Flat use versus time of day is a BS argument. To implement TOD pricing, we would need to cook our meals at off-hours, to watch TV programs at off hours, and to insure that some kids go to school in off hours.
We live in a society synchronized with the wall clock. For example. Kids arrive from school at 4pm. There is some playtime, then homework. Supper is between 6:30 to 7pm, then more homework and a shower and to bed sometime after 8:30pm.
The peaks at the majority of households are always going to coincide. The power plant has to structure and manage capacity for these coincident peaks. What the power plants can organize, is dual electrical inputs to homes. One input could be powered off at serious peaks. What would be powered off could be electrical water heaters, swimming pool pumps, and Central A/C units. (Of course, only for a max of 2 hours during that peak).
Homes would need to be constructed with R40 insulation in the walls, R50 in the ceiling and as well, triple pain thermal windows. so as to retain the selected house temperature. When is that new building code going to be introduced?
Basically her argument is that taxis are good, and the only problem with them is that they need to be completely different than they are now. No one with an interest in maintaining their credibility would say something so stupid and incoherent of their own free will. Ergo, she is being paid.
In Quebec, taxis are well regulated. Surprise inspections for cleanliness, safety (tires, steering, brakes), licenses, driver license (who has to know the rules of the road, safety precautions, and I think, CPR). Cars must have uniform advertising signs, calibrated meter (no unmetered rides). There is also a limit to the number of cars so that a good driver can make his $40k to 60k per year (where that is a good income, given the cost of living). We don't have a gun problem, and we don't allow taxi drivers to have guns. Taxi drivers are rarely robbed, but sometimes they are stiffed. Mosty drivers have Visa/Mastercard/debit card wifi access and gps, for those rare street addresses.
The Pacific Northwest seems like a reasonably good choice for data centers, at least for serving this corner of the country. Lots of clean, cheap hydro power, near major tech industry in Seattle area, and there's plenty of water for cooling.
Quebec Canada is an excellent choice for a data centre and for the following reasons: Continuous and very very low cost electric supply (I bet it can be around 4 cents per KWH) from James Bay. As Winters are cold, the buildings can be heated from the heat given off by the equipment Summers are not extra-ordinarily hot -- The site would not need massive Air Conditioning. Employee skills are on a par or above many other localities. (virtually Free University and well educated graduates) Multi-lingualism -- great place for supporting English, Spanish, French, and other languages. Single payer insurance keeps corporate costs down. Communication costs are competitive.
Time to toot the advantages of what we have to offer for Upstate USA
Why would I want my web browser to give me desktop notifications? Why the hell would I want a website to give me push notifications even if my browser is closed?
Somehow apparently Google decided what users really wanted was an annoying and intrusive browser, when nothing could be further from the truth.
Definitely a feature which needed to be disabled as soon as it was discovered.
Gnome Linux already includes desktop notification. Eg. if I run a compile job in the background, I receive a popup notification when the job is completed. Ditto for file transfers, etc.
When will the USA realize that the indians are now on reservations, and that they will not be attacking the white man. Given that the indians are very civil and nice people, why does every American need to have a gun at home. Or even 10 guns, (one for each finger).
The wild west succumbed to technology in the late 1800's with the advent of cars. Instead of guns, continue to do the killing with cars.
Why is it a bad thing to *limit* the number of countries which have the ability to cause such destruction? Especially in the case where the major countries that *have* such weapons have shown great restraint for nearly as long as the weapons have existed.
When a country has nuclear weapons, the US stops meddling in its internal affairs and begins to treat it as an equal.
Until some dictator ruler decides that he can strike first and win.
It is Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics, I think comsci qualifies for the last three but not for the first one and I have a comsci degree.
If CS is to be called a science, it must include some strong mathematics courses as part of the curriculum. Otherwise a CS degree is a fancy degree in coding and electronic plumbing.
either of these claims disproves the other. You cannot have secured what does not exist.
Interesting how the debate has shifted away from the lies and denials in public of this, but into the content and construction.
It's like any of us being caught with a machine gun illegally in our possession but turning the debate away from the law we broke having it into whether or not it was loaded and what type of ammo, as if that made any difference.
Common, its time you republicans got down to running the country, instead of trying to run someone's reputation to the ground. The question to ask is: Did she personally install the server(s)? Did the government IT people actually do the installations for the Clintons. Why not go after the issues that Ms Clinton, the former Secretary of State, currently proposes if she wins the presidency. Refute them. Americans should find time to visit Canada and look at our politics, and our gun laws and our health care systems and our non-gerrymandering and our knowledge of other than the daily number of gun killings per day that occur in the USA. Vote Trump! You deserve him if thats the best you can do.
