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  1. Re: I don't agree with Trump about much... on Trump Slams EU Over $5 Billion Fine on Google (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    That's funny. I don't think I've ever paid a fee at any of several credit unions. There might be a minimum deposit, but it's refundable if you leave.

  2. Re: Not a surprise on America is Falling Behind On Its Paris Climate Pledge (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    Why would climate change solutions kill people? There's a fairly clear path forward on fixing climate change now. The first step doesn't even touch oil or other farm chemicals.

    The first step is a massive build-out of renewable electricity generation, mainly solar and wind. We're not even close to the maximum capacity of renewables across the country, even without grid changes.

    The second step is including 12 hours' worth of battery storage to get to 80% renewable electricity, whether next to the power generation - which is already economical - or even better in the batteries of electric vehicles. This can include...electric farm equipment!

    Where we want to go from there, such as combined hydrogen generation for ammonia and CO2 collection from seawater or synthesizing oil from CO2 directly from the air, is up in the air right now. But the concrete steps above, if implemented aggressively, could easily meet our Paris 2025 commitment.

  3. Re:Original Titles, Episodes 7 through 9 on George Lucas's Terrible Idea for Star Wars Episodes 7-9 (indiewire.com) · · Score: 1

    Followed shortly by Episode X: Where There's a Whill There's a Way (to make more movies.)

  4. Re:No surprise on It's 2018 and USB Type-C Is Still a Mess (androidauthority.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    That's funny. I've had just the opposite experience with type C. The only device I've had with type C was my Nexus 5X. After a few months the connector became so loose that I couldn't hold the phone and charge it without pushing the connector into the phone constantly. Eventually the data part wouldn't connect at all. It died after two years for unrelated reasons. But I never had connection problems like that with any phone using Micro USB, including my current one which has a micro port in the same place as the Nexus had the type C port.

  5. It's not that complex, but I bet you could automate most of a Noodles & Co. this way.

  6. Re:What if life on Earth originated on Europa? on Moon of Jupiter Prime Candidate For Alien Life After Water Blast Found (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    I'd even go further. This makes panspermia seem possible. What if life originated on an icy world like this? What if it normally spreads through being frozen in small ice blocks from jets like these?

  7. Wait, I'm confused. Is the happy path the one that involves "happy hour"? Or is the happy path the one that involves not getting a DUI?

  8. Re:the weak link again on California To Become First US State Mandating Solar On New Homes (ocregister.com) · · Score: 1

    Batteries are poison.

    #NotAllBatteries

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik...

  9. Re:Ripe for disruption on Demand For Batteries Is Shrinking, Yet Prices Keep On Going and Going ... Up (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    LFP chemistry should prevent most of the risks of Li-Ion. No expansion or overheating, though some kind of cutoff might be necessary at low voltage.

    The main problem with Lithium is its voltage is different. But LFP is close enough to two alkaline batteries that I wonder if you could have pairs of LFP cells, either in-line for flashlights, or next to each other with a ribbon cable between them for other devices? The trick, of course, being that the two cells would be in parallel internally and not use the external circuitry to work in series. I imagine the main problem would be you'd need a big warning label saying, "Do not mix with other battery types!" Which also means you couldn't use it in a device requiring an odd number of batteries.

  10. Flippy's too limited on 'Flippy,' the Fast Food Robot, Turned Off For Being Too Slow (chicagotribune.com) · · Score: 2

    It's designed to work with existing appliances and workers. They should just get a machine to do the whole burger, like this.

  11. This looks like good news to me. Google is proposing a standard, which any site can meet, that will get them into Google's AMP listings without using AMP. Isn't that what people have been asking for?

  12. I think the solution is... on Math Shows Some Black Holes Erase Your Past and Give You Unlimited Futures (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    That getting to the event horizon takes an infinite amount of time. So it will never occur. Hawking radiation will make the event horizon recede before you can get there anyway, and probably kill you in the process.

  13. Walled gardens on Learning To Program Is Getting Harder (slashdot.org) · · Score: 1

    Programming on a computer is easy enough to set up. But how do you program on a phone or tablet? Last I heard Apple forbids programming on their phones. I don't know of any way to develop an app on an Android phone either. You can't even script at the command line because there isn't one.

  14. Re: Cooking is hard on Ultra-Processed Foods May Be Linked To Cancer, Says Study (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    A microwave helps to at least make easy side vegetables. Take green beans for instance. They go well with many other dishes, which may or may not be preprocessed.

    Drain a can and pour it into a container. Place less than a tablespoon of butter on top. Drizzle liberally with olive oil. Microwave 2 minutes on high. Stir and serve.

  15. Re: Anti competitive on Google's Chrome Ad Blocking Arrives Tomorrow (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    He could do what Salon.com is doing and allow visitors to opt in to cryptocurrency mining instead of seeing ads. I really think that's the best way to pay for online content.

  16. On Android, MX Player used to be great, until they dropped support for MPEG2.

  17. Re: Switch to Libreoffice - V6 is Out - It's Free on Microsoft Office 2019 Will Only Work on Windows 10 (theverge.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    And here's the link to give them your money.

  18. Re: Simple on Ask Slashdot: How Would You Use Computers To Make Elections Better? · · Score: 1

    I would say computers are not incompatible with paper ballots. I gather that for some disabled people a touch screen is easier to use than a paper ballot. The trick is to have a human readable paper ballot in the middle of the process that the voter can review. So the touch screen machines should only be hooked to printers and not to ballot counting.

  19. I have an idea: let's overclock to compensate on OpenBSD's De Raadt Pans 'Incredibly Bad' Disclsoure of Intel CPU Bug (itwire.com) · · Score: 1

    Intel should let all affected processors on all motherboards be overclockable. That might satisfy the tech nerds who care about this most without costing Intel too much money.

  20. That's called biomass. But to use it usefully requires logging, something environmentalists hate.

  21. Come to think of it, since Google survives on pointing people to stuff on the free, open Internet, if this kind restriction came to pass, I imagine Google would set up a free proxy to the open Internet. Of course, being Google, they'd want to monitor everything you did through that proxy. They could even set it up that you had to use their browser, and they could set up their browser so they could be a man-in-the-middle, even on secure sites. Google probably loves this plan.

  22. Yeah, you could instantly start playing the previews for other movies. At least you could fast forward to the movie, watch it, and then rewind to beginning of the movie so you could start there next time.

  23. Re: If so, for a tiny fraction of the market on Deep Learning Is Eating Software (petewarden.com) · · Score: 2

    Don't say ML for machine learning, when talking programming. There's already an unusual language called ML, so it's confusing.

  24. Another problem with the Internet of Things on Amazon Key Flaw Could Let Rogue Deliverymen Disable Your Camera (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Hacking my door takes an axe.

  25. Re: The U.S.A. is not a monarchy on The US Is Now the Only Country In the World To Reject the Paris Climate Deal · · Score: 1

    These days it's clearly:

    1. Legislative
    2. Judicial
    3. Twitter