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  1. Re:Excellent on Trump's Tech Battle With China Roils Bill Gates Nuclear Venture (wsj.com) · · Score: 0

    In this case, no. You are wrong.

  2. Do you mean batteries like the ones being developed at MIT?
    https://www.cbc.ca/news/techno...

  3. Re:Try Canada on Trump's Tech Battle With China Roils Bill Gates Nuclear Venture (wsj.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Statistics show that trains spill oil 34 times more than pipelines, resulting in 7 times the amount of oil spilled. Pipelines are safer you twit. All it will take is one train in the Thompson or Fraser Rivers and goodbye one big salmon ecosystem. Bitumen in trains is still diluted too, just not quite as much as for pipelines.
    https://www.theglobeandmail.co...
    There are too many idiots who are know it all environmentalists because they watch a radical Suzuki who only cries about the sky falling (so get rid of people's jobs) with no solutions. And if it's not them, it's paid American 'environmentalists' who come up to protest Canadian pipelines. Sometimes I wonder if the Koch brothers pay them to keep their American interests in front of the Canadian oil interests. The irony is that Canada won't be able to afford to develop green alternatives if it isn't making any money (selling oil).

  4. Re:And Then There is British Columbia on The EU is Banning Almost All Coal Mining on Jan 1 (futurism.com) · · Score: 1

    Give your head a shake. It needs to be diluted to get into the tankers, 17% diluent vs 30% for pipeline. WP. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... And they do use tankers, not box cars. I.e. it is NOT a solid mass. It will still flow into rivers if it derails. The number of spills from trains is 34 times the number of spills from pipelines, and the total amount spilled is 7 times higher from trains than from pipelines. G&M https://www.theglobeandmail.co...

  5. Re:U Fucking Albertan... on The EU is Banning Almost All Coal Mining on Jan 1 (futurism.com) · · Score: 1

    Meanwhile, why aren't you crying about all that coal going out of Delta Port?

  6. Re:U Fucking Albertan... on The EU is Banning Almost All Coal Mining on Jan 1 (futurism.com) · · Score: 1

    I live in BC. And probably unlike you, I was born here. Your hyperbole is utter BS, Chicken Little. There are more tankers moving between Alaska and Seattle refineries on a daily basis than a new pipeline will add. Why aren't you crying about those? Probably because the US based environmentalists who make money coming to protest in Canada haven't told you to. smh

  7. Re:And Then There is British Columbia on The EU is Banning Almost All Coal Mining on Jan 1 (futurism.com) · · Score: 1

    And to top it off, shipping by rail is about as unsafe a method as you can get. One derailment into the Thompson or Fraser Rivers and the entire salmon industry will be hooped. I personally think Alberta should cut off oil flow to BC altogether. I wouldn't blame them if they seceded and went to the USA. And I live in BC. Then it would be easier to get their product to market. I don't think people in BC understand that the only reason we have the standard of living we have is from resources. People in Vancouver think building condos is a sustainable industry. No economic understanding.

  8. Re: Cisco routers. on Why Huawei Gives the US and Its Allies Security Nightmares (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    Canada could ship to them... if it weren't for the Quebec government.

    https://globalnews.ca/news/474...

  9. And Then There is British Columbia on The EU is Banning Almost All Coal Mining on Jan 1 (futurism.com) · · Score: 0

    BC won't support Canadian pipelines to the coast so that the country can benefit economically selling oil (and until other countries stop buying oil why not make money from it... it can finance green research). But meanwhile, the British Columbia socialist NDP government is just fine shipping millions of tonnes of American coal through the ports in Delta BC and Surrey. Better support for America than for Canada.

  10. Easy to Hack Trump's Twitter on Your Brain Waves Could Soon Replace Passwords Entirely (fastcompany.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    The trace will be flat.

  11. Ask you need is one leaky hose or device to screw up whatever efficiency the might be. Ever use air hoses in a shop? And people aren't going to absorb the costs of super close tolerance machining on every part to get around this. The practicalities of this make it stupid. Critical thinking is required.

  12. That's right, because it is used directly from the source. smfh

  13. Re: Sigh. Double sigh on China's OnePlus, Backed by Qualcomm and T-Mobile, Launches OnePlus 6T Smartphone in US (reuters.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The cloud. AKA, somebody else's computer. If you don't understand the issue, just vote Trump. You already want to make it easy.

  14. So now how soon will Oracle buy Ubuntu?

  15. Should be 200%. Food stamps/banks really only provide subsistence stop gaps. They need to encourage better than that.

  16. Tell them to fuck off.

  17. OK But What About Going Forward? on Mozilla Removes 23 Firefox Add-Ons That Snooped On Users (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    What's to stop snooping add-ons going forward? Is there a mechanism in place to ensure no malware makes it into Firefox add-ons that are published on the Mozilla site? If not, who cares.

  18. You have big ears on Google Is Developing Native Hearing Aid Support For Android (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    All the better to hear you with.

  19. There's no patent on jpeg. So who says people have to use DRM'd jpeg encoders?

  20. Re: Agreed, but 99% of users are clueless. Turn it on Security Researchers Express Concerns Over Mozilla's New DNS Resolution For Firefox (ungleich.ch) · · Score: 2

    Two them CloudFlare is pwned by the NSA.

  21. Re: Same as it ever was on Front-End Developer Decries 'Garbage' Design Choices on 'The Bullshit Web' (pxlnv.com) · · Score: 1

    Yep

  22. Code doesn't run fast. That's ok buy more RAM, faster processor, disks, whatever. This is just the logical progression taken to the internet. I say blame bloated frameworks.

  23. Trump troll || communism = bad Trump troll supported by Putin communism = bad Democratic socialism = good

  24. Netcracker Telecommunications Software on Pentagon Creates 'Do Not Buy' List of Russian, Chinese Software (defenseone.com) · · Score: 1

    Much of this, used in many telephone companies, is developed in Moscow.

  25. Re: nutrition value and environmental impact? on Impossible Burgers' Key, Bloody Ingredient Wins FDA Approval (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    A shame Harvard is such a shitty institute they got this all wrong.