I block ISP ads that insert themselves into a vendor's advertisement. As I am only interested in computer stuff ads, I have to continue to block ads for busty women.
Some women are quite nice looking. I am appreciative of their looks, but alas for them, I am a very happily married man to wife number 1. There was never a number 2.
Why are they giving away the electricity? Is it difficult to meter or something?
Free is the key thing here. Yes, the solution is just charge for time on the charger, and used that money to put in more chargers. But humans are uniquely curious when it comes to free stuff. Give away free stuff and everybody wants some, and they hate it when someone else gets free stuff and they don't. Charge just a little bit for it, and then it changes the whole attitude.
Our bulk prices for electricity are at 4 cents per kwhour. Our electricity is generated from our James Bay reservoir. We can provide Vermont and New Hampshire with electricity at around the same rate.
What is interesting is that most EV drivers probably don't need the charge to get home and carry out their daily errands. If they do then they probably made the wrong vehicle choice. They just want to charge up on someone else's dime.
Of course, there will be a few who would somehow feel entitled and would see such a change and respond.... "can you believe they are taking away our free charging!".
Police officiers often have to deal with people with mental illness condition. Expecting them to comply immediately to whatever they ask is most of the time a wet dream. Often, these people with mental illness are not actually dangerous if dealt the proper way. So, then I believe there should be at least, even if it doesn't cover all the cases, some kind of education offered to police officier or even better a requirement to complete successfull a course which can give them some skills to handle these cases.
We in Quebec and probably the rest of Canada, require policemen to least have a junior college degree in policing. It is in fact a condition of employment in our cities. And we are hiring many women graduates to replace men. These women appear to have more common sense than men, when it comes to handling nervous potential suspects. The women do more than handle traffic and issue tickets.
A megaphone. Use the megaphone to tell the guy that if he does not drop the weapons, he will be sprayed with the non-toxic chemical (that was developed in Israel). That non-toxic chemical is an editble chemical that smells worse than a skunk's spray, and persists for days.
If the article weren't so badly written, poorly organized and incoherent, I'd suspect it to be the product of a machine -- albeit one hampered by a bad software patch. Anyway, if you replace 2020 with 2040 or 2050, some parts might have some merit. It may provide a bit of insight into the nature of the run_before_you_can_walk "thinking" that will likely precede Silicon Valley's next crash.
I call the article as promoting the dumbing down of America
We've seen this scam... sell a piglet as a "micro-pig" and by the time the new pig owner discovers it's actually a full-sized, regular pig, the seller has moved on to a new town.
It would be interesting to know if it is to be a house pet. Pigs are smarter than dogs, but so is their Poop. That smell smarts badly.
Don't normally post on politics, but have disagree on this one. Money has alway an important played a role, but so did political parties, pecking orders, etc. Nowadays, it's all about the money, and a single well-heeled benefactor can keep an otherwise unviable candidate in the running. Political parties have lost much of their clout because candidates no longer need the machinery they provide.
Whats the difference between the USA and Russia regards elections? In the USA, the friends of the party use gerrymandering to exclude as much as possible, opposition candidates.
The wealthy make sure to fund their candidates so that post election business can come to the wealthy, or that they can later work with their candidate to influence laws favourable to the wealthy. (eg, spend 500k to win 2-3million in business / year). Its known as one-hand washes the other.
In Russia, its one party. The opposition is eliminated, and the single party, favourable to the leader and his cronies influence laws favourable to the wealthy. (eg, spend 500k rubles to win 2-3million in business / year). Its known as one-hand washes the other.
At least with Russia, socialism provides good health care, excellent education, good jobs and vacations, and a relative even standard of living for the masses. Can you say that for the USA?
Guess if he didn't want his code audited, this guy shouldn't have marketed his software to this particular industry. Dumbass.
Moreover, what if his source code was a sham, and in fact, it was a human, looking at the evidence via a microscope or other clairvoyant instrumentation that decides on the life/death of an individual.
As a minimum, the source code should be shown, should be compiled and tested with the compiled version. Statistical sampling can be prone to definite errors, particularly if the sample sizes analyzed are too small. What were the sample sizes? Under 100, or under 2000? The former would be dangerous and probably in error, while the latter could give a result within tolerance of 1%.
