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  1. ... the Levy plant, which was supposed to deliver 2.2 gigawatts to the region ...

    I don't know why they keep messing with nuclear power. They showed how to create 1.21 jigawatts of electricity way back in 1984... Why that research was discontinued? Who really shot such emmetinent scientists? Libyan terrorists? Or merceneries of the Big Power companies? I wonder...

  2. They should have taken some other thing that is correlated to affluence. May be per capita meat consumption or access to healthcare. Then they could have come up with even more dramatic headline, "Meat eaters hack in C++ while the lotus eaters struggle with R". "Coders who get annual physical program in C++, while hackers might be sick stick with R".

  3. These mathematicians! They sit on their bums all day and twiddle their thumbs. Not doing a single thing. Then someone actually does something. They are all aflutter now. "Mathematician doing something! Abomination! Must be stopped". Do something concrete for a change Mathematicians. This is probably why there is no Nobel prize for math.

  4. Quick disable hot key on iPhone 8's 3D Face Scanner Will Work In 'Millionths of a Second' (phonearena.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful
    If thieves or border police is forcing you to unlock the phone, there is a quick way to disable the face recognize and unlock feature.

    Just swipe on the screen quickly S-O-S 3 times and press the power , power+volume-up, power+volume-down three times, make a frownie face, shake your head left to right three times, (customizable to up-down motion in India). The phone will go into secure unlock model

    You have one millionth of a second to do all this.

  5. Re:Google means search with google on Supreme Court Asked To Nullify the Google Trademark (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Funny
    But these companies have an army of lawyers who would send cease and desist letters to newspapers and other organizations when they use brandnames generically. Xerox used to be very aggressive about it.

    I wonder if there is a way for Google to find people using the word "google" in a generic sense. Some kind of ability to look at millions of use cases and citations, some kind of artificial intelligence to infer the context... Wondering who Google would turn to find information.

  6. Re:H1B1 visa application on Apple Looks For Exceptional Engineer With a Secret Job Posting (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 2
    I have handled H1B labor certification postings. Rules requires us to post in the local news paper, in web sites and job search portals from which we have recruited in the past, to all head hunters and "talent acquisition partners" we have used in the recent past etc.

    Must respond to all applications. We need to show the Government why each application was rejected.

    But I can't rule out some hanky panky on the part of Apple. Its Apple after all.

  7. So easy to enforce... on Elon Musk Backs Call For A Global Ban On Killer Robots (cnn.com) · · Score: 1
    Ban them. After the ban it would be just easy peachy to enforce the ban.

    We have such great success in enforcing diesel engine emissions from small passenger cars from well established reputed companies. That gives us some great confidence that the ban can be easily enforced.

  8. Re:What happened to ... on Wisconsin Lawmakers Vote To Pay Foxconn $3 Billion To Get New Factory (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1
    Oh, yeah. Bothsidism. When it comes to diverting tax payer funds to private corporations there is no equal to the Republicans. Democrats. they too go for spending. But mostly on social things, giving hand outs to poor people. Not wealthy corporations.

    First thing we need is people like to to start saying one side does it with vengeance and vehemence. Then we can reform the elections. As long as you give the most egregious behavior an out, without calling it, we would have destroyed the whole nation before we get the election reforms panacea you are talking about.

  9. But no big loss. on US State Department Suffers Worldwide Email Outage (usatoday.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    The Secretary of State remained in complete and continuous contact with all people using a server in the basement of the Secretary's residence. The value of precedent set by a previous secretary of state was greatly appreciated by the Administration.

  10. It is really tragic that Thag was killed by the tail horn of a Stegosaurus shortly after inventing fire. Imagine what the world would have been, if only he had lived longer.

  11. Re: Get back to me when you can charge it in 3 min on Hyundai To Build a 300-Mile-Per-Charge Electric Car (reuters.com) · · Score: 1
  12. Re: Get back to me when you can charge it in 3 min on Hyundai To Build a 300-Mile-Per-Charge Electric Car (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    That is a revenue opportunity for the utility companies. They will provide street side charging and chard twice or thrice per kWh compared to residential customers. They run at 1/3 of peak capacity at nights. For utilities, this is a huge revenue stream, one time investment in lines and plugs and billing infrastructure. Then just ka-ching! count dollars pouring in.

  13. Re: Get back to me when you can charge it in 3 min on Hyundai To Build a 300-Mile-Per-Charge Electric Car (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    It is ugly.

