It means that the very dirty power plants in China release enormous quantities of mercury which become part of the atmosphere anywhere on earth. The Oregon plants contribute about 2,000 pounds of mercury per year to that pollution.
I know you were joking, AC, but it would have been better if you hadn't.
It's very, very unfortunate, but in perhaps 7 years, Slashdot editors have not learned how to be editors. kdawson, the Slashdot editor for this story, chose a title that makes it sound like Wal-Mart is a drug pusher: "Wal-Mart Is Pushing Compact Fluorescent Bulbs".
I'm surprised that you didn't read the links I provided. Yes, the tons of mercury released by burning coal is carried around the globe in the air, in the entire atmosphere.
Quoted from the article about mercury in Oregon:
"In Oregon, about 89 percent of the mercury in the environment comes from global sources -- for example, power plants in China, said Andy Ginsburg, head of DEQ's air quality division.
"PGE's Boardman plant, averaging about 200 pounds [of mercury] a year, is Oregon's second-largest industrial contributor of mercury in the environment. The state's largest mercury contributor is the Ash Grove Cement Co. in Durkee, which emitted an estimated 1,538 pounds in 2005."
The amount of mercury released into the air because of burning coal to make electricity is far larger (about a ton per year in Oregon) than the amount of mercury in the compact fluorescent bulbs. The bulbs use 1/4 the electricity, which means 1/4 the mercury released because of providing electricity for lighting.
Lucus must want money. He certainly wouldn't make another IJ movie because it would be interesting. It's pathetic when a billionaire is so addicted to money that he will do anything to get it, especially when what he will do to get money is sell people on the idea that violence is glamorous. We have the Iraq war because so many U.S. citizens are excited, not disgusted, by violence, any violence. And the war has made the U.S. poor and bankrupt.
For those who are reading fast, DHMO is water. Someone with too much time on their hands made an entire official web site discussing the dangers, linked in the parent comment.
This is another demonstration of Slashdot editor incompetence. The Slashdot story is apparently nothing but an advertisement for a commercial company formerly called Haval-Daar that seems completely incompetent and destined to fail immediately. There is apparently no connection with CERT whatsoever; the name is apparently intended only to confuse. Since the word havaldaar is apparently a Hindi word, I suppose Haval-Daar is a company started by people from India.
Did someone at Slashdot take money to advertise this company?
Let this be a lesson to those who spend a lot of time playing video games when they could be learning to be socially competent: If you don't learn about the people around you, you will eventually sink to the bottom of business.
A BBC article from September, 2003, Fears rise for sinking Sundarbans indicates that the island mentioned in the Slashdot story, and others, sunk a long time ago. Perhaps the Slashdot story article gave the wrong name.
A July 29, 2003 article GOP disputes global-warming cause gives the Bush administration's position then: "... the chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee question[ed] not only the evidence for warming, but also the link between human actions and climate change."
The issue in the United States, of course, is not when an island in India sunk, but the fact that there is ongoing damage, and that the Bush administration has tried to delay action as much as possible.
Be careful about PhysOrg.com: The web site carries "press releases", which are advertisements disguised as articles. (In the linked article, brand-name battery makers don't want people to buy the much less expensive but otherwise identical generic batteries, apparently. Also, battery makers want people to think it is normal to spend a lot of money on batteries.)
Fraud??? Definition: "A deception used to get unfair or unlawful gain." My guess is that some P.R. agency has a contract to try to get people to think good things about military expenditures, because Digg is also carrying a story about the wonderfulness of military behavior. The facts are this: Yes, trying to find new and more efficient ways of killing people sometimes accidentally gives some benefits to non-violent activities. However, the same amount of money spent on research would have brought far, far more.
Most of the U.S. military action since perhaps 1900 has been associated with trying to get some economic benefit for a few people who are able to manipulate the government. The U.S. government has invaded 24 countries since the 2nd World War.
This is my summary of U.S. government corruption, I would like to see other people make their own summaries: George W. Bush comedy and tragedy.
Quote from the parent comment: "The precedents for interoperability as a protected activity are legion, spanning decades."
