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  1. Re:Prices on Germany To Phase Out Coal Use By 2038, Says Report (abs-cbn.com) · · Score: 1

    German exports and power users will have to pay the cost or pass the costs on.
    The more Germany pay for its own power, the more it will cost to buy German products.
    Not a good path to jobs and profits when all the money has to go on the cost of power.

  2. Re:Three card monte with public money on Germany To Phase Out Coal Use By 2038, Says Report (abs-cbn.com) · · Score: 1

    Re "Pumped hydro does not produce power.".
    When the water flows back down from the dam power is produced.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
    ie the "stored water is released through turbines to produce electric power" part.

  3. Re:So much venom on The Apple Mac Turns 35 Years Old (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Other computers had great "square wave generator" working at that time...
    Color too.

  4. Re:Couldn't that money be better spent on Germany To Phase Out Coal Use By 2038, Says Report (abs-cbn.com) · · Score: 1

    Germany has to be sure of the "West" German workers that did the reactor welds.
    Test done every year past 25 years?
    30 years?
    Not many nations had the skills needed to do reactor pressure vessel welding.

  5. Re:What will they do when subsidies run out on Germany To Phase Out Coal Use By 2038, Says Report (abs-cbn.com) · · Score: 1

    Re Energy prices in producing anything in Germany are completely irrelevant.
    Except for the people who have to save up and spend their currency to buy more expensive German goods and services.
    All that cost of wind and solar power is making German exports cost more.
    Germany exporters have to pay "money" for the energy they use every night and day to run their production lines.
    A cost that is passed on with the "cost" of the product that is sold.

  6. Re:Where's my new Mac Pro full-size workstation? on The Apple Mac Turns 35 Years Old (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    The faster iMac and an external GPU was the limit to innovation.

  7. Re:35 years, and not much has changed on The Apple Mac Turns 35 Years Old (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    External GPU.

  8. AC 'and make more dangerous decisions to avoid being detected / searched. "
    Criminals doing their decades of "crime" in inner city areas not stop crime and bring back investment and jobs.

    Re "because having less police do the work and moving it all to machines is the answer huh?"

    A city can only afford so many police every decade and to cover their pensions.
    Thats a set number of police in a city to cover all requests for help and all results of CCTV.
    Detecting inner city crime using CCTV allows the same number of police to work a lot better at catching criminals and illegal migrants.
    A reduction in inner city crime will free up city tax collection and spending.
    A city can then focus on transport, housing, roads, new methods of transport, parks, tourism, working to attract more private sector jobs.
    Stop the inner city crime and a city becomes a great place to live and invest in again.
    Advanced CCTV to detect faces, voice prints, the tracking of all transport entering a city, smart phone tracking will detect criminal patterns.
    Crime is not longer a way of life for decades in an inner city thanks to advances in tech and much better policing.

  9. Re:So much venom on The Apple Mac Turns 35 Years Old (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    That was the real business change needed.
    Networking, sound, color all got held back.
    The set computer design was great for profits per computer sold.

  10. Re:Rent, workers on Party Is Over For Dirt-Cheap Solar Panels, Says China Executive (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Every new power generation project will be considered as a real cost.
    The lowest cost energy project that can power a factory to make exports 24/7 wins Communist party backing.
    A coal, solar project would be considered.
    Coal projects can still win on price so they get given approval. No more just doing solar to show solar is getting used more.

  11. Should have on The Apple Mac Turns 35 Years Old (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 0

    Gone full Apple computer.
    With a faster CPU. Color. GPU. Ethernet. Much better sound.
    Games and networked business software.
    The set Macintosh cost and sound, graphics, speed, lack of networking held computing design back for years.

  12. Re:So much venom on The Apple Mac Turns 35 Years Old (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Did not have much sound ability or ethernet.

  13. Re:Is this face recognition? on Amazon Is Pushing Facial Recognition Tech That a Study Says Could Be Biased (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    The idea is to get every face of every passenger and driver linked to their smart phone and method of transport when moving around any US city.
    Move into any larger US city using any establish method of transport and that new face is detected.
    That detects all criminals and illegal migrants expecting their fake ID to work.

