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  1. Re:Not that large on Elon Musk Promises World's Biggest Lithium Ion Battery To Australia (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    At this point, I think it would be wise to defer to a recognized expert on batteries for the correct definition.

  2. Re:Not that large on Elon Musk Promises World's Biggest Lithium Ion Battery To Australia (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    as people are dying in south australia frrom a heat wave.

    From a previous post, it appears that the design load is 0.410 kW per household. That's 410 Watts. So I doubt many people will be running AC units. Or if they do, this battery will be empty in short order.

  3. Re:Seattle just closed the I-90 express lanes on Getting Rid of Carpool Lanes Could Double Travel Times (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 3, Informative

    That was just the Mercer Island private lane anyway. The Seattle to Eastside commute volume reversed decades ago. But the DOT never had the guts to reverse the lane to match actual use.

  4. Re:I wonder what's going to happen to the mid east on France Set To Ban Sale of Petrol and Diesel Vehicles By 2040 (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    much larger pile of by-then aging modern weapons that has a used-by date

    Which we are arranging for them to deplete by having them use on each other.

  5. Re:What's this grey stuff? on iPhone Bugs Are Too Valuable To Report To Apple (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Sell it twice. Once on the black market. For the big bucks. Then sell it to Apple for the bounty.

  6. I did a search ... on 'In the Knowledge Economy, We Need a Netflix of Education' (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    ... for on-line education. This:

    https://www.mooc-list.com/

    came up near the top of the list. I'm sure there are other resources.

  7. Re:i visited xhamster once on The XHamster Wikipedia Page Is Suddenly Immensely Popular, and No One Knows Why (theoutline.com) · · Score: 0

    You've got to look under "duct-tape".

  8. Re:If you use a family-friendly search engine on The XHamster Wikipedia Page Is Suddenly Immensely Popular, and No One Knows Why (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    family-friendly or filtered search engine like DuckDuckGo

    Hmm. DuckDuckGo puts the Wikipedia entry way down near the bottom of the first page (in addition to the Wikipedia frame on the right). Google puts it at around #4. Both search engines return the web site URL first.

  9. Re:Trump Bashing Bonanza, No news at 11... on Afghan Girl Roboticists Denied US Visas (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    You might want to ask the State Department

    Who appointed Rex Tillerson?

  10. Re:Trump Bashing Bonanza, No news at 11... on Afghan Girl Roboticists Denied US Visas (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    yet somehow this is Trumps fault?

    It's his administration.

    Whatever happened to "The buck stops here"?

  11. If you want an email you own, register a domain and use that.

    And make sure that you actually control it. Some domain hosting companies will offer to 'manage' the domain for you. Which gives them the ability to withdraw it and sell it to someone else. The original domains were sold off to a squatter, who wanted some outlandish price for them (probably a Microsoft front company).

    Anecdote: A friend of mine owns her own business and set up a domain (her business name) through one of these services. Then Microsoft (MSN) bought them out and announced that all domains of the form ABC.com would become ABC.msn.com.

    I own my own domain. And I'm the administrative and tech contact for it. Back in the late last century, a bunch of us geeks were talking about buying our own names. But I figured mine wasn't available, as it happens to be the name of a company that is (among other things) in the telecommunications business. But it was still available, so now it's mine. I've had one offer from the company to buy it (not interested) but numerous offers by 'third parties' to take over 'management' of my domain (also not interested). I'm pretty sure that these are just attemts to take it over.

  12. Re:What's a kerb? on Texting On the Move Makes You Walk Weird, Study Finds (cnet.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yes. But it's a British curb, so traffic will hit you from the other side when you step off of it.

  13. Re:so what? on Texting On the Move Makes You Walk Weird, Study Finds (cnet.com) · · Score: 2

    couldn't just sit around and surf porn all day

    So now he's walking down the sidewalk surfing porn on his phone.

  14. Re:It's not the bikes... on Hanoi Plan To Ban Motorbikes By 2030 To Combat Pollution (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    making motorbike ownership more expensive

    Until that cost passes the price of a new 4 stroke bike.

