The cost of electricity has gone up, because electricity companies have to buy renewable energy from the producers for a set (high) price.
Then they push this price on to the customer.

So not the inefficiency is pushing up prices, but the actual amount of energy produced is.
If those things were more efficient, energy prices would be even higher.
Yes this is a stupid system.

Yes, it would make much more sense to go for the 'non polluting' option of renewables + nuclear.

Sadly this is not possible, because the political driving factor behind the rise of renewables (the green party) was also founded (!) on anti-nuclear sentiments.
It is hard to imagine them giving up their very core believes now that they have almost reached their goal.
On a general note, people who are in favor of renewables are usually also politically close to the green party, which hates on nuclear by principle.

So we are going for the 'green' option instead, even though it does not make much sense and will cause more pollution in the forseeable future instead of less.
Good idea + political dogma = mediocre results

Oh noes, we are wasting precious sunlight with all this inefficiency!

Wouldn't that also put his life in danger though?

Surely there are parties that want to get these information and a simple murder would be an easy way to gain access (along with everyoen else).

I would pilot an ingame mech fighting Starship Troopers-like aliens, that is really a miniature Terminator hunting bugs in a corn field.
Yes.
Though I would just as well pilot the real thing.

We'd send our drones after them if they wouldn't hack them and send them back.

There is no DRM on the books I bought so far.
I can lend them whoever I want.
But I sure as hell won't lend them my Kindle. They got to bring their own.

Oh and my local library is lending out ebooks. Which you have to return. I still don't understand how that is supposed to work, because there is no DRM on those books either.
But yes, lending ebooks is a thing apparently.

The paperwhite with backlight on is only for reading in a situation with dim lighting.
Which is has always been an eye-strainer, even with conventional books.
At least with the backlight, you have the option to increase lighting a bit. Not as comfortable as natural lighting, but better than reading a book with little light.

However, when there is ambient light, the backlighting of the paperwhite adds almost nothing.It looks exactly the same on a sunny day outside, sitting in the shades, with backlight on 100% and 0%. It looks like a piece of paper, readable, but not glowing.

So it is not meant to be used with a backlight.
but you have the option to do so.

'storm the offices' is a weird legal strategy.

So if not for that small moral issue, they are free to take the money and do whatever the hell they want with it?

From the article (yeah, i know...):

"This is not an OCR problem (as we switched off OCR on purpose), it is a lot worse"

The machines are altering the scanned pictures.
And they seem to do this in locations where there are numbers in the picture.
AND they seem to do it so that the altered image still contains numbers at the same location. Just different ones.

Cooperation is the intent. Coordination is required to make it happen.

I would expext that anything that could be expressed in a simple enough equation, could also be described in words easily enough.

But the first example in the summary mentions the Heisenberg uncertainty. Concepts like this are hard to describe in words, but the equations are just as hard to grasp. They are usually completely made up of often obscure variables, each of them standing for another equation, or an abstact concept of its own.
Unless you happen to know each of these, you will not be able to make much sense of the complete equation.
Trying to discover their meaning will quickly lead to even more unknowns for anyone not yet familiar with the topic.

Most people understand the language of the equation itself, which describes the relation of it's parts to each other, But if the parts of the equation are unknowns, how much use is that?

I think the hope is that the UN will be so split about any minor issue concerning the internet, that they will at worst endlessly debate and vote on censorship, but nothing will ever get done. So basicly the internet will forever be left to it's own devices.
This hope is not unfounded, given the previous record of the UN not getting stuff done.

I am not sure I get this.

If the path into orbital passes through earth, what keeps you from building your spacegun on that exact exit point on the other side of earth in the first place and point it into that direction?
Somewhere surely you will have to leave the insides of earth and approach orbit with that path. Which means there is a valid path from earth crust into orbit.

The 125khz chips can be read from several metres if you use the right setup.

It's just usually not the desired. Applications based on these chips often use the limited range to do more selective readings.
Say you want to read ONLY the tag on a single item in a stack and not pick up the other tags close by.