Kids are "dependents". "Slave" would be overkill, but it would actually be great if they could at least be followers...

Captcha: whiten :-)

It is illegal in Germany as is any intrusion into a computer system. Any unauthorized access of hardware is illegal in Germany. White hacking is illegal here.

It is unclear if state prosecution will act based on this article on its own. Not clear what rules apply for them to have to get active.

Sure!

Electron travels at about a third the speed of light "c" in common conductors such as metals.

This new super material conducts electrons at about 1000x that speed, so roughly 300c. Since c is the speed limit for pretty much all particles (save tachyons) and c is the barrier for causality, time and light, it means that electrons conducted by GaN travel faster than time itself. Thus your phone would be charged before you plugged it in.

It's just amazing! No wonder 4x more people want to buy these chargers (did they project a single sale?)

Funny, I was just reading about Germany's electrical grid this morning (Elektroenergiesysteme from Schwab, some 1000 pages long). The author writes in the early chapters that a 7% yearly growth in electrical energy consumption was assumed during planning of new power plants and transmission grids from the twenties until the oil crisis in the seventies. After that consumption remained fairly flat. I can't find a link to this claim because most statistics about it begin in 1990, when the Berlin wall fell.

So the development in Germany would be similar to what you described, but as per the article (which I didn't read) no air conditioners were involved.

My guess is people started to realize that resources were not infinite in the seventies and began looking at efficiency gains more.

I live in Germany and I have (130mph tops).

It was a company car and I wanted to try it out and save some time. Autobahn was free, so I figured what the heck. Turns out I was accelerating and breaking all the time, had people I had overtaken (who were driving at 80 mph) back on my tail because of a truck overtaking and so on.

In the end, fuel consumption was a noticeably higher, driving required more attention and there was no time gain to speak of.

While not yet released, check out the librem 5 (linux inside). It checks off those privacy boxes nicely.

https://puri.sm/products/libre...

Migration towards gitlab is going strong. The graph is loading very slowly now, but an hour ago it was showing a migration of about 4000 projects per hour.

https://monitor.gitlab.net/das...

I disagree. I was hired six months ago by Siemens (in Germany) and have yet to meet somebody from HR. Sent my CV because of a job posting which went straight to the technical manager who posted the job offer; went on the interview and was given an answer right away. I was called on the phone a few times afterwards by HR (always the same person) after the interview to get updates on when they were sending me a contract; it came a few weeks after the interview. I quit my old job (30 day notice) and started the new one.

Siemens is a company that very much values expertise. People often work there until they retire. Many of my colleagues are 50+

Maybe true for the US. In Germany HQ is located in Munique, one of the most expensive areas in Germany. A lot of research is done in a much smaller town called Erlangen, which recently ranked 4th in salaries paid in german cities and is very expensive to live in or buy property. I know because I live there.

Giving home to homeless people worked in a city in canada. There's a discussion on this in this BBC podcast (30 min length): https://www.bbc.co.uk/programm...

Just last week I bought a $250 Chuwi Hi12 tablet: 12 inch with some underpowered atom processor. Makes for a great e-book reader. I installed kubuntu 18.04 on it, replacing win10 and android 5.1 it came with. There were about 10 partitions on it, don't know why.

Touch and wifi worked out of the box. Instant on (aka suspend) is of course much slower. Haven't tried to get sound to work, since I don't need it. I use "onboard" for on screen keyboard (also features a right click).

I don't see how microsoft can compete with that. But best of luck to them.

It's out now...
http://releases.ubuntu.com/bio...
http://releases.ubuntu.com/18....

... and now I need a new notebook.

Next we'll have russian road rage videos with Kalashnikovs in the AIR!

Says one pig to the other...

http://funnyasduck.net/post/13...