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Comment Re:Oh Noes! (Score 1) 398

What shall we do without our precious FCC? How can we end this madness? How long can we live with this horrific government shutdown?

In all seriousness, it's just politics as usual. The 'scary' government shutdown can go on for months for all I care.

break out the uncut R-rated movies in primetime for sweeps!

Comment Re:On par with the US system (Score 1) 325

by Lirodon (#56642940) Attached to: People Hate Canada's New 'Amber Alert' System
On par, _but_ a big difference is that because all alerts are sent as an equivalent to Presidential, it actually disobeys many settings associated with them (including, ironically, a checkbox for AMBER Alerts to begin with, and the Severe/Extreme tiers), plus the Canadian version of this system also uses a completely different alert sound that actually makes the U.S. one for mobile look sane. Look up tests of Alert Ready (which is the overlying brand for all implementations of public alerts in Canada, which applies to television and radio as well), and its more like a very annoying siren than a The entire Canadian system appears to force the highest impact of presentation for any alert, with no room for a graduated system, to the point where the specific "style guide" for the TV system actually mandates that they always be presented as white text on red background.

Submission + - Consumers In Germany Were Paid To Use Electricity This Holiday Season (inhabitat.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The cost of electricity in Germany has decreased so dramatically in the past few days that major consumers have actually been paid to use power from the grid. While “negative pricing” is not an everyday occurrence in the country, it does occur from time to time, as it did this holiday weekend. This gift to energy consumers is the result of hundreds of billions of dollars invested in renewable energy over the past two decades. This most recent period of negative pricing was a result from warm weather, strong breezes, and the low demand typical of people gathering together to celebrate. Germany’s temporary energy surpluses are a result of both low demand and variably high supply. Wind power typically makes up 12 percent of Germany’s power consumption on a daily basis. However, on windy days, that percentage can easily multiply several times the average. The older segment of Germany’s energy portfolio, such as coal plants, are not able to lower output quickly enough. Thus, there is a glut of electricity. On Sunday, Christmas Eve, major energy consumers, such as factory owners, were being paid more than 50 euros (~$60) per megawatt-hour consumed.

Submission + - Gamer Streams Pay-Per-View UFC Fight by Pretending to Play It

Submitted by WheezyJoe
WheezyJoe writes: A Pay-Per-View UFC Match was streamed in its entirety on Twitch and other platforms by a gamer pretending he was "playing" the fight as a game. The gamer, appearing in the corner of the image holding his game controller, made off like he was controlling the action of the "game" when in fact he was re-broadcasting the fight for free.

A tweet showing Lester’s antics went viral, with over 63,000 retweets and 140,000 likes at the time of publication. Another clip shows him reacting wildly yelling “oooooooooooooooh!!!” and “damnnnnnn!” in response to the match.

Submission + - Cloudflare ditches sites that use Coinhive mining "malware" (betanews.com) 1

Submitted by Mark Wilson
Mark Wilson writes: Bitcoin has been in the news for some time now as its value climbs and drops, but most recently interest turned to mining code embedded in websites. The Pirate Bay was one of the first sites to be seen using Coinhive code to secretly mine using visitors' CPU time, and then we saw similar activity from the SafeBrowse extension for Chrome.

The discovery of the code was a little distressing for visitors to the affected sites, and internet security and content delivery network (CDN) firm Cloudflare is taking action to clamp down on what it is describing as malware.

Torrent proxy site ProxyBunker.online has contacted TorrentFreak to say that Cloudflare has dropped it as a customer. The reason given for ProxyBunker's suspension is that the site has been using Coinhive code on several of the domains it owns.

Submission + - What's an Air-Raid Warning Like in the 21st Century? 2

Submitted by AppleHoshi
AppleHoshi writes: Those of us living in Japan found out at a little after six o'clock this morning when our phones went crazy on receipt of an automated alert from the "J-Alert" system. Shortly afterwards, loudspeakers broadcast another alert (there are loudspeakers everywhere in Japan, to warn of earthquakes, tsunamis and typhoons).

As normal with any disaster situation in Japan, all of the available television channels immediately switched over to full-coverage mode, with a repetition of what the situation was ("There's a missile heading in the direction of north-central Japan") followed by basic instructions of what to do ("If it comes down in your area, try to extinguish any fires and immediately inform your local police and fire departments").

      Shortly before twenty past six we got the news that the missile had over-flown northern Japan and landed in the Pacific, about 1,000km from the coast of Hokkaido. The "all-clear" was broadcast over the local speakers a short while later.

      Strange as it may seem, this all had an air of normality about it. Japan gets more than it's fair share of natural disasters, so anyone living here gets plenty of exposure to this same routine (it's just that the reason is usually an earthquake, typhoon or tsunami, rather than a megalomaniac).

Comment Re:They probably will work. (Score 5, Informative) 240

by Lirodon (#54937727) Attached to: Intel's Upcoming Coffee Lake CPUs Won't Work With Today's Motherboards
Actually no, this is probably a sign that a new socket is on the way. This is not news, as Intel has been doing this exact pattern for a while now; Intel will keep a single socket compatible for at least two Core generations before replacing it and breaking compatibility. Sandy Bridge, Ivy Bridge (1155). Haswell, Broadwell (1150), Skylake, Kaby Lake (1151).

Comment Re:Won't work in Canada (Score 1) 564

by Lirodon (#54930317) Attached to: Millennials Unearth an Amazing Hack to Get Free TV: the Antenna
Yes, we transitioned to digital OTA television (ATSC), but the CRTC doesn't let broadcasters use digital subchannels willy-nilly unlike the U.S. The CRTC, on the other hand, has been progressively deregulating aspects of specialty/cable TV (unlike the U.S., all cable channels also must be licensed)

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