So your assumption is that, because other websites have changed over the years, slashdot MUST change as well? Even when a large number of users are specifically telling you NOT to change anything?
Making changes solely for the sake of change is not a good thing. There are dozens of famous companies (ford, coca-cola, and microsoft to name a few)
that learned this lesson the hard way
There is DSL in the US, but the existing copper lines are so multiplexed and oversold that DSL speeds max out at about 10 megabit.
The way telecoms in the US are set up, you either put up with whatever crap service the local provider offers you, or you simply go without. You can't just switch to another provider, because there isn't one.
Verizon justifies throttling netflix because they feel netflix somehow owes verizon money for carrying all that data. What Verizon forgets about is that their own customers ALREADY paid for that data, through monthly ISP fees.
This is no different than setting up a toll road, and charging a toll to the cargo trucks for using that road, while at the same time charging the cargo owners a separate fee for the right to to ship cargo via that same road.
Sorry Verizon, you can't sell us the cake and then charge a separate fee to eat it too.
You claim that it will produce less energy that stated in the article. Have you seen the blueprints or something? How are you are in a position to know more about it's capacity than the people who designed it?
They are installing these panels on salt flats. It's not really a waste of space if you can't use the area for anything else.
As for using the "reactor" in space: we don't have to worry about it blowing up (technically, it's already exploding), we don't have to worry about it leaking out into the environment, we don't have spend effort to maintain the reaction in any way, and we don't have to deal with the spent fuel.
Your assumption is that the panels will be edge-to-edge, covering 100% of that 77 sqkm area. Given that the panels need to tilt for efficiency, and you obviously can't tilt a single 77sqkm panel, there has to be some gap between each independently-tiltable set of panels.
Also, industrial-scale solar collection is usually done using focusing mirrors and liquid sodium, not PV panels
I like that you put forth the effort to do the math though
Ok, lasers do technically still follow the laws of gravity, but because light has such little mass compared to it's velocity the gravitational effect doesn't really apply in the kind of scale we are dealing with (20 miles or less)
The most popular application for laser defense currently is to have the laser mounted in an aircraft of some sort, which means that it will be fired horizontal, or even slightly downward.
That is the fundamental difference between liberals and conservatives. Liberals are concerned about meeting the interests of the most people possible, conservatives are only concerned with their own personal interests.
I don't know about Greece, but whoever who allowed Italy into the eurozone should have known that the birthplace of the mafia would be completely corrupt. Italy had so much surplus corruption that they even exported it to the US.
I live in Minneapolis and it is extremely rare to hear cars honking, rare enough that when a car does honk, everyone turns their head to see what all the commotion is about.
The bus drivers like to lay into the horn once in a while, but buses always have right of way so that's acceptable.
So you are saying we MUST accept the entirety of creationism in order to have civil rights?
If you want to blame someone for inequality and racism, I suggest you look within. Start with the Spanish Inquisition and the Crusades.
Since you refer to evolution as "magical" I leave you with this: "Any sufficiently advanced science is indistinguishable from magic". I guess even Charles Darwin, a man born more than a hundred years before you, is still too advanced for your tiny indoctrinated mind.
The lawyer could argue that the case should have been sent back for re-trial, and not simply overturned. The basis of this judge's ruling is that the jury could not have had enough evidence to reach the decision that it did, which is certainly reasonable, however that doesn't mean the "correct" answer is to rule the exact opposite of whatever the jury happened to decide.
If the problem was an ill-informed jury, then the solution is a better-informed one.
I would argue that texting is an essential feature of a phone, because it it has been around for far longer than smartphones, and because it is usually charged as a separate service provided by the cellular carrier.
Facebook would a borderline case, because most people use facebook, and it is technically a communications tool. However, crap like sports apps, or shopping apps, or apps that require a separate subscription to use, are definitely bloatware.
There have been a few websites that I have used in the past which required you to register with them in order to access some part of the site or to access the download area. For sites like this I could see people using weak passwords, because the account has no particular value to them and they don't care if the account gets hacked.
Adobe is a good example of this. Most of those accounts were probably created for a one-time access to free downloads from adobe, and then promptly forgotten about.
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So your assumption is that, because other websites have changed over the years, slashdot MUST change as well? Even when a large number of users are specifically telling you NOT to change anything?
Making changes solely for the sake of change is not a good thing. There are dozens of famous companies (ford, coca-cola, and microsoft to name a few)
that learned this lesson the hard way
You have it backwards, it's the large ISPs that are subsidizing the politicians.
