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  1. Re: a better question on Why Run Linux On Macs? · · Score: 1

    powertop gives you some pretty good hints.

  2. Re:This isn't free as in freedom despite the claim on Librem: a Laptop Custom-Made For Free/Libre Software · · Score: 1

    They won't get anywhere with the cpu or chipset, but they might on the network controllers

  3. Re:ExFAT on Librem: a Laptop Custom-Made For Free/Libre Software · · Score: 1

    SDXC requires cards sold as SDXC to be pre-formatted as exFAT, though you can format them to any filesystem you want to.

  4. Re:Application installers suck. on How To Hijack Your Own Windows System With Bundled Downloads · · Score: 1

    Not really, the nvidia driver uses autotools to install.

    instructions from http://www.nvidia.com/object/l...
    $ tar xvzf NVIDIA_kernel.tar.gz
    $ tar xvzf NVIDIA_GLX.tar.gz
    $ cd NVIDIA_kernel
    $ make install
    $ cd ../NVIDIA_GLX
    $ make install

    It's the GUI tools the distro came up to manage the install which do the anoying are you sure, and click click.

  5. Re:Application installers suck. on How To Hijack Your Own Windows System With Bundled Downloads · · Score: 1

    Having the repository there is still a huge security advantage, even if it takes a few more step with the GUI (which is simply a drawback of the interface). I agree that if you venture outside the repository there are challenges, but it's risky as well so in a way perhaps a good thing. Personally what th solution is going to be something like docker that can leverage container technology to isolate third-part apps from messing with the base system.

  6. Re:Application installers suck. on How To Hijack Your Own Windows System With Bundled Downloads · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Windowss with chocolatey isntalled ---> run powershell as admin --> choco install stellarium --> go have cofee.

  7. Re:Application installers suck. on How To Hijack Your Own Windows System With Bundled Downloads · · Score: 1

    Seconded, I love it.

  8. Re:Application installers suck. on How To Hijack Your Own Windows System With Bundled Downloads · · Score: 1

    https://chocolatey.org/ is a good way to install a lot of software on windows, a repo model for windows. I also like kde for windows.

  9. Re:Infamous Tor Network? on 'Silk Road Reloaded' Launches On a Network More Secret Than Tor · · Score: 1

    Freenet is a little too anonymous. A freesite isn't hosted on a particular computer, rather it is just released and migrates and is cached based on people looking accessing it. You can't delete a listing, and updates can take a while to propogate.

  10. Re:Infamous Tor Network? on 'Silk Road Reloaded' Launches On a Network More Secret Than Tor · · Score: 1

    A large chuck was porn, not specifically child porn. Makes since as several countries try to filter all explicit material from the Internet, and one of the main aims of the tor project is to bypass filters and firewalls.

  11. Re:can sombody say.... on 'Silk Road Reloaded' Launches On a Network More Secret Than Tor · · Score: 1

    i2p isn't meant to be very good at being an out-proxy, so no.

  12. Re:No the code just sucks on 2014: The Year We Learned How Vulnerable Third-Party Code Libraries Are · · Score: 1

    Pretty much this. Open source works, but only when you can actually get eyes looking at the code. If you incorporate mission-critical software that works good enough already, you're not likley to be motivated to get involved with the project. The BSD's are sort of a cathederal project, but looking at all the parts systematically is usefull to see problem areas before they blow up in your face.

  13. Re:The US Internet Shutdown Switch on Sony Leaks Reveal Hollywood Is Trying To Break DNS · · Score: 1

    Or go to a different system entirely such as the GNU name system, or namecoin.

  14. Re: They brought it upon themselves on Spanish Media Group Wants Gov't Help To Keep Google News In Spain · · Score: 1

    Next stop will be google withdraws all spain specific operations.

  15. Re:Seems like we need motor-actuated solar panels on You're Doing It All Wrong: Solar Panels Should Face West, Not South · · Score: 1

    You can't really buy any batteries with a low enough cost per kW/hr per discharge cycle to make that worth selling electric back at wholesale. You might if you can offset your retail purchases instead for join a battery network that can get paid for rapid-on capacity on the grid. Following works, but requires special equipment and locations.