Well said. I wonder about the sociology of Autodesk's actions. Here is my wild guess: Many people who are called "executives" have the social ability of an emotionally disturbed ferret. "Executives" often have sink-the-company ideas, and this legal action is one of them. Autodesk executives apparently are very worried that they cannot compete on the merits. They didn't stop to think that their actions will make their insecurity known to Slashdot readers and every member of the Open Design Alliance.
The publicity will make it more difficult for Autodesk to hire skilled programmers and managers, causing the company to fall further behind and to become even more insecure. The publicity will make every design engineer consider their options for becoming less dependent on Autodesk, whereas before many might have been happy with the way things were.
Right now, my parent post is moderated 50% off topic and 50% insightful.
I love New Zealand. I have lived there. However, Slashdot never gives a sense of proportion when it covers English-speaking countries. Slashdot also seems to assume that the 210 (approximately) countries that don't speak English are less important.
New Zealand is a country of 4 million people. It gets a lot of attention on Slashdot because people speak English there. There are 121 countries that have more people than New Zealand.
The article is poorly organized. Slashdot's story about the article does not quote the most important parts. Slashdot readers have commented on the Slashdot story with numerous irrelevant points.
The article is a description of what is reasonably, in my opinion, called fraud. Quote: "After a half decade of being presented as a legitimate competitor to NeXT's object oriented development tools and various other products, Cairo was revealed as a complete hoax."
The author is trying to stop the "Fraud as a Business Plan" practiced by Microsoft. (There is also a need to stop incompatible file formats as a business plan. Open Office is excellent, and free, and uses an ISO standard file format.)
The Wengo people need to hire someone who can help them communicate in writing. There are translation errors and other mistakes on their web site, too.
However, here is the question that is important for most Slashdot readers: Is WengoPhone a good replacement for Skype?. WengoPhone is open source and SIP compatible.
Why should there be shame in self-promotion? I am glad to get useful information from any source, even from those who benefit financially. Besides, the Slashdot article is about something that is FREE.
"Who is Wengo? People like you all over the world
and the team: 35 people in France keeping you in touch."
Wengo started in 2005. "Wengo is a subsidiary of the group neufcegetel."
Confusion: It is difficult to find their telephone service rates
pages. The one linked is for the countries beginning with B.
That's disgusting, and funny! I thought they were joking in general. I didn't realize that they were demonstrating U.S. government corruption. (Big companies want lax patent and trademark practice so that they can use weak patents and trademarks to intimidate.)
Quoting again from the Despair, Inc. web site: "This is a defining moment in the history of intellectual property law. To extend official registration to an emoticon, one who's common usage predated the existence of the trademark holder by several years, defies common sense and establishes a dangerous precedent." Despair, Inc. is hassling the Trademark office about granting them a trademark!
They don't have a trademark. Despair, Inc. is a humor site, of course, and they joke about their "trademark":
Quote: The decision to award Despair, Inc. with a registered trademark for the:-( symbol left many in the field of intellectual property law stunned.
Suzanna Larkow, I.P. specialist of Larkow, Madley & Associates, said of the issuance, "This is a defining moment in the history of intellectual property law. To extend official registration to an emoticon, one who's common usage predated the existence of the trademark holder by several years, defies common sense and establishes a dangerous precedent."
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It means that the very dirty power plants in China release enormous quantities of mercury which become part of the atmosphere anywhere on earth. The Oregon plants contribute about 2,000 pounds of mercury per year to that pollution.
I know you were joking, AC, but it would have been better if you hadn't.
It's very, very unfortunate, but in perhaps 7 years, Slashdot editors have not learned how to be editors. kdawson, the Slashdot editor for this story, chose a title that makes it sound like Wal-Mart is a drug pusher: "Wal-Mart Is Pushing Compact Fluorescent Bulbs".
That set the tone. A lot of ignorant people commented on the story, ruining the discussion. People began talking about mercury, showing amazing ignorance. See my comment below about mercury: "[Oregon's] largest mercury contributor is the Ash Grove Cement Co. in Durkee, which emitted an estimated 1,538 pounds in 2005."
Wal-Mart is selling compact fluorescent bulbs in this area for 99 cents each. They are excellent.
I'm surprised that you didn't read the links I provided. Yes, the tons of mercury released by burning coal is carried around the globe in the air, in the entire atmosphere.
