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  1. Now lets see if they can do it by Carrier Pigeon on Coders Used Ham Radio To Send Bitcoin From Canada To San Francisco (coindesk.com) · · Score: 1

    Smoke Signal
    or Jungle Drums

    At least these would be interesting and somewhat novel ways to convey wireless data. It
    Wireless digital data is old hat, look at your cell phone, or just about anything else.

  2. Actually Epicycles Beat Early Heliocentric Theory on Facebook Begins Hiding Anti-Vaccine Misinformation (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    And had much better predictions for the observed positions of the planets in the sky due to the fact that the early heliocentric theory used circular orbits and actual orbits are elliptical. So yes the earth at the center of the universe was a scientific consensus and had experimental backing.

  3. So it's Now Facebook Settles Science ? on Facebook Begins Hiding Anti-Vaccine Misinformation (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    This is just what I want, somebody who got a degree in gender studies couldn't get the only job that it qualifies someone for (teaching gender studies), now working in a job that's one step away from being offshored to any country with an english speaking population, deciding the scientific merits of a topic.

    Bravo that's real progress.

  4. Better Headline Facebook Censors Speech on Facebook Takes Down Fake Account Network Used To Spread Hate In UK (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Prompted by unnamed aggrieved parties with an agenda.

    Oh well at least this time it seems to be a mostly left leaning bunch of groups. Normal people would reflect that maybe censorship is a bad thing for everyone, I expect the people behind this will just try harder to make certain they're the ones that get to censor.

  5. Blame Enviro Whackos for that on Encouragement Without Education Backfires On Recycling Efforts (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    We used to have paper bags that were made from trees grown for the purpose but that upset some people.
    So you had a whole bunch of people that felt really good about getting them banned.

    Oops fewer tree farms bu now we have lots waste plastic bags that are nearly useless to begin with and can't be reused at all.

  6. While holding the password to the wallet ?

    Sounds like time to take out the handcuffs and start looking at murder charges real closely.

  7. Crap you can do that right now without the robots on Robots Built a House That Generates More Energy Than It Needs (dwell.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    https://www.walmart.com/ip/Roc...

    2KW Gas Generator from Walmart 370 bucks.

  8. Annecdote vs Fact on Pacific Northwest Relying On Nuclear Energy During Cold Snap (forbes.com) · · Score: 1

    Minneapolis is the one place I've seen a dual-fuel boiler used for demand-limiting gas consumption.

    Is anecdotal. It may be true, or it may not be, but either way it's purely subjective.

    Fact is when the weather is cold and the wind doesn't blow they need other power sources, this is objective and verifiable. The sameis true of the fact California has to import power to meet it's clean power goals.

  9. it's negative 24 and the wind isn't blowinbgt on Pacific Northwest Relying On Nuclear Energy During Cold Snap (forbes.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    http://www.startribune.com/dee...

    The brutal cold gripping Minnesota made itself felt in tens of thousands of living rooms Wednesday as Xcel Energy resorted to asking customers to turn their thermostats down to 63 degrees to conserve natural gas.

    https://www.americanexperiment...

    The screenshot below is from Electricity Map. It’s a fun app that tells you how your electricity is being generated at any given moment in time. Turns out wind is producing only four percent of electricity in the MISO region, of which Minnesota is a part.

    While that’s not good, what’s worse is wind is only utilizing 24 percent of it’s installed capacity, and who knows how this will fluctuate throughout the course of

    It's a real shame that turning on the lights doesn't make the wind blow.

  10. Why wouldn't it be ? on Ask Slashdot: How Is It Even Legal For Websites To Gather And Sell Users' Data? · · Score: 1

    Especially since you agree to their terms of service when you sign up.

  11. When Slashdot doesn't dupe on Four New DNA Letters Double Life's Alphabet (nature.com) · · Score: 1

    That's noteworthy.

  12. Bingo on Renewable Energy Policies Actually Work (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Really what is up with this endless damn stream of propaganda here on slashdot.

    Apparently a site that was originally focused on computer tech and Linux in particular, has morphed into the hobby horse of people in a doomsday cult.

  13. There were maybe two or three companies that tried and were shut down quickly. Then there were a few where you needed to have mac roms to even make them work and they never amounted to much either.

    The closest thing to a mac clone has always been Windows. (Viable or not is in the eye of the beholder on that score)

  14. 114 for Triple Frontier, 58 for The Kid, or 43 for I'm Not Here. Seems like a coordinated effort by Culture Warriors fighting the good fight against the first.

    Lets see I have been hearing about Captain Marvel since last year, Triple Frontier, The Kid and I am not here, never before you mentioned them.

