alex67500 - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Didn't Apple just announce this? (Score 1) 160

by alex67500 on Thursday May 31, 2012 @05:21AM (#40164493) Attached to: Is a "Net Zero" Data Center Possible?

I'm not actually sure how much the last means in practice, considering that it's not like they have dividers that say "this electron came from solar so it goes to Apple, while this electron came from coal so it can't." So really what it turns into is Apple giving the power company more money so that hopefully they'll build more renewable sources. Not to say that I don't applaud the decision, and even 60% generation is impressive, but it is indirect.

The more people buy "renewable" energy, the more other people get non-renewable. But to be fair to electrical companies (at least what I can see here in Europe), they seem the be re-investing the extra money from the tree-hug^H^H^H renewable energy buyers into more renewable energy projects.

Comment Re:If I were french I'd be mad (Score 1) 285

by alex67500 on Wednesday May 23, 2012 @06:05AM (#40085073) Attached to: EU Blocks France's Ban of Monsanto's GM Maize

Just because you willingly decide to tread in manure doesn't mean you won't regret the stink on your shoes later, or that it was a good idea.

Don't forget, the cockerel is our national emblem because it's the only animal who willing treads in manure every morning before it starts singing.

Comment Re:If I were french I'd be mad (Score 1) 285

by alex67500 on Wednesday May 23, 2012 @06:01AM (#40085065) Attached to: EU Blocks France's Ban of Monsanto's GM Maize

the power of the European Parliament would increase at the expense of the Commission and Council.

Lowering the power (or even getting rid) of the Commission is what Europe needs to survive. Or at least letting democracy have a word in its members. But we need to accept the Federal side of things and have clearer rules on what's Federal and what's national (or regional, maybe).

Same for the European Council, with an unelected president... Well what's the difference with the commission again ? (Oh, and don't confuse it with the council of europe which is more a 47-state-funded human rights charity).

Comment Re:Congratulations, Verizon (Score 1) 331

by alex67500 on Friday May 18, 2012 @10:42AM (#40040969) Attached to: Verizon To Kill All Unlimited Data Plans

Mmmmh. Actually, Slashdot supports the € html entity -- or maybe it's your browser I don't know... ;-)

Comment Re:Congratulations, Verizon (Score 2) 331

by alex67500 on Wednesday May 16, 2012 @06:50PM (#40022751) Attached to: Verizon To Kill All Unlimited Data Plans

Isn't that two typical illegal clauses (termination fee, bounding a contract for only one party)? That's like saying, "if you sign this, you agree to pay an additional 20€ per month, and if we want to change it to an arbitrary amount we can void your contract and you can't get away from us".

20$, not 20€ ! We got the Euro crisis, they got Verizon. Each to their own shit.

Comment Re:Excuse my French. (Score 1) 255

by alex67500 on Thursday April 26, 2012 @07:00PM (#39813859) Attached to: Steve Jobs' Idea For an Ad-Supported OS

Excuse me, I'm French, and I find this offending.

Nique cette merde !

Now *that's* French. And I'll excuse it for you.

Comment New DMZ (Score 1) 211

by alex67500 on Wednesday April 18, 2012 @06:24AM (#39721069) Attached to: Spoiler Alert: Your TV Will Be Hacked

I never thought I'd have to create a new DMZ just for my TV :-)

Comment Maybe... (Score 2) 66

by alex67500 on Monday April 02, 2012 @09:48AM (#39548201) Attached to: Federal Judge Rules P2P Users Aren't In a Conspiracy

"copyright holders seem to be finding less and less favor with judges."

Maybe the judge found his name in the list of infrigers... :-)

Comment Re:How Do You Back Up? (Score 1) 304

by alex67500 on Saturday March 31, 2012 @01:14PM (#39535071) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: It's World Backup Day; How Do You Back Up?

You, Sir, deserve a medal!

Comment Re:Both can be equally bad (Score 1) 403

by alex67500 on Friday March 23, 2012 @01:23PM (#39453387) Attached to: Do Women Make Better Bosses?

"I don't understand you honour, I thought rape was when you didn't want to have sex... I wanted to! Very hard!!"

Comment Re:Wet T-shirt effect (Score 2) 230

by alex67500 on Monday March 19, 2012 @10:28AM (#39402753) Attached to: Google Cools Data Center With Bathroom Water

Apparently evaporation is the tendency for young women on spring break to get drunk and engage in civil disobedience of public indecency laws. Somehow, this is related to cooling.

Hence the saying "all the cool kids do it".

Comment Re:comparative position? (Score 4, Informative) 294

by alex67500 on Sunday March 18, 2012 @04:13PM (#39397561) Attached to: Mammoth "Metal Moles" Tunnel Deep Beneath London

Sorry, but no, it's in Cumbria, in the North of England. http://g.co/maps/4f64r

And I lost one mod point for you...

Comment Oblig... (Score 1) 274

by alex67500 on Friday March 16, 2012 @09:46AM (#39376469) Attached to: Why New Programming Languages Succeed Or Fail

There are only 2 different types of programming languages: those everybody continuously bitch about, and those nobody uses.

Comment Re:Hard-core user? (Score 1) 807

by alex67500 on Tuesday March 13, 2012 @02:35PM (#39341753) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Life After Firefox 3.6.x?

it's a browser for crying out loud. While that usually is a mayor tool these days, it's not your production server or OS kernel.

Note to self: never run for Governor, Congress, Senator or President, otherwise you won't be allowed to use a browser anymore...

Comment Re:Its called risk and research. (Score 0) 408

by alex67500 on Tuesday March 13, 2012 @01:25PM (#39340743) Attached to: Google 'Wasting' $16 Billion On Projects Headed Nowhere

Its not what it is, its something else.

Don't want to sound like little grammar Adolf, but I think someone needs to teach your sig about apostrophes...

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