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Is there a way to capture said cow fart methane and burn it for energy?

Not economically, though prototypes do exist. There is some effort to capture methane emissions from cow manure.

All those black or blue solar panels aren't 100% efficient, while they convert 1/5 of the sun's energy they absorb into electricity, the remaining 4/5 is emitted as heat. It nearly like taking those fields and paving them with asphalt, it is going to heat up the local area. Solar panels make sense on areas that are already black like a roof, but taking large undeveloped areas and installing panels you are just creating a large heat island. Let's not forget the reflections they make in latitudes further north where they are angled such that they reflect light into neighboring homes. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...

Well, technically you could hire somebody to listen in on all phone calls, but it'd be massive with tons of people involved and excessively costly. Or you could hire a few smart people at the NSA and give a computer the Siri + Watson treatment. Target has been able to figure out a teenage was pregnant before her father did. It might not be smarter than you but with enough data we become predictable. And perhaps more important, mallable. For example, say Target's shopping history show you have a sweet tooth. Could they make you more obese by offering you special deals on candy? Or should they perhaps give you a deal on salad for public health reasons?

I'm not so concerned about true AI, because I don't think we'll see that in a very long time. But I am concerned about AI that's smart enough to manipulate you. Like freemium games trying to trigger your reward centers, only more adaptive and tailored to you. And a few people holding the strings controlling and puppeteering the masses. Unfortunately no amount of AI research is going to help that, because the humans creating it don't want an ethics subroutine. They want computers who'll stick to their goal function and run experiments without considering the ethical implications. P.S. Grocery stores have found that sales on base products like fish and meat lead to substitution, while snacks and candy increase total sales.

And that's not counting the fun when we start putting AI in military hardware, the first time we have a real drone-on-drone war we're probably going full automatic. Fortunately it doesn't look like we'll be building terminators any time soon, but the crazy thing is that things are moving too fast to have humans in the equation. See also high frequency trading.

Oh the irony. France already has such a law
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tra...

Anonymous declares war on city of Orlando (28/Jun/2011)
Anonymous vs. Zetas: Hackers Taking On The Drug Cartel (02/Nov/2011)
Anonymous wages war on Westboro Baptist Church (17/Dez/2012)
Anonymous Declares War on Singapore (06/Nov/2013)

Given the fallback on the last weeks hoax declaration of war on ISIS by Mexican cartel leader 'El Chapo' the media is showing that the powers of "the fourth state" given to them is not being used to inform the public but to entertain them, distracting from more important issues (and of course, to sell advertisement).

Medical records are sheer gold for identity fraud http://www.wsj.com/articles/ho...

Stolen medical records can be used for medical insurance fraud and taking out loans in your name. If you don't pay up, they send debt collectors after you. They are paid by commission so don't care if they debt is legit. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/fem... http://www.philly.com/philly/b... http://www.startribune.com/cri... http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news...

What to do if they send a debt collector after you http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/pa...

Shit IT security by health providers is a big problem http://money.cnn.com/2015/07/1... http://www.wsj.com/articles/an... http://www.cnbc.com/2015/03/17...

So is doctors collecting information about you they don't need like your SSN which staff can sell to identity thieves http://www.forbes.com/sites/la...

I don't think Apple really gives a shit if they sell more tablets than android makers do. Considering the outrageous mark up on iPads they make a ton of money. If Samsung is making 10 dollars off every tablet and Apple is clearing this kind of money....

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sci...

then apple doesn't need to sell more tablets.

This drug trial has shown very promising results, but its too early to see if it represents are a long term solution.

New Type 1 diabetes treatment restores production of insulin | Daily Mail Online

Precisely. We haven't figured out yet how to create 100% secure programs, and we already start using software in all places of life, including where people can get killed by malicious software. The damage hackers can cause increases with adoption of networked computers.

Yet you don't get anywhere with the zealots. They have this vision where thousands of cars are happily zipping a long a few feet form each other all in perfect harmony. It's like those old early 20th century future prediction artworks.

