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  1. Re:That won't prove commercially viable power on UK's Newest Tokamak Fusion Reactor Has Created Its First Plasma (futurism.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Nowhere is Europe is wind producing 50% of the annual power on the grid. Not even close. Wind power cannot exist on the grid today without conventional sources to back up its intermittency.

    Denmark, 49.2% of supply in 2015 (no figures for 2016 on wikipedia) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    Curiously the winds are a lot stronger in the winter, so thats when they have a lot of excess power to export.

  2. Re: Does it have any binary blobs? on FriendELEC Releases $40 NanoPi K2 Board That Competes With ODROID-C2, Raspberry Pi 3 (cnx-software.com) · · Score: 1

    AFAIK you can use it as headless server with free software only right now with a bit of google fu. There is a guy balbes150 (on cnx and armbian etc), who works for a company I've forgotten the name of that is bringing s905 and s905x support to the mainline kernel. He has a presentation of his efforts somwhere on youtube.

  3. Re: Let's hope it does better than Shoreham Nuclea on New York Approves Largest US Offshore Wind Farm Off Long Island (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1
  4. Searching for "TPB" gives me thepiratebay.org as first hit on google, on ddg I get it as the eight search result behind a lot of proxies. With "thepiratebay" the table is turned and thepiratebay.org is now the ninth search result on google while it's the first one on ddg. This was done with google "safe search" turned off. I would be interested to know more in detail how your search results differs from mine.

  5. If it could do passwords and work with every device. Just act as a bluetooth keyboard or something, I have no real need for 2FA. Is there such an app? I haven't found one. Is it because bluetooth is too insecure?

  6. Re: Cheaper than wind? on World Energy Hits a Turning Point: Solar That's Cheaper Than Wind (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    "Many will show that there is a limit to how much wind and solar can be added to the grid before problems arise, depending on who you ask this can be between 10% and

    Denmark had an average of 42% of it's power from wind alone in 2015 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik... Notice how it actually increases with increased power usage, such that in the warmer summer months the percentage is down while in the winter it
    has maxed out at over 100% of denmarks energy usage.

  7. Re: None of Linux's choice quotes? on Linus on Linux's 25th Birthday (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    So why isn't Darl running for president? I would vote for legalizing prostitution.

    Because everyone on slashdot hates him!
    Darl was the CEO of SCO. You should be old enough to remember the SCO vs IBM debacle (too old?).
    One of his more amusing claims was that the GPL is unconstitutional because communists or something
    like that, which led to Linus stating the above.

  8. Re: None of Linux's choice quotes? on Linus on Linux's 25th Birthday (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    "If Darl McBride was in charge, he'd probably make marriage
    unconstitutional too, since clearly it de-emphasizes the
    commercial nature of normal human interaction, and probably
    is a major impediment to the commercial growth of prostitution."

  9. Re:This. on Australian Man Uses 1TB of Mobile Data in a Single Day (stuff.co.nz) · · Score: 1

    I wonder how much 14 seasons of MythBusters, 24 seasons of The Simpsons would set you back in Australia?
    Or did he just admit to something he shouldn't, just to claim his 15 minutes...

  10. Not in Sweden.

  11. GFDL? on Interviews: Ask Richard Stallman a Question · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The Gnu Free Documentation Licence (GFDL) has not been embraced with nearly as much love as the GPL and numerous issues have been raised:

    *Non compability with GPL (both ways).
    *Non-freeness (as deemed by Debian) of invariant sections.
    *Cumersomeness of having to print the full licence when distributing physical printouts.
    Etc.

    Wikipedia for example does not accept contributions licenced under the GFDL only.

    What do you see as a way forward in adressing the issues raised regarding the GFDL?

  12. Re:Sick on Teamsters Seek To Unionize More Tech Shuttle Bus Drivers In Silicon Valley · · Score: 3, Informative

    Look at Sweden for example. What you're stating simply isn't true. In 2013, 15.9% of the population was born outside of Sweden.
    Anyone in the EU is free to settle in any other EU contry (Sweden is a EU country, just as Romania).
    Anyone from outside the EU is free to work in Sweden provided that they can show an offer of employment with a monthly salary of at least 13000 sek
    (about 1560 usd), and after four years they can apply for permanent residency.

    The diffrence is a welfare state and unions.

