True, on the smaller screens it's not quite as easy as on the laptop I'm using.
Providing you've got excellent eyesight or a tablet yes the classic menu is preferable.
The problem here is that even just one single incorrect downmod can take a perfectly fine comment and hide it by default.
This prevents other users from being able to see such comments, unless they jump through hoops to browse at -1,
Nonsence, since ever I've set my prefs for browsing at -1, absolutely no problem.
which in turns renders the entire moderation system pointless.
Why is that? Moderation isn't about hiding stuff, it's about highlighting.
Hiding a good comment that was wrongly downmodded also often prevents the incorrect downmod from being undone swiftly.
Come on, just browse at -1! You can have a quick scan at 4 or 5 and then return to -1 before modding.
Even if that incorrect downmod is undone, this inherently wastes a mod point that could've been used to promote some other quality comment.
It may sound irrelevant when thinking about it in terms of a single comment, but when it happens again and again (as it does very regularly) it becomes very disruptive to this site.
On a large scale, Slashdot ends up being no better than a site like Reddit or Hacker News, where groupthink takes what would otherwise be excellent discussion and shapes it into worthless, mindless, self-reinforcing demagoguery.
This is for Europe where radio is great.
Around here I get some + 50 DAB+ stations for all tastes.
The biggest advantage for the listener is it's cell based so while driving it switches without drop out, for the owner it's especially the lower power cost.
I hope the following link doesn't hurt any cultural or linguistic sensitivities but it's an article on the subject from the largest Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf.
That's exactly the problem, it only takes two known idiots like a cousin in Denmark and a sister in The Netherlands that upload their address book and you're in.
Meaning I got a mail from Farcebook inviting me to join 'my friends' as part of their harvest.
At least the second mail had a link to a place where I could 'unsubscribe' from further contacts.
At the same time I'm sure they've assembled a file on me including tagged photo's and whatever that I don't ever want to share with them.
I am all for a legal demand they wipe these sort of unsolicited entries in their databases and if ever someone starts a legal proceeding to that effect I'll be happy to contribute.
What we in Europe call 'public broadcasters' are not all without advertising but the amount is strictly regulated and limited. For example the German 2nd channel called ZDF has no commercials past 20:00 hrs.
Yes it's costing an annual fee but compared to the US we get reasonable quality programs without a ridiculous number of breaks.
Sure we have to expect the 100 and 1000 years unexpected events, pretty sure not all energy related.
Now about that continent wide grid, I see strong indication it is at least partially in place:
This blackout cascaded from north-western Germany all the way to Morocco.
Remember last week's story about the first part of the Noor Solar Plant being commissioned on the edge of the Moroccan Sahara?
Other parts are the existing (sub sea DC) lines between Norway, Denmark and The Netherlands and the planned line to Iceland.
Obviously the grid needs improvements and significant completions, but as said, this is often very conventional tech and could be fixed in a very short timespan.
Renewables are fine providing you include a continent wide grid and some local storage to even out weather fluctuations.
Specifically the grid is old tech and (except for NIMBY's) very easy to implement.
That's what we have PV panels for, invisible till you trip over them.
But you have clearly missed the memo we're now over 7000 million people on this earth and we're not evenly spread out so an impact on the scenery is guaranteed. Especially because most of the people don't want to go hunting and foraging every day we need significant tech to keep them warm, fed and watered. Oh yeah, and entertained, as the old Romans said, "Panem et circenses" and they were just a couple of million!
Personally I don't think modern windmills are an overall eyesore, obviously we don't want or need to plant them everywhere so areas of particular beauty can be left alone.
Around here there are centuries old windmills and although there must have been resistance to them when build, now we do everything possible to restore and keep them:)
The first element of Smart Grid is the smart meter, which will report continuous load information to the grid and eventually be able to turn your major appliances on and off to match supply. These meters are hotly opposed by Greens because they radio their reading to the utility or as the Greens put it, "emit radiation."
Bull, the reason many people are not happy with smart meters is the same as with many other IoT and cloud services, you lose control about your life.
