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  1. And how exactly is that signal reliably turning corners in order to reach your phone inside you car?
    Inside my car it's nearly impossible to get a fix. Keeping the phone out the window fixes it.

  2. it's all about control. If you as a government are afraid of the population, then you want to control it such that the population will be afraid of the government.
    Bye pesky 'democracy'.

  3. Re:You have to ask permission to give away interne on Facebook Is Talking To the White House About Giving You 'Free' Internet (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    No, that's what makes these talks so suspicious.
    If a private corporation 'talks' to 'the government', then it's almost exclusively either about collusion and corruption or it is plain fascism.
    Also, don't forget the large amount of Facebook shares that Goldman Sachs owns. They invested heavily in this company.
    Why? Cashless society of course. If everybody has 'free' internet, it's easy to implement exclusively digital financial transactions.
    And guess how big your (negative) interest will be and where your data is going.
    And guess what happens if you express opinions that Zuckerberg et. al. don't like? You'll get shut off. No more food, no more groceries, no more access to your money. Of course due to a 'technical glitch'.

  4. If the one-waystreet sign is obfuscated, how would the car be able to recognize it as a one-way street?

  5. Re:So, in other words, it's carbon neutral on Scientists Identify Another Source of Dangerous Greenhouse Gases: Reservoirs (popsci.com) · · Score: 1

    First: what do you mean by 'it'?
    2nd: With 'carbon neutral', I think people do mean: CO2 neutral.
    3rd: Methane is a gass which contains carbon. So, if 'carbon neutral' means 'CO2 neutral' then no, anaerobic digestion is not 'carbon neutral' because part of the carbon is going into making methane.

  6. Re:Who was behind this? on Scientists Identify Another Source of Dangerous Greenhouse Gases: Reservoirs (popsci.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, you're totally right, Bomarc got it totally wrong! It's the (Big) nuclear lobby that wants hydro-power to be outlawed in favour of nuclear.

  7. Re:Is the implication that fresh water is bad? on Scientists Identify Another Source of Dangerous Greenhouse Gases: Reservoirs (popsci.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    ...then that process was happening, albeit at a reduced rate. It's called composting...

    Composting is an aerobic process which does not release methane.
    Rotting (under water), which is the issue here, happens anaerobically and releases methane.

  8. Re:Is the implication that fresh water is bad? on Scientists Identify Another Source of Dangerous Greenhouse Gases: Reservoirs (popsci.com) · · Score: 1

    The only way to save the planet is to get rid of all the people.

    Hold on, we're working on it.

  9. Re:Is the implication that fresh water is bad? on Scientists Identify Another Source of Dangerous Greenhouse Gases: Reservoirs (popsci.com) · · Score: 1

    The only way to save the planet is to get rid of all the people.

    Do not worry, the planet is doing just fine, we are only destroying ourselves, and once that is completed the planet will continue doing just fine.

  10. Re:Sure fire method on French Banks Offer Credit Card Numbers That Change Every Hour (thememo.com) · · Score: 1

    The amount of interest you must be paying every month is quite a high fee for that additional security.

  11. Re:Trying to look safe for online purchases? on French Banks Offer Credit Card Numbers That Change Every Hour (thememo.com) · · Score: 2

    PayPal has some ugly features that made me decide not to use it.

  12. Re:Legal maneuvers are ... legal! on Online Journalists Launch An Onslaught Against Donald Trump (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    No it's not. If you can't find a loop hole and still don't pay tax, it will be taken from you at gunpoint whereas spending money in a grocery is free choice.
    So your statement is also an example of a false equivalence fallacy.
    If you want equivalence, then privatise the whole government and get your service on a contract basis.
    Some people call this 'anarchism', but I'm not quite sure why.

  13. ...and Mylan's taking the opportunity to capitalize on it.

    And might have a CEO incarcerated for being just a tad too greedy.

  14. Now, that's exactly what I mean. With such political ties it's quite possible the FDA has been influenced also in maintaining a monopoly for Mylan.

  15. Re:It's not innovative on Feds Go After Mylan For Scamming Medicaid Out of Millions On EpiPen Pricing (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 0, Troll

    Unfortunately the FDA has evolved into a highly corrupt organisation, so the fact that the FDA didn't approve a competitor's product doesn't mean it was unsafe.
    The CEO of Mylan is daughter of a senator, and that could explain a lot.
    Now the public opinion has turned against them, and rightly so, and after the chance she has got during the hearing to explain things and to offer improvement, it is very good that her total lack of empathy for the patients, her customer base, is followed up by the FEDs investigating inappropriate financial behaviour, of which she has been warned many times by the authorities.