Not really. The only reason "terrorism" is relevant here at all, is that Americans are get so scared they shit themselves all over the Constitution whenever terrorism is mentioned. Unless your so-called news site basically says, "some insignificant statistic happened, so get ready to give up more freedoms and/or expect people to start discussing terrorism again", then it's not a real news site.
Wake me up when terrorists kill more people than peanuts. People aren't afraid of dangerous things like cars, but shit themselves over terrists.
I'm glad I don't live in the USA and that my grandkids are not in American schools. America is a wealthy country without a soul.
Raises come from profit sharing. Since your workgroup was responsible for $xxx of profit, that will be shared based on job rating. (Job ratings such as P1, P2, P3 would not have disappeared, but now the group will decide which P2 becomes a P3 etc.
With it I have to view the trackers, etc. and decide which I will block. I obviously block all moving / audio annoying adverts and some that I just don't want to see each time I visit a page of a particular website.
For my web purchases, when the authorization goes from the merchant to the Bank, the Bank pauses the reply to the merchant and presents me with a question that only I can answer (from a list of question/answers) that I completed at their card enrollment.
When I respond correctly, the transaction is approved. If I err in the response, the merchant gets a rejected transaction notice. Eg. I approved my own real-time purchase to Newegg this way.
I've worked as a partner for some car companies in both the US and the EU, and I know for a fact that the firmware that goes into their control systems is very tightly controlled, requiring sign-offs from senior execs for design and feature changes.
There's no way code this critical could have simply been dropped in by some R&D leads. No. Way.
On a test bed, the front wheels are positioned onto rollers, and the back wheels are stationary. All the software needed to know is if the front wheels are in motion and the back wheels are not. Perhaps as well, some other sensor for when the vehicle is idling. (0 km/hr or 0 mi/hr). That logic bypass could be active when the car is idling.
How many times around the equator of the earth does the end-to-end placing of water bottles stretch? Some say 3 and others say 4.
And most of these bottles are ingested by marine life and these marine animals die. The plastic bottles are not biodegradable. If separated out from recycled trash they can be melted down and the ensuing plastic reused.
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Flat use versus time of day is a BS argument. To implement TOD pricing, we would need to cook our meals at off-hours, to watch TV programs at off hours, and to insure that some kids go to school in off hours.
We live in a society synchronized with the wall clock. For example. Kids arrive from school at 4pm. There is some playtime, then homework. Supper is between 6:30 to 7pm, then more homework and a shower and to bed sometime after 8:30pm.
The peaks at the majority of households are always going to coincide. The power plant has to structure and manage capacity for these coincident peaks. What the power plants can organize, is dual electrical inputs to homes. One input could be powered off at serious peaks. What would be powered off could be electrical water heaters, swimming pool pumps, and Central A/C units. (Of course, only for a max of 2 hours during that peak).
Homes would need to be constructed with R40 insulation in the walls, R50 in the ceiling and as well, triple pain thermal windows. so as to retain the selected house temperature. When is that new building code going to be introduced?
Is that going to happen any time soon?
Really? Sounds like this judge had his/her verdict in mind before anyone stepped into the courtroom.
Another notch in the anti-democracy belt.
Do you have evidence to support that claim?
Basically her argument is that taxis are good, and the only problem with them is that they need to be completely different than they are now. No one with an interest in maintaining their credibility would say something so stupid and incoherent of their own free will. Ergo, she is being paid.
In Quebec, taxis are well regulated. Surprise inspections for cleanliness, safety (tires, steering, brakes), licenses, driver license (who has to know the rules of the road, safety precautions, and I think, CPR). Cars must have uniform advertising signs, calibrated meter (no unmetered rides). There is also a limit to the number of cars so that a good driver can make his $40k to 60k per year (where that is a good income, given the cost of living). We don't have a gun problem, and we don't allow taxi drivers to have guns. Taxi drivers are rarely robbed, but sometimes they are stiffed. Mosty drivers have Visa/Mastercard/debit card wifi access and gps, for those rare street addresses.
The Pacific Northwest seems like a reasonably good choice for data centers, at least for serving this corner of the country. Lots of clean, cheap hydro power, near major tech industry in Seattle area, and there's plenty of water for cooling.
Quebec Canada is an excellent choice for a data centre and for the following reasons:
Continuous and very very low cost electric supply (I bet it can be around 4 cents per KWH) from James Bay.
As Winters are cold, the buildings can be heated from the heat given off by the equipment
Summers are not extra-ordinarily hot -- The site would not need massive Air Conditioning.
Employee skills are on a par or above many other localities. (virtually Free University and well educated graduates)
Multi-lingualism -- great place for supporting English, Spanish, French, and other languages.
