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Comment Re:Its a shame. (Score 1) 207

I'm all for using solar power. BUT ... This needs to be done in a sane way. The electrical distribution network is NOT designed for taking power from customers that were expected to buy it, at a volume greater than some small percentage, measured separately in various branches of the distribution. This is especially so for small single phase branches. And it needs to accommodate paying for the maintenance of the distribution network with at least some profit for the company running it. The latter problem can be corrected with smart meters that calculate incoming vs. outgoing power separately so the outgoing (to the electrical network) can be paid at reduced rate (though not as low paid to the grid since on a small scale it is only using the local network to deliver power to others).

Comment Re:Its a shame. (Score 3, Insightful) 207

And, the utility is forced to buy the power from it's customers at the same rate they sell power to them ... which means they cannot recover distribution costs or make at least some profit. Electric distribution utilities need to be able to buy the power at a lower price than they sell it.

Comment Re:News item: Piece of software flawed (Score 1) 103

It's more about Twitter not being willing to explain what is wrong. It might be a bad ad network being used on the paper site. Twitter needs to, at the very least, explain to that site which ad network, and how that ad network is doing things wrong (it might be one bad advertiser). Without this info from Twitter, everyone is not served well. People end up having to work around Twitter, defeating the advantage.

Comment Re:time to sue (Score 1) 103

Yes, Twitter most certainly is. They are saying the site is unsafe ... AND not allowing the site to correct this problem by detailing exactly what the problem is (presumably a bad advertiser at some ad site). If Twitter's system found it, they may well have a better system. But it's still a terrible attitude by Twitter (their executives, probably) to act in a way that does not allow such things to be corrected. So I'm all for Twitter being sued for this because such a lawsuit has the potential to benefit us all. There may be a chance the newspaper may be able to discover what the problem is through the legal process (discovery).

Comment Re:Will they teach Economics? (Score 5, Insightful) 404

The government should have done it in-house, using directly hired citizens as developers and project managers. Use top developers that fully understand the selected technology. This site is something that will be changing a lot over many years, so continued staff where most developers already know how it's built would keep it upgraded.

Comment The Case Against Email (Score 1) 435

IMHO, the whole Email thing is past its time. Letting just anyone send means spammers will. When people ask me for my email, I now give out a website where they can set me a message ... after they login. But I don't give them an access name/password unless they ask for one (and no one knows to do that).

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