pacificmint

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by pacificmint 11y ago
Maybe GP is in another country? What he mentions sounds very much like Prime in Germany for example (50 euros, free next day delivery).
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by pacificmint 11y ago
Sorry for the late reply. The 19% power figure comes from the PUC. Here are some links: http://www.kqed.org/news/science/climatewatch/waterandpower/... This one goes into more detail and picks that 19% n
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by pacificmint 11y ago
You are correct that it's only being pumped in places, but that doesn't really change the fact how much energy we are using to move water. A fifth of energy usage in California is water related, and a fifth of that is for pumping,
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by pacificmint 11y ago
> If you situated it somewhere like the atacama desert, then you'd be right on the ocean Well, the Atacama is 8000ft above the ocean, so the energy required to pump the water up there would be significant.
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by pacificmint 11y ago
For manned space flight, so far 18 people have died out of 430 that went to space. (14 Americans in two shuttle accidents, and 4 Russians in two separate incidents) That's only slightly lower than 1/18. The shuttle had a 40% vehic
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by pacificmint 12y ago
> Do you get to chose between electricity providers? I know this is not your point, but in Germany, for example, you do get to choose. They've created competition between electricity providers.
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by pacificmint 12y ago
So far the relied on voluntary reductions, which has worked well in some areas and less well in others. It's not like they just woke up to the drought now, but they considered restrictions to be a measure of last (or later) resort.
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by pacificmint 12y ago
There are two different water systems in California. The Central Valley Project [1] is run by the the federal government, the California State Water Project [2] by the state. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Va
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by pacificmint 12y ago
Actually, Intels behavior with the FDIV bug was originally anything but good. They downplayed the bug and refused to recall them. Then they started offering replacements if you could prove that the bug affected you. It wasn't until the
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by pacificmint 12y ago
Of course, but you can never skip more bytes than the search string is long.
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by pacificmint 12y ago
Using a stingray would be just as illegal as the Wifi jamming for you, me and the Marriot. Whether law enforcement or other government agencies have the right to use a stingray (or wifi jamming for that matter) is a totally different debate
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by pacificmint 12y ago
> The fact that Foursquare is checking your location periodically is not surprising The fact that Foursquare checks my location when I use the app is not suprising. The fact that they track my every move, even when the app is not runnin
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by pacificmint 12y ago
> So basically they were betting on some Russian missile system that would identify war plane from commercial planes. That's not what they were betting on at all. They were assuming (incorrectly, as we now know) that the rebels woul
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by pacificmint 12y ago
You seem to be overestimating the amount water we use for lawns. Agriculture uses 77% of all water in California. Residential is less than 14%, with half of that being indoor use. I am all in favor of low water gardening, but you are not go
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by pacificmint 12y ago
No they wouldn't, because the MITM attacker would simply use the old one. And the user wouldn't know. That's why the old one needs to be revoked.
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by pacificmint 12y ago
Of course encryption would help. But for that you don't need your own fiber. So balls187's point still stands. > Or the relative difficulty of needing to use a submarine of some sort They overcame that difficulty. The USS Jimmy
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by pacificmint 12y ago
> The word "Hacker" has got to go, it is the same as the word "Criminal", "Burglar" or "Felon" now. Now? To the majority of the population, it has had that meaning since the 80s. It's only in
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by pacificmint 13y ago
They were one of those services that would repeatedly make the free service worse, in an attempt to get you to upgrade. At first they changed it so you need to touch your account once every 30 days to keep it active. Using the automated upd
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by pacificmint 13y ago
> but they can't say as much because being seen as anti-union would hurt their image back in Germany. That's not about their image. The German steelworkers union, IG Metal, has several seats on the Volkswagen board and they mad
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by pacificmint 13y ago
I've been wondering how those work. I can understand how using a different DNS server can trick a streaming server which does the user distinction purely by DNS (in other words, only users from a certain region get the right IP address
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by pacificmint 13y ago
Interestingly enough, the number of non voters in 2012 was higher than the number of votes for either Obama or Romney. So if all the people that didn't vote (many because they feel that their vote doesn't change things anyway) vot
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by pacificmint 13y ago
Funny how it took the music industry a long time to come to that conclusion (that DRM is useless), but every other industry insists on making the same mistakes again. Kinda like parents and children, I suppose.
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by pacificmint 13y ago
I think part of the reason is that the US phone system is set up so these areas are connected to the system as domestic numbers, but they are charged as international numbers. If I see a truly international number (starting with + or 011 in
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by pacificmint 13y ago
I like it. One suggestion: Maybe when it can't read the EXIF data it should say something other than "fail". I realize there is a more descriptive text underneath, but "fail" seems like it's a meme, not an erro
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by pacificmint 13y ago
According to the post the white hats that found these and other holes testified in front of congress. I think it is safe to tell their parents at this point.
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by pacificmint 13y ago
> Trammell just admitted holding 800K$ worth of Bitcoins. Well, no. He admitted to holding an amount of Bitcoins that would now be worth 800k. At the time he transferred them they were worth a 20th of that amount.
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by pacificmint 13y ago
Yes. According to the paper they not only transferred the money, and they did it in 445 chunks of 324 bitcoins each (and one chunk with the remainder). 324 spells FBI on a phone keypad.
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by pacificmint 13y ago
> the license code is simply a check if your password = the md5 of your email That used to be the case, but the newer versions actually phone home and verify the license.