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  1. Re:But... FREE ENTERPRISE on Tom Wheeler Defends Title II Rules, Accuses Pai of Helping Monopolists (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    California bans this practice and still the best that might be available is a duopoly.

  2. My city is mandating solar panels.

  3. Re:Batteries and Control systems are expensive on There Is a Point At Which It Will Make Economical Sense To Defect From the Electrical Grid (qz.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    You can buy fuel cell systems that run off natural gas now.

  4. You know... That layout looks an awful lot like the layout for this site.

    Not for me. But my settings make /. look like it did 10 years ago.

  5. Horrible waste of space on Opinion: Google Unleashes Terrible New Update For Google News Upon the Net · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Information density is very low. It wastes lots of space, presents less information, fewer links and what remains is spread over multiple URLs (for example, one has to click on "Local" to see local news).

    Horrible.

  6. Re:Pointless explanation on Elon Musk's Boring Machine Completes the First Section of An LA Tunnel (theverge.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    In the play, the eponymous character "Godot" never arrives.

  7. I don't know, but I'm not waiting for it.

  8. Re:No visa on Mozilla Employee Denied Entry To the United States (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't think that one can have a "valid visa waiver". It's an oxymoron.

  9. I think that Emily has hung up her headset for good. "She" hasn't called us for a few months.

  10. Re:Best way to deal with these scams on 'Microsoft' Scam Callers Arrested After Years of Terrorising the Technically Challenged (gizmodo.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Once my wife told them that we only run Linux, they quit calling.

  11. Is that an achievement when ... on Uber Crosses 5 Billion Rides (mashable.com) · · Score: 2

    .... you lose money at the rate Uber is losing money?

    More rides == more losses.

  12. Re:No visa on Mozilla Employee Denied Entry To the United States (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 2

    Why does he need a visa to visit the US for a business meeting?

    He doesn't. He had previously travelled to the US using the visa waiver program and this time had completed his ESTA.

    It sounds like Mozilla and Stenberg messed up.

    No, it sounds like some USCIS employee screwed up.

  13. Re:The Art Of The Empty Gesture on Mayors of 7,400 Cities Vow To Meet Obama's Climate Commitments (theguardian.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Almost all of the carbon emission targets will naturally be met anyway by natural decline in carbon emission..... much greater increase in Solar use (since prices for solar have been falling over the past few years),

    You haven't really thought it through, have you?

    What do you think has caused solar prices to reduce? Did it ever occur to you that technological progress which has driven costs down might be related to the government incentives in many countries?

    As for the "billions of dollars". Do some research on how much the US was supposed to contribute and how much it actually has (hint, the latter number isn't measured in billions).

    In future, please try to avoid getting your facts from the Koch brothers and other fossil fuel backers.

    Oh, and finally, the program under which the Federal government provided loan guarantees to Solyndra actually made a profit for the US government.

  14. Re:Not his only failing on Former Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer Defends Former Uber CEO Travis Kalanick (sfchronicle.com) · · Score: 1

    If financial success of a company is the only important metric, then sure Travis is a phenomenal leader.

    Err....that IS the only metric that really matters.

    In which case, he is a very poor leader. Uber is massively unprofitable.

  15. Re:Obviously it didn't work on Obama Authorized a Secret Cyber Operation Against Russia, Says Report (engadget.com) · · Score: 0

    Actually, it did. Whatever the outcome.

    I don't think Putin's goal was the election of a specific candidate as it was to destroy confidence in the election process. He's succeeded at that.

  16. Re:Expected slashdot post-2000 response on 6 Female Founders Accuse VC Justin Caldbeck of Making Unwanted Advances (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    However, the reality is that the business world is structured in a way that is most beneficial to the company rather than the employees of the company itself.

    I think that you will find that that isn't true any more. Today (and perhaps always) the business world is structured in a way that is most beneficial to the CEOs of large companies rather than any other group.

  17. Re:Software Engineers Failed? on What Happens When Software Companies Are Liable For Security Vulnerabilities? (techbeacon.com) · · Score: 2

    How about you get what you pay for? Many management teams have decided that adding security costs money and it's more cost effective not to spend many cycles on it, but rather to just deal with problems as they pop up.

    Software hasn't had it's "Pinto" moment yet, where a jury decides that a company needs to be punished for that type of calculus.

  18. Re:Sounds BS. Connecting cyberweapons to laptop ba on Pentagon Cyberweapons 'Disappointing' Against ISIS (nytimes.com) · · Score: 2

    I'd much rather have a bomb go off in a cargo hold.

    What's the biggest threat: bombs in the cargo hold, or an undiscovered fire from a Lithium Ion battery?

  19. Re:Wells Fargo still glued to corporate edicts on Former CenturyLink Employee Accuses Company of Running a Wells Fargo-Like Scheme (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    For anyone who moves from the UK and probably many other European countries), banking in the USA seems like it is a time warp, It feels like you have stepped 20 years back in time.

    From my home, I can log into my bank's website. From there, I can initiate transfers, either domestically at no charge, or internationally. It uses 2-factor authentication: the bank gave me a little card reader and I use this to validate that I have one of my bank cards.

  20. https://news.synopsys.com/2016...

    Synopsys bought a company that specializes in this kind of work a few months ago.

    Three years ago, also this:
    http://www.bizjournals.com/san...

  21. Re:Bad headline on You Can't Open the Microsoft Surface Laptop Without Literally Destroying It (vice.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Headless computing is all the rage these days... get with the times, mate!

    I tried that, but I am having trouble doing anything without my head.

  22. Idiots who can't RTFA! on Arctic Climate Change Study Canceled Due to Climate Change (livescience.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    The title should then read as, "Study Into Sea Ice Losses Canceled Due to Unexpected Ice Thickness Discovered."

    Well done, not reading the article and substituting your preconceived notions which are the opposite of what the article says:

    "Climate-related changes in Arctic sea ice not only reduce its extent and thickness but also increase its mobility meaning that ice conditions are likely to become more variable and severe conditions such as these will occur more often."

  23. Re:The real question... on Developers Who Use Spaces Make More Money Than Those Who Use Tabs (stackoverflow.blog) · · Score: 1

    One space or two after a period?

    The question is another example of why you should be using tabs.

    Obviously one space is the right answer: the tool should provide the appropriate spacing without the user having to hit another key. If you need to hit space twice, then your tool is deficient.

    Similarly, tabs allow better control of indentation without the need for either the user or the tool to insert multiple characters.

  24. Re:Conclusions by rationale on Google Searches Show That America Is Full of Racist and Selfish People (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    A lot of people have been searching "Jihad" recently. Can you conclude anything about the people doing the searches, other than they heard something in the news and wanted to find out more?

    Perhaps they have been reading "Dune"? That's where I first came across the word, decades ago.

  25. A radio program interviewed one of the people who did the vetting, and guess what? They do have sufficient information to vet the people from Syria quite well, despite the lack of a functioning government. In fact, they can vet people from Syria better than many countries.

    As for Pakistan: do you really think that we get truthful information from the Pakistani government? If you believe this, then I may have a bridge or some prime Florida real estate to sell you.