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  1. Solyndra's gimmicky curved design was _less_ efficient but slightly less midday peaky. Proof that nobody in DC passed calculus or at least didn't care about details like a companies basic technology.

  2. Re:Remember kids: Tarrifs and subsidies are evil! on Trump Administration Approves Tariffs of 30 Percent On Imported Solar Panels (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    The Rs and Ds have 'mutually assured destruction' dirt on each other. Have had for decades. Why you saw over the weekend reversals whenever someone like Cheney or Clinton were about to get indicted. It's just about preserving the DNC and RNCs hold on power.

    The mainstream Rs hate Trump even more than the Ds do, but have to pretend.

    Our hope is that the RNC and DNC both dump their dirt on the other. Then we can get started.

  3. Re: Not sure if this is good or not on Trump Administration Approves Tariffs of 30 Percent On Imported Solar Panels (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Transport costs average 1%. Try again.

  4. Re:Dynamic Relational cont. [Re:simple solutions a on The US Drops Out of the Top 10 In Innovation Ranking (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    All the 'static' database tools do what you want. All of them. Most will add the simple row ids for you, even when that's not what you want (e.g. link tables in many to many).

    You appear to be 'doing it wrong'. Design first, not last. If you find yourself changing the data structure mid project, you surely have many other things to change.

    Sure they can have the tool. They just shouldn't expect anybody to come along and fix their messes later.

  5. Re:lot's of manual switches on rail lines still on French Train Engineering Giant Alstom Testing Automated Freight Train (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't give a shit if it's electrified. Freight has one job, get shit somewhere for cheap. America's freight system does that better.

  6. Re:The only downside I see to this ... on An AI-Powered App Has Resulted in an Explosion of Convincing Face-Swap Porn (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Many species of animal pair bond. Humans don't pair bond for life.

    Pretending that there is nothing to that or that it's 100% socially constructed is insane, 'assume your desired answer' type thinking.

    Even gay men get bitchy and jealous.

  7. Re:The only downside I see to this ... on An AI-Powered App Has Resulted in an Explosion of Convincing Face-Swap Porn (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    Choosing to bang your 'wife's best friend' (which is an old English euphemism for your junk BTW. Cite: Python 'Isn't it awfully nice to have a penis...'), of all the women in the world, tells me that you already have 'deeply hurt feelings' and are trying to cause as much pain as possible.

    Her sister on the other hand.

  8. Re:lot's of manual switches on rail lines still on French Train Engineering Giant Alstom Testing Automated Freight Train (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    By any metric you care to pull (cost per kmton etc), America's freight rail system is better than Europe's. In no small part because the entire system is optimized for freight.

  9. Re:Intended use on Tesla Model S Plows Into a Fire Truck While Using Autopilot (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    You underestimate the voltage.

  10. Re:Well... was the driver lying? on Tesla Model S Plows Into a Fire Truck While Using Autopilot (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I predict you're wrong. Again, reconsider this steaming pile of vapor in light of it having come from MS.

  11. Re: USA grads in STEM have little hope of working on The US Drops Out of the Top 10 In Innovation Ranking (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    PhDs in what exactly?

    For many fields, a PhD is just a sign that the persons parents and teachers shielded them from the real world for far too long.

  12. Re: Yep, partly because of U.S. immigration policy on The US Drops Out of the Top 10 In Innovation Ranking (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    If it folded 2 years later, they kept R&D open far too _long_.

  13. Re:Convergence on The US Drops Out of the Top 10 In Innovation Ranking (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Israel lets rich people pay for organs. There have been huge scandals regarding how some of those organs are procured.

  14. Re:simple solutions are best on The US Drops Out of the Top 10 In Innovation Ranking (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Defining what is atomic, what are keys, relationships etc is the schema.

    I don't know what you want beyond what a dozen RAD tools do for you. Sure Rose builds some ugly code, but it does what you ask. Access does what you ask. DBase3 did what you ask.

    The real problem is giving those kinds of tools to people that don't have a clue about database design. Causes problems left and right.

