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  1. Re:Dear atavistic energy companies: on Utilities Fight Back Against Solar Energy · · Score: 1

    Sure disconnect from the grid and see how well things work. Off grid PV is a lot less efficient and those batteries are a pretty nasty part that needs replacing regularly. Replacing those pretty much make PV uneconomical even while paying the highest electricity rates in the continental US.

    Now electric cars battery packs could help even out the extreme variability of PV and other green generation types. Soaking up and then back feeding into the grid as required. Your wearing out there battery packs but that is easy enough to compensate for in a pricing model. This really requires more controls aka the smart grid.

    The smart grid needs a lot of protections from people attacking it through what the data is used for. It's the first time that the government is essentially going to push a network into your home and devices. It potentially can collect piles of data that can infer a lot of things. It also has the potential to push things at us. Pretty much all the issues of the current cell network extended to our appliances. I sure do not want my washing machine telling me that there is a tornado coming 3 state away and we need constitutional level protections this information may not be collected by anybody, used against us in criminal or civil court or accesses by anybody without our consent. Were already starting to see things like internet linked thermostats with monthly service contacts and no protection of that data.

  2. Re:Comcast is already twisting the screws. on US Internet Service In 2014: Net Neutrality Challenges and High-Speed Build-Outs · · Score: 1

    You do realize those converters were for OTA TV not cable? Comcast loves the converters as there is effectively nothing that is not encrypted anymore. This means they no long have to send trucks to the projects etc to turn off peoples cable.

  3. Re:Short answer: no on Is Ruby Dying? · · Score: 1

    400k get off my elawn :)

  4. Re:Mobile sites are a mistake on Ask Slashdot: Why Do Mobile Versions of Websites Suck? · · Score: 1

    If they were that I would browse mobiles sites on my desktop. Flash is useless, and many sties have a max horizontal size to preserve some antiquated look and feel. It's not like I've seen a web ad in a decade or more on any platform.

  5. Re:Death for 1 in 25,000 treatments? on Researchers Use Electroconvulsive Therapy To Disrupt Recall of Nasty Events · · Score: 1

    But it does not take multiple treatments for either of those to to have a lasting beneficial effect, with 6-12 treatments typical and maintenance treatments required afterwards that is more like 1 in 3k to start and roll the rice over and over again.

  6. Death for 1 in 25,000 treatments? on Researchers Use Electroconvulsive Therapy To Disrupt Recall of Nasty Events · · Score: 2

    Seems rather dangerous to me.

  7. Re:American Revolution 2? on DoD Public Domain Archive To Be Privatized, Locked Up For 10 Years · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately history tells us the revolution is cyclic effective no plan works in perpetuity, Any setup that can be changed will slowly be changed for the worse. Any setup that is fixed does not respond to changing demands.

  8. Re:Not a protest, kidnapping. on Protesters Block Apple and Google Buses In California · · Score: 1

    Yes

  9. Lol there is a treaty so no problem? on How To Avoid a Scramble For the Moon and Its Resources · · Score: 0

    Treaty's work as well as you have guns to enforce them. That is the classic mistake of assuming somehow the rule of law enforces itself, ultimately it takes the rule of the gun to do so. The moon is potentially a very strategic position, the closest high ground that's capable of withstanding an attack while easy to launch kinetic weapons from.

  10. Re:Is this why we have UEFI all of a sudden? on NSA Says It Foiled Plot To Destroy US Economy Through Malware · · Score: 1

    Secure boot is part of UEFI 2.2 I beleive

  11. Re:Is this why we have UEFI all of a sudden? on NSA Says It Foiled Plot To Destroy US Economy Through Malware · · Score: 2

    UEFI is the attack capable of not allowing you to boot anything they do not ordain as acceptable.

  12. Re:We should encrypt EVERYTHING by default on CBS 60 Minutes: NSA Speaks Out On Snowden, Spying · · Score: 1

    Correct me if I'm wrong but how does Awaaz really protect anything, sure your encrypting it but you key exchange looks like it's being stored or sent though a central point. Encrypting things is easy key exchange is hard. AKA what protecting from some NSA thugs with guns and rubber stamped fisa orders from compromising the system it seems everything has to implicitly trust your servers for at least the call setup and key exchange. Even if you and the servers out outside there reach the NSA has already shown they have the capability to break important keys as to impersonate them.

  13. Re:We vote on leaders not lightbulbs on US Light Bulb Phase-Out's Next Step Begins Next Month · · Score: 1

    My local costco store.