  13. Re:What system d really is on Ask Slashdot: Can You Say Something Nice About Systemd? · · Score: 1

    Yes, liking it, absolutely! Systemd-sysv (the package that installs systemd as init) installs are thru the roof, and so are votes for the package. Note the decline in sysvinit-core and its votes, it's an active choice. Voters agree with you that systemd-shim is not a good ide, it's dwarfed in the scale against systemd, so it's hard to estimate just how few they are. If anything, the discreapancy between systemd-shim installs and votes indicate that it's pulled in by dependencies without people noticing.

  14. Re:What system d really is on Ask Slashdot: Can You Say Something Nice About Systemd? · · Score: 1

    Users are going for systemd and liking it https://qa.debian.org/popcon-g... Notice how the rush starts after gnome (in debian) drops the hard dependency on systemd, that's when systemd-shim appears, and how systemd-shim users are declining and also not voting for the package.

  15. Re:Good idea beyond the "renewable" fad on Denmark Plans To Be Coal-Free In 10 Years · · Score: 2

    Wind power has not yet proved that it can supply large quantities of power. Nobody except the most blind zealot would deny this plain fact. .

    Wind power supplies 41% of Denmark's electricity consumption. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W...

  16. Re:Are you sure? on Debate Over Systemd Exposes the Two Factions Tugging At Modern-day Linux · · Score: 1

    Here is a graph for you https://qa.debian.org/popcon-g...

  17. Gnu Free Documentation Licence on Interview: Ask Richard Stallman What You Will · · Score: 2

    The Gnu Free Documentation Licence (GFDL) has not been embraced with nearly as much love as the GPL and numerous issues have been raised:

    *Non compability with GPL (both ways).
    *Non-freeness (as deemed by Debian) of invariant sections.
    *Cumersomeness of having to print the full licence when distributing physical printouts.
    Etc.

    Wikipedia for example does not accept contributions licenced under the GFDL only.

    What do you see as a way forward in adressing the issues raised regarding the GFDL?

  18. Re:I believe it on New Study Shows One-Third of Americans Don't Believe In Evolution · · Score: 1

    It's probably irrational to belive that your brain is living in a vat. I could certainly not make a simpler explanation for my experience of an outside world, than an actual outside world (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam's_razor).

  19. Re:Current patent system is crazy on Apple Again Seeks Ban On 20+ Samsung Devices In US · · Score: 1

    Cars actually did have diffrent ways to control them. The steeringwheel and clutch, brake, throttle pedal setup is standard now, but that hasn't always been the case.

  20. Previous art from 1985 on Create Your Own Bullet Time Camera Rig With Raspberry Pi · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The technique was not invented by the matrix creators. Take a look at this music video from 1985. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9el2lg2olpE (Accept - Midnight Mover)

  21. So how much power can we realistically expect? on Harvesting Power When Freshwater Meets Salty · · Score: 3, Informative

    So how do they arrive at the 20-30 cents/kWh? Infinite durability? This has been tried in Norway http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statkraft_osmotic_power_prototype_in_Hurum with rather underwelming results, outputting 4kW (not a typo) under ideal conditions. Granted this new plant is rated as 60 times more efficient it seems like a long way from a sound investment as the upfront cost is just to high.

  22. Chemical wepons Obamas "red line" on Syrian Rebels Claim Hundreds Killed By Poison-Gas Attack · · Score: 1

    In 2012 Obama pretty much said thet the US would not intervene in Syria unless they used chemical weapons. Colour me surprised with the numerous allegations of chemical warfare since then. http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/obama-issues-syria-red-line-warning-on-chemical-weapons/2012/08/20/ba5d26ec-eaf7-11e1-b811-09036bcb182b_story.html

  23. Re:What's a fixed rotor? on Hybrid RotorWing Design Transitions From Fixed To Rotary Wing Mid-Flight · · Score: 1

    I'm guessing fixed as opposed to freespinning rotor, aka autogyro.

  24. Re:Freeze on Debian 7.0 ('Wheezy') Release Planned For 1st Weekend in May · · Score: 2

    Packages go from unstable to testing, which will then be released as stable. As 4.10 isn't intended for the next stable release (wheezy), it goes to experimental.

  25. Re:I hereby request an easier mail/http server set on Debian 7.0 ('Wheezy') Release Planned For 1st Weekend in May · · Score: 1

    Try "configure-debian".