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  1. Re:Makes sense. on How Beer Brewed 5,000 Years Ago In China Tastes Today (thestreet.com) · · Score: 1

    Titus Petronius died with 66 ... suicide.
    Gaius Julius Caesar died with 65 ... murdered.

    The idea that people died around 22-25 is idiotic. We have plenty of Neanderthalian graves with remains of people in their 60s or older.

    Why did I bring the two romans as example (could bring a few hundred if you want)? Because they had aqueducts bring fresh water -- untreated -- into the cities and sewers that transported waste water considerably far away.

    The idea that rain water or water from a creek can not be drunken or water from a well in your garden: is idiotic.

    There is a difference between "fresh" water and "contaminated water" ... most clear waters are not contaminated with anything. Half of south Germany is connected to the "Bodensee" (Lake Constance) emergency water supply. That water is not even treated in any way, it is pumped out of the lake in a few hundred meters depths, and thats it.

    My town uses water of the river Rhine. Pumped out of the ground like 100m away from the river bed, it is filtered naturally by the sand, there is no other treatment done as far as I know.

    The idea that "small bear" was used as replacement for water is a myth coming from knight novels ...

  2. No it does not.

    It is simply a harassment of the provider of the App.

    You can not install a key logger on iOS or macOS ... and if you had a key logger you still would need access to stuff like the users name etc. which is stored in the Apps private storage.

    Even with a hackable system like many Android versions it is extremely difficult to capture the credentials of a user using Skype or WhatsApp.

    Probably you have not the history of my posts. So I rephrase:

    WhatsApp started to give a message around mid 2016 on the start up screen that it will stop working at 1st of january 2017 and around 7th indeed it did. Asking to upgrade to the newest version. It does this regularly ... every few month or year the old version simply stops working with the message: you have to upgrade.

    For that there is no "technical" reason but only some obscure business reason ...+
    It is fucking MY decision if I upgrade an App or an OS on MY device. Not the decision of an App manufactor. Get it now? Regardless what he thinks he is doing good for me. I don't use WhatsApp or Skype to do online banking ... so what the fuck should even be the risk if someone gets my credentials? Telling my GF that it is over?

  3. Re:Makes sense. on How Beer Brewed 5,000 Years Ago In China Tastes Today (thestreet.com) · · Score: 1

    Thats a myth.
    Clean water is not difficult to optain.
    And 'unclea' water is not necessarily poisoness.

    Man kind lived millenia without beer and just drank water any other animal was drinking.

  4. Re:Should be obvious on Can We Pollinate Flowers With Tiny Flying Drones? (economist.com) · · Score: 1

    Just because Heinlein said this in a novel does not make it right! Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Over most part of history people were 'relatively rich'. Having their own 'houses' where ever they traveled, living from the land, which they did not need to own.
    Poverty emerged when aristrocaty emerged and started to device people into people 'who have' and 'have nots' and even demanded tribute or taxes from the 'have nots'.
    Still today as populated as the planet is, there is no reason that not everybody is rich ... it is just greed and politics keeping homelss and poor people around, see UBI etc.

  5. Re:Might be easier to fix bees on Can We Pollinate Flowers With Tiny Flying Drones? (economist.com) · · Score: 2

    You can not 'msplice in' a gene causing resistance to a random poison.
    If that was the case we woukd bio engineere ourselves to be resistant to lead or plutonium poisoning etc.

  6. Re:Look behind the curtain on Netflix Geoblocking Loosened Under New EU Law (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    Of course it is 'their rules'. They don't need to agree to the de,and of the content owners, e.g.
    Especially as from their point of view the EU is one country anyway. Hence we now get an EU law pointing out to the streaming serveces: hello you idiots! You are in the EU!!

    The streaming services in Germany arbitrarily block other EU countries, regardless of the owner of the content. E.G. german shows that are 'free' are nevertheless blocked in France, because everything from germany is blocked in France or Spain or Denmark, it is not even based on particular content and associated 'rights owners'

  7. Re:Look behind the curtain on Netflix Geoblocking Loosened Under New EU Law (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    All those examples you bring are for a strnage reasons not members of the EU.

  8. Re:Only 86%? I would have expected it to be 100%+ on 86 Percent of New Power in Europe From Renewable Sources in 2016 (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Sigh ...
    In order to get 5% always fulfilled without storage you would need massively more than that in production
    Of course!!!!
    But we ... as in Germany, or many other countries of Europe, already have that!!!

    To completely convert your base load to wind and solar you either need to be able to store some of the energy or you need to have enough generators that even in the worst conditions
    Wrong again!!
    A load following plant or peak plant or balancing plant is completely capable of producing "base load". Facepalm. Base load is just current, electric power, just like any other plant.

    Modern grids wont have any base load plants any more as they are neither needed nor economical.

    The latter would require you to have far more capacity than would be used on anything like a regular basis.
    No it would not. Why do you think that? Germany already has production capacity of 140% - 150% of its need. Base load is 40% in Germany, 60% in France. We simply could switch off all base load plants and still have enough power. But: then we could not sell power to the rest of Europe.

    "Base load" has absolutely nothing to do with renewable power or storage. Base load is not a magical goal you need to reach. It is only a technical term for power plants that used to run close to max output 24/365 ... and with so much renewables we have right now, we need to shut them down. And so we do. We do not need any fossile or nuclear plants anymore that run 24/365, hence their "base load" is replaced by renewables. Pretty simple if you think about it.

  9. Puppet has its own programming language do describe dependencies and deployments. I think it is Ruby based, not sure so, looked at it once and immediately hated it, it was to ugly.

  10. Re:Weekend? As in fart with, not work with? on GitHub Commits Reveal The Top 'Weekend Programming' Languages (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    When you have a large code base in language X and 3000 (competent) developers working on it: why the hell would you want to switch to a different language?

