Isn't the problem supposed to be that the wind doesn't always blow or may not blow more in the winter and during the day when demand may be higher.

Same for sun, which of course do shine more during the day but not in the winter.

University of Bologna is ranked #182, KTH #110 and Uppsala university #81 at QS World University Rankings (There MIT rank #1.)

I decided to click the PDF link and help you out:

"Giuseppe Levi Bologna University, Bologna, Italy
Evelyn Foschi Bologna, Italy
Bo HÃistad, Roland Pettersson and Lars Tegnér Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
Hanno Essén Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden"

Considering you got 2 mod points for claiming it's secrecy ...

Uppsala universitet was funded 1477, it's the oldest university in the Nordic countries.

Bo HÃistad is a professor at the Department of Physics and Astronomy, Nuclear Physics.
Roland Pettersson is at the Department of Chemistry - BMC, analytic chemistry.
Lars Tegner is a professor emeritus at the Department of technological science, electricity.

KTH / the royal institute of technology is the largest and oldest .. uhm.. college? whatever of technology in Sweden.

Hanno Essén describes himself on a webpage as:
"Universitetslektor (retired), Department of Mechanics, KTH
Docent, Theoretical Physics, Stockholm University

I am a retired, but still active in research, senior lecturer (associate professor) at the Department of Mechanics, KTH, Stockholm, Sweden. Former Director of undergraduate studies (studierektor) 1990-2012 and former chairman of the Swedish Skeptics (FÃreningen Vetenskap och Folkbildning, VoF)."

I can only assume the Italians are of similar qualification.

Bologna University, founded 1088!! 85 000 students in 23 schools!

Giuseppe Levi is a researcher in their Department of Physics and Astronomy:
Google translate from unibo.it

Evelyn Foschi is a Doctor (Fields of research: Physical Sciences, Engineering and Technology  Engineering  Electrical and Electronic Engineering) at the Department of Physics at the university of Bologna (http://www.intechopen.com/profiles/108904/Evelyn-Foschi)

I don't know what they are allowed to do and isn't. I assume they may be doing their best from what they are free to do with the device.

Maybe I should stand out and claim it's fusion.

If I'm wrong no-one care because I'm just random user on Slashdot who make a stupid comment.

But if I'm right!! Then I was soo ahead of so many others! (Except the conspiracy theorists whom gladly jump upon anything including this.)

Uh-huh. And in Pakistan and other African countries they outlawed marrying girls under the age of 10. Of course it still happens, as we all know "making something illegal" doesn't stop it from happening.

Why don't you just make a slipstream CD/DVD with all the updates on it? It sure doesn't take that long to do and at this point in time if you're re-doing it on more than one machine per month you should have one anyway. If you don't know how this will give you the basic primer on it.

Wikipedia is full of factual inaccuracies, it gets even worse the closer you come to articles on politics or popular culture. Then the neutrality goes right out the window because someone, somewhere is always carrying an agenda. I think my current favorite is the #gamergate article where the founder of wikipedia has stepped in because a particular subset of users and ultra-leftwing feminists skewed the neutrality so badly that even he could spot it. Couple that with a particular senior editor having done nearly 25% of the edits and breaking the neutrality rule, it's now led him down the path where people on both sides of the spectrum want him stripped of the ability to edit at all.

There's instances of this from other blogs doing the same thing. One example that stands out in my mind is from LGF. Where a user bombed comments on hot air(during a low moderation period) to claim that "hot air supported racism." Then was lauded for what they did on their home site.

The reason why this thread (along with all other threads) will be 90% focused on Malala is because - bluntly put - Malala is a lot more news-worthy than Kailash Satyarthi. On one hand, you have a young fragile good looking girl who is standing up against evil tyranny. On the other hand, you have a decidedly unsexy oldish guy who has been chugging along on his fight against child labor (which really is a fight against bonded or slave labor) for the past 3 decades.

It is a different matter that Kailash has been able to create an organization with over 80000 members and his efforts over the last couple of decades have directly resulted in hundreds of thousands of children from getting freed from the cycle of bonded labor. It is also a different matter that he was being considered for the Nobel peace prize for a decade now. But of course, there are many many people who are just putting their head down and doing their bit to improve the world. So why him, right? He didn't even have a meaningful twitter following until this news just broke. Heck, even people in his country hardly knew about him, except in the NGO (India's term for not-for-profit organizations) circles. But that is modern media for you. And by extension, our modern attention spans.

Just to be perfectly clear, I am not begrudging Malala anything. Her courage and ambition and ability to leverage the publicity she has been getting - has been extraordinary. But to both Malala and Kailash - this award is a game changer for them - in terms of publicity and monetary support. In a very real way, the Nobel Peace prize has not just become an acknowledgment of effort but a very powerful tool to further boost their efforts.

I, for one, am really happy that the award went to these two, instead of presidents and famous politicians who really didn't need the award, except as a pat in the back.

I hope you know that neither console uses 1080 as a native resolution. Some games use 1080 mainly on the PS4, though they're main 900p, almost all games on the Xbox One are 792. Some get up-sampled to 1080p. But let's compare the current generation of hardware on those consoles, and what you could build with a PC. And you'll find that for ~30-80 more then a console you can build a PC that will stomp the ground flat and do 1080p without a problem.

The current gen of consoles at best were aborted messes that anyone in their right mind should never have bought.

I'm sure some console fanboy will come out any time now and still scream that these consoles are more powerful than PC's and all that. Well I guess they are, but only if you count a PC from ~3-4 years ago.

Wasn't Google set up set up (strike that), transformed to do just this? Along with Facebook and Twitter?

The only issue I see with this being part of systemd is that this probably means you need to run systemd in order to get virtual terminals (because of internal dependencies). This might be bad for small embedded distros that don't want to run the whole systemd stack. Perhaps things like systemd-shim will work, in which case it might not be too painful, but otherwise the distro might have to lug around relatively heavy components in order to get virtual terminals.

As far as I can tell the systemd devs seem to want to optimize Linux for a number of use cases while declaring all use cases that stand to lose as irrelevant. A lot of people are unhappy about this, thus the hate. Well, and their attitude.

The basic idea (replacing the old VT code with something new and better) seems fine; the only problem is that it's yet another component that will be integrated with systemd. If the old VT code is completely deprecated in favor of systemd-consoled that means that yet another part of the Linux world has dependencies on systemd.

While that may be fine if you run the kind of system systemd expects, it's problematic if you want to use, say, an embedded system built around uclibc instead of glibc. To my knowledge, systemd still refuses to incorporate libc compatibility patches and thus won't run unless you use their preferred libc flavor. Trying to make your embeddded Linux distro work without systemd will mean that you either have to write and maintain your own console daemon or live without virtual terminals. Or, of course, you can move to glibc and systemd, even if your distro would be better served by lighter alternatives.

I think that the systemd subprojects would be more popular if they were less dependent on each other... and if the developers had less of a "my way of the highway" attitude.

On the other hand, Amazon is the king of "you recently bought a new computer so we figured you'd be interesting in buying more new computers. Have some ads". It's baffling how Amazon will send you mails advertising the exact same kind of thing you just bought after you purchased something. Sure, for things like media it kinda makes sense but for other things it really doesn't.