* Posts by eldakka

2353 publicly visible posts • joined 23 Feb 2011

Toshiba reveals 30TB disk drive to arrive by 2024

eldakka

> That's a copy. A backup is something different.

Err no, no it isn't.

Making a clone of a HDD, and putting that clone in your safety deposit box, is a backup.

A backup is just a retrievable redundant copy of the data. A copy on another independent (i.e. not part of the same RAID array) disk in the same chassis is a backup, just not a very good one. Now, you can get much more sophisticated from there, such as keeping many versions (version history) of changed files, and so on. But those are extended backup features, not requirements for 'a' backup. Like with most things, there are degrees of sophistication, cost, security, reliability, level of risk being protected against (drive failure, complete chassis failure, room-wide failure, building-wide failure, campus-wide, city-wide, state-wide, country-wide, continent-wide, finger failure (PEBCAK - deleting a file you didn't mean to)) amongst others that all factor in to how one does a backup or a backup routine.

Hello Slackware, our old friend: Veteran Linux distribution releases version 15.0 at last

eldakka
Facepalm

Re: my first distro

I did it on a Mac, as they were the only computers at university that had mostly unfettered internet access. (The SPARC machines were run by the (teaching) IT Department, and they blocked general internet access. The Macs were 'general-use' computers run by the University's IT managment unit, so had much freerer access to the internet).

And let me tell you, it takes a long time for a Mac to write to an MS-DOS formatted 1.44MB floppy disk, approaching 10 minutes per floppy.

It was bad enough when it was a 20-floppy download. 50-floppy ones were a nightmare, especially when the 47th floppy is corrupted, which you only find out during install after you've already inserted 1-46, and put in 47 "Error, Retry, Fail" appears on the screen.

Intel joins RISC-V governing body, pledges $1bn fund for chip designers

eldakka

Embrace, Extend, Extinguish

Is Intel taking a leaf out of Microsofts playbook?

Australian court finds Facebook 'divorced from reality' as it tried to define doing business down under

eldakka

Re: Perspective

Reality filed for divorce quite some time ago, but Zuck seems to be ducking the process servers.

eldakka

Reality is the illusion caused by a lack of drugs

- me mid-80's, probably stolen from someone else

Jeff Bezos adds some more overheads to his $485m yacht by taking down historic bridge

eldakka

Re: Can't they remove the masts, simply?

Longer term they should maybe look at relocating the shipyard as being preferable to keeping dismantling the bridge or losing the business.

Of course they could replace the bridge with something equally iconic but designed to open. If all else fails a sightseeing visit to the Tower of London might help.

Since the bridge is no longer used for trains, they could just jack* the whole thing up 10-20m so that future ships (as long as they fit under this new height) can just sail under it as well.

*as in create new permanent additions to the foundations/support pillars to make them taller, raising the entire bridge up.

Court of Appeal ruling offers hope for UK umbrella firm workers chasing holiday pay

eldakka

Re: Good on you, Mate!

> I would have thought the most likely outcome is that where the companies do still exist, they will simply decide to fold rather than pay out back-dated holiday pay.

That would depend on the size of the company (i.e. revenue) vs the size of the payouts.

If it's a 100million/year company, and the payouts amount to 10million (one-off, not ongoing), is it really worth folding the company over that?

Back up for a minute – Backblaze HD reliability stats show oldies can be goodies

eldakka
Facepalm

The AFR is proportional to the sum of the importance of the data and the freshness of (if any) of backups.

That is, if the data is critical and you don't have any backups, the AFR approaches 100%.

If the data is 'nice to have' and you did a full backup an hour ago, AFR approaches 0%.

Website fined by German court for leaking visitor's IP address via Google Fonts

eldakka

Re: Maybe this fine will start a trend.

> €100? It might be an irritant in case of my hobby site, but this is not the internets of 2021. Perhaps if they increase the fine, for non-compliance, to €100 per day, then per hour, then per minute, this might force some to notice and fix this. SOME.

As per the article this was just a warning (emphasis mine):

The ruling directs the website to stop providing IP addresses to Google and threatens the site operator with a fine of €250,000 for each violation, or up to six months in prison, for continued improper use of Google Fonts.

eldakka
Pint

Re: At Cornetman...

> I don't want a steering wheel with somebody else's hands on it.

But how else can I drink my beer and send an SMS at the same time if the passenger doesn't steer for me?

