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I know no one will read this comment, posted so long after the article. I just had to come back here and link this news item from today (the future!) though... it's just too poignant...

https://mobile.reuters.com/art...

TL;DR NSA phone record collections have tripled since 2016. Making it great again!

They're just not investing that much period.

Not even remotely true. Your should check the news. The big automakers are making big investments into EVs and have been for some time. I run a company that makes parts for some of their prototype work. I've seen them working on it for years first hand.

It's not an issue of "easy or hard", it's an issue of are you paying for it.

??? Spending money just to spend money is idiotic. Making a product just because you can is stupid. Tesla is a startup and they need to get products on the market today because otherwise they have no cash flow. GM and Ford are decidedly NOT startups and so their strategy is necessarily different. Neither approach is wrong but they each play to their needs and strengths. GM is not worried about their ability to actually make an EV. (their ability to design a good one is a little more suspect though the Bolt isn't a bad try at it) What they are worried about is whether there is a market big enough and in developing the technology so they can bring a product out when they time is right.

Which strategy will win in the end? No one knows. That's the fun bit.

Yes, because EV tech is totally the same thing as building ICEs.

For the most part it is absolutely identical. A chassis is still a chassis. A suspension is still a suspension. The vast majority of the vehicle is more or less identical to stuff Ford and GM have been doing forever. The only thing that really changes is the powertrain and they aren't clueless there either.

GM has brought EVs to market - most notably the Bolt (and Ford has done compliance cars). They have not proven competitive in the marketplace. People were more willing to wait on Tesla's waiting list than buy a Bolt.

Tesla has been selling vehicles at a loss. You can generate a LOT of interest in your product if you are willing to finance other people to buy it. I'm as big a fan of Tesla as anyone here but when they can sell their cars AND make a profit doing it you can talk to me about being competitive in the marketplace.

And 18-24 months? You realize that even with the delays, Tesla went from start of tooling to sales of the Model 3 in 15 months (April 2016 to July 2017), and hit 10k produced in the time it took GM to hit 1k? But please, go on and lecture about how major automakers can mass produce quickly and Tesla can't.

You misunderstand. 18-24 months is how long it takes them from start of DESIGN to start of production. The actual production ramp up is only a fraction of that and I assure you that GM can do it faster than Tesla because they already know how to do it. If you actually think the big automakers can't ramp up production very quickly then you have NO idea what you are talking about. I work in the industry. Tesla is doing cool shit but they are way behind the big automakers when it comes to production technology and knowing how to use it. If they weren't then Tesla wouldn't be having all these growing pains with the Model 3. They are just a young company with limited experience in high volume production. Every company has a learning curve and Tesla is right in the middle of theirs. I'm not bashing Tesla but professionally I'm a guy who designs manufacturing assembly systems in the auto industry. I actually know what I'm talking about here.

Yes, because building a gigantic battery factory is totally something you can do overnight. On pocket change, too.

Panasonic is the company

They're just not investing that much period.

Not even remotely true. Your should check the news. The big automakers are making big investments into EVs and have been for some time. I run a company that makes parts for some of their prototype work. I've seen them working on it for years first hand.

It's not an issue of "easy or hard", it's an issue of are you paying for it.

??? Spending money just to spend money is idiotic. Making a product just because you can is stupid. Tesla is a startup and they need to get products on the market today because otherwise they have no cash flow. GM and Ford are decidedly NOT startups and so their strategy is necessarily different. Neither approach is wrong but they each play to their needs and strengths. GM is not worried about their ability to actually make an EV. (their ability to design a good one is a little more suspect though the Bolt isn't a bad try at it) What they are worried about is whether there is a market big enough and in developing the technology so they can bring a product out when they time is right.

Which strategy will win in the end? No one knows. That's the fun bit.

Yes, because EV tech is totally the same thing as building ICEs.

For the most part it is absolutely identical. A chassis is still a chassis. A suspension is still a suspension. The vast majority of the vehicle is more or less identical to stuff Ford and GM have been doing forever. The only thing that really changes is the powertrain and they aren't clueless there either.

