In your purge of annoying advertisement gimmicks, please make the "disable advertising" checkbox for good-standing members ACTUALLY DISABLE THE ADVERTISING. Also, if you could fix the ads that load just as I'm clicking on one of the messages in the right-hand bar of the main page, which displaces the messages box in favor of an ad I didn't want to click on, that'd be great.
For the love of everything holy, when 1 April rolls around, please don't waste the whole day on bullshit nonsense like the previous curators did. Every other site already becomes useless on that day, let's keep some actual content here.
That's not to say that you can't have a bit of fun - feel free. But don't go overboard like DiceDot.
Also, there are situations where people cannot comment on a certain subject without anonymity - people inside a company that are experts on certain matters, for example.
I've seen plenty of posts from Anonymous Coward from people that are close to what TFA is actually about, and the reason we got that information is because of the "Post Anonymously" checkbox.
Anonymity serves an incredibly useful purpose - not just here either. In the press, we have an idea of an anonymous source, and quotes that aren't for attribution. In legal circles, there are 'unsigned letters' which allow someone to put an opinion out that may not be popular, without jeopardizing the rest of their career.
Yes, anonymous coward can be abused to troll people, but it can also be used to be a dissenting voice of reason when reason isn't popular.
You're forgetting the part where Apple signs long-term sourcing agreements to buy parts for $X over Y years. If the dollar becomes more valuable through exchange rates, they're now paying more for the same part.
Well that's because the 'free market' has a different definition for the billion dollar club than it does for you and me. NV Energy loves the 'free market' when it means they have a few million captive customers that can't get out from under their thumb due to changes in the market coming from external forces (un-elected government commissioners arbitrarily changing rules, including for pre-existing solar installations), and they love the 'free market' when it means they can spend ratepayer revenue to lobby PUC commissioners and state legislators to destroy any market force that might reduce their income stream.
Anyone who argues that the energy distribution system in the US is a 'free market' is a useful idiot. And I don't care if I burn a few points of karma to say it.
In no fucking way is some company entitled to future revenues, which is what you are saying. And in no way should that be enshrined in some kind of half assed legal precedent.
Go ahead, set that precedent. And then watch the parade of companies into the Federal courthouse every single time that a local, state, or federal legislative body changes any law ever. After all, that regulation saying I can't dump toxic waste into the river sucked the value out of that effluent discharge pipe.
Don't forget that the grid operators and massive energy companies want to limit your ability to make it financially work anyway. They jack the prices up as high as government regulation will allow, which causes increasing numbers of customers to switch to on-premises generation (solar, etc.), and then they whine to the PUC about how the rest of the ratepayers are picking up their bill for still being tied to the grid, even though the guy who just got panels on his roof is paying a PUC-mandated grid-tie fee. They oppose net metering at every chance. They spend loads of money lobbying politicians to put in place nonsense laws to prevent people from being able to save money and reduce environmental damage at the same time. See: Nevada.
They do everything they can to make it so the 'free market' doesn't work for anyone but them, by making it anything but free. And they have the resources to convince the useful idiots out there that it's a good thing, so that they will continue making an unprecedented amount of noise.
If the free market is all that, why are these grid operators so afraid of it being allowed to function? If the grid-tie fee isn't sufficient to maintain the grid, why aren't you lobbying the local PUC to raise that, rather than employing anti-competitive tactics in order to continue siphoning money from everyone's wallets at the highest possible speed?
Below this post: grousing about solar subsidy, etc. Never mind all the fossil subsidy out there for the last 100 years, we'll just hand-wave that away because it all of a sudden doesn't count. Never mind the biggest externalized cost of fossil energy: not having to deal with what blows out the stack into the air we all breathe, and the tens of thousands of respiratory ailments / deaths it causes every year. And all that is without even touching anything in the same time zone as climate change.
We've also had roughly 850 miles of DC transmission lines running from the Columbia River to a bit north of Los Angeles since the 1960s. Works great, and is even reversible so that energy can be moved where it's needed on a seasonal basis. Moves 3400MW of juice from the hydro projects in the Northwest to roughly 2 to 3 million households in LA when flowing south.
What's new and scary about high-voltage DC transmission lines again?
They would use the spent fuel, if the law allowed. But it doesn't. They can't reprocess out the 1% that keeps the other 99% from being used.
Spent fuel is not about heat, it's about neutron absorption. There are too many daughter products present in spent fuel that absorb neutrons, which prevents self-sustained criticality. We have technology to remove these, but there have been various executive orders and legal mechanisms in place since the late 70s to prevent anyone from doing it.
Thus, perfectly useable fuel is called 'waste' and sits in casks at reactors.
A hypothetical consumer could think of anything, including that an iPhone will give them god-like powers and cause women to swoon at the mere presence of said iPhone. In fact, the distortion field has people thinking that spending the extra money gives them perceived status.
