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Comment Re:Not downsizing nuclear (Score 1) 484

Sigh... Coal is only useful for base load. The spool up time for coal is too slow for peaking.
Natural gas is ideal for peaking since you can use it in gas turbine plants for peaking since the spool up time is so fast.
I showed you references do you have any data at all to back up what you are saying?
France may or may not use natural gas for base load but many nations do since it is so cheap and clean.
I would say that the engineers in France are knowledgeable and I would also bet that they would agree with what I am saying. Too bad it is the political parties that want to cut nuclear.

Comment Re:Not downsizing nuclear (Score 1) 484

"It would not ... as most CO2 is produced by cars, house heating and industry."
Since renewables only generate electricity we can ignore all none electrical sources as far as nuclear and renewables. Unless you want to count the tiny number of passive solar heating installations.
If you look at this graphic http://energytransition.de/fil...
You will see that France gets around 10% from hydro. You will also see that France still gets some power from coal which is baseload power is is ideal to replace with nuclear. The natural gas is probably split between base load and peaking load. Replacing the base load with nuclear is again a simple matter the peaking is a more difficult issue which is why I suggested that France should convert their hydro from a base load to a peaking source aka as pumped storage. The power stored would come from a combination of both renewables and nuclear.
As to your comment about where the majority of CO2 comes from do you have any sources?
My research shows that home heating in france is more often than not electrical heating. https://www.justlanded.com/eng...

Do you have any real data or just insults?

Comment Re:If something like this slips through testing (Score 1) 62

Possibly. If the summary is correct, this would be abysmally bad. Although it seems the vulnerability was only there for a short time, and they possibly did not fix, but roll-back to get rid of it. Fixes take some time, roll-backs are almost instantaneous. Roll-backs can only be done for an not very old previous version though, so they likely had one that was still fine.

Comment If something like this slips through testing (Score 5, Insightful) 62

Then testing either sucks completely or ignores security functionality. This really is an absolute basic thing to test, just as testing that giving a wrong password does not give you access. The state of practical software engineering seems to still be abysmal, even after this problem has been known for a few decades. It is high time to legally bar amateurs from doing software that has any security functionality that protects customer assets and data.

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Gmail Messages Can Now Self-Destruct 204

New submitter Amarjeet Singh writes: Dmail is a Chrome extension developed by the people behind Delicious, the social bookmarking app/extension. This extension allows you to set a self-destruct timer on your emails. You can use Dmail to send emails from Gmail as usual, but you will now have a button which can set an self destruct timer of an hour, a day or a week. Dmail claims it will also unlock a feature that won't allow forwarding, meaning only the person you sent your message to will be able to see it.

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