Single payer insurance keeps corporate costs down.
Communication costs are competitive.
Time to toot the advantages of what we have to offer for Upstate USA
Why would I want my web browser to give me desktop notifications? Why the hell would I want a website to give me push notifications even if my browser is closed?
Somehow apparently Google decided what users really wanted was an annoying and intrusive browser, when nothing could be further from the truth.
Definitely a feature which needed to be disabled as soon as it was discovered.
Gnome Linux already includes desktop notification. Eg. if I run a compile job in the background, I receive a popup notification when the job is completed. Ditto for file transfers, etc.
If ever there was a more stupid thing to try to put drm on...
Do you put drm on something, onto something, in something or into something?
Is it take me out of here, or out from here. or away from here?
I'm gone
When will the USA realize that the indians are now on reservations, and that they will not be attacking the white man. Given that the indians are very civil and nice people, why does every American need to have a gun at home. Or even 10 guns, (one for each finger).
The wild west succumbed to technology in the late 1800's with the advent of cars. Instead of guns, continue to do the killing with cars.
Why is this topic even posted to slashdot??
Is it because it is sad?
Why is it a bad thing to *limit* the number of countries which have the ability to cause such destruction? Especially in the case where the major countries that *have* such weapons have shown great restraint for nearly as long as the weapons have existed.
When a country has nuclear weapons, the US stops meddling in its internal affairs and begins to treat it as an equal.
Until some dictator ruler decides that he can strike first and win.
It is Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics, I think comsci qualifies for the last three but not for the first one and I have a comsci degree.
If CS is to be called a science, it must include some strong mathematics courses as part of the curriculum.
Otherwise a CS degree is a fancy degree in coding and electronic plumbing.
now claims the server was secured.
either of these claims disproves the other. You cannot have secured what does not exist.
Interesting how the debate has shifted away from the lies and denials in public of this, but into the content and construction.
It's like any of us being caught with a machine gun illegally in our possession but turning the debate away from the law we broke having it into whether or not it was loaded and what type of ammo, as if that made any difference.
Common, its time you republicans got down to running the country, instead of trying to run someone's reputation to the ground. The question to ask is:
Did she personally install the server(s)? Did the government IT people actually do the installations for the Clintons.
Why not go after the issues that Ms Clinton, the former Secretary of State, currently proposes if she wins the presidency. Refute them.
Americans should find time to visit Canada and look at our politics, and our gun laws and our health care systems and our non-gerrymandering and our knowledge of other than the daily number of gun killings per day that occur in the USA. Vote Trump! You deserve him if thats the best you can do.
I block ISP ads that insert themselves into a vendor's advertisement. As I am only interested in computer stuff ads, I have to continue to block ads for busty women.
Some women are quite nice looking. I am appreciative of their looks, but alas for them, I am a very happily married man to wife number 1. There was never a number 2.
Why are they giving away the electricity? Is it difficult to meter or something?
Free is the key thing here. Yes, the solution is just charge for time on the charger, and used that money to put in more chargers. But humans are uniquely curious when it comes to free stuff. Give away free stuff and everybody wants some, and they hate it when someone else gets free stuff and they don't. Charge just a little bit for it, and then it changes the whole attitude.
Our bulk prices for electricity are at 4 cents per kwhour. Our electricity is generated from our James Bay reservoir.
We can provide Vermont and New Hampshire with electricity at around the same rate.
What is interesting is that most EV drivers probably don't need the charge to get home and carry out their daily errands. If they do then they probably made the wrong vehicle choice. They just want to charge up on someone else's dime.
Of course, there will be a few who would somehow feel entitled and would see such a change and respond.... "can you believe they are taking away our free charging!".
Police officiers often have to deal with people with mental illness condition. Expecting them to comply immediately to whatever they ask is most of the time a wet dream. Often, these people with mental illness are not actually dangerous if dealt the proper way. So, then I believe there should be at least, even if it doesn't cover all the cases, some kind of education offered to police officier or even better a requirement to complete successfull a course which can give them some skills to handle these cases.
We in Quebec and probably the rest of Canada, require policemen to least have a junior college degree in policing. It is in fact a condition of employment in our cities. And we are hiring many women graduates to replace men. These women appear to have more common sense than men, when it comes to handling nervous potential suspects. The women do more than handle traffic and issue tickets.
A megaphone. Use the megaphone to tell the guy that if he does not drop the weapons, he will be sprayed with the non-toxic chemical (that was developed in Israel). That non-toxic chemical is an editble chemical that smells worse than a skunk's spray, and persists for days.