  14. Re: Get back to me when you can charge it in 3 min on Hyundai To Build a 300-Mile-Per-Charge Electric Car (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Once connectors are standardized and the billing infrastructure is developed providing charging points along with parking meters is one of the simplest infrastructure things to do. Predictable revenue stream, electric companies have so much surplus capacity at night. They run at 33% of peak grid capacity at night. They will invest on this in a heartbeat, as the demand develops.

  15. Re:Get back to me when you can charge it in 3 minu on Hyundai To Build a 300-Mile-Per-Charge Electric Car (reuters.com) · · Score: 1
    That is ok. It is your money, you spend it where you want to.

    Just realize, there are others, they have different priorities, and they spend it differently

    When, or if, your point of view becomes minority view, with additional costs let us see if you are as committed to the 3 minute fillup as the electric car proponents are today, and the stuff they are willing to pay and put up with,

  16. What happened to ... on Wisconsin Lawmakers Vote To Pay Foxconn $3 Billion To Get New Factory (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful
    Government should not pick winners and losers.

    Only the Republican party crony capitalists should pick winners and losers using tax payer funds.

    Poor American down with medical bills due to some high way accident? Shit happens. deal with it.

    Taiwanese investors asking for 5 million dollars per job created? Here are the keys to the treasury.

  17. Re:Gab does ban some content on Google Explains Why It Banned the App For Gab, a Right-Wing Twitter Rival (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I feel the same way about the Confederate flag too. People died defending the Old Glory against that flag of the traitors. People who fly confederate flags, support that flag are traitors of the USA. Confederates are traitors. High time we stop using Benedict Arnold as the archetype of traitor and use Robert E Lee. After all Benedict Arnold did not kill any American. Lee did.

  18. Three months without backups? on Developer Accidentally Deletes Three-Month of Work With Visual Studio Code (bingj.com) · · Score: 1
    Shut up and you don't get to complain.

    Messing around with unfamiliar source control system without backups? Get lost. There are lots of serious people with genuine complaints. This one, even I won't blame it on microsoft.

  19. Re:Preventing death saves money? How? on The Health Benefits of Wind and Solar Exceed the Cost of All Subsidies (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Firing is cheaper than killing, and a lot more legal.

  20. Preventing death saves money? How? on The Health Benefits of Wind and Solar Exceed the Cost of All Subsidies (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1
    How can preventing death save money? The saved people will live long and consume resources and will need health care, compete for jobs and food, raise the price of food and lower wages...

    So why is there an intrinsic assumption preventing death saves money for the society?

  21. Very dangerous on Unpatchable 'Flaw' Affects Most of Today's Modern Cars (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1
    Most of us would just dismiss it as some hype, because it requires physical access to the cars.

    But plenty of people have access to cars of family members and friends. More than 75% of the homicide victims know their perps. Stranger on stranger murder rate is less than 25%.

    So one could sabotage a car of a family member in a manner very difficult to detect using a device plugged into the network, targets the brake system once the car speed is above 75 mph. An average dumb criminal, (all criminals are dumb) would lack the technical knowledge to do it. But now a days I see kits being sold on Amazon for USB sticks that will fry the mother board if plugged in. So it wouldn't be long before such devices make it to the market. Yes, eventually the police will catch one and then it would become standard protocol to look for this. But till then ...

  22. Zoning board is theft. on A 2:15 Alarm, 2 Trains and a Bus Get Her To Work by 7 AM (nytimes.com) · · Score: 0
    In a free market economy, with freedom and liberty, there will be a rush of investors who will buy land in high rent areas, build homes, rent them out... The investors will get good returns, people will get good homes for reasonable rent/mortgages.

    If I own land in those areas, not being able to sell to the developers is theft. My property rights are violated and nullified by the high handed zoning boards.

    California might be bluest of the blue state, but its citizens too have the Second Amendment rights. And pushed hard, they might try second amendment solutions.

  23. Have they tried naming their phone ANGSLILJA? on Ericsson Is Planning To Cut 25,000 Jobs in Brutal Response To Crisis, Report Says (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    May be the secret to a Swedish companies success lies in very creative names like Ansglilja, Applaro, Klasen, Graslok Nunnerort with lots of double dots over O and tiny circles on top of A liberally sprinkled.

  24. Plan is simple, he will own them theatres on Netflix Co-Founder's Crazy Plan: Pay $10 a Month, Go to the Movies All You Want (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Initially he will pay the theaters the "full" price. Once he has enough clout he will negotiate for discounts, play one chain against another. At some point he will dictate the prices. But most theaters depend on pop and pop corn sales and lose money on the screens. So might not turn out to be bad, if the volume of theater goers increase.

  25. Bacteria can not colonize mars on NASA is Sending Bacteria Into the Sky on Balloons During the Eclipse (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    They have no ability to grow potatoes on shit.