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  1. Re:Sad for such a 'young' man on Robin "Roblimo" Miller, a Long-Time Voice of the Linux Community, Has Passed Away (wikipedia.org) · · Score: 1

    I'm 10 months older and not planning to pass away all too soon.
    (Yes 1952 was an excellent year)

    In the USA the average life expectancy for males is close to 76 years and those extra 10 years of retirement can be beautiful years.
    In my country the average is nearly 80 years and I plan to make the best use of my pension!

  2. Sad for such a 'young' man on Robin "Roblimo" Miller, a Long-Time Voice of the Linux Community, Has Passed Away (wikipedia.org) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    One day we will all pass away and those left behind will grieve but at his age it is an even more sad occurrence.
    I wish his family and friends strength and thank Robin for all the good he did.

  3. But you don't have to enable this Google microphone application.
    I really mean, who in his right mind would enable this or that Amazon thing for anything but a very short time?

  4. Bad timing, typical Trump on Trump Cancels Singapore Summit With North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    It's typical Trump to make this announcement now.
    Presently there is a whole slew of foreigners in North Korea to witness the demolition of the old and useless nuclear test site.
    Trump should have waited till most of them were in safety, Kim is crazy enough to keep (some of) them hostage.

  5. You better worry more, virtually all AM and FM stations are already using digital feeds to their transmitters.

  6. Oops, adult should read mature :)

  7. Yes he might be from the NL.
    But DAB+ is quite adult in The Netherlands, coverage is very good, the number of stations is (much) larger than on FM.
    I wouldn't want to go back to FM, forget AM.

    I regularly drive between The Netherlands, via Germany to Denmark and DAB+ is simply perfect.
    Since we recently got EU wide data streaming works but is harder to integrate without much of an advantage.

  8. Re:Not going to happen any time soon. on FM Radio Faces UK Government Switch-Off As Digital Listening Passes 50 Percent Milestone (inews.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Nothing to froth about.
    At the end of the 2nd WW most European nations did not have the money to afford commercial broadcasters with any sort of quality, by consequence they set up their public broadcasters, each country according to their own culture.
    In some countries like Germany and the UK these stations are still extremely popular simply because they are good.
    Since many years they have commercial competitors assuring the programming is of the highest quality.

  9. Re:Not going to happen any time soon. on FM Radio Faces UK Government Switch-Off As Digital Listening Passes 50 Percent Milestone (inews.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    (something not working with my moderation)
    Radio is outside of the US quite nice, lots of different music, news, documentaries etc.
    No reason to go to the trouble of streaming.
    DAB+ (not DAB) gives a good quality sound plus its cellular nature makes it when travelling possible to have a clean transition between cells.

    About the lack of coverage, yes there still is but none the less over 50% of listeners already prefer DAB+.
    By the way, the last three of my cars had DAB+ as standard, the cheapest portable DAB+ radio's now start at around €35.

  10. Re:FFS, isn't enough enough already? on Hacker Breaches Securus, the Company That Helps Cops Track Phones Across the US (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    When is this bullshit going to stop?

    By the time the USofA joins the EU.
    Now the UK is all but gone we can do with another English language group.

  11. Re:Flying? on Researchers Create First Flying Wireless Robotic Insect (newatlas.com) · · Score: 2

    Indeed, their miniaturisation is at the front.
    But the TU Delft's MAVLab (http://mavlab.tudelft.nl) has autonomous flapping wing vehicles.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  12. Only about FB users? on Facebook Faulted By Judge For 'Troubling Theme' In Privacy Case (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    We non-FB addicts are also scanned when some dupe posts a tagged picture of the innocent.
    Which in my view is much more serious, the poster should also be charged.

  13. Re:Thunderbird or AlPine on Slashdot Asks: Which Is Your Favorite Email Client? · · Score: 1

    In the Win95 and 98 days I used Outlook Express but once I saw the light and went Linux Thunderbird is the mail client of choice, also on Windows.
    I find it stable, easy and logic.

