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  1. Re:How to collect "atmospheric" CO2? on Pilot Test Of Storing Carbon Dioxide In Rocks Shows Impressive Outcome (theaustralian.com.au) · · Score: 1

    And the problem with capturing the CO2 is that it requires a fair bit of energy which usually creates more CO2 that needs to be captured.

  2. Re:Now, THIS makes sense . . . but . . . on Pilot Test Of Storing Carbon Dioxide In Rocks Shows Impressive Outcome (theaustralian.com.au) · · Score: 2

    This would only be used to sequester CO2 from power plants and other large emitters, not from tractors. The problem is that in order to capture the CO2 from the exhaust it takes 25% to 40% more energy than just releasing the exhaust with the CO2. Since you seem to be so worried about the poor then how are they going to pay for that? Some sources of electricity that don't emit CO2 are getting close to the cost of electricity generation with fossil fuels. Having to pay for the extra fuel to power the carbon capture combined with the continued downward trend in clean power pricing will push this into clean powers favour.

  3. BlackBerry (RIM) always had access to your information and always co-operated with the police. This isn't news. It isn't even news that they handed over the keys to the servers in countries that demanded them where they had a lot of business. BlackBerry only really kicked up a fuss when there wasn't a lot of money to be lost.

    I don't really have a problem handing information over when the police have legally obtained information of suspicious activity which they take to a judge who then issues a warrant. And I'm not talking about judges rubber stamping warrants but actually making decisions over them.

  4. Re: Missing from all of this: the customer on Apple To Offer iOS Developers 85-15 Revenue Split; Debut Paid App Store Search Ads (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    That's what the in app purchase is for.

  5. Why do judges allow these lawsuits? on Crazy Patent Troll Suing Devs For Posting Apps To Google Play (technobuffalo.com) · · Score: 2

    I don't understand why these go ahead because in this case the developer is a user of the application store. The lawsuit should be against Google if the patent is for an app market. It would be as if I had a patent on a car engine part and then started filing lawsuits against people who bought cars instead of the car engine manufacturers.

  6. Re:Better Youtube playback? on Firefox 47 Arrives With Synced Tabs Sidebar, Better YouTube Playback (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    For a lot of guys it's the same 30 seconds.

  7. Re:Better Youtube playback? on Firefox 47 Arrives With Synced Tabs Sidebar, Better YouTube Playback (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    You only care about the first 30 seconds anyway.

  8. Maybe nobody was working on that code in a while so they removed the feature?

  9. Re:Smartphone sales *GROWTH* on Smartphone Sales Growth Will Drop To Single Digits In 2016, Says Gartner (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    It's not this but it's harder to maintain growth in a larger market let alone keep growing faster. Getting 5% growth on 1M is easier than 5% growth on 10M. The smart phone market has been growing for years. And while it is reaching saturation point in developed countries there is still plenty of growth available in the developing markets. The problem is that there are so many people that already have smartphones that you have to sell huge numbers to keep growth growing. And that is what the investment market wants to see. Anything less and those people who don't know anything about math or technology and they start to declare that the world is going to end.

  10. I know one who is one of the best software developers that I know and having working for a couple of decades I've come across many in my city.

  11. Time spent on sites? on Tech Firms Say FBI Wants Browsing History Without Warrant (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Why do they think that they can tell the time I spent on a site from those logs? They only have the times that I requested the pages. There's no mechanism to say when you are finished reading a page. I can get distracted by a phone call, mail, or someone else. Or maybe I open a link from one article in another tab to read later.

  12. How it really happened. on A $190 Million Misclick for T. Rowe Price (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    It's a good deal for us, let's proceed with it.
    Later on there's more money for people who opposed
    Hey, uh, we had a glitch in our system that made us send in the wrong response.

  13. Re:Did they know who the culprits were? on Judges Rule Raped Woman Can Sue 'Enabling' Web Site (vice.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    And wouldn't they have the same duty of care to protect their clients from false claims. I'm not saying that in this case the claims were false or not because I didn't read the article but it would be easy for a model who had a disagreement with a photographer to bring up a false charge to the site in order to hurt the photographers business.

    There is something that used to matter and that is the presumption of innocence.

  14. There's been a few times that Ontario has had to pay to get rid of excess electricity from it's nuclear plants.

  15. Re:Water sampling instructions on At Least 33 US Cities Used Water Testing 'Cheats' Over Lead Concerns (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    There are rules on how testing is done in these cities too but there weren't following them. There is nothing stopping the person doing the test at your company from removing the aerator, running the water for a couple of minutes and then taking a sample. There's nobody from the lab or an inspection agency there to verify that the sample was taken properly. So if you company wanted to ensure that it didn't have to pay for a bunch of expensive water treatment equipment there's a pretty easy way to do that if the person taking the samples is willing to bend the rules.

  16. And that's assuming companies will follow the regulations. Just look at the car companies that are being found for fixing emissions and fuel efficiency tests.

  17. It's a physical means of transferring media that you buy which forces you to watch a warning about not pirating content and a bunch of previews every time you put the disc into the player before being able to play the movie. Whereas if you had pirated the movie you could just click on the file and be watching it immediately.

  18. Re:how do they get a rip? on DVD Release Delays Boost Piracy and Hurt Sales, Study Shows (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    Because you want to watch/read/listen to the media multiple times and want to support the creators of the content. I regularly download books, music, and a few shows. Those that I really like and know that I will want to repeatedly enjoy I'll buy to make sure that the people can make a living (most important for the music since I listen to a lot of independent artists) and that they hopefully can create more great media in the future.

  19. I don't need to look at their source code to come to that conclusion. I've had to use their tools on a couple of contracts and found them terrible. Spent a while trying to help someone to add a file for storage to a database but it never added it. Turned out that there's a maximum of 8 files allowed (or there was for this version) and it already had 8. However the program never bothered to give any kind of error when adding a ninth file. Plus I found all of the administration overly complicated. But then I was coming from Ingres which made things very simple to look after.

  20. Will the wristband... on Samsung Unveils Gear Fit 2 Activity Tracker and IconX Wireless Earbuds (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    show you ads too?

  21. The next pop-up will be:

    Would you like to upgrade now or now?

  22. Re:Reject the EULA on Microsoft Removes the 'X' From Windows 10 Update Leaving No Way Out (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    So you just waste a bunch of gigs of bandwidth (not everyone has unlimited) and time for the install and restore. Then you repeat this when it tries the update again. Plus the chance that the restore might not work properly. I'm not saying that it won't work but that it does have some negatives.

  23. Re:Unbelievable. on Microsoft Removes the 'X' From Windows 10 Update Leaving No Way Out (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's been working for Oracle for years!

  24. Re:Ransome-ware on Microsoft Removes the 'X' From Windows 10 Update Leaving No Way Out (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Yes but at least with ransom ware you can usually pay them and get your computer back to where it was before.

  25. Re:So? on SpaceX CEO Elon Musk Predicts People On Mars In 9 Years (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    And lots of shit.