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byspectrokid
2015 @08:40AM
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Attached to: Is There an Ed-Tech Critic In the House?
There are many places where it is hard to find good math / STEM teachers. Here in Denmark, my kids make some of their math homework on a website, but it could be SOOO much better. A website which adapts it speed to the pupil, and turns out a nice daily report for the teacher showing where he needs to put focus in class... School is definitely THE area where automation is still in its infancy...
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byspectrokid
22, 2015 @06:54AM
(#48873897)
Attached to: Doomsday Clock Could Move
Now, I'm not a massive climate-change-will-kill-the-planet believer
That is what everybody gets wrong. Climate change will not kill the planet, not even the eco system. It might however very well kill us. (Or most of us)
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byspectrokid
2014 @01:36PM
(#47237247)
Attached to: Microsoft Runs Out of US Address Space For Azure, Taps Its Global IPv4 Stock
but the routing tables once more become more complicated. Shit starts slowing down, there is more room for mistakes in BGP.
With all the routers having to do more calculations a gazillion times a day, shit starts using more power.
That is right: our refusal to move to IPV6 is increasing our emission of greenhouse gasses
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byspectrokid
2014 @05:37AM
(#46997477)
Attached to: Do Embedded Systems Need a Time To Die?
My thermostat will never be connected to anything and does not need an end of life thank you very much. And I want to see the manager who will approve buying this kind of stuff.
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byspectrokid
2014 @09:48AM
(#46445385)
Attached to: UK and Germany To Collaborate On 5G
For a cabled connection to your desktop, GB ethernet is probably more than you will ever need. How many HD movies can you see at the same time anyway? Is 5G not going to hit the same barrier? Sure there will be some niche applications, but John Doe doesn't need to be able to download an entire movie in 10 seconds. He definitely doesn't need to be able to use his "unlimited data" for a whole month in under a minute.
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byspectrokid
3, 2013 @06:08AM
(#45678865)
Attached to: Ford Self-Driving R&D Car Tells Small Animal From Paper Bag At 200 Ft.
If production is 10 years from now, we will have hit the concrete wall by then. 2.5 million scans per second is not going to get processed by a 10$ chip. It will be interesting to see how the end of Moore's law will affect this and similar projects.
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byspectrokid
12, 2013 @09:03AM
(#45669869)
Attached to: New Baltic Data Cable Plan Unfolding
But the Fins will pass the traffic on to the Germans...
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byspectrokid
12, 2013 @02:56AM
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Attached to: New Baltic Data Cable Plan Unfolding
The bridge is also subject of a brilliant TV series featuring a Swedish detective with some serious Asperger issues. Pure Nerd material! (And yes, this is the original, the french/british and the american/mexican ones are the knock-offs).
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Taco Cowboy writes: Scientists have uncovered a 3,700-year-old wine cellar in the ruins of a Canaanite palace in Israel, chemical analysis from the samples from the ceramic jars suggest they held a luxurious beverage that was evidently reserved for banquets.
The good stuff contains a blend of ingredients that may have included honey, mint, cedar, tree resins and cinnamon bark.
The discovery confirms how sophisticated wines were at that time, something suggested only by ancient texts.
The wine cellar was found this summer in palace ruins near the modern town of Nahariya in northern Israel. Researchers found 40 ceramic jars, each big enough to hold about 13 gallons, in a single room. There may be more wine stored elsewhere, but the amount found so far wouldn't be enough to supply the local population, which is why the researchers believe it was reserved for palace use. The unmarked jars are all similar as if made by the same potter, chemical analysis indicates that the jars held red wine and possibly white wine. There was no liquid left, analysis were done on residues removed from the jars.
An expert in ancient winemaking said the discovery "sheds important new light" on the development of winemaking in ancient Canaan, from which it later spread to Egypt and across the Mediterranean.
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byspectrokid
r 27, 2013 @09:18AM
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Attached to: EU Plastic Bag Debate Highlights a Wider Global Problem
Here in Denmark bags cost 40 p (3.5 DKK, 0.5 €).
I can assure you you start thinking twice before throwing 3 on the belt!
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byspectrokid
2, 2013 @05:12AM
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Attached to: Hammerhead System Offers a Better Way To Navigate While Cycling
Open Streetmap has (where I live) much better cycling maps than any other. Offline, so no data charges. OSMAND (for android) is free as in beer, and gives you spoken instructions in the language of your choice. And if your favorite track is not on the map, it is very satisfying to draw it yourself and share it with the community.
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byspectrokid
20, 2013 @07:44AM
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Attached to: Its Nuclear Plant Closed, Maine Town Is Full of Regret
Safe nuclear power is not a technical problem. It is a political problem. In Fukushima, the authorities knew the generators were crap. So the debate gets a third angle: do you trust the engineers? Well maybe. But do you trust the politicians?
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byspectrokid
17, 2013 @03:33PM
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Attached to: NSA Bought Exploit Service From VUPEN
Does that make them "freedom exploits"?
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byspectrokid
r 12, 2013 @03:03PM
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Attached to: Former DHS Official Blames Privacy Advocates For TSA's Aggressive Procedures
I'm a foreigner. I had the honor to be subjected to both your border guard and TSA. I wouldn't trust them with a fucking fruitcake.
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byspectrokid
28, 2013 @09:10AM
(#44696193)
Attached to: Vermont Yankee Nuclear Plant To Close In 2014
...burning hydrocarbon is the energy source where the biggest part of the cost is payed for by society. Here, fixed that for ya!
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