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  1. Only 17.6 MW? on China Arms Upgraded Tianhe-2A Hybrid Supercomputer (nextplatform.com) · · Score: 1

    A SMALL aluminium smelter can consumer over 500MW..

    Really, 17.6MW is nothing on any industrial scale..
    Hell, the Chinese have 9MW electric locomotive tractors, which they use in tandem..

    Now, if it was 1.21GW, and involved a flux capacitor... then we would be talking!

  2. Its even worse than that..

    NOx reacts with Methane to remove it from the atmosphere, and Methane is much MUCH worse that CO2 with regards to greenhouse effects.
    Estimates vary, however the accepted figure appears to be that the net effect of global diesel use is 20% net cooling effect.

    So yes, Diesel contributes to global cooling! Climate change! Disaster!

    (Also, lightning creates about the same amount of NOx as small vehicles, and both are much less than shipping, aircraft, or heavy industry..)

  3. And how exactly would a cryptographic signature help that?
    It would just certify that you had actually installed the right cones typo squatter correctly....

    Unless there was a central controller of who was allowed to publish python extensions.

    Is that what you want? It's called a walled garden...

  4. What the hell would that change?

    The vector here is people asking for a module that is named similar to the one they want, pip in installing exactly the module they are mistakenly asking for - there is no reason that any cryptographic signature would be failed.

    The only marginal finger-pointing possible here is at PyPl for allowing typo squating, however even that is marginal.

    Basically, if you are installing modules from 'dah internetz', you should take just a little care, perhaps?

    Unless what they are trying to claim is that walled garden security is somehow better? I doubt they would get many within the python community to agree.

  5. Actually, 1 kcal = 1 Cal, calories and Calories are different, horrifically.
    The first is the base energy unit, and it defined via the gram.
    The second, or Food Calorie, or Dietary Calorie, is defined by the kg, and is 1000 times larger.

    You were only an upper case letter off though ;)

    Yes, it is very very stupid.

  6. The difference is important.

    Advertising is making sure people know your product exists, and some features of it.
    Marketing is convincing people to purchase it, no matter their needs or its features.

    Advertising is almost completely dead, and involves very little money.
    Marketing is massive and involves a huge amount of money.

    This is about marketing, not advertising.

  7. This. Apple is just establishing themselves as the gateway, and will then require payments.

    After all, it is quite well established that Apple sees their 'users' as both the customer AND the product - happy to charge them, and sell them.

    The only way this would be avoided would be for the method to be transparently published, so everyone could clearly see what Apple was doing

    I wont be holding my breath on that.

  8. Quite impressive really.
    Being diagnosed with TP at least 2 years before the first confirmed cases showing TP was a human pathogen, and 11 years before a test was developed for it.

    Luck you are so smart, Professor - you should publish!

  9. Re:As if I needed a reason to hate cats more on Mind-Altering Cat Parasite Linked To a Whole Lot of Neurological Disorders (sciencealert.com) · · Score: 1

    Or just possibly they dont like the idea of breeding more of an animal that existing primarily to torture and kill the local wildlife in the area, mostly the local small bird population?

    No, you are right, it must be insecurity.

    Do you burn up ants with a magnifying glass in summer for fun? Pull the legs off insects? Its significantly less cruel to wildlife than keeping a cat.

  10. Incompetence on South Park's Season Premier Sets Off Everyone's Amazon Echo (maxim.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If you cannot manage to approximate 3.5 times 1/3 well enough to do for a recipe, then I suggest you would probably not be allowed to cook unsupervised.
    I mean, at worse you could add 1/3 of a table spoon three and a half times..
    O perhaps with out that 3 times 1/3 must be, you know, 1, and then another half of 1/3, so is a sixth (or put another way, irrelevant in cooking).

    But no, instead you need to use a cloud based voice recognition and interpretation system located somewhere else in the world to work that out?

    We really are in the shit..

