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  1. Recycling is not dead, this heading is misleading on As Costs Skyrocket, More US Cities Stop Recycling (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe municipal recycling is dead, but recycling itself is not. I knew that steel is a highly recycled material, actually thought it was the most recycled. But I now see that recycled Asphalt is used in most new roads. I also see mulch is another item that is recycled a lot. So, no. Recycling is not dead.

  2. Re:Good climate... on You Will Soon Be Able To Pay Your Subway Fare With Your Face in China (scmp.com) · · Score: 1

    Complete agreement with you on this. I have followed the saga of the funding(state/county) issues with RTA. There are many parts to the issue/problem, but no good solution yet. I am lucky. I can take the Metro bus's, which are all mostly new. And just one transfer.

    But, my GF is going for a major operation in 2 weeks and I was mapping out the bus for this. What a cluster, and it is at University main campus. I probably will just do the bus to work, then Lyft to the hospital and then home.

  3. Idiot posters here without a clue, read and learn on Hacked Tornado Sirens Taken Offline In Two Texas Cities Ahead of Major Storm (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2

    The majority of siren systems intentionally use wireless radio technology instead of internet connectivity to communicate as a security precaution, says Aaron Wolking, the national sales manager of Sentry Siren. To interfere with that set-up, a hacker would need the radio frequencies, code formats, and specific five to eight-digit codes to be able to access a particular siren system. The industry also offers widely used additional security protections, like the "continuous tone-coded squelch system," that keeps radios from from receiving and executing commands sent without additional access codes.
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    To pull off this weekend's siren episode, hackers would have needed extensive knowledge of the frequencies and codes used in the Dallas siren system to make them all go off at once. This could be particularly challenging, depending on the setup, because each siren might communicate with the control center independently, so officials have the choice of turning only one or a few of them on, or activating all of them depending on the situation. Dallas officials confirmed over the weekend that the breach came from within Dallas, because hackers would have needed to be physically close to the radio signals sent to each siren. They added that the commands to the sirens didn't come from their central control systems, something officials would naturally check first to see if the sirens had been activated by accident.


    https://www.wired.com/2017/04/dallas-siren-hack-wasnt-novel-just-really-loud/

  4. Re:Maybe develop control systems in Linux not Wind on Norsk Hydro, One of the World's Largest Aluminum Producers, Switches To Manual Operations After Ransomware Infection (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    On that note. I was in shock the one day at the supermarket when I walked by self checkout terminal that was not working. It had a windows XP screen up with the error message. This was in a major supermarket so I do not know if they were just acting as a dumb terminal with a secure server locally. But itscared the shit out of me when I seen that

  5. Re:Good climate... on You Will Soon Be Able To Pay Your Subway Fare With Your Face in China (scmp.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, if it wasn't for the fact that I had a retina detachment in my left eye. And my vision in it is still very blurry, even after having it re-attached. I would not be taking the public transportation either. I do not consider it safe for either myself or anyone else for me to drive until I regain more sight in that eye.

    But, now that I do take public transportation. I do not deal with traffic jams, my and others road rage, nor my GFs morning bitch mode when she gives me a ride to work. Cost's me a total of 95 dollars a month to go anywhere, anytime in the Cleveland area on public transportation. One time fee without worry of gas price fluctuation. Just saying.

  6. Re:Doesn't California still have a problem though? on California Declared Totally Drought Free For First Time in Seven Years · · Score: 1

    Ok, I have no problem with that. But how about looking back at history for a solution. Cistern's.

    The Basilica Cistern (Turkish: Yerebatan Sarnıcı â" "Cistern Sinking Into Ground"), is the largest of several hundred ancient cisterns that lie beneath the city of Istanbul (formerly Constantinople), Turkey. The cistern, located 150 metres (490 ft) southwest of the Hagia Sophia on the historical peninsula of Sarayburnu, was built in the 6th century during the reign of Byzantine Emperor Justinian I.[1]
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basilica_Cistern/

    We currently bury utility lines, sewers,piping, and many other things under existing structures We defiantly have the technology to build Cistern's. Modern society has already been built over ancient Cistern's, so I see no reason we can build something as sustainable and safe.

    If you think about it. Less would be lost to evaporation.

  7. Re:Have other os's done this yet? on Android Q Will Kill Clipboard Manager Apps in the Name of Privacy (androidpolice.com) · · Score: 1

    It's a start I guess, have to start someplace.

  8. Re:Good climate... on You Will Soon Be Able To Pay Your Subway Fare With Your Face in China (scmp.com) · · Score: 1

    I use public transportation every day. There are camera's in every bus that I take. You can either pay directly on the bus, or through an app which is what I used.

    We may not be using facial recondition payment yet for public transportation, but it already is just as bad.

  9. Have other os's done this yet? on Android Q Will Kill Clipboard Manager Apps in the Name of Privacy (androidpolice.com) · · Score: 1

    Tried to find if they had, but all I find is links to apps to help you with the clipboard. Not a knock at any os.

    Hopefully, this will become the new norm of the mobile.

  10. Re:He would get my vote (fist post?) on Beto O'Rourke's Secret Membership in America's Oldest Hacking Group (reuters.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    I see you are a hypocrite Pope. I see you condemn nobody of liberal leanings that are just as hateful. Where hypocrite did I talk about shooting up anyone. It is openly discussed that civil war is coming. I guess you just are narrow minded in the places you read.

  11. Re:Are they really gonna hit 'em? on EU Expected To Hit Google with Another Massive Antitrust Fine (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Yea, and zebra's will lose their stripes. Sorry, I agree with you. But I just don't see it happening.

