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  1. This is just Thermal Plasma Gasification on Cryptocurrency Miners Are Using Old Tires to Power Their Rigs (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    While as the source article says in more detail this company does have a novel new process for this, but what they're doing here is hardly new. It's just thermal plasma gasification with another name. I'm not against such a thing myself, assuming they are property filter the waste gases that these systems release. But at the end of the day here this is just a novel way for make a big of money on disposing of old tires. It usually cost money to dispose of these tires in a landfill.

  2. Honesty, who in the hell thought this was a good idea? Just from a war logistics standpoint you're only going to be answer few special questions. And paying celebrities to do this is going to get very expensive very fast. And beyond that, what benefit will this be for me to have a video playing that eats my mobile bandwidth instead of just letting me read the text that will be displayed on my screen now?

  3. Accusations of bigory can't fix this tire fire. on Quentin Tarantino and JJ Abrams Team Up For 'Star Trek' Movie (hollywoodreporter.com) · · Score: 1

    You can sit there and bitch and moan about what you perceive as bigotry all day long. But that doesn't' make ST:D suck less, even if it were true to the level assholes like you claim it is. Which it isn't, at all.

  4. It physically can't be any worse than ST:D on Quentin Tarantino and JJ Abrams Team Up For 'Star Trek' Movie (hollywoodreporter.com) · · Score: 2

    Because ST:D is literally one of the worse Sci-Fi series in years. Super charged lens flare laden Abrams quality CGI for the first two episodes only but absolutely garbage in every other way. Not that Trek has ever had the best writing, but Discovery makes Enterprise look like TNG by comparison.

  5. Sounds like a bad garage band. on Two Technologists Create Black Metal Album Using An AI (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    Although I was never a fan of black metal I was big fan of Pantara and a few other metal bands when I was younger. And I'm kind there with you, this music is pretty bad. But I don't discount the fact that this is a pretty near feet of programing and AI training. So good on them for this first attempt.

  6. Re:Lack of extensions cripples Edge from the start on Microsoft's Edge Browser Now Generally Available For iOS, Android (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2

    well personally I went to Waterfox now that Quantum strips out the ability to use classic theme restorer as well as a few other 'legacy' add-ons. I just flat out HATE the new visual design. And my real work house extensions I use for privacy work just as well as they always have. Privacy badger, cookie autodelete, u-block, etc.

  7. Lack of extensions cripples Edge from the start on Microsoft's Edge Browser Now Generally Available For iOS, Android (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    That's the thing that got my right out of the gate with Edge. The fact that they have never been able to open up access to any real significant pro privacy extensions. And I imagine they will never do so given that every single one of these POS tech companies have bought fulling into monitizing everything you do.

  8. Re:This is why we can't have nice things... on Tesla Owners Are Mining Bitcoins With Free Power From Charging Stations (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    You're already talking about a-holes that are buying almost $100K of luxury car (or about $30K worth virtue signaling if they bought the sedan model). They've got more than enough nice things as is.

  9. Re:Russia: okay to sell Uranium to... on Google Seeks To Defuse Row With Russia Over Website Rankings (reuters.com) · · Score: 0

    Oh piss off. I know exactly what assholes like you say it is, I just know what the results of it actually are in practicality. And to be blunt I don't really give a shit either way, given that the real problems of the internet have nothing to do with who gets the sweet heart deal in terms of bandwidth. And in reality there's so much dark fiber sitting unused out there that we could expand well beyond what we have now. It's all just different media companies trying to one up one and other to get you to buy more shit and media streaming services.

  10. Re:Russia: okay to sell Uranium to... on Google Seeks To Defuse Row With Russia Over Website Rankings (reuters.com) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Funny how net neutrality is in the news while at the same time Google is using it's own corporate influence to block other nation's access to the free flow of information. Which is exactly why I don't give a damn about it. It's nothing but different media corporations bitching over who gets the best access to the people they want to advertise shit to.

