry Them From My Cold, Dead Hands · · Score: 2

    Not sure why the "hobbyist" community holds onto old crud like this when newer things are cheaper and better, win win. Darlingtons are terribly inefficient. It will work fine for turning on a lamp from your arduino but so will 10,000 different FETs.

    Like people using ua741 opamps that are older than me. At least move into 1980 and use an LM358 or something. Same price or cheaper, and the input actually goes to one rail. Still very old junk, but significantly less so.

    I guess people read some circuit from 1975 and figure they need to use the same parts verbatim, buy a bunch and are stuck with them making new circuits, that they then post, and more noobs buy the same old junk!

  12. Re:Education on How American Students Can Get a University Degree For Free In Germany · · Score: 1

    It's "defense" alright... defending the American hegemony.

  13. Re:High Voltage DC more likely on How Tesla Batteries Will Force Home Wiring To Go Low Voltage · · Score: 1

    Well, the reason datacenters use 48VDC is because that's what central offices used already, so the infrastructure was there, and they made hardware to fit.

    The reason for that, though, is some combination of it being a high enough voltage to reach phones a few miles from the CO, without being so high that it would kill people. Now, why 48V instead of 50V... I guess is that it is an even number of lead acid cells (24, in this case). If you've ever been in a exchange, they've usually got the basement full of 48V batteries. (which is why the phone works when the power goes out).

  14. Re:Why Low Voltage DC? on How Tesla Batteries Will Force Home Wiring To Go Low Voltage · · Score: 1

    Universal motors have that name for a reason, they're brushed and comfortable with AC or DC. (things like hair driers, angle grinders, food processors, etc. If it's small and noisy as shit, it's probably a universal. Generally for short intermittent uses, as efficiency and life is poor). Induction motors won't work though, as they need AC.(eg. furnace fan motors, compressor motors in your fridge, etc).

    Every LED light I've ever seen has a internal SMPS, it should likely be fine with DC. So will SMPS wallwarts (phone charger) and computer power supplies (well, in 230V countries, or ones with universal input. (older, mostly?) ones with 120/240 switch won't work, as it uses voltage doubler for primary voltage... which doesn't work on DC).

  15. Re:Low voltage? on How Tesla Batteries Will Force Home Wiring To Go Low Voltage · · Score: 1

    I imagine he'd just install schuko sockets..? That's what I'd do anyway.

  16. Re:This seems foolproof! on Russian Space Agency Misused $1.8 Billion, May Be Replaced · · Score: 1

    Impeccable logic.

  17. Re:This seems foolproof! on Russian Space Agency Misused $1.8 Billion, May Be Replaced · · Score: 1

    But they are already under direct government ownership. It's going from being a direct government agency, to a (presumably somewhat less directly controlled?) state corporation. Maybe they will sell 49%.

  18. Re:bye on Ads Based On Browsing History Are Coming To All Firefox Users · · Score: 1

    Last I checked, Iceweasel is just Firefox without any encumbered logos. Everything else is the same. The one in testing has shit australis UI, for example.

  19. Re:NOKIA on Ask Slashdot: What's the Best Dumb Phone? · · Score: 1

    I still use an E71 (from.. 2008?). Candybar with qwerty. Symbian so it's not as dumb as S40, but it's dumb by modern standards. I still get close to a week of battery life (on the ancient original battery).

    Makes good quality calls, has reception where all of my friend's iphones and androids don't... has real buttons.

  20. Re:best phone: WEco 520 desk model on Ask Slashdot: What's the Best Dumb Phone? · · Score: 1

    I kinda prefer the 500 (like 2500 but dial), little more classy. Not very good when calling a robot that needs you to press "1" for something, though.

    Still have one, but killed the landline some years back now...

  21. Re: Make it more expensive ? on Why Apple Ditched Its Plan To Build a Television · · Score: 1

    There isn't a "EU" ban, it is up to each country. Greece has a ban, but it is not really enforced.

  22. Re:Pretty sure the heat death of the universe will on Criticizing the Rust Language, and Why C/C++ Will Never Die · · Score: 2

    I'm pretty sure heat death was programmed in C.

  23. Re:Brand? on 17-Year-Old Radio Astronomy Mystery Traced Back To Kitchen Microwave · · Score: 1

    Yeah, Zenith pioneered this. "Space Command". Pretty limited, obviously, but functional.

  24. Re:Smokey Mountain on The World's Most Wasteful Megacity · · Score: 1

    NYC has solved this problem by trucking its garbage to neighboring states.

  25. Re:Don't mess with Texas on Two Gunman Killed Outside "Draw the Prophet" Event In Texas · · Score: 1

    European rate is more around 1/100k if you don't count ex-Soviet Union (esp Russia). Which isn't the Western European Liberal gun grabbing place you love to hate.

    Belarus 5.1
    Bulgaria 1.9
    Czech Republic 1.0
    Hungary 1.3
    Poland. . 1.2

    Moldova 6.5
    Romania 1.7
    Russia 9.2
    Slovakia 1.4
    Ukraine 4.3
    Denmark 0.8
    Estonia 5.0
    Finland 1.6
    Greenland 19.4 (not sure what that's about).
    Iceland 0.3
    Ireland 1.2

    Latvia 4.7
    Lithuania 6.7
    Norway 2.2 ( If one discounts the single anomalous terrorist attack of 2011, the homicide rate in Norway falls to 0.6)
    Sweden 0.7
    United Kingdom 1.0

    Albania 5.0
    Andorra 1.3
    Bosnia and Herzegovina 1.3
    Croatia 1.2
    Greece 1.7
    Italy 0.9
    Kosovo 3.6
    Malta 2.8
    Montenegro 2.7
    Portugal 1.2
    San Marino 0.7
    Serbia 1.2
    Slovenia 0.7
    Spain 0.8
    Macedonia 1.4
    Austria 0.9
    Belgium 1.6
    France 1.0
    Germany 0.8
    Liechtenstein 0.0
    Luxembourg 0.8
    Monaco 0.0
    Netherlands 0.9
    Switzerland 0.6

    It would be even lower if you throw out warsaw pact and yugoslavia, which again, are not really what you are talking about. Most major Western European countries are 1/5th the murder rate of US or less.