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  1. Re: This is what you get on 'Gold Standard' State Net Neutrality Bill Approved By California Assembly (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Zero-rating select services only benefits the select customers using the service at the expense of others.

  2. A-symmetric is due to available technology.
    Please explain what it is with that loophole you mention?

  3. As if you Americans have so much choice...
    Remember it's only a few days ago news came the regulator already sees competition when the next connection is half a mile away.

  4. Re:Weiner vs. Wiener on The 'Scunthorpe Problem' Has Never Really Been Solved (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Wiener Wurst for the connoiseurs.

  5. Re:Fuck Puritanism on The 'Scunthorpe Problem' Has Never Really Been Solved (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    Which Europeans? The religious ones or the atheist ones?

    In either case the majority.

  6. Re:You don't know Dick on The 'Scunthorpe Problem' Has Never Really Been Solved (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    It is a very common name but overly sensitive Americans have all but banned it.
    Luckily it is still in wide use in other countries, luckily because it is a variation of my first name.

  7. Weiner vs. Wiener on The 'Scunthorpe Problem' Has Never Really Been Solved (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Illiterate Americans.
    The sausage is called Wiener after the Austrian capital Wien (Vienna).
    And then there is the issue of pronunciation...

  8. Re:slashdot at its worst on Sea Level Rise Already Causing Billions in Home Value To Disappear (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Why would the poor care for the price of carbon (fuels)?
    It's the price of energy he should worry about, once clean energy becomes commonplace it shouldn't be priced much different than what we pay today for dirty energy.
    Don't forget today the price of dirty energy is much more than what you pay to the supplier, there is a deferred cost to the environment, you exhaust resources and you pollute, both are expenses for your kids.

    Btw, where did you get the claim Florida should have flooded 20-30 years ago?

  9. Re:By The Same Token on Sea Level Rise Already Causing Billions in Home Value To Disappear (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Exact the reason why Trump does not support lowering the CO2 output of the USofA (America First!).
    With a few feet of sea level rise Xi will soon find out his new islands will turn back to being reefs.
    Too bad the same will happen to Trump's beloved New York and a couple of his other sea side properties :)

  10. Re:Stop IMPERSONATING me... apk on Sea Level Rise Already Causing Billions in Home Value To Disappear (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    We need a -2 APK moderation...

  11. Re:Another Trump FAILURE on Europe To Ban Halogen Lightbulbs (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    With the global CO2 problems this would be the same 'freedom' as driving on the left side 'just because it's freedom of choice'.

  12. Re:And they only cost 20 times as much on Europe To Ban Halogen Lightbulbs (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    You start with a bad assumption, the light-efficiency of incandescent bulbs is between 2.5 and 4%, more than 5 times worse then the 20% you suggest.

    It's only in places with an abundance of hydro-electricity where it would make economical sense to have electric heating.
    In most places on this world other forms of heating are (much) cheaper.
    Then think of places with air conditioning where incandescent lamps are a double waste of power!

  13. Re: So you don't need a lwa on Europe To Ban Halogen Lightbulbs (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    You are old fashioned.
    For a very small price you can get LED bulbs that can be toggled to dim at 100%, 75%, 50% and 25% of output by just switching them off and on. Works perfectly.

  14. Yes they could have worded it better like 'effective or equivalent diameter'.
    Each of the seven mirrors has a diameter of 8.4 m, together that amounts to equivalent to a 24.5 m. mirror but with the added advantage you can now adjust the segments to counteract atmospheric turbulence.
    The biggest advantage is it is easier to manufacture a smaller mirror to the required accuracy.

  15. There's nothing anti American about flaming an international magazine for not doing their editorial work reporting on an international project.

  16. Re:Wait for the US wide database sharing on Faces Are Being Scanned At US Airports With No Safeguards on Data Use (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    In the mean time this ex-refugee became an upstanding member of his community where he employs 250 people.

  17. Re:Wait for the US wide database sharing on Faces Are Being Scanned At US Airports With No Safeguards on Data Use (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    A list of valid reasons to use facial detection.
    But not a single one is an excuses for not having safeguards in place for who can use the biometrics and what for.
    It might be typical for US citizen to not know about privacy as a legal concept but one day you will regret these very invasive policies.

  18. Which percentage is used by unwanted apps? on Samsung Announces $1,000 Galaxy Note 9 Smartphone With Last-Gen Android Software Out-of-the-Box (engadget.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Which percentage of space and CPU cycles is used by unwanted and unremoveable apps?

  19. Off topic yet spot-on...

  20. Re:Nothing new on Online Photos Can't Simply Be Republished, EU Court Rules (politico.eu) · · Score: 1

    Several times I've been contacted by people asking for permission for use of the photo's of my travels on my website.
    Yes it was for commercial use but the rule is the same, I made the pic, I own the rights to it.
    Generally I will just allow the use without further cost but it depends on what for they need the pic.

  21. Mission critical? on Chip Giant TSMC Struggles With Virus Infections at its Factories (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Mission critical ops on Windows???
    As shareholder I'd consult a lawyer.

  22. Re:Entirely spam calls on Number of Mobile Calls Drops For the First Time (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    You live in a country with too much 'freedom'.

  23. Data contract on Number of Mobile Calls Drops For the First Time (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    I've got a cheap data contract and use Signal.

  24. Re:Way to make money? Force customers to pay month on With DaaS Windows Coming, Say Goodbye To Your PC As You Know It (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    There is nothing lol about the near unavoidable MS spyware in W10.

  25. Re:Way to make money? Force customers to pay month on With DaaS Windows Coming, Say Goodbye To Your PC As You Know It (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    No thanks, the spying of W10 is child-play compared to what Google does.