If the article weren't so badly written, poorly organized and incoherent, I'd suspect it to be the product of a machine -- albeit one hampered by a bad software patch. Anyway, if you replace 2020 with 2040 or 2050, some parts might have some merit. It may provide a bit of insight into the nature of the run_before_you_can_walk "thinking" that will likely precede Silicon Valley's next crash.
I call the article as promoting the dumbing down of America
We've seen this scam... sell a piglet as a "micro-pig" and by the time the new pig owner discovers it's actually a full-sized, regular pig, the seller has moved on to a new town.
It would be interesting to know if it is to be a house pet. Pigs are smarter than dogs, but so is their Poop. That smell smarts badly.
Don't normally post on politics, but have disagree on this one. Money has alway an important played a role, but so did political parties, pecking orders, etc. Nowadays, it's all about the money, and a single well-heeled benefactor can keep an otherwise unviable candidate in the running. Political parties have lost much of their clout because candidates no longer need the machinery they provide.
Whats the difference between the USA and Russia regards elections?
In the USA, the friends of the party use gerrymandering to exclude as much as possible, opposition candidates.
The wealthy make sure to fund their candidates so that post election business can come to the wealthy, or that they can later work with their candidate to influence laws favourable to the wealthy. (eg, spend 500k to win 2-3million in business / year). Its known as one-hand washes the other.
In Russia, its one party. The opposition is eliminated, and the single party, favourable to the leader and his cronies influence laws favourable to the wealthy. (eg, spend 500k rubles to win 2-3million in business / year). Its known as one-hand washes the other.
At least with Russia, socialism provides good health care, excellent education, good jobs and vacations, and a relative even standard of living for the masses. Can you say that for the USA?
Guess if he didn't want his code audited, this guy shouldn't have marketed his software to this particular industry. Dumbass.
Moreover, what if his source code was a sham, and in fact, it was a human, looking at the evidence via a microscope or other clairvoyant instrumentation that decides on the life/death of an individual.
As a minimum, the source code should be shown, should be compiled and tested with the compiled version. Statistical sampling can be prone to definite errors, particularly if the sample sizes analyzed are too small. What were the sample sizes? Under 100, or under 2000? The former would be dangerous and probably in error, while the latter could give a result within tolerance of 1%.
I read stuff like this on real news sites.
Not really. The only reason "terrorism" is relevant here at all, is that Americans are get so scared they shit themselves all over the Constitution whenever terrorism is mentioned. Unless your so-called news site basically says, "some insignificant statistic happened, so get ready to give up more freedoms and/or expect people to start discussing terrorism again", then it's not a real news site.
Wake me up when terrorists kill more people than peanuts. People aren't afraid of dangerous things like cars, but shit themselves over terrists.
I'm glad I don't live in the USA and that my grandkids are not in American schools. America is a wealthy country without a soul.
Raises come from profit sharing. Since your workgroup was responsible for $xxx of profit, that will be shared based on job rating. (Job ratings such as P1, P2, P3 would not have disappeared, but now the group will decide which P2 becomes a P3 etc.
In the end, it all works out well.
I use the FOSS Privacy Badger.
With it I have to view the trackers, etc. and decide which I will block. I obviously block all moving / audio annoying adverts and some that I just don't want to see each time I visit a page of a particular website.
For my web purchases, when the authorization goes from the merchant to the Bank, the Bank pauses the reply to the merchant and presents me with a question that only I can answer (from a list of question/answers) that I completed at their card enrollment.
When I respond correctly, the transaction is approved. If I err in the response, the merchant gets a rejected transaction notice.
Eg. I approved my own real-time purchase to Newegg this way.
I've worked as a partner for some car companies in both the US and the EU, and I know for a fact that the firmware that goes into their control systems is very tightly controlled, requiring sign-offs from senior execs for design and feature changes.
There's no way code this critical could have simply been dropped in by some R&D leads. No. Way.
On a test bed, the front wheels are positioned onto rollers, and the back wheels are stationary. All the software needed to know is if the front wheels are in motion and the back wheels are not. Perhaps as well, some other sensor for when the vehicle is idling. (0 km/hr or 0 mi/hr). That logic bypass could be active when the car is idling.
How many times around the equator of the earth does the end-to-end placing of water bottles stretch? Some say 3 and others say 4.
And most of these bottles are ingested by marine life and these marine animals die. The plastic bottles are not biodegradable. If separated out from recycled trash they can be melted down and the ensuing plastic reused.