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Comment Re:Coincidentally... (Score 1) 293

by nothajan (#44701317) Attached to: US Electrical Grid On the Edge of Failure

A link that compares several countries (in german, but the countries should be easy to read) prices in dollar cents: http://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/13020/umfrage/strompreise-in-ausgewaehlten-laendern/

Where on earth did they get their figures from? They say Australia pays 11.68c/kWh. I know I pay ~28c/kWh in AU... real figures here: http://www.originenergy.com.au/files/necf/NSW_Electricity_Residential_AusGrid_Standard%20Published%20Rate.PDF

Comment Limited usefulness (Score 1) 125

by nothajan (#44691595) Attached to: New Keyboard Accessory Shocks Users When They Try To Go On Facebook
Seeing as 78% of FB users are mobile ( http://techcrunch.com/2013/08/13/facebook-mobile-user-count/ ), this seems to have a limited market.
In fact, many people (myself included) would be "forced" to use FB mobile, since it is blocked by the corporate firewall.
Maybe someone could write an Android version, which activates the phone's buzzer until the browser is closed.

Comment Re:The current government is doomed. (Score 1) 153

by nothajan (#44098319) Attached to: Australian Government Rejects Data Retention Law After Report

They are hated by the major media conglomerates and are going to be destroyed in the next election by the media.

FTFY.
All the alleged hate towards the Labor Party is spin by Murdoch/Fairfax.
No reasonably intelligent person I have met, has indicated that they'd prefer Abbott over Gillard.
The Opposition / media have resorted to bully tactics, since they have no substantial basis on which to attack Labor/Gillard.

Comment Re:Inconvenient (Score 1) 582

by nothajan (#42814387) Attached to: US Postal Service Discontinuing Saturday Mail Delivery

So, I get this note in the mailbox that I have a package that is too big for the mailbox, I have to pick it up at the PO. But, I leave for work before the PO opens, return after it closes, and it's 50 miles away so I can't sneak down there during lunch.

This was a problem until recently in Australia too.
Now Australia Post have started using self-service parcel lockers. Works great.
Sign up for the service, get a user id, then anyone can send a parcel to "John Smith, Parcel Locker <userid>, <mail sorting centre>, Australia"
24hr access to the lockers. I get an email & an SMS when a parcel arrives, containing the code to open the locker.
I have 48hrs to pick up my parcel, before they take the parcel away and file it in the office.

Comment Re:From XKCD to life?? (Score 1) 277

by nothajan (#38207600) Attached to: iPhone Auto-Combusts On Australian Airplane

High voltage is of course a completely different scenario, luckily one most wont have to deal with... Like a water cooling system next to a 132kV transformer... ugh...

Actually, HV transformers CAN be water cooled: http://www.abc.net.au/cgi-bin/common/printfriendly.pl?http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200410/s1221697.htm (In this case, it was a 33kV/11kV transformer)
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Submission + - Legal threats over company's Facebook URL (techworld.com.au) 1

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angry tapir
angry tapir writes: "Germany's Merck KGaA has threatened legal action after it said it lost its Facebook page apparently to rival Merck & Co. in the U.S., though it has yet to identify defendants in the case. In a filing before the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Merck said it intends to initiate an action based on the apparent takeover of its Facebook page at www.facebook.com/merck by its similarly-named but unrelated competitor, Merck & Co."
Science

Submission + - Largest Tesla Coils Ever Will Recreate Natural Lig (techzwn.com)

Submitted by jjp9999
jjp9999 writes: In order to study the nature of lighting, the team at Lightning on Demand (LOD) plans to build two, ten-story-tall Tesla coils—the largest ever—that will blast arcs of lightning hundreds of feet in length. LOD founder Greg Leyh said the project aims to reveal details on the initiation process of natural lightning, an area that remains a mystery since smaller generated arcs have more trouble breaking through the air. It is believed that ‘laboratory-scale electric arcs start to gain lightning-like abilities once they grow past about 200ft in length,’ according to the LOD website, and so the team hopes to build Tesla coils large enough to do this. According to Leyh, ‘Understanding how lightning forms [and grows] is the first step towards being able to control where lightning strikes or being able to suppress it completely in certain areas,’
Censorship

Submission + - French court orders ISP to block police misconduct (volokh.com)

Submitted by Freddybear
Freddybear writes: A French court has ordered ISPs to block access to Copwatch Nord Paris I-D-F, a website designed to allow civilians to post videos of alleged police misconduct. French police unions applauded the decision.
Space

Submission + - Galileo To Be Europe's Answer To US GPS (eweekeurope.co.uk)

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judgecorp
judgecorp writes: "Two Galileo satellites that will signify the start of the European Union’s answer to the American Global Positioning System (GPS) will be launched into orbit on Thursday aboard a Russian Soyuz rocket. It's using Soyuz as it is cheaper than the French Ariane — and the satellite system is supposed to free Europe from dependence on a US-controlled positioning system."

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