    Anything Google or MS is not going to scrape my mail, as a webmail client my ISP uses (and develops) Roundcube and it does the job.

  14. Re: Should be simple enough to try it on animals f on States Turn To an Unproven Method of Execution: Nitrogen Gas (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe they were tipped of by Trump who remembered what Nitrogen is called in German, Stickstoff.
    Stickstoff translates in English to Suffocating material.

  15. Re:Seems like the right reasons to me on New Service Blocks EU Users So Companies Can Save Thousands on GDPR Compliance (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Historically the UK had a habit of 'enhancing' EU regulations.
    But one of the reasons for the Brexit was the wish by some to on the right to avoid the (conceived) burden of EU regulation.

  16. which consider it too much trouble to not sell your privacy to the highest bidder.

    Quite!

  17. Switches for high speed are going to be a challenge, at low speed near a terminal they should be easy to negotiate.
    Yes a concrete shell with a relatively thin inner (steel) tube would be the most likely solution, only the inner tube needs to be perfectly straight.

  18. Re:It all comes down to one thing on New Hyperloop Cargo Company Promises Deliveries at 600 MPH (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Because the Amsterdam Airport has reached maximum capacity an overflow airport is being developed about 50kms away.
    With a Hyperloop connection this would become a 10mins away terminal.

  19. Re: GDPR will fragment the internet on New Service Blocks EU Users So Companies Can Save Thousands on GDPR Compliance (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    So I use a VPN to order some equipment and you couldn't recognise the address to ship it to as outside of the USofA.
    A new confirmation of an old tale about American geographical knowledge :)

  20. Re:Seems like the right reasons to me on New Service Blocks EU Users So Companies Can Save Thousands on GDPR Compliance (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    The EU doesn't have teeth.
    Indeed, the EU only sets a ruling after which the individual nations have to implement it in law.
    Meaning there will (after Brexit) be 27 different versions of this legislation.

  21. One such website is Doctor Phil, they now block all European IP's.
    Not that much is lost :)

    Access Denied
    You don't have permission to access "http://www.drphil.com/" on this server.

    Reference #18.5a9645f.1525724126.d8d9a54

  22. It doesn't provide customers with real choices that don't devolve into take it or leave it demands. There is no special GDPR compliant version of Windows 10 free of data collection spyware just for the EU. Instead there is a data transparency tool that shows a non-exhaustive list of some of your data as it is transmitted to Microsoft regardless of whether you want it to or not.

    I don't agree with all your objections but re. Microsoft you are damn right.
    But not for the obvious, take Facebook and its abuse of user data, since months no one has an excuse not to know but most just shrug it off and continue feeding the beast.
    In other words, providing 'real choices' does not work, by lack of moral in many businesses legislation is needed.

    Now we need to wait for EU legislation forcing Microsoft to stop this at the moment unavoidable mining.

  23. Wrong header on Nigerian Email Scammers Are More Effective Than Ever (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Wrong header
    It should read: Ever more stupid and greedy people online.

  24. So you would build a leaking tube?
    Realise this tube is only near-vacuum, that makes a differential pressure of about 1 bar (14.5 psi).
    Around the world there are many thousands of miles of high pressure gas distribution lines with typically a pressure in the area of 60-80 bar (900-1000 psi) and they don't leak.

  25. Re:It all comes down to one thing on New Hyperloop Cargo Company Promises Deliveries at 600 MPH (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Here in The Netherlands we have a densely populated country, by consequence nearly all new infrastructure will have to go underground.
    Our advantage is the soil is relatively soft, the disadvantage is it will be water logged.
    But as they manage to build metros under cities like Rotterdam and Amsterdam then this small diameter Hyperloop tunnel is a piece of cake. The lack of real estate will be the rule in nearly every city so the Boring Company has a lot of work ahead.

    Back to the original article, when used for freight larger terminals are needed and almost by consequence these will be in the surrounding industrial areas.