    Captain Marvel is a major theatrical release. Turns out triple frontier is a netflix streamer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.... Given that's your lead I'm going to go with you're not posting in good faith and you're a troll

  15. Oh OFC Slashdot Reads Like Douglas Adams on Netflix Buys Rights To Stream Chinese Sci-Fi Blockbuster 'The Wandering Earth' (npr.org) · · Score: 0

    understands what American blockbusters are still loath to admit: Responding to climate change will pose infrastructural challenges on a massive order and require drastic measures on a planetary scale. Perhaps it takes a country like China, which is accustomed to a manic rate of construction and grandness of organizational possibility, to seriously consider how dramatically humanity will have to reimagine our ways of life to survive such a catastrophic force."

    vs HitchHiker's guide to the Galaxy

    The Golgafrinchans realised that were three types of beings on the planet of Golgafrincham: the leaders (or thinkers), the workers (or doers), and the middlemen.
    The leaders contained the artists and "achievers". The workers were the people who "did all the actual work", and who made and did things. The middle management was comprised of hairdressers, lawyers, telephone sanitisers, and other such "worthless jobs."
    The three classes of Golgafrinchans, as seen in Episode 6 of the TV series.
    The group of leaders built a ship and convinced the middlemen to leave Golgafrincham by telling them several different reasons, including: that the planet was going to crash into the sun (or perhaps the moon was going to crash into the planet), that the planet was being invaded by a gigantic swarm of twelve foot piranha bees, and that "the entire planet was in imminent danger of being eaten by an enormous mutant star goat."

    Be sure to sanitize the telephones before you all go wouldn't want a plague to break out here.

  16. Which is a very reasonable thing to do. Better a small change here and there than invoking magic.

    Or actually admitting they don't have a clue. Or they could just go with the it's aliens

    https://science.slashdot.org/s...

    Which is almost exactly the same thing

  17. Re:Lots of common MS software is used for war alre on Microsoft Workers' Letter Demands Company Drop $479 Million HoloLens Military Contract (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    Look systemd is a psyop meant to drive other countries crazy

  18. What's it like in 2007? Ribbon is good, always has been

    Don't know I am still using office 2003 and Libre Office on Linux

  19. Been to NPR lately ? on YouTube Videos Could Get Demonetized If They Have 'Inappropriate Comments' · · Score: 1

    No comments there either.
    The propaganda must flow.

  20. Big question how good is the software ? on A Psion Palmtop Successor Has Arrived and It Runs Android and Linux (pocket-lint.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    As it stands the specs are damn good, if it had a GPIO bus it would be absolutely perfect.

    But if you have ever played with these niche devices, it's all on how good the software is. I have a bunch of ARM devices with Linux and Android distributions that the dreaded "Not optimized for your device" or can't even install comes up on.

  21. I have free unlimited voice on Are We Ready For 5G Phones? · · Score: 1

    Pay as I go data (1st gig free) which I never use because of free wifi.

    No way I am ditching this plan.

  22. Let me get this straight on China Has Abandoned a Cybersecurity Truce With the US, Report Says (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    We are supposed to be disturbed that China is trying to hack our networks and steal information, and intellectual property from us in response to our trying to hold them culpable for stealing information ,intellectual property and one sided trade practices ?

    Well I guess the next time somebody commits murder their solemn promise not to do it again should be enough for anyone.

  23. Gee amazing how you keep making my point on Renewables Will Be World's Main Power Source By 2040, Says BP (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    And yes when I think of France a country that had the lowest energy prices in Europe

    Only an ignorant who doesn't live here could say bullshit like that. "Lowest energy prices in Europe", my ass!

    And yes when I think of France a country that had the lowest energy prices in Europe

    Gee Amazing how you keep proving my points for me, I call you illiterate you demonstrate you can't differentiate between present and past tense

    I say renewables are a cult that can't accept anything that contradicts their position, you try to brush off that price of power in europe is directly correlated to use of renewables (Particularly solar and wind).

    Well I am done. It's pretty clear my points have been proven especially since you could present a chart that clearly shows just which nations have high costs and think it proves your point about the inevitability of solar. (Hint Norway is really poor for solar it's especially bad when your night's can last for days.)

  24. Illiterate is a sad way to go through life on Renewables Will Be World's Main Power Source By 2040, Says BP (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    And your point with that is...what, that Germany developed identically to the rest of Europe in the time period in question

    No my point is that you are a liar who is more than capable of blathering on no matter what is put before you

    https://wattsupwiththat.com/20...

    Gee amazing how the more " RENEWABLES " a country has the more expensive its power has become.

    And yes when I think of France a country that had the lowest energy prices in Europe abundant natural resources and renewables come to mind /sarcasm.

    BTW your religious bias is showing.

  25. Yeah probably not. on YouTube To Blame For Rise in Flat Earth Believers, Says Study (cnet.com) · · Score: 0

    Most of these people I have met were obviously having a good time at the expense of the very credulous. Not unlike the way tribesman like to have fun with anthropologists that ask them do they know where babies come from.

    So yeah youtube hasn't made more believers in the flat earth (really have the never seen a lunar eclipse or did they just write it off as being a giant hoax ?) but I am sure it has created many more opportunities to distribute flat earth videos.