Europeans dont like to see US brands make money... so new EU nation level gov rules.. start to be enforced
This is BS! Don't be prejudicial about other's motives. Europeans value their privacy highly.
However, there are concerns on bit multi-national companies, but that is about tax evasion.
Wind and Solar CANNOT replace coal/oil/gas as baseline power without power storage technologies that DON'T EXIST.
I always thought that nuclear power also needed storage systems because the need for electricity during daytime is much higher than during the night, and you cannot reduce the output of a nuclear power plant at will as you can do with hydro power. Which leads to the obvious solution: Connect the nuclear plant with a hydro power plant and pump water back up during the night. This is already done, isn't it?
Solar and wind power can do the same: Pump water up to a reservoir that can be utilized when it is overcast, night time, no wind etc.
Seriously, have they really taken into account all confounding factors? E.g. there might be a bit more health aware people in the no soda group? Like eating a bit less meat for instance.
From the fine article:
Here's an expert on the issue explaining the problem: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fen...
There are huge amounts of unused potentials, I believe. See, e.g. https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.carbonbrief.org%2Feu...
/Jon
PS A quote I cannot properly remember goes something like this "If an old and renowned scientist says something is possible, you should listen, because he is probably right. However, if an old and renowned scientist says something is impossible, he is certainly wrong."
Since it's 75 deg south, there's not much difference in sunlight at midnight or midday... Yet it did. We figured that the coldest moment of the day (-50C, remember) was now in the middle of our morning, when we were scheduled to do most of our outdoor construction activities !
And in North of Norway, it matters as well. When it is warm, say 25 C and up, it is usually in the afternoon, as I guess it is all over the world in the temperate zones/subarctic zones. The midnight sun up there doesn't warm you or give you a tan, it is just nice to have and encourage you to stay up all night. Which is what it is all about -- at least for me. When I moved from that area to the south of Norway, I was shocked to learn that during the summer, when it got dark, people actually went to bed!
(It got deleted on "preview", found here: http://textart4u.blogspot.no/2...)
Don't tell me you end your email interchange with: "I love you. Over and out!"
...and lock accounts after 3 to 10 incorrect attempts.
Yes, of course. That fell out. Thanks. We also use automatic unlock after N minutes so brute force attacks don't work.
Bad:
* The probability of guessing someone's password increases only marginally if it is unchanged.
* Frequent password change just makes the users add sequence number or the month name to the passwords.
* All the character category requirements induce only bad passwords in order to be able to remember them.
Better:
* Write down complex passwords and keep it in your wallet along with your 100 € notes, which you never want to lose anyway.
* Simple password complexity evaluation algorithm, e.g. adding points to length, and the number of different characters and such.
* Lock any account that is not used in some time interval, and use some other mechanism to unlock it, e.g. human administrator, email, SMS or extra long password for this purpose.
(Previously posted on forums.xkcd.com.)
You cannot permit it! You dare not, at all.
Accepting that outrage on all else may fall!
Complete poem: http://www.barnasrett.no/Dikt/...
Translation in subtitles in youtube: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3F...
(Disclaimer: Yes, he was a communist. No, I am not.)
"A mind is a terrible thing to have leaking out your ears." -- The League of Sadistic Telepaths