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  1. Re:100 percent green energy by 2025 on UK Enjoyed 'Greenest Year For Electricity Ever' in 2017 (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't think I would classify huge pools of vanadium as green. There will be spills and vanadium isn't exactly benign
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... .

    I believe there are flow batteries with less toxic chemistries.

  2. Re:You're more right that you know on White House Approves Sonic Cannons For Atlantic Energy Exploration · · Score: 1

    Or, rich people would still eat meat and the poor ones would starve to death. Overpopulations solved. Though only after they have devastated the land with their last attempts to feed themselves, possibly causing uprisings, wars, a thermonuclear catastrophe ... unless they're killed off first. Who knows?

  3. Re:RIL and EFS on Replicant OS Developers Find Backdoor In Samsung Galaxy Devices · · Score: 1

    This.

    It is widely believed older style cell phones have long been mandated to support remote operations/activation by the government/laws/secret service/someone. Local police says phones can be tracked even when off, but they don't use it for lost cell phones, only big crimes, but the capability is present and available.

    On smart phones, that are much more software and less fixed hardware, programmable and adaptive, how could that functionality be provided? Perhaps with some features of modem hardware to communicate, but if it's largely a software radio, then the logical place is: binary firmware. Coupled with the capabilities like the new privileges of modern ARM CPUs that provide an über ring0 separate context, unaccessible and hidden from the normal OS - marketed as DRM and security, it can do whatever it likes, on the main CPU and memory, without involving the OS. They still need hardware support to communicate while off, etc. but hidden software is easier than dedicated hardware.

  4. Re:Serious Questions about OpenBSD infrastructure on Romanian Bitcoin Entrepreneur Steps In To Pay OpenBSD Shortfall · · Score: 1

    According to the messages on OpenBSD mailing list, running on old and vastly different hardware means they can test software on different architectures and find bugs more easily. So running on the old architectures among other things helps fix software on all architectures, even other operating systems.
    AFAIK most new (and more efficient) hardware is vastly more similar than the older architectures.

  5. Re:Obligatory WTF on 1.8 Million-Year-Old Skull Suggests Three Early Human Species Were One · · Score: 1

    I am unsure this was intentional or not. It says devolved from Monkeys. Meaning Monkeys were higher on the evolutionary ladder. To be accurate: He is suggesting that current blacks are actually monkeys and current monkeys are evolved blacks.

    I would suggest that devolution would have positive descendance, but the change is negative. So the named people would be retarded monkeys

  6. Re:Cost of living under $1000 a month on Workers at Chile's ALMA Telescope Strike Over Working Conditions · · Score: 1

    It would absolutely murder tons of retired people in those countries as the cost of living goes up by 100% and their pensions and social security programs are unchanged.

    Not sure about other countries, but in some e.g. Serbia, retirement is state backed and controlled and the pensions tends to be adjusted for inflation, protests, political popularity etc. A lot of the retirees still tend to have pitiful pensions, with high inequality based among other things on work and retirement era, but it is within the state's power to do with the pensions as they will and have a budget for.

  7. Re:all sites are dirty sites on Ask Slashdot: Light-Footprint Antivirus For Windows XP? · · Score: 1

    Not all sites serve ads.

  8. Re:FUMES on NASA Wants To Test 3-D Printing Aboard ISS · · Score: 1

    Aren't the three basic heat transfer types: conduction, radiation and convection?
    The third doesn't quite work without an encompassing fluid, but the first two do and conduction is the one used to melt the plastic. Solidifying might be an issue, I don't know. Outgassing and boiling might be an even bigger one.

  9. Re:Whiners on Opera Releases Its First Chromium-Based Browser · · Score: 1

    I would agree with both of the complaints simultaneously, without considering it contradictory, as Opera is a minority, mostly standards-conforming browser, while Chrome is a majority, "innovating" browser.

    Because of this, old Opera would and could not create a new development target, while being useful for testing standards conformance of sites, while Chrome has a both the power and tendency [insert links here] to create an alternate web ecosystem.