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  1. Re:And if the article was actually false... on In an Unprecedented Move, Apple CEO Tim Cook Calls For Bloomberg To Retract Its Chinese Spy Chip Story (buzzfeednews.com) · · Score: 1

    I think he's basically saying the review of the scrub has produced the desired results.

  2. Re:Democrats controlled the House, Senate, White H on $950 Million Large Hadron Collider Upgrade 'Could Upend Particle Physics' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1
  3. Re:Yes, The World Is Returning To Normal on Antarctica Is Melting Three Times As Fast As a Decade Ago (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    You can have increasing temperatures and melting ice caps or you can have decreasing temperatures leading to the next ice age. You can't, historically speaking, have a steady climate.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

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  4. Re:This is stupid... on Florida Lawmakers Approve Year-Round Daylight Saving Time (tampabay.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Why?

  5. Re:Price? on Samsung Starts Mass Producing an SSD With Monstrous 30.72TB Capacity (betanews.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    In my experience running IT for a large department the cost saved in not having to replace drives, and worse, restore data is worth the cost of SSDs, probably just in labor costs but also the additional peace of mind.

    Also:
    "For most corporate workloads, the acquisition cost of flash storage is still significantly greater than for HDD storage. However, when operating costs are factored in, the TCO for SSDs may actually already be lower than for equivalent HDD arrays. Use of SSDs reduces data center costs for power, cooling, floor space, rack space, and maintenance. And as SSD purchase prices continue to fall, the TCO disparity can only grow greater over time."

    https://www.zadarastorage.com/...

  6. My bad, 10,000 square miles. But the point is even 200 x 200 miles is a piece of land we can easily miss. It's also not all going to be wasted, a sizable percentage of it can/will be roofs. As for cost the price of solar is pretty much even with oil currently and most likely will be the cheapest source of energy available within 20 years. It's going to be hard for any other source of energy to compete with solar going forward. Without subsidies anyway.

  7. Re:Let's move into the modern era... on New York's $6 Billion Plan For Offshore Wind Shows That Oil Drilling Really Is On the Way Out (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Solar could do it for about 101 square miles.

    https://inovateus.com/2017/08/...

    Elon Musk: “If you wanted to power the entire United States with solar panels, it would take a fairly small corner of Nevada or Texas or Utah. You only need about 100 miles by 100 miles of solar panels to power the entire United States. The batteries you [would] need to store the energy, so you have 24/7 power, is 1 mile by 1 mile. One square-mile.”

    Even if he's off by 100% 200 square miles IMO is a good price for relatively clean renewable energy. Add wind farms, hydro, etc I don't see the need for the risk of nuclear. Unless you want to go (far) into space.

  8. The path to farmed human organs lies in taking a relatively compatible animal embryo, say a pig, knocking out it's genes for whatever organ you need, inserting your genes for that organ and letting it grow. Then you simply remove the kidney, heart, whatever, that's now pretty much identical to the one you were born with. Human clones for organs is a primitive idea in the field of biology today.

  9. Re:Our "leaders" upset because we didn't choose th on Facebook Reopens Probe Into Russian Involvement in Brexit (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    We have facebook and twitter for that.

  10. Re:Creating new 509 million jobs on 375 Million Jobs May Be Automated By 2030, Study Suggests (cnn.com) · · Score: 2, Informative

    The times before the industrial revolution were worse. People moved to the cities because the jobs their beat starving as peasants in the country side. http://www.prb.org/Publication... Human population grew rapidly during the Industrial Revolution, not because the birth rate increased, but because the death rate began to fall. This mortality revolution began in the 1700s in Europe and spread to North America by the mid-1800s. Death rates fell as new farming and transportation technology expanded the food supply and lessened the danger of famine. New technologies and increasing industrialization improved public health and living standards. This reminds me of a book (can't recall the title) I read as a kid. It involves an immortal girls forever living as a 9 year old. Her present day teacher gave the same lecture, industrial revolution bad. He didn't like it when she said, yes, only not near as bad as what came before.

  11. Re:They say how many people but not how many uniqu on Facebook Says 126 Million Americans May Have Seen Russia-Linked Political Posts (reuters.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    That's how you sell bubble gum. Nobody changed their mind on who to vote for based on a facebook ad. If you think someone did, prove it.

  12. Re:Full Disk Encryption on Bitcoin Transactions Lead To Arrest of Major Drug Dealer (techspot.com) · · Score: 1

    *open, edit, save*

  13. Re:Full Disk Encryption on Bitcoin Transactions Lead To Arrest of Major Drug Dealer (techspot.com) · · Score: 1

    And don't open with any app that makes temporary copies, map to the same drive letter, open the innocent one after the not so one, just to be sure.

  14. Re:Detection sensitivity on Three-Quarters of All Honey On Earth Has Pesticides In It (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    "Though the pesticide levels were below the limit deemed safe for human consumption, there was still enough insecticide in there to harm pollinators." Which probably seems like too much to a bee.

  15. A smart phone is a tool. Use it correctly and it's fine, not to mention incredibly helpful.

  16. Antifa committed violence. The government has the right to investigate, including issuing warrants for information. I can imagine that people would be concerned with being charged with conspiracy, they should be.

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  18. Clearly you haven't used piratebay.

  19. Re:he's an idiot on Customer's 20-Year-Old Email Account Shut Down Over Unusual Address (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I can't imagine spending an iota of effort or time worrying about someone else's username. The phrase "get a life" comes to mind.

  20. Re:Serious question: on NSA 'Traffic Shaping' Can Divert US Internet Traffic For Easier Monitoring (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Or maybe you're delusional and you're entire argument is a fantasy. And that's why there's no proof, no evidence, nothing but anonymous sources and conspiracy nuts.

  21. Re:Time for a $20 minimum wage. on McDonald's Hits All-Time High As Wall Street Cheers Replacement of Cashiers With Kiosks (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe learn some skills people will pay you for?

  22. Re:BS Bills Are Still The Same Amount on New Evidence of a Decline In Electricity Use By U.S. Households (wordpress.com) · · Score: 1

    It's totalitarian because that's the only way socialist states can stay in power.

  23. Re:bit rot on Ask Slashdot: Best File System For the Ages? · · Score: 1

    I'm running ZFS on a atom based motherboard with 8gb ram. It runs amazing. FreeBSD merlin.bbridg01.fl.comcast.net 10.3-RELEASE-p5 FreeBSD 10.3-RELEASE-p5 #0 r301477: Mon Jun 6 05:19:08 EDT 2016 root@merlin.bbridg01.fl.comcast.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MERLIN amd64 CPU: Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU N2800 @ 1.86GHz (1866.78-MHz K8-class CPU) Origin="GenuineIntel" Id=0x30661 Family=0x6 Model=0x36 Stepping=1 real memory = 8589934592 (8192 MB) avail memory = 8264859648 (7881 MB) root@merlin:/usr/local/sbin # zpool status pool: tank2 state: ONLINE scan: scrub in progress since Mon Mar 6 20:38:02 2017 3.51G scanned out of 652G at 58.0M/s, 3h11m to go 0 repaired, 0.54% done config: NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM tank2 ONLINE 0 0 0 ada1 ONLINE 0 0 0 errors: No known data errors

  24. Re:Oh, God, I saw this show on SpaceX's Next Launch Carries Colonies Of A Drug-Resistant Superbug (businessinsider.com.au) · · Score: 1

    Or like this (The Expanse) https://www.youtube.com/watch?...