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  1. Re: So China is just gonna stop consuming? on 'Carbon Bubble' Could Spark Global Financial Crisis, Study Warns (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    But the source of electricity can change. The significant breakthrough is moving to EV. The rest is "phase ".

  2. There are times when people need that mental health break or to be able to have time with family and friends, to goto a movie or to dinner.

    This is *why* I go to work. It's not the occasional thing, it's what I do and work finances it.

  3. Re: Infuriating on Stolen Car Recovered With 11,000 More Miles -- and Lyft Stickers (sfgate.com) · · Score: 1

    Where does it say anything about the oil?

  4. Re:How do you know if a programmer is an extrovert on Ask Slashdot: What's The Worst IT-Related Joke You've Ever Heard? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Cue: Hear about the constipated mathematician? He worked it out with a pencil.

  5. Re:An even better punishment.. on Volkswagen Executive Faces Jail Time After Guilty Plea (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Correct. Even the plugs are different. I have no idea how anyone thought this could be an option. Tsh!

  6. we don't have a history of supporting military dictators, nor do we have any kind of suppressed desire to do so.

    Yes you do, just not in the context of a domestic government.

  7. Re:Serious he missed the 2 biggest problems I've h on 'Here Be Dragons': The Seven Most Vexing Problems In Programming (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Oops. Undoing troll mod. Meant insightful

  8. Re:Next on The FBI Spent Two Years Investigating An Online Cult That Didn't Exist (muckrock.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    They can't investigate a legitimate religion

    Define legitimate religion...

    A religion is a large, popular cult. A cult is a small, unpopular religion.

  9. Re:What about Firefox's declining market share? on Firefox 47 Arrives With Synced Tabs Sidebar, Better YouTube Playback (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Not sure about that. Other than developers nobody I know gives a crap about what their browser is. Point it at your search engine or favourite site and off you go. If you find a website that doesn't work you go to another one that does the same thing. People just change websites not their browser. Seriously- nobody gives a shit. And yes, I work in an area where I understand the issues from the site designer and user perspective.

  10. Re: Meanwhile... on Tension Escalates Between Netflix and Its TV Foes (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    I started a job 10 years ago earning $100k pa. There's a 20 year career before that and similar amount to go in the future. Even without taking into account exchange rates, increases and several travel gaps I've cleared a million easily, probably two. That's just a standard dev/team lead/manager/architect progression. Nothing fancy. It's not a huge amount of money. My house is worth almost that (Australia is stupid like that).

  11. Re:That's good on BBC Curates The "Right To Be Forgotten" Links That Google Can't · · Score: 1

    I also think it's strange that somehow it's Google's job to remove pages. If the law is enforceable then it should call to remove content from the offending pages. Search engines can be a powerful tool to identify, enforce and provide ongoing governance. I am surprised Google failed to lobby for and monetize this approach which would have been a better outcome all round.

  12. Re:Insanity on Thousands of Europeans Petition For Their 'Right To Be Forgotten' · · Score: 2

    Google is certainly the wrong target, but they are very well placed to capitalise on any forthcoming law. The correct way of dealing with content is, with sufficient justification, to require that it is removed from the sites. Who knows better than Google where that content is? What better influence to comply with such requirements than "you may be removed from Google". Search engines are in prime position to capitalise on any sort of mandate to remove or issue take-down notices provided there's a small fee involved. An analogy is credit rating - they don't lend the money but they have influence over those that do. You need to clear your name with the agency not the lender.

  13. Re:employee on Severe Vulnerability At eBay's Website · · Score: 1

    You actually should have your web "site" running in a DMZ with no connections other than back to your service layer. It is this layer in on a different LAN that has access to and DBs (ideally just enough, but in practice often to the entire DB) and other resources. The services can only perform operations intended to be used by the site, so unless there's a "give me a list of all users" requirement, it's not going to happen.

    So in a way, yes, there is a request to & from web servers but it's software not people :)

  14. Re:Ahh, heat issues... on China's Jade Rabbit Lunar Rover Officially Declared Lost · · Score: 1

    It was not a manufacturing problem. It ran off a cliff because the development teams used two types of abacus and fucked up the calculations.

  15. Re:Google sure ain't an angle ... on Google Chrome 32 Is Out: Noisy Tabs Indicators, Supervised Users · · Score: 1

    Maybe you can answer the question prompted by the post above - why were the intra-datacentre comms links ever unencrypted?

  16. Re:Depends on Who Is Liable When a Self-Driving Car Crashes? · · Score: 1

    Exactly. No different to a fuel warning light. These things are not magic. Whatever it is, you need to keep your equipment maintained and functional if you have any expectation of being able to use it.

  17. Re:Nowhere to plug one in on Electric Cars: Drivers Love 'Em, So Why Are Sales Still Low? · · Score: 1

    Or combine the two. Parking meters with an option for recharge (or chargers with an option for just parking if you prefer).
    You could even use the car as a battery and sell power you harvested overnight back into the grid during the day in exchange for parking costs.

  18. Re:Web People vs. Desktop People on Google Is Building a Chrome App-Based IDE · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Very nice. Don't forget also that once introduced, each iteration is then actually hailed as something revolutionary rather than something missing and that was solved/commonplace years ago.

  19. Re:nice on Ask Slashdot: Does Your Work Schedule Make You Unproductive? · · Score: 1

    Spot on. What many managers see is people working long hours because they're excited and motivated about what they do. This in turn gets things done. That somehow translates as "working long hours is what gets things done". They completely overlook the true reason for the productivity.

  20. Re:Dumb summery on Data Center Managers Weary of Whittling Cooling Costs · · Score: 2

    Price of electricity matters. If your total electricity cost is $1000 per month you'd almost certainly find something else to concentrate on. If the same data centre costs $100,000 to run you'd be stupid not to look at it. Agreed the PUE doesn't change with cost, but the relevance does.

  21. Re:Population control on A Case For a Software Testing Undergrad Major · · Score: 1

    I always maintained that if I could persuade our testers to learn programming, we'd have much better software. In my experience, testers think about requirements, products, edge cases and scenarios a lot deeper than the devs. They also learn more about the business and how the product might be used.
    In fact, now I think about it, many developers barely know the minimum tech to get an end-to-end application up & running, let alone all the stuff testers do. How many devs choose not to even learn about basic security, databases, algorithms (hash tables or unique dictionaries instead of generic lists) . These devs just know C#, HTML & CSS , jQuery (or whatever) and think it's enough.
    Give me a good tester with an interest in programming any time.

  22. Re:Giving up the dream on The Eternal Mainframe · · Score: 1

    That's pretty much true of every computer. Just because someone only ever uses Outlook, Word, Excel & IE doesn't mean it's not a computer (or a consumer device for that matter).

  23. Re:What's wrong with Google cars on Why Self-Driving Cars Are Still a Long Way Down the Road · · Score: 1

    Both park assist and adaptive cruise control have been around for many years (2003 and 1995 respectively) in one form or another. Maybe not in Fords and maybe not in the US and maybe not very refined, but neither is particularly new.

  24. Re:Bullshit! on Should California Have Banned Checking Smartphone Maps While Driving? · · Score: 1

    Actually, in my driving lifetime there's been a significant shift towards moving many if not all of these things to controls on the steering wheel. You would presume that's because it's safer. Not because to do otherwise is illegal, but it's obviously regarded by many as a good enough idea to spend quite a bit of money doing so.

  25. Re: Sounds alot like on Seniors Search For Virtual Immortality · · Score: 1