ISO.org outage hits day 3: Still in the dark as the important matter of bunk bed standards enters discussion

eldakka

Re: Nothing to see here

After the appropriate fees have been paid by the techies to get access to the ratified fix.

US Navy in mad dash to salvage F-35C that fell off a carrier into South China Sea

eldakka
Boffin

Re: F35 A, B & C models

STOVL is the term.

It's more than 20 years since Steps topped the charts. It could be less than that for STEP's first fusion energy

eldakka
Coffee/keyboard

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(2) a massive uncontrolled explosion would significant improve the area.

eldakka

Re: We need to replace Vlad's Gas

That makes absolutely no sense whatsoever.

FWIW, a large part of the reason the USA is scared of China and is waving the military boogeyman around is because China owns enough of the USA to invoke "Pax Morporkia"

"If you fight, we'll call in your mortgages. And incidentally that's my pike you're pointing at me. I paid for that shield you're holding. And take my helmet off when you speak to me, you horrible little debtor."

If the US and China goes to war, it'll immediately nullify any debts owed to China. No way you are going to continue giving money (repaying debts) to the country you are at war with. As far as the US government is concerned, paying off or attempting to pay off any such debts owed to China would be aiding and abetting an enemy during time of war. The Chinese would just have to write off all such debts and suck it - well, unless they win any such war of course and as terms of surrender/treaty re-instate all such owed debts. Any ownership stakes China has in the US (whether physical or intellectual) will be immediately nationalised by the US government with zero compensation being paid to the country they are at war with, China.

Rolls-Royce consortium shopping for factory sites to build mini-nuclear reactors

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Happy

Re: Money for old rope

Using a Beowulf cluster of commodity hardware instead of a custom ASICs and processors, one-off hand-built supercomputer.

eldakka

Re: Money for old rope

> I ask the same question of why building new 'normal' size nukes is seemingly such a difficult, time-consuming and hugely expensive task, despite the world having decades of experience building them already - see EDF and Hinkley, etc.

One reason (amongst many) is alluded to in the article:

"prefabricated units of SMRs can be manufactured and then shipped and installed on-site, making them more affordable to build than large power reactors, which are often custom-designed for a particular location, sometimes leading to construction delays.
Even though a series of reactors may be built to "Reactor Type X" plan, each individual reactor is essentially custom hand-built on site. As well as the expense in hand-building these things, since they are each effectively a custom unit, each one has to be certified separately that it is actually built to the common plan for Type X, and that any deviations are verified, and so on. This makes them incredibly expensive individually, as you need skilled (nuclear reactor skilled) workers on site, custom fabrications, running into unexpected issues which leads to delays which means more costs, the potential for cost blowouts goes on and on. Big-bang custom software project billion-dollar blowouts have nothing on nuclear reactor delays and blowouts.

So instead of hand-building a custom 3600MW reactor on site, the idea is to mass-produce smaller reactors, so you can plonk 12 of these mass-produced, identical, needing only quality-control-type testing/certification that any mass-produced but complex machine is, down on the same site to create your 3600MW plant. And since you have 12 of them, they can be independantly controlled, maintained, refueled/replaced without taking down the entire 3500MW reactor. They can also be expanded or decommissioned more gradually. Add another 300MW reactor if want to make the site provide more power, take them out one-by-one to decommission them. Build smaller sites so you don't need a single 3600MW plant. Able to ship them to remote sites (e.g. Shetlands, Fiji, middle of Amazon) to establish smaller, local power infrastructure without having to run submarine/overland transmission infrastructure, etc.

If you are going to go nuclear for low-emissions power (as opposed to solar/wind/hydro/geothermal etc.) then SMRs seem a better way to do it.

Throw away your Ethernet cables* because MediaTek says Wi-Fi 7 will replace them

eldakka
Trollface

Re: Does it go through brick walls?

Are you an evil genius holed up in some old castle or something?

eldakka

Re: Pre order now - WiFi 8 availability soon

> Yeah, that title is literally true. Though mostly that will operate in a super high band that won't go through much in the way of walls, etc.

Thus requiring you to buy more base units, one for every room. Consumerism success!

eldakka

Re: Still a radio

That's a veru needed cordless phone. If you keep coddling it like that, giving it attention every time it feels a little run down, it's going to keep doing that. You need to give it some hard love.

Robot vacuum cleaner employed by Brit budget hotel chain Travelodge flees

eldakka
Pint

Re: decided [sentience] had been a bad idea and downgraded

I'm trying as hard as I can (see icon).

