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  1. Spouse robbed in a mall. Police need prospects. on Malls In California Are Sending License Plate Information To ICE (theweek.com) · · Score: 1

    Robbed at knife point. Don't you want the police to have a list of prospects?

  2. Schools should teach how to find opposing views. on Is It Time To Stop Using Social Media? (counterpunch.org) · · Score: 1

    Schools should teach how to find opposing views. It is a learnable skill.

  3. PVC piping, really nondegradable on Report Finds PFAS Chemicals In One-Third of Fast Food Packaging (cnn.com) · · Score: 0

    45 years after burying PVC piping all over my yard, I dug some up. Clean and shiny as the day I'd purchased it. When I planted that pipe, the code required anti backflow valves under someone's theory that my water main pressure might drop (it never did) and garden irrigation water might flow back and pollute my household water. What a total farce!

  4. Growing season in Alaska has grown 50% longer on Sweden Pledges To Cut All Greenhouse Gas Emissions By 2045 (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Swedes don't like all that warm weather, neither Canadians, nor Russians. ;-)

  5. They need high-speed rail to the central valley. on Facebook Commits Millions to Help Silicon Valley's Have-Nots (fortune.com) · · Score: 2

    Housing is cheap once you get east over the coastal ranges.

  6. Carbon dioxide makes food plants more efficient. on Children Can Now Sue The US Government Over Climate Change (vice.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Food plants are now 15% more efficient than 30 years ago. Fewer hungry people! Widely known fact. Search youtube for "earth greening".

  7. Plants love CO2. Earth is getting greener on National Geographic Releases Alarming Climate Change Movie 'Before the Flood' On YouTube (youtube.com) · · Score: 1

    The earth's biological productivity is rising rapidly (14% in 30 years) mainly due to increased CO2 in the atmosphere reports Matt Ridley in a Royal Society video with a transcript. Environmentalists may hate it, but it looks like good science to me. See it quicker (19 minutes), less political, and 3 years ago or for busy folk, in Snippets: (2 min) and (20 sec).

  8. police need drones on US Police Consider Flying Drones Armed With Stun Guns (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 2

    to track runaway vehicles instead of chasing them.

  9. "cannot find," said iTunes. on Apple Says It Doesn't Know Why iTunes Users Are Losing Their Music Files (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Then iTunes sent me to look for my music. I suppose I am guilty of skipping a few of the many iTunes version updates.

  10. I refuse false charge. My card goes brick. on The Future of Shopping: Trapping You in a Club You Didn't Know You Joined (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    I reported bogus magazine subscription to my credit union (Stanford) so they canceled my credit card without telling me. So then I'm finding many bills I want to pay are not being paid.

  11. 0/0? That's when God speaks to me on Ask Slashdot: What's the Harm In a Default Setting For Div By Zero? · · Score: 1

    0/0 is when God is telling me my project will not succeed. Don't cut her out of the conversation!

  12. Harvard needs an engineering school on Everyone Hates Harvard · · Score: 1

    Now they don't have one. What's wrong with this?

  13. hydro power plant on Ask Slashdot: After We're Gone, the Last Electrical Device Still Working? · · Score: 1

    See the 1957 book, On the Beach by Nevil Shute, nuclear fallout apocalypse.
    at Amazon.
    Spoiler alert:
    Nuclear submarine commander looking for remaining people on the surface tracks down the last electrical signal. Turns out to be static from the neon light in a shop window.

  14. adjustable focus worked for me on Ask Slashdot: Are Progressive Glasses a Mistake For Computer Users? · · Score: 1

    I had good luck with adjustable focus lenses. You push a slider to change the focus.
    For details of the company I purchased from, search for Trufocal, or search for me, Claerbout,
    either at Google or youtube.

  15. other stuff too on TSA Has Record-Breaking Haul In 2014: Guns, Cannons, and Swords · · Score: 1

    Don't forget the bicycle tools they stole.

  16. convex lens on Finland Announces an Anti-Laser Campaign For Air Traffic · · Score: 2

    Require lasers sold to the public to have a built-in, slightly-divergent lens. That would improve PowerPoint usage too.

  17. He's ~79 years old on MIT Removes Online Physics Lectures and Courses By Walter Lewin · · Score: 1

    Maybe we should cheer him on. :-)

  18. much more energy in wind on WaveNET – the Floating, Flexible Wave Energy Generator · · Score: 1

    energy is mass times velocity squared. Energy flux flowing over a windmill has another velocity, so velocity cubed.

  19. clean white sand is a byproduct of tar-sand oil on We Are Running Out of Sand · · Score: 1

    Clean white sand is a byproduct of tar-sand petroleum production in northern Alberta, Canada. They dig a giant hole in this gooey stinky tar stuff, wash it in hot naptha, take the clean white sand coming out, and dump it back in the hole it came out of. What limits production is lack of permits for the pipeline they need to export the oil.

  20. simulating a phenomena does not validate the model on Astrophysicists Build Realistic Virtual Universe · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Choosing parameters that best simulate a model does not mean that model is correct.

  21. every gym should have one on 12-Lead Clinical ECG Design Open Sourced; Supports Tablets, Too · · Score: 2

    I lost a son, age 25, to sudden cardiac arrest. He left the gym, died a half hour later in his office. We thought he was the healthiest one in the family. Every gym should have an EKG machine as well as an AED. I hope you never learn what I know --- no loss exceeds losing a child. Search for Jos Claerbout

  22. Government? on Why the Japanese Government Should Take Over the Fukushima Nuclear Plant · · Score: 2

    Does anybody think our government could have managed the BP oil blowout?

  23. why not bill for services? on Linux Vendors Push For Open-Source In Hybrid Datacenter Clouds · · Score: 0

    Bill for services, that's what we do at Stanford University. We're a non-profit.

  24. make the same offer to magazines on Twitter Co-Founder Biz Stone To Facebook: Start a Premium Subscription Service · · Score: 1

    for example Scientific American and Discover Magazine. I want to see their web sites without ads, not someone's idea of what an electronic magazine should look like, especially when it downloads slowly and uses unfamiliar navigation.

  25. Go read my free on-line textbooks on Ask Slashdot: Scientific Research Positions For Programmers? · · Score: 1

    Go read my free on-line textbooks --Jon Claerbout, Stanford University