Comment The largest battery in the world (Score 2) 245
The largest battery in the world already exists in Virginia.
Bath County Pumped Storage Station
Which can deliver 3 GIGAWATT for a metric shitload of time
The largest battery in the world already exists in Virginia.
Bath County Pumped Storage Station
Which can deliver 3 GIGAWATT for a metric shitload of time
I can easily see why someone would feel threatened about someone else breaking into their house at 3:30 AM. To make it worse, if there was any reason to believe that the intruder could know that the homeowner was a cop (and therefore armed), it would be quite reasonable to assume that the intruder was prepared (and therefore armed) or that his entire motive was to kill.
What you seem to be arguing for is "I guess they were threatening me (even though no evidence to the fact was known at the time) so I am free to shoot them."
Consider how that stance plays into the *multiple* occasions where by innocent people have been blown away just for the sake of knocking on the wrong door.
As I just pointed out above, in VA you can only shoot in order to defend your life, and not your property. In no way did his daughter threaten his life. Hence the Deputy broke the law, yet remains unpunished (aside from all the therapy his daughter will need)
long story short, its apples and oranges, not parallel case
Except that in VA you are only allowed to shoot if you life is threatened, and not for the sake of protecting property. In no way did his daughter threaten his life.
So it is a parallel case. The deputy did something that was against the law, for which if anyone else had done it they would have been in jail faster than a speeding bullet.
While a death did not occur in this case in SW VA, a deputy shot his own daughter who was sneaking back home in through the garage at 3:30AM,
Deputy hear's noises in garage at 3:30AM
Deputy draws gun
Deputy has no idea who was in garage
Deputy blindly shoots said person
Deputy not charged with anything
Loudoun deputy won’t face charges in accidental shooting of teen daughter
I want to know HTF this was classed as "Accidental". Talk about different rules for different people.
vi. Because emacs is for the devil.
This year I delved into a Debian system, the first time I had really used a linux system in decades. What scared me was that when I needed to edit something my muscle memory took over and before I knew it I was happily editing away in vi.
I haven't used vi since well before the turn of the century.
Anyone who thinks they can affect the whole world this much is a moron or shill for some environmental group.
So how do you account for:
The hole in the ozone layer and the successful global response to fix it
Acid rain destroying forests and the successful global response to fix it?
Were they also not man made problems that affected the world as a whole?
Possibility 4) Hardlinking to a specific iPod makes it harder to hack the prosthetic arm from.
Bricking a device because a external independent device which is well known to be fragile and/or a target of theft has died/lost/stolen is a pretty bad design.
And if the external device is not independent, but is in fact required part of the bricked devices operation - then that is also bad design
at least for the newer devices, all you need to do is enter the "serial number" of the hand into the app and it can control it.
Gawd
I'm shocked.
Who knew that a system that lets you receive a phone call anywhere in the world can be used to tell where in the world you actually are??????
This is an aside to TFS, and more of a rant.
At my local library they have folded the Sci-Fi section in with the general fiction books. Which means I can no longer browse just Sci-Fi books. I am not sure why they did it, but what irks me a bit is that the Mystery section still remain separate.
If a person has a reasonable expectation of privacy, peeping tom laws already say you cannot look or take photos.
Tell that to the paparazzi. There is a whole industry devoted to finding public locations where you can spy on celebs, and then using the longest telephoto lens needed to get the shot.
From TFA
Two City Council members today will unveil a draft ordinance that would make it a crime to use a drone to film, audiotape or photograph people on their private property without their consent.
Which basically goes against well established photography law that basically says if you can see it from a public location then its fair game.
OTOH I'm not sure how you can reasonably legislate pics taken from drones. Do you now define a private location to include the airspace above it? But what if I am in public airspace, yet high enough to see over a wall?
Honestly, just substitute "bus" for any other mode of transportation. Go out on a limb and consider the greater possibilities.
There will always be something/someone that this will not affect, great. Maybe you living in a nuclear bunker with a sophisticated air and water filtration system, good for you.
What about the people at risk?
Apparently Facebook's expertise is needed here as well
It's everyone's problem when some person in Liberia, is now scared for his life and flees without knowing he is carrying the virus. In 48 hours he might be sitting next to you on a bus!
Ha! Ain't going to happen.
I live in a suburb in the US with ZERO public transportation options. Not only that I won't pass them on the street either as there are no frickin' sidewalks as well.
It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one.