IPv6 is built to be better, but that's not the route to success

eldakka

Re: "I don't always need to look up the address of a bit of kit I need to contact"

> Using IP addresses directly should be already frowned upon

I'm a sysadmin, not networking, so can only speak as to what our network admins want from us.

Our network team when setting up load balancer VIPs always want IP addresses for the destination hosts the load balancer is balancing, or IP addresses for firewall rules, IPSEC and so on. Part of that might be because DNS isn't managed by them, it's managed by the Windows team since it's (I believe) built into AD, therefore sometimes we have IP addresses weeks before we have DNS entries (not all servers are Windows servers that get automatically put into the AD-based DNS system).

And when troubleshooting complex systems internet -> gateway -> NAT (for security) -> load balancers -> firewall -> ESBs -> load balancers -> firewall -> servers it's often just easier to go by IP to avoid extra steps in getting IP logs from network devices/appliances and converting them to DNS names then back again for the next hop.

Austrian watchdog rules German company's use of Google Analytics breached GDPR by sending data to US

eldakka

Re: Is this a CLEAR breach?

> The data subject is the party that gave Google the data.

No.

The website wrote the webpage. They choose to include a library in it, the Google Analytics library. Therefore it is they, the publisher, who are the ones who are providing the data to Google by making the choice to include the Analytics library (by reference) in the webpage they created.

Linux Mint 20.3 appears – now with more Mozilla flavor: Why this distro switched Firefox defaults back to Google

eldakka

Re: And this is why

> I have upvoted you simply because you have so deliberately missed my point. And you know it. But please enjoy your moment of snark.

No, I think you have missed my point.

There are choices in everything you do.

You need to do the appropriate level of research/experimenting/testing/life experience to narrow your choices and choose the one you want to use.

What are you going to have for dinner (Indian, Chinese, French, Mexican, Italian... and what specific dish once you've chosen the style)?

What drink are you going to buy (coke, pepsi, water, red bull, scotch, rum, cabsav, champagne, cognac, beer... )?

What breakfast serial?

What bread?

Who are you going to date/marry/one-night-stand?

What friends are you going to make?

What job are you going to take?

Where are you going on vacation?

Atr you going to get COVID vaxxed or not?

What clothes are you going to buy?

Unless you want to go through life being a robot or someone's slave or 'whipped', you need to make the decisions after appropriate research - whether that means trying food you've never had before and deciding you like it or you'll never touch it again, taking a person on a date to see if you want to see them again, asking the opinino of someone you trust, or getting a PhD in a field you want to write research papers on.

If you want someone to tell you what Linux to use, OK, I'll give it a go, get Linux Mint.

There you go, somewhere to start. If you don't like Mint, change to a different distribution or don't, or just stay on whatever O/S you are currently on. I don't care.

eldakka

Re: And this is why

> Linux on the desktop? Not going to happen. After all, which Linux do you choose? Ask 10 Linux users and you will get 10 different answers. And you think Windows/Macos business users are going to switch to Linux.

Motorbike rider here, been thinking about buying a car. Not going to happen. After all, which car do you choose? Ask 10 car users and you will get 10 different answers. And you think motorbike/scooter users are going to switch to cars?

You wood not believe what a Japanese logging company and university want to use to build a small satellite

eldakka

Re: If anyone can...

> you missed "flatsat"

I was aiming more for the rhythm:

flAt pAck sAt

eldakka
Coat

Re: Wood for reentry heat shielding

> 5.9 inches of white oak

I didn't think the article that exciting...

eldakka

Re: If anyone can...

Flatpack Sat?

Offering Patreon subs in sterling or euros means you can be sued under GDPR, says Court of Appeal

eldakka

Re: On the other hand...

> Does that mean that if a business only accepts USD then GDPR cannot apply?

If it doesn't operate in UK/EU, then yes.

The judgement is that offering transactions in the local currencies (£/€) is tantamount to operating in the UK/EU. It is expanding the definition of what it means to be operating in the UK/EU for GDPR purposes.

Therefore either physically operating in the UK/EU (i.e. a local office) or effectively operating in UK/EU (trading in £/€) is sufficient to establish the link for GDPR purposes. It's not an "and", it's an "or", both don't have to be true. If the ruling stands that is.

The year ahead in technology fail: You knew they were bad, now they're going to prove it

eldakka

There's a whole world of music fans who'd seriously consider any technology, no matter how expensive, that could recreate being at a live gig right now, as would every performer on the planet.