GM has brought EVs to market - most notably the Bolt (and Ford has done compliance cars). They have not proven competitive in the marketplace. People were more willing to wait on Tesla's waiting list than buy a Bolt.

Tesla has been selling vehicles at a loss. You can generate a LOT of interest in your product if you are willing to finance other people to buy it. I'm as big a fan of Tesla as anyone here but when they can sell their cars AND make a profit doing it you can talk to me about being competitive in the marketplace.

And 18-24 months? You realize that even with the delays, Tesla went from start of tooling to sales of the Model 3 in 15 months (April 2016 to July 2017), and hit 10k produced in the time it took GM to hit 1k? But please, go on and lecture about how major automakers can mass produce quickly and Tesla can't.

You misunderstand. 18-24 months is how long it takes them from start of DESIGN to start of production. The actual production ramp up is only a fraction of that and I assure you that GM can do it faster than Tesla because they already know how to do it. If you actually think the big automakers can't ramp up production very quickly then you have NO idea what you are talking about. I work in the industry. Tesla is doing cool shit but they are way behind the big automakers when it comes to production technology and knowing how to use it. If they weren't then Tesla wouldn't be having all these growing pains with the Model 3. They are just a young company with limited experience in high volume production. Every company has a learning curve and Tesla is right in the middle of theirs. I'm not bashing Tesla but professionally I'm a guy who designs manufacturing assembly systems in the auto industry. I actually know what I'm talking about here.

Yes, because building a gigantic battery factory is totally something you can do overnight. On pocket change, too.

Panasonic is the company

Of course the US knows that China could order their domestic corporations to put back doors in their products. They know from long experience just how easy it is to slip a back door into products and standards.

Thing is, if I were a US citizen, I'd far rather have a Huwei product. Actually, as a Canadian I think I still would rather own a Huwei. At least I can probably trust the NSA doesn't have its greasy mitts inside one of those (or, at least, there's a better chance of it). There are daily stories of strange and unusual things happening to people at the border because they were in the wrong place at the wrong time. Some database has their phone as having been in close proximity to some person of interest to US intelligence and suddenly they are locked in a room with no phones, often no clothes, and definitely no recourse, until they cough up answers that US officials like.

"specifically the aftermath of the nuclear test site collapse seemed to be a key turning point"

Yes, although China had quietly and quite suddenly pulled the plug on them a couple of months prior to the collapse by reducing amongs other things their gasoline exports by 97%.

China's action is thought to have prompted Kim's trip to Beijing, where he was perhaps told how things would now play out by his only ally and provider of the vast majority of his foreign trade. So much for self reliance then.

Whether Trump had anything much to do with this is... Doubtful.

Ah, do you mean like making smoking/possession of marijuana a criminal offense and then using that as a basis to disenfranchise people from voting, employment, welfare, etc.?

...And permanently seizing expensive possessions like vehicles and houses, without due legal process?

Civil Forfeiture - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

18 April 2018 100 Sacramento Area Homes Seized -- https://www.reuters.com/articl...

That list is woefully incomplete - its figures do not include energy imports, for one. For example, Albania's domestic energy production is virtually all renewable hydropower, but last year it only generated 4,500 GWh while importing a net 3,000 GWh from outside sources. Antarctica gets most of its power from diesel generators, and so on.

... or the UK or Japan or Australia or Germany. https://www.theguardian.com/us...

"London murder rate overtakes New York as knife crime rises ... Of the 47 murders in London so far this year, 31 have been committed with knives" https://www.reuters.com/articl...

There is a hue and cry for knife control in the UK. It's the logical next step.

In case people thought you were joking ...

"London Mayor Sadiq Khan announced a crackdown on knives Sunday in response to the rising levels of violence in London, which recently surpassed New York City's homicide rate for the first time. "No excuses: there is never a reason to carry a knife," Khan tweeted. "Anyone who does will be caught, and they will feel the full force of the law.""
https://www.usatoday.com/story...

