Comment Re:Ban the Bible and the Quoran (Score 1) 410
But the book never killed anyone, it's the readers.
I dunno. Some of those big illuminated editions are heavy enough to cause serious damage if they fall off a shelf onto someone.
Comment Re: Not just Reno (Score 1) 444
its just a simple idea I have always considered; loading electrical energy into physical potential energy by way of working against gravity. Maybe, instead, just run a big heavy chunk of metal up a notched pole? Then release it to spin a worm gear, to a large cog, then big generator as it slowly drops?
You'd still have the exact same issue with the amount of mass and/or height needed. Mass x height x 9.8m/s^2. For a kilowatt-hour of storage, mass x height needs to equal about 600,000. Gravity-based energy storage simply requires a lot of both for any worthwhile amount of energy.
Comment Re:Credit System (Score 2) 444
Banks of batteries are expensive and take up a lot of space. You'd need to provide several megawatts for several hours. That would require hundreds of 85kWh car battery packs.
And they'll be producing several hundred thousand such packs annually once the factory is operational.
Also, it's going to be a 10 million square-foot facility, with a few hundred more empty acres around it. I don't think they'll be pressed for space.
Comment Re: Not just Reno (Score 1) 444
Problem is that requires a lot of water, a lot of height, or both. Assuming 80% efficiency on your pump and generator, you'd need something on the order of 600,000 metre-litres of water per kilowatt hour of storage.
Comment Re:Scrap all the rules (Score 2) 104
There are many encrypted ham standards, PSK31 WSPR, WSJT, MAP65, Hellscriber, etc, etc.
Umm, unless I am managing to completely misunderstand something, those are not encryption, those are simply digital signals rather than analog.
Comment Re:DSL paload + ATM = 16% (Score 1) 355
No-class-action clauses have held up, all the way to the Supreme Court. See AT&T Mobility v. Concepcion.
Comment Re:DSL paload + ATM = 16% (Score 1) 355
Doesn't Comcast have a "You're not allowed to file a class action suit against us. Hahahaha." clause in their contracts?
Comment Re:Okay... and? (Score 1) 316
That's very much incorrect. It's treated as a deduction
Read the site.
If you paid or accrued foreign taxes to a foreign country on foreign source income and are subject to U.S. tax on the same income, you may be able to take either a credit or an itemized deduction for those taxes.
You're assuming it is always option 2 (acts as a deduction), and ignoring option 1 (acts as a credit).
Comment Re:Turkey? (Score 2) 254
Are you sure the US has sanctions on Turkey?
Had, yes. The USA had an arms embargo and miscellaneous other sanctions against Turkey from 1974 to 1980-ish, as a result of the Turkish invasion of Cyprus.
Comment Re:What makes this a gigafactory? (Score 4, Informative) 95
According to Tesla, it will have as much production capacity as all current li-ion battery factories combined.
The giga does have some meaning, as the factory has a planned production of 35 gigawatt-hours of batteries per year.
Comment Re:Nvidia's support of Tegra has been abysmal (Score 1) 65
Does that include the Tegra Note tablet? The only bug of relevance I've found is the GPS is garbage and updates for it have been steady, with it sitting at Kitkat, with the announced intention to upgrade it to L when that comes out.
Comment Re:Vote (Score 3, Insightful) 200
Comment Re:Wait, wait... (Score 1) 132
Our government can buy up vulnerabilities from Exodus, then release them
Or just buy up Exodus, period, continue operating it as a GOC, and release vulnerabilities are they're discovered.
Ask Slashdot: How Many Employees Does Microsoft Really Need? 272
An anonymous reader writes: Yesterday, word came down that Microsoft was starting to lay off some 18,000 workers. As of June 5th, Microsoft reported a total employee headcount of 127,005, so they're cutting about 15% of their jobs. That's actually a pretty huge percentage, even taking into account the redundancies created by the Nokia acquisition. Obviously, there's an upper limit to how much of your workforce you can let go at one time, so I'm willing to bet Microsoft's management thinks thousands more people aren't worth keeping around. How many employees does Microsoft realistically need? The company is famous for its huge teams that don't work together well, and excessive middle management. But they also have a huge number of software projects, and some of the projects, like Windows and Office, need big teams to develop. How would we go about estimating the total workforce Microsoft needs? (Other headcounts for reference: Apple: 80,000, Amazon: 124,600, IBM: 431,212, Red Hat: 5,000+, Facebook: 6,800, Google: 52,000, Intel: 104,900.)
Comment Re:what a coincidence (Score 1) 253
You're thinking of Type 1 Diabetes where this is for Type 2.
No, many type 2 diabetics are insulin-dependant.