  16. Re:If only we could stop the creation of smog... on The Smog-Sucking Tower Has Arrived in China (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    The problem is that they include all sorts of garbage in the burning.

  17. Re:If only we could stop the creation of smog... on The Smog-Sucking Tower Has Arrived in China (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Because there was no proper law enforcement. Just like on the Philippines.
    Duterte is a bit less evil than Obama, who extrajudicially kills people in other souvereign countries with his drones, including lots of 'collateral damage' (unnecessary innocent bystanders), whereas Duterte limits himself to killing in his own country.

  18. Re:If only we could stop the creation of smog... on The Smog-Sucking Tower Has Arrived in China (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    The problem with the Philippines is that although there are a lot of laws, almost no one is enforcing them.
    Or only selectively to get rid of political and business adversaries.

  19. Re:If only we could stop the creation of smog... on The Smog-Sucking Tower Has Arrived in China (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Inverter drives are used with AC power supplies. Scooters use DC batteries and DC motors. So this doesn't even apply to the situation.

    Sorry, but that is complete bogus.
    The inverter that's mentioned is just doing that: converting the battery's DC into AC, and for induction motors even with the correct frequency-to-voltage ratio.
    The 'stall' you mention is due to the high 'slip' (relative difference between actual and synchronous speed) which induces a high frequency current in the inductive rotor, leading to a low rotor current hence low torque.
    This is a problem with AC induction machines connected to a fixed-frequency electrical grid at start-up, not at rated speed.
    Stick your finger in a running fan and it might chop off your finger.
    Stck your finger in a fan at stand-still and then switching it on, will prevent it from starting.
    Trying to do that with a (variable-frequency) fed fan might give a different result, depending on the design of the fan's motor.

    If you ride an electric scooter up long and steep hills, you will soon have a hot motor and a dead battery.

    If you really meant to use the plural form, then you imply running up and down alternately, so that after a (not too long) steep hill, the battery will recharge just quite fine on the way down and be ready for the next hill. Of course the inverter will have to be designed specifically to also regenerate.

    you will soon have a hot motor and a dead battery.

    With a properly designed system this is also utter bogus.

  20. Re:If only we could stop the creation of smog... on The Smog-Sucking Tower Has Arrived in China (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Electric motors are very inefficient when used in low speed / high torque situations...

    Please define "very"...
    And you can not only use permanent-magnet (PM) motors that are 'specifically geared' for that, but also that are specifically designed for that.
    High torque at underrated speed means high current. Add more copper, problem solved.
    Explanation: Electric motors are often designed to have more or less the same electrical losses (resistance of the copper wires) as magnetical losses (due to eddy currents in the metal that guides the alternating magnetic flux). If you use thicker copper wires to reduce the electrical losses, then you can move the point where the electrical and magnetical losses are equal to a point of lower speed.
    One could even argue that at lower speed the magnetical losses are considerably reduced (quadratically), lifting up the efficiency of the motor at low speeds.
    The relations are a bit complex, but I'm convinced that PM motors can be designed to have comparable (and still quite good) efficiencies at low speed, high torque and at high speed, low torque.

  21. Re:If only we could stop the creation of smog... on The Smog-Sucking Tower Has Arrived in China (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    The towers are just a silly stunt. Nobody really thinks that outdoor filters are a realistic solution.

    Please provide some arguments.

  22. Re: We need one in America. on The Smog-Sucking Tower Has Arrived in China (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, like the new way to kill rats:
    Throw in a generous amount of 'dry ice', close doors and windows, wait.

  23. As long as S.A. keeps selling its oil in US$ the US will not intervene with anything that happens inside the country, and will protect them militarily against other countries, except Israel.

  24. Re: not our business on Saudi Arabian Teen Arrested For Online Videos With American Blogger (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    How the 'souvereign state of Saudi Arabia' treats its civilians is not our concern. We have no business intervening with their internal affairs.
    Now, if it were the 'islamic terrorist state of Iran' where this happened, then of course it would have been a totally different story as Saudi Arabia is an ally to the petrodollar whereas Iran is not.

  25. Re:How do IoT manufacturers... on OVH Hosting Suffers From Record 1Tbps DDoS Attack Driven By 150K Devices (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    It would be very easy to factory-configure every IoT-thing with a unique and very strong password, print that on a label and stick that on the IoT-thing.