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  1. Re:Can't wait to get this installed in my house on Tesla Announces Home Battery System · · Score: 3, Insightful

    And if everyone does that, the cheap rate goes away - its only there because there is excess capacity at that time, and its not worth taking more generators off line during the middle of the night consumption troughs because it takes them time to come back up for the wake-up peaks. Thats the reason the cheap rate exists (we call it Economy 7 in the UK).

    So if everyone avails themselves of the cheap electricity in the middle of the night to store for use during the day, the excess capacity vanishes and instead we get an actual load needing to be catered for in additional capacity. So the cheap rate would be discontinued due to changes in consumption habits.

  2. Re:39/100 is the new passing grade. on Results Are In From Psychology's Largest Reproducibility Test: 39/100 Reproduced · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Psychology, sociology and other social sciences have always been given special treatment precisely because its difficult in some cases to get two independent groups together to rerun an experiment in the first place - and if you try and reproduce an experiment done in the 1950s today, are the results due to poor scientific method in the original experiment, or because the evidence gathered was misinterpreted, or because society has changed which means the results have changed?

  3. Re:Waitasecondhere... on Tattoos Found To Interfere With Apple Watch Sensors · · Score: 2

    Plus the MS Band seems to work fine with sleeve tattoos using the same basic method.

  4. Re:The male gave consent... on Who Owns Pre-Embryos? · · Score: 2

    So what if he wanted to take the eggs and have a kid with another woman - what would your stance be on that? The combination of the two constituent parts should surely mean that if he wants to use them without her ongoing consent he would be allowed to just as much as she does now...?

    Too many people here are jumping to the conclusion that the fertilised eggs are solely the property of the woman even though they are the result of two donations - why should the mans contribution matter less in these cases?

  5. Re:Wow ... on Crashing iPad App Grounds Dozens of American Airline Flights · · Score: 5, Informative

    The US naval ship Windows NT crash meme is somewhat of a myth - there was a testbed ship (USS Yorktown CG-48) running an experimental ship management and integration system. The crash did indeed occur, but it had nothing to do with Windows NT and everything to do with invalid data being entered into the apps management system causing all linked systems to stop working. While everyone jumps on the "Windows NT" aspect of this, it would have happened under Unix as well.

  6. Re:The male gave consent... on Who Owns Pre-Embryos? · · Score: 1

    That entirely depends on the jurisdiction - a similar case went to court in the UK back in 2000 - 2007 and the man won his case.

    The woman appealed all the way to the European Court of Human Rights and lost her case completely.

    The issue is that the man withdrew his permission for the embryos to be used - up to the point at which they are implanted in the woman, they are jointly owned and cannot be used without express permission of both parties. Embryos are also not legal entities, and as they are not yet part of the womans body, she does not get automatic final say over their use.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E...

    Would your argument work for you if the man was able to take the fertilized eggs and have them implanted in a surrogate who brings them to term? Surely the woman should have some say in that?

  7. Re:Yes... on JavaScript Devs: Is It Still Worth Learning jQuery? · · Score: 1

    DLL Hell has long been solved as you can do the decent thing and use ilmerge to merge your application, its requirements and dependencies into one binary .exe. .Net versions are easy to handle, since you just need to target the runtime versions (of which there four of any note) and the compiler will compile all "newer" features available for .Net versions using that runtime down to IL which runs on that basic runtime - so all you need to actually target in a release is .Net 1.0, 1.1, 2 and 4.

    But I would still take a web app over a native app for a significant portion of my tasks any day of the week.

  8. Re:How about this.. on Supreme Court To Consider Data Aggregation Suit Against Spokeo · · Score: 1

    Your data, you keep it private then. Anything you leave publicly knowable should be fair game imho.

  9. Re:Incorrect. on Pandora Paying Artists $0.0001 More Per Stream Than It Was Last Year · · Score: 1

    How could that person make "balls-ton of money" when you say its a "non-profit"? They should be charging cost and nothing more.

  10. Ok, so lets be pedantic then - substitute "artist" with "rights holder" in my post then. It's still a valid question.

    The advertising "argument" is a fucking ludicrous one.

  11. Re:BAh, on Pandora Paying Artists $0.0001 More Per Stream Than It Was Last Year · · Score: 3, Interesting

    At what point did Pandora explicitly ask the artists if they wanted their work advertising? At which point did the artists explicitly agree to Pandora advertising their works?

    When you build a product which is specifically built around using other peoples works to satisfy your customers requirements, at some point you have to pay the piper - so stop with the fucking advertising "argument", Pandora is taking money from subscribers and advertisers on the back of the works of third parties, so of course there should be recompense to those third parties where those parties require recompense.

  12. Re:Good enough to criticize the mechanisms on Researcher Discloses Methods For Bypassing All OS X Security Protections · · Score: 2

    Its a problem because the OS isn't checking the entirety of the app for correct signatures, just part of it. Which kinda removes the point of checking at all.

  13. Re:Unsupported obsolete OS on iTunes Stops Working For Windows XP Users · · Score: 2

    I can install the most recent Windows on Apple computers which Apple won't let you install fairly recent OSX versions on...

    Windows 8.1 and Server 2012 R2 on a 2006 Mac Pro, which Apple dropped support for years ago and infact blocks you from trying to install Mavericks on.

    At least one can say XP was supported for far longer than the 2006 Mac Pro was.

  14. Re:Their software cost an arm and both legs yet... on OSGeo Foundation Up In Arms Over ESRI LAS Lock-In Plans · · Score: 1

    Do ESRI actually generate the data? If so, what's the complaint?

