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Comment What about .private? (Score 1) 76

I thought that the .private TLD was reserved for this purpose long before the proliferation of TLDs. I can not find that right now.
I know of at least one company that used .int for the internal domain name that is intended to be not reachable from the outside, even though .int was intended to be for international. So they registered and used mycompanyname.com externally, and use mycompanyname.int internally.

Comment KWe generation capacity cost (Score 1) 213

Using values referenced in the article for mini-nuclear power plants (values not verified)
            2E9 GBP * 1.32 USD/GBP / ( 440 MWe * 1000 KWe / MWe ) = 6000 USD/KWe
Using values referenced in the comments for the Sheffield nuclear power plants (values not verified)
          22E9 GBP * 1.32 USD/GBP / ( 3000 MWe * 1000 KWe / MWe ) = 9680 USD/KWe
These both seem in line with the capital cost for commercial power plants.
As posters have noted, nuclear power has the advantage of higher availability compared to renewable plants or even fossil powered plants.
There are thermodynamic advantages to large power plants. Large power plants also have lower operating cost for personnel compared to a set of smaller power plants with the same total production capacity.
There are additional losses from having to move power from remote electrical power plants to consumers.

Comment Re:Good, it was a BS case... (Score 1) 156

California AB5 also required community theater to treat any people receiving stipends as employees. This eliminated the ability of community theater to pay stipends (often $500 or less) for musicians. n.b.: In community theater, actors are usually NOT paid a stipend. Musicians are often paid a stipend.

Comment Re:Older? (Score 1) 39

The latest version of Mac OSX 10.13 High Sierra is not compatible with versions of Microsoft Office in use at our house and my spouse's small business. For example, Microsoft Office 2011 for Mac OS is not supported or tested on Mac OSX High Sierra. Even versions of Microsoft Office 2016 prior to v15.34 are not compatible. So when/if we update Mac OSX, we will have to buy new versions of software AND perhaps deal with the O365 perpetual subscription mess. No, it is not feasible to migrate to Open Office because we have several large applications built on Excel Macros and Excel VBA.

Comment Re:Courage (Score 1) 117

And even more courage to release a new phone with a headphone / microphone jack.
I have an iPhone 5 that had the battery replaced under warranty a year ago. When I took it out of the OtterBox Defender case at the Apple store, it was pristine except for some rub-marks from dust that worked in between the case and the phone.
The iPhone 5 meets my needs for now. If it were to fail, I would NOT purchase a phone that had no headphone / microphone jack. That does not leave many options in the iPhone lineup.
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Submission + - IE standardization fading fast (networkworld.com)

alphadogg writes: Just as Internet users in general have defected in huge numbers from Microsoft Internet Explorer over the past several years, the business world, as well, is becoming less dependent on the venerable browser. Companies that used to mandate the use of IE for access to web resources are beginning to embrace a far more heterodox attitude toward web browsers. While it hasn't gone away, the experience of having to use IE 6 to access some legacy in-house web app is becoming less common. "A lot of it has to do with the emergence of the modern web and the popularity of mobile. They have made it very different for companies to truly standardize on a browser," says Gartner Research analyst David Mitchell Smith.

Comment Want t-shirt logo for banner (Score 1) 229

Is it possible to get the Slashdot's 15th Anniversary Shirt logo with black instead of white lettering, black instead of white lines, and a transparent background sized to fit a 11" * 17" paper? I would like to print a few as banners/signs for the Slashdot party.

n.b. Join me at Larkspur Landing Shopping Center on 2012-10-26T19:45-7

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