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  1. Tiny, Meaningless on Finland To Introduce Law Next Year Phasing Out Coal (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    So a country of 5.5M is going to eliminate coal as 10% of its energy supply. Golf clap. In the meantime, OPEC member Nigeria is set to have its population hit 400M and be the 3rd largest in the world, jumping past Pakistan, Brazil, Indonesia and the US, by 2050. Ethiopia with 188M and the DR Congo with 195M are going to push Mexico and Russia out of the top-10 by 2050. By 2050 the ~1300M more people in Africa, and ~900M more in Asia will get most of their energy from... wait for it... fossil fuels! By 2050 Finland will have a population of 5.8M.

  2. Re:sometimes the article just smells bad on The Health Benefits of Wind and Solar Exceed the Cost of All Subsidies (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Say what you will about CO2, that its emission must be curtailed to limit warming, etc. But _it is not a pollutant_, and calling it that is bullcrap spin.

  3. Revels Herself a Terrible Mother on In Response To Anti-diversity Memo, YouTube CEO Says Sexism in Tech is 'Pervasive' (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Shameful to publish a political article lying to your own offspring.

  4. If only there were some form of sign language to tell them how you feel.

  5. Generic is the _exact opposite_ of an engineering discipline.

  6. No Agenda on Slashdot Asks: Your Favorite Podcasts? And Why? · · Score: 2

    http://www.noagendashow.com/
    Adam Curry and John C Dvorak. They take no advertising so no paid biases. Deconstruction of the spin from MSM.
    In the morning!

  7. Re:There's always money in the banana stand on Amazon Now Gives Away 5,000 Bananas a Day (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Just don't give up the animation rights to Mr. Bananagrabber.

  8. Everybody seems to have forgotten that HRC answered the original subpoena with _hardcopies_. Even if you scanned and OCRed them, their hashes will not match due to inevitable missing metadata and formatting differences, OCR typos, etc.

  9. Standing at the Gas Pump on A New Process Turns Sewage Into Crude Oil (newatlas.com) · · Score: 1

    "Same shit, different day."

  10. Ground Versus Ship Landings on SpaceX Successfully Lands Falcon 9 Rocket On Solid Ground For the Second Time (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    The "lot less fuel" statement in the summary may be technically true, but the main reason for the drone ship versus ground landings are the launch parameters for the payload. From Florida, Dragon to the ISS is a ~50 degree inclination LEO shooting NE, whereas communication satellites are geosynchronous shooting ESE. The former launch separates stages quite close to land, whereas the latter separation is quite far out over the Atlantic.

  11. Re:If Microsoft made cars ... on Microsoft Wants To Power Self-Driving Cars With Software, Not Build One (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Place your transmission in PARK, and after revving up and down for 30 seconds, the dash shows, "It's now safe to turn off your engine."

  12. Ken on Mattel Unveils $300 3D Printer (computerworld.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Looks like Ken is finally gonna get some junk.

  13. He's Dead, Bru on US Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia Has Died (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Dead AS.

  14. That's Okay on Carly Is Out · · Score: 1

    Her face needed a toner refill anyway.

  15. Re:Averages are misleading on Open Source Pioneer Michael Tiemann On the Myth of the Average · · Score: 1

    One imagines this contributed to Godwin's Law.

  16. Re:MS is not abandoning the platform on Microsoft's Windows Phone Platform Is Dead (windows10update.com) · · Score: 1

    Exactly, MS said users could continue to squirt amongst themselves, until one day they all got squirted upon and then abandoned.

  17. Bjorn Also Said on Sweden's Cash-Free Future Looms -- and Not Everyone Is Happy About It · · Score: 4, Interesting

    This was an *extremely* annoying aspect of visiting the ABBA museum in Stockholm: they refuse to accept cash at all. Neither for admission nor for the gift shop. At least in 2013 when I was there, signs were posted with an explanation by Bjorn who mentioned his son's apartment being robbed and how the burglars made away with some cash. So... "ban all cash" because my kid left some in his apartment and it got burgled. For an otherwise smart and talented guy, this has to be one of the most fatuous rationales ever.

  18. 6 Miles? on New Horizons' First Ultra High Resolution Photos of Pluto Released · · Score: 1

    I get that NASA is a US-based and funded organization, so they must put U.S. customary measurements like miles on images for public consumption. But why not at least put *both* measurement scales on these images? Everyone knows they actually do all their science, and operate internally, exclusively in metric.

  19. Re:Great, another idiot on Twitter To Begin Layoffs (nytimes.com) · · Score: 2

    #pinkslip

  20. Re:yes, that sounds reasonable on Volkswagen Boss Blames Software Engineers For Scandal (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    Fritz: Yeah, we just want to pump... you up!
    Hans: Isn't your name supposed to be Franz?

  21. Software Development Processes on Volkswagen Boss Blames Software Engineers For Scandal (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Michael Horn is woefully ignorant or lying. A big company like VW, especially a German company creating products with people's lives at stake, must have a software development process. I'd bet its more sophisticated than say your average game house. Probably very waterfall oriented with sign-offs along the way. The software engineers must have been implementing and testing against requirements. And those requirements must have been signed off by management. If that weren't true then VW should shutter its doors forever, because it would simply not be competent to produce people-movers with embedded software inside.

  22. Scottish, Irish, Germans, and Italians on Chris Christie Proposes Tracking Immigrants the Way FedEx Tracks Packages · · Score: 1

    Love to see Chistie's reaction when his European cousins come for a visit and get their ankle bracelet applied at Newark International.

  23. Yeah, it's getting to the point where the dupes are coming out before the original.

  24. Don't Use Basic on Ask Slashdot: Getting My Wife Back Into Programming After Long Maternity Leave? · · Score: 1

    One little poke and she'll be back on maternity leave.

  25. Re:Hiding evidence on Microsoft To US Gov't: the World's Servers Are Not Yours For the Taking · · Score: 2

    Q: WTF has citizenship got to do with court jurisdiction? A: Almost nothing.