There is DSL in the US, but the existing copper lines are so multiplexed and oversold that DSL speeds max out at about 10 megabit.
The way telecoms in the US are set up, you either put up with whatever crap service the local provider offers you, or you simply go without. You can't just switch to another provider, because there isn't one.
ultimately their competitors will be the ones getting that business
What competitors? Verizon gets away with crap like this specifically because there IS no competition.
Verizon justifies throttling netflix because they feel netflix somehow owes verizon money for carrying all that data.
What Verizon forgets about is that their own customers ALREADY paid for that data, through monthly ISP fees.
This is no different than setting up a toll road, and charging a toll to the cargo trucks for using that road, while at the same time charging the cargo owners a separate fee for the right to to ship cargo via that same road.
Sorry Verizon, you can't sell us the cake and then charge a separate fee to eat it too.
You claim that it will produce less energy that stated in the article. Have you seen the blueprints or something? How are you are in a position to know more about it's capacity than the people who designed it?
They are installing these panels on salt flats. It's not really a waste of space if you can't use the area for anything else.
As for using the "reactor" in space: we don't have to worry about it blowing up (technically, it's already exploding), we don't have to worry about it leaking out into the environment, we don't have spend effort to maintain the reaction in any way, and we don't have to deal with the spent fuel.
Germany is a terrible place for solar. Minnesota gets more sun energy per year than Germany
They have robots for this now:
http://techon.nikkeibp.co.jp/e...
It's basically a Roomba for solar panels
There was a Back to the Future 4?
Your assumption is that the panels will be edge-to-edge, covering 100% of that 77 sqkm area. Given that the panels need to tilt for efficiency, and you obviously can't tilt a single 77sqkm panel, there has to be some gap between each independently-tiltable set of panels.
Also, industrial-scale solar collection is usually done using focusing mirrors and liquid sodium, not PV panels
I like that you put forth the effort to do the math though
How much natural gas is available in India though?
Ok, lasers do technically still follow the laws of gravity, but because light has such little mass compared to it's velocity the gravitational effect doesn't really apply in the kind of scale we are dealing with (20 miles or less)
The most popular application for laser defense currently is to have the laser mounted in an aircraft of some sort, which means that it will be fired horizontal, or even slightly downward.
Bullets fall, lasers don't
If you shoot a gun, even a high powered rifle, it isn't going to blind someone 20 miles away like a laser would
That is the fundamental difference between liberals and conservatives. Liberals are concerned about meeting the interests of the most people possible, conservatives are only concerned with their own personal interests.
What does welfare have to do with corruption? It's not the poor welfare recipients that are bribing the politicians.
I don't know about Greece, but whoever who allowed Italy into the eurozone should have known that the birthplace of the mafia would be completely corrupt. Italy had so much surplus corruption that they even exported it to the US.
There is nothing more dangerous than the perfect enforcement of imperfect laws
I live in Minneapolis and it is extremely rare to hear cars honking, rare enough that when a car does honk, everyone turns their head to see what all the commotion is about.
The bus drivers like to lay into the horn once in a while, but buses always have right of way so that's acceptable.
So you are saying we MUST accept the entirety of creationism in order to have civil rights?
If you want to blame someone for inequality and racism, I suggest you look within. Start with the Spanish Inquisition and the Crusades.
Since you refer to evolution as "magical" I leave you with this: "Any sufficiently advanced science is indistinguishable from magic". I guess even Charles Darwin, a man born more than a hundred years before you, is still too advanced for your tiny indoctrinated mind.
If Christ turns water into wine, does the Anti-Christ turn wine into water?
He turns water into Moonshine
The lawyer could argue that the case should have been sent back for re-trial, and not simply overturned. The basis of this judge's ruling is that the jury could not have had enough evidence to reach the decision that it did, which is certainly reasonable, however that doesn't mean the "correct" answer is to rule the exact opposite of whatever the jury happened to decide.
If the problem was an ill-informed jury, then the solution is a better-informed one.
I would argue that texting is an essential feature of a phone, because it it has been around for far longer than smartphones, and because it is usually charged as a separate service provided by the cellular carrier.
Facebook would a borderline case, because most people use facebook, and it is technically a communications tool. However, crap like sports apps, or shopping apps, or apps that require a separate subscription to use, are definitely bloatware.
There have been a few websites that I have used in the past which required you to register with them in order to access some part of the site or to access the download area. For sites like this I could see people using weak passwords, because the account has no particular value to them and they don't care if the account gets hacked.
Adobe is a good example of this. Most of those accounts were probably created for a one-time access to free downloads from adobe, and then promptly forgotten about.