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  1. Re:No Alternatives??? on US Tests Nuclear Power System To Sustain Astronauts On Mars (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    At 20k USD per kg to LEO 40-50KW of solar gets pretty expensive. We know how to make reactors that last a long time and survive reentry and other mishaps.

  2. Re: The CEO who thinks differently is a fool on Jack In the Box CEO Says 'It Just Makes Sense' To Replace Workers With Robots (grubstreet.com) · · Score: 1

    Assuming the companies doing this work cannot be offshored etc the price will just about double to account for the tax rate. If that drives the volume down companies will shrink or go under.

  3. Um they have 3 of them https://www.supermicro.com/Apl... for example. You can get them in a 1ru supermicro chassis for about 1500 for a functional computer.

  4. Re:One thing I don't like... on After Beating Cable Lobby, Colorado City Moves Ahead With Muni Broadband (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Some do it right, it's glass to central points, CDWM/DWDM mapping database, and some space cental in the CO's. They can still stand up their own network with or without transit, for access to schools government emergency services and the like that ISP's might overlay on.

    So done right big ISP's would provide their own gear and just optically connect. Smaller ISP's might reuse the L2 network of the muni to get going and feel out a market till it makes sense to put in L2 gear of their own. This is right way since the muni is just dealing with passive glass and CWDM gear maybe an over glorified spreadsheet thats all in the commons. They have the long-term planning to bury the fiber and not destroy the commons.

  5. This really depends on how it's done, it's it's done right like say Amsterdam the city is not competing. It's building only the shared infrastructure. ISP's fill in the actual transit. Now adding in CWDM and IPv6 suddenly you can easily handle multiple providers on a single fiber and get sensible routing. The muni can even be a provider of last resort, for example, giving access to city services but not internet access Netflix can colo a box with them and provide streaming.

  6. Re:Not practical? on Taking The Profit Out Of Killing 'Net Neutrality' (cringely.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It's actually more practical to throttle everything other than their approved content from a technical standpoint. Whitelisting your golden IP ranges is rather easy.

  7. Good can we ban all street lights now? on Night Being 'Lost' To Artificial Light (bbc.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    At least have them shut off after midnight.

  8. Re:So... what can the average prole do? on More Than 15,000 Scientists From 184 Countries Issue 'Warning To Humanity' (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 0

    1 Sure wait till you see what they look like in a few years of use.

    2 Push push push, sure makes GM piles of cash oddy when the incentives drop so does the pricing. Incentives are just a HUGE handout to car makers and to a lesser extent the upper middle class. Let them compete on their own and stop disturbing the market to push one pet project or another. FU to cannot sell any more ICE cars.

    3 Solar is fine just remember you have to account for no solar or wind and still have enough peeking plants to deal with demand. This is a huge spot where incentives are inflating the market.

    4 Sounds good to me, having worked DOT this is mostly the nimblies that you have to contend with. Once destination to destination is significantly shorter via mass transit it gets used.

    5 Again FU sardine cans are no place for families to live.

  9. No and use a real streaming platform on Ask Slashdot: Should I Allow A 'Smart TV' To Connect To The Internet? · · Score: 1

    Plex is my current go to, the smart TV roku etc do not need internet access (have to fake a bit of it to get some to use the network). If you want privacy you have to avoid cloud-based anything. I still put them on their own vlan.

  10. Re:My reasons on Ask Slashdot: Why Do We Still Commute? (citylab.com) · · Score: 1

    Come out to the country where it is actually nice.

  11. Re:possible fix? on Australia Cockatoos Chew Billion-Dollar Broadband (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    They are crying over a 14 buck casing I don't see them actually buying the correct cable for the job.

  12. Re:My reasons on Ask Slashdot: Why Do We Still Commute? (citylab.com) · · Score: 1

    Those places still suck (from my point of view) to live and raise a family in.

  13. Hint if you don't have the power to charge an eink display that needs what a charge a week then your already dead. Hells some have solar panels on back that could charge it to full in a few hours.

  14. Re:Benedict Judas Quisling goes all Boeing on BlackBerry CEO Promises To Try To Break Customers' Encryption If the US Government Asks Him To (techdirt.com) · · Score: 1

    Two big issues he is not saying he will fight any court orders, seeing that they commonly come with a gag order and having been on the receiving end in the hosting sector yea you have to fight them as the majority are junk they get dumped or changed with any pushback cops shop around for rubber stamp judges it can be as simple as waiting till the easy one is up in the rotation. Second blackberry should not be in a position to honor those court orders other than there is the encrypted blob and metadata even here is how our encryption works. If your building a system where you can decode in the middle your system is broken by design and needs to be fixed.

  15. Re:Benedict Judas Quisling goes all Boeing on BlackBerry CEO Promises To Try To Break Customers' Encryption If the US Government Asks Him To (techdirt.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Companies are free to fight court orders he is implying he will not contest anything or even look too hard. It does not matter as their platform is dead.

  16. If your working in support and your NMS is sending you 1500 emails a day you need a better NMS and/or a whole lot more automation.

  17. Re:High capacity HDDs terrify me on Microwave Tech Could Produce 40TB Hard Drives In the Near Future (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    You have a brand new array of 40tb disks and are going to use raid tech from the 80's? extent/file based mirror and parity is mature at this point zfs/btrfs/others for local and things like gluster for scale wide. With 12 drives in a 1ru or 90 in a 4ru that's an awful lot fo raw storage.

  18. Re:Self driving tech is a waste of money on Driverless Cars Are Giving Engineers a Fuel Economy Headache (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    I know a bunch of people that won't take trains with good reason, the stations are not safe crime wise, center city of feeder cities are pretty rough generally.

  19. Re:Self driving tech is a waste of money on Driverless Cars Are Giving Engineers a Fuel Economy Headache (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Rail works great it does not work better than cars till it reduced your real commute time. The rest of the world has high-speed trains the US thinks acella is fast and that making a 100-mile detour to Providence makes sense (does politically 2 senators). We need real high speed rail in new corridors with enough parking rather than trying to improve existing over-congested lanes.

    The build it denser sucks, high density living is horrid. I'm 60 ish miles outside NYC get that door to city center commute time down to under 45 minutes and suddenly you have a viable hour commute with 30 of that being train time.

  20. Re:We are leaving them with no choice on Justice Department To Be More Aggressive In Seeking Encrypted Data From Tech Companies (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    This is really simple no.

    Encryption has nothing at all to do with the 4th, they can have the data or the object holding the data all they want. Making extremely hard to open safes was a thing when this was thought of even ones that would destroy the contents if they were tampered with. Using codes was also very common at the time. This is not something new that we need to figure out how to deal with it's an old solved issue they are trying to make an end run around.

    As to your specifics, good encryption can be indistinguishable from random data, this is also against the 5th by any reasonable interpretation. The mear fact you know the password is testifying against yourself.

  21. Re:The day the music died.... on EFF Resigns From Web Consortium In Wake of EME DRM Standardization (eff.org) · · Score: 2

    That's the thing we do not need to give up open networks for video's, if nobody will buy DMR junk they will stop selling it.

  22. Re:File a criminal complaint first on Dealership Remotely Disables A Car Over A $200 Fee (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    No no not fraud, it's hacking they illegally accessed his device.

  23. Re:Only 400 recharge cycles? Slashvertisement on Startup Unveils Revolutionary New Rechargeable Alkaline Batteries (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    When? The big chunky ones had poor specs otherwise and/or poor build quality.

  24. Na just means war and famine will be the methods to keep the population in check.

  25. Nobody has succeeded in restraining population growth, even China full out repressive regime didn't manage it.