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  1. Re:This is a good thing. on Trump Administration Approves Tariffs of 30 Percent On Imported Solar Panels (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    you act as if China and the US are the only places that make the panels. The US has a tiny market share (even in the US) as they are neither cheap nor the best quality. There are more than a dozen major manufacturing countries for panels around the world.

  2. Re:Not sure if this is good or not on Trump Administration Approves Tariffs of 30 Percent On Imported Solar Panels (axios.com) · · Score: 0

    It is awful. basically you are now subsidising local less efficient manufacturing. Everyone loses, less panels will be installed, you may maintain a few manufacturing jobs but they should be offset by the reduction in retail and installer jobs you will lose by increasing costs by 30%.

  3. with Rupert you already get the best news money buys. To be fair though I can't think of any news source that is independent of financial or political influence, just Rupert's organisations bias is so blatantly obvious it would be funny if it wasn't so sad. Most of the media long ago sold out.

  4. people buying cards on ebay are constantly getting old miners cards, they just don't realise it.

  5. Re:Is there any other option, Linus? on Linus Torvalds Calls Intel Patches 'Complete and Utter Garbage' (lkml.org) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    and how exactly does that do anything at all to improve the situation? or are you suggesting Open source hardware would somehow be magically design flaw free?

  6. Re:Idiots - BeauHD is Fudgepacker ? on More Wall Street Pundits Caution Against Investing In Bitcoins (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Pure FUD on your part. All those mentioned work for investment type firms, they do not lose by crypto's success, they will invest in whatever makes sense at the time, property, shares, currency, gold or hell even polished turds if it had a return. So should it make sense I am sure they will happily add cryptos to that, but first that would require some stability in the crypto market of which their is currently none.

  7. flying toys is not the same as flying a commercial aircraft full of passengers and luggage and needing to operate many hours every day

  8. seems to be marketing speak or unrealistic on Norway Will Make All Short-Haul Flights Electric By 2040 (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    This seems a little stupid. Given the design and lead time to developing any aircraft how can they possibly expect to be fully converted in 20 years. They will be lucky to have a small test fleet of planes by then.

  9. Re:How much do the Top Engineers make? on Top Bug Hunters Make 2.7 Times More Money Than an Average Software Engineer (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    I came to payout on exactly the same idiotic point. Seems everyone already beat me too it. I can only imagine the writers of the article were either complete and utter morons or they were simply trying to concoct a story where one doesn't exist as they had nothing better to post.

  10. Re:I thought this is about technology on Tesla Is Last In the Driverless Vehicle Race, Report Says (usnews.com) · · Score: 1

    market strategy and marketing strategy are two entirely different topics, it was MARKET strategy that was listed which is critically important.

  11. The changes are deep in the OS kernel, hence whether AMD has the bug or not it IS AFFECTED. regardless while they aren't affected by meltdown they are vulnerable to spectre which is also fixed in the patch

  12. Re:Lies, damn lies, & first lie wasn't exactly on Mozilla Restricts All New Firefox Features To HTTPS Only (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    the percentage of less popular browser users that actually change their user agent would not even amount to a rounding error. at 34% whether you think so or not your site is either a statistical anomaly or you do have a significant bias towards Apple users as even with mobile devices you are unlikely to climb much beyond 20% without some sort of bias as apple marketshare is just too small overall to account for a 3rd of users.

  13. Re:Compare the charts on Bitcoin Watchers Running Out of Explanations Blame Slump on Moon (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    So you knew of what you believe is the norm yet failed to sell at the peak and rebuy at the drop? basically you just blew half your money if you actually believe your trend.

  14. really? I would rather have my phone alert me that their is an issue and the battery should be replaced followed by asking me would you like to slow my phone down to reduce the instability till you can get it fixed.

  15. Re:Nothing unusual on Bitcoin Plunges Below $12,000 To Six-Week Low Over Crackdown Fears (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    the same has been said many times before for various stocks of companies that no longer exist, housing markets that collapsed and even manufactured items that they are sure will come back into fashion again if they can just hold on etc. basically it never goes to zero and always recovers...until it doesn't.

  16. personally if I was a gambler I would favour more significant drops to come. the overreaction was the stupid spike in price, the fact that a 50% drop only puts it back to where it was 6 weeks ago is the serious issue and will have burnt a few idiot speculators who will flee the market.

  17. Re:General lesson - same problem as the Concorde on Airbus A380, Once the Future of Aviation, May Cease Production (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    exactly, I actually regularly fly on the A380 for Australia-USA, it is perfect for the very long flights between hubs. can't say I have ever flown one with the showers etc though have only been in first class once, usually just business. Usually it pretty much similar layout to every other large long-haul jet for first/business/economy just more seats and easier to sleep due to the lower noise levels.

  18. Re:Not surprising... on Airbus A380, Once the Future of Aviation, May Cease Production (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    yep the problem is not going to go away, however Airbus needs volume to justify keeping the production line going and we are still a few years off before this is really going to hurt some of the major airports.

  19. Re:They're ready: except costs on 'Don't Fear the Robopocalypse': the Case for Autonomous Weapons (thebulletin.org) · · Score: 1

    well I did explicitly say UPWARDS of 500k. 500k was the last official number I had seen. I would suspect even those cnn figures are dated now and costs would be well over the million a year per soldier.

  20. Re:They're ready: except costs on 'Don't Fear the Robopocalypse': the Case for Autonomous Weapons (thebulletin.org) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I think we have well and truly crossed the cost line now. trained soldiers are expensive. A deployed soldier can be upwards of half a million a year in costs. drones and bots can already be more cost effective in many situations, the cost benefits are only going to accelerate more rapidly from here, I would say a large portion of the military personnel is very much on the countdown to obsolescence.

  21. WannaCry was hugely disruptive, this by comparison is a blip that affected almost nobody. It also is only 400k PRIOR to laundering, the process of laundering and extracting that money will take a huge chunk out of it.

  22. Re:Fuck you, Munich... on City of Barcelona Dumps Windows For Linux and Open Source Software (europa.eu) · · Score: 1

    The people you need to swear at for that are the Linux and OSS engineers that built Munich a bucket of shit rather than the shining perfect system they promised.

  23. Re:Yes. Yes it is. on Is Finland's Universal Basic Income Trial Too Good To Be True? (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Wife and Children are things someone chooses to spend their hard earned money on, it is not something forced on you. Are they bigger drains financially. hell yeah, but you don't get them to be profitable. No I am truly and utterly offended about paying for others to do nothing, I don't want control of them, I want my HARD earned money that I am forced to pay to the government spent wisely, spending it on people to do nothing is not wise, it is fucking insane, especially when so many other things in society need addressing.

  24. Re:100 million vs 1.5 million? on Text Message Scammer Gets Five Years in Prison (reuters.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    perhaps you might want to read the whole thing. His cut was 1.5 million therefore he got fined what he stole (should have been at least double what he stole in my opinion, only losing what you gain is not sufficient penalty), the overall companies profits was 100 million for which many other people are also being prosecuted and I imagine the company will also face heavy penalties.

  25. Re: Question on Text Message Scammer Gets Five Years in Prison (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    No, he actually signed up people WITHOUT asking them. No interaction from them at all.