Not that someone is going to switch off your light but the fact they can do a Google and analyse the shit out of it and abuse this data to sell you stuff you didn't ask for.
Or it's security model is broken and the bad boys get the info to check when you're not at home.
So first fix the legislation around those smart meters and then I'll let them into my house.
But there is a problem with building more nuclear, it is fairly obvious when you look at the political systems in the places where it's happening.
Nuclear has it's use but the heydays were 30-40 years ago, these days we have in every sense superior renewables, easier with relatively simple tech, cleaner during the building, operation and decommissioning and decentralised so less sensitive to local problems.
Nice to have batteries or other storage like liquid salt for local demand.
But if build on a national or even continental scale wind and solar don't need much storage but instead power lines to even out local weather differences.
Just to bring some light in the darkness where you live, compare the currency fluctuations of the British Pound vs. the Euro and the US$.
You will find the UK economy to be not independent but mainly linked to the rest of Europe and hardly to the US. http://markets.ft.com/research... http://www.bloomberg.com/quote...
Poor Cameron, chased up by that troll Nigel Farage and UKIP to chance the greatest economic disaster (Brexit) the nation has faced in 50 years he has found a new priority.
They've already overplayed their hand at a mandatory opt-out porn filter at ISP level and now he wants to go one step up on this stupidity.
Anything will do for him to avoid the voter to see how he's only shrouding real issues by populist rhetoric.
Poor Albion.
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True, on the smaller screens it's not quite as easy as on the laptop I'm using.
Providing you've got excellent eyesight or a tablet yes the classic menu is preferable.
Agreed, you can already hit that Preview as often as you like, use it.
The problem here is that even just one single incorrect downmod can take a perfectly fine comment and hide it by default.
This prevents other users from being able to see such comments, unless they jump through hoops to browse at -1,
Nonsence, since ever I've set my prefs for browsing at -1, absolutely no problem.
which in turns renders the entire moderation system pointless.
Why is that?
Moderation isn't about hiding stuff, it's about highlighting.
Hiding a good comment that was wrongly downmodded also often prevents the incorrect downmod from being undone swiftly.
Come on, just browse at -1! You can have a quick scan at 4 or 5 and then return to -1 before modding.
Even if that incorrect downmod is undone, this inherently wastes a mod point that could've been used to promote some other quality comment.
It may sound irrelevant when thinking about it in terms of a single comment, but when it happens again and again (as it does very regularly) it becomes very disruptive to this site.
On a large scale, Slashdot ends up being no better than a site like Reddit or Hacker News, where groupthink takes what would otherwise be excellent discussion and shapes it into worthless, mindless, self-reinforcing demagoguery.
That is stupidity at a mind boggling level.
I believe you wanted to say MS.
This is for Europe where radio is great.
Around here I get some + 50 DAB+ stations for all tastes.
The biggest advantage for the listener is it's cell based so while driving it switches without drop out, for the owner it's especially the lower power cost.
Except some, probably a lot, of them are hooked up to a network and the security status is as old as the HW.
Another one that also works in Win7 where some of this crap was back ported to is Spybot Ant-Beacon.
Possibly not quite as transparent.
Indeed, very soon they'll announce the failure wouldn't have happened if people would have left the telemetry on.
I hope the following link doesn't hurt any cultural or linguistic sensitivities but it's an article on the subject from the largest Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf.
http://www.telegraaf.nl/binnen...
I'd rather see someone supporting jollaOS.
jolla.com
That's exactly the problem, it only takes two known idiots like a cousin in Denmark and a sister in The Netherlands that upload their address book and you're in.
Meaning I got a mail from Farcebook inviting me to join 'my friends' as part of their harvest.
At least the second mail had a link to a place where I could 'unsubscribe' from further contacts.
At the same time I'm sure they've assembled a file on me including tagged photo's and whatever that I don't ever want to share with them.
I am all for a legal demand they wipe these sort of unsolicited entries in their databases and if ever someone starts a legal proceeding to that effect I'll be happy to contribute.
