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  1. Depends on your goal on Hoping That Sucking CO2 From the Air Will Fix the Climate? Good Luck (easac.eu) · · Score: 1

    One of the most media avoided topics is that the seas are becoming more acidic, which harms shellfish production. Recent UW research shows you can intersperse shellfish beds with seagrass and other seaweeds to fix carbon. You can then eat the shellfish (carbon negative food intake) and the seagrass (carbon negative food intake), replacing higher level seafood or beef (which you should replace with bison, as they use less water and other resources for 1/20th the carbon impact).

    Things like that are good. Shipping the resulting food by air, however, is bad and creates more emissions, so it should be shipped by rail or boat. Modern boats have lower emissions, and some rail systems run on wind power stored in either biofuel or cracked water (hydrogen/oxygen). Modern turboprop planes use 1/4 the emissions per mile travelled and modern jets can use 1/2 the emissions. But trains are a better choice on land, if not near a seaport.

  2. Black Panther on Slashdot Asks: What Are Some Sci-Fi Books, Movies, and TV Shows You're Looking Forward To? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Especially the spin off where they fight with giant mech robots in space

  3. Re:How to quit FB or other social apps 101 on Facebook Really Wants You To Come Back (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Good point. But take them from a burner phone.

  4. Can you send me a fujifilm on my X11? on Xerox Cedes Control To Fujifilm, Ending Its Independence (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Ok, that's not going to fly.

  5. What could possibly go wrong on Ford Patents Driverless Police Car That Ambushes Lawbreakers Using AI (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 0

    Especially when most facial recognition apps are preloaded to presume people with dark skin are lawbreakers and have had people with light skin successfully removed from said databases.

    You're always guilty of something. This will end up with class action lawsuits.

  6. How to quit FB or other social apps 101 on Facebook Really Wants You To Come Back (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    1. Go and delete all your posts. Don't hide them, delete them.
    2. Leave any groups, other than your direct family.
    3. Unfollow any pages and any groups and any people, in that order.
    4. Wait 72 hours.
    5. Unfriend all your friends, in batches of less than 10 percent of all friends. Leave your family for last.
    6. Specifically deny any pending friend requests, in batches of 100 or less.
    7. Wait 72 hours.
    8. Delete any tags in any pics you have still.
    9. Delete the pics themselves, starting with those with your face in them.
    10. Edit your interests. Change them all to none.
    11. Wait 24 hours.
    12. Now for the fun part. Send your family a message saying you're leaving FB or the social app.
    13. Wait 24 hours.
    14. Unfriend all your family.
    15. Delete your own header, quotes, and pics. Replace them with eggs.
    16. Wait 24 hours.

    Now, delete your account.

  7. It's all about ethics in gaming.

    Karma catches up with you, at some point.

  8. Re: This is a wise choice, with a mix of renewable on T-Mobile Commits To 100 Percent Renewable Electricity By 2021 (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, but it is dangerous. People fall off windmills. Electrons are incredibly powerful and can kill people if there are bunched together. Guess what, these windmills and photovoltaic are designed to bunch electrons together. That is right these green energy technologies are designed to kill people.

    You do know the water you drink has electrons in it, right?

  9. This is a wise choice, with a mix of renewables on T-Mobile Commits To 100 Percent Renewable Electricity By 2021 (cnbc.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Wind, solar, and other renewable energy has a lower cost than old-school fossil fuels, and allows them to build grid resilience. Wind combined with either battery or compressed air storage allows you to achieve full reliability even during extreme weather events.

    Given the distributed nature of their business, this allows them to drop costs and compete with other higher cost providers.

  10. stop confusing them with facts, it makes their brains hurt that they like being traitors

  11. Not defying US Senate, it's a state matter,like MJ on California Senate Defies FCC, Approves Net Neutrality Law (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't know how you can depict this as "defying the US Senate", this is clearly a state matter, just like requiring clean air (as CA OR WA NY etc do), clean water (same), legal MJ (same), and other state matters.

    It only becomes federal if it reaches outside the boundaries. You just can't operate an ISP in the state if you don't have Net Neutrality for all of your business. That's all.

    Turnabout is fair play.

  12. Re:Wait a minute... on Americans Are Saving Energy Because Fewer People Go Outside (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I thought that we just had a Slashdot story a few days ago about our energy consumption going up because of cryptocurrency mining. Which story is right?

    That would be classified as either industrial or commercial energy usage. It's not residential per se.

