Comment: Federal Europe (Score 1) 97
Approved. Sorry not to have mod points to + you...
H.
P. S. is european federalism taboo to the extent you are obliged to post AC?
Comment: Fukushima levels weren't centennial ones (Score 1) 377
Maybe I'm wrong, but my understanding of Sendai / Fukushima disaster is that, at the time of building, only the centennial tsunami record was available, while afterwards the continental drift theory (then in its infancy) developed enough to calculate, and predict, new water levels.
These levels, that caused the accident.
Aren't we close to such a scenario here?
(disclaimer: I'm not a new yorker, I'm in France, the country with so many nuclear plants that we voluntarily blind ourselves rather than analysing new geo data. Lucky you...)
Comment: At least Garmin accept OSM maps (Score 1) 340
http://garmin.openstreetmap.nl/
"Private Garmin", yes, but quite the opposit attitude as concerns Openstreetmap.
And it works: My dezl does drive me, turn by turn, with this.
Too bad the dezl is so buggy that at the present time I just cannot manage to get the speech back
Comment: Re:exploring for the sake of exploring (Score 1) 111
GoogleMaps images are obsolete because Google doesn't *buy* recent images, that are for sale and not for free. But indeed they are available...
(In some countries the national geographic agency indeed provides them; for instance in France you generally can get more accurate images through the national geographic institute's portal than through Google, but this is national alone...)
Russian Superjet 100 crashed during demo flight->
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Prokur writes "A brand new Russian Sukhoi Superjet 100 airliner on a demonstration flight with 37 passengers (mostly future clients and journalists) and 8 Russian crew members on board went missing after it took off from airport in Jakarta. After an extensive search, rescuers concluded, based on the widespread debris field on the side of a ridge, that the aircraft directly impacted the rocky side of Mount Salak and there was "no chance of survival.""
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Adobe puts a price tag on security updates for Photoshop and others->
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An anonymous reader writes "disgusting."
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Game Over for the Climate->
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mdsolar writes "James Hansen writes in the NYT: "GLOBAL warming isn’t a prediction. It is happening. That is why I was so troubled to read a recent interview with President Obama in Rolling Stone in which he said that Canada would exploit the oil in its vast tar sands reserves “regardless of what we do.”
If Canada proceeds, and we do nothing, it will be game over for the climate.""
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If Canada proceeds, and we do nothing, it will be game over for the climate.""
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Comment: why SA off? (Score 1) 290
Well, if I dare say, SA was turned off not at all because of its ineffectiveness, but in a last, desperate move to try preventing Europe deciding for their own positioning system, aka Galileo.
Clinton turned SA off mere months before Europe voted Galileo funding, and this after an anti-Galileo campaign that was so gross that indeed it was vastly counter-effective for the decision-makers here.
The only other campaign that was as laughable as that was when we voted on the Euro: I still keep some actual paper newspaper full-page ads that were tremendous...
Netherlands first country in Europe with net neutrality->
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TheGift73 writes "On 8 May 2012 The Netherlands adopted crucial legislation to safeguard an open and secure internet in The Netherlands. It is the first country in Europe to implement net neutrality in the law. In addition, it adopted provisions protecting users against disconnection and wiretapping by providers. Digital rights movement Bits of Freedom calls upon other countries to follow the Dutch example."
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Comment: Jam NK?? But in NK even the *radio* is wired! (Score 4, Informative) 290
Yes, NK state radio is delivered to each home by wire. And each home has a "radio" set which of course is geared to only connect to this wire, and does not receive any RF signal indeed. In NK not only you aren't supposed to listed other countries' radios, but you technically can't.
And incidentally, this "wire radio" is by design unjammable...