Quoted from the article about mercury in Oregon:
"In Oregon, about 89 percent of the mercury in the environment comes from global sources -- for example, power plants in China, said Andy Ginsburg, head of DEQ's air quality division.
"PGE's Boardman plant, averaging about 200 pounds [of mercury] a year, is Oregon's second-largest industrial contributor of mercury in the environment. The state's largest mercury contributor is the Ash Grove Cement Co. in Durkee, which emitted an estimated 1,538 pounds in 2005."
The amount of mercury released into the air because of burning coal to make electricity is far larger (about a ton per year in Oregon) than the amount of mercury in the compact fluorescent bulbs. The bulbs use 1/4 the electricity, which means 1/4 the mercury released because of providing electricity for lighting.
Lucus must want money. He certainly wouldn't make another IJ movie because it would be interesting. It's pathetic when a billionaire is so addicted to money that he will do anything to get it, especially when what he will do to get money is sell people on the idea that violence is glamorous. We have the Iraq war because so many U.S. citizens are excited, not disgusted, by violence, any violence. And the war has made the U.S. poor and bankrupt.
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My corruption summary. Please make your own.
Yes, but the Finns have a government that serves the people.
For those who are reading fast, DHMO is water. Someone with too much time on their hands made an entire official web site discussing the dangers, linked in the parent comment.
This is another demonstration of Slashdot editor incompetence. The Slashdot story is apparently nothing but an advertisement for a commercial company formerly called Haval-Daar that seems completely incompetent and destined to fail immediately. There is apparently no connection with CERT whatsoever; the name is apparently intended only to confuse. Since the word havaldaar is apparently a Hindi word, I suppose Haval-Daar is a company started by people from India.
Did someone at Slashdot take money to advertise this company?
Let this be a lesson to those who spend a lot of time playing video games when they could be learning to be socially competent: If you don't learn about the people around you, you will eventually sink to the bottom of business.
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U.S. government incompetence
A BBC article from September, 2003, Fears rise for sinking Sundarbans indicates that the island mentioned in the Slashdot story, and others, sunk a long time ago. Perhaps the Slashdot story article gave the wrong name.
A July 29, 2003 article GOP disputes global-warming cause gives the Bush administration's position then: "... the chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee question[ed] not only the evidence for warming, but also the link between human actions and climate change."
The issue in the United States, of course, is not when an island in India sunk, but the fact that there is ongoing damage, and that the Bush administration has tried to delay action as much as possible.
Here's my summary of the corruption: George W. Bush comedy and tragedy. I would like to see other people write their own summaries.
Not only is the Bush administration destructive, but I'm tired of having a president who is routinely called an idiot.
Be careful about PhysOrg.com: The web site carries "press releases", which are advertisements disguised as articles. (In the linked article, brand-name battery makers don't want people to buy the much less expensive but otherwise identical generic batteries, apparently. Also, battery makers want people to think it is normal to spend a lot of money on batteries.)
Quote: "A Texas judge has ruled..."
Another ignorant influence coming from Texas.
The proper defense against deep linking is technical. A judge should not get involved.
Moderation of the parent post, 2006-12-21, 11:13:
50% Flamebait
30% Insightful
20% Troll
I stand by what I said.
Fraud??? Definition: "A deception used to get unfair or unlawful gain." My guess is that some P.R. agency has a contract to try to get people to think good things about military expenditures, because Digg is also carrying a story about the wonderfulness of military behavior. The facts are this: Yes, trying to find new and more efficient ways of killing people sometimes accidentally gives some benefits to non-violent activities. However, the same amount of money spent on research would have brought far, far more.
Most of the U.S. military action since perhaps 1900 has been associated with trying to get some economic benefit for a few people who are able to manipulate the government. The U.S. government has invaded 24 countries since the 2nd World War.
This is my summary of U.S. government corruption, I would like to see other people make their own summaries: George W. Bush comedy and tragedy.
Quote from the parent comment: "The precedents for interoperability as a protected activity are legion, spanning decades."