  11. There is no OMG to do with her gender (and why do you imply a vagina means that, sexist much? You can stage her physical gender must now easily than that you know, why teller to her sexual organs?)

    There is an OMG about her being at the top of the chain for required Equifax security, and having some possible holes in her background.

    Get that?
    This person is directly responsible for the largest personal information leave in history.
    And their credentials are being questioned.
    As they damn will should be.
    Because this is a screwup of monumental proportions.

    Stop trying to use her sexual organs as a defense.

  12. It's an LCD plant.
    The new iPhone uses oled.
    The credits can be turned in to cash with need for profit.

    Oops.
    Sucks to be a local taxpayer I guess. Nice for the Chinese though.

  13. More enlightened examples of the left on Boffins Fear We Might Be Running Out of Ideas (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    What great work they have done for mankind:
    The Cultural Revolution
    The Great Leap Forward
    Russian political Gulags and forced relocations,
    The Red Terror
    The Great Purge
    The Killing Fields
    The Ethiopian Red Terror

    To name just a few. I wont even begin to put numbers of the deaths, however its pretty obvious they are 'leading' in the last 100 years..

    The thing to remember here is that left vs right is not actually that important or decisive.
    Open versus Totalitarian is (I would have used the word Liberal there, but America has redefined that word, as they like to do)

    Totalitarian is consistently bad - on the left AND the right - a direction that man western governments are racing towards.

  14. So...
    What happened to the jobs at the retailers that are replaced by Amazon supply chain (ie, working in the bricks and mortar)..
    What happens to the workers at Amazon who get displaced by robots after their work force is saturated? When they are not experiencing growth?

    I didn't realise that Amazon employed a PR writer called 'Anonymous reader'.

  15. Re:Just unlock your phone on How Proprietary Software Lets Companies Cheat (locusmag.com) · · Score: 1

    Absolutely!
    Because, you know what? its actually IMPOSSIBLE to buy a phone thats not from a carrier, IMPOSSIBLE I say!

    Oh, wait a minute, they are everywhere, and there is actually no need to buy a carrier phone in the first place.

  16. Re:3x on Leaks Reveal New Features In Apple's Next iPhone · · Score: 2, Informative

    Apple doesnt appear to realise that you can scale bitmaps to any size, especially on screen way better than most peoples eyes can handle (and with heavy GPUs that can trivially manage complex scaling algorithms) - so their resolutions are usually an exact multiples of the original iPhone.

    This would be 3 times the original resolution.

    You are expected to know this, because not to is blasphemy against the one great fashion.

  17. While it charges.... on Leaks Reveal New Features In Apple's Next iPhone · · Score: 1

    Well, they will need something to do while they are waiting to 'watch the battery fill up' when on wireless charging, since wireless generally charges at a fraction of the wires charge rates ;) They shouldn't have to watch and wait more than a few hours....

    But hey, its a new iPhone! The media just cannot contain their gushing over any tiny change, because it just HAS to be revolutionary.

    Still, a whole lot of people will no doubt suddently realise that their year or two old phone, that was working perfectly well last week is suddenly THE thing that is holding them back from climbing mountains on warm spring mornings with perfect model like looks, and rush out and purchase one.

  18. Anonymous... on The Teen Malware Career Of Marcus Hutchins (itwire.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Posting anonymously is effectively saying your opinion doesn't matter, and you are too chickenshit to back it up. Anonymous posting should be eliminated immediately, or at least it should be impossible to mod Anonymous posts up.

    Can you see what I did there? no, didn't think so.

  19. BS. on Kodi Is Fighting Trademark Trolls (betanews.com) · · Score: 2

    I see your (somewhat incorrect) interpretation of the Constitution.

    However, I raise you one 'violation of the social contract' that was done by copyright extension.

    You see, copyright has always been what is called a balanced social contract. Society as a whole carry the cost of both allowing and enforcing copyright, at no cost to the copyright owners - and in return the 'works' are supposed to become the property of that society after a reasonable time to allow for a suitable profit to be made.

