Slashdot Mirror


User: tomhath

tomhath's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
4,582
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 4,582

  1. Re:Controversal design , 12 engines deadweight +dr on NASA Unveils Plans For Electric-Powered Plane (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    RTFA. Max speed is 175KT, not exactly "high speed". NASA also admits this won't be viable for commercial service, basically a hobbyist plan for short flights with very little payload.

    Bottom line though is that NASA is and has always been a PR machine. An all electric plane is a warm fuzzy story for people to read.

  2. Re:Long time coming on Watts Bar Unit 2 Is The First New US Nuclear Reactor In Decades (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    A big problem with maxing out renewables is that the uneven nature of those power sources means very large amounts of natural gas needs to be burned to make up the shortfalls when the wind isn't blowing or the sun isn't shining. Nuclear is a much better source of "green" energy.

  3. Re:Fucking CNN on Small Asteroid Discovered Orbiting Earth (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    It's more than just a similar orbit. The asteroid appears to be locked into its orbit by Earth's gravity, which is why JPL called it a quasi-satellite or companion. But yea, submitter should have skipped the CNN nonsense.

  4. Since you seem to be an expert. Rather than just listing vague claims about a language, describe how the features you listed are pertinent to this attack.

  5. It would have made tracking you a bit more difficult. They must have finally worked it out with Google and Facebook.

  6. it can be preserved on Coursera Commits 'Cultural Vandalism' As Old Platform Shuts (i-programmer.info) · · Score: 1

    All it takes is time and money. Is submitter willing to step up? Because apparently Coursera isn't.

  7. Re:title seems to be misleading, at best. on Renewables Are Set To Overtake Gas and Coal By 2027 (computerworld.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    As soon as you produce significant amounts of power with wind or solar, obviously you are replacing traditional base load plants with it.

    No, you're not. What you are doing is allowing the base load plants to be idle during times the intermittent plants are generating.

    A base load plant must be capable of meeting the grid's minimum demand 24x7x365. Wind and especially solar can never guarantee that.

  8. Re:mcdonalds to get sued? on WHO: Drinking Extremely Hot Coffee, Tea 'Probably' Causes Cancer (usatoday.com) · · Score: 0

    Keeping it in the cup is fine. Pouring it on your crotch and then sitting there letting it soak in might give you a reason to sue McD's though.

  9. Re:Why is it that on Repurposing Drugs To Tackle Cancer (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    You mixed two things that shouldn't be mixed:

    1) independent cancer researchers are having trouble getting funding
    2) pharmaceutical companies are private businesses

    The blame for #1 does not fall on pharmaceutical companies

  10. Most people realize she's a crook. But they had no choice, the Democratic Party anointed her without any input from the general population.

  11. Re:You know, we'd study it, but... on Repurposing Drugs To Tackle Cancer (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    ReDO is mostly a European organization. It's also not clear from the linked article that they have a lot of expertise in the field.

  12. As in France? on Ask Slashdot: Can Technology Prevent Shootings? · · Score: 1

    Someone determined to commit mass murder will find a way. Don't blame guns.

  13. Oh really? on World Reacts To The Worst Mass Shooting In U.S. History (cnn.com) · · Score: 1
  14. Re:Meanwhile back in the real world... on Playing Politics With Agile Projects (cio.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, they want a pony. Which is why you tell them they can have the pony, but they have to trade the puppy to get it. Everyone understands budgets and schedules. If you just tell them you're too incompetent to develop what they want they'll believe you and offshore the work.

  15. Re:Don't blame Agile... on Playing Politics With Agile Projects (cio.com) · · Score: 2

    writes David Taber..A key success factor for agile projects is the ability for every team member to talk expectations down at every possible juncture.

    That's really dumb. The proper response isn't to lower expectations, the proper response is to give the user insight into the trade-offs of a new or changing requirement. Increase the budget? Reduce scope somewhere else? Extend the schedule? If the new requirement is more important that something else, let the user make that call.

  16. Re:"In This Apple Game!" on It Took 33 Years To Find the Easter Egg In This Apple II Game (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    Took me a minute to realize that "Cook" referred to the game's creator, Robert A. Cook, not Tim Cook. But as clickbait they should've worked both in somehow.

  17. Re:doesn't tell the future on The World's Oldest Computer May Have Predicted the Future (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    It doesn't contain text, more like labels of what various points on the mechanism represent (planets, signs of the zodiac, etc). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  18. Google and the Democrats have been working together for years. These comments are nothing new.

  19. Four more years on Julian Assange: Google is 'Directly Engaged' In Hillary Clinton's Campaign (infowars.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Google and Obama have been scratching eachother's backs for the past eight years. No surprise that their next purchase was Hillary.

  20. only 1.5 billion smartphone units expected to ship globally this year

    I guess a billion isn't what it used to be. Tough to grow by double digits when the market is that big.

  21. Re:Since these compromises are years old... on Password Re-user? Get Ready to Get Busy (krebsonsecurity.com) · · Score: 1

    It really only applies to major sites that you want to protect. You really should be using unique and hard passwords on sites like Facebook and Netflix or anyplace that might have your credit card number (and change them on a regular interval). Password safes are your friend

    Other sites where all you provide is a user handle so you can comment on someone's blog, who cares?

  22. FTFA:

    suddenly and unexpectedly accelerated at high speed on its own

    I don't see any mention of autopilot in TFA. Maybe he claimed it was on autopilot somewhere else, but not here.

    That said, everything about this indicates she stepped on the accelerator instead of the brakes.

  23. What's the problem? on GE Considers Scrapping The Annual Raise (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    GE is considering replacing the ritual of an annual performance review with having managers constantly give employees feedback. That makes a lot of sense to me - praise or criticize performance throughout the year rather than keeping a file and trying to remember what exactly it was the employee did eleven months prior.

    Second, they are considering something similar for pay increases - no reason to wait until the end of the fiscal year to give a raise. The top 20% will still be pampered, the middle 70% will hang around for a while until they get tired of lousy raises, and the bottom 10% better keep their resume up to date

    In response to this news, ErichTheRed writes:
    First it was "stack ranking," the process where GE fires the bottom-rated 20% of the workforce every year.

    Erich has it wrong. Welch advocated trimming the bottom 10%, not 20%. And having worked for GE for several years, I can assure you that those who were let go were never missed. The bigger problem was the top 20% who got most of the raises - they were all either ass kissers, children of managers, or helped along because of their "diversity".

  24. Re:Uh-oh on Facebook Says It's Not Secretly Recording You (fb.com) · · Score: 1

    "Can neither confirm nor deny" is the standard answer when the question involves classified information. It means absolutely nothing.

  25. Switzerland will reject it on Universal Basic Income Programs Arrive (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Polls show the Swiss will overwhelmingly reject the idea.

    UBI isn't about efficiency, it's redistribution of wealth. As others have already pointed out - it can only last until the wealth has been drained from those carrying the burden.