Where I live, government provided power is significantly better.

I used to live in a city which had a city owned power plant. Rates per kWh were about 20% lower than surrounding cities, and there were no monthly connection fees. Depending on how much power you use, the total bill is 25-35% lower.

Reliability numbers are slightly better as well, but not by much.

You have no idea what you're talking about, and probably a good example of why they hid this information away

Slashdot is using a certificate with a SHA-256 signature. You are talking about the encryption cipher the webserver is using, which has been superseded, but is not yet considered a security risk.

For as much as people love to rant about Iowa, we have exactly the situation you want here. I can go to almost any gas station and get regular unleaded without ethanol. It tends to run around 30-40 cents higher than the 10% ethanol blend. I use it for all my lawnmowers/snowblowers/etc. and occasionally put it in my cars when I'm going on a long trip and the better highway mileage might make it worth it.

The vast majority of the time, I do the same thing almost all consumers do which is buy the cheapest gas they can find. 90% of consumers don't give a shit about ethanol, they only see that it's cheap so that's what they use. Personally, when driving in the city I see less than a 1MPG difference so paying the premium for pure gas just isn't worth it.

Also, just to clear up the misconceptions about how much Iowans care about farming: 60% of Iowans live in urban areas, only 25% of Iowans have ever farmed anything at any point in their life, and only about 17% are currently employed directly or indirectly in agriculture. The vast majority of Iowans do not give a shit about farming or ethanol.

Go ahead and click on EV Code Signing Certificate and have another look at that price.

You can still custom order a car from any dealer. If you know exactly what you want, are willing to wait, and willing to pay for it then they will be more than happy to set it up for you. Several of my relatives still order trucks in exactly that manner.

Personally I'm more than happy to just search dealer inventories online.

When I was in elementary school, that was true. By the time I graduated high school, Spanish was being taught in 5th grade. The school I formerly went to was one of the first in the state to start an elementary foreign language program. I suppose it could just be a quirk of the area that I live in, but I was under the impression that now, many years later, it had become pretty widespread.

You are looking for FAR 91.119 This is the regulatory language covering minimum safe altitudes.

You'll notice there is an exception for helicopters. Essentially there are no limits for helicopters other than the flight has to be "conducted without hazard"

The companies that will use this already have frequencies dedicated exclusively to them. In fact they have a huge amount for their exclusive use. I as a consumer have a limited number of frequencies available for my purposes. I have to share them with every other person around me.

There is absolutely no need for cellular operators to start intruding on unlicensed spectrum. If this truly is about "fair sharing of a shared asset," then when can I expect an equivalent amount of spectrum to be opened in their bands for my uses? If I have to share with them it's only fair they share with me, right?

I realize that this is completely legal by current regulations. It's probably past time to review those regulations to keep commercial operators on the parts of the spectrum they already own. If you have dedicated frequencies allocated to you, then there is no reason to spread onto shared frequencies as well.

In other words, they are using the spectrum that people actually want since UNII-2 has limits regarding power and avoiding interference with radar.

This is the "deepthroating Microsoft" he's referring to: https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/2/21/228

It was a pretty stupid idea, and it isn't surprising that Linus shot it down.

I also use an ad blocker to get rid of the useless "Video Bytes" and "Slashdot Deals" junk that shows up on the main page. Who needs that checkbox when a real ad blocker can do so much more?

A clamp on ammeter? I have to imagine they are much more accurate than making your own poor man's version out of looped wire and an ancient analog VOM.

It's an issue because it's an absurdly high requirement for training.

It only takes 40 hours to get a goddamn private pilot license. And that 40 hours includes solo time.

I've been using Mediacom for about 8 years, and while they aren't terrible, they aren't great either.

When doing a speed test, I generally get faster than expected results. I pay for 50/5, and usually test around 55/6. However, during peak times I frequently have issues with Netflix and Youtube videos. These issues don't exist with other websites I've tried, and speed tests still show faster than expected results.

After getting frustrated with poor performance in the evenings, I decided to set up a VPS running an HTTP proxy. When using the proxy, all issues with Netflix and Youtube go away and I get the maximum quality available with no stuttering.

So at least in my experience, Mediacom seems to be engaging in the same shenanigans as other providers. I've noticed that at least in my area, Mediacom seems to be using AT&T as an upstream provider so this could just be AT&T screwing with things. Either way, I'm not happy that I have to go out of my way just to get a usable connection for internet video.