This is obviously the market for the $2,500 Audiophiles Ethernet Switch and Audiophile SSD.

Seriously, how stupid are people?

Tesla disables in-car gaming feature that allowed play while MuskMobiles were in motion

eldakka

Re: Soft controls

> However, these things shouldn't be allowed if they reduce safety.

Like this? (selective quoting, follow link for full article and context)

Tesla’s wiper controls are ruled illegal in Germany after someone crashed while using them

Tesla’s wiper controls through its touchscreen have been ruled illegal in Germany after someone crashed their Model 3 while using them and fought a fine and driving ban through the court system.

...

If the driver wants to adjust the speed, they need to do it through the center touchscreen.

The driver in Germany was adjusting those settings when he lost control of the vehicle and crashed.

A local district court gave him a fine and a one-month driving ban and that’s where the problem started for Tesla.

eldakka

Re: Soft controls

> While they're at it, what about redesigning the user interface to avoid soft, screen based controls?

I too hate 'soft' controls - at least for anything that's likely to be used while driving.

However, I do understand why manufacturers like them.

Buttons, dials, knobs, sliders, switches spread around the cockpit (door handle, stalks, steering wheel, left and right sides of the wheel, center console (high, middle, low), etc.), in addition to the switches themselves, requires cutouts (more complex design and/or labour), running wiring to those controls (much labour, look at the frequent troubles both Boeing and Airbus have had with wiring runs on aircraft - a different scale I know, but it shows wiring runs can be difficult), wiring looms (both price of the part and labour to wire up, and common points for QC issues), and so on.

There can literally be a thousand dollar difference in manufacturing using a simple (but terribly bad UI design) setup like a Tesla vs having a lot of hard controls. And that doesn't count maintenance/warranty issues of failed switches and the costs in fixing them - as 20 moving parts will have a higher failure rate than a screen with touch controls. A central control system like a Tesla's is much easier to repair - just pull the entire thing out and put in a new (refurbed) one, and take the faulty one to an electronics repair shop and refurb to use as repair replacements or toss out (well, hopefully recyle).

It is literally a cost vs good human interface design equation.

US grounds investors in Chinese drone maker DJI over 'Xinjiang human rights abuses'

eldakka

Re: What Human Rights Abuses?

> Provide evidence of what? I am not the one making allegations of Genocide.

There. Right there is showing your dishonesty:

@archbungle wrote:

> Even if it was true that Israel was hosting gulags for muslims ...

The Gaza Strip is a Gulag, possibly worse, so there's no "Even If".

> or that they were doing ethnic cleansing (they aren't)

Yes. They. Are. This is incontrovertible fact.

> Since when are press reports evidence?

Are you that stupid? Press reports cite the evidence they are reporting. They include eye witness statements, references to reports, drone footage, satellite footage, internal CCP documentation.

> So declaring a genocide is enough to make it so? Nonsense.

See above.

> Where are the sattellite images of mass graves in Xinjiang?

Genocide doesn't require mass executions. Forcibly sterilising the population so they can't reproduce is just as effective as mass murder. Putting everyone in prison is just as effective as mass murder. There are plenty of satellite images and drone images and, yes, the odd tourist taking photos, of mass concentration camps for Uyghurs.

> - Where are the western tourist reports of Uygurs being butchered in the streets?

You think they let tourists into these areas?

It's China, not Europe, there is no such thing as free movement.

Even then. there are some photos from some tourists of the conentration camps.

The CCP doesn't need to resort to butchering in public. They have industrialised the roudning up and herding into these internment camps of millions of Uyghurs, where sterilisations, indoctrination, and anything else they want to do to the Uyghurs can occur hidden, out of sight in these internment camps.

> You can present none because the entire narrative is a fiction created by the the Anglo-American propaganda complex.

Your entire argument is factless, incoherent, and a plain lie, taking straight from the propoganda booklet of the CCP. I ask yet again, are you receiving money from the CCP or an agency or related body thereof? Are you a paid shill?

eldakka

Re: What Human Rights Abuses?

> The Gaza Strip is a Gulag, possibly worse, so there's no "Even If".

> Yes. They. Are. This is incontrovertible fact.

You demand evidence - despite the press reports brimming over about the Uyghur genocide, and numerous governments and NGOs having declared China is engaged in a genocide of the Uyghur people - yet don't seem prepared to provide evidence yourself of your assertions.

So, how much are you being paid?

eldakka

Re: What Human Rights Abuses?

