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  1. Re:Guess that's why Valve is so behind Linux on Gabe Newell Talks Linux As the Future of Games at LinuxCon NA · · Score: 2

    Not the last time I checked.
    I have been waiting for portal 2 for ages now. When they can't even get the first party stuff ported what are the odds the other stuff ever will?

  2. Re:Tempting on Getting Afghanistan Online · · Score: 1

    How would you suggest taxes be collected?
    A tribal leader? Like an elected representative?

    I read lots of non-fiction. That is how I know where we are headed.

  3. Re:OH NO. Two whole weeks?!?!!11ONE!! on Security Company Says NASDAQ Waited Two Weeks To Fix XSS Flaw · · Score: 1

    Two weeks is a long time for a few minutes worth of work. It is symptomatic of the kind of disease you find in all large organizations.

    They could have implemented the fix before checking the DB or doing other auditing. Those things are not dependent on each other.

  4. Re:Sounds like a fast response... on Security Company Says NASDAQ Waited Two Weeks To Fix XSS Flaw · · Score: 1

    Uh no, getting 10 minutes worth of work done in two weeks is a bad sign for an organization.

  5. Re:Solar cells are already cheap enough on Plasmonic Nanostructures Could Prove a Boon To Solar Cell Technology · · Score: 1

    Then the electric price at that time of day should be very low to buy as well.

    I am not suggesting night and day power prices be the same. Only that the power company pay the market price that they charge at that time. Power at night is actually very cheap, in my area at least. This is because of the huge surplus of so many businesses being closed.

  6. Re:Tempting on Getting Afghanistan Online · · Score: 1

    So then claiming it is news and printing fiction is not fraud? Lying is saying the sky is red, Fraud is claiming that this is news.

    Yes, a right. As in the public should be allowed to fund a news source that might print news.

    You need to read more fiction it looks like, if you did you might know what a corporate feudal state would be. You might also realize we are running headlong towards that end.

  7. Re:this research makes some untenable assumptions on DoD Declassifies Flu Pandemic Plan Containing Sobering Assumptions · · Score: 1

    Ah, my assumption was the obese likely had more muscle and fat that I. Since they need the muscle to move their giant bodies about. Thus I assumed they would outlive me in a no food situation.

  8. Re:Solar cells are already cheap enough on Plasmonic Nanostructures Could Prove a Boon To Solar Cell Technology · · Score: 1

    Truck? sure.
    You can even use the generator to charge it back up.

  9. Re:Solar cells are already cheap enough on Plasmonic Nanostructures Could Prove a Boon To Solar Cell Technology · · Score: 1

    That sounds like your laws need updated. You should be paid the same amount as it costs you to buy power.

    How can prices be below zero? Do they charge you to take the power?

  10. Re:Tempting on Getting Afghanistan Online · · Score: 1

    Whatever label? Are you aware of what fraud even is?

    I disagree, I think the public has a right to news from a source that might even try to print news. If we followed your thinking we would soon be in a corporate feudal state.

  11. Re:She was using PRESTEL on How a Grandmother Pioneered a Home Shopping Revolution · · Score: 1

    I think the sum was simply converted to dollars, because this is an American website, and yes that means USA, based deal with it.

    Also the USD is the world's trade currency.

  12. Re:Solar cells are already cheap enough on Plasmonic Nanostructures Could Prove a Boon To Solar Cell Technology · · Score: 2

    What an articulate comment. Do you have any other such wisdom to share? Perhaps you can even find a new swear word to try out on us.

    By the way, I was not saying the commenter was a nutbag, just the folks who want to live without being reliant on anyone else. It is impossible, unless they can also fab their own solar panels and practice surgery on themselves.

  13. Re:Solar cells are already cheap enough on Plasmonic Nanostructures Could Prove a Boon To Solar Cell Technology · · Score: 1

    Cities are where most people find fresh food, the rest are similar.

    If you hated the heat would you move to the south?

    You cannot run a house worth of power over an extension cord. Odds are your power system would not survive any better than the grid. I would wager you would be against inspection and regulation as well, but more than happy to have the fire dept rescue you when your uninspected crap burns.

