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Comment apple profits from scams (Score 1) 14

Recently got a work email saying that the Apple app store is carrying a fraudulent version of our app which costs money including having a subscription fee while ours is free. I would assume the scam app also steals PII. Apple isn't responding to requests to remove it though it's clearly fraudulent (it's even using a version of the same name) which can only be because they get a cut of the fees.

Comment Re: At this point (Score 1) 29

"Its always Israel isn't it. No mention made of the journalists who've been "accidentally" fallen out of windows, in front of cars or just shot in Russia. Ditto China, Burma - sorry , Myanmar - and a dozen african countries."

It's not always Israel, it's only Israel more than any other country because they assassinate more journalists than any other country no matter how you measure.

Comment Re:Why not vertical instead ? (Score 1) 174

You could pack them more closely than the big-bladed suckers too.

No, you can't, because they would interfere with one another. Strictly speaking of course you can, but it would be a bad idea. You can put the big-bladed ones closer together than they do, but then they would interfere with one another too.

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Journal Journal: Anybody else using mailchimp?

14 years ago I picked mailchimp because it could read RSS feeds from my Knights of Columbus blog and send out daily digests.

We had a small form in an iframe allowing people to sign up to get the digests.

This year, something broke in the "detect a human" code for that small form, and I am getting hundreds of thousands of signups of the form "valid email address" "gibberish first name" "gibberish last name" and I can't figure out why.

Comment Re:Why not vertical instead ? (Score 1) 174

I don't understand why vertical-axis wind turbines are not more common

Because they are on the ground.

they take less horizontal space

That's outright false.

you can potentially stack shorter pieces as high as you want

Can you stack them high enough that they get into where the wind actually is? And if so, why not just put one windmill where the wind is?

(and use guy lines for stability)

So make them use more horizontal space?

I'm no expert so I guess they have good reason for this race to gigantism, but it seems a bit like the dinosaurs...

Obsolete and dead?

VAWTs make sense only on the tops of lonely hills.

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