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Comment Re:Logs don't Lie Bitch (Score 2) 609

Do it on your own gasoline car. Follow this principle:

1. Clutch to the floor, gear in first.
2. Clutch up, accelerator pedal into the floor until you hit yellow line on tahometer
3. Hard brake, clutch to the floor.

Come back and tell us how you burned tens of kilometers worth of fuel in that one kilometer of testing.

Comment Re:You clearly didn't review the charts given. (Score 2) 609

As noted by many, those words raised a LOT of red flags. Basic lessons in physics would suggest to anyone that perpetual motion does not exist. That means slowing down and speeding up isn't going to magically charge the battery. So either reporter is lying or exceptionally stupid.

Considering that he reports on cars and has done so for a while, one would assume that he is familiar enough with physics not to be exceptionally stupid.

Comment Re:Just wondering (Score 1) 160

The idea is on a shaky ground. It's basically a corporate pharma interest (huge lobby) vs public interest.

Corporate pharma argues that to discover the exact gene, they need significant research, just like with medicine. This is true, though research requires much less then new medicine producing research. They also argue that it's an invention rather then discovery for the same reason why discovering certain molecules leads to new medicines. Molecules that existed in nature for ages, that can be transformed into some form of treatment therefore is patentable.

The obvious counter arguments are plentiful, but they lack the powerful lobby behind them, and current trend is "weak government representing people, strong corporate lobby representing potential profits". Results can be seen in the ruling on top of the page.

Comment Re:meanwhile... (Score 1) 207

This would actually not work too well in this case. Sure, you yourself can move out of jurisdiction, but where does your advertisement revenue comes from? Most likely vast majority of it comes from EU companies or companies with legal presence in EU..

So let us imagine that getting dinged by this legislation bans EU based advertisers from selling advertisements to you under penalty of significant fine if caught. Suddenly all large advertisers face a clear cut choice: continue ignoring the law and lose vast majority of targeted local clients or honor the law and gain them.

I suspect that losses for ignoring would demolish profits far more then obeying but gaining all the local clients. Some things like gambling sites and porn could probably ignore this, but most of the major advertising networks mostly sell ads for local companies.

Comment Re:Too much concentrated power (Score 2) 149

That is why corporations are focusing and concentrating mass media first and foremost. Propaganda is the power of control of the masses. As long as critical mass isn't reached, no one important cares about fringe thinkers understanding the reality. Propaganda will just discredit the thinkers, hide the atrocities committed to them and tell everyone that they have the best place to live in the world.

So to answer your question: most likely never unless some major catastrophe happens that will massively upset the current power structure. The current trend is concentration of power in private hands with little to no oversight of any kind.

Comment Re:What do they consider a user? (Score 1) 314

Opera Mini and Nokia Asha's browser are huge in countries with spotty/bad/expensive mobile coverage. They shrink pages to about 10% of their original size and then stream them from a local proxy. Speed increases are phenomenal.

On the downside it does mangle some pages pretty badly and you don't want to do any really sensitive stuff through it as it's a proxy browser (i.e. banking). Of course, in most of the developing countries at which these systems are aimed Opera and Nokia are trusted FAR more then local operators and in many cases even banks and for a good reason. Western companies tend to adapt Western principles and ethics to their business in large parts, while local culture may view swindling someone who's stupid as a "natural thing to do".

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