Because there is so much more than just 1 car and it's autonomous control - and vulnerability. This is the Grand Big Kahuna of the internet of things.

So if you take a car that needs to switch lanes to exit in the world of full lanes bumper to bumper autonomous driving world, the bumper to bumper cars ahead and behind and in other lanes will need to know this, and allow the car to switch lanes. Dammit, this is not even remotely trivial.

And since this will have to be done via RF , there are some nasty criminal vectors as well:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...

http://965kvki.com/watch-cell-...

Now imagine some crazy shit pulling that stunt.

While it's likely that this in itself wouldn't cause accidents, it would keep cars that might want to turn, switch lanes, or merge form doing that, and mamma, we have a bit of a mess and severe traffic slowdowns.

And then we get to the Internet of Things part. I suppose that's perfectly safe.

Even with all that, It might be possible to end up with a good system. But not right now.

Perhaps we should just get the assist systems ironed out first. Just that will significantly cut down on accidents - lane assist and adaptive cruise control with anti-tailgating radar and anti collision braking. And doesn't have to employ the IoT at all.

Just move to West Virginia: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...

When he said: "The trains carrying coal to power plants are death trains. Coal-fired power plants are factories of death.", he was not employing a shred of science, he was being an incredibly dishonest and irrational partisan propagandist. One (sadly) expects such hyperbolic insanity from a bunch of unwashed college-age protesters in hemp clothes and in extreme need of a haircut, but not from a reputable scientist. Hansen has been the patron saint of the global warming alarmists for a very long time; he was at the forefront of the hype back when Al Gore was a senator and involved with him before the Clinton administration - so he cannot be easily dismissed as "some guy nobody heard of" as often happens when people of any political strain are hammered by the words of one of their activists.

Here's the big problem with Hansen's quoted statement:

Like all these sorts of anti-coal and anti-oil rants, it does not pay attention to the full impact of the thing being condemned. It's like renouncing all aviation because some birds are killed in the process. Millions of people have been, and continue to be, saved by coal. Coal provides affordable energy that heats and cools homes and schools and hospitals, allows people to cook food, chill or freeze food for preservation, chill and preserve medications, etc while also powering the transportation of millions of people allowing them to work to earn the money to have better-than-subsistence lives and longer lives. All the wind and solar power on Earth will not be saving as many lives per year as coal does for at least another century and possibly never (nuclear might manage to overtake wind and solar in that roll before they ever attain it.

I will turn against coal when it becomes a net-negative, but not one minute before then. There is something supremely evil in the idea that poor people around the globe should have to suffer NOW so rich elites can pretend they are saving the planet from 1 degree C of warmth 100 years from now. It's extremely arrogant and elitist for today's rich people and the politicians they buy to order middle- and lower-class people to sacrifice NOW and have poorer lives NOW for that 1 degree of cooler weather that MIGHT result in a century while the elites themselves refuse to even reduce their personal luxuries. As they operate personal palaces, super-cars and super-yachts while jetting around the world in private and government planes, toasting each other with fine wine and food at exotic super-expensive elite resorts, they insist that any middle class person who doubts the need for emergency action is insane or greedy or toxic. This behavior is VILE.

Climate change has ALWAYS occurred; there's no question that it will always occur no matter what we do.

Technology is always advancing

It's quite likely that over the next century new tech will arise that makes it far easier, cheaper, and more efficient for people then to get along with any effects of whatever climate change occurs than it is for us now to mitigate it at great cost and inconvenience and by consigning millions of people to poorer lives. People a century from now will be far better equipped to deal with any sea rise that MIGHT happen, than most are able to currently deal with reductions in fossil energy now. For example, in just the one winter of 2013 thousands of people in the UK alone froze to death because of the increase in costs of heating... just how do those lives lost stack-up against the future imagined deaths that might happen in a century if people then are too dumb to get into boats?