... or the UK or Japan or Australia or Germany. https://www.theguardian.com/us...

"London murder rate overtakes New York as knife crime rises ... Of the 47 murders in London so far this year, 31 have been committed with knives"
https://www.reuters.com/articl...

Windy does not.
Since 2007, China has loaned more than $50 billion to Venezuela through an oil-for-loans arrangement that helped Caracas reduce reliance on U.S. energy markets. But the flow of funds from Beijing has slowed since 2014, when abundant crude oil led to a crash in oil markets and made China less interested in maintaining its alliance with Venezuela.

China promised Chavez everything to become dependent on them, and move to doing nothing but oil production. China gave Chavez billions but on condition that it all went into oil production that was to be sent to China to pay for the massive debts.
Now, you Chinese act like the tossers you are and insist on money from them or ownership or the resources. Bloody Wankers.

In a total micogrid there's the example of a Puerto Rican flower farmer who installed solar panels several years ago. After Hurricane Maria he was still in operation with most of his solar panels still in operational condition so he could run his well pumps.

How solar energy saved a Puerto Rican farm from Hurricane Maria

They were denounced for doing a ballistic missile test, which was supposed to be stopped as part of Security Council resolution 1718. The denouncement didn't come with much teeth, like adding sanctions or whatnot, it just made demands to stop the missile and nuclear programs. The North Koreans promptly tested another nuclear weapon in response to that.

Are you for real about suggesting this being faked? Have you gone that far down the rabbit hole that you go straight to thinking of fabricated evidence? The North Koreans were proudly announcing that they were going launch the rocket ahead of time! The North Koreans were even the ones who "faked" things, because they said it was a successful launch when it was ruled to be a failure by outside observers.

This is also a big issue for the Trump administration with the deal over Iran's nuclear program. Part of the excuse the Trump folks want to use to break that is that Iran has still done missile tests, but those missile tests weren't a dealbreaker under the conditions of that agreement. So that would be a clear example of reneging on a deal by the US if Trump does that, while the historical case here all the US did was a denouncement when North Korea actually had violated the relevant UNSC resolution.

German...old fashioned, still use typewriters and paper forms?

Like this guy?

From Reuters, the whole tweet:
“Since taking office I have been very strict on Commercial Aviation. Good news - it was just reported that there were Zero deaths in 2017, the best and safest year on record!”

The "best and safest year on record"; no one reaches as much as Trump. That's a follow up sentence to something he says he did. And he didn't actually do the first either. What he actually did earlier was say that there were too many regulations in Commercial Aviation and things should be privatized (failed in Congress). The most the Trump administration did related to airlines was up the security requirements in boarding. Which has been a continuation of what Bush started, & Obama added on.

First off, you are right that I did NOT speak about Americas increase in Coal exports TO CHINA. It is something that I am opposed to. In addition, it is CHINA'S consumption, not ours.

So If China exports coal, it's China's fault. But if America exports coal, it's also China's fault. Typical WindBourne logic.
China isn't even in the top 5 export destinations for American coal in 2017. It was actually less than 3.5% of your coal exports. So more bullshit from you.

Secondly. pretty funny that you picked an article from EIA about China, which was based on 2015 numbers. The prediction was that coal usage would fall in China.

The article was from September 2017 and the prediction was accurate. If you can find a more recent one show us.

But, it does not. It continues to grow.

Your own link shows China increased only 0.4% in coal use and

However, as a portion of total energy consumption, coal usage fell 1.6 percentage points to 60.4 percent last year, while clean energy, including natural gas and renewables, rose 1.3 percentage points to 20.8 percent from 2016, the communique showed. That indicates the country remains on track to fulfil its promise to decarbonise its economy and reduce air pollution, as it vowed to cut the coal portion to below 58 percent of total energy consumption by 2020.

So it rose 0.4% in one year and is expected to stay flat or drop according to both articles. The opposite of your unsubstantiated claim. And why did you lie earlier and say that China's coal use increased over 5% in 2017?