Nice deflection, still haven't answered the questions though.

eldakka
Flame

Re: What Human Rights Abuses?

Greetings new poster with only 2 posts that support China's Uyghur genoicide.

Chinese government agent, paid shill, or just a cheerleader for Chinese genocide of Uyghur's?

Enquiring minds would like to know.

Luxembourg judge hits pause on Amazon's daily payments of disputed $844m GDPR fine

eldakka

Re: I may be wrong, but I think Amazon deliberately obstruct CCPA requests

DownThemAll

It is still available, they have made a WebExtension version.

£42k for a top-class software engineer? It's no wonder uni research teams can't recruit

eldakka

Re: It's all about the banding

> pay bands where you simply can't get paid more unless you become a manager or head of department.

The government department I was a contractor at a few years ago did an exercise where they converted contractors to permies.

I was able to get 'top of level' +20% in pay (i.e. equivalent to top of the next band up - a management band), so while they don't advertise anything but the pay bands, they can certainly pay outside it if you can justify it.

eldakka

> although now is often incorrectly used to mean reduced by a lot more than that

That is not an an incorrect usage of the word 'decimate'.

English is a living language, which means over time the meaning (and pronunciations) of words not only drifts, but can change radically.

English is also a very flexible and context-sensitive language, such that the same word can have different meanings depending on context, and that context decides which of the various accepted meanings of a word apply.

Additional accepted definitions of decimate over time have come to include "to reduce drastically especially in number" and "to cause great destruction or harm to" in addition to the original "to select by lot and kill every tenth man of". Which definition is appropriate depends on the context it is being used in.

Google advises Android users to be careful of Microsoft Teams if they want to call 911

eldakka

Re: And when we are all FTTP?

> Power cut - No central battery system on FTTP, can't make an emergency call on that.

Which is why some providers and third parties offer local battery backups for such installations.

eldakka

> Do 911 calls have targeted advertising?

I doubt it, because if it did they'd have been much more on the ball with fixing it.

German court rules cookie preference service that shared IP addresses with US firm should be halted

eldakka

Re: And the rest too, please

I am curious as to how long it takes after landing on a page for the site to set cookies and/or start to harvest data

It's effectively instantaneous.

Cookies are generated on the serverside, and the server instructs your browser to save the cookie.

The moment you click on that link (or press enter after typing the address in the address bar), the HTTP request to that site includes any pre-existing cookies in that initial request, and when that request hits that server, it logs the identifying information, IP address, URL, useragent string, cookies etc., and reads and processes the cookies passed. Assuming those pre-existing cookies aren't some sort of opt-out cookies, and that the site chooses to honour it, then the webserver or backend application servers it sits in front of, generates any new cookies and return them back to you in the HTTP reply headers, and non-session cookies that are returned get saved by your browser while session cookies which are transient aren't saved. A well-behaved website won't set any persistent cookies on a first-time connection (i.e. no pre-existing cookies saved), and wait for any cookies banners to be processed ("this site uses cookies, blah blah blah"), however, that is controlled by the developer, not the browser, not the protocol, it is up to the writer of the webpage whether to do that or not, and even then, they'll still get standard logging information - IP address, timestamps, useragents and whatnot.

MySQL a 'pretty poor database' says departing Oracle engineer

eldakka

Re: Moved to MariaDB

> When I were a lad, I enjoyed taking things apart to see how they worked.

> I counter that with: Be a lifelong learner.

When I was a lad, I too enjoyed tinkering with that sort of thing. And I enjoy learning things.

But I am no longer a lad. I get paid money to do this stuff. Someone has to pay money to someone to get it done. Even if it's not cash money, it's opportunity cost. I could spend all day working out how to do it with product B, or spend an hour getting it done with product A, and go spend that 6 hours I've saved with my family, friends, hobbies, or just getting pissed, which are more valuable to me than unnecessarily wrangling with something for several hours. In this opportunity cost model, my family/friends/hobbies/teammates/pub are the ones who have to pay the cost of me learning this other unnecessary product instead of spending the time with them.

I get paid for results, not tinkering. The longer I take to get something done, the costlier it's going to get, someone has to pay that, and if its a consumer-facing project, the consumer will have to pay more.

