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  1. Sane environment has a price on As Costs Skyrocket, More US Cities Stop Recycling (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Sane environment has a price. If you cur corners and burn everything, you will have to pay it somehow at some time.

  2. Doomed social networks on Linux Foundation Launches New Tools Supporting The Open Source Community (sdtimes.com) · · Score: 1

    These look like nice software. Too bad nobody will actually use them.

  3. Scientists fear Arctic heating could trigger a climate "tipping point" as melting permafrost releases the powerful greenhouse gas methane into the atmosphere, which in turn could create a runaway warming effect.

    Melting poles also means changing albedo: sea is darken than ice, and hence it traps more heat from the sun.

  4. Stuxnet on Was Venezuela's 5-Day Blackout Caused By Cyberattacks -- or Wildfires? (apnews.com) · · Score: 1, Informative

    Maduro [said] hackers in the U.S. first shut down the Guri Dam and then delivered several "electromagnetic" blows. Engineers have questioned that assertion, contending that the Guri Dam's operating system is on a closed network with no internet connection.

    That engineers never heard about Stuxnet?

  5. Economy as a science on Amazon Gets an Edge With Its Secret Squad of PhD Economists (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    From TFA

    Amazon try to integrate [economists] as key advisers on nearly every business decision, using enormous amounts of data to replace intuition with science.

    Indeed economy is a science, but governments' use around the globe has shown that it is easy to misuse it, especially by ignoring the conditions required for a result. I wonder if Amazon can do better.

  6. Who avoids mobile phones? on Portland City Council May Ask FCC To Investigate Health Risks of 5G Networks (inverse.com) · · Score: 1

    I bet all that officials have a mobile phone in their pocket. They fear 5G but accept older technologies that likely have the same risk.

  7. Genetics vs environment on 23andMe Plans New Genetic Test on Risk of Getting Diabetes (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Genetics does not tell all, for many diseases, environment is even more important. Eat too much carbs, exercise too little, and you will get type 2 diabetes, no genetic test needed for that forecast.

  8. Censored network on Coders Used Ham Radio To Send Bitcoin From Canada To San Francisco (coindesk.com) · · Score: 1

    About the censored network use case: radio can be triangulated, If you use it for an activity that upsets a totalitarian regime, they will find you to make it stop. It may be an unpleasant exprience.

  9. Even when you vote to leave EU, a Slashdot editor still has the idea to stick the EU flags on a story about your country.

  10. I wonder how does it correlates with nationality of the VPN provider.

  11. $300 million to pay 2100 persons on MGM Considers Replacing Workers With Robots In Its Las Vegas Strip Properties (vegasslotsonline.com) · · Score: 1

    $300 million is the price to pay 2100 persons? At $11904 average per month, some of them must be very well paid.

  12. the language and platform is evolving faster than ever

    The point is that it would be nice if the language and platform could actually run faster.

  13. Political upheaval on Vladimir Putin Wants His Own Internet (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    But industry insiders, security experts and even senior officials say political upheaval is the bigger concern.

    Given Putin's popularity in Russia, which is much higher than Trump, Macron, May or Merkel in their own countries, that seems odd.

  14. Lobbying 28 states of the EU on Leaked Documents Reveal Facebook's Global War On Data Privacy Laws (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    They lobby the all 28 states of the EU, but they must also lobby the EU commission, which is the only institution in EU that can start a new directive.

  15. you need to a little more engineering than a simple small-scale burn test.

    The minimal test here is burning an EV car and a fuel truck.

  16. A good reason to use Iraq's WMD as an example is because it was many years ago

    Indeed, this is exactly why I chose that example, rather than more recent government-backed fake news for which there are remaining supporters.

  17. I am all in favor of suppressing disinformation, but who should decide an information is truth or not?

    We all remember Irak's Weapons of Mass Destruction, a government backed information followed up my many medias, which turned to be a huge fake news. It was so fake that US invaders did not even manage to plant fake evidence to support it after they "won" the war.

  18. When burned, ETFE releases highly toxic hydrofluoric acid. One streets are paved with that, you should hope they will not host a fire.

  19. Will it interpret units and wreck the data as usual?

  20. Small study on Listening To Music May Be Damaging Your Creativity (newatlas.com) · · Score: 1

    TFA says 30 adults participated. This is a small study. How significant is the result?

  21. Why does McAfee pay? on Samsung is Loading McAfee Antivirus Software On Smart TVs (techspot.com) · · Score: 1

    Why does McAfee pay to have his antivirus installed? They would not do that without a plan to recover the cost and make money

    Are we ahead of another privacy scandal, with data sucked from smartTV by a rogue antivirus?

  22. What without victims? on Boeing's Autonomous Fighter Jet Could Arrive Next Year (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    The Star Trek example is irrelevant, since when US makes a no US victim war, the other party gets a lot of victims, including many innocents.

  23. 97 persons is a rather small data set. I am doubtful it can yield relevant statistics results.

  24. I got used to see the Chaos Computer Club breaking biometric authentication; I wonder if they will break that one as well.

  25. Migration path? on Drupal 7 Will Reach End-of-Life in November of 2021 (drupal.org) · · Score: 1

    How straightforward is the migration path?

    My previous experience of Drupal (a long time ag) was that it was easy to setup a gorgeous site, but that making it is update-prone was not a layman's job. Odds were good that it would need a complete reimplementation.