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  1. Re:the miserly calculus of marginal cost on Wind Power Is Now The Cheapest Energy In India (bloombergquint.com) · · Score: 1

    By the way, the correct measure is delivered wattage, after subtracting out transmission loss. How much is your transmission loss?
    The transmission loss is the same as for: coal, nuclear, water, solar, biogas etc.
    So why do you care? And in a typical grid it is 5% - 7% of the transported energy ... you could have googled that.

  2. Re:reCAPTCHA has been fucking broken for WEEKS on 'Username or Password is Incorrect' Security Defense is a Weak Practice (hackernoon.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually I have no idea what those captcha guys are doing ... (doing wrong? doing right?).
    But roughly 50% of my picture based captcha responses are considered wrong, no idea why.

  3. Re:IT Security Theater on 'Username or Password is Incorrect' Security Defense is a Weak Practice (hackernoon.com) · · Score: 1

    Reminds me about a root password I once saw: "geh heim" (note the space, which means, go home), which is a 'variation' of "geheim", which means secret.
    So the password was secret ;)

  4. As the password should be hashed and salted, likely no.
    On the other hand, you probably would querry for the user and retrive everything that is relevant, which would include the salted, hashed passwd.

  5. Re:Socialism is an easy fix for cases like this. on US Drugmaker Raises Price of Vitamins By More Than 800% (ft.com) · · Score: 1

    Vitamins are not invented and I doubt anyone ever had a patent on one of them. No idea what you want to tell me.
    I'm drinking Caipirinha right now, contains all vitamins from A, B*, C, D, K ... no one has a patent on them.

    So, with your idiotic rant about socialism (which you seam to mix up with comunism) you want to claim that the US government is socialistic because it grants monopolies in terms of patents and trade marks?
    You are confusing me ...

  6. Re:Vitamin stability on US Drugmaker Raises Price of Vitamins By More Than 800% (ft.com) · · Score: 1

    I did nt say salt is a vitamin.
    But I said the same as you: stored in stable environments vitamins don't degrade. Thanks for supporting my stand point.

  7. Re:Surprise! Companies are in it for profit! on US Drugmaker Raises Price of Vitamins By More Than 800% (ft.com) · · Score: 1

    No idea about UK, but in France and Germany every insurrance pays the same for the same medical.
    Why would they not? As soon as it became public that ine is paying less, the government (or the relevant regulation authority) would demand the same lowered price for everyone.

  8. Re:68 Fahrenheit? on Faced With Rising Temperatures, People May Seek Asylum (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    No, I'm european.
    An american would never be as arrogant as I am, he simply would assume that every country outside is a 3rd world country and uses Farenheit as well.

  9. Re:I just want the names to make sense. on Slashdot Asks: Should Tech Companies End the One-Year Software Update Cycle? · · Score: 1

    Te name of my OS is no where mentioned in the GUI, or more correctly: I never saw it the last 13 years.

  10. Re:Formulations differ on US Drugmaker Raises Price of Vitamins By More Than 800% (ft.com) · · Score: 1

    However for the discussion here it is completely irrelevant.

  11. Re:Production costs nothing ... on US Drugmaker Raises Price of Vitamins By More Than 800% (ft.com) · · Score: 0

    Everybody can eat an apple a day and on top of that drink some orange juice or a glass of milk.
    Problem solved.
    Read a book about food and stop writing such nonsense.
    What has "cooking your self" to do with earing a salad once a weak or having a small salad before every warm dish?

  12. Re:Plenty of cold in Russia on Faced With Rising Temperatures, People May Seek Asylum (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    In case if Syria, the reason is: war.
    And the reason of that war is the failed US politics in Iraq and the resulting ISIS.
    Plus: civil war in Syria as the population revolted partly against Sadadt.

  13. Re:Plenty of cold in Russia on Faced With Rising Temperatures, People May Seek Asylum (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Sineria is very big.
    So in the south you can frow crops.
    In the north not so much.

    As a Syrian I never would go into Siberia/Russia, as the Russians are the assholes behind Putin and Sadat.

