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  1. There is none other than in a secret service on Ask Slashdot: Moving To an Offshore-Proof Career? · · Score: 1

    Any skill level you can achieve in the US (I assume you are from the US) can also be achieved in any other country. Maybe India and China are not yet up to speed, but it is only a matter of time that they on the same level. Especially, when I look at today's students and their inability to code and to design software. Recently, I learned on an conference that my impression from my little world was shared all over the world. So you might be able to be above average, but from a general perspective for every above average there is one below. So either you are already in a save place because your skills and your capabilities are required or you just average or worse then you will get paid less in future. Maybe you should offshore yourself and follow the jobs.

  2. Re:EADS on German Intelligence Helped NSA Spy On EU Politicians and Companies · · Score: 1

    We are not that poor. Obviously, we can pay our oversight ourselves while other countries rely on the US to pay for the spying on them.

  3. Re:Short memories on German Intelligence Helped NSA Spy On EU Politicians and Companies · · Score: 1

    The Stasi never ever had the same abilities.

  4. Re:Short memories on German Intelligence Helped NSA Spy On EU Politicians and Companies · · Score: 1

    Well, yes, the general public has, but it seems that our new government adopted a lot of those Stasi habits again. Wasn't Merkel an FDJ figure? Maybe she got infected then. Alternatively, the US knows something and she is only a puppet.

  5. Re:It all makes sense on German Intelligence Helped NSA Spy On EU Politicians and Companies · · Score: 2

    Most likely they were doing it.

  6. This is so much cheaper for the US on German Intelligence Helped NSA Spy On EU Politicians and Companies · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Instead of having to spy on the EU themselves, the NSA hires BND to do it for them. Super. Actually, a satire magazine in Germany might have an answer to that why the BND spied on the EU and told the Us its findings. The job of the BND is called Auslandsaufklärung which can be misunderstood as enlighten foreign countries instead of be enlightened about foreign countries. As they have acted dumb before, it is possible that this is the correct solution and they are not a bunch of illegal, uncontrolled traitors. BTW their budget increased in recent years while all others shrunk. The bitter truth is that most likely the present German foreign minister knew about that and so did chancellor Merkel and they will get away with that treason.

  7. Re:Oldest fossils? on 3.46-Billion-Year-Old 'Fossils' Were Not Created By Life Forms · · Score: 1

    No, old does not imply stupid. Look all the stupid racists, classists and chauvinists running around today in various countries.

  8. Re:Wordpress is not a language on Swift Tops List of Most-Loved Languages and Tech · · Score: 1

    The title states languages and tech. This includes platforms, frameworks, libraries etc. And I do not see where the problem is with wordpress if it is used as a blog.

  9. A the new and shiny on Swift Tops List of Most-Loved Languages and Tech · · Score: 1

    Yes, the new and shiny is most popular. How could that happen?

    By the way, it might be interesting to see this "most loved" thing filtered for "full time employee" and "full time freelancer". I assume that then other languages might appear in the list on top. But anyway, the stack overflow statistics are interesting.

  10. Re:Batteries are too expensive on Utilities Battle Homeowners Over Solar Power · · Score: 2

    Not really. At least not in Germany. Certain people around the country have calculated that it is cheaper to store their own electricity then giving it away to the grid, while they have to by electricity during the night. For most such installation, they are now 80% independent. True there are still 20% not covered, but consider you get an guarantee price in Germany as a household for selling "renewable" electricity. So this might be different for other countries. Especially, Germany is pretty far north on the globe, so for most parts of the US there must be more sunlight available throughout the year.

  11. Re:I guess nobody saw the movie on UK Company Wants To Deliver Parcels Through Underground Tunnels · · Score: 2

    Maybe that is where this inspiration comes from. Sadly, they did not get the joke. So they thought it is an idea to implement.

  12. Best idea since sliced bread on UK Company Wants To Deliver Parcels Through Underground Tunnels · · Score: 1

    Yes all these drones flying through the air dropping parcels on peoples heads. That is definitely not the future. The future are small tunnels beneath the cities which transport all the goods to the homes. True it works best in densely populated areas, but who doesn't? And in those remote areas the parcel head problem would be limited. So that is the niche for drones. Tunnels and tubes is definitely the best solution. Look at the movie Brasil. A whole society can thrive on such system. True it is just a dystopian movie, but for ./ that should suffice as solid evidence. Beside digging tunnels is not that expensive.

    Seriously, tunnels? Not again. I had one of those future books from the sixties when I was young (in the 1980s) and they proposed that idea already. So it is not new, but is is flipping expensive. A better solution is a multi model transportation system. For example trams can deliver parcels to certain drop of places. In Dresden (yes that's where those semi-Nazis hang around in Germany), VW uses trams to transport goods between different locations, which they only do because it is more efficient than trucks. So the same can be done with parcels. From there parcels can either be delivered to those parcel robot stations (http://www.paketda.de/dhl/packstation-befuellen.jpg) by unmanned electric vehicles or you use delivery vehicles (smaller than the present ones) for door to door delivery. You could even allow people to tell the service when they are at home. Until then the parcel is stored at the tram parcel drop off station.

  13. Re: How about on Nuclear Fusion Simulator Among Software Picked For US's Summit Supercomputer · · Score: 0

    On the left side of you image, we can see white men murdering most people in Hiroshima with a atom bomb. On the right you can see what happens when white men focus on short term returns of their investment and give a shit on society.

