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  1. Re:negligible power will be used on Bitcoin Could Consume As Much Electricity As Denmark By 2020 (boingboing.net) · · Score: 1

    MW is energy, let's talk power.

    The world's information systems pull 1.5 petawatt-hours of power, and banking and financial systems is one percent of that. Compared to 1.2 terrawatt-hours bitcoin use.

  2. negligible power will be used on Bitcoin Could Consume As Much Electricity As Denmark By 2020 (boingboing.net) · · Score: 2

    compared to the energy draw for computation for everything else, it's not worth worrying about bitcoin cycles. Even the draw for the systems that track traditional currency will completely dwarf it.

  3. Re:Sounds good. on California's $15-an-Hour Minimum Wage May Spur Automation (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Nothing cryptic about a society with fully automated production of everything and no one is employed, income is zero and so the taxes are zero. Such a society only decides on production and distribution, they decide what to build and the machines build it. it's communism minus work and wages.

  4. Re:I never thought I was a type A asshole on Study Says People Who Continually Point Out Typos Are 'Jerks' · · Score: 1

    Hey, that's Mr. Asshole to you, kid!

  5. Re:This /. summary the most carefully proofread ev on Study Says People Who Continually Point Out Typos Are 'Jerks' · · Score: 1

    I shall write a harsh follow-up correspondence pointing out the incorrect use of single rather than double quotation marks in the title, they shall know my righteous wrath.

  6. haven't tried the sshfs but NFS in cygwin is *less* level of effort than on typical enterprise Linux distro like RHEL or SLES

  7. Re:Sounds good. on California's $15-an-Hour Minimum Wage May Spur Automation (computerworld.com) · · Score: 2

    taxes? funding? no I think you are confused on how such a society would be built

  8. so if that's what Ubuntu is doing I can't imaging what functionality would be provided that cygwin doesn't. cygwin is so easy to install too, pick a directory and the packages you want and *bam*. ditto for updating. for situations where I'm stuck on windows it's great to have POSIX shell with all the goodies and great to have xterm

  9. Re:Fuck that for a joke on Confirmed: Microsoft and Canonical Partner To Bring Ubuntu To Windows 10 (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    You'll get the stability and rich bundled utility set of windows, with the privacy and security you've come to expect from Microsoft!

    win-win-win!

    yeah that was sarcasm

  10. nonsense, cygwin is trivial to set up and works wonderfully, have been using that for 20 years. cron and at jobs and all the major scripting languages, ssh/sftp/scp and yes even the X11 xterm works well

  11. eh, been moving my oem Windows into vmware fusion for years so I can run a real OS on my box, and it is "genuine" and activated

  12. Re:How many digits to use - mod parent up on How Many Digits of Pi Does NASA Use? (kottke.org) · · Score: 1

    You are confused. Pi is indeed the ratio of circumference and diameter of a circle as defined in geometry, but they do not occur anywhere in the real universe (as defined in geometry). People are confusing models of reality and geometric definitions with reality. Just as there are no ellipses in the real world (no real orbit is elliptical or circular), no ballistric trajectory is truly parabolic, etc. The shapes are useful for approximately modelling reality however.

  13. Re:Save money on Why BART Is Falling Apart · · Score: 1

    who cares, with thyristors so very cheap compared to salaries for sponges sucking up tax dollars?

  14. Re:Save money on Why BART Is Falling Apart · · Score: 1

    the training and operation of diesel locomotive is far more complicated, my (old) cousin has done both.

  15. Re:Save money on Why BART Is Falling Apart · · Score: 1

    in USA, they are by law "locomotive engineers" and federally licensed upon meeting requirements

  16. Re:Save money on Why BART Is Falling Apart · · Score: 1

    in the United States of America, the federal government calls them "locomotive engineers" and they require a federal license after meeting training and other requirements.

  17. unverified assertion on Preterm Births Linked To Air Pollution Cost Billions In The US (time.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    there are over 500,000 pre-term births in the USA, so 15,000 are due to particulate air pollution eh?

    This little slice from the paper says it all, i.e., their claim is an ass-pull

    Though uncertainty remains about the contribution of specific outdoor
      air pollutants and
    windows of vulnerability, multiple observational studies of prenatal exposure have associated
    among other pollutants with adverse birth
    outcomes, most especially LBW and PTB (Darrow et al. 2009; Kloog et al. 2012; Laurent et al.
    2016), although some studies did not report this association (Johnson et al. 2016). In addition,
    one quasi-experimental study identified reductions in PTB and LBW in association with
    electronic toll collection, which also reduced traffic congestion and vehicle emissions
    .
      Further support for the notion that outdoor air pollution exposure may contribute to adverse
    birth outcomes is provided by laboratory experiments that document oxidant stress, inflammation
    and placental insufficiency as mechanisms by which air pollutants
      can contribute to early
    delivery (Institute of Medicine 2007; USEPA 2013; Woodruff et al. 2009).

  18. Re:Five foot six inch gauge on Why BART Is Falling Apart · · Score: 1

    it is used for diesel pulled trains sure. But the electric metra rail things are mostly standard gauge and the new metra projects soon to come online are standard gauge for obvious reason of easier procurement.

  19. Re:Save money on Why BART Is Falling Apart · · Score: 3, Informative

    no, on an electric train they're called "operators". don't insult railroad engineers that deal with diesel gen-set propulsion units that requires a immense amount of training compared to the very simple systems of commuter EMU.

  20. Re:Save money on Why BART Is Falling Apart · · Score: 2

    math challenged? the thyristors are $1K each. if an operator makes $50K then firing each one nets 50 thyristors.

  21. threatening doom and death to forward an evil (man-hating) agenda?

    looks like you're not grown up enough to realize the similarity

  22. Re: cash dispensing is not the business of banks on Is Old Tech Putting Banks Under Threat Of Extinction? (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 0

    false.

    with a 0% requirement a bank can create any amount of money.

  23. Re:Public TFTP server ? on 600,000 TFTP Servers Can Be Abused For Reflection DDoS Attacks · · Score: 1

    yes there are cisco architectures that boot switches and routers from a central IOS tftp store. I've a few clients that had that.

    funny you brought up their shitty voip phones and the insecure tftp they use that is useless/dangerous on a distributed internet. smarter phone vendors use better protocols

    cisco, living in the past, pandering to morons with disposable income. with their brainwashed cisco cert weenies

  24. also an alarmist showboater, pretty much the same as bin Laden. A terrorist agitator for you SJW minions

  25. Re: It is not a justification for more surveillanc on Terrorist Attack In Brussels Airport and Metro Station: At Least 34 Dead (mirror.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    nah https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    looks like mostly Ireland with some England thrown in (their sworn enemies)

    a local conflict, not like these crazed muslims spreading their evil far and wide