What we in Europe call 'public broadcasters' are not all without advertising but the amount is strictly regulated and limited. For example the German 2nd channel called ZDF has no commercials past 20:00 hrs.
Yes it's costing an annual fee but compared to the US we get reasonable quality programs without a ridiculous number of breaks.
Having a bath instead of a shower is very British but it takes too long, maybe you mean the toilet?
Regardless. it's evil.
Yes I agree, a minute after the post I had similar thoughts. :)
But some thrive in their delusions and see them as very positive
We need a new mod, +1 delusional.
And then it turns around so we need to take a day out every once in a while.
In less than 8 million years it'll be one day per year!
Sure we have to expect the 100 and 1000 years unexpected events, pretty sure not all energy related.
Now about that continent wide grid, I see strong indication it is at least partially in place:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
This blackout cascaded from north-western Germany all the way to Morocco.
Remember last week's story about the first part of the Noor Solar Plant being commissioned on the edge of the Moroccan Sahara?
Other parts are the existing (sub sea DC) lines between Norway, Denmark and The Netherlands and the planned line to Iceland.
Obviously the grid needs improvements and significant completions, but as said, this is often very conventional tech and could be fixed in a very short timespan.
Renewables are fine providing you include a continent wide grid and some local storage to even out weather fluctuations.
Specifically the grid is old tech and (except for NIMBY's) very easy to implement.
That's what we have PV panels for, invisible till you trip over them.
:)
But you have clearly missed the memo we're now over 7000 million people on this earth and we're not evenly spread out so an impact on the scenery is guaranteed. Especially because most of the people don't want to go hunting and foraging every day we need significant tech to keep them warm, fed and watered.
Oh yeah, and entertained, as the old Romans said, "Panem et circenses" and they were just a couple of million!
Personally I don't think modern windmills are an overall eyesore, obviously we don't want or need to plant them everywhere so areas of particular beauty can be left alone.
Around here there are centuries old windmills and although there must have been resistance to them when build, now we do everything possible to restore and keep them
The first element of Smart Grid is the smart meter, which will report continuous load information to the grid and eventually be able to turn your major appliances on and off to match supply. These meters are hotly opposed by Greens because they radio their reading to the utility or as the Greens put it, "emit radiation."
Bull, the reason many people are not happy with smart meters is the same as with many other IoT and cloud services, you lose control about your life.
Not that someone is going to switch off your light but the fact they can do a Google and analyse the shit out of it and abuse this data to sell you stuff you didn't ask for.
Or it's security model is broken and the bad boys get the info to check when you're not at home.
So first fix the legislation around those smart meters and then I'll let them into my house.
But there is a problem with building more nuclear, it is fairly obvious when you look at the political systems in the places where it's happening.
Nuclear has it's use but the heydays were 30-40 years ago, these days we have in every sense superior renewables, easier with relatively simple tech, cleaner during the building, operation and decommissioning and decentralised so less sensitive to local problems.
Nice to have batteries or other storage like liquid salt for local demand.
But if build on a national or even continental scale wind and solar don't need much storage but instead power lines to even out local weather differences.
Again a typical NIMBY issue...
Hi Nigel, why don't you make an account?
Just to bring some light in the darkness where you live, compare the currency fluctuations of the British Pound vs. the Euro and the US$.
You will find the UK economy to be not independent but mainly linked to the rest of Europe and hardly to the US.
http://markets.ft.com/research...
http://www.bloomberg.com/quote...
Given a sufficiently developed culture they will have technology to read this data.
The problem is DRM, with many millennia of durability Congress will need to expand the period of protection else the IP holders will suffer.
Poor Cameron, chased up by that troll Nigel Farage and UKIP to chance the greatest economic disaster (Brexit) the nation has faced in 50 years he has found a new priority.
They've already overplayed their hand at a mandatory opt-out porn filter at ISP level and now he wants to go one step up on this stupidity.
Anything will do for him to avoid the voter to see how he's only shrouding real issues by populist rhetoric.
Poor Albion.