  14. Re:The only thing Google has violated is ... on Google Responds To EU Antitrust Claims In Android Blog Post · · Score: 2

    Your comment is utter rubbish. EU monopoly law is different from that in the US. In the EU we assume that when you have a dominant market position, this already endangers the positive effect of a free market. Therefore, to allow other companies to be able to enter the market, the dominant company must be constraint in a way that it cannot use its size to corner the market. This will allow other companies, such as Microsoft and Yahoo to play a bigger role in that market. BTW: Microsoft was also sued by the EU commission because its dominant position in desktop OSes which they used to push IE. That allowed projects like Firefox, Opera, and Chrome to prosper again.

  15. This will make Android better on Google Responds To EU Antitrust Claims In Android Blog Post · · Score: 1

    Android is widely used today. However, due to its tie in with Google, it hinders technology evolution like Windows did. The EU anti-trust case will certainly force Google to open up which will allow other people and companies to add to Android. It could even be fixed without Google. For example, things like the browser being firmware will then no longer be possible (even though Google recently found out that this is a stupid idea all by themselves).

  16. Re: Stupid question on Can Civilization Reboot Without Fossil Fuels? · · Score: 1

    The article focusses primarily on oil. Therefore, I listed coal. Beside that as an alternative we could burn biomass to some extend.

  17. Re:Without them completely? No on Can Civilization Reboot Without Fossil Fuels? · · Score: 1

    We used animal excrements in different forms as fertilizers. We could do so again. And before we were able to use oil in medicine, we were not without medicine. so it is possible to reach certain technological levels without oil. If we have not a total crash of society (which the article implies) then moving to non oil products can be achieved. Presently, the EU and US are producing more agricultural products than required. There are estimates that it would be easily possible to keep that surplus even when switching to organic methods of production. However, some abandoned acres must be reactivated. in Africa large agricultural areas are not used because people are blowing themselves up or farmers go bankrupt because the West is selling cheap subsidized agricultural products. So depending on the scenario we would be able to replace oil and coal completely. This even works for steel.

  18. Stupid question on Can Civilization Reboot Without Fossil Fuels? · · Score: 1

    Of course can we rebuild society and technology without oil. For starters we began the first time with coal and wood. We could do that again. Second, we would still have some knowledge about the first time. So we can base the second attempt on electricity and use windmills (which we also did in the past). The whole oil thing was not very prominent 150 years ago. And most oil products can also be made out of plant oils.

  19. Re: better idea on UN To Debate Lethal Autonomous Weapons · · Score: 1

    You did not understand what I intended to day. For example, in Pakistan, we should let the Pakistani deal with it. In Yemen we should not support Saudi Arabia which resulted in terrorists being released from prisons. If someone needs to be arrested somewhere for crimes let the locals do that because it is their territory and not ours.

  20. Re:better idea on UN To Debate Lethal Autonomous Weapons · · Score: 1

    First, the causes of WW II are much more complicated than a disarmament or appeasement politics. Second, I am not proposing that. Especially, not unilaterally. The only thing I said was: Stick to the treaty no missile shield in East Europe. That is not a disarmament. Actually, as it has not been deployed yet, it would be just the status quo.

  21. Re: better idea on UN To Debate Lethal Autonomous Weapons · · Score: 1

    Nobody said it is easy. In the end we must find a solution to the war and unrest problem or it will be our undoing. However, I do not have a solution.

  22. Re: better idea on UN To Debate Lethal Autonomous Weapons · · Score: 2

    This is quite obvious. We as in all flipping humans. Including you and the president of China.

  23. Re:better idea on UN To Debate Lethal Autonomous Weapons · · Score: 1

    Great idea. 2000 years ago they nailed someone to a tree for saying that. And I don't think the general attitude has changed that much. For starters, the US (and other countries) should stop using drones to kill people. Especially in other countries. It does not matter that the targeted people are considered terrorists. If so catch them or help those countries to catch them and give them a fair trail.

    Alternatively, we could say to Ukrainians, NATO, EU and Russia to stop the bloody stupidity taking place in Ukraine. And as we are part of the situation really do something for it. For example, no anti missile shield in Eastern Europe powered by USA and NATO. Disclaimer: No, I do not trust the Russians. However, the West violated with that missile shield the post cold war treaty. So we might just be trustworthy ourselves for once. That would be great.

  24. Re:Great, Let's Build IFR's on The Last Time Oceans Got This Acidic This Fast, 96% of Marine Life Went Extinct · · Score: 1

    Your articles only show the following: The USA wants China to develop a thorium reactor. And China may invest $350 million. However, your last article did not show in what time frame.

    After a short inquiry to Google, I found an article about investments of China into renewable energy specifically into wind power. That is not research, as in your last article, that is money for installing new wind turbines.

    http://www.forbes.com/sites/ja...

    In the article you may find

    $473.1 billion on clean energy investments from 2011 to 2015.

    This is 1000 time the money for your nuclear dream.

  25. Re:Great, Let's Build IFR's on The Last Time Oceans Got This Acidic This Fast, 96% of Marine Life Went Extinct · · Score: 1

    While you US boys discuss other reactor types, the Chinese and Europe are moving towards renewable energy quite fast. We invest in cheap and durable storage technology and energy management, as well as in wind and solar power (for example Germany http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R...). When I look at the US, I also see that people and industry are mainly investing in renewable energy (and unfortunately oil) and not in any nuclear stuff. Even though there are reports on /. every now and then about a new concept design for what ever reactor which will be available soon.