  15. Re: Unless Starcraft strategy is innovative... on The US Drops Out of the Top 10 In Innovation Ranking (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Bosch IS a mega-corp with many unrelated arms. Some of those arms are world class, some just label and market chinese made junk.

  16. Re: Unless Starcraft strategy is innovative... on The US Drops Out of the Top 10 In Innovation Ranking (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Siemens is, more or less, euro GE. Neither is very innovative, more evolutionary, in technology. Working mostly in mature fields.

  17. Re:Unless Starcraft strategy is innovative... on The US Drops Out of the Top 10 In Innovation Ranking (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    What % goes to college now? What % graduates? What were those #s in the 50s-70s?

    Moron.

  18. Re:Such auto pilot is totally useless. on Tesla Model S Plows Into a Fire Truck While Using Autopilot (cnbc.com) · · Score: 2

    I own a 1960 chrysler with one of the very first curse controls. It pushes up from under the gas pedal. You have to keep your foot on it.

    That's a conservative design. WTF happened? Believing your own BS is a trap.

  19. Re:Intended use on Tesla Model S Plows Into a Fire Truck While Using Autopilot (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Driver attention system via a high voltage coil in the seat, just under the drivers crotch.

    They won't take their eyes off the road twice.

  20. Re:Well... was the driver lying? on Tesla Model S Plows Into a Fire Truck While Using Autopilot (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I for one, won't be giving up my car with physical connections between both brake pedal and master cylinder, steering wheel and rack and gas pedal and throttle body. Not until car software is developed to FAA standards. Even then, maybe.

    I'm amazed at the number of /.ers that are buying into vapor being an inevitable success.

    Consider how your reaction would be different if MS was making the software...that's the correct reaction.

  21. Re:Well... was the driver lying? on Tesla Model S Plows Into a Fire Truck While Using Autopilot (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    We should also have tougher license standards for people who want to drive cars with slush boxes. 99% of _terrible_ drivers can't drive stick.

    Make everybody take their driving test in a stick shift.

    And required 'yellow bumpers' until they drive for a year without accident or ticket.

  22. Re: Well... was the driver lying? on Tesla Model S Plows Into a Fire Truck While Using Autopilot (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe it's just lurchy lane changers. But when I'm passing a lane full of stopped/slow cars I like to be going no more than 20-30 mph faster than them.

    For vehicles on the shoulder, I was trained to _not_ buzz right by them at full speed. Move over or slow down. Doubly so when emergency lights are flashing.

  23. Re:Time-to-market is critical on Corporate Cultural Issues Hold Back Secure Software Development (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Unless you have no competitors, you can't get away with shipping windows ME in 2017. Even PackardBell eventually went broke.

    Ask Kaspersky how 'just shipping' worked out for them.

    It's mostly about development tool selection. But it's also developer culture. I do agree there is no SECURE. Certainly no simple secure.

    There is also the cost ratio of bugs found in house vs bugs that make it into the wild and the high cost of retrofitting security.

    It is about tradeoffs, time to market is very important. But not crapping the bed when you get there is also important.

  24. Re:As a San Francisco native... on Apple and Google Are Rerouting Their Employee Buses as Attacks Resume (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    OP is incoherent. Are the people living in SF slaves ot 'corporate slave masters' or were they 'born to into walth'.

    OP is a perfect summary of 'liberal' ethos. Shitbird is 'entitled' to a SF house big enough to raise kids, despite not putting forth any effort.

  25. Re:Time-to-market is critical on Corporate Cultural Issues Hold Back Secure Software Development (betanews.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Ignoring your ego jerking...You assert that time to market doesn't matter?

    The right answer is both security and time to market matter, ignore either and your pretty much guaranteed to fail. Which is a more difficult discussion than just saying 'you're the problem'.

    And of course the rubber hits the road when security breaches happen. Management sees the lack of consequences and manages based on history. Putting a music major in charge of a major corps IT security should reduce the stocks value to zero. That is the bottom line.