It slowed down a bit relative to their GDP, but once their GDP growth rate picked up, so did the coal.

Again more lies from you, your own link says

Carbon intensity, the level of carbon emissions per unit of economic growth, dropped by 5.1 percent in 2017 compared to a year ago.

Carbon intensity got 5% better ! In one year !!
Why do you lie and say it was worse?

But the real use of that coal increase, are the EVs that are flowing in. Because China will not quit build new coal plants and instead focus solely on building wind/solar/hydro until they have their nuclear power plants going, then it will be more coal they will use.

You are just making this up, all projectionsshow coal stabilising and/or dropping. You haven't shown any credible evidence that this isn't the case. You still fail to admit that China is replacing less efficient coal plants with newer more efficient ones as has been shown to you repeatedly.

China is building 700 new coal plants in China and around the globe, of the 1600 new ones going up. They are pushing it even in places like Kenya China is builing it with Chinese workers, steel, etc, and 'loaning' money, BUT, in return, Kenya must not only pay for the power plant, but must also buy the coal from China.

Again America exports coal to China = China's fault. China exports coal to Kenya = China's fault. Are you starting to realise how stupid you look?

You really think that this will cut down the CO2 in the future? Nope. This is how you make things WORSE.

Did you even read your link?

Experts say one annual increase

First off, you are right that I did NOT speak about Americas increase in Coal exports TO CHINA. It is something that I am opposed to. In addition, it is CHINA'S consumption, not ours.
Secondly. pretty funny that you picked an article from EIA about China, which was based on 2015 numbers. The prediction was that coal usage would fall in China. But, it does not. It continues to grow. It slowed down a bit relative to their GDP, but once their GDP growth rate picked up, so did the coal. But the real use of that coal increase, are the EVs that are flowing in. Because China will not quit build new coal plants and instead focus solely on building wind/solar/hydro until they have their nuclear power plants going, then it will be more coal they will use.
China is building 700 new coal plants in China and around the globe, of the 1600 new ones going up. They are pushing it even in places like Kenya China is builing it with Chinese workers, steel, etc, and 'loaning' money, BUT, in return, Kenya must not only pay for the power plant, but must also buy the coal from China.

You really think that this will cut down the CO2 in the future?
Nope. This is how you make things WORSE.

Finally, you speak of GDP growth.
Here is America
Here is China
Here is EU
Out of all 3, America is doing the best. Should we be allowed to grow our CO2 just because our GDP is going up faster? Nope. The world can not afford this. We need ALL NATIONS to lower their emissions, and that includes China, India, etc. We need to get down to Sweden's level. THAT is how you stop AGW.
And CHina IS a developed nation.

Former Microsoft CEO Ballmer does about-face on Linux technology

Ballmer: I may have called Linux a cancer but now I love it

Redmond top man Satya Nadella: 'Microsoft LOVES Linux'

Why Microsoft loves Linux

So, how did we get from Linux as Microsoft enemy number one to "love"?

Nadella actually told us the heart of the story, which I can boil down to that classic detective approach: "Follow the money."

As we have found out during the last tax session bill, California pays higher state and local taxes but then gets to deduct them at the federal level.

So the rest of the country is subsidizing California while California gets to pretend it's the other way around.

Now that this scam has been outed, California is looking at no longer calling their taxes taxes but instead forced charitable contributions

https://www.reuters.com/articl...

It is a swindle.

Welcome to Unrestrained Capitalism, anything that is not illegal will be attempted, and then some.

Here's the predictable result of what you pine for:

Under military rule, Venezuela oil workers quit in a stampede

Isn't bankrupt, late-stage Socialism/Communism wonderful?

> AND Netflix Originals also gives potential-cord-cutters on the fence an independent reason to consider Netflix even if they keep TV and keep buying movies, because there will be stuff they can't watch on TV without Netflix.

I guess you missed the news last week -- Comcast announced will be bundling Netflix:

In a statement on Friday, the companies said Netflix will be available later this month through various Xfinity TV packages delivered through Comcast's X1 set-top box.