    Inner city crime can then be detected and tracked over time.
    Prediction then sets in as average criminals that move in the parts of the inner city have always expect to be as safe. As in past decades and generations.
    A change to criminal methods that have always worked in some city areas becomes a risk.
    Maps, GUI, police in the area can alter their methods to changes in real time CCTV detected criminal movements.
    How long it takes for police to respond given traditional patrol times and set numbers of police in an inner city area becomes more dynamic and very unexpected to criminals.
    CCTV and the real time detection of criminals and illegal migrants can offer a real time and rapid change to expected police movements.

    Police corruption is reduced as they are also tracked :)
    No responding, slow to respond? Th GUI detects and plots every reported crime. Police been seen with criminals? Corruption can be detected federally and by city police well outside inner city areas.

    A city may not be able to pay for a lot more police.
    The ability to enforce city laws and pre position police in much better ways using vast new real time CCTV datasets.
    Full gentrification sets in.

  14. The fix for that is to invest in better quality equipment that works all over the USA.
    Its not a math, design, computer problem. Its a global data set problem.
    Keep working on the design until it works as expected on all average passengers, drivers around the USA.
    The demographics of a city should be easy to understand. Find nations with the same average demographics and see what their best CCTV detection rate is?
    Other advanced nations have the same count of people to track with CCTV and passports/national ID cards everyday.
    Bring all the working CCTV code back to the USA and every advanced nations police detection math can be added to US math.
    Slowly the detection rate will go way up and less police will be needed to respond to data sets that did not match.

    Jobs, math, cooperation, more police work and more police over time, criminals and illegal migrants detected.
    City crime rates go down and investment returns. Illegal migrants get found.
    Nations that gave the US their demographic math/code get a huge return as the USA exports back their great new police CCTV products.
    Faster computer networks, better detection of every face.
    Export jobs in the USA with new advanced CCTV systems for global use.
    More winning.

  15. Then over time the police networks will be improved. Police do not have enough staff to get that amount of wrong matched faces.
    To drive out and stop every wrong "matched" face is another urgent call to the police at the same that has to be held back.

    How to fix that?
    Buy better equipment that works and gets better results all over the USA.
    Criminals and illegal migrants in inner city areas get caught/tracked when driving, as a passenger.
    Along with any real time smart phone in use, any criminals in contact with them. Voice prints for city/state use would be the next gen upgrade.
    Police get to track criminals as they move around their city, all around the USA.

    The problem is not with the math, policing, the dataset. A criminal already has their data in the system.
    Better detection will find the criminals, illegal migrants.
    Slowly inner city areas see a reduction in crime. Fewer part RV, less waste and trash in streets. Fewer tents.
    Investment and tourism returns. Full gentrification sets in. Rents go up.
    Criminal know that cant just wonder around now safer city areas as they get detected and searched.
    A set number of city police can then enforce city laws. Less non criminals get matched as the tech is improved all over the USA.
    Criminals and illegal migrants find their fake ID no longer work as well as they did for decades.

  16. Re:The economics of running a mission on Pentagon Documents the Military's Growing Domestic Drone Use (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    The US mil had a few options in the past.

    1. An expensive mil jet with cabin pressure and a lot of tracking and detection that cant be detected as its flight path is in one direction and it looks like any normal mil flight. Collect it all over a state, city like over any US global war zone.
    Cost and crew make that a unique mission as to not show who/what was collected on. Police methods cant show the origins of such mil flights in open court.

    2. A smaller aircraft with a lot of the same equipment. More easy to track as they need a regional airport and have to stay in one area to collect it all.
    Cant carry as much equipment and so the needed flight pattern, aircraft upgrades and front company used can be linked back to an investigation.

    3. The FBI style flights that stay up over part of the US city doing usual collection flights as they need to circle for hours to collect it all.
    Easy to detect due to a set repeated flight pattern, airport they start and return to, hours in flight, the law enfacement upgrades register for that aircraft, the way the front company is set up.