  16. Re:Deliberate on Two Google Engineers Say Renewables Can't Cure Climate Change · · Score: 1

    Is coffee a luxury? Is alchohol? There's certainly and argument to be made that those are luxuries. Some people might think a house with 100 sq ft. per person to be a luxury, while others feel croded with 500. And the issue of what the taxes are spent on it not out of context. You can't claim a tax on luxury will reduce energy demand unless you now the taxes and alternate purchases/investments will be less energy demanding than the luxury. It would seem to make a lot more sense to tax energy/carbon directly if you want to reduce energy demand and don't exempt goverment organization from paying and funnelling it into prebates, conversation activities, and energy R+D.

  17. Re:Shyeah, right. on Is LTO Tape On Its Way Out? · · Score: 1

    Ever left a thumb drive sitting for a year? They leak electrons

  18. Re:Deliberate on Two Google Engineers Say Renewables Can't Cure Climate Change · · Score: 1

    Once they've been in the reactor a while, it's no longer weapons grade.

  19. Re:Deliberate on Two Google Engineers Say Renewables Can't Cure Climate Change · · Score: 1

    Problem? Resource really, wait for the really hot stuff to decay and pull out the plutonium. Stick it back into a reactor somewhere. Insurance - Don't pressurize the reactor, don't use a design that requires active cooling to prevent meltdown.

  20. Re:Deliberate on Two Google Engineers Say Renewables Can't Cure Climate Change · · Score: 1

    biomass : The original power sorce (burning wood and dung) - The problem it will either displace land from current uses or not be enough.

  21. Re:Deliberate on Two Google Engineers Say Renewables Can't Cure Climate Change · · Score: 1

    Actually density helps you with wind, the optimal locations are more likely to be near a power mains.

  22. Re:Deliberate on Two Google Engineers Say Renewables Can't Cure Climate Change · · Score: 1

    Coal is not really renwable, the closest we have is some of the peat bogs. Coal comes from a very warm and productive period of earths history to coincides with the advent of plant lignin, which took microbial life a very long time to figure out. Thus a unique period of plant matter buildup on earths history. It will likely not bounce back to pre-industrial level particularly in the sorth of time frame man cares about. v For renewable to work as reliably as the grid now, you need massive investement in the grid for redistribution, load balancing, and connection to the remote places with the most wind/solar in the first place. In some places that are sunny and have high electric prices solar can be cheaper than the grid if you can roll it into a mortgage or have thousands of dollars of cash laying around.

    "Methane power stations making use of sewerage and rubbish disposal, in conjunction with solar and wind could provide sufficient power for general usage"
    -- No, just No. Have you even tried to look at the math for this? Sewage or landfill methane is just and afterthought. At best sewage methane captrues a minute franction of the energy cost to produce and transport food in the first place.

    "So how much will greed and 100% consumption taxes on luxury items cut back on energy demands."
    Problems:
    1. Who decides what a luxury is?
    2. Why is the tax the same if different luxuries to different damages
    3. The tax can easily fuel something more destructive like war or building more roads (rather than shared transit systems). 4. This may drive higher turnover, people buying the best "non-luxury" car every year rather than a "luxury car" every 3-4 years.

  23. Re:Use the daytime excess to... on Denmark Faces a Tricky Transition To 100 Percent Renewable Energy · · Score: 1

    Problem: Denmark doesn't have any mountains.

  24. Re:So, does water cost more? on How 4H Is Helping Big Ag Take Over Africa · · Score: 1

    False, Wheat, Oats, Barely are largely inbred varieties that can be saved and planted. Soybeans can be as well. Usually it's not done due to contamination with weed seeds. My friend who has access to cleaning equipment still cleans and replants varieties of wheat that do well for him but aren't easily found on the market. He also keeps his own seed bank in a chest freezer. Generally the reason in many crops to go back to seed dealers is legal and cultural (the plant culture not human, things like contamination and desiese). The Dairy industry used Holsteins which breed true to type.

    Anyways the point is that hybrids are used where the cost of making them is lower than the productivity gained. It's an economic calculation and not a given of agricultural production.

  25. Re: So, does water cost more? on How 4H Is Helping Big Ag Take Over Africa · · Score: 1

    You can patent specific clonal varieties of plants. (which hybrid corn seed basically is (something like greater than 99.5% identicality). Protection lasts 20 years and covers breeding rights and required parent material to be handed over to the patent office and can be requested by any breeder after the patent expires). But it is limited in applicability. However if can also apply for PPV protection with is a mostly worldwide agreement that protects the specific cultivar but not breeding rights. In countries with plant patents PPV will expire when the patent does if a patent was sought.