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  1. Re:Isn't nuclear power a good thing? on Finland Set To Become First Country To Ban Coal Use For Energy (newscientist.com) · · Score: 1

    ...and I thought I was being....pedantic? :)

    But you're right, there is ultimately nothing that doesn't have an aspect of consumption. I'd suggest to use Renewable to indicate whether the source material (fuel et al) is "trivially depleatable" - but it's not my place to do so.

    Btw, PV is solar, but not all solar is PV :p

  2. Re:Isn't nuclear power a good thing? on Finland Set To Become First Country To Ban Coal Use For Energy (newscientist.com) · · Score: 2

    Uranium et al aren't renewable?
    (not saying anything about pollution, just that GP was pointing to renewables)

  3. You're supposed to expend the nuclear FUEL, not the REACTOR :p

    (sorry)

  4. Re: Second to announce being first. on Finland Set To Become First Country To Ban Coal Use For Energy (newscientist.com) · · Score: 1

    Doesn't seem that difficult - http://annpower.diytrade.com/s...

  5. Re:Not the first time they've done this on IRS Demands Identities of All US Coinbase Traders Over Three Year Period (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Whether something is "OK" and whether it is "illegal" are 2 different topics - the one at hand is whether Taxation is Theft, i.e. whether it is illegal - it isn't.

  6. Re:Quick Charge? on Qualcomm's Snapdragon 835 is Its First 10-Nanometer SoC (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, clearly it isn't, since 15 minutes will charge any phone to half, no matter the battery, or usage during those 15 minutes.

  7. Re:At huge cost to the ISPs on Britain Has Passed the 'Most Extreme Surveillance Law Ever Passed in a Democracy' (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Can't be that difficult to write a javascript for a website, that randomly looks up domain names based on a dictionary.

  8. Re:One reason to support Brexit on Britain Has Passed the 'Most Extreme Surveillance Law Ever Passed in a Democracy' (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    The UK is still subject to the ECHR, and this sounds an awful lot like it would conflict with at least Art. 8.

  9. Re: That is not mocking on German Police Mock 'Not Very Clever' ATM Robbers (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    However, printer look different. Very different.

    They do? I've been in a few banks around here, where there were separate ATMs and machines-for-non-cash-operations (no idea what they are called), and I couldn't tell them apart trivially, or at least not deduce that the other ones did not have cash.

  10. Re:Wait a second on HTC Vive Goes Wireless (uploadvr.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    But that was the whole trick with 1st person VR shooters - keep shooting people on their right side, making them turn around repeatedly until choked-out.

  11. Re:It's not surprising... on Open Source Pioneer Munich Debates Report That Suggests Abandoning Linux for Windows 10 (techrepublic.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    From reading about this case, what Microsoft has, is a tight leash on Accenture, who made the report....

  12. Didn't people in Texas claim to want to do the same when Obama was elected?

  13. In my previous job, IT Management decided that everything we did could be done just-as-well with another brand of software, with cheaper or no licensing costs - the software they brought in was not able to perform tasks for our customer, that we were contractually obligated to do.

    IT Management could not wrap their heads around that MS Office* was actually, quite literally, the only option, at all, for doing those tasks, and I'd caution others who think that their colleagues are just being stubborn/stupid when they complain that a change in software hinders their work.

    *: specifically MS Office for Windows - the OSX versions wouldn't work either

  14. Curious: Is there already a bias in who would avail them of this offer?
      - Younger people ?
      - Lower income ?
      - .... ?
    And, of cause, do any of these group lean more towards one candidate or another?

  15. Re:Amidst Winter? on DDoS Attack Halts Heating in Finland Amidst Winter (metropolitan.fi) · · Score: 1

    You haven't been in Europe this week have you? It's winter come 2 months early right now. Snowfall almost record early in the year and much of Europe had below freezing temperatures over the last few days.

    Sen Jim Inhofe must be celebrating this further evidence of Global Warming being a hoax!

  16. Re:batteries on Samsung To Launch AI Digital Assistant Service For Galaxy S8 (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    • - Users certainly care about batteries at the end of the service life, and would rather not purchase a new phone because of the failure of a $10 component. The more expensive the phone, the more frustration when this point is reached.

    This is an issue that occurs well after the device is bought, and doesn't figure into the purchasing for the vast majority of people.

  17. Re:white supremacy on Nvidia Adds Telemetry To Latest Drivers (ghacks.net) · · Score: 1

    Don't worry, you can get her occasionally on talk radio - all the Kellyanne Conway you love, without the faceparts you hate :)

  18. I'm fairly sure this is something that is actively untaught during the process of getting an MBA

  19. Re:Bullshit defense on Security Firm Shows How To Hack a US Voting Machine (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Mono-cultures are bad, but heterogenic IT environments are not inherently good - they still need to be otherwise safe, and not merely rely on being "varied".

  20. Re:Could be a grinder presidency on FBI: Review of New Emails Doesn't Change Conclusion on Clinton (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    I used to argue that democracy doesn't elect the person most capable at leading a country, but the person most capable at being elected ... but this 2016 US election has me questioning the definition of "most electable".

  21. Re:I wonder how they will target europe on Secret Service, DHS Scramble To Secure America's Election (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    There are places with electronic voting in the EU - Estonia was one of the first one to introduce it.

  22. Re:They should make a movie about this on IT Workers Facing Layoffs Jolted By CEO's Message (computerworld.com) · · Score: 2

    Labour unions providing unemployment insurance (short-time pay coverage) allows for this sort of thing - but no idea if they have this structure in the US, and my understanding is that in the US IT workers are very union-adverse.

  23. Re:Two thirds majority in 1975 on UK's Brexit Cannot Pass Without Parliament Approval (aljazeera.com) · · Score: 1

    ...and people still keep voting for Labour, so it seems large segments of the (voting) population were OK with it :)

  24. Re:Two thirds majority in 1975 on UK's Brexit Cannot Pass Without Parliament Approval (aljazeera.com) · · Score: 1

    From my understanding, the power you yielding originally was enough that no voting or referendums were needed.

  25. Re:Maybe they shouldn't be using the largest... on Computer Virus Attack Forces Hospitals To Cancel Operations, Shut Down Systems (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Only been exposed to one It system at a medical facility - it was a thin-client, unix based thing, with not a single windows machine in sight.
    It was also early 1990'ies, with dot-matrix printers and other goodies :)