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  1. Re:UPS Rings Doorbells? on English Teenager Invents a Better Doorbell · · Score: 1

    Does USPS deliver stuff like that? In Germany we use the former federal post (it got privatized and bought out DHL) all the time as they have a post office in every town and are both cheaper and about as fast as the specialized companies like UPS.

  2. Re:UPS Rings Doorbells? on English Teenager Invents a Better Doorbell · · Score: 1

    You can rig one up by using a SIP based doorbell, just set it to dial your mobile number and you can even unlock the door remotely using DTMF. They're fucking expensive though.

  3. Re:The hackers made it off with on Hackers Attack Nintendo, But Company Claims Data Safe · · Score: 1

    According to today's exchange rate, those amount to 270 bean kingdom coins.

  4. Re:Data is safe because... on Hackers Attack Nintendo, But Company Claims Data Safe · · Score: 1

    Also it's fast. I needed like 1-2 hours to get a 360 connected to the internet and ready to download demos and stuff, the Wii shows you the TOS and lets you into the store. No need to make three different accounts and deal with email verification and whatnot.

  5. Re:Complete and Total Over-reaction on Germany To End Nuclear Power By 2022 · · Score: 1

    That's the fuel itself, what about all the contaminated materials like the cooling water?

  6. Re:Wrong headline on Germany To End Nuclear Power By 2022 · · Score: 1

    The public does not want more nuke plants. What's being built in Germany is renewable energy sources by the dozen. By the time the last nuclear power plants go offline we should have enough of those to completely avoid building fossil fuel plants as a response to the nuclear exit.

  7. Re:so just how many on Germany To End Nuclear Power By 2022 · · Score: 1

    One of the current worries is a 9/11 style terrorist attack on a nuclear powerplant.

  8. Re:Serious question; on Germany To End Nuclear Power By 2022 · · Score: 1

    Which is enough to displace the current nuclear production without building new fossil fuel powered plants.

  9. Re:Serious question; on Germany To End Nuclear Power By 2022 · · Score: 1

    Most likely somebody did and people just didn't pick up on it because it wasn't interesting enough. I saw values for coal that were much lower than for nuclear power in a recent article on the public broadcasting website, no idea where they got those from but they are probably out there to be found if someone actually tried looking for them.

  10. Re:Serious question; on Germany To End Nuclear Power By 2022 · · Score: 1

    It does not matter who's to blame, it matters that the bridge collapses and people die or reactors break and thousands of people have to be evacuated. It does not matter that the plant was built to spec or that the disaster that broke it was at an unprecedented level. It matters that it happened. The unexpected can happen and when it happens we don't want to have entire cities turned uninhabitable. Life is not fair.

  11. Re:By coincidence... on Germany To End Nuclear Power By 2022 · · Score: 1

    I'm not looking forward to the day when the people wake up and realize that the green party program has a lot more to offer that the voters didn't actually want to happen. We're heading that way and it's not going to be pretty.

    Yeah like abolishing the past decade's added anti-terror laws.

  12. Re:By coincidence... on Germany To End Nuclear Power By 2022 · · Score: 1

    RWE has a big incentive for making nuclear look necessary though.

  13. Re:By coincidence... on Germany To End Nuclear Power By 2022 · · Score: 1

    Meh, BBC analysts look at it from the anglo-american perspective which has seen Germany as a failure waiting to happen for a long time. Turns out there are more ways than one to run a successful economy.

  14. Re:By coincidence... on Germany To End Nuclear Power By 2022 · · Score: 1

    That expertise issue works both ways though. We're building up a lot of expertise on building renewable energy power plants.

  15. Re:By coincidence... on Germany To End Nuclear Power By 2022 · · Score: 2

    They had to. The govt parties lost significant amounts of votes because of their stance on nuclear power after Fukushima renewed the anti-nuclear sentiments in Germany (we had those before then but I guess people didn't see them as a primary voting reason). The conservatives lost several state level elections badly since then with most of their votes going to the green party which went from 5-10% to 20+% of the vote.

    The conservatives and liberals are extremely pro-business, they really wanted to see a longer runtime for their friends in those energy corporations but what good is corporate goodwill when you're getting crushed on the ballot.

  16. Re:The Opt-Out Society on Sprint Pushes FPS NOVA With Firmware — and Users Can't Remove It · · Score: 1

    Opt-out would be letting you uninstall the crapware. This is more no-option.

  17. Re:Technical solution? on Sprint Pushes FPS NOVA With Firmware — and Users Can't Remove It · · Score: 1

    I found it pretty bleh, convoluted controls and all. There's a trend with these Gameloft FPSes where when they show up on the Xperia play or the PSP they get terrible scores from Eurogamer as once you remove the control hurdle that may make you think "I just need to get good at this" they're really bland, uninspired games with lame mechanics.

  18. Re:WTF? on Nintendo Pulls Dead Or Alive Over Porn Fears In EU · · Score: 1

    Rendering? Rendering happens in real time with games like that. So they'd be aged at most 16 milliseconds.

  19. Re:WTF? on Nintendo Pulls Dead Or Alive Over Porn Fears In EU · · Score: 1

    AFAIK Dimensions is one of those retellings that include the whole story of the previous games in one new game.

  20. Re:Modern society on Nintendo Pulls Dead Or Alive Over Porn Fears In EU · · Score: 1

    To be fair this is the game series that spawned a spinoff series (Extreme) that was all about dressing women in bikinis and oogling them.

  21. Re:CHILD!? on Nintendo Pulls Dead Or Alive Over Porn Fears In EU · · Score: 1

    They never mentioned the age of those characters in the west, it's only the Japanese instruction manuals that even list their age as 17 AFAIK. In the one manual I've seen they're listed as "???".

  22. Re:OH NOES! on Nintendo Pulls Dead Or Alive Over Porn Fears In EU · · Score: 1

    That's also why you don't see swastikas in games in Germany, they're legal under certain circumstances but nobody wants to take that risk.

  23. Re:The comments are full of hilarity on Patriot Act Extension By Autopen Raises Questions for Congressman · · Score: 1

    At first I thought you meant painting him brown in the ideological sense.

  24. Re:What? on Patriot Act Extension By Autopen Raises Questions for Congressman · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Or a victim of the propaganda of the big telcos and the general corporate propaganda that government is ALWAYS worse than private enterprise.

  25. Re:Microsoft and Skype on Microsoft Kills Skype For Asterisk · · Score: 2

    Asterisk competes with Microsoft's Lync. Most likely they're planning on making Skype only compatible with Lync to add another piece to their web of vendor lock-in.