If I'm reading that right it sounds like you can watch Netflix through the X1 box?

https://in.reuters.com/article...

Insight: Ola's sputtering India electric vehicle trial a red flag for Modi plan

Clean energy stories on Slashdot aren't dog whistles, they're electrodes planted in the pleasure centers of the gullible.

Do you have any source for that claim? CO2 output has decreased in the EU.

Apologies, I was working from memory and the doubling was for specific EU countries not overall. Yet overall there was still a huge increase. Ex:
"Overall exports to European nations totaled 16 million tons in the first five months of this year, up from 10.5 million in the same period last year [52% increase] ... They included a surge to several European countries during the 2017 period, including a 175 percent increase in shipments to the United Kingdom, and a doubling to France - which had suffered a series of nuclear power plant outages that required it and regional neighbors to rely more heavily on coal." https://www.reuters.com/articl...

A back of the envelope calculation for the drug mentioned in TFS indicates that their profit over a 10-year period (including the first 5 years prior to FDA approval) was around ten times the cost of developing the drug. Even if they make no sales ever again, that sounds like a pretty good ROI. Or, to put it another way, with the profits from one cure, they can bring 10 more drugs to market.

The hep C drug in TFS was the absolute best case, a very effective cure for a fairly common and serious disease.

A new drug only has about a 10% success rate.

The US and Australia are actually leading the way in renewable energy production. Google and Apple just went 100% renewable with their energy use. Other US companies are looking do the same

Individual companies aren't a good guide for what is happening. In this case, government policy matters a lot. It is true that Australia has a boom in solar power, but that's despite the current government https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/feb/11/australias-solar-power-boom-could-almost-double-capacity-in-a-year-analysts-say https://www.marketforces.org.au/campaigns/ffs/ not because of it. And in many respects Austarlian coal plants are producing all sorts of pollutants that wouldn't even be allowed in most of China https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/aug/15/australian-coal-power-pollution-would-be-illegal-in-us-europe-and-china-report.

On the other hand China and India are ordering more coal plants be built than any other counties. China is taking a look at scaling back coal use but still major cities in China are simply unfit to live in because of pollution.

It is true that China and India are building new coal plants also, but that's only a fraction of their new grid production. In fact, Chinese cities have become substantially cleaner in the last few years https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-pollution-beijing-insight/beijing-may-be-starting-to-win-its-battle-against-smog-idUSKBN1EN0ZJ.

Africa is scheduled to become major problem in the next ten years too as more power is needed to provide for their growing economies. Coal is the only source of fuel for Africa that is cheap enough for them to exploit.

Actually, there are a lot of solar projects in parts of Africa also. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/06/26/the-race-to-solar-power-africa, but if you note in the comment you are replying to, I specifically included a link to the Solar Electric Light Fund; as I explained in that comment, it is particularly important to help get solar panels for Africa precisely so they don't turn to fossil fuels. So if you are concerned about Africa's fossil fuel production, then by all means donate to SELF.

China add tariffs to US soybeans has done nothing but harm China. Europe bought up all beans China would have been buying. LOL https://www.reuters.com/articl...

Hence the Russians getting so annoyed when the US wants to put one of its hackers on trial.

Click here, scroll to the bottom, click on the picture of the wreck to make it larger. There's a second picture in the slideshow. Maybe my second-hand wild assumption skills aren't up to yours, but I'm thinking those aren't metal.

https://www.reuters.com/articl...

I think one of the men we see on the left (the one with the long hair, the purple coat, the knee-high boots and the beige purse) is kind of cute. Am I gay?

But yes, in this crowd I count 18 men for 8 women. PATRIARCHY!!! DEATH TO ALL MEN!!!

As for your tip, since you seem to think we should not use technology, can I ask what the fuck you doing on this website?

Things do indeed appear to have gone very wrong.

https://www.reuters.com/articl...

And why would the Philippines need golden rice?

Because they're suffering from widespread malnutrition.

