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  1. Re:Because Linux sucks. on Why Aren't People Abandoning Windows For Linux? (slashgear.com) · · Score: 1

    You don't compile on binary Linux distro. You just install and then the installer does its thing and the program is ready. You can get a source distro like Gentoo Linux if you want to learn. Most people can use Debian stable or just some other distro that fits their need.

    Most people also just have phones or smart tablets today. They don't use normal PC's today. Most phones are using Android today and that is a Linux distro in it self.

  2. No infastructre in Hornstrandir on Icelanders Seek To Keep Remote Nordic Peninsula Digital-Free (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Since I am currently living close to this area (not too close). I can inform that this area isn't going to get any service from any service provider in Iceland. The main reason is that this area is unpopulated and there are no plans to bring any 3G or 4G service to it. There isn't even electricity in this area of Iceland since it has been unpopulated for more than 100 years. I don't know what noise this people are making over nothing.

    Coverage map (in Icelandic) for 4G service (all providers) can be found here, https://www.pfs.is/fjarskipti/...
    It shows that there is almost no coverage for 4G in Hornstrandir at the moment. That might change when usage of 4G at 700/800Mhz starts to get more coverage in Iceland (not many transmitters at the moment using this frequency).

    Coverage map (in Icelandic) for 3G service (all providers) can be found here, https://www.pfs.is/fjarskipti/...
    There is better 3G service in Hornstrandir due to use of 900Mhz. But it is isn't even good expect in few select location based on the map (and the map might not be fully correct).

  3. Re:EU Parliament resolutions are non-binding on EU Accepts Resolution Abolishing Planned Obsolescence, Making Devices Easier to Repair (retaildetail.eu) · · Score: 1

    You didn't show any the source for your claim. EU runs on a co-decision or a majority decision when it comes to EU laws. What system is used depends on what type of laws or decisions are being discussed.

    If any EU law is rejected by any of the three legal bodies that are required (EU commission, Council of the European Union, EU Parliament) for an approval of an EU law it cannot enter into force as is the requirement of the EU treaties. This is why it takes such a long time for new EU laws to happen and enter into force.

  4. Re:EU Parliament resolutions are non-binding on EU Accepts Resolution Abolishing Planned Obsolescence, Making Devices Easier to Repair (retaildetail.eu) · · Score: 1

    You are wrong because you claim that EU parliament only has a veto power. EU Parliament has the right according to treaties to approve or deny any legislation that is being worked on by the EU. You are also wrong when you claimed that all EU laws must come from the European Commission. The other body that can issue laws for approval or rejection is Council of the European Union (ministers of the EU member states) based on suggestions by the European Commission.

    This is all explained here.

    https://europa.eu/european-uni...

  5. Re:EU Parliament resolutions are non-binding on EU Accepts Resolution Abolishing Planned Obsolescence, Making Devices Easier to Repair (retaildetail.eu) · · Score: 2, Informative

    This is wrong. All legislation must be approved by the EU parliament before it can have any legal force. European Commission only has power suggest laws to the EU parliament.

    You can read about EU law processes here.

    https://europa.eu/european-uni...
    http://www.europarl.europa.eu/...

    There is also some legislative power in Council of the European Union.

    https://europa.eu/european-uni...

  6. This island is a active volcano. Last eruption happened in 50 BCE according to research (that might change if better research is done in the future). That just means its fire and eruption days are not over. The volcano is just dormant at the moment and how long that is going to last is impossible to know.

    I don't think many people are going to notice if an eruption is going to happen. The Bouvet Island is so remote that nobody is going to notice an eruption on the Island, not even a large eruption since there are no major flight routes passing over the island.

    Volcano related information, https://volcano.si.edu/volcano...

    Since the Bouvet island doesn't contain anything or anyone I don't have anything else to say about it. There is also close to 100% radio silence on the island since next ground based transmitter is far away. The only radio signals that can be detected might be either SW or up in the Ku band (maybe not). I am not sure about C band coverage in this part of the world.

  7. Re:Some context on People Hate Canada's New 'Amber Alert' System (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    This is a sample of helicopter parenting. It is not good for the kid (don't learn how to evaluate risk or to take risk), it is also not good for the parent (never learn to trust their kid).

    There are other effects described here.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
    https://www.psychologytoday.co...
    https://www.psychologytoday.co...

  8. In Europe this is the law on 'How I Went Dark In Australia's Surveillance State For 2 Years' (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    This has been the law in Europe for some time now. The data retention time can be up to 2 years, the laws are different between countries.

  9. Re:Why the hell would anyone want or need this? on Microsoft Announces First Mobile Carriers To Support Always Connected PCs (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2

    The problem is that you tin-foil hat people don't know anything. This mass surveillance network that has been built was not built to spy on you as such. It was built to sell you stuff, a lot of stuff and then some more stuff.