  11. Re:Good question on Ajit Pai and the FCC Want It To Be Legal for Comcast To Block BitTorrent (theverge.com) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Tell that to all the Korean shop keepers that protected their stores from arson during the LA riots. Oh wait, we're not supposed to talk about that due to the uncomfortable reality of the who and the why people began torching their own neighborhoods.

    And beyond that, have you even bothered to actually researcher how many people defend their lives and property with a legally owned gun in the US per year? According to the National Crime Victimization Survey it's about 65K a year. Gun murders only top about 10K a year.

  12. And the iPhone X is made by illegal student labor. on Apple Only Wants To Put Its Stores Where White People Live, Investigation Reveals (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    Reuters is reporting that Illegal student labor is being used to assemble the new iPhone X.

    https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-foxconn-labour/apple-says-illegal-student-labor-discovered-at-iphone-x-plant-idUSKBN1DM1LA

    So... where's your moral outrage for the poor people that have to make the damn things to begin with? I think that beats your moral outrage over Apples sales practices by a wide margin.

  13. Re:The Tesla Semi takes 7.2 megawatt hours per cha on Tesla Unveils 500-Mile Range Semi Truck, 620-Mile Range Roadster 2.0 · · Score: 1

    Yes, that's true. But even them, if they have a truck that can accelerate that fast then they should be able to build the driver train to make more use of able torque than horse power. Commercial vehicles need to pull heaver loads, not get there faster.

    Nice try in try to deflect away from this shit design with a snappy line instead of a deeper examination of the actual needs of the transportation industry.

  14. The Tesla Semi takes 7.2 megawatt hours per charge on Tesla Unveils 500-Mile Range Semi Truck, 620-Mile Range Roadster 2.0 · · Score: 1, Funny

    I watched the 'reveal party' stream from some a-hole on YouTube. It was a really crappy video shot by some a-hole with their smart phone with the quality settings real low, so it was hard to really hear what Muck was saying. But one thing I did see was that this hunk of shit takes about 7.2 MegaWatt hours per-charge. That's an INSANE amount of power just to keep one of these rigs running. By comparison your average US house hold uses about 897 kilowatt hours a month for all of their electrify needs.

    Also as a second real serious complaint... who the FUCK said that ANYONE wants a semi truck that can accelerate that fast? You in no way want a semi truck that accelerates like that, you want something that can have an enormous amount of TORQUE, so you can pull heavy loads. Not get there faster with a light load. I spent the last decade driving semi loads of bulk milk in and around the Memphis area, so I have some level of a clue about the trans deportation industry as a whole. No one needs faster trucks, we need more efficient trucks. And one final thought is that this idea that you're going to get ANY truck to last a million miles without a break down is just a flat ludicrous. Even with out the problems with a combustion engine there are still an enormous amount of accessory systems that will eventually have a break down. Suspension air bags, air compresses, for their braking systems, and just over all wear and tear from having to run on crappy highways and through bad conditions of all types. When your dealing with moving that much mass you run into all new kinds of engineering problems that I don't think anyone at Tesla has a clue about so far.

    And that's before we get into the real serious issue that the Trump admin is killing a lot of solar power subsidies, and that the Chinese have began to enforce tougher environmental regulations on solar panel production, increasing their cost by about 35%.

  15. Re:With blackjack and hookers! on Detroit's Marginalized Communities Are Building Their Own Internet (vice.com) · · Score: 0

    Well there was some talk about allowing internet gambling again... And being Detroit it should be pretty easy to find work violent thugs to handle 'collections'

  16. Vault 8 has a few things to say about such claims. on North Korean Hackers Are Targeting US Defense Contractors (wpengine.com) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    For those not paying attention Wikileaks have revealed extensive technical details about the CIA's ability to force certificates and plants traces into systems to frame people for the actions of the US security agencies.

    https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/11/10/cia_kaspersky_fake_certs_ploy/

    While I have no doubt that North Korea would gladly do so, but we need to face a few facts about the ability of the NK's to really do this much damage.