Well said. I wonder about the sociology of Autodesk's actions. Here is my wild guess: Many people who are called "executives" have the social ability of an emotionally disturbed ferret. "Executives" often have sink-the-company ideas, and this legal action is one of them. Autodesk executives apparently are very worried that they cannot compete on the merits. They didn't stop to think that their actions will make their insecurity known to Slashdot readers and every member of the Open Design Alliance.
The publicity will make it more difficult for Autodesk to hire skilled programmers and managers, causing the company to fall further behind and to become even more insecure. The publicity will make every design engineer consider their options for becoming less dependent on Autodesk, whereas before many might have been happy with the way things were.
I agree that Australia is over-represented, or discussed out of proportion.
Right now, my parent post is moderated 50% off topic and 50% insightful.
I love New Zealand. I have lived there. However, Slashdot never gives a sense of proportion when it covers English-speaking countries. Slashdot also seems to assume that the 210 (approximately) countries that don't speak English are less important.
New Zealand is a country of 4 million people. It gets a lot of attention on Slashdot because people speak English there. There are 121 countries that have more people than New Zealand.
"... NO ONE who manages to become president is dumb."
Agreed. But George W. Bush did not do the managing, Karl Rove did. GWB merely followed Karl Rove's script.
I wrote a summary of the corruption of the Rove/Cheney/Rumsfeld administration: George W. Bush comedy and tragedy.
The article is poorly organized. Slashdot's story about the article does not quote the most important parts. Slashdot readers have commented on the Slashdot story with numerous irrelevant points.
The article is a description of what is reasonably, in my opinion, called fraud. Quote: "After a half decade of being presented as a legitimate competitor to NeXT's object oriented development tools and various other products, Cairo was revealed as a complete hoax."
The author is trying to stop the "Fraud as a Business Plan" practiced by Microsoft. (There is also a need to stop incompatible file formats as a business plan. Open Office is excellent, and free, and uses an ISO standard file format.)
The Wengo people need to hire someone who can help them communicate in writing. There are translation errors and other mistakes on their web site, too.
However, here is the question that is important for most Slashdot readers: Is WengoPhone a good replacement for Skype?. WengoPhone is open source and SIP compatible.
Why should there be shame in self-promotion? I am glad to get useful information from any source, even from those who benefit financially. Besides, the Slashdot article is about something that is FREE.
Wengo is advertising itself as a Skype replacement. The free WengoPhone is Open Source and SIP (telephone standards) compatible.
Does anyone have experience with Wengo? Skype is excellent, of course, but not open source and not compatible with standards.
Wengo Links:
Wengo French
Wengo English
WengoPhone
OpenWengo
Wengo consulting. Sell your technical knowledge over the phone.
"Who is Wengo? People like you all over the world
and the team: 35 people in France keeping you in touch."
Wengo started in 2005. "Wengo is a subsidiary of the group neufcegetel."
Confusion: It is difficult to find their telephone service rates pages. The one linked is for the countries beginning with B.
Debian Wengo: Package: wengophone (2.0.0~rc5-svn8108-2) "SIP-based software telephone with video and chat features."
Observations: Their web site is confused. The site is incorrectly translated to English in some places.
That's disgusting, and funny! I thought they were joking in general. I didn't realize that they were demonstrating U.S. government corruption. (Big companies want lax patent and trademark practice so that they can use weak patents and trademarks to intimidate.)
Quoting again from the Despair, Inc. web site: "This is a defining moment in the history of intellectual property law. To extend official registration to an emoticon, one who's common usage predated the existence of the trademark holder by several years, defies common sense and establishes a dangerous precedent." Despair, Inc. is hassling the Trademark office about granting them a trademark!
(Here's a short summary I wrote of U.S. government corruption: George W. Bush comedy and tragedy.)
They don't have a trademark. Despair, Inc. is a humor site, of course, and they joke about their "trademark":
:-( symbol left many in the field of intellectual property law stunned.
Quote: The decision to award Despair, Inc. with a registered trademark for the
Suzanna Larkow, I.P. specialist of Larkow, Madley & Associates, said of the issuance, "This is a defining moment in the history of intellectual property law. To extend official registration to an emoticon, one who's common usage predated the existence of the trademark holder by several years, defies common sense and establishes a dangerous precedent."