I love it how it is phrased "U.S. leading in new installations!" vs "U.S. catching up to per-capita installed capacity already found elsewhere."

Gotta be #1, always!

I do believe our President was invited to go to the UK. It's not a one-manned invasion.

To a certain extent I was a fan of some of Anonymous' shenanigans, but this isn't right. I am by no means a fan of Donald Trump, and the electoral system is far from perfect, but to have a third party with foreign membership fucking with our elections is a direct attack on our democratic ideals (flawed though they may be).

Anonymous - please fuck off. You aren't the Robin Hoods of the Internet any more.

This never happened. There are so many layers of bullshit here that it is hard to get started shoveling through it.

Firstly, plant cooling water intakes are protected with screens to prevent any wildlife and debris entrainment, so the "quarter mile flume ride" is bullshit. The screens are designed so tiny fish fry that might impinge on them can swim away.

Even if the intakes weren't screened (impossible), the water goes into a condenser which is separate from the steam loop that drives the turbine. Said scuba diver would not be talking to anyone as his ass would plug up the condenser, which would force the plant to shut down, and he'd probably be long dead before they unplugged him. But he'd never be there, because there is a screen system just for this reason.

Source - did contract work in a lot of plants, including nuclear, and am familiar with CE plants like St. Lucie.

The push to paperless statements has nothing to do about the customer's desires, or the "going green" hogwash they advertise on the envelopes. The companies are pushing for paperless because paying people to print them out, stuff them envelopes, and then paying postage for 100k's of customers every month is an regular expense that eats into their bottom lines. Automatically pushing out a pdf by email, or posting it on a server, costs pennies and doesn't require nearly as many employees to accomplish.

This push is analogous to the self-scan checkouts at the supermarket. They're just trying to get rid of staff and get you to provide the service yourself.

I will always get paper statements from Comcast and I will always pay the monthly bill with a nice paper check because that is the only way I can screw with the bastards.

Beta Testers: Hey, Microsoft, Windows 10 is OK, but the telemetry is fucking evil.

Microsoft: It's not evil. Otherwise, how is it?

Beta Testers: It's really fucking invasive and evil.

Microsoft: Outside of the telemetry, focus! focus!

Beta Testers: Umm.. your software is evil as shit...

Microsoft: I am altering the deal. Pray I don't alter it any further.

Beta Testers: *Gasp!* * Choke!*

So 42 years of the DEA, and we're still fighting "The War on Drugs". War is hell, I guess. While we're fighting, we're coming to the realization that maybe marijuana really isn't a danger, that it isn't worth the effort to chase down and prosecute stoners and weed farmers. Is what the DEA is doing to our civil liberties, here and in other countries, really better than the alternative of just letting people do drugs? It doesn't sound like the DEA is stopping anybody who really wants to smoke or shoot up. Here in S.E. Massachusetts we have rampant opioid overdose problems, and that situation exists in a lot of places in the U.S. Maybe, just maybe, it is a demand problem instead of a supply problem?

If we took a fraction of the money that goes to the DEA and actually spent it on something useful, like decriminalizing and properly treating addiction as the medical condition it really is , demand would drop, street prices would drop, and the incentive to perpetrate criminal activities associated with the drug trade would dry up. People would be healthier, not living in prisons on the taxpayers dime, and we wouldn't have to pay taxes to a TLA to butt rape our constitutional freedoms anymore.

The Falcon 9 v1.2 uses deep chilled liquid oxygen in order to increase the propellant density, so more can get loaded on, which (according to Tsiolkovsky's Rocket Equation) increases the velocity to which it can accelerate a given payload mass (or conversely, how much mass you can accelerate to a given velocity). This system has been giving SpaceX some teething troubles.

SES-9 is going to a very high Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit (GTO) to allow the satellite to get to its station sooner, as this mission has been delayed for a while. SpaceX is working really hard to get this satellite out as high as they can for the customer. They are still going to attempt to recover the first stage on a barge, but concede that they are going to be at the absolute limits of their fuel for this attempt, so it is very possible that they'll run out of fuel before touchdown. They are really pushing the envelope of the Falcon 9 v1.2 with this launch.

I'd be sympathetic if it weren't for the fact that this "relationship" has turned into something similar to the "relationship" enjoyed between a serial rapist and their victim. They are trying to jam ads up our ass whether we want them or not, without lube. The "relationship" is being destroyed for a reason. "NO" means "NO".

And many people who are out on the web aren't "consumers". They're "users" - they are merely looking for certain content. Forcing ads on people who aren't even shopping is a nuisance and counter-productive.

Not if the new /. owners are being paid to steer us to paywalls and advertising. It's all about the clicks and eyeballs, not the quality of your experience. Money wins.

No, you don't appear to be.

Wake me when you can run a toaster with it.

It seems that every week we some "green power" technology that produces 0.3 yoctowatts of power, involves the slight jostling of 3 electrons, and claims industrial level of application.

I call bullshit. Stop stealing ideas from the local school science fair and develop something that will power something useful, and demonstrate it.