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Comment Re: Evidence of global warming or something else? (Score 5, Insightful) 44

A local here; what interests us in this story is not the fact that those three specimens could arrive to Iceland - there's a big industrial port on the opposite coast in this fjord AND there's a company cultivating and importing plants in the vicinity already culpable of importing other foreign species into the country - but what intrigues us the most is how the beasts have managed to stay alive until October - and that's related to climate changes. We'll know more next spring.

Comment Re: I'm not "upgrading" to windows 11 (Score 3, Interesting) 220

Most of the companies I know of in my line of work that have been taken hostage by ransomware, are in the CAD/CAM business. One of them was fortunate enough to keep a separate Linux-box with copies of all the settings, while the others had serious downtime.

Comment Re:Not possible (Score 1) 233

To me it seems that the turning point came after the 1973 energy crisis; American products (cars, appliances, etc.) continued to be big, energy inefficient and unprogressive, while mostly Japanese and then South-Korean products took over the European market (and elsewhere). Reduced shipping costs and assembly plants nearer to the markets became the norm.

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