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  1. 4 watts * 365 * 20 = 29.2 megawatt-hours over the course of its lifetime.

    Your calculations are off by a factor of one thousand.

  2. I know you guys like to have fun with the "universe" but you're effectively about to cause a memory rehash which the system can't handle.

    Just ouf of curiosity ... how long ago was the last backup?

  3. Does walking while you text make you text weird? on Texting On the Move Makes You Walk Weird, Study Finds (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    If so, then don't text and walk. Drive instead.

  4. ... you're self-employed or the owner of the business. Then go ahead and work yourself to exhaustion.

  5. You'll stay exactly where you are if you work ... on Ask Slashdot: Is Logging Long Hours a Recipe For Burnout or the Only Way To Get Ahead? (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    You'll stay exactly where you are if you work long hours, because management will realize that if you are promoted, your successor will be less effective at your former job. They'll consider you "well placed" at your current position and leave it at that.

  6. Anyone who owns one takes it to the range to film his buddies trying to shoot it while everyone else laughs their asses off.

    Until someone arrivers with their .600 N.E. revolver.

    It's not something you shoot often, though. Ammunition is ~$50 a shot and wrist bones take a while to heal.

  7. Re:Just FYI: bullets go thru things on Seeking YouTube Fame, A Teenager Kills Her Boyfriend (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful
    50 BMG will put a hole through a phone book and the concrete wall you propped it up against...

    ... and the car parked behind the concrete wall, and maybe, if you're lucky, it won't penetrate the wall behind the car.

  8. Doesn't require special knowledge. on Contractors Lose Jobs After Hacking CIA's In-House Vending Machines (techrepublic.com) · · Score: 1
    I suppose someone found out about this little trick by accident and then they kept using it.

    A hacker, on the other hand, uses skill and knowledge, usually in creative and unusual ways, to achieve his goal.

  9. Is this what goes for 'hacking' nowadays? on Contractors Lose Jobs After Hacking CIA's In-House Vending Machines (techrepublic.com) · · Score: 1

    Disconnecting the network cable. Really?

  10. Re:Nice work, Mr Musk on New Maglev Elevator Can Travel Horizontally, Vertically, and Diagonally (wired.co.uk) · · Score: 1
    Hopefully soon we will have drone rescue craft that can go up to high windows to save people externally.

    The issue with using rotorcraft is that in case of a fire, the air currents caused by the heat might make flying one near the building impossible.

  11. Re:Nice work, Mr Musk on New Maglev Elevator Can Travel Horizontally, Vertically, and Diagonally (wired.co.uk) · · Score: 4, Interesting
    I can't wait to see the emergency-exit plan for insanely high buildings with no hallways or doors.

    Rocket-powered, parachute-equipped escape pods.

    Never pass up a chance to rocket-power something.

  12. Re:Nice work, Mr Musk on New Maglev Elevator Can Travel Horizontally, Vertically, and Diagonally (wired.co.uk) · · Score: 1
    So why not just walk?

    You're not thinking creatively enough.

    Maybe because there is no hallway to walk. With this kind of elevators, hallways full of doors can be a thing of the past - the elevator just drops you off at your destination.

  13. Ridiculously paltry sum. on Anthem To Pay $115 Million In The Largest Data Breach Settlement Ever (cnet.com) · · Score: 2

    This is not going to hurt, so nothing will change.

  14. It's not a virus! on Cats May Have Been Domesticated Twice (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 4, Informative

    It's not a virus, but a parasite. The fact that it has a "life cycle" comprised of several reproductive stages should be a strong hint. Viruses just get host cells to make more viruses.

  15. Wouldn't this issue be a matter of antitrust laws instead of the FCC regulating things?

  16. Refrigerators are not designed to deal with things that have a few hundred Watts continuous heat output. They are designed to cool things that are not actively producing heat down to about 5-7 degrees Celsius and keep them there using as little energy as possible.

  17. Re:No, because meaningful whitespace on Ask Slashdot: Will Python Become The Dominant Programming Language? · · Score: 1
    If you have programmers working illegible code

    Should be 'writing illegible code'.

  18. Re:No, because meaningful whitespace on Ask Slashdot: Will Python Become The Dominant Programming Language? · · Score: 2
    So, unfortunately, are zillions of easily mismatched, hard to read, bracket pairs.

    Which are definitely a problem of the person who wrote them, not with the programming language. And it can easily be fixed by teaching said person to write human-legible code, which includes much more than just proper placement of brackets.

    If you have programmers working illegible code, then Python won't save you, because there's about a few hundred things that make code illegible that work just fine in Python.

  19. Lego is for kids ... on How Lego Clicked: The Super Brand That Reinvented Itself (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2
    Fischertechnik is for geeks in training.

    Too bad it's been dumbed down compared to 30 years ago. No more circuit or pneumatic diagrams, no more logic gates.

  20. The majority of the rest I would expect will travel on the ESTA visa-waiver programme, which doesn't require a visa.

    The questionnaire for ESTA has grown to such a volume that is is, de facto, a visa vetting process.

  21. Hope you hung-on to your 1990s DSLR and some floppies.

    ... are eight inch floppies okay?

  22. And which country of residence are they referring to?

    All of them, of course.

    Over the last 15 years, I've lived in 4.

    Well, submit them on additional sheets of paper.

    Do I have to list everywhere I holidayed within those countries when I lived there, or only at times I wasn't officially resident in them?

    Oh, there's a special list of countries where even a short visit, without any residency, will reduce your visa-bility score.

    The rules are ridiculous.

    Uh oh.

    You could just about comply with them if you took an annual trip for the 15 years, but those of us with more complicated travel history? Not going to happen!

    Well, compliance is mandatory, so the only thing that's not going to happen is the issuance of your visa.

    15 years of employment history isn't a problem though. As a "30-40 years old senior tech worker" my last 15 years encompasses 5 jobs.

    Well, let's see if there are any interesting companies on that list. No, we don't call it industrial espionage.

  23. Oh my God, how can a nation as USA have such a moron as a president?

    It's called "democratic election".

  24. Re:all hail the sacred economy on Trump Administration Approves Tougher Visa Vetting, Including Social Media Checks (reuters.com) · · Score: 1
    Understand that tourism is often cyclical, and can easily rise and fall.

    Yes, it falls especially fast when tourists feel like they're being treated like crap.P Self-fulfilling prophecy much?

  25. That shows a person has a job,

    An "employment history" is not required to show that a person currently has a job.

    can support themselves while they are in the USA,

    Usually, a statement from a bank is sufficient for that.

    what study they did.

    Oh, and how is that important? That's asking ... just out of curiosity. Lie to the USA and no visa application.

    The trouble starts when the (true) information given by the applicant does not match the (erroneous) alternative channel verification done by the US.

    Real people with any education, a normal work history and a normal life should have no issues with any of the questions.

    On the contrary. People with a half a brain should have issues with a questionnaire that makes visiting Eastern bloc countries back in the 70s and 80s appear totally unintrusive.

    Also: How is this information verified? And if the USA has means for independent verification, why do they need to ask for information they already have?