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  1. It is cheaper, and more optimal electrically, to sell the power to the grid and then buy it back from another generator when you aren't generating

    It is even cheaper and more optimal electrically, if your electric utility owns the solar panels and sells you the electricity from them when you need it.

  2. Re:That's great if you have a mobile phone on Yahoo Debuts End-To-End Encryption Email Plugin, Password-Free Logins · · Score: 2

    Their real goal is to prevent anonymous accounts. If they have your cell phone number they know who you are.

  3. simple on How To Execute People In the 21st Century · · Score: 1

    A bullet in the back of the head is a humane and reliable method of execution. The reason we don't do it is because the witnesses don't want to see the prisoner's brains splatter about the room.

  4. Re:Unfair comparison on Homeopathy Turns Out To Be Useless For Treating Medical Conditions · · Score: 1

    Research has shown that the more someone pays for a placebo the more effective it becomes.

  5. Re:Russia pre-emptively accusing US on A Year On, What Flight Simulators Can't Prove About Flight MH370 · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Flight 17 was purposely shot-down by United States assholes: http://www.newsweek.com/russia...

  6. Re:Just let go. on A Year On, What Flight Simulators Can't Prove About Flight MH370 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    It's not terrorism because the purpose of terrorism is to affect political change through fear and violence.

    When done by non-state parties. It is not called terrorism when countries use violence to effect political change.

  7. Re:Well someone has to do it on The Programmers Who Want To Get Rid of Software Estimates · · Score: 1

    Yes. The manager's estimate would be preferable.

  8. Re:Well someone has to do it on The Programmers Who Want To Get Rid of Software Estimates · · Score: 1

    The only way to provide a reliable estimate is based upon past experience. A reliable estimate would hence be the same time it took for a similar prior project to be completed.

    No understanding of programming is required.

  9. Re:Well someone has to do it on The Programmers Who Want To Get Rid of Software Estimates · · Score: 1

    If a manager can't bring in a project in on time and on budget he is useless.

  10. FDA on The Peculiar Economics of Developing New Antibiotics · · Score: 2

    The FDA is part of the problem. They make obtaining FDA drug approval very expensive. If the FDA wants to improve the situation they just need to look at themselves.

  11. Re:I use GnuPG on Moxie Marlinspike: GPG Has Run Its Course · · Score: 1

    Have you ever received a PGP message from someone trying to impersonate someone else?

  12. Re:Same error, repeated on Moxie Marlinspike: GPG Has Run Its Course · · Score: 1

    The bug that enigmail is not searchable is 10 years old, but there does exist a fix in progress:

    https://freedomsponsors.org/is...

    BTW, keeping your received email encrypted on your computer does not increase security.

    There is a similar campaign to get S/MIME fixed:

    https://freedomsponsors.org/is...

  13. Re:Same error, repeated on Moxie Marlinspike: GPG Has Run Its Course · · Score: 1

    Why use gpg instead of s/mime, which has native support in most e-mail programs, with no need for plugins? Thunderbird included.

    Because S/MIME is too easy to use. The whole point of using PGP is to show everyone how geeky you are.

  14. new speak on Only Twice Have Nations Banned a Weapon Before It Was Used; They May Do It Again · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Robots that kill the enemy will "save lives' and keep soldiers from harm.

  15. April 22, 1915 on 100 Years of Chemical Weapons · · Score: 1

    Ypres was not the first time the Germans used chlorine in a gas attack.

  16. Re: Corporate interests on How One Climate-Change Skeptic Has Profited From Corporate Interests · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Scientific research is not necessary since Al Gore has said the science is already settled.

  17. Re:Corporate interests on How One Climate-Change Skeptic Has Profited From Corporate Interests · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Gore has made close to one billion dollars.

  18. Re:The big picture on 800,000 Using HealthCare.gov Were Sent Incorrect Tax Data · · Score: 1

    If you don't qualify for a subsidy there is no reason to use the government website. I assume very few attorneys will qualify for a subsidy.

  19. Re:The big picture on 800,000 Using HealthCare.gov Were Sent Incorrect Tax Data · · Score: 1

    Now your ability to get health insurance is not tied to your continued employment. No one should lose health insurance just because they lost a job. Criticize the details all you want but that part of the ACA is unequivocally a Good Thing

    ACA is doing the exact opposite, it is tying health insurance even more closely with employment. And, no one lost health insurance because they lost a job before ACA.

  20. the study on Federal Study: Marijuana Use Doesn't Increase Auto Crash Rates · · Score: 1

    The study studied the effect of all drugs on accident rates, but for some reason slashdot readers only want to discuss the section about marijuana. Are slashdot readers pot heads?

  21. methodology on Ask Slashdot: Version Control For Non-Developers? · · Score: 2

    Configuration control is all about the methodology, and not about using a particular tool. It is possible to have great configuration control without using any software tool, and it is also possible to have no configuration control while using a software tool.

    The simplest solution in the above case is to put into place configuration control procedures while not using any software tool.

  22. Re:Climate models on NASA: Increasing Carbon Emissions Risk Megadroughts · · Score: 1, Informative

    How about we fix the climate models before using them to predict things?

    How about these guys take into account the rising temperatures in oceanic heat reservoirs instead of restricting their analysis to lagging indicators like air temperature?

    Because historical deep oceanic temperature records do not exist. There is no evidence of rising oceanic temperatures.

  23. Common Problem on Ask Slashdot: What Portion of Developers Are Bad At What They Do? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This is a common problem... interviewers asking questions that have no relevance to any of my work experience or interests.

  24. The moon on The Blind Spots In the Nuclear Test Monitoring System · · Score: 1

    Another blind spot is the dark side of the moon.

    http://security.blogs.cnn.com/...

    The US launched a satellite to check if the Russian were doing nuclear weapons testing on the dark side of the moon.

  25. Re:Not surprising on Verizon Sells Off Wireline Operations, Blames Net Neutrality Plans · · Score: 1

    None of the large telcos want to do copper line POTS anymore.

    AT&T's newest Uverse runs on these "copper lines".