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  1. Re:Suburban thinking on Clinton Promises 500 Million New Solar Panels · · Score: 1

    Certainly, but the building height limitation still applies. A suburban shopping mall with acres of flat roof over two floors of shopping? Great place for solar. A ten-story standalone Nordstrom's in the middle of a city? Not so much, because even assuming the same insolation, the number of individual users per square meter of roof is a lot higher.

  2. Re:Suburban thinking on Clinton Promises 500 Million New Solar Panels · · Score: 1

    No, what I'm saying is that "I think energy source X is the Devil's work" would no longer be a valid argument against any source that satisfies the emissions, safety and siting standards established for its type.

  3. Re:Suburban thinking on Clinton Promises 500 Million New Solar Panels · · Score: 1

    Being able to send the sun to your rainy city from Arizona over wires is vital, but your area might at the same time be a good place to generate hydro, which after all these years is still king of the renewables (OR...you have the option of keeping your green valleys by installing nuclear, but that's another story). Putting your hydro on the grid increases the energy options for all the other places, especially those using different renewables. Your cloudy tropical city might lie near volcanos, which makes geothermal a possibility.

    But for each of these sources, including non-rooftop solar, there are religious objections, which is why taking religion out of the regulatory process is a much better way of getting renewables built than printing more money. While interest rates are still infinitesimal, raising capital is not an issue.

  4. Horse, correct, battery, FAIL on A Plea For Websites To Stop Blocking Password Managers · · Score: 1

    Some people like phrasal passwords as an alternative to PMs. Random phrases from which you use the first few letters of each word are a lot easier to remember than random strings. But now that passworded sites have taken to using silly password formation rules as a vain attempt to enforce strength, these no longer work. Was this the site that requires one capital and two numbers, or was it the other way around?

  5. Re:Password protection --- of what? on A Plea For Websites To Stop Blocking Password Managers · · Score: 1

    But in actual fact, every site out there requires some sort of remember-me registration and logon. Instead of remembering innumerable different passwords, what everybody without a PM does is use a single "junk" password for all the sites for which registration security is not important to the user. Then one of those sites gets hacked...

  6. Re:A plea to fuck off. on A Plea For Websites To Stop Blocking Password Managers · · Score: 1

    "It's locked into my house."

    Which will do you a whole lot of good when your mobile or laptop needs a password out in the field. Let me guess - you keep a copy or an excerpt of the password book safe in your wallet for such occasions.

  7. Re:Scripts that interact with passwords fields aws on A Plea For Websites To Stop Blocking Password Managers · · Score: 1

    " just because someone uses a password manager doesn't mean he will pick strong passwords"

    But because a PM makes it easy to maintain strong passwords, you no longer have inconvenience as an excuse for slacking on password security.

  8. How about a standard password manager interface? on A Plea For Websites To Stop Blocking Password Managers · · Score: 2

    The article mes a good point: preventing paste into a password field just encourages people to use crappy passwords that are easier to type. The same applies to that silly convention of asterisk masking in password fields. The inconvenience massively outweighs that one time in a hundred that masking prevents a shoulder-surf attack.

    Can we develop a standard HTML interface for password managers, with built-in safeguards against malware usage? Any compliant PM would connect with any compliant login screen.

  9. Suburban thinking on Clinton Promises 500 Million New Solar Panels · · Score: 2

    Rooftop solar is a great offset for energy usage in sunny parts of the country where the construction is all one-story. Now what about the high-rise apartment buildings in cities where the roof area per inhabitant is tiny and where buildings shade each other at different times of the day? Renewable power sources are highly situational, in that the type and availability of each source, and how they might mesh together, is heavily dependent on location. Then consider demand: a household may not mind having to wait to turn the oven on until the sun is high, while an industrial user has no such option.

    If Hillary wants the government to help, there is a better way to do it than having it subsidize all the "good" energy and hope for the best. Fix the legal system so that all forms of energy construction are limited only by the siting and safety standards that apply to that source, with the religious preferences of political pressure groups losing all legal standing to interfere. Capital will then flow to energy projects that are the best for each place.

  10. Re:Browsing with mosquitoes on Google Studies How Bad Interstitials Are On Mobile · · Score: 1

    "Some of them don't even have the "X" corner icon."