Obviously they don't like GMO _food_ like no one else wants it.

Which is why they're growing Golden Rice and other GMO crops and it's outsiders who oppose their use of GMO crops? And what do you mean no one wants GMO food? I, and many other people, want GMO food; we're excited about the benefits for the environment and for the potential to improve the quality of life of people around the world.

You are a typical imperialistic asshole.

Says the asshole who has no problem with wealthy westerners vandalizing the crops of Filipino farmers.

The golden rice thing is just another attempt to subdue a country in the developing world, it produces vitamin A, you know? For what funk sake reason would a country like the Philippines need a GMO rice that produces vitamin A?

Because they're suffering from widespread malnutrition.

Why would they need to pay patent fees to plant that rice?

Because they choose to? Seriously, no one is going to force farmers to grow the crop. They will be able to choose whether to grow conventional rice or Golden Rice based on their own situation. But wait, because the Philippines is a developing country according to the FAO, they don't have to pay the IP licensing cost. This is something you would know if you weren't willfully ignorant.

Why would they need to have half of their farmers run bankrupt because they can not pay for the fees, or can not plant their original rice anymore?

Farmers are free to plant whatever crop they're willing and able to pay for. They won't go bankrupt from planting GMO crops unless either they make bad business decisions or they suffer the sort of tragedies that would make them go bankrupt while planting conventional crops. Also, as pointed out above, Filipino farmers don't have to pay these fees. They're also free to go back to growing conventional rice if they so choose.

You are an idiot. You have no clue what is going on. And you have no clue about GMOs or about countries where you like to test them.

You're a willfully ignorant moron. You don't care about what's true and what's not; you only care about your virtue sginaling, and you don't care if people - childrend - die because of it.

Toolings typically last for hundreds of thousands, if not millions of operations.

That depends entirely on the tooling in question. In many cases you are right but not always.

Tesla should still be on its first toolings UNLESS they've redesigned parts, forcing tooling changes or new tools altogether.

The problem Tesla has is that they apparently skipped prototype tooling and ordered the production tooling. That means that if they didn't get it right they'll have to tear it out and replace it or spend a lot of time and money fixing it. It's a gamble but one with a non-trivial chance of rolling snake eyes. If it works they get to production faster and save a lot of money. If it doesn't then they have a huge problem to fix.

Carbon nano-tube based super capacitors with more capacity than lithium ion for weight, or lithium air which is inherently more stable in the event of accidents (no explosions of the metal), or the aluminum ion which is significantly cheaper to produce than lithium ion and has no significant supply bottlenecks at any level. The Consumer Electronics Show in January showcased the Fisker battery in his luxury sedan electric car.

It's all still vaporware, promising as some of it may be, versus proven products in mass production. The possible future savings of aluminum etc being Y% more efficient doesn't help Tesla clear up their backlog - it would only add to it. And until economics of scale catch up, switching to an eventually-cheaper option would add to an already pricey pricetag.

Hell, Toyota only started warming up to lithium ion in 20 freaking 16, and they're the largest single automaker on the planet.

NIH syndrome and Hubris. Tesla did use the Israeli Mobileye technology (now part of Intel) for a while until the fatal accident with the trailer truck, see here for instance.

BOSCH isn't even mentioned in the article. This is a mechanical problem because someone bought cheap shit from China.

10 seconds worth of googling later ...

"The bolts, made by German supplier Bosch, can begin to corrode after contact in cold temperatures with road salt."

https://www.reuters.com/articl...

Is that all you've got? Several members of Trump's inner circle (including his son-in-law) have already be caught using personal email accounts for classified information. Trump hasn't done that himself, but that's only because he doesn't use email (140 characters is the limit of his attention span).

Copied from the AC below:

https://www.reuters.com/articl...

QUITO/LONDON (Reuters) - Ecuador has given citizenship to Julian Assange as part of its efforts to allow the WikiLeaks founder to leave the country's London embassy where he has been holed up for more than five years.