  14. Re:We vote on leaders not lightbulbs on US Light Bulb Phase-Out's Next Step Begins Next Month · · Score: 1

    Currently picking up 40w equivalent dimable LED's in 3 form factors (candelabra, standard, and dressing mirror) for 3.33 a pop. Cost savings and life expectancy. I've been living in my current home for 9 years and are just starting to see the CFL's fail outside of a couple infant moralities. Having a viable dimable candelabra version makes a huge difference in summer when nearly 1kw of incandescent in the room between chandelier and sconces can turn it into an easy bake oven without the AC cranked.

  15. Re:Go ALL THE WAY OUT! on ITU Standardizes 1Gbps Over Copper, But Services Won't Come Until 2015 · · Score: 1

    It's a dead end run by monopolies, the NBN is a take on accepting that last mile is a natural monopoly in most places and separating that from actually providing services and those people meet at so many cross connect points or use a wholesale provider to do so.

  16. Re:Go ALL THE WAY OUT! on ITU Standardizes 1Gbps Over Copper, But Services Won't Come Until 2015 · · Score: 1

    Were talking about AU, Telstra being the effective monopoly and the government looking to dump huge piles of cash into this. The point is to separate the last mile bits that effectively need to be a monopoly from actually delivering services. It's actually fairly comprehensive with a mix of fiber to the home, fixed wireless and satellite. Anti cherry picking provisions of the law requires anybody that builds there own network to offer access at similar prices. It also requires the incumbents to pull out any copper network 18 months after the NBN goes in and not install any new copper plant. Fairly impressive for a network covering 1/20 of the worlds land mass.

  17. Why bother on Australia's National Broadband Network Downgraded · · Score: 1

    12 billion more into a monopoly for the same useless copper? When full fiber to the home could mean divesting the service side of the network and the infrastructure? Sounds like a boondoggle to me.

  18. Re:Go ALL THE WAY OUT! on ITU Standardizes 1Gbps Over Copper, But Services Won't Come Until 2015 · · Score: 1

    Point being copper is holding us back. ADSL is a dead end, attempting to breath life into a cable plant that is far past it's useful lifetime.

  19. Re:Go ALL THE WAY OUT! on ITU Standardizes 1Gbps Over Copper, But Services Won't Come Until 2015 · · Score: 1

    Step one replace the wires. We have known this since what the 70's? I can get commodity 100ge optics that go 40km today x3 that at 10ge. And I can get more than one on a fiber pair with cheap CWDM.

  20. Re:Externalizing the cost of maintenance on Six Electric Cars Can Power an Office Building · · Score: 1

    Annual savings 5k cost of 6 battery packs about 72-180 k (Telsa S 12k battery in the future buy now vs insurance replacement cost). In other words if they had to buy the battery packs it would cost them 7-18k a year for an average 10 year life span. Deep discharge lead acids would be cheaper but you get the point.

    All in all lots of battery packs getting plugged into the grid has some interesting potentials. Nearly of them them require more intelligence than whats available and pricing the more closely models costs.

  21. Re:Wrong Forum on A Year After Ban On Loud TV Commercials: Has It Worked? · · Score: 1

    Your still on tivo how very 90's of you. Automatic commercial skipping has been around forever now.

  22. Re:News for Luddites? Stuff That Fears? on Smart Cars: Too Distracting? · · Score: 1

    HUD's realy need to be standard, love mine in 2000 grand prix gtp. Even a GPS near the A pillar is pretty good at not changing my focus to much but the hud is near perfect.

  23. Re:$80k car, $10 cutoff switch? on Tesla Model S Battery Drain Issue Fixed · · Score: 1

    30k from Tesla's forums, HUGE difference between an all electric and a hybrid. Nope I like green things fission power plans and hydro for base load :)

  24. Re:$80k car, $10 cutoff switch? on Tesla Model S Battery Drain Issue Fixed · · Score: 1

    That battery costs 30k right now, that's a whole lot of reinvestment. Even at 15k in 10 years that is still a big chunk of cash on a decade old chassis.

  25. Re:$80k car, $10 cutoff switch? on Tesla Model S Battery Drain Issue Fixed · · Score: 0

    It is an 80k car I doubt many owners will ever change a tire forget worrying about the door handles, lets remember EV's are disposable there battery s degrade and they are worth nothing, your not going to see many go much past 10 years.