    Doing new stuff in a different language would be ok, but ditching the old code and rewriting it?

  11. Re:Switch off to protect users on Microsoft Is Disabling Older Versions of Skype For Mac and Windows On March 1 (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, and such a vulnerability has nothing to d with the APP that is running. That is my point. So making the app stop running and say: upgrade to new version, and "new version" only runs on a newer version of the OS helps no one.

    The discussion is pretty pointless as you don't seem to get my point ;D

    But bonus points for using the word "strudel" ... no pun, uh, point, intended ;D!

  12. And what has that all to do with UBI?

    The money you get for free suddenly is no longer valuable for you ... because?

  13. Re:Only the earthworks are visible on Hundreds of Stonehenge-Like Monuments Found In The Amazon Rainforest (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes it is beyond comprehension and I was rather shocked.
    No idea what you mean with "background", she is Armenian, bourn in Turkey, immigrated to Germany with age of 4 or so, made "Abitur" here and studied at an university and went to Paris/France with age of something like 27.
    She will be soon director of one of the most vanguard fashion design schools in Germany, a branch of a school from Paris.
    Not a dumb girl (except for being so dumb to dump me :D ) ... but no clue of normal life "physics" or stuff.

  14. Re:Sorry, but, on Oracle Refuses To Accept Android's 'Fair Use' Verdict, Files Appeal (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Do you live behind the moon or are you just an idiot?
    Android is a Linux kernel. It is already written in C.

    Rewriting it in Assembly would make it unportable to other platforms, there is no point.

  15. Re:Only 86%? I would have expected it to be 100%+ on 86 Percent of New Power in Europe From Renewable Sources in 2016 (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    When I know that 5% of my demand is always fulfilled by renewables I can reduce my base load capacity by 5%.
    No storage needed.

    When do I know that? When I have records of significant long time about my power production with renewables.
    So: there is no problem with storage.

  16. Raise VAT and you lower sales.
    First of all, no one said: raise VAT.
    Secondly, your claim is only true for people living at the poverty limit, because they can only spent $X and if the VAT is increased, more money goes into VAT and they can buy less goods bottom line.

    You do see the patter of your ignorance here?

  17. Re: Java sucks on Oracle Refuses To Accept Android's 'Fair Use' Verdict, Files Appeal (wsj.com) · · Score: 2

    As a kernel, yes.
    As 'systemd' or what ever system to use to initialize services, yes.
    As a 'bash', yes.
    As an 'Apache', yes.
    As an mysql or Oracle data base, yes.

    As the software that actually is making the money for the company running said server, no.

    Commercial big scale 'systems' run on Java, Python and in rare cases even on PHP.
    No one is writing back end software in C or C++, why would they? Productivity is less than 10% of that in Java or Python.

  18. Re:Only the earthworks are visible on Hundreds of Stonehenge-Like Monuments Found In The Amazon Rainforest (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    One of my ex girl friends, not dumb per se, we separated when she was 37, did not even know that the sun rises in the east and is due south at noon and goes down in the west ....

    I looked very long very disbelieving at her when she admitted that. Then she said: no one ever told me. Then I looked at the sky and rolled my eyes.

  19. I doubt there is a better language/platform/eco system for backend systems than Java.
    Anyway, to define better you would need to bring up features and a cost benefit analysis why a certain feature is better than another.
    I don't like Java as a language particular well, but as a platform it is the best thing that happened to the developer world ever. Program in Groovy, or Scala if you can not be bothered to use a modern IDE for Java.

    Your idea that Java has terrible performance on the backend is idiotic ... such claims make certain you have no idea about what you are talking.

  20. We are talking about android devices.
    There is no competing language, platform to Java on Android.

    And in my genre, large scale enterprise software, I had no idea what else to use than Java. The eco system is just to good.

  21. Re:Knowledge about the age of the rainforest is kn on Hundreds of Stonehenge-Like Monuments Found In The Amazon Rainforest (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    Who is the bigger idiot? The one who wrote this
    "... dawn of the bronze age was about 100,000"
    into a history book, or the one who is so dumb to believe it?

  22. Re:Only the earthworks are visible on Hundreds of Stonehenge-Like Monuments Found In The Amazon Rainforest (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    for a discotheque?
    Why not? Probably all participants got a honour batch, or a a cool tattoo?
    Indian tribes in the south americas still have the habit to sent delegations to games and meetings/gatherings, sometimes the whole tribe goes. One reason might be 'mating rituals' as the majourity of the folk traveling with their tribe are in or just beyond puperty.

    When you live in a society where food is abundant you have to find some way to waste your time. Our ancestors or primitive tribes elsewhere, lacked technology. They where not dumb by any means, the average probably was smarter than in our times. We have more knowledge to pick from, but even simple things as the motion of stars/planets elude the average human now. Not even to talk about when and how to plant which fruit ...

  23. Re:Only the earthworks are visible on Hundreds of Stonehenge-Like Monuments Found In The Amazon Rainforest (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    If you read the old Indian Vedas: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/ind...
    you get the impression that in ancient times a war with 'flying saucers', 'beam weapons' and 'nuclear war' heads was fought.
    But why should our ancients not have SF stories already ...

  24. Or making love to/with their lover.

    Or just sleeping into the day next morning.

    Or playing EvE till next downtime, which means sleeping most of the afternoon.

    Or surfing.

    Or ding martial arts ...

    Well, just some things that come to my mind.

    My GF likes to go fishing, though. And I like to read books, probably writing some.

  25. And we've too much history that shows that when you give people stuff for free it loses value to them.
    Any examples?

    Where do you think the money will come from to implement UBI?
    Mostly from VAT. Wow, that was easy.