  14. Re:68 Fahrenheit? on Faced With Rising Temperatures, People May Seek Asylum (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, while you are right, you can safely assume everyone in the world knows that 100F is body temperature ... so 68F is significantly below that.
    Who cares if that is 19, 20 or 21 C

  15. Re:Suspicious reasoning on Faced With Rising Temperatures, People May Seek Asylum (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    And, how is that supposed to work?
    https://en.wikipedia.org/w/ind...

  16. Re:Bangladesh crop yields up, not down on Faced With Rising Temperatures, People May Seek Asylum (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Flooding because of warmer climate?
    Or simple flooding as Bangladesh is experiencing floods quite regularily?
    Looking at potatoes does not really make sense in Bangladesh either ... why don't you look on a map where it is, then you easily should be able to guess their main staple food.

  17. Re:They're illegal aliens, not "refugees". on Faced With Rising Temperatures, People May Seek Asylum (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Your point two is plain wrong and one arguable as well.
    And the guys who modded you up are idiots.

    If YOU would flee from your own country, would marry have kids, learn the language and have a satisfying job: why the funk would you want to go "home"?

    You have a new home then ... where ever you are.

  18. Re:I just want the names to make sense. on Slashdot Asks: Should Tech Companies End the One-Year Software Update Cycle? · · Score: 1

    I'm on Mac OS X 10.9.5.
    Do you know its retarded name?

    I don't ...

    After a 8 years Mac break my first new Mac was a 17" running Panther (10.4), bought 2004 ... that is the only thing I know about the retarded names of Mac OS X and now macOS.

    If you follow the "about this Mac" menu: it does not even tell you the name of the OS you are running.

    If you really need/want "retarded names" then use some that have an order, like planet names, or chemical elements or can be ordered alphabetically.

    Or the names of the months in Maya language ... at least you can learn something by that.

    I'm tired to google my own OS's name ...

  19. Re:Who was Haven written by? on Snowden's New App Haven Uses Your Smartphone To Physically Guard Your Laptop (theintercept.com) · · Score: 1

    Because:
    1) he did not steal the data
    2) he published it, and that is his crime
    3) he is concerned about your privacy and gives you a tool to protect/warn you from/about NSA and other guys putting surveillance devices into your room

  20. I doubt anyone in the "open source community" ever analyzed an piece of open source and combed over the source code.

    I don't even compile stuff myself, but download the binaries.

    The last thing I cloned from github was the source code of the groovy language. Close to 270k files ... who will ever review them?

  21. Re:Sounds like people need to educate themselves on US Drugmaker Raises Price of Vitamins By More Than 800% (ft.com) · · Score: 1

    Generics are the exact same as the originals.
    Otherwise they would not get aprovales.

    the generic formulations are often far off the claimed dose
    How should that be possible? Hm? You sell drug A with Xmg amount of chemical Y ... in a lab you can not even figure the difference between the original and the generic, unless one of them adds some trace amounts of marker material.

    How brain washed are you to believe such nonsense?

  22. Re:Surprise! Companies are in it for profit! on US Drugmaker Raises Price of Vitamins By More Than 800% (ft.com) · · Score: 0

    Sorry for your loss.
    However your math is afoul.
    The price is not cheaper because of insurance.
    The rest of the price is payed by the insurance
    The price is the exact same. And the company earns the exact same.

  23. Re:How about... eat healthy on US Drugmaker Raises Price of Vitamins By More Than 800% (ft.com) · · Score: 0

    Vitamins have no effect on cholesterol at all.
    How do you come to that idiotic idea?

  24. Re:Exactly? on US Drugmaker Raises Price of Vitamins By More Than 800% (ft.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    Most vitamins don'r degrade at all.
    Why would they?
    Relatively constant temperature, dry, no light. How do you guys think stuff can "degrade" in such conditions?

    Kid: "Hey mom! Look at this! This Himalaya salt has a 'best consume before 2022' date! It must be really good!"
    Mom: "yeah, we are so lucky! They dug out this perfect fine salt just last year, after it spent millions of years there! Just before the expiring date!"

  25. Re:niacin types and doses on US Drugmaker Raises Price of Vitamins By More Than 800% (ft.com) · · Score: 1

    Sorry,
    there is no vitamin where the body needs 3000mg of intake per day.
    "mg" stands for "milli gram" ... thousands part of a gram.
    3000mg would be 3gram
    That is an insane high amount for a normal mortal.