    However, as I am sure you know (because only someone with an interest would write the facile bs you did..) the opposite has been done. These days profits can be taken much much quicker on works than previously, however copyright have been extended to the point where it is unlikely that society will EVER receive their part of the contract.

    Now, a contract where one party can never benefit is generally considered legally unenforceable.

    So, it SHOULD be considered entirely appropriate to ignore the copyright side of that agreement, and the holders are ignoring the other side.
    Of course, the government does not profit from such a view, so use force of arms to stop it - that does not however make it 'right', just enforced.

  20. Your embedded should be 'embedded', in the same way 'embedded' linux rocks.

    Yes it does, however it doesn't come within a mile of true embedded uses, where any unrequired resources mean extra device cost, which is to be avoided.
    True embedded these days generally means 'runs on the included storage/memory within a microcontroller', and that is a stretch for embedded python.

    However it does fit quite nicely into the hobbyist 'cracking an embedded nut with a sledgehammer' approach, where huge storage, memory, and cpu capabilities are used to solve often trivial problems - which is perfect valid for single/low unit use.

  21. Re:Rule #1 on Oracle Staff Report Big Layoffs Across Solaris, SPARC Teams (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    MySQL? A Threat a real database? Umm. No.

    PostgreSQL perhaps, but not MySQL.

    Just because its popular with 'toy database' applications (where the db is really just slightly glorified read only storage) doesnt mean it is a threat or oracle - different horses for very different courses.

  22. Re:In this thread /. experts will... on Power Company Kills Nuclear Plant, Plans $6 Billion In Solar, Battery Investment (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Avoided pouring millions (probably closer to billions) of tons of CO2 into the atmosphere?

    Or is global warming suddenly not a thing again?

  23. Re:Launch control on How NASA Kept the ISS Flying While Harvey Hit Mission Control (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Make a big fuss about keeping something in orbit in orbit for a couple of days, when the gap between its normal boost-burns is much longer than that? Check.
    Make it seem like staying on site through a storm, in a building built to survive just about anything, is heroic? Check.
    Making a big thing out of 'working' 12 actual hours, as if they saved the world? Check.

    Please, can we give these saviors of humanity some more funding now? They are scraping along on a mere 20 billion!

    (ducks and runs, because NASA can do no wrong around here, but COME ON, they pulled a couple of long shifts and slept on site)

  24. Just a few problems with your analysis..

    You seem to think that 'production' and GDP are the same thing, they most certainly are not. A significant proportion of US 'GDP' is produced by foreign companies, for a start.
    Then you think that number can just be made available 'to spend'? Interesting - complement false of course, but interesting. You really dont know what the term means, do you.

    You also seem to think UBI, etc are ways to 'spread wealth'. Believe it or not UBI is specifically NOT designed for that, hence the 'U' part.
    You also assume that giving people more for nothing lowers crime, interesting concept with a good 50 or 60 years of solid research showing the opposite is true (In general criminals are not motivated by desperation, but by a lack of feeling of personal responsibility for their actions, this is well established).

    As to your SS retirement age, ROTFL, you do realise SS is going to be bankrupt already? I can only assume you want that to happen sooner?

    And then, yes, the good old 'downfall of our culture' meme - you know its been used before right? It lead to a revolution, in China, The estimated death toll was in the millions.

    If you want something USEFUL to point at, go for corruption - panem et circenses is the enemy right now - creating apathy of the majority to corruption by the strong. Fix that and most everything becomes much less of an issue.

  25. ROTFL - no NDA? on Kaspersky Lab Forces 'Patent Troll' To Pay Cash To End Case (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    And the patent troll forgot to include non-disclosure it seems.
    Obviously quality lawyering there.. Smart, Real smart.

    But lets not forget, Kaspersky is EVIL now remember? EVIL RUSSIANS!

    How dare they try and undermine such an upstanding and fine American institution as patent trolling!