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  1. Hybrid vigor FTW? on How 4H Is Helping Big Ag Take Over Africa · · Score: 2

    "hybrid seeds get weaker by the generation" -- False, there is a level of heterzygosity that the population with stablize at. The second generation takes the biggest hit and after you can get up to 2/3 of the yeild for most hybrids of corn. " hybrid seeds are bred for intensive agriculture, they typically need chemicals to thrive." Hybrid seeds can be bred for whatever purpose you want, including low-input agriculture. Even said selecting artificial populations would be most benificial to many of the farmers as you can effectively replant

  2. Re:Black list for authorities? on After Silk Road 2.0 Shutdown, Rival Dark Net Markets Grow Quickly · · Score: 1

    "Suppose you're a government IT guy. You have to implement VPN connections" It's called Tor dummy. It gives anonomity to the average Joe and the federal agents investigating hem. " You can't send a link over E-mail to your boss at the office because when he opens " Implement a proxy that can replay a page load and tag and embeds a unique page load ID as a comment at the start of the HTML file. Pair with a browser extension that can read this PLID and email the PLID to your boss They probably already have something like this for some extobetent price that gov types are willing to buy because, hey it's not really thier money they are spending. "It starts a competition for resources" Generally the proven methods are good crypto and decentralized systems. The effort to blacklist Government IP's is about proportional to the effort of Gov agents to subert it, and they have a lot more resources than can bring to bear. The effort is better spend elsewhere.

  3. Re:names.. on After Silk Road 2.0 Shutdown, Rival Dark Net Markets Grow Quickly · · Score: 1

    Actually .onion is just a psuedo-TLD.

  4. Re:Article is retarded - here's the situation on Denmark Faces a Tricky Transition To 100 Percent Renewable Energy · · Score: 1

    Nuclear power isn't bad if it's a high-temp reactor you have an alternate use for the heat (water desalinzation, or motor fuel, ammonia, or hydrogen synthesis). Additionally newer reactors should be capital costs down as you caputre some of an economy of scale. Additionally is some systems you could mix natural or bio gas in the same plant to adapt to demand. (and you can be paid for kW of variable production capacity as well as purely on a kW basis Besides quick-start systems tend to be much less fuel-effecient than always on systems even with the same fuel (Oil and Gas) My though is a nuclear base load and complementary renewables The sort of reall good grid (Read really really really good grid) needed to balance renewables is going to be really really expensive, and in most countries cross-national (read poor energy security) Converting coal to biomass doesn't make the plant any more adaptable in terms of startup/shutdown times. Really the only practical option is distributed and smart storage or quick-start oil/gas. (maybe biogas if you can find enough) (Even though I think nuclear is really great as a base load, it doesn't much address the variability problem, as best some reactor plant designs allow a way to add some variable capicity in combination with a gas or liquid fuel

  5. Re:The *obvious* answer... on Denmark Faces a Tricky Transition To 100 Percent Renewable Energy · · Score: 1

    Though obvious and an answer, it's not an effective one. Simple nationization does not solve the issue. The issue being renewables sometime push the electric price below the marginal cost of base-load type generation that cannot be easily turned on and off quickly. However these are the cheapest electric sources at the moment so shutting them down means higher prices or not enough power under some conditions. My state has all public power utilities and they invest very little in renewables as the mandate is to provide the most cost-effective and reliable power generation. They aren't about to shoot themselves in the foot by adding massize amounts on solar and wind. At most they'll add enough to displace most of the non base-load demand of the least demand month. It's a technilogical and social problem and the solution therefore can't just be social or just be technological.

  6. Combined Heat+Power on Denmark Faces a Tricky Transition To 100 Percent Renewable Energy · · Score: 1

    If you are having troubles in the dead of winter, you may want to provide incentives to combined heat and power. Variable pricing is a good thing as well if feasible to move storage onto the site where it can be used later. (Right now losses involved with most storage makes grid-level redistribution a losing propsition). A embedded device in the home will forcast demand and recieve the focasts. It will then decide the cheapest way to meat the demand (either by precharching it's stores, storing onsite gneration, starting onsite generation, or just pulling from the grid) and update it's demand projections. You would eventually lose most convential coal plants from the grid as renewable are added as they just can't cycle very well. You'd see baseline supliments move towards Natural Gas. Anyways to get residential consumers to accept this level of trade you would need strong legal and technical privacy protections (Cypto methods and laws that inact strict penalties for sharing any information personally identifiable and more granular than daily demand and productions) Providing the framework to an open market is going to have much better long-term success than nationizing all electric utilites.

  7. Re: Well on Space Tourism Isn't Worth Dying For · · Score: 1

    I'm thinking of space planes as planes that touch the edeg of space and can get you from NYC to Hong Kong in an hour and a half or less.

  8. Re:What Does Systemd Mean to Me? on Ask Slashdot: Can You Say Something Nice About Systemd? · · Score: 1

    A common base while having common procedures also has common weaknesses and drawbacks. Like in agrigulture, monocultures are easily managed and highly productive, but are very suspectable to pathogenic agents.