Maybe their soldiers should stop executing people in the streets

Like http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...

There were protests in the streets after the shooting. She was shot while trying to stab someone, and the shooting in the streets was condemned. Israel should just stab themselves, right? Save everyone else the trouble.

It is YOU who is ignorant of history: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...

Obama has no chance of getting anything ratified by Congress, so anything he agrees to is DOA.

As if that mattered in his agreement with Iran.

That Iran blew off:

State Department says Iran NEVER SIGNED nuclear deal and it's not 'legally binding'...

The Obama administration has disclosed to Congress that this summer's controversial nuclear arms agreement with Iran was never signed and is not legally binding, according to a new report this week.

The State Department made the disclosures in a letter to Kansas congressman Mike Pompeo, a Republican, who had written the department to inquire why the agreement as submitted to Congress in July did not bear the signature of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani.

'The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) is not a treaty or an executive agreement, and is not a signed document,' Julia Frifield, an assistant secretary for legislative affairs wrote Pompeo last Thursday.

At least Obama did pardon a dog for Thanksgiving.

Probably because nobody stays at home with the kid all day, kids don't have the security of a routine and less nurturing. They only get some guardian's partial frantic attention since they have to watch 10 other kids, and then burnt out parents at home busy making dinner and getting ready for tomorrow. Then there's those daycares that just tie kids to the bed all day and who knows what the fuck else. I'd be insecure too.

It reminds me of what Neil DeGrasse Tyson said, and I'm paraphrasing, "Of the elite of the elite scientists of the world, 15% of them still have a personal relationship with a god in the vein of religion. Why is that number not zero?"

He also said (tweeted), "Just to settle it once and for all: Which came first the Chicken or the Egg? The Egg -- laid by a bird that was not a Chicken."

So despite his occasional protestations otherwise, he is in fact a pretentious know-it-all. Others argue that only a chicken can lay a *chicken* egg, so the first chicken was hatched from a non-chicken egg.

He needs the pocket change to feel he is at the same level as the local kids.

Certainly if they had the ability, someone in that crew would have been aware of the Streisand Effect by now and would have said it was an awful idea.

Right, because batshit crazy dictators who routinely have people offed in spectacular ways who disappoint with them really give a crap when someone says "maybe we shouldn't do this".

I don't know or care who hacked Sony. But if you think telling them something is a bad idea is going to work, then I'm afraid you're so utterly clueless about North Korea that you should really stop talking about it.

North Korea is ran by a vicious little psychopath who thinks he can do anything he wants, and whose daddy and granddaddy have been doing the same thing for decades.

if the North Koreans wanted it to go away the right thing to do would have been to let it fail on its own

Never underestimate the flair for the dramatic from a psycho little dictator, or assume that anything they ever do is rational by your or my standards -- these are people who really think they can define reality according to their own whim.

Smart? Sane? Rational? Not bloody likely.

More like bloodthirsty, remorseless, and utterly convinced of their own position as supreme authority.

Seriously, trying to say what you think makes sense in this context is bound to be wrong.

Dude, As perhaps you have, I have followed this "debate" for years, in the same way I have followed the "debate" over things like creationism and the efficacy of supply-side economics. However, unlike the debate for these other things, faux pas can be reversed. Please tell me you have had the courtesy to consider what is at stake if you are wrong: extermination of the human race. The effects of melting methane hydrates on the Arctic sea floor are a game changer.

Unless we solve this, this is certain death for me, you and our kids. You think I may be frothing at the mouth? Good! I am. We should be in crisis mode. Please stop sewing disinformation until you know the science for sure. You willing to risk your kids dying from global climate extermination? I'm not!

Mysterious Seafloor Methane Begins to Melt Off Washington State Coast

Warming Arctic Ocean Seafloor Threatens To Cause Huge Methane Eruptions
Pacific Seafloor Methane is Escaping at Alarming Rates
Enormous mounds of methane found under the Arctic sea: Underwater pingos may reveal 'worrying' clues about climate change

There's not only blatant evidence that facts have been fabricated, there's also key evidence that the sun itself changes its output. Here's some proof from a beloved nerd site that Arctic ice is increasing! https://www.nasa.gov/content/g...

