Why does base load generators help when the load is not flat? And the load is far from flat.

You will need peak power plants either way. Whether you run them because the load is too high for the nuclear power stations or because the wind has died down for a while does not matter.

I'll see your 10kWh battery bank and raise you a 1 m3 fuel tank. Every house used to have one. 3 orders of magnitude more energy.

Hydro is the perfect peak load. It is a waste to use it for base load, but in many places it is abundant enough to use for that as well.

Legally it is not a problem for most of the flight. Send it off from a ship in international waters and be sure to fly only over international waters. The legal problems start when you reach North Korean waters, of course.

It is not a realistic prospect. For daemons, the automatic handling by systemd is so much of an advantage that we will see server software depending on it. It will have to be emulated by the other init daemons, and so far I have not seen any of them work in that direction.

For GUI stuff, GNOME is already partially dependent on systemd, and KDE is going that way too.

There is no excuse for having congestion in your network on a daily or weekly. It can happen once in a blue moon when a line becomes unexpectedly busy, but it should never be the normal mode of operations.

At least not in a pretend-first-world-country where it is easy to lay backbone fiber.

Of course the screen lock in X was a security device; back when X was designed most workstations were shared.

XScreenSaver has some atrocious code to work around the deficiencies in X. Most of the time it succeeds.

Of course there is. One powerful negative feedback is that CO2 lets less and less infrared radiation escape, so every new added CO2 atom in the atmosphere has less effect than the previous one -- it cannot block radiation which was already blocked by other CO2 atoms.

This is part of the reason why doubling of CO2 levels "only" causes a linear temperature rise. CO2 only has a logarithmic effect on the temperature.

Which is lucky. Anything more complex than bacteria would have trouble surviving the wild temperature swings that a linear correlation between CO2 and temperature would cause.

And then you try to open a mainstream news site, like the Washington Times article linked to earlier, and you are presented with a full-page list of sites the page wants to load content from. It turns out the CSS one is washtimes.com, and that is all that was actually required.

I wish requestpolicy would label links by how they got pulled in (CSS, image, script...)

Alas, noise regulations prevent departures between 11pm and 7am at the Santa Monica airport.

Plenty of people get RFC 1918 or RFC 6598 instead of public addresses from their ISP. I would guess that the majority of internet connections in the world are given private space.

It is not common in the US because the US is still drowning in IP addresses, and a lot of the customers are using cable or DSL. In Europe you will often be behind CGN when you use a mobile ISP, and in Asia you will likely be behind CGN no matter how you connect.

Welcome to 2015.

(Of course most ISP's do not hand out browsers at all, much less browsers which are remote controlled from a server somewhere. It is hardly a surprise that North Korea does.)

Yes. They are that bad. Read the threads about Gnome vs. systemd-timesyncd vs. Chrony and weep.

http://www.spinics.net/lists/f...

And Poettering in his usual ignorant condescending style:

http://www.spinics.net/lists/f...

Chrony is a complete working implementation of the NTP protocol. NTPD gets its knickers in a twist at the slightest excuse and sometimes ends up stepping the time even though it has perfectly good Internet connectivity and a reasonably good internal clock. Chrony keeps steady time even if Internet access is intermittent. It never gets confused and picks a falseticker pretending to be stratum one instead of a stratum 3 with correct time, unlike NTPD.

It even has interfaces to GPS clocks or other hardware clocks, so you can run your stratum 1 server on Chrony if you want.

SystemD does not have an NTP client. It has an SNTP client. Just like OpenNTPD.

Time zones are fine. Astronomers are not to blame for those. Astronomers ARE to blame for the mess that is UTC. Give them UTC and UT1, and move all civil time to TAI with time zones. Change time zones when the offset gets too large (which is pretty large, considering that China does just fine in a single time zone -- they somehow survive that the sun is not precisely above them at 12.)