Comment Don't hire females. (Score 0) 360
A simple solution.
If you are accused of any form of harassment you are guilty even before the trial.
Comment Windows 10 (Score 1) 141
What about Windows 10 tablets? Are they also locked?
Comment professor Diagoras anyone? (Score 1) 89
What's next? The Washing-Machine Tragedy?;)
Comment Not only in the US (Score 1) 346
Just a couple days ago a photo of anti-government protesters including one of their polish executives was taken down from a facebook page(zelaznalogika), the page also being blocked. In the meantime the photo may still be seen on newsweeks page.
Comment Re:Never let the facts get in the way of a headlin (Score 1) 135
RT -> Russia Today, a well known Kremlin owned propaganda source.
Comment Meanwhile in Progressive Europe (Score 1) 1095
... German Rails are marking some trains compartments as women-only.
I wonder if I'm allowed to use it when I'm bigender.
(http://www.reuters.com/article/us-germany-women-transportation-idUSKCN0WX2F2)
Comment European POV (Score 1) 93
"The TPP recognizes the Internet as an essential American export"
Then why do European politicians support this deal?
Submission + - The World's Largest Renewable Energy Developer Could Go Broke (huffingtonpost.com)
An anonymous reader writes: There is a “substantial risk” that SunEdison may file for bankruptcy, the world’s largest renewable energy developer said in a regulatory filing on Tuesday. The company’s fall isn’t a referendum on the solar industry as a whole, as much as it is on SunEdison’s aggressive growth strategy fueled by excessive debt and financial engineering, analysts say.
SunEdison “just thought they were smarter than everyone else,” said David Levine, the founder and CEO of Geostellar, a solar energy marketplace that has done deals with the company.
SunEdison “just thought they were smarter than everyone else,” said David Levine, the founder and CEO of Geostellar, a solar energy marketplace that has done deals with the company.
Submission + - Global majority backs a ban on 'dark net,' poll says (reuters.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Seven in 10 people say the "dark net" — an anonymous online home to both criminals and activists fearful of government surveillance — should be shut down, according to a global Ipsos poll released on Tuesday. The findings, from a poll of at least 1,000 people in each of 24 countries, come as policymakers and technology companies argue over whether digital privacy should be curbed to help regulators and law enforcement more easily thwart hackers and other digital threats.
Submission + - Why BART is Falling Apart
HughPickens.com writes: Matthias Gafni writes in the San Jose Mercury News that the engineers who built BART, the rapid transit system serving the San Francisco Bay Area that started operation in 1972, used principles developed for the aerospace industry rather than tried-and-true rail standards. And that's the trouble. "Back when BART was created, (the designers) were absolutely determined to establish a new product, and they intended to export it around the world," says Rod Diridon. "They may have gotten a little ahead of themselves using new technology. Although it worked, it was extremely complex for the time period, and they never did export the equipment because it was so difficult for other countries to install and maintain." The Space Age innovations have made it more challenging for the transit agency to maintain the BART system from the beginning. Plus, the aging system was designed to move 100,000 people per week and now carries 430,000 a day, so the loss of even a single car gets magnified with crowded commutes, delays and bus bridges. For example, rather than stick to the standard rail track width of 4 feet, 8.5 inches, BART engineers debuted a 5-foot, 6-inch width track, a gauge that remains to this day almost exclusive to the system. Industry experts say the unique track width necessitates custom-made wheel sets, brake assemblies and track repair vehicles.
Another problem is the dearth of readily available replacement parts for BART's one-of-a-kind systems. Maintenance crews often scavenge parts from old, out-of-service cars to avoid lengthy waits for orders to come in; sometimes mechanics are forced to manufacture the equipment themselves. "Imagine a computer produced in 1972," says David Hardt. "No one is supporting that old equipment any longer, but those same microprocessors are what we have controlling our logic systems." Right now BART needs 100 thyristors at a total cost of $100,000. BART engineers said it could take 22 weeks to ship them to the San Francisco Bay Area to replace in BART’s "C" cars, which make up the older cars in the fleet. Right now, the agency has none. Nick Josefowitz says it makes no sense to dwell on design decisions made a half-century ago. "I think we need to use what we have today and build off that, rather than fantasize what could have been done in the past. The BART system was state of the art when it was built, and now it's technologically obsolete and coming to the end of its useful life."
Another problem is the dearth of readily available replacement parts for BART's one-of-a-kind systems. Maintenance crews often scavenge parts from old, out-of-service cars to avoid lengthy waits for orders to come in; sometimes mechanics are forced to manufacture the equipment themselves. "Imagine a computer produced in 1972," says David Hardt. "No one is supporting that old equipment any longer, but those same microprocessors are what we have controlling our logic systems." Right now BART needs 100 thyristors at a total cost of $100,000. BART engineers said it could take 22 weeks to ship them to the San Francisco Bay Area to replace in BART’s "C" cars, which make up the older cars in the fleet. Right now, the agency has none. Nick Josefowitz says it makes no sense to dwell on design decisions made a half-century ago. "I think we need to use what we have today and build off that, rather than fantasize what could have been done in the past. The BART system was state of the art when it was built, and now it's technologically obsolete and coming to the end of its useful life."
Submission + - How One Dev Broke Node, and Thousands of Projects in 11 Lines of JavaScript (theregister.co.uk)
An anonymous reader writes: Programmers were left staring at broken builds and failed installations on Tuesday after someone toppled the Jenga tower of JavaScript. A couple of hours ago, Azer Koçulu unpublished more than 250 of his modules from NPM, which is a popular package manager used by JavaScript projects to install dependencies. Koçulu yanked his source code because, we're told, one of the modules was called Kik and that apparently attracted the attention of lawyers representing the instant-messaging app of the same name. According to Koçulu, Kik's briefs told him to take down the module, he refused, so the lawyers went to NPM's admins claiming brand infringement. When NPM took Kik away from the developer, he was furious and unpublished all of his NPM-managed modules. "This situation made me realize that NPM is someone’s private land where corporate is more powerful than the people, and I do open source because Power To The People," Koçulu blogged. Unfortunately, one of those dependencies was left-pad. It pads out the lefthand-side of strings with zeroes or spaces. And thousands of projects including Node and Babel relied on it. With left-pad removed from NPM, these applications and widely used bits of open-source infrastructure were unable to obtain the dependency, and thus fell over.
Comment Tax optimization (Score 1) 644
I wonder how much they spend/gain on tax optimization.
Comment Facebook? (Score 1) 188
After having worked with facebook's API for a while I have really strong objections against them telling what it means to be a great engineer. Facebook is a mess.
(However, their js solutions are quite neat)
Comment Re:It's more expensive ALL energy. (Score 1) 193
So France subsidies nuclear power and meanwhile purchases electricity from Germany?
Comment It's not about safety, it's about money. (Score 0) 193
France electricity comes mainly from atomic plants with a very low share of "green power".
In Germany, on the other hand, "green power" has greater share than nuclear and they are planning to phase out nuclear plants by the 2022.
German power is much more expensive than French. Their power sector seems to be in pretty bad shape, since to transfer electricity from wind farms in the North to factories in the South they are using Polish power net.
By forcing closure of French nuclear plants Germany is trying to make French power less attractive.
That's how things are done in EU.
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