Germany gets more power from solar than California (as a percentage), and they're about the same latitude as most northern US states. In fact, I think their northern border is much farther north than all US states.
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Desalinization requires a LOT of power. So, maybe they are focusing on it, but they're taking care of prerequisites first.

Go read the story of Sodom and Gomorrah again.

The story is about how a group of men were coming to Lot's house to rape the visitors. As the host, it was Lot's job to protect them, and he even offered his daughter up for rape to protect his guests.

Now, find a story about two people of the same sex being in a committed loving relationship and show me where it is condemned.

Homosexuality in the Bible was always related to violence or the worship of other gods. There is not a reference to the type of homosexuality that exists today, so it is very hard to get a Biblical case, pro or con.

With only 3 non-overlapping channels, and often wifi access points choosing their own overlapping channel (like 3 or 8), your parent's wireless is likely interfering with a neighbor's wireless. This is much more likely in an apartment complex.

If someone is running 802.11g (or, 802.11b because they only have 6mbps DSL and 11mbps 802.11b is more than enough for their DSL), they are occupying the wireless channel for an extended amount of time.

Even a group of grandmas in an apartment complex running 802.11b only to access their 6mb DSL connection would quickly see their speeds plummet because of CMSA/CA causing a cascade failure of the wireless signal.

Going with the current wireless standard (802.11n in both 2.4 and 5ghz) is the right answer. 802.11ac is very new, so I would agree for now that the additional cost isn't worth it. At the very least, 802.11n 2.4ghz should be default.

The facts of the case state it was between 180-190F.

-This is the minimum temperature coffee is brewed at. Most consider the ideal to be at or just over 200F.
-Starbucks has served me coffee, this year, right as it was brewed at 200F, without me asking for it hot.
-The large print that almost every place now has declaring that COFFEE IS HOT is FUCKING STUPID, and can be traced directly to this stupid case.

SHE spilled the coffee, not McDonalds. Hot liquids can be dangerous. A 79 year old woman should know this. It isn't McDonald's job to educate her on this.

Her estimate of past and future medical bills was $20,000 for her mistake. McDonald's offered $800, because it wasn't their fault.
Less that $640,000 for $20,000 in medical bills that were her fault is exactly the type of stuff that makes people upset.

To be clear: I hate McDonald's: They have unhealthy food, pay their employees slave wages, and from what I've witnessed when I was a customer years ago, they treat their employees like shit. There are a lot of reasons they should be penalized, but coffee served at coffee temperatures isn't one of them.

That's exactly my point. They're wanting the ability to take you completely offline. I'm proposing a middle ground where you're not knocked completely offline, and getting back online can be automated.

We agree, that is why I want them to be a coordinator, not the executioner.

Capture their DNS and have it be a website.

Coordinate with the Ad Council to get them to run PSA showing the standard redirect page and how to check the SSL cert of that page. Remind the viewers that this is the ONLY way their ISP will notify them of an issue and that your hardware and software vendor will never call you.

Man, the more I think of it, I REALLY like the idea of a standard remediation zone that all ISPs could deploy.

DNS would be filtered, only DNS responses to hosts on the allowed list. I would even be ok with MitM changes to DNS queries in this case.

Again, the idea is that you are only placed in this zone when your device has attacked another.
Once you think you've fixed the issue, they could allow all DNS traffic again, but watch your traffic to see if the attacks resume. This could be automated, so the end user doesn't have to constantly call the ISP.

If you have a malicious device connected to an ISP, the ISP should be the one to disconnect it. The problem is that the target of the malicious device is often on another ISP.

Rather than allowing the government to be the hammer and force people offline, the government should create a coordination point where attacks can be reported and the proper ISP and their customers alerted to the activity.

One of the activities could be creating OSS that allows for firewall logs to send attack information to this central resource.

Another could be creating a help page that assists end users with understanding why they're having this issue and how to correct it.

Finally, proposing a Internet remediation zone would be the best end result. Instead of pulling the cord on infected devices, put them on a standard ACL/web filter that only allows them to software updates and AV signatures.

These are harder tasks for any one ISP to do, but a good thing for government to do.

Like most things, there are reasons they're better and reasons they're worse.

You can look up the differences between VAWT and HAWT (google it), but basically, VAWT that you're talking about is likely a good idea for personal turbines, but isn't the best for large wind farms. That said, some have discussed using VAWT close to the ground in large HAWT wind farms so they can harvest both ground level wind and wind aloft.

Forgive me for not looking for all of your posts in other threads. I was responding to this thread.

I agree, with FPS gaming and other "twich" games, you're at a disadvantage.

That said, this is still useful for about all other applications, unlike geosynchronous orbit Internet which has latency of 1000ms or so. When you get to levels that high, you can still stream movies and browse web pages, but VoIP and teleconf is unusable, and even casual games become unplayable (poker, etc).

Still, it is a big deal. I know a lake near me that has no options for broadband other than geosynchronous Internet with a very low monthly cap and very high latency. They'd love this!

Yik Yak isn't a valid comparison to the rest of the Internet, because it is only anonymous. It is the smartphone app for /b/, and it comes with the same issues.

If they want to change the app to something that has a persistent ID, then there is all sorts of methods to start weeding out assholes. The moment they do that, though, it stops being completely anonymous and starts becoming just a localized version of Twitter.

Even this site relies on pseudonyms to maintain some level of reputation. Anonymous posts have no reputation, no history of being a productive or disruptive member. The idea of being able to be completely anonymous requires acceptance that some will misuse it. Either embrace it or stay away from it, because there simply is no way to "fix" it without changing it into something else entirely.

Your reference only looked at 3rd shift.

When you look at all workers in the US, your 97% figure turns into 52.6% when you factor in all of the various work arrangements outside of the normal working arrangements.

So, only slightly better than flipping a coin. Try again.

However, if we took all of the money we're spending on trying to find this wreck and build a next-gen blackbox system that streams all cockpit voice and aircraft telemetry over satellite links, we'll never have to search like this again to get those answers.