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Submission + - EFF Launches The Day We Fight Back 2

Submitted by phmadore
phmadore writes: The Electronic Frontier Foundation is on a holy crusade to protect the fourth amendment. No matter how you feel about the activities of the National Security Agency as revealed to us in the last several months, you should call your representatives and tell them! The campaign is called "The Day We Fight Back" and it encourages all dutiful citizens to take a few minutes to either call or e-mail their representatives to voice their opinion on the looming possibility of or already existing Big Brother we read about in 1984 as children. Personally, I chose to call, and the process was very smooth.

Submission + - Too cheap to meter: new lies about artificial markets (forbes.com)

Submitted by mdsolar
mdsolar writes: Nuclear power plants are becoming uneconomical and closing. They can't compete in deregulated wholesale markets. In the Midwest, low natural gas prices are keeping wholesale prices low and aging nuclear plants can't catch up with deferred maintenance and still make a profit. In the Northeast, a history of dishonesty on the part of Entergy, an owner of used nuclear power plants, has made it difficult for them to get long term contracts and has turned eyes towards hydro power from Quebec. Markets should punish incompetence and dishonesty. But Forbes is claiming that these deregulated markets are artificial, and we need to look to the Southeast for real markets: markets where regulators choose forms of generation and guarantee profits for large utilities while working to keep competition out through lobbying against renewable energy standards. Those markets don't seem to lack artificiality. According to detailed analysis, dumping nuclear power makes achieving climate goals less costly as well. Forbes, living in backwards world, claims that keeping uneconomical nuclear plants helps rather than hurts these goals. Nuclear power started life with lies about low costs, claiming it would be too cheap to meter. Many people lost their investments in the 1970's and 80's as this was revealed as a lie. They just can't seem to help themselves. They are too compulsive to come clean. Lots of other deceptions in this piece, See how many you find.

Submission + - Ask SlashDot: What if they give you a broken project? 1

Submitted by X10
X10 writes: Suppose you're assigned to a project that someone else has created. It's an app, you'll work on it alone. You think "how hard can it be", you don't check out the source code before you accept the assignment. But then, it turns out the code is not robust. You create a small new feature, and the app breaks down in unexpected ways. You fix a bug, and new bugs pop up all over the place. The person who worked on the project before you is well respected in the company, and you are "just a contractor", hired a few months ago.

The easy way out is to just quit, as there's plenty of jobs you can take. But that doesn't feel right. But, what else can you do?

Comment Re:Regulations a bit premature (Score 5, Insightful) 1146

by polar red (#45697979) Attached to: US Light Bulb Phase-Out's Next Step Begins Next Month

LED bulbs are far better – when implemented correctly, they're pretty much indistinguishable from incandescents. But they are also very expensive – about $15 for the Cree bulbs at Home Depot, which are the cheapest ones I've found that have decent online reviews. Hopefully in a couple of years the manufacturing process will mature so that the price will go down without compromising quality.

the price of leds is made up by the extreme long life they have.

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