Even the beloved Al Gore said by 2014 there wouldn't be any sea ice http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sci...

Look, we should be encouraging sustainable practices and using less of our resources on this floating rock. What we shouldn't be doing is creating a new tax structure for an already over bloated government and handing the servicing of said "carbon" credit system to the likes of Goldman Sachs to manage.

You're just uninformed: The great Arctic economic time bomb
Methane meltdown: The Arctic timebomb that could cost us $60 Trillion

Try going outside. You appear to be in a condo in Vancouver. You may be on heroin.

It's been so cold in Canada in the last three years we've broken dozens if not hundreds of cold record temperature records:

http://ottawa.ctvnews.ca/febru...

We've not broken one for warm/hot, just record cold.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

"Environment Canada has released its list of top weather stories over the past year, and the long winter chill took top spot."

The Great Lakes attained 92 per cent ice coverage for the first time in 35 years, sea ice was back on the East Coast and ice in the Gulf of St. Lawrence was its thickest in 25 years."

Frost in late may/early June? Welcome to Canada, eh?

http://www.quintenews.com/2015...

Niagra falls has frozen about 7 times in 200 years. Last year and the year before were two of those times.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...

Plus, you know, the Arctic sea ice has grown so much - because it's unseasonabley cold and hs been for a decade according to the NOAA - that we have to redraw the maps becvause of eht INCREASE IN ARCTIC SEA ICE. There's more of it now than when "global warming" started.

I'd have to say, as a Canadian living in Canada you don't see a lot of global warming here. More like the next ice age.

One scientist who predicted this in 2008 had his work vetted by CERN and NASA and botttom line: 27 more years of this cold then it'll warm again.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/technol...

Look at the number of temperature records set for cold and hot worldwide. I believe that explains why they're so desperate to prove a hot climate record. It's because they keep trying to prove one, keep being corrected when it's pointed out it's not really a record in a field of so many cold weather records.

Can't say there's any sign of warming in Canada. The current Indian Summer, a first in a decade is not a sign the planet is warming, Sparky.

Former porn star Asia Lemon (aka Asia Carrera) did this in Utah back in 2014.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...

A very mature reply, good job. He is right though:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...

PS You sound very offended, what was that about the right to offend?

OK, reality check: France is pounding ISIS in Syria right now. Yes, they (we) also pounded Lybia. Terrorists consider France an ally of the USA (which it is).

These guys are simply using terrorism everywhere, because that's the only thing they know how to do.

Sorry, but that is bullshit. France has only been bombing Syria for six weeks and these attacks were almost certainly being planned long before that. Al Qaida had plots for attacks like this broken up in Europe five years ago:

'Mumbai-style' terror attack on UK, France and Germany foiled - Tuesday 28 September 2010
CIA foils Mumbai-style terror plot on Europe with series of drone strikes on militants in Pakistan - 29 September 2010

It takes months or years to plot and prepare for attacks like this. It takes two seconds to claim that it is because of "Syria."

The members of ISIS certainly know more than terrorism. They have put at risk the government of both Iraq and Syria, presenting a serious challenge to their armies in the field. They are using terrorism in France because that is what they can do . . .for now.

The Islamist extremists want France to convert to Islam, just like they want every other country to do.

UK population is 64M.
The UK workforce is 30M[1]
You're trying to tell us that half of all jobs in the UK can be replaced by "smart machines"?

Somehow I don't believe that number.

[1] http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...

And these people aren't refugees. Either because they were free from the war after the first got out of Syria (eg. made it to Turkey), or because the majority of them weren't even from Syria in the first place.

Further, see http://www.dailymail.co.uk/deb...

Ghost cities are not new in China. I have seen these news every years.