I assume it's also illegal for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives to sell weapons to drug cartels who then proceed to use these weapons in commission of crime; yet there have been no prosecutions.
I would like to know how he plans on doing that. Some kind of religious test? A 'shibboleth' if you will? Because it's impossible for the people we want to keep out (terrorists, murderers, etc.) to get coached in order to pass such a rigorous government test that will be posted on the Internet six weeks before it's ever actually enacted due to either a leak, or a Freedom of Information Act request.
It's a preposterous notion that such a ban could ever be enforced - just like gun control, you would be preventing the immigration we want, and creating the conditions for immigration we don't want to continue.
Oh good, so instead of getting a regular useful idiot politician who has to pander to a (somewhat) wider constituency, we get a Constituency of One who can be his own lobbyist and do what's best for his own self interest.
Doesn't sound like you're making a very good argument in favor.
Insurance would be a beneficial product, if the insurance company didn't try every little trick they can to avoid paying out on the policy. I've got no problems with an insurer who actually lives up to their end of the contract - but those are few and far between it seems. Now they just want to have government-mandated invoicing, followed by never actually insuring the risk.
This is why everyone universally hates insurance companies, even more than telecommunications companies. They are the biggest bastards on the planet.
If Google actually wanted to get serious about this, they would contractually obligate their OEMs to send security-related updates in a timely fashion. Yet they don't, and *their* platform continues to have this god damn mess.
Throwing up your hands and saying "that is the OEM's problem" is a fantastic way to be selling devices that are actively exploitable, and ruin the reputation of your brand. Even Microsoft recognizes that.
Yeah, because in the history of software development, there are exactly zero products that have shipped, and are 100% free of bugs and flaws. So don't worry about how fast you can patch it.
Yeah, but all of that will be inserted from the network HQ in New York City, from a satellite feed from a dish on a truck outside the stadium. Probably more than one, for redundancy.
No fiber will be used to get the television signal out of that place. It's all done via satellite.
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In your purge of annoying advertisement gimmicks, please make the "disable advertising" checkbox for good-standing members ACTUALLY DISABLE THE ADVERTISING. Also, if you could fix the ads that load just as I'm clicking on one of the messages in the right-hand bar of the main page, which displaces the messages box in favor of an ad I didn't want to click on, that'd be great.
Whatever happened to metamod? I used to get a link for that about once a week, and then it just vanished.
It was nice to be able to either confirm some positive mods, and do away with abusive moderations.
For the love of everything holy, when 1 April rolls around, please don't waste the whole day on bullshit nonsense like the previous curators did. Every other site already becomes useless on that day, let's keep some actual content here.
That's not to say that you can't have a bit of fun - feel free. But don't go overboard like DiceDot.
Also, there are situations where people cannot comment on a certain subject without anonymity - people inside a company that are experts on certain matters, for example.
I've seen plenty of posts from Anonymous Coward from people that are close to what TFA is actually about, and the reason we got that information is because of the "Post Anonymously" checkbox.
Anonymity serves an incredibly useful purpose - not just here either. In the press, we have an idea of an anonymous source, and quotes that aren't for attribution. In legal circles, there are 'unsigned letters' which allow someone to put an opinion out that may not be popular, without jeopardizing the rest of their career.
Yes, anonymous coward can be abused to troll people, but it can also be used to be a dissenting voice of reason when reason isn't popular.
Wait, Slashdot BETA is dead?
Damn, now I'm going to have to change my signature!
CURSE YOU, NEW SLASHDOT OVERLORDS!!
Then they fucked it up, because Friday or Saturday is when you 'take out the trash' in mediaspeak. The 800+ comments would agree with me.
You're forgetting the part where Apple signs long-term sourcing agreements to buy parts for $X over Y years. If the dollar becomes more valuable through exchange rates, they're now paying more for the same part.
Well that's because the 'free market' has a different definition for the billion dollar club than it does for you and me. NV Energy loves the 'free market' when it means they have a few million captive customers that can't get out from under their thumb due to changes in the market coming from external forces (un-elected government commissioners arbitrarily changing rules, including for pre-existing solar installations), and they love the 'free market' when it means they can spend ratepayer revenue to lobby PUC commissioners and state legislators to destroy any market force that might reduce their income stream.
Anyone who argues that the energy distribution system in the US is a 'free market' is a useful idiot. And I don't care if I burn a few points of karma to say it.
Careful, your sense of entitlement is showing.
In no fucking way is some company entitled to future revenues, which is what you are saying. And in no way should that be enshrined in some kind of half assed legal precedent.
Go ahead, set that precedent. And then watch the parade of companies into the Federal courthouse every single time that a local, state, or federal legislative body changes any law ever. After all, that regulation saying I can't dump toxic waste into the river sucked the value out of that effluent discharge pipe.