    US law enforcement want more of option one. Nobody knows of the flight path, can find any easy to sort/map/front company record of the flights and who was collected on in what part of the USA :)

    Criminal groups can slowly detect such collection flights due the repeated flight times, patterns of the flights, owners, recorded law enfacement upgrades to the aircraft.
    Any new US police drone would still show some domestic ownership, use patterns that can be tracked day to day.
    Nobody should know what a US mil drone flight did.
    Now the idea is to use a mil drone as a drone did flying over a part of the USA in one direction. Collect it all in one pass, just like in a war zone :)
    Low cost and no hours of flight patterns over a part of the USA anyone can detect.

  17. Re:As long as they're not armed, cool. on Pentagon Documents the Military's Growing Domestic Drone Use (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Its not warrantless surveillance by the US mil when a person is been watched by the US mil outside the USA.
    The US mil watches a lot of people globally once they show an interest in the USA and seek a way to enter the USA.
    Some use fake documents, some enter with correct documents and a very fake story. Some just wonder into the USA at random locations as illegal migrants.
    Once the person watched enters the USA illegally as an illegal migrant/with a fake life story that crime is the start of legal US law enforcement.

  18. A lot of voice print, facial recognition and tracking work, wifi and smart phone tracking too.
    Every network is decrypted and the raw product finds its way back to local law enforcement.
    The US mil looks at everyone approaching the USA from another nation.
    Local law enfacement like the "legal" support they get from their Fusion centers (~US mil) about the movements and communications once such people enter the USA.
    Vast datasets to track people from their own nations and all over the USA once they enter/use fake documents in the USA.

  19. Re:Intentions for now. on Germany To Phase Out Coal Use By 2038, Says Report (abs-cbn.com) · · Score: 1

    German exports and production needs 24/7 power at a set low price.
    Changes to power prices every day and night put pressure on the ability to export and keep jobs in Germany.
    Gas plants beed imported gas, a product Germany has to pay for to be imported.
    Subsidized wind and solar that works when the sun is out and wind is blowing don't give that low 24/7 power price needed.

    As new power prices go up in Germany, Germany will have to move well paid jobs to other nations that have low cost power.
    Who wants to import an average product from Germany with a huge energy price to pay Germany for?
    Costs get passed on and people just won't pay extra for German products and services with such extra energy costs.

  20. Re:Three card monte with public money on Germany To Phase Out Coal Use By 2038, Says Report (abs-cbn.com) · · Score: 1

    Pumped hydro is fine but the easy to dam locations already have dams.

  21. Re:What will they do when subsidies run out on Germany To Phase Out Coal Use By 2038, Says Report (abs-cbn.com) · · Score: 1

    The full cost of power generation is then passed onto people who have to buy power in Germany.
    Exports become more expensive.
    A factory has to waste more of its profits on buying energy.
    Thats money lost to investment, upgrades, jobs and production.
    All to pay for virtue signalling power generation.

  22. Re:unpossible! on Germany To Phase Out Coal Use By 2038, Says Report (abs-cbn.com) · · Score: 0

    Until the sun went down and the wind stopped.

  23. Re:Couldn't that money be better spent on Germany To Phase Out Coal Use By 2038, Says Report (abs-cbn.com) · · Score: 1

    The reactors are getting old. Mid to late 1980's projects.

  24. Voice prints.
    Ads. Tracking.

  25. Re:Rent, workers on Party Is Over For Dirt-Cheap Solar Panels, Says China Executive (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    The USA is not China. Coal and solar production have fixed costs in China.
    Coal can still be considered vs a new large solar project.
    China wants the lowest cost of energy 24/7. So no factory has to pay more for energy at any time of the day/night.
    A supported solar project with all its costs still allows coal to be cheaper.
    Communists want low cost power to drive jobs and exports.
    Coal power just keeps the energy going 24/7 at a fixed price.