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Comment Just become legal in England (Score 4, Informative) 239

In the last few days plug-in solar became legal for Britons. How expensive are they ? One company will "sell 460W and 890W kits, starting at £599 and £999 respectively, and it plans to launch another four models in late September, with prices starting from £499". Expect them to repay their cost in 4 to 10 years. I expect the purchase price to come down as volume sold goes up.

Comment Re:Nobody is multitasking (Score 1) 185

Correct. When I am driving my attention should be looking at the car in front, not peering at a display trying to find the menu item to change air-con fan speed. These screens are dangerous, you think that you will find what you want with a quick glance and suddenly realise that you have had your eyes off the road for 10 seconds - which at 70mph is over 200 yards.

I guess that BMW is now struck off the list when I next look for a car to buy; along with Tesla and others which are just computer screens with a vehicle attached.

Comment Re:What if s/ware was held to the same standard (Score 1) 72

Declaring a short product lifetime would not be allowed.

this makes no sense. it's an entirely different issue, plus you simply can't force anyone to provide unlimited support.

My point was to stop a vendor saying that the product lifetime is 3 months and thus using this as a get out from having to provide updates over a reasonable period. Quite how long is another debate.

Also: this need not apply to all s/ware and all bugs equally. Some which, for example, can lead to a security failure exploitable from a remote location if more important than a local cosmetic issue. Deciding a classification is a bigger can of worms than it seems at first sight.

Comment Re:Possibly (Score 1) 153

The point of free speech is that it doesn't matter where the idea came from, it's an open market of ideas.

The point of foreign trolls is to rage-bait and create (or exacerbate existing) divisions among Americans: Divide and Conquer. They do not care about the topic, only that the divisions grow -for "a house divided against itself cannot stand." *

* quote from Abraham Lincoln, who borrowed it from the Bible.

Comment Re:Idiocracy (Score 1) 165

Except that your vote only counts if you live in a purple county in a purple state (or one of the tiny handful that split electors).

Consider getting your state to join the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact.

Under the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, no voter will have their vote cancelled out at the state-level because their choice differed from plurality sentiment in their state. Instead, every voter’s vote will be added directly -without distortion- into the national count for the candidate of their choice. This will ensure that every voter, in every state, will be politically relevant in every presidential election.

The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact will take effect when enacted by states with a majority of the electoral votes (270 of 538). The candidate receiving the most popular votes in all 50 states and DC will get all the electoral votes from the enacting states. This guarantees that the candidate receiving the most popular votes nationwide will get enough Electoral College votes to become President.

The Compact has been enacted by 18 states and DC (CA, CO, CT, DE, DC, HI, IL, MA, MD, ME, MN, NJ, NM, NY, OR, RI, VA, VT, WA). These places together possess 222 of the 270 electoral votes needed to activate the Compact.

Comment As expected (Score 2) 33

Kalshi spokeswoman Dani Lever said in a statement: "Despite the Ninth Circuit's opinion, we still believe the CFTC regulations as written do not prohibit sports contracts, and in any event, the CFTC is working to clarify those regulations. We will be seeking further review."

There is nothing unusual about states having regulations in addition to federal regulations.

Alcohol is federally regulated. It is also subject to state and local regulation.

Comment Brilliant! (Score 5, Insightful) 136

A National Emergency Declaration that says we cannot purchase the critical equipment that is in such demand that it takes 6 months to 2 years to get already? We will just step out of line and let it go to whomever else wants it.

If there were available domestic suppliers of this equipment, all of the production would already be spoken for. There is unmet demand NOW.

[Oww, my balls!]

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