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  1. Re:Oh goodie on UK Wants An Electric-Vehicle Charger In Every New Home (thedrive.com) · · Score: 1

    No, it means that you can't buy a car unless you have a garage to charge it in.

  2. Re:Potential Debcale on UK Wants An Electric-Vehicle Charger In Every New Home (thedrive.com) · · Score: 1

    Except that J1772 is a single phase solution.

  3. Re:Potential Debcale on UK Wants An Electric-Vehicle Charger In Every New Home (thedrive.com) · · Score: 1

    The size of a plug is more due to amperage than voltage. A higher voltage means lower current so the wiring will not be as bad as if you have the US style of wiring. Using a 3-phase solution would be better from the perspective of grid load (better balancing) but then you'd need a 5 pin connector (3P+N+G) so then the connector would be larger.

  4. Re:Potential Debcale on UK Wants An Electric-Vehicle Charger In Every New Home (thedrive.com) · · Score: 1

    Obviously they are - you will have to have a garage in order to own a car in the future.

  5. Re:Potential Debcale on UK Wants An Electric-Vehicle Charger In Every New Home (thedrive.com) · · Score: 1

    There are multiple technical standards. But in Europe, the government mandated Type 2

    You were linking to a GDPR blocked site.

    However it's not "the government", it's "The EU" that has put the demands on the various governments to enforce it.

  6. Re:Potential Debcale on UK Wants An Electric-Vehicle Charger In Every New Home (thedrive.com) · · Score: 1

    In Europe you have the IEC 6039 standard.

  7. Re:Potential Debcale on UK Wants An Electric-Vehicle Charger In Every New Home (thedrive.com) · · Score: 1

    Or go for a 400V 3-phase solution.

    The high amp/low voltage used in the US was good at one time in history but is starting to be a problem with all the electric devices now in use.

  8. Re: Potential Debcale on UK Wants An Electric-Vehicle Charger In Every New Home (thedrive.com) · · Score: 1

    If you are lucky the minimum is 1 hour - they may also charge you for the distance and time traveled.

  9. Re:Potential Debcale on UK Wants An Electric-Vehicle Charger In Every New Home (thedrive.com) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    I'd like to get a 400V 3-phase charger, that would be optimal. Then add to it that every new building also should have solar panels that could be used to balance the added power needed to charge the vehicles.

  10. Re:Potential Debcale on UK Wants An Electric-Vehicle Charger In Every New Home (thedrive.com) · · Score: 1

    Any engineer worth his salt can tell a salesman to go F themselves if the salesman comes up with stupid ideas.

  11. Re:It would be nice on What if People Were Paid For Their Data? (economist.com) · · Score: 1

    But then the buyers of the data never realizes that what they do get is actually tainted data.

    Have you ever considered why most shops today seems to all have the same stuff at the same price but never what you look for? That's the result of "Big Data".

    And how do we know that what someone sells isn't tainted? Most people that are security aware have minimized their exposure on the web to avoid getting monitored. This is tainting the "Big Data". Then you have the interest of the "Big Data" companies as well - filter out what they think is "irrelevant", "immoral" or "statistical noise" and promote the stuff that they have stakes in.

    Just things like searches for cars, then by color. "Mint Green" is 174 million hits, orange is 3.6 billion, blue 5.3 billion, white 10.5 billion. If everyone starts to search for mint green cars then I wouldn't be surprised if we suddenly next year would see that color offered on cars in the market.

    You have to realize that there are two kinds of market players out there - those that takes the lead and those that follows the stream. Those that takes the lead don't just follow what "Big Data" offers or ever do that, they may have their own stash of data that they use.

    For some interesting read regarding the use of statistics you can read the article about Abraham Wald regarding WWII bomber losses and damage. The statistics were built up on the data of planes that did return from their missions with damage, never on the planes that didn't return. There's no real difference between this and "Big Data" - just that today it's not a loss of lives, just a loss of customers to specialized stores.

  12. But what kind of service do 'doubleclick' and company give me for free? Most people don't even know that they exist.

  13. NSA isn't a company. It's something completely different together with KGB, MI5 etc.

  14. Mistrust of major companies isn't new on Mistrust of Google and Facebook is a 'Contagion' That Could Spread To Every Tech Company, Says Box CEO Aaron Levie (recode.net) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Earlier the mistrust was for IBM and Microsoft. Then Oracle was added. And now Facebook and Google.

    Also realize that the list just grows, the only way to get off the list is a liquidation.

    What's worse is that the mistrust against the top companies is just the tip of an iceberg - you have a large number of companies that aren't visible the same way like doubleclick, cxense, ioffer etc that probably are even worse since they don't provide any benefit at all.

  15. Re:Worth repeating.. on Is C++ a 'Really Terrible Language'? (gamesindustry.biz) · · Score: 1

    You haven't seen NORD PL then.

  16. Re:Obcious on Is C++ a 'Really Terrible Language'? (gamesindustry.biz) · · Score: 0

    All languages have been an experiment at one time, but C++ is really a kludge solution on top of C.

  17. Re:C++ is a terribly documented language. on Is C++ a 'Really Terrible Language'? (gamesindustry.biz) · · Score: 1

    This highlights the problem with C++ - it's not the libraries that are the concern, it's the language and the problem isn't writing C using C++ - it's that C++ is using constructs that are so hard to penetrate and understand by anyone else but the person that wrote it that it's suffering code rot.

  18. Re:Yes on Is C++ a 'Really Terrible Language'? (gamesindustry.biz) · · Score: 0

    As I see it C++ has a lot of the bad things from both C and Java while not actually adding anything extra of value these days.

    You'd be a lot better off with using Ada for a large scale project though.

    C++ has a tendency to be a "Write Only" language due to the large number of variations in constructs that can't be read by others not understanding the context the original programmer had.

  19. How can I utilize that to actually tell the bots to think that other pages also aren't eligible for ads?

  20. Re:It makes the noise on 'Why I Use the IBM Model M Keyboard That's Older Than I Am' (yeokhengmeng.com) · · Score: 1

    I prefer the KeyTronic keyboards over the rest.

  21. If it is a publication it is also to be held responsible for anything published there.

  22. Re:Pointless worry on Is Google's Promotion of HTTPS Misguided? (this.how) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Sometimes when I look for stuff that's less common I even resort to Yandex and Baidu.

  23. Re:You Must Register on Is Google's Promotion of HTTPS Misguided? (this.how) · · Score: 1

    Not different from how exposed you are anyway.

    The end points are still known unless you go via a proxy, but that increases the latency.

  24. Re: Rules of computer safety on One Misplaced Line of JavaScript Caused the Ticketmaster Breach (itwire.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    And the dangers of third party content on web pages. It's very hard to be sure that things play together when more than one content provider is involved.

  25. Probably most of them are just carrying old stuff these days. The point is to find the good ones.