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  1. "Clean diesel" is an oxymoron on Nearly All New Diesel Cars Exceed Official Pollution Limits (theguardian.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What it actually means is slightly less dirty diesel.

    Even if new diesel cars did pass this test they'd still start blowing black soot and other crap after a number of years have passed and the car has reached owner number 3 who isn't bothering to do anything other than basic maintainance to keep it on the road until it falls apart.

  2. Hardly surprising on Nearly All New Diesel Cars Exceed Official Pollution Limits (theguardian.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    The cars only have to pass a laboratory test. If that test bears no resemblance to the real world (which the EU one doesn't) then thats the fault of the people who devised it.

    The main problem with emissions is if you want good fuel economy and hence lower CO2 per km then you need a high burn temp. The trouble with that is a high burn temp gives high NOx. Take your pick.

    The only serious solution to NOx is a urea system such as adblue as used in trucks but thats more equipment, more complexity and more expense.

  3. Re:Python community so much nicer than Rust's? on Interview With Python Creator Guido Van Rossum (techrocket.com) · · Score: 1

    You have to be reasonably good at programming to use python effectively. Yes, you might be able to write a hello world program in 2 lines but its not a beginners language and neither are the concepts it uses so I doubt these "non-programmers" you mention are any such thing. Sure, they might not do programming as a *profession* but they obviously have previous programming experience.

  4. Stop treating Mongo as a real DB on MongoDB Config Error Exposed 93M Mexican Voter Records (csoonline.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ... and start treating it as a key-value file system and it all makes sense. Sadly the mongo devs want us to think its a competitor to mySQL or even Oracle. Yeah, right.

    Amateur hour DB + amateur hour admins = trouble ahead.

  5. How does a plastic bag get to 1700 feet? on Drone Believed To Have Hit British Airways Flight 'May Have Been a Plastic Bag' (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Tornado in London? Don't think so.

    A kids helium balloon maybe.

  6. The OS will be protected from it anyway... on Turns Out That Snaps Are Not Secure In Ubuntu With X11 (softpedia.com) · · Score: 2

    ...so long as its not running as root. That is kind of the whole point of OS's with user priviledge levels, file system permissions and protected virtual memory. Thats not what containers are for. I could explain but just go google FFS.

  7. Re:Burn those fossil fuels! on World's Largest Commercial Aircraft Engine Fired Up For The First Time (gizmag.com) · · Score: 0

    Spare us your silly exaggerations. Got any half decent arguments or is shrieking like a silly teenager about it?

  8. Grow up sonny. When you're out of short trousers you might even have a clue what the adults are talking about here.

  9. Oh, incidentaly, if the enviroment goes belly up there won't be any economy to worry about.

  10. Aww, poppet, go have a lie down and calm yourself.

  11. Re:Burn those fossil fuels! on World's Largest Commercial Aircraft Engine Fired Up For The First Time (gizmag.com) · · Score: 0

    Stuff the airlines, I'm more concerned about the enviroment.

  12. Re:Burn those fossil fuels! on World's Largest Commercial Aircraft Engine Fired Up For The First Time (gizmag.com) · · Score: 0

    Per passenger yes, but if larger planes means ever more passengers flying then its a rather pyrrhic victory.

  13. Re:Burn those fossil fuels! on World's Largest Commercial Aircraft Engine Fired Up For The First Time (gizmag.com) · · Score: 1

    Hypermobility is where its at. Didn't you know its virtually a human right now for people to fly where they want, when they want at a moments notice? More aircraft, more flights, more pollution, just so long as people can go on that w/e break a thousand miles away its all worth it, screw the enviroment.

    [The above is sarcasm btw for the hard of understanding]

  14. Re:Why is inertia a puzzle to scientists? on The 'Impossible' EM Drive Being Tested By NASA May Finally Be Explained (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    Thats look at it from completely the wrong way. Inertia is simply the fact that its not possible to transfer energy at an infinite rate. Also why wouldn't something stay moving at a constant speed? Why would it mysteriously slowing down for no apparent reason be somehow more intelligable? Sorry, I just don't understand this line of thinking.

