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  1. Call me Defeatist but I'm suspicious. on Sweden Tests World's First Electric Road For Trucks (inhabitat.com) · · Score: 0

    Don't get me wrong, I'm all for getting further away from fossil fuel combustion, I hate do see what's happenning with Global Warming and how everything seems to be so out of control ... but ... I find this kind of oxymoron to go all Electric thinking it's green because it has 0 emission.

    It's nice and handy for showing off in the news but there is a whole "ecosystem" behind it that is unfortunately unknown.

    It's nice to migrate 95% of your energy consumption toward electrical energy but how are you going to produce that extra energy?

    By burning 95% more nuclear rods? Installing 95% more windmill which will use steel and components that perhaps were themselves are made through a bi-product of burning coal in less restrictive countries because they are cheaper to manufacture?

    What's the point to switch to Electrical systems if you're going to create more nuclear waste to compensate. Where are you doing to store that waste. Burning more oil? coal? More fracking for natural gaz and then increasing the potential for underground water source pollution? More dams which themselves will lower water flow from rivers increasing farming pollution due to fertilisation concentration, bi-product of irrigation...

    The only way out is to reduce consumption and limit transport of goods or means of transportation which will most likely never happen...

    There is no way out of the increasing needs for energy...

    Hopefully we can find answers before it's too late.

  2. Witch hunt started... on Does IoT Data Need Special Regulation? · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Everyone told the world would end when internet started. Now people are hunting M2M like Internet in 1982... Beware Y2K... The End of the World as we know it is starting.... Now it's M2M ... THEY TOOK OUR JOBS... Unbelievable... TheeDude M2M Specialist

  3. Invasion of privacy doesn't stick on Worker Fired For Disabling GPS App That Tracked Her 24 Hours a Day · · Score: 1

    Invasion of privacy doesn't stick... IF this app in installed on a work device, then it should not be carried anywhere when off the clock. It should be left in the truck, locker, with all other Company provided tools. If might just backfire as abusing of company provided equipment for personal use. Carry your own phone off work just as you'd be using your own car and own cloth instead of driving around town and going on a family trip with the company's provided vehicle and wondering why the company's insurance wouldn't want to cover damages from an accident that would happen when you're not even on the clock. "There is something Rotten in the land of Denmark."

  4. Re:Let me Count the Ways on Ask Slashdot: Old PC File Transfer Problem · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I have NOT tried it on W3.11 but W2000 to W2000 it was pretty decent. LPT > LTP.

  5. Re:Let me Count the Ways on Ask Slashdot: Old PC File Transfer Problem · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I have tried it on W3.11 but W2000 to W2000 it was pretty decent. LPT >LTP

  6. Been there done that... on Ask Slashdot: Old PC File Transfer Problem · · Score: 1

    IDEA 1 You can zip your files and send them as attachments by emails if your Antique has any access to email... Sometimes, with DSL connections they provide a dial-up access to the internet. You could get perhaps just about 44000kbps IDEA 2 If you are not in a hurry, you can always use LPT1 ports with a Direct Parallel/LPT1 cable since both have LPT1. You might get a rate of just about 300kbps... 7 minutes to transfer... Used to do it with Windows 2000 but not sure if XP still can do that. I also used to play Unreal Tournament on LPT1 ports back in the days. hehehe Good old Teenage years...