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Comment Easy answer: buy the tesla model 3 ... (Score 1) 469

Battery pack and cells manufactured at the Nevada gigafactory. Power from solar panels on roof plus plans to add geothermal. Their goal is to be completely powered by renewables. Anyway, ignoring the Elon hype, why would anyone buy an electric car from an ICE vendor. Tesla is so far ahead of them with worldwide supercharger deployment. Will take at least ten years to catch up.

Comment Re:BUT 1.6 million? (Score 1) 663

Not $1.6M from Linux Foundation.
The reporter has misquoted LF's tax form 990.
The correct numbers from on the 990 say that Linus has a base salary of $350k and additional reportable benefits (health, pension, etc) adding about $290k to his compensation for a total of about $640k from Linux Foundation.
Linus received $1M from "related organizations". This could be one or more members companies of the Linux Foundation.
I find it sad/funny that the reporter has dox'd Linus. (And couldn't even get his numbers right.)

Comment Uninstall KB3035583 and disable RECOMMEND UPDATES (Score 1) 720

AFAIK, the correct way to get rid of the windows 10 nag is:

1. De-select recommended updates in Windows update
2. Uninstall KB3035583
3. Re-boot
4. Uninstall KB3035583 again (yes, it is still there! have to uninstall twice)
5. Re-boot
6. Check Installed Updates, KB3035583 should be gone

De-selecting recommended updates is important because selecting that basically says "Microsoft can install whatever updates they want"

Uninstalling KB3035583 twice is important, because it is usually still there if you only uninstall once.

Comment Probably not as bad as the article says (Score 1) 465

The damage has probably been exaggerated.

Remember that this site has survived for 1500 years without government protection.

I'm not saying that this site should be open to the public. I definitely don't want hordes of tourists walking on it. Anyone who has visited Chichen Itza, Machu Pichu or Tikal knows what I mean. But do you really think that twenty people, most of them wearing running shoes (check 0:50 on the youtube video), will do that much damage? Hey slashdot, we are supposed to be the techies. How about getting before and after images and doing some digital image correlation.

I doubt there was any real damage to the site. The government is doing the right thing discouraging future visits. And Greenpeace definitely eff'd up from the public relations standpoint.

Comment Re:Belkin, eh? (Score 1) 310

Please RTFA, specifically ...

"Linksys is also providing early hardware along with SDKs and APIs to the developers of the third-party OpenWRT firmware, with plans to have custom open source firmware available for download when the router becomes commercially available."

I.e., if you don't trust the Linksys/Belkin firmware, you can install OpenWRT, dd-wrt, tomato, etc.

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