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  1. Re:Nevermind cheapo clocks on Power Grid Change May Disrupt Clocks · · Score: 1

    You've overestimated the frequency changes by several orders of magnitude, but you're basically right. The peak frequency errors will be no larger: they may even be smaller (they're already quite small). They just won't bother inserting offsetting errors to make the average come out right. This will simplify network management.

  2. Re:Nevermind cheapo clocks on Power Grid Change May Disrupt Clocks · · Score: 1

    Half of Japan runs on 100V 50Hz.

  3. Re:here's the scale on Power Grid Change May Disrupt Clocks · · Score: 1

    So, exactly how much frequency variation are they planning on allowing in this test?

    Not much, but you'll never know from TFA. As usual, the "science" reporter is an ignoramus.

  4. Re:"Clocks" on Power Grid Change May Disrupt Clocks · · Score: 1

    This will make your furnace's fan run faster -- how badly this will affect the motor's life, I don't know...

    I do. Not at all. They are talking about a few parts per million.

  5. Re:"Clocks" on Power Grid Change May Disrupt Clocks · · Score: 1

    They run at different frequencies just long enough to accumulate the desired phase difference. They then go back to identical frequencies and run at differing phases for as long as power needs to be sent. The tricky part is that stations C, D, E... are also involved.

  6. Re:"Clocks" on Power Grid Change May Disrupt Clocks · · Score: 1

    Clocking them from the power grid assures their clocks will never go out of sync with each other...

    And they will stay in sync even if the grid frequency drifts.

    BTW there are much better RTCs available than the ones you've been using.

  7. Re:LTS Release? on Microsoft Exploits Firefox 4 Uproar, Beats IE Drum · · Score: 1

    Perhaps Firefox should take a page out of Ubuntu's playbook, and offer a special LTS (Long Term Support) release that will receive back-ported security fixes for the next two or three years.

    It's Open Source. Anyone who wants to can do that. Debian does.

  8. Re:"Clocks" on Power Grid Change May Disrupt Clocks · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Believe it or not, the engineers that operate the network actually know what they are doing.

    The flow of power between tied AC networks is determined by phase, not voltage. To adjust the phase between your generator and that of a neighbor to whom you wish to send power you must run faster than he for long enough to accumulate the desired phase difference. Such adjustments are going on constantly throughout the network and conflict with the requirement to keep the average frequency at exactly 60Hz. Relaxing the latter requirement will make network operations easier and more reliable.

  9. Support doesn't have to come from Mozilla. on Microsoft Exploits Firefox 4 Uproar, Beats IE Drum · · Score: 1

    In a comment appended to a blog maintained by Michael Kaply, a consultant who specializes in customizing Firefox..."

    It's Free Software. Mr. Kaply has everything he needs to start supporting it himself. Think of it as a business opportunity.

  10. Re:Not much of a tooth brusher on The Iceman's Last Meal · · Score: 1

    The egyptians ate stone-ground flour with a lot of sand in it. It wore their teeth down rapidly, resulting in abscesses.

  11. Re:I predict... on Kurzweil: Human-Level Machine Translation By 2029 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    > We'll be doing full translations a lot sooner [than 2029].

    Then we'll have it by 2029, won't we? Which is what he said.

  12. ...Airbus... on Huawei Calls Charge of Unfair Government Help 'Hogwash' · · Score: 1

    n/t

  13. Re:For once don't bash M$, read the article instea on Microsoft Brands WebGL a 'Harmful' Technology · · Score: 1

    You cannot trust a website you have never seen before to load code of its choosing to be executed on a driver supplied to you by third-party which may or may not have a stellar security record themselves.

    Let's simplify that: You cannor trust a website to load code.

  14. Is there any way to give them a poisoned wallet? on Trojan Goes After Bitcoins · · Score: 1

    n/t

  15. Re:Microsoft should know... on Microsoft Brands WebGL a 'Harmful' Technology · · Score: 1

    A good faith reaction would be to work with others to fix the security issues.

    And if they are fundamental conceptual problems that cannot be fixed?

  16. Re:No... we need to do the opposite... on Microsoft Brands WebGL a 'Harmful' Technology · · Score: 1

    > ...the direction it's moving in should be clear.

    Yes. The wrong one.

  17. Re:WebGL _IS_ potentially dangerous on Microsoft Brands WebGL a 'Harmful' Technology · · Score: 1

    > The reality is that if the browser vendors do this right...

    This cannot be done right. It's utter lunacy.

  18. Re:No news on Microsoft Brands WebGL a 'Harmful' Technology · · Score: 1

    > ...Extinguish...

    We can only hope.

  19. They're right. on Microsoft Brands WebGL a 'Harmful' Technology · · Score: 1

    n/t

  20. Re:No need to buy a sweater. on Big Drop In Solar Activity Could Cool Earth · · Score: 3, Insightful

    > Germany is not switching to coal...

    Putin will be very happy to hear that. He'll sell you the gas you'll need. Of course, there will be a price...

    > If the political will is there...

    So you are switching to coal after all.

  21. Re:But, but, but on Big Drop In Solar Activity Could Cool Earth · · Score: 1

    > Don't we all know the Earth is warming up due to human activity ?

    In what way does the possibility that the sun may reduce its output in the future contradict that?

  22. No need to buy a sweater. on Big Drop In Solar Activity Could Cool Earth · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The Europeans are going to save us by switching from nukes back to coal.

  23. Emacs on Ask Slashdot: Web Site Editing Software For the Long Haul? · · Score: 1

    Or vi if you are of the other religion.

  24. Re:Bad for someone else, but OK for me to do it! on Austin's Alamo Drafthouse Theater Gives Texters the Boot · · Score: 2

    > ...spewing several villages worth of CO2...

    It's ok. They buy "carbon offsets".

  25. What the hell has this got to do with "YRO"? on Crowdsourcing Analysis of the Palin Email Trove · · Score: 0

    Or anything, really, except US partisan politics?