Time is cost, and I value my time spent doing non-IT related activities (the aforementioned time with family, friends, non-IT hobbies) higher than the value of spending those hours learning product B if product A is good enough for the job. If product A is not good enough, then, and only then, will the value proposition have changed to make learning product B (or C, D, ...) worthwhile, at which point - since I've judged it's value to me appropriate - I'll be happy as a pig in shit learning it.

eldakka

Re: Moved to MariaDB

> Umm... performance, stability, scalability, features, bugs. You know, pretty much every reason someone moves from one piece of software to another.

Nice way to totally not get the argument.

"Good enough" for what they are doing means those things are not an issue.

If I already have MySQL for my tin-pot project and never have had an issue, why would I move? Sure, I completely accept that Postgres is a 'better' DBMS, but if all the things it is better at are completely irrelevant to my project, why would I move to it - and note, moving implies you already have something working, therefore why expend the effort for, literally, nothing. You gain nothing by moving the existing implementation? Why spend money to make such a migration (even if it's not cash money, it could be opportunity cost)?

If I already know MySQL, then MySQL is easier to get started with than Postgres, because I don't have to go to the (possibly trivial, but trivial != 0 effort) effort of working out how to do something I already know in Postgres for no gain if MySQL is good enough, or hell a CSV and awk/sed might be good enough, and quicker, even if bodgy, if I know how to whip up a report in 2 or 3 minutes versus taking a day to learn how to set up a database, ingest the data, query the data, format it and print it out.

Don't let 'perfect' be the enemy of good enough. Good enough is precisely that, good enough.

If I need to write a quick reminder note, notepad is good enough, I don't need to fire up a full-on word processor and load a template, format text, then import it into a desktop publishing app for a really awsome professional look, etc. for a quick reminder note.

eldakka

Re: Captain Obvious

> while Postgres was a full-fledged product that favoured the far superior Quel.

That's a "you're holding it wrong"-type argument.

If the majority of users want SQL, and don't want to use Quel, then you either need to support SQL, or become at-best a niche product.

Customers decide on what features they prioritize and choose products based on that. Most companies/products aren't in the priveleged Apple (or Model T "you can have any colour you want as long as it's black") place of being able to dictate to customers.

It's primed and full of fuel, the James Webb Space Telescope is ready to be packed up prior to launch

eldakka
Gimp

I am feeling two conflicting emotions

I'm so excited I could pee my pants.

I'm so terrified that something goes wrong I could puke.

eldakka

Design lifetime is at least 5.5 years.

Hopeful of 10 years.

Assuming there are no actual failures that reduce its life (non-redundant systems breaking for example), it'll depend on how much fuel it will need for stationkeeping. The L2 is not 100% stable, it requires regular adjustments to maintain orbit around it. So there's a lot of educated guesswork in how much fuel they'll need. So they've put enough fuel for a worst case station-keeping fuel usage for 5.5 years, which will of course last longer if their worst-case estimates were too pessimistic, so they are hoping for ~10 years, maybe more, but only 'guarantee' 5.5.

Australia will force social networks to identify trolls, so they can be sued for defamation

eldakka

Huh?

Attorney-general Michaelia Cash argued that ruling leaves any Australian organisation at the mercy of trolls who, by posting defamatory content to an organisation's social media presence, could smear their target but leave the organisation liable for their comments.
On the basis that the judgement found them liable, then doesn't this mean that maybe they should moderate their social media presence if they are afraid of this? Pre-moderate all posts, problem solved.

Oh, wait, it'll cost them money to do that? My heart bleeds. If the law (as it stands) says you can be liable for defamatory posts on your site/page (no CDA 230 equivalent), then you need to take the appropriate reasonable steps to prevent libellous material from being posted.

Sweden asks EU to ban Bitcoin mining because while hydroelectric power is cheap, they need it for other stuff

eldakka

Re: Not Happening

Total tosh. Who would use (except Criminals) crypto currencies. When their value can oscillate to a ridiculous extent on a second by second basis. So risky, so worthless, and it uses so much power. And what is the point?

Too true.

Real criminals use artwork to convert and trade value.

eldakka

Re: What's next?

We have developed so many things when there was no internet or other distractions.

You seem to be implying that our rate of technological progressoin has slowed? Citation needed.

Nuclear fusion firm Pulsar fires up a UK-built hybrid rocket engine

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Leonard: Uh-oh.

Raj: What's the matter?

Leonard: Something's wrong, I'm not getting any gas. Anybody know anything about internal combustion engines?

Sheldon: Of course.

Raj: Very basic.

Howard: 19th-century technology.

Leonard: Does anybody know how to fix an internal combustion engine?

Sheldon: No.

Howard: No, not a clue.