Ecuador made the move hours after the British government refused a request from the South American nation for Assange to be given diplomatic status, which could give him immunity from arrest should he try to leave the embassy.

https://www.reuters.com/articl...

>They didn't just do that; they followed it up with a request to the UK to grant their new citizen diplomatic status so he could leave the embassy.
It was denied, but nice try.

you got it backwards, dumbass.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ecuador-assange-britain/ecuador-gives-assange-citizenship-seeks-end-to-embassy-stay-idUSKBN1F01RP

QUITO/LONDON (Reuters) - Ecuador has given citizenship to Julian Assange as part of its efforts to allow the WikiLeaks founder to leave the country’s London embassy where he has been holed up for more than five years.

Ecuador made the move hours after the British government refused a request from the South American nation for Assange to be given diplomatic status, which could give him immunity from arrest should he try to leave the embassy.

> You were saying?
>
> BREAKING: China Makes Shocking Announcement About North Korean Denuclearization

Bullshit. From an unreliable right wing source.

Not reported in any other MSM.

Indeed, see

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/03/27/world/asia/north-korea-nuclear.html

You're slow (not surprising, is it?):

China says North Korea's Kim pledged commitment to denuclearization

BEIJING/SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un pledged his commitment to denuclearization and to meet U.S. officials, China said on Wednesday after his meeting with President Xi Jinping, who promised China would uphold friendship with its isolated neighbor.

After two days of speculation, China and North Korea both confirmed that Kim had traveled to Beijing and met Xi during what China called an unofficial visit from Sunday to Wednesday.

The visit was Kim’s first known trip outside North Korea since he assumed power in 2011 and is believed by analysts to serve as preparation for upcoming summits with South Korea and the United States.

BWAAAA HAAA HAA!!!

"Progressives" failed where Trump's tweets worked - imagine that.

The hell? Link is here. Apparently Slashdot commenting is an art I'm incapable of. That aside, Uber, more than likely, is a shit company.

All this at a time when the solar energy sector is shrinking due to the end of the subsidies that kept it going.

ICOs are, basically, scams right from the start: they are people saying "hey, give me money and I will give you a token that has collectable value because I say it does" (but probably not). Token sales may or may not be scams. Wallets shouldn't be scams per se, but I guess a lot of people advertising wallets may not include the fine print "this wallet has a backdoor so I can haz yr koinz.".

FWIW, the Reuters article under discussion is actually here. I don't know why the link in the article is to a reprint instead of to the article. https://www.reuters.com/articl...

The investigation's over... here's the penalty.

A lot of these have dropped in the last few days.

YouTube Bans Firearms Demo Videos
Citi sets restrictions on gun sales by retail clients by adding arbitrary rules (can only sell to 21+ years-old, no standard capacity magazines, etc)

I thought the source for the article was obviously Brad Parscale.

But here's a similar Reuters article which identifies it's sources more explicitly:

A Trump campaign official said the campaign used the Republican National Committee for its voter data in 2016, not Cambridge Analytica.

“Any claims that voter data were used from another source to support the victory in 2016 are false,” said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity.

In past interviews with Reuters, Brad Parscale, who ran Trump’s digital ad operation in 2016 and is his 2020 re-election campaign manager, has said Cambridge Analytica played a minor role as a contractor in the 2016 campaign.

He said the campaign used voter data from a Republican-affiliated organization rather than Cambridge Analytica.

To put them in place Obama had to claim Venezuela was a threat to the United States. Even a habitual liar as gifted as Obama had to struggle with that one.

And meanwhile, we're still merrily selling tens of billions in weapons to Saudi Arabia at a time. You know, the country where almost all the 911 hijackers were actually from, and a sponsor of jihadist groups across the middle east.

I must hate myself to bother this much a Russian troll like yourself, but the indictment of the Internet Research Agency and the associated group of Russians has plenty of evidence in it. And I'm sure they will find out just how much more evidence there is against them if they decide to leave Russia and go to a country with an extradition treaty with the US. That sort of indictment is not an idle threat, as another Russian hacker extradited to the US from Spain found out the hard way.