  15. Why is inertia a puzzle to scientists? on The 'Impossible' EM Drive Being Tested By NASA May Finally Be Explained (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    Its a puzzle to me why its a puzzle to them.

    When an object gains speed it gains kinetic energy. If there was no inertia - ie objects would instantaniously changed speed from X to Y given a force with no measured speed inbetween then this would mean the energy transfer between the pusher and the object would, for an instant, be of infinite power (power = energy / secs where secs = 0). Which clearly isn't allowed under any known physics.

  16. Re:I'm no fan of the music labels on Music Industry Sees First Big Gains in 20 Years Thanks to Streaming Services · · Score: 1

    Since you were holidaying on Pluto it would seem.

  17. I'm no fan of the music labels on Music Industry Sees First Big Gains in 20 Years Thanks to Streaming Services · · Score: 3, Interesting

    But if youtube send us those damn ads we have to sit through until "skip" comes up, or worse the ones where you have to wait for the whole thing to finish, the least they can do is cough up the money to the labels or individual musicians if self published.

  18. Re:Steve Jobs on Music Industry Sees First Big Gains in 20 Years Thanks to Streaming Services · · Score: 2

    You think selling music online was his idea do you? It wasn't even Apples idea. Fanboy, much?

  19. Re:And he had to go and ruin it right at the end.. on Hacker's Account of How He Took Down Hacking Team's Servers (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    So do you have any evidence this company has told to terrorist organisations then? If so please share, i'm sure many law enforcement agencies would love to know.

  20. Re:And he had to go and ruin it right at the end.. on Hacker's Account of How He Took Down Hacking Team's Servers (softpedia.com) · · Score: 2

    "pull your head out of your ass before you lay into someone else. "

    I don't own a donkey and if I did I wouldn't put my head up its arse.

    "It's like knowingly selling blood diamonds. There is no plausible deniability. The business model is based on violence and killing. "

    Bollocks - its based on money. Its no different to selling weapons. I'm sure this company would have no problem selling to you if you stump up the cash. I'm not going to pretend they're saints, but they're not the cartoon evil people would love these sorts of companies to be either.

  21. If only it were 16MB. Apparently the max size that can be indexed is 8K!

  22. And he had to go and ruin it right at the end... on Hacker's Account of How He Took Down Hacking Team's Servers (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    ... by getting on his cross, polishing his halo and talk about "stopping their human rights abuses". Oh get over yourself son. The world isn't black and white, its shades of grey. The quicker you learn that fact the sooner you can pull that rod out of your arse. These guys just sell the software, they don't use it. If you really want to sort out human rights abuses there are plenty of governments and islamic terrorist networks you can try and hack. Though the latter might actually involve real personal danger, which is where most keyboard warriors draw the line.

  23. Re:MongoDBs on Hacker's Account of How He Took Down Hacking Team's Servers (softpedia.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    7. Unholy mash up of Javascript and bespoke query language to operate on the data and administer the DB.

    8. Max size limit of data in a key-value that can be indexed

    9. Replica set or sharding , which is better? Who knows. Administering both at the same time requires a bottle of whisky and/or prozac on standby.

  24. Arn't they? Oh ok. on FBI Paid Professional Hackers One-Time Fee To Crack San Bernardino iPhone · · Score: 1, Insightful

    So tell us great sage, who should we turn to for help against criminals, Apple?

  25. Re:CO2 emissions on Siemens and Airbus To Push Electric Aviation Engines (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    "Imagine that you're on the Titanic."

    Seriously, you're going with that analogy?

    Ok genius, so we bugger up the climate and are metaphorially all bobbing around in the ocean slowly dying. Do tell us where in your analogy where the rescue ship comes from?