Comment Re:Right Wing???? (Score 1) 224
Read the "As I remember London" article and there is nothing about brown people. Just keep Britain for Brits and Denmark for Danes and Japan for Japanese. Preserve national identity.
Comment Re:PDF (Score 1) 84
PDF has issues. I've seen PDFs that have custom fonts. This was done on purpose to prevent using the financial data that was in a table. The PDF rendered and printed fine but you can't copy-paste or import the data into another app. Copy-paste / import gives junk as the font only existed in the PDF. Had to use OCR to extract the data from the document.
Comment Re:They weren't already banned? (Score 1) 58
Why weren't they banned like 2 years ago? Shows you the priorities at Meta, eh?
I'm pretty sure they've had many, many videos removed from YouTube. They mostly use paid shills anyway.
"Paid shills" - sound like a mini HR1157, but it's OK when we do it.
Comment Re:Efficiency of antique panels ? (Score 1) 70
How do you measure the efficiency of your panels?
What measurement do you do to get 22.5%?
My 16 panels are 400W per panel, made in Chinese, installed 2y7m ago and in summer they peak at 400W per panel (6.4kW total).
Comment Re:price of power (Score 1) 188
1 MWh = 1000kWh
1 GBP = 0.81 USD
44 pounds = 0.044 pounds/kWh = 0.0494 USD/kWh = 4.94c/kWh
77 pounds = 0.070 pounds/kWh = 0.0864 USD/kWh = 8.64c/kWh
Comment Re:There is overwhelming evidence for a lab leak (Score 1, Interesting) 248
How does the fact that SARS-CoV-2 antibodies were detected in blood samples in Italy in September 2019, a few months before China, fit in with your Wuhan lab leak theory?
Comment Re:Not to say this isn't a good idea (Score 1) 43
But wouldn't it be nice if we as a civilization had progressed beyond the point where we did shit like this? We're talking about cutting off over a billion people from access to advanced technology. It's an utterly stupid thing to do from a purely rational standpoint.
China is one of a handful of countries propping up Russia in its war of aggression against democracy and world order. They are what we technically call "the enemy", along with North Korea and Iran. We do far, far too much business with China. It's OK to have them supplying us with cheap shit that will be no big deal if it disappears. Relying on them for anything important is a huge strategic mistake.
>China is one of a "handful" of countries
The "global south" is on Russia's side against NATO. Global south represents the majority of the worlds population. US has various embargoes & sanctions against ~27 countries.
Comment Re:Double standards (Score 1) 26
It's not just encouragement, it's laws preventing the import/export of Chinese technology, and requiring it to be ripped out of production and replaced with American gear.
Not just in the US, other allied countries are being encouraged to do the same.
That's a massive subsidy.
Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 [$738b] + CHIPS and Science Act [$280b] (names means nothing) > China "support package" [ $143b]
Comment Re:Famous Last Words (Score 1) 23
"There is no way China can build a leading-edge space industry on there own. No chance" said Frank Rudolph Wolf when motivating for Wolf Amendment.
Comment Re: Bezoa hates losing (Score 0) 195
IEEE disagrees with you.
Also awarded FRS - which is much more prestigious.
Comment Not the only one (Score 2) 139
South African Receiver of Revenue (SARS) - tax authority also broke because they took too long to upgrade.
More details here: SARS: Some taxpayers’ tax forms gone in a Flash https://www.dailymaverick.co.z...
More details here: SARS: Some taxpayers’ tax forms gone in a Flash https://www.dailymaverick.co.z...
Comment Re:Should be faster than fiber (Score 1) 143
FCC Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF) $16b as the name says is for rural America network expansion - users per satellite should be low in rural.
Comment Re:What Will Happen: (Score 1) 92
There is no bill, no one has written anything.
Yet.
When they do, do the same thing us 2A people do when they write all these crazy bills: Call, write, email. Lots. Often.
It's *our* government. They work for *us,* we don't work for *them*. Tell them. They do listen, from time to time.
And AG Barr can go fuck himself on this one. He's part of the swamp that needs to be drained. That man's full of bad ideas on a number of subjects, not just privacy.
No Bill, only Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Comment Re:This is how it starts. (Score 1) 58
Nazi Germany blamed Jews,
Nazi USA blames Chinese
Comment USA Same as China (Score 2) 65
Huawei would have no choice but to hand over network data to the Chinese government if Beijing asked for it, because of espionage and national security laws in the country.
Microsoft has no choice but to hand over network data to the USA government if Washington asked for it, because of espionage and national security laws in the country.
Same - Same