  15. Re:Habeus Corpus on Update: No Personhood for Chimps Yet · · Score: 4, Informative

    The Judge did nothing of the sort, the chimps were the ones named in the case by the animal rights activists, the Judge had to direct any motion at the chimps for the owners of the chimps to respond - and thats what he did here. He asked the owners to respond, via the Habeus Corpus motion - he had no other recourse.

    The activists are claiming something that didn't happen.

  16. Re:The UK Government Are Massively Out Of Touch on Assange Talk Spurs UK Judges To Boycott Legal Conference · · Score: 2, Informative

    Its amusing how all four of the points you raise are false:

    1. The initial prosecutor threw the case out, but a second senior prosecutor took up the case on request from the victims.

    2. Assange was not told he was free to leave Sweden, infact his lawyer was specifically told they wanted to talk to him again and he should contact the police before leaving Sweden.

    3. No Swedish or Interpol law was contravened by the issuance of Assanges warrant - infact, this is exactly the sort of use they are for.

    4. All UK courts where this case has been argued has actually both affirmed the legality of the arrest warrant, and affirmed the right of the Swedish to issue it. No UK court has ruled it illegal, and most certainly no UK court has said what you claim they have said.

    How about you get your facts in order before claiming bullshit, k?

  17. Re:De Facto Political Prisoner on Assange Talk Spurs UK Judges To Boycott Legal Conference · · Score: 1

    He is, the "embassies are sovereign soil" thing is a myth, not fact. Add to that fact that the Ecuadorian Embassy is a rented flat in a shared building and I'm sure the owner will dispute the fact that its Ecuadorian soil...

  18. Re:Really on Assange Talk Spurs UK Judges To Boycott Legal Conference · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Assange fled UK jurisdiction to avoid being legally extradited by a recognised court of the land - so yes, he is a fugitive. So your example is complete rubbish because its not equivalent to the Assange situation at all - if the chief justice of Scotland appeared in front of a court in Iran and the court ruled against him, and then he fled Iran, then yes he would be a fugitive.

  19. Re:De Facto Political Prisoner on Assange Talk Spurs UK Judges To Boycott Legal Conference · · Score: 2, Insightful

    No he isn't, regardless of how much you want him to be. But it is interesting how many have bought into his PR bullshit while ignoring the fact that if the US wanted him, they had ample opportunity to get him from the UK in the years before he fled into the embassy.

  20. Re:Just staggering... on Scientists Locate Sunken, Radioactive Aircraft Carrier Off California Coast · · Score: 1

    You realise that recycling these beats is a massive massive undertaking, and costs billions of dollars anyway - they are full of nasty stuff which needs specialist handling and removal well before you get to the saleable steel and recyclables.

  21. Re:People are tribal even when they don't realize on EU To Hit Google With Antitrust Charges · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    What Google should be investigated for is linking their search service to their failed social media service - in order for Google to establish canonical authorship on content, you have to link the page to a Google+ account, no other well known public profile (Twitter, Facebook etc) will do, you have to have an account on Google+.

    That's something worth looking hard at.

  22. Re:Developers, Developer, Developers on Microsoft Starts Working On an LLVM-Based Compiler For .NET · · Score: 3, Interesting

    How did Ballmer push developers aside? Under the latter part of his reign, Microsoft started open sourcing a lot of their developer frameworks etc (ASP.Net MVC in 2012, Entity Framework in 2013 etc) and we saw fairly large shifts in developer conferences and support.

  23. Re:Ambiguous on Allegation: Lottery Official Hacked RNG To Score Winning Ticket · · Score: 2

    From reading various articles on this, the person in question entered the room under the auspices of carrying out legitimate maintenance work, but had doctored the surveillance camera so it only recorded one second a minute rather than continuously - getting the other person to look the other way for a few minutes is a simple matter of social engineering ("hey, I forgot X and I'm right in the middle of this, could you get it?") and doesn't mean they were in on it.

  24. Re:Completely dumb on Allegation: Lottery Official Hacked RNG To Score Winning Ticket · · Score: 1

    Because *he* never intended to claim the prize - the prize was claimed by a lawyer representing a shell company out of Belize. This bloke himself was exempt from being allowed to take part in the lottery due to the fact he worked on it - if he had claimed it, the prize wouldn't have been handed over.

  25. Re:Retarded reviews too on Amazon Sues To Block Fake Reviews · · Score: 1

    There are reviews which really really baffle me as well - I did a review for a TV I bought off of Amazon.co.uk in the Black Friday sales - it was a Seiki 4K 39" TV at a reasonable price.

    It arrived, I set it up and the sound was terrible, so I used an external sound bar - but there was horrific video lag regardless of the input used, it was between a third and half a second behind the audio. Also there was no way to set the TV audio to just optical out, you had to either mute the sound entirely (which left a mute symbol on screen) or turn the sound down to 0 (which wasnt actually off, you could still hear it). Moving the audio out to the Sky box reduced the audio lag but didn't eliminate it, but at least you could set a delay on the audio out on the Sky box which brought it into line - but didnt solve issues if you have a second device such as a console etc.

    There was also horrific tearing and artifacts on the screen - someone moved and they left a wake behind them.

    Testing it all with the no-name TV I was replacing had the soundbar working fine, the Sky box working fine etc - no setup needed, no lag involved, no tearing of the picture etc.

    So back it went, and I replaced it with a slightly more expensive TV which has had no issues whatsoever since.

    But what I don't get is all the "works great!" "Brilliant!" reviews the TV is getting...