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  1. Re:USA, What % of your power is solar? case closed on Researchers Use AI To Map Every Solar Panel In the US (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    US is 2.0% of total consumption and Germany is 7.%.

    What are you talking about?

    The US is a much bigger manufacturer than Germany, that is why CO2 "per person" is higher. It has nothing to do with solar.

    Germany manufactures 73 cars per 1000 people; USA manages only 38.

    America's production of 818000 metric tons is 1.5x that of Germany but Canada's production is 3.5x that of America's and their per-capita CO2 is about the same despite also producing oil from tar sands.
    It's not greater manufacturing that's the culprit, it's the vehicles driven, the relatively inefficient homes and being the 3rd largest producer of GHG from agriculture.

  2. Re:Rename it on Debian's Anti-Harassment Team Is Removing A Package Over Its Name (phoronix.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    ...meant to add, next thing they'll want to get rid of "fsck".

    And blocking the installation of Gimp and git

  3. That's all?? on Researchers Use AI To Map Every Solar Panel In the US (cnet.com) · · Score: 2

    Australia surpassed 1.5 million cumulative installs in 2016, Germany was at 1.7 million in 2017

  4. Re:france is broke on France Will Tax Google, Apple, Facebook, and Amazon In New Year (qz.com) · · Score: 0, Troll

    > they are doing something about it
    Yes, they're working 35 hour weeks with 8 weeks of vacation; they're taxing the US instead of working.

    They should be more like the Greatest President the World has EVER seen and watch more TV, spend more time on Twitter while on the shitter & the golf course and Make France Great Again.
    And Americans won't be paying this tax, it'll be paid by a company making money from French citizens

  5. Re: And in $35k model 3 news on Tesla Is Seeking $167 Million From Former Employee Accused of Sabotage (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    No he hasn’t. He said the electrons were ok the rest of the car was complete shit.

    On a followup interview on Autoline, he said he could see the car getting up to 30% profit margin in quantity and that he would be eating a lot of crow

  6. Re:Good question. on Californians Have Now Purchased Half a Million EVs (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Indeed, and when it comes to Teslas: The only way an ICE car can get in front of one is by going over the speed limit and hence breaking the law.

    One of the common criticisms against Model S, especially before dual motor was that the 80mph - 120 mph time was too slow.
    That's a minimum $500 speeding ticket if you get caught anywhere near where I live.

  7. Re: Did she keep a calendar? on Huawei's CFO Is Being Accused of Fraud, and Her Main Defense Is a PowerPoint (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    So, how do you then avoid judges making decisions in favor of people/companies who they'll be working for when their time is up? Term limits doesn't only get rid of the less qualified, it gets rid of the top qualified. I'm all for term limits in Congress and Executive office. Not so much for SCOTUS.

    There's nothing *now* from preventing that scary scenario of yours. Federal judges make $200k - 270k which is chump change for industries wanting to reward their friends.
    In fact, it's likely that's been happening a lot in the past since their salaries were effectively stagnant or frozen for long stretches between 1990 and 2014
    http://www.uscourts.gov/judges...

    Being in favor of term limits for Congress but not for judges makes little sense; if they're corrupt, they'll cheat.
    The private sector can always throw much more money at them than the public purse.

  8. I actually did a review of various alternative fusion systems and as a result I actually invested several of hundred thousand dollars into Tri-Alpha Energy.

    Good to see that at least some will put their money where their mouth is. I hope that bet pays off.
    I recall another Google talk about Focus Fusion which was hoping to use boron to for aneutronic fusion.
    Admirable goals since there would be no radioactive waste and it produces electricity directly.
    But I feel this may be the longest shot of what's already proven to be a near-impossible target to hit.

  9. Re: What if I run a food cart... on Cloudflare Under Fire For Allegedly Providing DDoS Protection For Terrorist Websites · · Score: 1

    however he was released to his home country of Yemen so there's a good chance he's since been killed or died of starvation

  10. Re:Why? It doesn't work on Experts Urge US To Continue Support For Nuclear Fusion Research (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1

    "It's called the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) project, and its centerpiece is a large, doughnut-shaped, Russian-inspired reactor called a tokamak"

    Robert Bussard didn't have a lot of positive things to say about tokamaks when he gave a Google tech talk on fusion back in 2006

  11. Re:Nope. Try again. on Tesla Is Seeking $167 Million From Former Employee Accused of Sabotage (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    All it means is he settled. No guild or innocence has been tried, nor even attempted to be tried.

    People who believe they're innocent and can afford top notch legal representation do NOT settle

  12. "Then these companies want to do an exit interview to figure out why you're leaving and make you feel guilty for leaving because you're not showing showing dedication to company and team spirit. Fuck them"

    Whenever HR has asked me for an exit interview, I've sent them a meeting request for lunch at an expensive restaurant.
    I've never been bothered after that.

  13. Re: And in $35k model 3 news on Tesla Is Seeking $167 Million From Former Employee Accused of Sabotage (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    The model 3 is universally regarded a shit car.

