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Comment Re:I don't understand the difference (Score 1) 45

It is harder to track your usage after you downloaded something. From your point of view there is not much of a difference. For you it is even more convenient. From their point of view they loose the ability to track - how often you streamed the file - at which times - from which device - with which software - (depending on your use of VPNs)= from where -... So, yes it is a big deal (in the truest sense of the word) for them. The business model you youtube is not to deliver content, it is advertising (okay, you blocked that one) and user data (hard to block as long as long as you play by their rules and don't download anything).

Comment Re:So uh (Score 1) 964

Pumped-storage hydroelectricity works indeed as a storage for energy, but instead of diesel generators (CO2 emmissions) the use combined reversible turbine/generators. As far as I know they can be used all year round and are an ideal combination with Solar and wind energy because they can act as a buffer between changing demand e.g. day/night and varying output of Solar and Wind Energy.

Comment Re:So uh (Score 1) 964

Yes, redundancy is important. But as I just recently got to know, we export 25% of the energy we produce. On top of the redundancy. Even members of the conservatives want to shut down at least three of the seven plants permanently, so it seems pretty sure they will NOT come back online. Concerning the bloody gas, we import the majority from the Netherlands and Norway and while I wouldn't call Russia a perfect democracy it isn't the arch enemy it has been.

Comment Re:So uh (Score 1) 964

I agree with you, it is stupid to store the waste and it is even more stupid to produce it in the first place. Due to political pressure seven of the seventeen german nuclear plants are shut down. Within days! So there was no actual need for them. The percentage of use renewable energy has risen from 3,4 % in 1990 to 16,5 % in 2010, so I would not say that coal is our only option.

Comment Re:What happened? (Score 1) 964

with half-lives of decades to centuries. For the projections for Yucca Mountain, they expected containment for ten thousand years to be adequate to get rid of most radioactivity from nuclear rods.

Oh only centuries! And you dare to call the parent ignorant. Even if the containment as such is safe for millenia, and thats a big if, there is still no guarantee that the political situation around that site stays stable, people still even know what is hidden in the deep.

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Network Adapter Keeps Talking While a PC Is Asleep 188

Al writes "Researchers at Microsoft and the University of California, San Diego have developed a network adapter that lets a computer enter sleep mode without disrupting the network connection. The adapter, dubbed Somniloquy (meaning to talk in one's sleep), consists of a gumstix running embedded Linux, 64MB of RAM and a 2G SD memory card, connected via USB. The adapter keeps the network connection going and the researchers have also developed a simplified IM client and bittorrent client that carry out more complicated tasks autonomously, only waking the computer if, for example, an actualy IM is received or a download is completed."

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