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  1. cost of the house?!? on California Becomes First State To Mandate Solar on New Homes (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Think cost of the GRID. It's going to take a hell of an energy transport, storage and switching infrastructure to keep that stable.

  2. Re:Call me when the last memory of WW2 finally pas on The Last Known Person Born in the 19th Century Dies in Japan at 117 (kottke.org) · · Score: 1

    Remembering the Armenian one is politically inconvenient because referring to it as one offends the Turks, and the dictator currently securing his position there is a convenient 'friend' so we'll just keep our mouths shut.

    The Darfur one we'll occasionally mention as Sudan isn't a 'friend' directly, but Sudan's far away and hey, they're useful to China and Russia both. We don't really want to piss those off so we'll just ignore it and hope people will stop mentioning it.

  3. Re: Are you even Swedish? on Spotify Executive Chris Bevington Dies In Stockholm Attack (variety.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It didn't happen when the caliphate had vast standing armies because we had vast standing armies of our own. It's not called the Battle of Vienna because everyone got together and talked about their feelings and sang kumbaya.

    What you're saying about asylum is how it's SUPPOSED to work, not how it's working NOW. Which wouldn't be a problem if the EU was actually trying to fix the situation, but they seem to be as dangerously naieve as you are being.

  4. Re:obviously on 180 Artists, Labels Including Taylor Swift Take On YouTube, Join Copyright Plea (cnn.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    What needs to be done is the removal of all the content and accounts of the artists on that list from YouTube, because they obviously don't want to be on there... That will make them happy, right? RIGHT?

  5. So upgrade your tinfoil hat to a hardhat when at a concert or in some other crowd someone may want to film, because there's going to be a good risk of untrained idiots flying 2 kilos of weight around. Likely high enough that it's going to really, really hurt when it falls down and you're under it.

  6. Re:GMO itself isn't the problem. Its how its used on Fraud Detected In Science Research That Suggested GMO Crops Were Harmful (nature.com) · · Score: 0

    Yep, so you'll just have to destroy your crop. And buy from Monsanto in the future. So sayeth the judge. I'm not even kidding. I wish I was.

  7. So... on US Takes Out Gang That Used Zeus Malware To Steal Millions · · Score: 0

    Looking at the story on Obama about the 'next Hearthbleed', this is where we can only conclude that the US government is taking out the competition...

  8. Re:understandable on Science Museum Declines To Show Climate Change Film · · Score: 2

    Not particularly. The cost of natural disasters as a percentage of global production is remarkably stable. We're mostly taking notice more because increased populations means the absolute number of people getting hit at once goes up, which makes for great television.

  9. Re:Hypocritical on Imagining the Post-Antibiotic Future · · Score: 1

    No it's bloody well NOT dependent on continued application. The yield loss is small enough that it's perfectly manageable if implemented sanely. Sweden decided to curtail antibiotic use over a decade ago.

  10. Re:Broken Arrow. on USAF Almost Nuked North Carolina In 1961 – Declassified Document · · Score: 1

    They used a nuke ;-)

  11. Re:A rare outburst of common sense from the EU on No "Right To Be Forgotten," Says EU Advocate General · · Score: 1

    No. I'm pretty sure being a happy Europhile would require quite a few more things. Just minor ones, really, like stopping the complete waste of money that is the monthly transfer to Strassbourg, the rampant corruption, the GENERAL waste of money, curbing their drive to make large numbers of rules on just about any subject... Maybe even toning down on shouting how good a job they're doing while everyone can see the results of said job, and not liking those results at all.

    Though it might be that easy to be a happy europhile if you don't have to, you know, LIVE there.

  12. Re:What is a publisher even for? on MS To Indie Devs: You Have a To Have a Publisher · · Score: 2

    Theoretically, QA as well as a large distribution network (which one no longer truly NEEDS for indie titles due to a nifty invention called the Internet ).

    Of course, much like Microsoft themselves, the publisher wants their cut...

