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Comment Re:Code (Score 4, Insightful) 120

Nope, those are two compilers. One transforms code into an intermediate language in which the program is expressed as a specification that contains all the functionality of the original program, i.e. is a derived work. Then another compiler takes the program in the intermediate language and creates code from it (source or binary doesn't matter). Contrary to what AI evangelists want you to believe, it does matter whether something is an automatic process or involves creative thought. Also, what's with the focus on Open Source software? You could do the exact same thing with binary code.

Submission + - In hilarious move, FCC bans all new routers (fcc.gov)

TheNameOfNick writes: The FCC has just banned new router models, expect for models entirely made in the US from parts made in the US and running software made in the US. Models which fit the exemption do not exist. The press release states: "New devices on the Covered List, such as foreign-made consumer-grade routers, are prohibited from receiving FCC authorization and are therefore prohibited from being imported for use or sale in the U.S."

Comment Re:Von der Leyen is an opportunistic idiot (Score 1) 184

20% of the reactors in Europe are completely dependent on Russian nuclear fuel (because the reactors are Soviet designs in former Soviet countries). Russia and Russia-affiliated Kazakhstan supply 40% of the world's uranium. Gotta stop buying Russian gas and oil, go nuclear?

Comment Re:Von der Leyen is an opportunistic idiot (Score 1) 184

Who gives a shit about that? Not you, if you rely on EOL nuclear power plants for most of your electricity and can't get them replaced fast enough or economically or at all.

BTW, if you're thinking, how irresponsible of me to disregard CO2 emissions: USA 384 g CO2 per kWh, at more than twice the electricity consumption per capita compared to Germany. The future for all this is wind and solar at 0 g CO2 per kWh. We're never going to do it because it's the best, so it's a good thing that it's also the cheapest.

Comment Von der Leyen is an opportunistic idiot (Score 2) 184

This is an attempt to assuage the French, who are miffed because their aging nuclear power plants, for which they don't have a contingency plan, don't pass as "renewable". The french have bet the bank on nuclear, so they want money from the EU to help them with their problem. That's all this is about. Germany in particular, the only country which had a sizeable investment in nuclear and gave up on it, will not have future nuclear investments with or without von der Leyen's disregard of reality. Nuclear is too expensive, would take too long to even matter and would cause yet another dependency on foreign resources - for what? Wind and solar and batteries are so cheap already that they can't be killed by withholding subsidies. I predicted years ago that there will be at least two more rounds of handouts, once for getting back into nuclear (on paper) and once for finally getting out of it (for real).

Comment Re:MS was right: Windows 10 is the last version (Score 4, Insightful) 95

People said that every time Microsoft decided to pull the rug out from under them, and then, when the cut-off date came, it was always quickly followed by a critical vulnerability in some core component that you can't live without and can't defend against without major loss of function. If you keep buying Microsoft, you keep paying Microsoft. Anything else is a delusion.

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