  12. Re:Doesn't California still have a problem though? on California Declared Totally Drought Free For First Time in Seven Years · · Score: 2

    Or reservoirs. My point is, the article I posted talks about how much water from rainfall flows into the ocean. Either more man made lakes/reservoirs, or big ass catch basins should be built now for the next possible drought.

  13. Re:The new normal? on California Declared Totally Drought Free For First Time in Seven Years · · Score: 1

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Droughts_in_California/

    Throughout history, California has experienced many droughts, such as 1841, 1864, 1924, 1928â"1935, 1947â"1950, 1959â"1960, 1976â"1977, 2006â"2010, and 2012â"2017.[1]

  14. Doesn't California still have a problem though? on California Declared Totally Drought Free For First Time in Seven Years · · Score: 2

    https://www.newsdeeply.com/water/articles/2017/01/23/how-california-can-make-the-most-of-its-rainfalls/

    âoeWe designed our infrastructure in California to take that stormwater and send it out to the ocean as fast as possible, treating it as a hazard or waste,â said Kihara. Now STORMS, other state agencies and some cities are working to change that narrative. âoeIt previously got folded into the sewer fee, so your taxpayer money is taking that stormwater and routing it away. [But] the drought has made us look at what sources of water we can depend on other than Sierra snowpack, and along with desalination and recycled water, what about stormwater? We want the public to look at it from a different perspective: less as waste, and more as a resource.â

    Don't most droughts occur in cycles? Shouldn't they be planning now how to capture as much water as possible for future use?

  15. Re:Does the POTUS need to pass security clearance? on Beto O'Rourke's Secret Membership in America's Oldest Hacking Group (reuters.com) · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    More than admitting you had, say, secret back-channel communications with the Kremlin, or say, laundered money for the Russian mob for decades, or, you know, met with Russian intel connected oligarchs in secret, observably...

    President Barack Obama was caught on camera on Monday assuring outgoing Russian President Dmitry Medvedev that he will have âoemore flexibilityâ to deal with contentious issues like missile defense after the U.S. presidential election. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-nuclear-summit-obama-medvedev/obama-tells-russias-medvedev-more-flexibility-after-election-idUSBRE82P0JI20120326

  16. Re:He would get my vote (fist post?) on Beto O'Rourke's Secret Membership in America's Oldest Hacking Group (reuters.com) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I wonder if you whiny head-in-ass traitors will ever matter in US politics ever again, once Trump goes off to prison? Probably just a side-note in history : World's dumbest traitor and apology crew, history's lesson.

    Civil war will remove you bigots. I won't say liberals, because all liberals are NOT bigots. Most are not.

    But you are. I look forward to seeing your blood flow.

  17. Re:Fat drunk and stupid is no way to go through li on Kids From At Least 112 Countries, Including the US, Go on Strike To Protest Climate Change · · Score: 2

    Well, maybe if she was informed by more then one source(like most adults). She would know that people are trying to do things.
    Myself, I think pollution is where we should start. Most pollution is plastic(fossil). It has clogged our rivers and oceans. It seeps into our ground water through either our land fills or trash left on land.
    If we were to move away from plastic products, don't you think our co2 or what ever other pollutant that contributes to global warming would decrease?
    Most western nations have already moved away from coal for producing electricity. Gas, wind, geo, Hydroelectric, nuclear. All of these has ALREADY contributed to lowering the effects of Global Warming. Research has already shown that people are moving away from everyone must own a car. People are again finding ways to survive without driving everywhere. At the very least, only driving when it is long distance.
    The research into finding other methods of energy, that do not contribute to global warming has never stopped.

    for her to say that we don't care shows that she really doesn't understand what has been done, what currently is being done, and what is trying to be done. In other words, she should stay in school so she can help intellectually to solving the problem.

    Bull shit, she is ABSOLUTELY wrong that "we don't care". Again, bull shit. Uninformed, brain washed.

  18. Re: A tax for journalism? on Consumer Groups Want To Tax Facebook To Save Journalism (vice.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    1). I hate facebook for news, but it should not be taxed to support old forms of Journalism.
    2). Yes, government is needed for certain functions. Regulation, infrastructure, international policy, ... But to insure an antiquated method of performing any given function is not one of them.

  19. As a follow up to no Facebook, Twitter being down would be great also.

  20. Re:Actually, facebook is not completly down on Facebook is Down · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Your a cunt that should be the first candidate for a late term abortion. Want to meet so that I can administer that late term abortion?

  21. Actually, facebook is not completly down on Facebook is Down · · Score: 2

    If you type www.facebook.com, you get an error message.

    BUT, if you click on a link to a specific page.
    Example: https://www.facebook.com/busin...

    The page resolves. so, not completely down as we all had hoped.

  22. Re:Wish Twitter went with it on Facebook is Down · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I have never hated a president. I am not petty like you. I may not agree, I may not have voted for them. But I have never hated them. Again, I am not a petty mother fucking piece of shit like you.

  23. Re:They removed all the.... on Facebook is Down · · Score: 1

    You mean they had to delete all of the content ever posted?

  24. Wish Twitter went with it on Facebook is Down · · Score: 1

    Trump and the haters of him would all have to go into detox due to the shakes.

    Good thing: I didn't get banned again for my political troll post's on facebook.
    Bad thing: I didn't get banned again from facebook.

  25. Both of my work laptops(win7/win10) are hp. on HP Recalls More Laptops For 'Fire and Burn Hazards' (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Neither has replaceable battery. I guess I could always use my test Panasonic Tough Pad if both laptops burn up.