    Kind of like how grow ops are commercial now, while initially they may have been masked as residential usage.

  13. Not necessarily on Americans Are Saving Energy Because Fewer People Go Outside (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    One thing rarely remarked upon is that modern lighting and modern appliances all use dramatically less energy, due to being more efficient.

    Additionally, this is true of where we go out - modern pursuits all tend to be low energy intensive (hiking, walking, biking, cafes) instead of high energy intensive (old lighting in disco, outside heat lamps for outdoor music events, etc).

    The world has changed. Both in terms of how much energy we consume in living (home), going out (commerce), and even transportation (half of my friends use bikes or electric cars to get places, which drastically cuts energy consumption). But also in terms of our pursuits - a modern smartphone uses much less energy than a boombox used to.

  14. Re:Yeah, keep drinking your alcohol... on Researchers Find More Evidence For the Strange Link Between Sugar and Alzheimer's (sciencealert.com) · · Score: 1

    ...and keep telling yourself that sugar is the *real* demon.

    Well, it is a complex hydrocarbon chain, so it is similar, it's just the processes to break it down are more taxing on the liver.

  15. Yes, there is a frog and a unicorn on Inside Amazon's Mini Rainforest Work Space Spheres (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Sad thing is, they don't let the unicorn out during the day.

    And since fish are in the spheres, there is, of course, pee

  16. Cloud data increases the risk on Pentagon Reviews GPS Policies After Fitness Trackers Reveal Locations (npr.org) · · Score: 2

    Even the external "secure" provision of cloud services itself allows predictive location of military and intel assets. Just the traffic flow itself allows you to pinpoint this, even if it's time-delay GPS data from "I turned my cell/smartphone/fitbit/watch off, sergeant!" health data.

    We can back extrapolate locations and pinpoint internal corridors and access points - for example, knowing people stop at a door for x minutes/seconds tells us what the security protocol is for the access point, and knowing the elevation information from other ping services drops except at stairwells tells us what is and what is not secure within the installation.

  17. Re:Violation of Washington State Constitution on ICE Is About To Start Tracking License Plates Across the US · · Score: 1

    Nope. You're entitled to add cameras to your ICE vehicles, and your federal customs facilities, but our Constitution prevails the second you walk out of the federal buildings.

    Posse commitatus, my friends. It works both ways.

  18. Re:Violation of Washington State Constitution on ICE Is About To Start Tracking License Plates Across the US · · Score: 1

    They're only using publicly available information (what can be seen by driving down the road,) it's no different from Google Maps (Hell, Google's analytics tech is probably far more invasive.)

    They tried that argument during the GPS lawsuit and they lost. Our State Constitution is very clear on this expectation of Privacy.

  19. Re:Violation of Washington State Constitution on ICE Is About To Start Tracking License Plates Across the US · · Score: 1

    Our state police and county police and port police and municipal police don't work for ICE.

    And you can put cameras on federal ports of entry but not anywhere else.

  20. Re:Violation of Washington State Constitution on ICE Is About To Start Tracking License Plates Across the US · · Score: 1

    I'm moving to the state of Washington. but what about breakfast tacos and inexpensive high speed internet?

    There's a taco truck on every corner and Comcast has Gigabit internet statewide.

    Hope you don't mind sleeping in a tent.

  21. Violation of Washington State Constitution on ICE Is About To Start Tracking License Plates Across the US · · Score: 3, Funny

    We have a specific Right of Privacy in this state.

    You can't even put a GPS locator on a car without a specific INDIVIDUAL court order by a JUDGE here.

    This is a clear violation.

    Expect to be sued - successfully - by our State Attorney General.

    He's 22 for 22 so far.

  22. Who is this guy anyway?

    Is he like one of those grandpas that tour?

  23. Largest impacts are travel and commuting on Scientists Calculate Carbon Emissions of Your Sandwich (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Your sandwich isn't a problem, unless you import the ingredients by private helicopter from your favourite sandwich place in Zurich.

  24. Not the language, it's the logic on Tim Cook: Coding Languages Were 'Too Geeky' For Students Until We Invented Swift (thestar.com) · · Score: 1

    The problem is that students don't learn logic.

    This may shock you, but it used to be true that most students learned Logic in high school. Debate, Logic, Analysis.

    Now they learn it during the second year of college. Maybe.

  25. Fake News on You Spend Nearly a Whole Day Each Week On the Internet (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I spend probably eight "whole days" each week on the Internet.

    Some of us have real jobs.