    Sandy Munro has had a change of opinion since tearing down another Model 3

  14. Not a smart move by Tesla on Tesla Is Seeking $167 Million From Former Employee Accused of Sabotage (cnbc.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    What's to prevent Elon being sued for the amount he caused the stock to drop with his brain farts about "funding secured" that triggered the SEC going after him?

  15. Re:Good luck with that on Amazon Fires Employees Over Data Leak As It Fights Seller Scams, Report Says (thehill.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Amazon doesn't hesitate to steal the ideas of its customers and undercut them

  16. Re:Good question. on Californians Have Now Purchased Half a Million EVs (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, it can.
    The Leaf's performance is roughly equivalent to a recent 4-cyl Camry and quite a bit better up to ~40 mph

  17. Re:Good question. on Californians Have Now Purchased Half a Million EVs (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    Don't forget all the people stuck behind the leaf, running about 20% slower because the leaf WON'T move fast enough as they are trying to preserve their precious range.

    TL,DR; Nissan Leaf is shit and causes more congestion, which causes higher emissions overall.

    Wow, you're very full of shit. The Leaf is no muscle car but it's more than adequate for commuting
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
    0-30 mph 3.0 s
    0-60 mph 7.5s
    0-87 mph 17.0s
    That's quicker than a 2010 Camry LE as tested by Motor Trend and Toyota has been selling more of those monthly since 1990 than the Leaf has ever sold in a full year in the USA

    2010 Toyota Camry LE tested on 2/17/10

    2.5L I-4 and 6A with 169 hp/167 lb-ft
    0-60 mph: 8.4 seconds
    Quarter mile: 16.4 seconds @ 86.1 mph

  18. Re: Did she keep a calendar? on Huawei's CFO Is Being Accused of Fraud, and Her Main Defense Is a PowerPoint (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Well. no one is disqualified if they get the vote. I think the argument should have centered around his incompetence as a judge rather than his calendar from 30 years ago.

    Once he introduced that calendar, his nomination should have been boofed.
    It clearly showed that an incident as described by Blasey-Ford could have happened on or around July 4th.
    And his conduct was unbecoming a traffic court witness, let alone a high ranking judge

  19. Re: Did she keep a calendar? on Huawei's CFO Is Being Accused of Fraud, and Her Main Defense Is a PowerPoint (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    "simply put forth the best legal scholars, but we don't live in Utopia, so here we are"
    one way to mitigate that is to have term limits for the SCOTUS.
    10-15 years is plenty with staggered retirements so that you don't have a plurality of justices being replaced in a very short period.

  20. Re:Why would she need a defence? on Huawei's CFO Is Being Accused of Fraud, and Her Main Defense Is a PowerPoint (theverge.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Welcome to America, the land of kidnapping. This is no different from Somali pirates taking hostages for ransom

    You have no concept of how great America is. Those Somali losers have to go do their own kidnapping; the USA simply has to ask others like Canada (again) to do it for them

  21. Re:Notes is maliciously bad. on After 23 Years, IBM Sells Off Lotus Notes (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 2

    "it was automatically authenticated; no imposture was possible"
    It used to be that if you had the Exchange admin password, you could send from any other user's e-mail address.
    I know it was possible in Exchange 5.5 and 2000. No idea if it's still possible (unlikely) and if not, when it was changed.

  22. Did she keep a calendar? on Huawei's CFO Is Being Accused of Fraud, and Her Main Defense Is a PowerPoint (theverge.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Without it, Brett Kavanagh's chances would have been boofed

  23. Re:In the past, their software was a good choice on Amazon Will Be Off All Oracle Databases By End of 2019, Says AWS Chief · · Score: 1

    Want to know true hell?

      Being an Oracle DBA on VM/CMS.

      If you typed shutdown at the wrong prompt, you wouldn't shutdown Oracle. You'd kill the whole mainframe instance.

    "Are you absolutely sure you wish to shutdown IBM's superduper resilient logically partitioned Gibson mainframe?
    Abort, Retry, Fail?"

  24. Whether Trump is to blame or not, this news coupled with Ford's troubles have me wondering if a recession is nigh and how bad it'll be.
    If it happens I'm sure Agolf Twitler and his sycophants will try to blame Obama.
    And they won't have a clue what to do.

  25. Re:Julian Assange was right to not to go to Sweden on Justice Department Is Preparing To Prosecute WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    It was the fear of being extradited to the US, either legally or by rendition, that had him worried.

    Remember this was happening around the time when the US was grabbing people off the streets of Europe and sending them to black sites in 3rd countries for torture.

    Not only that but in 2013 the plane of the Bolivian president was forced to land in Austria after being denied access to the airspace of France, Spain & Italy on the suspicion that Snowden was on board - a lie that Assange later took credit for.
    It's clear that America will not hesitate to strong-arm allies into violating diplomatic norms without more than a whisper of evidence