    Or worse, the Close X is slightly off the screen. At this point I have no choice but to abandon the website.

    If it actively drives me away from you site by preventing em from going past a certain point, it's not an advertisement. We need a new term for it.

  11. Re:How much is an AG these days? on Plan To Run Anti-Google Smear Campaign Revealed In MPAA Emails · · Score: 2

    Instead of paying public officials salaries, let's have them issue stock, with the government acting as pre-IPO venture capitalist at the net present value of some fraction of the normal salary over a period of years securing a majority of the stock. The rest of the stock would up for public grabs, trading on NASDAQ with the same disclosure rules that apply to corporations. So "Orrin Hatch, R-MPAA" would no longer be guesswork campaign mud, but an official filing.

  12. Re:Over 50, and "cleanses" are not your friend on Twitter Yanks Tweets That Repeat Copyrighted Joke · · Score: 1

    At my age, I've done this twice already. The alternative prep procedure is to spend a whole day watching MSNBC, but most people opt for the gallon jug of "Golightly" (the actual name!) as a humane alternative.

  13. Re:So what? on HP R&D Starts Enforcing a Business Casual Dress Code · · Score: 1

    Who thinks of business casual as being uncomfortable? In most lines of business, it's the standard informal default. Be glad you're not in law or finance.

  14. Re:So what? on HP R&D Starts Enforcing a Business Casual Dress Code · · Score: 3, Interesting

    On my first two commercial jobs (an aerospace giant, then IT in a California retail chain) it was still suits, ties and white shirts for all.
    What did the women wear, you ask? What women?

  15. Re:um...yay? on HP R&D Starts Enforcing a Business Casual Dress Code · · Score: 3, Informative

    Actually that shirt was designed by a woman as a nostalgic cultural reference.
    https://www.alohaland.com/pinu...

    Academic feminist battleaxes, please keep your microaggressions on campus, where they won't disturb anyone in the real world.

  16. Re:Flying Cars on Chinese Tourist's Drone Crashes Into Taipei 101 Skyscraper · · Score: 1

    And would be almost as likely to be grabbed by wind currents circulating through a city. Imagine a Buick crashing through the window of your office tower.

    Flying cars for consumers will have to be almost totally autonomous. We will have autonomous drones first as a step toward that technology.

  17. Re:Is it trendy to go along with it? on Olympic Organizer Wants To Feed Athletes Fukushima Produce · · Score: 1

    You mean like the sushi I had yesterday? That Pacific Ocean?

  18. Re:Yes. on Olympic Organizer Wants To Feed Athletes Fukushima Produce · · Score: 4, Informative

    100 becquerel for kg in the rice? Inasmuch as background is 4500 bq inside the human body, you're going to have to add some radium watch dial scrapings for flavor.

  19. Re:Yes. on Olympic Organizer Wants To Feed Athletes Fukushima Produce · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Crops from this particular area are undoubtedly better tested than any other food in the world.

  20. Re:Republicans have always said... on Georgia Lawmakers Sue Carl Malamud For Publishing Georgia Law · · Score: 2

    But has the idea of copyrighting a legal code ever been tested by the SCOTUS? And if the decision was unfavorable, do we have to buy the text from iTunes now?

  21. Re:So it is written, so it shall be done! on When Do Robocars Become Cheaper Than Standard Cars? · · Score: 1

    "Robocars become cheaper than standard cars on June 2nd, 2031."

    And because of the concentration of computing power in one confined space, I-5 in the Los Angeles area will become self-aware.

  22. Re:Easiest question all week. on When Do Robocars Become Cheaper Than Standard Cars? · · Score: 1

    Commuters will be herded into pool cars, which will become an extension of city transit systems.

  23. Re:When software has no bugs on When Do Robocars Become Cheaper Than Standard Cars? · · Score: 1

    Driving skills will go the way of horsemanship, becoming a niche specialty.

  24. Re:Yep on Don't Bring Your Drone To New Zealand · · Score: 1

    And New Zealand has some of the most dronable scenery in the world, too. This regulation will not survive a week in Queenstown.

  25. Re:Bed Nets on Malaria Vaccine Passes Key Regulatory Hurdle · · Score: 3, Insightful

    No, because at some point in the day you have to get up and live life. At any point therein, you could get a mosquito bite.