Just Google some:
http://www.dailybrainfreeze.co...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...

Robot Wars (1998) was based on BattleBots (2000)?

If Craig Charles had a way to go back into the past, why didn't he tell his younger self to invent the Tension Sheet? (or warn him not to do drugs or what got him thrown into jail)

If you want the obvious sign, look at how many Brits were competing on BattleBots, and how few Americans were on the early seasons of Robot Wars.

Oh ... and 'minibots' were allowed in the original BattleBots -- you were allowed extra weight, but the bots had to be able to start out joined, and have some way to re-join, if I remember correctly. (I considered entering years ago, but it'd been a decade since I read all of the rules about gas engines vs. electric drive, wheeled vs. walking, etc.)

Robot Wars (1998) was based on BattleBots (2000)?

If Craig Charles had a way to go back into the past, why didn't he tell his younger self to invent the Tension Sheet? (or warn him not to do drugs or what got him thrown into jail)

If you want the obvious sign, look at how many Brits were competing on BattleBots, and how few Americans were on the early seasons of Robot Wars.

Oh ... and 'minibots' were allowed in the original BattleBots -- you were allowed extra weight, but the bots had to be able to start out joined, and have some way to re-join, if I remember correctly. (I considered entering years ago, but it'd been a decade since I read all of the rules about gas engines vs. electric drive, wheeled vs. walking, etc.)

As are all other manufacturers, so that does not really affect resale value. The alternative for a buyer would be another car with MPG values that have also been artificially lowered.

Every IQ tests proves it to the point where it is a statistical certainty.

Do you really believe skin color, bone shape, muscle mass etc can be determined by genetics but the brain is somehow immune?

The range of IQ scores of blacks and whites overlap. Many blacks are smarter than the average white, and many whites are dumber than the average black.
You cannot take any random black person and know if that single individual's IQ score is lower, average or higher than the mean IQ score for whites.
You especially cannot know, if taking one random black and one random white, which has the higher score. You can know the probabilities for the groups, but you cannot know for any two individuals. I find that most people cannot understand this. Maybe people are dumb.

There are too many people who, when they hear that "The mean IQ score of blacks is less than the mean IQ score of whites", they believe that means "All blacks are dumber than any white person". Or, more likely, "I'm smarter than any black person".

You can define groups of humans based on almost any variable, test them, and you'll find the two groups have a different mean IQ score.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...
These are people who are nearly identical genetically, but look at the differences in scores.

You and me both know it was aliens what did that to Mars.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sci...

This is a Daily Mail article quoting Pravda, a Russian newspaper.

Disregard the sources above for a moment, not known for being the most objective. However, look at the photos. They do show what appears to be shrapnel piercing the body from the inside out. Gives credence to the bomb theory.

Other indicators:

- USA satellite is said to detect a heat flash, probably from an explosion (could be a bomb or could be fuel tanks exploding)
- Egypt replaces the airport manager (then say, not this was not replacing, it was a promotion. Really? Days after this incident)?
- UK and USA say terrorist group chatter confirms it.

Unfortunately, they are allowed to - the rules say very little about whether and how the car may be prepared and the official driving cycle hasn't changed since the 1970s. All manufacturers pull such tricks. They didn't use to, but since governments started to base taxes on CO2 emissions and since the EU set CO2 targets for the car industry, they have been looking for ways to artificially lower the reported values.

TSA agents continue to grope and oogle women through their clothing
http://www.globalresearch.ca/a...
http://time.com/3822487/tsa-se...

Bored people in the airline reservation system who pre-screen passenger names for security using, in part , known pictures of them continuer to amuse themselves by seating "twin strangers" right next to each other then laughing as the internet loses its shit at the crazy coincidence. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...

Bah, do it the Gurkha way. Use your arm to trap and take away the attacker's knife.

Meh, I wouldn't be worried.

I have this real cool cellphone case that I'm certain would be very reassuring to the police.

Or with spending millions of $ acting as U.S. lapdogs.