Don't forget that the grid operators and massive energy companies want to limit your ability to make it financially work anyway. They jack the prices up as high as government regulation will allow, which causes increasing numbers of customers to switch to on-premises generation (solar, etc.), and then they whine to the PUC about how the rest of the ratepayers are picking up their bill for still being tied to the grid, even though the guy who just got panels on his roof is paying a PUC-mandated grid-tie fee. They oppose net metering at every chance. They spend loads of money lobbying politicians to put in place nonsense laws to prevent people from being able to save money and reduce environmental damage at the same time. See: Nevada.
They do everything they can to make it so the 'free market' doesn't work for anyone but them, by making it anything but free. And they have the resources to convince the useful idiots out there that it's a good thing, so that they will continue making an unprecedented amount of noise.
If the free market is all that, why are these grid operators so afraid of it being allowed to function? If the grid-tie fee isn't sufficient to maintain the grid, why aren't you lobbying the local PUC to raise that, rather than employing anti-competitive tactics in order to continue siphoning money from everyone's wallets at the highest possible speed?
Below this post: grousing about solar subsidy, etc. Never mind all the fossil subsidy out there for the last 100 years, we'll just hand-wave that away because it all of a sudden doesn't count. Never mind the biggest externalized cost of fossil energy: not having to deal with what blows out the stack into the air we all breathe, and the tens of thousands of respiratory ailments / deaths it causes every year. And all that is without even touching anything in the same time zone as climate change.
and by "absolutely nobody" you actually mean "90% of the computing public that are fine with 'good enough for what I'm doing'"
Here's a hint: You don't need a $400 GPU for Netflix.
We've also had roughly 850 miles of DC transmission lines running from the Columbia River to a bit north of Los Angeles since the 1960s. Works great, and is even reversible so that energy can be moved where it's needed on a seasonal basis. Moves 3400MW of juice from the hydro projects in the Northwest to roughly 2 to 3 million households in LA when flowing south.
What's new and scary about high-voltage DC transmission lines again?
Can we export Texas as it's own country? It's not secession if we are pointing them at the door, is it?
They would use the spent fuel, if the law allowed. But it doesn't. They can't reprocess out the 1% that keeps the other 99% from being used.
Spent fuel is not about heat, it's about neutron absorption. There are too many daughter products present in spent fuel that absorb neutrons, which prevents self-sustained criticality. We have technology to remove these, but there have been various executive orders and legal mechanisms in place since the late 70s to prevent anyone from doing it.
Thus, perfectly useable fuel is called 'waste' and sits in casks at reactors.
What you call a flaw, the government would call a feature.
A hypothetical consumer could think of anything, including that an iPhone will give them god-like powers and cause women to swoon at the mere presence of said iPhone. In fact, the distortion field has people thinking that spending the extra money gives them perceived status.
You mean it doesn't?! Fuck!
I assume it's also illegal for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives to sell weapons to drug cartels who then proceed to use these weapons in commission of crime; yet there have been no prosecutions.
I would like to know how he plans on doing that. Some kind of religious test? A 'shibboleth' if you will? Because it's impossible for the people we want to keep out (terrorists, murderers, etc.) to get coached in order to pass such a rigorous government test that will be posted on the Internet six weeks before it's ever actually enacted due to either a leak, or a Freedom of Information Act request.
It's a preposterous notion that such a ban could ever be enforced - just like gun control, you would be preventing the immigration we want, and creating the conditions for immigration we don't want to continue.
Oh good, so instead of getting a regular useful idiot politician who has to pander to a (somewhat) wider constituency, we get a Constituency of One who can be his own lobbyist and do what's best for his own self interest.
Doesn't sound like you're making a very good argument in favor.
It makes you wonder how we ever survived the disagreeable politicians of the past (McCarthy, etc.) without the help of YouTube.
Is this person serious?
Insurance would be a beneficial product, if the insurance company didn't try every little trick they can to avoid paying out on the policy. I've got no problems with an insurer who actually lives up to their end of the contract - but those are few and far between it seems. Now they just want to have government-mandated invoicing, followed by never actually insuring the risk.
This is why everyone universally hates insurance companies, even more than telecommunications companies. They are the biggest bastards on the planet.
That's a fantastic excuse for a horrible model.
If Google actually wanted to get serious about this, they would contractually obligate their OEMs to send security-related updates in a timely fashion. Yet they don't, and *their* platform continues to have this god damn mess.
Throwing up your hands and saying "that is the OEM's problem" is a fantastic way to be selling devices that are actively exploitable, and ruin the reputation of your brand. Even Microsoft recognizes that.
Yeah, because in the history of software development, there are exactly zero products that have shipped, and are 100% free of bugs and flaws. So don't worry about how fast you can patch it.
Yeah, but all of that will be inserted from the network HQ in New York City, from a satellite feed from a dish on a truck outside the stadium. Probably more than one, for redundancy.
No fiber will be used to get the television signal out of that place. It's all done via satellite.