    Trains are inflexible, they are not unreliable. I know farmers that live in the city, does that blow your mind? They don't have to be at the farm 24x7 since corn grows unattended.

  14. Re:Tempting on Getting Afghanistan Online · · Score: 1

    People want made up news? Are you even reading what you are typing?

    Fraud is what you think people want? Then why do they even claim to be a newspaper? Why not just publish fiction as fiction?

  15. Re:Solar cells are already cheap enough on Plasmonic Nanostructures Could Prove a Boon To Solar Cell Technology · · Score: 1

    1. yes, I am trying to be reasonable. Ever hear the expression "The perfect is the enemy of good"?

    2. If they can't afford li-poly or similar than how would they afford this new stuff?

    3. Generators are cheap to transport, you can toss one big enough to run your house in the bed of a pickup truck. You can even use an electric pickup if you want.

  16. Re:Solar cells are already cheap enough on Plasmonic Nanostructures Could Prove a Boon To Solar Cell Technology · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    You are a Nutbag would be a faster way to cover the first one. Fine, but nutbags normally don't care about price.

    If you want to live in the woods, why would you want power? Either you want a unabomber style shack or not, make up your mind.

    Yeah, you would be self sufficient, if you were the one making the solar panels and the storage system. If not you have traded one set of vendors for another.

  17. Re:Solar cells are already cheap enough on Plasmonic Nanostructures Could Prove a Boon To Solar Cell Technology · · Score: 2

    You can drop the oil from that, outside of Hawaii we don't use it for power. Solar thermal can deal with days without light. So install solar thermal along with solar photovoltaic.

    The perfect is the enemy of the good, and you are pushing for perfect. When you demand magic storage you are ensuring no solar is rolled out and that we will have to burn fuel all the time.

  18. Re:Solar cells are already cheap enough on Plasmonic Nanostructures Could Prove a Boon To Solar Cell Technology · · Score: 1

    Why would you want to do that?
    Why spend a bunch on batteries when the grid is already there? Storing your locally generated power is only worth it if the price to buy power vs the price you sell it at are very far apart.

  19. Re:Tempting on Getting Afghanistan Online · · Score: 2

    Indeed, but the private media is more interested in twerking than doing that. The dailymail which has admitted to making up stories is now the most visited internet site for news. Do you expect them to be able to watch the other news sources, if they can't even be expected to only report things that actually happened?

  20. Re:Solar cells are already cheap enough on Plasmonic Nanostructures Could Prove a Boon To Solar Cell Technology · · Score: 1

    1. How does it not scale? We can use other sources already used to load balance, like natural gas plants.
    2. Those places don't have the money for it anyway.
    3. Use solar during day, genset at night. Still cheaper than storage.

  21. Re:Solar cells are already cheap enough on Plasmonic Nanostructures Could Prove a Boon To Solar Cell Technology · · Score: 1

    Why would you need storage?
    Just sell your power to the grid when you have excess and buy when you have a shortage.

  22. Re:Getting Online requires power ... on Getting Afghanistan Online · · Score: 1

    People have been dying of dysentery for even longer.
    The internet is one way to cure ignorance, try reading something informative. If you have no one to teach you about clean water and electricity production then the internet would be a great place to look.

    Get off the internet if you find it so detestable.

  23. Re:Tempting on Getting Afghanistan Online · · Score: 1

    Do you know what a monopoly is?

    I highly doubt that is what keeps the BBC being the BBC. I am sure NPR is not doing this for competition either. You are projecting. Competition and the quest for the almighty dollar forces you to stay on your toes, not everyone is motivated by the same forces.

  24. Re:Getting Online requires power ... on Getting Afghanistan Online · · Score: 2

    The internet can tell you how to grow food or clean water. It can also help you find like minded individuals so you can stand up to those who want to shoot you in the face.

    That sort of post is the utter ignorance that might be why some groups want to blow us up.

  25. Re:Tempting on Getting Afghanistan Online · · Score: 1

    He can simply buy them all, or collude with them.

    For what I see BBC which is the government option, is actually better than the private sources. This odd state of affairs occurs too regularly for my like.

    In theory you would be right, but reality and theory rarely line up.