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byYuppieScum
1, 2026 @03:59PM
(#65962944)
Attached to: Walmart Begins Building Out Nationwide EV Charging Network Across America
Long-term profit and market dominance are the goals, based on "If you build it, they will come."
Cover the store roof in solar panels, and perhaps the parking bays themselves (as is now mandatory in France for open-air car-parks with more than ~60 spaces). Couple that with a load of battery storage, and you've got a perpetual resource* you can charge for that only costs the depreciation on the infrastructure.
Then maybe add in a deal where you get a minute of free charge for every $10 you spend...
Finally, put the charging bays next-closest to the store entrance after the disabled/parent-child bays.
* May not apply in northern latitudes in winter.
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byYuppieScum
29, 2026 @02:54PM
(#65957306)
Attached to: Microsoft Admits Windows 11 Has a Trust Problem, Promises To Focus on Fixes in 2026
They can regain trust by removing the following:
1. Telemetry.
2. Advertising.
3. "AI".
4. Mandatory Microsoft account.
5. Arbitrary restrictions on supported hardware (TPM, CPU age).
Easy really - no need to add anything.
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byYuppieScum
18, 2025 @03:17PM
(#65867481)
Attached to: Mass Hacking of IP Cameras Leave Koreans Feeling Vulnerable in Homes, Businesses
...if the cameras are "security-certified" if either (a) the box they feed isn't, or (b) they're installed by idiots.
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byYuppieScum
3, 2025 @04:27PM
(#65813979)
Attached to: One Company's Plan to Sink Nuclear Reactors Deep Underground
"The same oil and gas drilling techniques that reliably reach kilometer-deep wells can be adapted to host nuclear reactors..."
The last time I looked, oil and gas drilling was done with strings of pipe a few inches in diameter. Unless they're proposing constructing everything in a ship-in-a-bottle fashion, the bore-hole is going to need to be more like a mine-shaft - which is certainly doable, but is not going to be nearly as easy or cheap as they claim.
As well as the reactors, they've also got to get the heat-exchangers, turbines and generators down there too - all of which will require regular maintenance.
Oh, and then it's all got to be connected together.
Finally, they've got to have mile-long cables to bring the power to the surface - which need to be capable of supporting their own weight when strung vertically.
I suspect they're going to burn through a whole load of VC/investor cash before quietly folding and moving on to the next grift/scam/exciting project.
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byYuppieScum
1, 2025 @03:24PM
(#65810593)
Attached to: Microsoft Finally Admits Almost All Major Windows 11 Core Features Are Broken
...the advertising and telemetry/data-slurping functions continue to work perfectly.
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byYuppieScum
18, 2025 @01:42PM
(#65803177)
Attached to: Federal Judge Rules Meta's Instagram and WhatsApp Purchases Did Not Stifle Competition
They legally stifled competition.
I wonder how much it cost in "campaign contributions"...
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byYuppieScum
15, 2025 @02:34PM
(#65797741)
Attached to: Only Half the Homes in America Have Cable TV Anymore
Could you clarify "no OTA"?
Certainly.
To begin with, I'm not suggesting that there was no VHF/UHF TV broadcast signal in NYC, just that I was not able to receive it.
Specifically, in the three apartments I had - Battery Park, Upper East Side and NoHo - there was no provided antenna drop from the roof, no way to hang an antenna from outside a window, and building construction/location/apartment orientation/whatever meant "rabbit ears" were insufficiently successful.
Friends with houses in Brooklyn & Queens were able to receive OTA, although the picture quality was what somewhat "meh" by comparison to cable. In Manhattan, no-one I knew bothered with trying it.
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byYuppieScum
4, 2025 @01:13PM
(#65795968)
Attached to: Only Half the Homes in America Have Cable TV Anymore
Why anyone would pay for cable is beyond me.
Cable provides a simple one-stop, one-bill solution for a lot of people's TV and internet needs - they had it growing up, so it's something they understood and saw no reason to change. Now they're aging out, and their kids - and grandkids - are looking elsewhere, which is why cable's numbers are in decline...
FWIW, when I lived in Manhattan, the choice was cable or nothing. No OTA, and broadband was only just becoming a thing - I was the first in my building to get it - so streaming was a long way off and time-shifting broadcasts was still done with magnetic tape. Now, get off my lawn...er...window box.
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byYuppieScum
13, 2025 @02:19AM
(#65792494)
Attached to: US Ends Penny-Making Run After More Than 230 Years
No, but I have seen CAN$1, €1 and £1 coins after 10+ years in circulation, and they're fine if a little scuffed.
The implication is that the US Mint can't - or just doesn't want to - make durable dollar coins.
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byYuppieScum
r 12, 2025 @03:38PM
(#65791100)
Attached to: US Ends Penny-Making Run After More Than 230 Years
The €1 coin costs about twice as much to produce as a $1 bill relative to face value, and will last perhaps 20 times longer in circulation. If the US Mint can't produce a cost-effective $1 coin, perhaps that's the issue that needs addressing.
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byYuppieScum
r 12, 2025 @03:24PM
(#65791052)
Attached to: US Ends Penny-Making Run After More Than 230 Years
What kind of cheapskate doesn't at least use a $20 for that?
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byYuppieScum
r 12, 2025 @02:57PM
(#65790948)
Attached to: US Ends Penny-Making Run After More Than 230 Years
Then don't put them in your prison purse...
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byYuppieScum
r 12, 2025 @02:51PM
(#65790918)
Attached to: US Ends Penny-Making Run After More Than 230 Years
...$1 bills only last 5 years, whereas coins last decades. So, coins are a more cost-effective solution than $1 bills over their respective lifespans.
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byYuppieScum
r 05, 2025 @02:18PM
(#65775486)
Attached to: Deutsche Bank Explores Hedges For Data Centre Exposure as AI Lending Booms
Does anyone remember 2007/8? Some banks bundled up various forms of debt - some good, most bad - and sold them on... it all ended badly for everyone except the banks.
AI is a bubble waiting to burst, and DB deserve to take a bath on their AI/DC debt.
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byYuppieScum
2, 2025 @01:32PM
(#65767966)
Attached to: Amazon's Deployment of Rivian's Electric Delivery Vans Expand to Canada
You would have thought that the European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association would have known what they're talking about.
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