Comment Re:systematically unsafe (Score 1) 58
You haven't watched and studied crashing commercial airplanes ... have you ....
Comment systematically unsafe (Score 0) 58
Recently, been watching lots of airplane crash videos ... for reason. What strikes me is the casual insecurity of commercial air-travel product. Not average behavior of aircraft, pilots or airports ... those numbers look impressive ... but the detailed triviality of issues sufficient to crash any airplane anytime & anywhere. I advise you ... probe a hundred airliner crashes; listen to commentary; you will see that passenger safety is NOT and never has been a primary concern. Nothing special about cracks in Airbus wings.
Comment Re:North America datacenter? (Score 1) 104
Yep. Anything that hurts Chinese producers is good: anything that helps USA producers is good. Or are you some scab toxic CCP agent? EOF.
Comment Re:That's perfectly okay! (Score 1) 118
Same here. I'm typing on a 2015 DIY XEON-1240/32gig system that cost ~$1-K for parts on sale. MSI mobo & 1-T SSD/HD. Apple users believe over-spending is ... under-spending: like women buy shoes or handbags.
Comment B&D (Score 1) 118
You hear complaints from APPLE fanboiz, but in truth they love price increases. Silver-plate digital jewelry fans can't get enough of financial B&D when their emotional stability rests on the letter "i" filtering mongrels from the micro-electronics kennel.
Comment Re:Typical savages (Score 1) 104
Sometimes the self-interested "market" needs its claws clipped; anything for a buck miss-allocates value. You wouldn't let a pedofylic urban savage educate your child, so why would you let a CCP agent drive your car ?
Comment Re:Not quite immaculate conception (Score 1) 24
You will never convince a wimpwhristed green-beaning Gaia-zealot that any activity improving the human condition MUST-MUST-MUST degrade our surroundings. The 2nd Law is their nemesis.
Comment Re:What's the motivation? (Score 3, Informative) 179
. If you look at how fast renewables are growing
Solar is, by far, leading the growth of renewables. Solar is not a good source of energy in Canada, due to their high latitude (the angle of the sun is much less thus passing through more atmosphere), the disparity in amount of daylight received from season to season, and then the amount of snowfall they get, which covers solar panels.
Nuclear is one of the better sources of clean energy for a country like Canada.
Comment Re:Just an idea (Score 1) 193
Yep you are correct. Hands-on makes a difference. And I believe many small (craft) shops do that. Take your classic retail auto to them and they will re-machine/retool/rewire the vehicle into a fine driving creature you will enjoy, windy roads embrace and your grandson can drive to his senior prom.
Comment Re:AI gonna take a lot of Hollywood jobs! (Score -1, Troll) 29
Actually not suspected Communists, but well-documented rabid liberty-hating communists. The kind of writers/producers that gave Lenin and Trotsky blow-jobs behind the movie-set.
Comment Re:Guaranteed income & nutrition reduces recid (Score 0) 150
"In this piece, we explain how guaranteed income reduces recidivism..."
Of-course if the financial criminal is never found/prosecuted then he/she never spend jail-time and recidivism drops to zero. That's the guilt-laden California solution to crime ... make it legal ! Fuck the citizen victim they deserve it.
Of-course if the financial criminal is never found/prosecuted then he/she never spend jail-time and recidivism drops to zero. That's the guilt-laden California solution to crime
Comment Re:His crime was the following: (Score 1) 72
Damnation ... a literate & informative paragraph on SLASHDOT. Almost fell off my chair !
Comment support (Score 1) 169
For the unsupported home Linux user, non-System-D variants of Linux are less "friendly" than, say Ubuntu/Ubuntu-Mate . What home-lusr will install something of Dvuan-level difficulty when he/she can barely keep post-modern Ubuntu running ... just to avoid semi-invisible System-D ? Do not kid yourself .. for the non-pro casual lusr modern Linux is a royal bitch to admin ... under the best of circumstances. Think you can just burn a new LIVE-usb or add a new SSD / WiFi port; think again! If it were not for free GOOGLE.ai support I could not use Linux W/WO system-D.
Comment Re:Great (Score 0) 58
Obviously SLASHDOT modsters have never been 1st-year grad students in a bio-science. Chromic-acid baths are a wonderful way to learn DNA --> RNA --> protein .
Comment Re:A searchable list? (Score 1) 33
Best to assume electro-tek is compromised ... especially CCP-enabled products ... and act accordingly. Assume that every use of an electronics product ... from full-tower desktop to IoT-light-bulb is the equivalent of walking down a Detroit alley during "devils-night". Even safer is of-course to refrain from buying ANY product made in China. I believe CCP has even installed secret-transmitters in their hand-tools and bat-wing snacks.