  15. Re:It's not the bikes... on Hanoi Plan To Ban Motorbikes By 2030 To Combat Pollution (bbc.com) · · Score: -1

    Except that there are hundreds of thousands of bikes on the road now

    But this is Viet Nam. An authoritarian state. If the government wants to regulate something, they can. With little back-talk from the general population. So if they put a checkpoints at some roadways around Hanoi and confiscate all the 2 cycle bikes they find, there's not much the people can do about it.

    If you wanted the freedom to ride whatever stink-bombs you wanted without government interference, you should have thought more carefully about which side you were fighting for a few decades ago.

  16. Why not ... on Researchers Build American Eels an 'Eelevator' (upi.com) · · Score: 1

    ... a cannon?

  17. Are these mainly ... on Hanoi Plan To Ban Motorbikes By 2030 To Combat Pollution (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    ... 2 cycle engines? Because the simple solution is to phase out two cycle engines and go to 4 cycle. Much less pollution. Acceptable performance (they aren't racing in town I assume) and less noise.

  18. Re:The Canadian Supreme Court disagrees on Forced Arbitration Isn't 'Forced' Because No One Has To Buy Service, Says AT&T (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I was thinking that we (US customers) could sue AT&T in Canadian courts. After all, it's possible to sue foreign entities for committing alleged bad deeds overseas in US courts. And US courts can serve warrants overseas. In Ireland, for example.

    Turnabout is fair play.

  19. You must complete the programming assignment in the allotted time to unlock the classroom door. After that time has expired, the tiger cage will automatically unlock.

    For extra credit, identify the faulty NTP server that the cage lock is using.

  20. You may be in a wheelchair

    Mobility scooter for fatsos (dad will build you a ramp out of the daylight basement).

    drooling on yourself and shitting in your pants while watching cartoons or Matlock marathons.

    Or playing MMORPGs.

    The more things change, the more they remain the same.

  21. Re:Mostly down to the drop in teen births, probabl on Young Men Are Working Less. Some Economists Think It's Because They're Home Playing Video Games. (nytimes.com) · · Score: 2

    There are a lot of single mothers

    Less now than in the past.

    that simply decide to live off the "generosity" of the government

    Our state will hunt you down. If you are a baby daddy and mom decides to live off the dole, they will find you. And you will pay.

  22. Not really. If you are self employed, contracting for a single customer this might be true. But then you are really just an employee (that the IRS hasn't caught up with yet) and your employer just wants to squeeze as much out of you as possible. But if you actually are self employed, with multiple clients, then each one is just paying you for X hours of your time. They have no clue if you are working 80 hour weeks, burning yourself out. Or kicking back, putting in 20 hours and taking a few days off. If you really are a 'genius', people will be willing to buy a fraction of your available output. On the other hand, if you are always willing to take on more work for one client, they might wonder if anyone else is actually buying.

  23. Re:That's nothing! on Colombian Airline Wants To Make Passengers Stand (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    even our very poorest often have it better than many in the 3rd world

    This is a Columbian airline that is considering this.

  24. Re:What about lying? on Colombian Airline Wants To Make Passengers Stand (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    It's been tried. The passengers didn't like it.

  25. Re:Even Windows isn't this bad on 'Severe' Systemd Bug Allowed Remote Code Execution For Two Years (itwire.com) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    They just don't fit that idealized framework.

    So each system service affected was rewritten to fit that framework. For some, the rewrite was done well. For others (systemd-resolved), not so well. And it will be expected that all future tools will be written using this framework and its support libraries, locking everyone in to the systemd way of doing things. So now your tool will not be easily portable to a different *NIX (FreeBSD, OS X, etc.).

    And all the old tools? The ones that were written with startup shell scripts? Where the developers say, "Screw it. We're not rewriting our app to depend on systemd libs. Just write a unit file to launch our shell script." Do you want to see a systemd fanboy have a hissy fit and wet his pants? Just hint that you'll still be using a startup script on his precious gaming machine. In the final analysis, it doesn't really matter that much, since the important tools and apps probably will never be installed on gamers systems anyway. So Linux distros will fork. Systems for serious work. And systemd systems so autists won't have to wait a couple of extra seconds when they start their laptops.