I guess you can go back to apologia to the Russian invasion of Ukraine if you want to by pretending that the overthrow of Yanukovych was actually the done by the US government. I'm sure you have a wonderful Gish Gallop to justify that nonsense.

She was hit here:

https://www.google.com/maps/@3...

I know this because I looked at

https://www.reuters.com/articl...

and I know the location intimately. The speed limit here is 40. The road, Mill Avenue, going northbound is two lanes plus it is adding turn lanes to go west and east. There is a bike lane. The road has just gone over a bridge (man-made lake) and under a freeway bridge (202) -- there are no off- or on-ramps at this location. There is a parking lot under the bridge for the concert venue (SW corner: visible in the Reuter's image) plus there's a public park/beach on the north side of the lake.

As

https://tech.slashdot.org/comm...

states, there was no rain.

http://alert.fcd.maricopa.gov/...

I haven't seen the crumpled bicycle photo, but we JUST started a bunch of "share bike" schemes in the Phoenix metro area (well, Phoenix proper has had one for while -- Tempe/Scottsdale ones are more recent): Limebike is the main one, I think (we have some that have "Ono" on them, as well). So if the bike is yellow or yellow/green, it was probably one of those. Tempe is hugely bike friendly for a US city because it is both (a) the site of ASU (b) progressive.

The southbound lanes are 2 wide at this point, so this lady was riding a bike across ~5 lanes of traffic plus a BIG (mostly paved) median. There's a shortcut trail just RIGHT there to go east, so maybe she was aiming for that.

A sad situation for sure. I see the Uber and Waymo vehicles all the time, so there's no lack of miles in and around that area.

It is fairly common for /.-ers to not bother reading TFA. But the answers to your "sarcastic" questions are right there in the write-up — you didn't have to click away to read them...

So if I "own" Venezuelan cryptocoin will I be hauled off to jail ???

The executive order bans transactions — not ownership. If you own it, you aren't subject to any punishment until you try to sell it.

If I leave the U.S., say go visit Canada, can I then "buy" Venezuelan cryptocoins?

If you are a US citizen, you will be violating the order — and become subject to whatever punishment prescribed. Not very different from the ban on travel to Cuba, for example — it was illegal, but people did manage to get away with it.

Perhaps more importantly is why would you seek to circumvent this one... Maduro's government is even more stupid and evil than Chavez' was — and Chavez managed to not only destroy Venezuela's economy, the rate of murders and rapes quadrupled during the first 15 years of his rein (even before oil price tanked). Are you just as critical about US sanctions against Russia?..

If, as I suspect, you are motivated simply by the desire to "stick it" to Trump, I urge you to move to Venezuela permanently...

Yes I included the voter fraud commission, just because it was disbanded doesn't mean it was a bad idea, just means this commission didn't work out but voter fraud is a serious issue and Trump should be applauded for at least trying to tackle it https://www.nbcnews.com/politi...

Voter fraud is not a problem in the US.

I can't recall how many times I heard some Republican claim "oh we found rock solid evidence of 1000 cases of voter fraud!" and you'll later hear that at least 999 of them turned out to be due to crappy government databases and the remaining one almost certainly was as well... but there's also a small chance it was a green card holder who got confused. The GOP just keeps pushing the lie because it serves as an excuse to implement voter IDs, and when you insist that voters need ID to vote, and minorities who vote Democrat are disproportionately likely to lack IDs, then you suppress some of the Democratic vote.

The only kind of voter fraud that might be frequent enough to change elections is with mail-in ballots. But here the fraud (if it really is significant) is more likely to be from husbands "ensuring" their wives vote correctly, and since men vote Republican the GOP doesn't care. But again, we don't really know if this is significant.

And that is fundamentally why the commission was disbanded. Because voter fraud doesn't exist the Republicans had to fabricate evidence, and because they had to fabricate evidence the couldn't share documents with the Democrats, and because the court ordered them to share documents they had to scrap the whole endeavour.