  9. Re: Moral Imperialism on Manga Images Depicting Children Lead to Conviction in UK · · Score: 1

    The problem is that judicial review makes it so only SCOTUS can say that "this constitution" says whatever they decide is says, checked only by possible impeachment by congress.

  10. Re:Costly? Indeed, IS it costly? on Direct3D 9.0 Support On Track For Linux's Gallium3D Drivers · · Score: 1

    Internally windows system calles work a lot like WINE on linux. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    But unlike windows Linux doesn't have to drag along all the legacy binary support for some of the lower layers.

  11. Re:Costly? on Direct3D 9.0 Support On Track For Linux's Gallium3D Drivers · · Score: 1

    Umm, I do believe there is expirimental ARM support, for ARM Windows binaries (windows CE and windows RT) http://wiki.winehq.org/ARM You really need to read more carefully.

    But yes the idea is to be a translation or compatibility layer to expose windows API's to windows PE's.

  12. Re:symbols, caps, numbers on Password Security: Why the Horse Battery Staple Is Not Correct · · Score: 1

    I actually go by the advice in the article most of the time. I generate a 12-16 character password with a script that uses tr and reads from /dev/random.

  13. Re:PETA Is Not Happy on PETA Is Not Happy That Google Used a Camel To Get a Desert "StreetView" · · Score: 1

    Not true, voluntarily extincting yourself would make them very happy.

  14. Re:Time to fork Wayland... on NVIDIA Presents Plans To Support Mir and Wayland On Linux · · Score: 2

    GPLv2 isn't broken. And how do you stop wayland from using non-free *GL implementations. The very idea of wayland was to offload as much as possible to drivers via KMS and EGL. You would have to stop end-users from installing these kms and EGL binary implementations. In fact waylands done a great thing by convincing proprietary driver writters to partially port to open interfaces, which should make the open driver effort easier.

  15. Re:Seems incorrect on NVIDIA Presents Plans To Support Mir and Wayland On Linux · · Score: 1

    Per-window VNC should be fairly easy to support within a wayland compisotor. Some of the toolkits also offer remote backends.

  16. Re:Seems incorrect on NVIDIA Presents Plans To Support Mir and Wayland On Linux · · Score: 1

    The low latency and high thoughput of local cables make this easy. Remote over the net has a lot of issue.

  17. Re:Too Bad on Google Threatened With $100M Lawsuit Over Nude Celebrity Photos · · Score: 1

    Freenet will eventually lose data. However it can be re-published if they are lost.

  18. Re:Use the EULA? on 2015 Corvette Valet Mode Recorder Illegal In Some States · · Score: 2

    Nah just encrypt the audio channel. Which can be decrypted by the manufacturer upon a proper subpena. Most states allow exceptions if a recording is made exclusivly for legal purposes.

  19. Re:huh? on 2015 Corvette Valet Mode Recorder Illegal In Some States · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If you capture video of two deaf people signing to each other, is that wiretapping?

  20. Re:let them suck it on FBI Chief: Apple, Google Phone Encryption Perilous · · Score: 2

    Problem is if you do it right, You can just hand over the keys to a clean container, rather than your realy one.

  21. Re:Could be improved on Miss a Payment? Your Car Stops Running · · Score: 1

    Always park on the top of a hill.. hehe

  22. Re:Solution? on Miss a Payment? Your Car Stops Running · · Score: 1

    I own a 1500$ car for seven years now and the only time it's failed to start is after I've left the headlights on.

  23. Re:kill -1 on Fork of Systemd Leads To Lightweight Uselessd · · Score: 1

    The way systemD works actually has some advantages for servers. Speed for one. Anyways the worst thing they did was merge udev into systemD rather than leaving the possibility for a stand-alon udev to other init systems actually work properly.

  24. Re:Maybe 40k on Is the Tesla Model 3 Actually Going To Cost $50,000? · · Score: 1

    Just be be clear it's the two-fluid design that has upper limits. Switching to a single-fluid lets you scale up the the gigaWatt scale. 30-100 MW designs are what Filbe energy is aiming at (drop in replacements to older base-load coal plants )

  25. Re:Maybe 40k on Is the Tesla Model 3 Actually Going To Cost $50,000? · · Score: 1

    Neptinium 237 is a proliferation risk in a single flued ractor

    Additionaly making the purer U233 is a proliferation risk in the two fluid reactor. Because these deal with reprossing withing a zone hot enough to kill people you're not worried about rouge actors, but is an issue with nation-state types that might modify the machinery on the sly. The risk might even be far less than with LWR, but it's still there. It's not a reason not to do it, but it is a reason to maintain caution.

    1.07 Doesn't seem to give a lot of fudge factor if engineering compromises have to be made. Without a specific design in hand to run simulation on I think it's hard to say. It's definately worth looking into but for the first few generation we might have to settle for .95 and top off the fissile material every few years.

    And there both single and dual fluid configuration that could be used. If I recall correctly there are some design limitation on the two fluid that limit the maximum power of a single reactor. And the issue of how to seperate the two fliuds is a particularly difficult material engineering challenge.

    The WAMSR as far as I can tell is a single-fluid burner like the DMSR