  13. Re:USoE on EU Countries Closer To Mandatory Minimum Sentence Cap For Hacking · · Score: 1

    Living in the Netherlands, I did see the sheer idiocy of propaganda the last time they were willing to let us say anything about the EU. Whenever said EU is trying to increase its power - again - we're blitzed with a wide variety of warnings that if we don't do this, the sky will fall on us (or whatever the economic or political equivalent is at the time).

    We could make it work so the bombs don't start flying again by NOT trying the exact same thing that has set it off every time before, namely trying to unite Europe under one rule. Though I suppose the bit where making that one rule a Common Enemy to everyone living in Europe is a new approach.

  14. Living in the Netherlands... on Dutch Bill Seeks To Give Law Enforcement Hacking Powers · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Sadly, I have to admit he IS just that stupid.

    He's been busy trying to kill privacy while turning a dozen bureaucratic police corpses into a single grand paper mill with vast investigative powers and near-zero investigative ability. Percentage of crimes solved is historically low. Priority appears to be crimes that aren't (example: 440 man DAYS burned on a single 4Chan message of a schoolkid threatening to set his school on fire), as well as traffic violations (effectively turning the police into an extended tax collection agency).

    Sadly, he's not going anywhere until the next elections.

  15. Re:actual challenge this year on The Underhanded C Contest Is Back · · Score: 2, Insightful

    This is an obviously needed utility for C programmer community, in order to gain some "friends" on ????book.

    You don't have many friends, do you. :-)

  16. Re:I see no reason to comply, unless ... on Give Us Your Personal Data Or Pay Full Fare · · Score: 1

    I'm Commander Shepard, and this is my favorite store on the Citadel...

  17. Re:WHAT ?? on Fly Me To Which Moon? · · Score: 2, Funny

    You know, it's that rather narrow view of life that has me convinced that we're not going to know we've discovered life until it declares war on us.

  18. Re:Management kills another project on Leaked Star Wars Battlefront III Footage · · Score: 2, Interesting

    ... You know, given what "under administration" MEANS (think Chapter 11 if you're American) making money WOULD HAVE BEEN important :)

  19. Re:Prosecute the parents on 6-Year-Old Says Grand Theft Auto Taught Him To Drive · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    In how many of the cases does someone getting shot count as accidental, anyway? I suspect the number of deaths caused by cars INTENTIONALLY is a lot lower than the number of deaths by gun.

  20. Re:I shall name my first child Renata Pronk on Octopuses Have No Personalities and Enjoy HDTV · · Score: 1

    Oh come on, the Depression started like half a year ago. Even my grandmother isn't that bad :)

  21. Given what there was before... on Intel Boosts Optical Communication Speeds · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I'd say the real news here is "tenth of the price". The 4 times the previous speed improvement is nice, mind you, but it's the price drop that means it's likely to find it's way to consumer-level stuff eventually.

    Also interesting is DARPA being involved (again) which seems to happen more often than our patenting overlords would like us to know.

  22. Re:Marketshare ? on Logitech Makes 1 Billionth Mouse · · Score: 1

    Easy, they're breeding like mice! :)

    *ducks*

  23. Re:average speed of 180mph!! on Rocketman Crosses Colorado Gorge · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Google says you got it wrong too.

    Silly Americans, switch to metric already :D

  24. Re:Four keyboards and four mice? on PCGA To "Take Up the Challenge of Piracy" · · Score: 1

    Which actually SUPPORTS my dumbed down point since social games have to be easily understood. The gamepad simply can't handle anything beyond imprecise movement and twitch gaming. Even Sudoku would be a pain to play with a gamepad.

  25. Re:consoles are the key on PCGA To "Take Up the Challenge of Piracy" · · Score: 1

    Because console games are dumbed down to fit "no keyboard and mouse". It's impossible to control a game with the complexity of, say, Master of Orion. Just because some people are incapable of the mental processing required to do more than basic FPS doesn't mean we all suffer from the same lack of brains.