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  1. Re:In other news... on France To Reduce Reliance On Nuclear Power · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Poland yells at Germany that coal is profitable any more because of all the wind energy surplus in East Germany which has to go somewhere. So I think they will not build more coal plants. If they would replace their only Soviet style plant with newer ones, then that would reduce CO2 massively.

  2. Re:France is a Major Exporter of Electricity on France To Reduce Reliance On Nuclear Power · · Score: 1

    Your statement is true for 2013 http://www.renewablesinternati...
    Even though Germany is also a big energy exporter, especially to France in summer when the nuclear plants cannot be run at peak levels and in winter when all the French use their electric heating. However that changes over they year. Here is a more concise source of information on the subject:

    https://www.energy-charts.de/e...

     

  3. Re: Legislate 50% less consumption? Good fucking l on France To Reduce Reliance On Nuclear Power · · Score: 1

    Was that Clinton thing not consensual?

  4. Re:Legislate 50% less consumption? Good fucking lu on France To Reduce Reliance On Nuclear Power · · Score: 2

    Why are you insulting the French? This reduction is possible. And it is already happening in the EU. As the same laws of physics apply to the US, it would be possible in the US too. It would be even easier because you waste so much more then Europeans. Instead of using SUVs as city vehicle you could use smaller cars. By that you could reduce CO2 emissions in the car sector by 50% or more. And you could insulate your homes which would require less heating in the winter and less cooling in the summer. Ah yes and you could place solar panels on your roof and collectors for electricity and water heating.

    And hey the French will do exactly that (beside the SUV thingy, because they do not use them that much).

  5. Re:What are they going to replace with? on France To Reduce Reliance On Nuclear Power · · Score: 3, Informative

    In Europe, central heating means that you have radiators in every room or underfloor heating or wall heating. And you can regulate it in every room. Central heating means that you have one energy source in the building heating the water for these radiators. Nowadays these systems work with lower temperatures (e.g., 40 C) which is quite efficient. In addition in larger buildings central heating is installed separately in every apartment.

  6. Re: Not downsizing nuclear on France To Reduce Reliance On Nuclear Power · · Score: 2

    Germany is selling electricity to France every year especially through summer.

  7. Re:Puzzling Paper on A Programming Language For Self-Organizing Swarms of Drones · · Score: 1

    Thanks for your polite answer. On the topic of the DSL you created, one question I had was, why not an internal DSL. It would be easier to develop. True internal DSLs do not support special checks as they only can use the host language syntax. But it might be easier to develop and you can add an external DSL later. If you intend to publish on a conference they most likely will ask that question in the review process. Anyway, the topic is definitely interesting.

  8. Puzzling Paper on A Programming Language For Self-Organizing Swarms of Drones · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I wonder, why you constructed that language as an external language, while for the most part it is just C like. And then you did not use flex and bison to construct scanner and parser of the language or any LL parser generator. This makes the whole language developing stuff cumbersome. You did not provide any definition in the paper or your site on the grammar used (I did not find any BNF-like grammar notation). And your semantics are vague. Furthermore, it is not very clever to allow unknown symbols. While lazy loading and other mechanisms are often seen as a convenient thing by programmers (at first), they later have to pay the price and debug like hell. Especially in flying or driving robots, you do not want to have faulty code on the machine. Therefore, you should ensure that all symbols are available with their complete signature.

    BTW: Most people would have developed this with any of the DSL development tools in existence, e.g., flex/bison+emacs (if you are from the 1990s), Xtext, MPS, Spoofax etc. and generated C code which would subsequently compiled to machine code of the specific platform. That would allow to support multiple platforms and you could use the optimization capabilities of the compiler.

  9. Re:Help me here: where does the "new" C14 come fro on Fossil Fuels Are Messing With Carbon Dating · · Score: 1

    You could have googled that in 5 seconds: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  10. Re:Half every 5,730 years? on Fossil Fuels Are Messing With Carbon Dating · · Score: 1

    Hahaha very funny. However, in case that you really believe that. You made two mistakes:
    a) As the amount of C-14 can be measured very precisely, you can measure deviations from it not only in steps of 50%, but by fractions of that.
    b) The universe is at least 13.82 billion years

    And BTW: C-14 can be calibrated by tree core comparison.

