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  1. Re:It's all Gnome's fault on Systemd Starts Killing Your Background Processes By Default (blog.fefe.de) · · Score: 1

    actually, it's still not shutting down properly. It just gets forcibly killed when you log out, so the final result is the same and it's all good, right? No longer a significant problem so pulseaudio doesn't have to get fixed?

  2. Re:EVs aren't that much better on Tesla Co-Founder Says Hydrogen Fuel Cells Are a 'Scam' (electrek.co) · · Score: 1

    If I'm reading it right, https://www.hydrogen.energy.go... indicates (about page 18) that a system to hold 5.6kg of hydrogen would be about 3k each with mass production. According to http://hypertextbook.com/facts... the energy density of hydrogen is 33.3 kWh/kg, so that 3k tank would hold about 186 kWh worth, but I don't think that takes fuel cell efficiency into account. According to https://www.hydrogen.energy.go... a PEM cell (the only one listed as "portable" is 50-60% efficient, so it would be more like 112 kWh, which (okay, at this point the "if"s are really stretching) ought to push a Tesla Model S 300ish miles. Not bad.

    But yeah, as you note, transportation and transfer is extra. I don't know enough to give figures for that, between having to have a large pressurized tank, a bunch of pumps with (probably) individual compressors, and periodic replacement of parts from embrittlement...

  3. Re:"we live on a planet where..."??? on Tesla Co-Founder Says Hydrogen Fuel Cells Are a 'Scam' (electrek.co) · · Score: 1

    so it should be rephrased as "we live on a planet where hydrogen has plenty of things to react with" and maybe append "sometimes spectacularly".

  4. except the perjury part doesn't apply to "this infringes our copyright", it only applies to "I am or represent someone who has a copyright". The law was carefully crafted to penalize impersonation of a corporation but not false accusation.

  5. I agree with your points, but I think I'm missing a step in your math. Wouldn't framing be more $/m^2, instead of more $/watt?

    Certainly, better efficiency (more w/m^2) results in less area given a constant load and therefore less framing and less money for framing, but I don't see how you get "area squared" savings...

  6. Re:How about replacing the CEO with a machine on Wendy's Plans To Automate 6,000 Restaurants With Self-Service Ordering Kiosks (investors.com) · · Score: 1

    how many CEOs does the franchise owner have to be replaced?

    Or are you still on the actual original subject, instead of the one you're replying to?

  7. unfortunately, the reverse engineering clause is about programs, not data. Ripping for use on a different platform is more on the fair use side, except that in the DeCSS case the judge decided that if Congress had meant fair use to apply to that they'd have said so. Legislation has been proposed to address that; I'm sure the RIAA has opposed it vehemently, and that their opposition is why such legislation hasn't passed. *sigh*

  8. Re:Don't Steal – The Government Hates the Co on 'Technology Will Replace the Need For Big Government' (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    yeah, the part that got me was the assumption that these bureaucratic departments are going to let themselves shrink.

  9. but there is a right of expression, usually termed "speech" but interpreted to be more than vocalization. So... speech or privacy?

  10. Re:Enormous tax and administrative burdens on Should You Pay Sales Tax on Internet Purchases? South Dakota Law Could Be The Test (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Very cool, thanks!

  11. Re:Enormous tax and administrative burdens on Should You Pay Sales Tax on Internet Purchases? South Dakota Law Could Be The Test (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Awesome! Do you have a pointer? I'm curious how they keep up to date on county and city stuff everywhere.

  12. Re:Enormous tax and administrative burdens on Should You Pay Sales Tax on Internet Purchases? South Dakota Law Could Be The Test (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    if only we had a table of tax rates that was updated on a regular basis and covered every sales-tax-handling regional entity.

  13. Re:The 'real market value of his work' is irreleva on Ask Slashdot: Should This Photographer Sue A Hotel For $2M? (google.com) · · Score: 1

    see also "statutory damages" in US law. (I know it's a german case, but if we're into car analogies, it's close enough to be worth mentioning.)

  14. Re: Are they talking about cellphones on Intel Wants To Eliminate The Headphone Jack And Replace It With USB-C (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 1

    This is awesome. 15 minutes, a set of headphones, a 3.5mm cable, wire cutters, and a soldering iron (heck, electrical tape) and you've got an HDCP-digital -> analog converter. Audio only, but still.

  15. Re: So forgetting a password on Child Porn Suspect Jailed Indefinitely For Refusing To Decrypt Hard Drives (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    If they have enough evidence to seize the computer they have enough evidence to get a warrant to subvert the computer.

  16. Re: Subversion of the West on A Majority Of Millennials Now Reject Capitalism, Poll Shows (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    What form of government intervention (required for a perfect capitalist system) is not vulnerable to regulatory capture? Or is it just that a sufficiently low level of intervention isn't worth capturing?

  17. This right here. I would bet money that Elon Musk has already got someone looking into this.

  18. Re:Probaly not Uhruh radiation on The 'Impossible' EM Drive Being Tested By NASA May Finally Be Explained (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    Huh. I'd have thought that absorption and re-emission would tend to randomize the direction of travel. Very interesting. Thanks!

  19. Re:Probaly not Uhruh radiation on The 'Impossible' EM Drive Being Tested By NASA May Finally Be Explained (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    I've wondered, how does the constantness of the speed of light work with the known differences between speed of light in different media (vacuum, water, air)? The only concession to that I've seen has been use of "the speed of light in a vacuum" as the _true_ c but then we get into "well, if atoms being in the vacuum can make a difference, what about other types of mass/energy" and I've never seen that addressed. Can you point me to anything on this?

  20. I've thought of that too, but I have to figure if it was that simple it would have come out already. Surely someone at NASA thought to check for microwave emissions in the test rig and see if that would account for the observed behavior.

  21. It seems to me that you are either overgeneralizing or know more than I do, in which case I'd love to learn how it is that gravity is actually a repulsion from something else. Likewise magnetism and electric charge (assuming proper polarities).

    This may sound sarcastic but it's not meant to be; I'm not a physicist and it wouldn't surprise me too terribly much to find that there's reasons to think of it differently than I've heard... but I haven't heard of them yet.

  22. Re:How do biometrics work? on Researchers Can Identify You By Your Brain Waves With 100% Accuracy (business-standard.com) · · Score: 1

    As far as I'm aware, the assertion that all of those are unique are based entirely on a lack of contradictory evidence. How much effort has been expended to try to find contradictory evidence I don't know, though I'd expect that someone would have run a "check for apparent dupes" process on existing fingerprint databases by now.

  23. Re:Never understood why they do it that way... on Kindle Unlimited Scammers Gaming the System At the Expense of Real Authors (annchristy.com) · · Score: 1

    because then when you go to a different device it knows where you left off.

  24. Re:Another example of rigging the system on Kindle Unlimited Scammers Gaming the System At the Expense of Real Authors (annchristy.com) · · Score: 1

    you misspelled "millennia".

  25. Re:Imma go stage 2 on Scientists Build Smallest, Single Atom, Working Heat Engine (popularmechanics.com) · · Score: 1

    depends on the atom. If they're using a small one it's usually more work than it's worth.