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Comment Re:Which OS has yet to be compromised? (Score 1, Informative) 180

I would suspect that some of the OS's that are used in embedded devices (If you really want to call something running an OS embedded.) have been pretty safe.

Would you?

https://threatpost.com/lizard-squads-ddos-for-hire-service-built-on-hacked-home-routers/110341

Comment Re:with lazy evaluation (Score 1) 138

Isn't amazing how dumb slashdot has got these days -- I make a joke about lazy evaluation (ok, maybe not a funny joke, but a joke none the less), and some moron mods it "offtopic".

Offtopic? Don't they even have a clue about what Haskell is?

Overrated I could understand, troll or flamebait if you think I'm dissing Hudak, but offtopic?

Comment Re:Didn't the US Navy just announce a similar proc (Score 1) 486

It's horribly inefficient energy-wise and makes no sense to do unless you're stuck in a very particular predicament: You're surrounded by seawater and on really bad terms with all the local jet fuel suppliers, but you happen to have a nuclear reactor handy.

Or, you've installed massive overcapacity of wind and solar and you don't know what to do with your massive overproduction of electricity on bright windy days.

Comment Re:With the best will in the world... (Score 1) 486

Sorry? What remaining 0.29GW? You mean coal?

At this moment we have:

Nuclear +43.85GW
Hydro +6.59GW
Wind +3.57GW
Germany +2.46GW
Solar +1.54GW
Gas +0.88GW
Biomass +0.57GW
Coal +0.29GW
Oil +0.24GW
Switzerland -0.05GW
Spain -1.04GW
Pumped storage -1.16GW
Belgium -1.80GW
UK -2.07GW
Italy -3.19GW
Demand -50.42GW

(That all adds up to 0.26, so there is a bug somewhere in the numbers).

Comment Re:With the best will in the world... (Score 2) 486

Well, no.

If your neighbour starts selling you electricity for nothing it makes your own plant less profitable, but you have to keep your own plant around because your neighbour is not a reliable resource.

For example Germany is exporting 2.46GW to France at the moment, but between midnight and 4am it was importing about 2GW of French nuclear because there wasn't much wind.

Luckily Italy, Belgium and the UK have all made such a balls up of their energy infrastructure we can export to them.

It's interesting. France seems to have been given the job of keeping everyone on an even keel. Good thing the idiot greens aren't in government.

Comment Re:KDBus - another systemd brick on the wall (Score 1) 232

I think the systemd-opponents are deeply split about this; the BSD-Linux users want OpenRC because that is close to BSD and hates systemd because it means work for BSD, the traditionalists want SysVinit forever "because it isn't broken and systemd doesn't provide new features...". Nobody wants Upstart.

That wasn't exactly what happened in the Devian CTTE vote though, was it? 4 people wanted systemd, or upstart or even openrc rather than sysvinit. 3 people wanted upstart, or systemd, or openrc rather than sysvinit and one person wanted sysvinit, or anything but systemd.

Oddly the only person who wanted sysvinit was Ian, who up till then everyone had seen as a pro-upstart Canonical mole.

Comment Re:With the best will in the world... (Score 1) 486

Of course the big question is how efficient is the process? Is it more efficient than just using the electricity to charge up batteries in an electric car for example?

It doesn't necessarily have to be more efficient than charging batteries -- big tanks to hold fuel are a lot cheaper than batteries.

Comment Re:With the best will in the world... (Score 2, Insightful) 486

.renewables are going to have their work cut out for themselves just supplying a majority percentage of the power for national electricty grids. I'm not sure where they think the extra renewable power to do this will come from.

No, the biggest problem with wind in particular is that to get reasonable amounts of energy you have to install large overcapacity.

Which leads to the problem of what you do with that energy on a windy day.

Up till now Germany has been selling it to (among others) France, for almost nothing. This is bad for Germany (they get very little money) and bad for France (it makes the nuclear fleet less profitable).

Making synthetic fuel when you have energy to spare could be a pretty smart storage mechanism.

Wonder what the efficiency is like though.

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