    Sure, NSA get's a cut. But do you know what they found. Home made porn and a whole lot of it. They didn't find any terrorists as they where hoping for. Just people streaming sexual acts over the internet (private and on websites alike). They also found people acting like idiots, but that was filtered out with other background noise.

    If you want a operating system that can work off-line and on-line you need to install one of the BSD. You have the option of FreeBSD, NetBSD or OpenBSD. Offline installation is a option for most parts of the operating system (maybe not GUI parts due to how large they are). I say BSD because Linux distros have become way too dependant on internet connection to be working to do anything today.

  10. No radiation risk on Don't Keep Cellphones Next To Your Body, California Health Department Warns (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    There is no danger from mobile phone electron radiation (it is non-ionising radiation). That document in California is wrong. The biggest risk is a unstable battery resulting in a fire in people pocket. Transmission power from mobile phones is limited to maximum 2W (bad signal areas). In towns and such areas most mobile phones are running on transmission power that is from 0.1mW and up to 0.5mW. General rule is that bad signal means more transmission power.

  11. That's bullshit in Kevin O'Leary on Why 'Shark Tank' Investor Kevin O'Leary Refuses To Spend $2.50 On a Cup of Coffee (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    First of all. This is bullshit that he's claiming. The $2.50 covers the salary of the person making the coffee and everything connected to it (overcharging is always a possibility, but if the market is healthy that should not happen). He is free to make it at home for $0.18 as he does now but the pricing is there for a reason. When he says that he is investing $2.32 that is nonsense. His investments are built on a wealth that his parents established early in 20th century and he inherited once they passed.
     

  12. If people want to get surveillance free networks they have to get a handheld radio (or base station at home) and get a transmitter for it (with range up to ~100 km). The problem today is that no easy way to network together many transmitters over the internet and it requires a licensed frequencies (public channels are off limit for this type of usage). It is possible but last I knew the set-up is both difficult and not necessary a stable one (might require a lot of DIY hardware). Radio to radio communication is always possible over the public channels (licence free), but the problem with that is anyone can listen into any conversation that happens since the frequency band is both analogue and in the clear. There is a frequency allocation for digital channels but I have not seen any handheld radio able to use that frequency. I do not know why that is. There is also no data transmission over this type of frequency as the bandwidth is limited to few kHz.

  13. If you think that (Wycliffe) you are wrong. I know of women that can lift close to 200kg in weight. This is about training and always has been about training. It is easy to claim that women can't do x, y, z, p, d and so on if you don't offer them the training and the chance to do the job they are interested in.

    Life on Earth is brutal and harsh. Nature does not make and distinction between genders when it comes to this. If you want to break it down, nature favours females in other species (e.a snails and such) as they can propagate the species. That is not the simple answer for humans since wide genetics base is needed to keep the species healthy and prevent genetic disease from spreading (this has happened in the U.S in Latter day saint cults).

    The culture in the U.S is a problem, the problem is how it views women and the idea on its role. That idea is from a rubbish myth that was created in the 1950's by some right wingers with a television influence in that time. They managed to create the idea of "perfect family" where women stay at home and the man works. That idea has always been rubbish and has always been myth. It has also never worked.

    Women can do the same thing men can in fields of work, study and culture. Programming and I.T jobs are no different in that regards. Anyone believing something else is believing myths and rubbish.

  14. Why would they waste their time in doing so when Venezuela government did that job perfectly on it's own. The problem here is that the economy of Venezuela was gutter from the inside by its own leader that is now in the process turning him self into a dictator over the country. That was dune by removing private industry that the country needed when the government took it over and handed it over to people that had no idea what they where doing and they still don't know what they are doing when it comes to those companies.

    This is what happened in Zimbabwe in Africa. If you think your inflation is bad now, just wait until it reaches the trillion number levels.

    CIA angle is a propaganda that your own government uses to hide the truth from you. That truth is that the government of Venuzeula are incompetent idiots that have damaged country to such extent that repairing it is going to take the rest of this century and good while into the 22nd century too.

    Days if CIA getting involved into governments of other countries are over (mostly, but completely in South America). It ended when the cold war stopped.

  15. Ten Network can't blame pirates on Movie Piracy Cost Australian Network 'Hundreds of Millions of Dollars' (theaustralian.com.au) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    This former network CEO (I'm not sure about his position in this former company) is wrong. The reason for this is just streaming, just Netflix or something else. Torrent alone is not a factor in this at all. For instance TCM Nordic closed down on 1st June due to drop in viewing and this is not first time that Turner Network close down television stations. They have closed down Silver and Showtime (I think it was) in the Nordic countries (where I live) due to drop in revenue and viewing of those stations (all where subscription cable television only stations, either included in a package or part of an extra channels people where able to buy).