  11. Re:What's the point? on LibreOffice Ported To Run On Wayland · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Beside your tone, you also missed the point. X11 is a graphical terminal technology where an application sends UI draw information to a server which renders it into graphic memory which is finally displayed on a screen. All input is collected and transmitted to the application. The server understands a simple protocol based on graphical primitives including fonts. In later years the font feature got extended, but the principle was not violated by that extension. The problem started when people wanted to use 3D and watch videos. Also audio was outside of the scope of X11 and of course printing. The addition of video required direct hardware access to be fast enough (especially in the late 1990s and early 2000s). Therefore, stuff like DRI where realized, which broke with the X11 principle that an application sends drawing information to the server which then does all the graphic stuff.

    I hope that clears things up.

  12. Re:What's the point? on LibreOffice Ported To Run On Wayland · · Score: 1

    correct they broke X by adding features which did not conform to the basic principle of X. They should have started earlier. Anyway, Wayland provides a basic API and on top a new better remote system can be implemented. VNC is not a solution like X. HTML5 is more like that even though nobody is running a browser as desktop engine.

  13. UK Government is run by Elite Jerks on UK Government Proposes 10-Year Copyright Infringement Jail Term · · Score: 1

    Cameron and his group of NHS saboteurs love to dismantle achievements of the area of enlightenment. Therefore, they love austerity and jailing people for nothing.

  14. This is going nowhere on Does Elon Musk's Hyperloop Make More Sense On Mars? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Hyperloop is too expensive on earth and we will not be on Mars for at least 30 years. Before we have two cities on Mars which are that far away that a Hyperloop would be needed to reduce travel time, it will most likely need 100 or more years.

  15. Re: Only IRAN is celebrating on Iran Has Signed a Nuclear Accord · · Score: 1

    Your bomb everyone has not solved one crisis. It made new ones. You are very good at alienating everyone. And Iran is not North Korea. If you do not know the difference start reading.

  16. Re:Only IRAN is celebrating on Iran Has Signed a Nuclear Accord · · Score: 2

    We celebrate too in Europe. And if the US is not ratifying the treaty, we will. So will China and Russia. Are you really willing to ignore such a big opportunity for trade? Well your loss. Of course the controls must be in place and as long as Iran confirm to the regulations trade can go on. If they violate it. The thing is off.

  17. Re:Chrome on New Default: Mozilla Temporarily Disables Flash In Firefox · · Score: 2

    Google is also thinking to remove support for flash from Chrome.

  18. I would sell it on Ask Slashdot: If Public Transport Was Free, Would You Leave Your Car At Home? · · Score: 5, Informative

    If public transport would be free in all of Germany, I would not use this car thing again.

  19. Re: Passwords are not the only way to authenticate on MasterCard To Approve Online Payments Using Your Selfies · · Score: 1

    I would give this +1 if I could. Very good discussion of the subject.

  20. Re:Idiocy. Anyone have facebook photos? on MasterCard To Approve Online Payments Using Your Selfies · · Score: 1

    I doubt that. I doubt that a facial recognition software can differentiate reliably humans and photos (or videos), as a person could be standing still and then you get a false negative (nobody wants that). I also doubt that it is not possible to feed it recorded information which is from the software's point of view also only a video stream.

    Personally, I find a chip + PIN save enough. The your third option is the standard these days (at least in Europe). Maybe they should extend the PIN to 5 or 6 digits. And to prevent future IR scans of the pad, it should be heated to, e.g, 28C.

  21. Re:Stop using "user-ids" as "passwords" on MasterCard To Approve Online Payments Using Your Selfies · · Score: 1

    They get confused about id and authentication all the time. Biometric information is not a secret. Only secrets can be used as token for authentication. It does not necessarily be rotated, but is must be a secret to the rest of the world and only known to the two parties communicating with each other. Rotation is only a subtype of changing. And you only need to change if, and only if, it is no longer a secret or becoming to be known. However, passwords are not the best form of authentication mechanism. As the sender does not know if the receiver is truly the instance you are looking for. Therefore, zero knowledge mechanism can be used.

  22. Re:Idiocy. Anyone have facebook photos? on MasterCard To Approve Online Payments Using Your Selfies · · Score: 1

    It is still stupid, as the software can be cracked or you could cheat the sensor with a photo printout or a photo on another phone.

  23. Re:This it perhaps the first severe accident. NO!` on Volkswagen Factory Worker Killed By a Robot · · Score: 1

    Checked that. I guess they mean it is now a corporate state of Detroit and it does no longer belong to the US. That is why they are not paying taxes.

  24. Re:Good on Struggling University of Phoenix Lays Off 900 · · Score: 1

    State universities are normally funded from a different source and are less dependent on students' money.

  25. Re:No thanks on University Students Made a Working Model Hyperloop · · Score: 2

    It is much better when public transport is run by the city and state. Have a look at many European countries, they have working modern and secure public transport systems.