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  1. Either way, the point is that policy makers on every level let the oil companies produce the oil and let them sell it to consumers, knowing it would lead to CO2 and climate change, at the very least since the first IPCC report in 1990.

  2. However, the oil companies that KNEW about the climate change issue and then tried to cover it up,

    Politicians KNEW too, and did nothing. This is not a job for the courts, this is a job for policy makers.

  3. Re:Sometimes things change on Ask Slashdot: Can a City Really Sue an Oil Company For Climate Change? (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    But the allegation here is that Chevron actively lied and suppressed information about their product.

    Now that we have learned that they lied, and that burning oil actually produces CO2, the first step should be to ban sales of oil products. Allowing them to continue selling the bad stuff, while suing for damages is just a cheap money grab.

  4. Re:Why do they need to be REPLACED? on There Are Real Reasons For Linux To Replace ifconfig, netstat and Other Classic Tools (utoronto.ca) · · Score: 1

    The old tools can stick around, but someone has to maintain them, update them, and it increases the potential security problems if you have two parallel sets installed at the same time so distros will try to go with one or the other

    Distros can provide both,but only use the new tools, without any security issue.

  5. Re:Install size and attack surface on There Are Real Reasons For Linux To Replace ifconfig, netstat and Other Classic Tools (utoronto.ca) · · Score: 1

    Installing more programs by default makes the install image larger (in megabytes)

    Yes, please get rid of notorious memory hogs ifconfig (67kB) and netstat (117 kB).

  6. Then we should also sue the cities for allowing cars on their roads.

  7. Stupid on Ask Slashdot: Can a City Really Sue an Oil Company For Climate Change? (wired.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The problem is people buying the oil and burning it. Don't go blame the company selling it to you.

  8. Re:Traps, fines, abolish the stations on Are Google's Cat-Loving Employees Killing Burrowing Owls? (seattletimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Owls are also efficient murderers. You should let your cats out and have them catch the killer owls.

  9. They listen to things 24/7 and respond accordingly

    Not "accordingly".

    They listen to things 24/7, and apparently make up random commands from background noises.

  10. Re:meanwhile, in the kitchen... on A Middle-Aged Writer's Quest To Start Learning To Code For the First Time (1843magazine.com) · · Score: 1

    I just redefined requirement to 'power led is off to indicate dead battery'.

  11. Re:Meh, take some college courses on A Middle-Aged Writer's Quest To Start Learning To Code For the First Time (1843magazine.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I have ran into many programmers that didn't get their degree in computer science and didn't take any computer science courses in college, and they all fall in the same level. Mediocre

    Maybe just correlation, not causation. I have a degree in CS, but I mostly I learned programming in my spare time. The fact that I was interested in programming led me to sign up for the education.

    "How do I sort this list?"

    Call the sort() function, usually.

  12. Re:meanwhile, in the kitchen... on A Middle-Aged Writer's Quest To Start Learning To Code For the First Time (1843magazine.com) · · Score: 1

    I once got a requirement for a battery operated device that I made, which said that the device should blink the power led to indicate that the battery was dead.

  13. Re:Just delaying the inevitable on Robot Worries Could Cause a 50,000-Worker Strike in Las Vegas (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    That sounds like an easy lateral career move for a line cook or a bartender.

    Maybe being a bartender wasn't their career plan in the first place. Maybe they wanted to make animated movies, but didn't have all the skills, so they went into bartending to pay the bills. Maybe 15 years from now, you can get a PC that can help you make those animations where you input your rough sketches, and the machine does all the detail work.

  14. Re:I really don't get this one on Robot Worries Could Cause a 50,000-Worker Strike in Las Vegas (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    Looks like that robot is mostly for show. You could design a better system if you just wanted to mix drinks without too much fuss. Put all the dispensers much closer together, in a 2D plane, and move multiple glasses in a fixed track underneath.

  15. Re:Just delaying the inevitable on Robot Worries Could Cause a 50,000-Worker Strike in Las Vegas (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    How exactly does someone "work with" automation that is designed to replace you?

    You don't. You work with automation that is designed to replace someone else.

  16. back then the machines for farming were all made domestically so that's a pretty obvious answer. They went to work in factories.

    But only a tiny minority of the people going into factories made farm equipment. Most of them made consumer articles.

  17. Re:Hard to lower the nutrition of plain white rice on As The Planet Warms, We'll Be Having Rice With A Side Of CO2 (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    It's a bit more complicated than that. There are/used to be plenty of places where people ate tons of white rice without getting fat.

  18. Re:Good thing the world embraces GMO rice then! on As The Planet Warms, We'll Be Having Rice With A Side Of CO2 (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    The bigger problem is lack of protein. Rice doesn't have much of that.

  19. Re: I bet Las Vegas is getting hit by the Internet on Robot Worries Could Cause a 50,000-Worker Strike in Las Vegas (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    You're looking at pictures of a industrial robot flipping burgers with a spatula.

    I look at pictures of 4-ft wide conveyor ovens that heat top & bottom at the same time and processes thousands of patties per hour, with maybe a single human operator checking the process.

  20. If that's how it works, then I wouldn't put my money on the workers actually getting a legal binding contract that guarantees their jobs forever.

  21. Car manufacturing.

  22. Re: I bet Las Vegas is getting hit by the Internet on Robot Worries Could Cause a 50,000-Worker Strike in Las Vegas (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    I agree there are still plenty of humans working in the food industry, but they use machines to produce very large amounts of food.

    "Food service automation" and click on images.

    Try "food industry automation" instead.

  23. If they are able to hammer out a legally binding contract that guarantees the casinos won't replace existing workers with robots under heavy financial penalty, then it's a win for them.

    Until somebody builds a competing casino when all the robots are ready and forces the old ones into bankruptcy.

  24. I don't think it will be "suddenly", but yes, if they want to keep a job, they'll need to find a new career.

  25. Re: I bet Las Vegas is getting hit by the Internet on Robot Worries Could Cause a 50,000-Worker Strike in Las Vegas (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    Most food people eat is made by machines already. Look at around at the packaged stuff in the supermarket. Most people couldn't make it as well and consistent as a machine.