Except if you live near oil producing areas using fracking and suddenly your well water becomes flammable:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...

http://ecowatch.com/2013/11/07...

So while there may be some hysteria, I damned well would be hysteric if my drinking water suddenly became flammable.

In fairness, it isn't the fracking process that is directly causing the earthquake problem here -- it is disposing of the wastewater in certain deep wells that is causing the earthquake activity. I read somewhere that ninety percent of the earthquake activity is associated with less than ten percent of the wells, which tells me that if we are able to choose which wells we use for wastewater injection we can substantially solve this problem.

Ohio has had a similar, if less serious, problem:

http://www.livescience.com/493...

For all that, this whole story sounds like we are watching a classic disaster movie unfold.

iOS users are definitely not safe

But Android users are fucked.

But right now a drone is going to give someone a bad cut or maybe take out an eye.

Here are some much worse things done by remote controlled aircraft.
Kill someone
Interfered with fire fighting
Interfered with police
Invasion of privacy

As for drones interfering with flight operations, have you ever met a goose? If you are a pilot and your choices are to hit a goose or to hit a drone pretty much every pilot will chose the drone.

How many geese to you know that carry a lithium battery that can explode under the right circumstances? Geese are not within human control but drones are. We do what we can.

iOS users are definitely not safe

There are a couple of famous examples of people donating all their wealth and living in trailer parks. Of course, it's usually a deluxe trailer park in Hollywood with million-dollar lots or something.

Why are you purposely pretending not to understand what people are saying? They are basically always referring to the 1% of their own country. You're moving goalposts, and then pretending that everyone else is with the Orange County argument.

And even so, I don't think he'd have to exclude himself because he's not the top 1% of Orange County -- because there's a 99% chance he isn't in the top 1% of the US (assuming he's from the US, and assuming that slashdot's 1%er commenters are in proportion to the greater population). With this said, Cost of Living, tax differences, and government benefits are real factors that makes the actual worldwide 1% a little fuzzy.

In addition, you're quoting income numbers, not wealth numbers. Just because you have a higher income than 99% of people, doesn't mean you have a higher wealth than 99% of people.

Also, the 1% of the world is $34k from what I've read: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new..., http://foreignpolicy.com/2012/...

This other source says $47.5k: http://dailycaller.com/2011/11...

This site puts it at around $32.5k: http://www.globalrichlist.com/

So there's a variety of estimates, and note most of those sites are actually explicitly making the same point you are so they aren't biased against you. Where's 22k coming from?

Oddly, why didn't you suggest a story on how Taxi drives are on strike right now at this very moment over Uber, which you mysteriously, inexplicably failed to mention! http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/84e1... https://www.bostonglobe.com/bu... http://algarvedailynews.com/ne... http://www.chicagobusiness.com... http://www.cbsnews.com/picture... http://www.abc.net.au/news/201... http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new... http://www.theguardian.com/tec... https://euobserver.com/connect... http://www.wftv.com/videos/new... http://in-cyprus.com/nicosia-t...

If Al Gore had won, (he did actually win, the supreme court can't count past potato) 9/11 would not have even happened. We were targeted because of the bush dynasty and his wonderful cabinet of war mongering military industrialists. And while it probably wasn't an inside job, after an islmamic-extremist terrorist attack occurs, a no fly order is issued - and you sneak your saudi friends out of the country during the no fly - it looks a little suspect.

Oh wait, some in the highest levels of government have been portraying Assange's "actions" (aka journalism, somewhat sloppy journalism but journalism all the same) as "aiding our enemies (terrorists)". Congressman Peter King stated that Wikileaks should be designated as a terrorist organization. Others have suggested he should "vanish", still others have said he should be prosecuted for espionage, material support of terrorism, aiding the enemy or a number of other charges.

http://www.washingtontimes.com...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...
http://www.theguardian.com/med...
http://www.theatlantic.com/int...
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Fattest fuckers around