  17. Unless it's DRM free then I don't care. on 'Starcraft II' Goes Free-to-Play on Tuesday (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    At this point the only people that really want to play this game and are willing to put up with Blizzards intrusive DRM scheme have already bought the game. So why in the hell should I waste my time with a game that has a feature that's a non-starter to begin with?

  18. ST:D feels like a thrown together mess... on Star Trek: Discovery Will Return On January 7th, 2018 (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I wasn't super in to ST:D from the get go, but after actually watching the first 7 episodes I have to say that this show, while it has been 'getting somewhat better', is still a very logically inconsistent mess. It looks visually great, but even then none of the affects look all that good. Relying way to heavily on the look and feel from the JJ Abrams films with a lot smaller budget.

    But ironically, while the look and humor of The Orville is still rather cheesy the actual writing, dialogue, and universe itself is shocking better than anything we've seen on ST:D as of yet. Hell, the racist android from the Orville in one episode showed more character development than the lead from Discovery has yet. After all, no one in The Orville is tripping over themselves to save the main charters every time she screws something up.

  19. Hard lesson in the 1st Amendment... on New Victims in the 'Billionaire War on Journalism' (newsweek.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Just a reminder that 'Freedom of the Press' just means that the government can't officially sensor your speech. It in no way gives you a right to have your voice heard. In practical terms it's not the 'right' for you to have to be give access to an actual printing press or by extension a news paper column, it's just that the government can't keep you from owning one without the due course of law.

    If you can't get people to listen to you enough then that's your problem, and complaining about it on Slashdot is more than useless. You might have a case for anti unionizing practices, but that's a different story all together.

  20. So I guess Elecrity is free in Siberia? on Bitcoin Mining Heats Home For Free In Siberia (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Ehh, maybe it is. I don't exactly go to eastern Europe to often, so I don't exactly know. But it seems like someone really isn't thinking this headline thorough and instead were just looking for headline.

  21. Re:Slashdot moderation is best moderation! on Russian Troll Factory Paid US Activists To Fund Protests During Election (theguardian.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Call it off topic but there's a little PAC by the name of 'Correct The Record' that the Clinton Campaign tried to use to 'correct the record' by hiring paid shills to basically troll and disrupt pro Trump social media campaigns. Supposedly the spent an even $1,000,000 on trying to do this.

    But remember, be really upset that someone in the Russian Federal dropped $80K.

  22. Re:PREPARE THY ANUS... a new major OS update. on Microsoft Begins Rolling Out Windows 10 Fall Creators Update (windows.com) · · Score: 1

    Better a hater than an apologists for terrible decisions in design, business models, and just general anti competitive practices.

    Yes, I GLADLY wear the label of 'hater'. Because one makes me an obnoxious a-hole. You're actively hurting everyone with your complacency. You deserve no sympathy.

  23. PREPARE THY ANUS... a new major OS update. on Microsoft Begins Rolling Out Windows 10 Fall Creators Update (windows.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    Given that how much of a train wreck the entire Windows 10 platform is I fully expect to see major failures across the board as this new update rolls out. Just like it has done with every single major 'upgrade' this abject POS operating system has been given.

  24. Re:the hell!? on The Google Clips Camera Puts AI Behind the Lens (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Personally I'm going to start decorating my jacket with high intensity LED IR strop lights and 2.4 and 5 ghz frequency jammer.

    Google can take this 1984 crap and pound it squarely where the son doesn't shin.

  25. Google Body Cameras: 'Glasses', for the stupid on The Google Clips Camera Puts AI Behind the Lens (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    People wearing Google Glass found out real quickly that people have a humongous problem with being constantly watched by an always on camera going back to Google. So Google through they'd be clever and put that same technology into a stripped down always on decide that would still give them the most easily tractable data stream.

    Personally if this is going to be a thing, then I'm about start walking around with IR strobe lights and frequency jamming devised that knock out both bands of wi-fi. Google can take this 1984 CRAP and shove it right up it's own (borg) collective ass.