    Television networks are going out of business the same way newspapers did few years ago and nothing is going to change that fact. Blaming it on piracy is stupid and not according to facts or data on this matter.

    None pay-walled article.

    https://torrentfreak.com/pirat...

  16. Re:Continental Europe on Mooted: An Undersea Link From Finland To Estonia · · Score: 1

    Sweden didn't opt-out of the Euro. They agreed to adopt it when they joined. Then they held a second referendum on the Euro and rejected adopting it, that referendum has de-fact no legal meaning. Currently Sweden stays out of the euro by not joining ERM-II as is required for minimal of two years if they want to adopt the euro. Denmark has opt-out clause, they can cancel it with a vote when they want to and adopt the euro quickly after that.

    As for Russia. They are preparing for war with Europe. Russia wants what they don't have. What that is EU and what EU has. Prosperity and riches. Putin wants that.

    He can't have it and is never going to get it.

  17. Re:Except inflation on There Is No "You" In a Parallel Universe · · Score: 1

    Universes expand into them self. Plenty of room there and for all other universes out there. They must have made a error in there math, or the idea is just plain wrong they got.

  18. Re:The Hubble non-Constant? on How Galaxies Are Disappearing From Our Universe · · Score: 1

    As he says (Veritasium) in a comment to his video.

    "Some people have been sending wikipedia references saying parts of this video are wrong, but I think it's wikipedia with the misconceptions. For further reference check out this paper: http://journals.cambridge.org/..."

    I don't know where this misunderstanding has come from.

  19. The article is wrong on How Galaxies Are Disappearing From Our Universe · · Score: 0

    Far as I can tell the article that this slashdot post is wrong. Based on this video that far as I can tell is correct on this type of details.

    http://youtu.be/XBr4GkRnY04

  20. No, I refuse to believe this nonsense on Scientists Say the Future Looks Bleak For Our Bones · · Score: 1

    I refuse to believe this nonsense. Since this type of doom and fear mongering has been going on now for many years now. It never comes true and it never is going to come true. If doom is going to happen, it is going to happen and nothing can be done about it and I am not sure if scientist are going to be the first one to know about or figure out what to do about it once the time comes, if it ever comes to start with. Since the human race has the chance of surviving as a species for the next 500 million years (with minor evolutionary changes in the process).

  21. Not yet. I doubt Russia is going to make such claims until it has military capability that is greater than the one U.S has. Not even the Soviet Union did regard Alaska as an issue or the fact it used to belong to Russia (pre-Soviet Union). Russia today under Putin is dangerous country and its media is full of lies and deceptions.

    As for list of Russia land grabs. It seems we have our next target. That is Kazakhstan.

    http://www.theguardian.com/wor...

    While Daily Mail is not the most reliable source, they just might have a point on Russia wanting to take over Belarus too. Even if they are now "allies", or so the dictator of Belarus believes at the moment.

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...

    Putin is not out to build new Soviet Union. He is out to expand Russia and that is a totally different matter. He has already had some success doing to with his less economic able neighbour countries.

  22. Well, you claim to know your history. Yet, somehow you didn't know this. Your argument is not looking any better. Mod my comment as "-1 Troll" does not change that fact.

  23. Re:Sigh... on Invasion of Ukraine Continues As Russia Begins Nuclear Weapons Sabre Rattling · · Score: 0, Troll

    U.S did buy Alaska from Russia in the 1910's.

    You really should know your history better if you are from the U.S.

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

  24. Can you please tell me about a place that U.S has annexed a part of other country into it self?

    If you cannot, then you are misguided in your effort to justify the invasion and occupation of Crimea. I also want to remind you that what Russia has done is against U.N charter.

    What Putin is simple. He is a brutal dictator, what he has not yet done is to show it. The propaganda from Russia is massive, the world channel for that propaganda is RT network. It pumps out misinformation, lies and just pure KGB style propaganda all days and not only in English but also in several other languages. Other good example of this is ITAR-TASS. Here is the latest news. I don't have to tell you that this is total bullshit "news".

    http://en.itar-tass.com/russia...

    People in Russia have in general no idea what is going on. Internet coverage is not that good as in Europe or U.S. They also have to deal with censored internet today inside Russia. Washington Post sums this up nicely.

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/...

    There is a lot of people in Europe and U.S that accept Russia propaganda as the truth. There is just one problem with it, it's all lies and deception.

  25. Re:Wait.... what? on Ukraine Asks Zuckerberg to Discipline Kremlin Facebook Bots · · Score: 3, Informative

    That "separatist movement" was paid for by Putin and his allies. Mind you there are huge resources in eastern Ukraine that Putin needs if he wants to go into war with rest of Europe as he is clearly planning to do. I also want to remind you that Russia has already annexed Crimea from Ukraine in the most illegal way found.

    Kosovo is a completely different matter.