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  1. Re:Think I'll buy a few hundred K of these on Apple Issues $1 Billion Green Bond After Trump's Paris Climate Exit (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Of course it does, I'm part of why it's being placed there. It help keeps the kids from going off to the big city since they can get good jobs installing and maintaining and designing wind and solar and micro- and mini-hydro power systems.

    See, becoming more efficient and investing in cheaper renewables creates more jobs for everyone.

  2. KEXP KUOW NPR BBC CBC on Ask Slashdot: Your Favorite Subscription Services? · · Score: 1

    oh, wait, those are all free.

    Suckers!

  3. Fake News on More Than 80% of US Adults Get News On Their Phones (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Look, most of that is fake news from the Russian bots.

    This is why I curate my twitter feed and listen to podcasts from the BBC CBC and NPR

  4. Think I'll buy a few hundred K of these on Apple Issues $1 Billion Green Bond After Trump's Paris Climate Exit (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Unlike the inefficient red states, we blue cities are investing in more efficient cheaper energy.

    Like this.

    Have fun being left in the dust!

  5. Play store will never need more than 640k units on Play Store Downloads Show Google Pixel Sales Limited To 1 Million Units (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 0

    We all know that nobody will ever need more than 640 x 1024 units.

    Ever.

    It's inconceivable.

  6. Rapid anything, Do It All At Once, NoRollbackTest on Ask Slashdot: What Are Some 'Best Practices' IT Should Avoid At All Costs? (cio.com) · · Score: 2

    1. Anything with rapid in it's name. Rushing stuff means it breaks. It may not break today, but it will break under heavy load when you're trying to do payroll.

    2. Do It All At Once. Trying to change multiple things at the same time inevitably means you didn't understand the implications of the massive retraining, the fact that the sales force can't complete transactions fully, and the fact that the world ain't perfect like the software and hardware think it is.

    3. Not having either rollbacks or testing, or cutting either or both of those. No rollback means you wiped the old server when you migrated everything. Now you have nothing. No testing means not just a few minor things will break under actual full user crush load, but that everything will break most of the time.

    Here endeth the lesson.

  7. What are these comments you go on about? on The New York Times Is Expanding Comments With the Help of Google's AI (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    Look, most people never read the comments.

    It's just a giant flame war, with two of the nine positions portrayed as equally valid, while the truth lies between the other seven positions.

    I'm sure you old folks like yelling at the TV, or in this case the newspaper, but the days of witty banter and insightful letters to the editor went out with the manual and electric typewriters and your old person cars.

    Anyone under 35 who reads comments probably has delusions of being an author.

  8. Internet calls cost 0.001 cent per hour on FCC Can't Cap the Cost of Cross-State Prison Phone Calls, Court Rules (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Is it all going to the ultra-rich as they line their pockets from private prisons for profit?

    Well, is the President not black?

    There, that answers your question.

  9. Re:WHAT XP UPDATES??? on Microsoft Warns of 'Destructive Cyberattacks', Issues New Windows XP Patches (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    There are no XP updates this month. What the hell is this guy talking about?

    None for Win 7 either. Somebody messed up bad.

  10. Note that any voting system that uses networked registration has vulnerabilities, but the most resilient are those with paper ballots, automatic voter registration starting at 16, a DSS copy facing the Net, and optical scanners that are not networked.

  11. No. Heck No. on Ask Slashdot: Will Python Become The Dominant Programming Language? · · Score: 1

    Not going to happen.

    Now, go back to using Algol like a good sheep.

    Baaaaaaaah.

  12. You spelled Nazi wrong on Pepe Is Banned From the Apple App Store (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    It's not associated with the "alt-right", it's associated with Nazis.

  13. Re:PLEASE STOP on Theresa May Loses Overall Majority In UK Parliament (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    This false argument was used in BC up in Canada when the Liberal party (a right wing party) lost to the NDP and Green parties.

    It didn't work there.

    It won't work in the UK.

    Parliamentary Democracies don't work the way our failed Democracy in the US does.

  14. Freedom! Freedom! on Theresa May Loses Overall Majority In UK Parliament (cnn.com) · · Score: 2

    Unleash the Wild Hunt!

    The Royal Corgis are set loose in Parliament and No May Shall Pass!

  15. Re:Early exit polls say ... on Theresa May Says UK Will 'Tear Up' Human Rights Laws If Needed For Terror Fight (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Tories largest party, but no overall majority - a hung parliament.

    BC in Canada has a similar situation. The outgoing Premier seems not to get that, should she not be able to form a majority coalition, she doesn't get to be Premier. Same in the UK with the PM (same basic electoral method).

    Guess it will be a Labour/SNP PM replacing her.

  16. A shame she didn't do her job as Home Secretary on Theresa May Says UK Will 'Tear Up' Human Rights Laws If Needed For Terror Fight (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Who do you think tried to water down civil rights in the first place?

  17. It's almost as if they were looking for NSA holes on Malware Uses Obscure Intel CPU Feature To Steal Data and Avoid Firewalls (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Nobody tell them it's built into the very assembly code that runs our networks, ok?

  18. Re:Remember, its your FCC on US Ranks 28th In the World In Average Wireless Broadband Speeds (dslreports.com) · · Score: 1

    Fake news.

    We're probably 56th in reality.

  19. Not being covered by serious business press on With Essential, 'Already a Unicorn', Andy Rubin Wants To Disrupt the Apple-Samsung 'Duopoly' (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Nobody believes this is going to happen.

    Look, I've made a lot in high tech startups, this one doesn't pass the sniff test.

  20. look, we never admit we use all of the data sources.

    Traffic cams, ATMs, bus videos, your car itself, any public area video, all internal "secure" video (we have access), your own gaming consoles, your own TVs, even your fridge.

    We don't use your toaster or your microwave. Unless you got a model with a built in TV or moderate level radio.

    So, the short answer is every single American. Even the ones who think they are off the grid and not being surveilled.

  21. One reason for drinking is PTSD on Moderate Drinking Can Damage the Brain, Claim Researchers (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    The inability to get to sleep, financial stress, and environmental stress, and general levels of pain all lead to increased drinking.

    All of those things are correlated with this area of the brain being smaller.

    Going to need a more finely tuned study.

  22. South Seas Investments will always go up! on What the Hell Is Happening To Cryptocurrency Valuations? (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Seriously, get a few Russian hackers using cryptocurrencies for payoffs and everyone thinks a diamond isn't just a compressed chunk of coal.

  23. Major impact actually from MJ and MMJ on At $75,560, Housing a Prisoner in California Now Costs More Than a Year at Harvard (latimes.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    When I found out the King County budget was exploding, it turned out a lot of that was for enforcement, trials, juries, and prison for people who were using MJ.

    We slashed our budget by making MJ arrests the lowest enforcement priority in Seattle and Tacoma.

    Then we legalized MJ and MMJ statewide.

    California will soon do this as well.

    It's a "crime" that is almost entirely enforced on black and brown folks even though most users and dealers are actually white.

    And then they have prison records, so they can't work.

    By pardoning everyone and removing these "convictions" from their records, we increase the GDP and get more people working and paying taxes.

    Same for California. Same for Canada.

  24. Re:Just do Single Payer on Silicon Valley Is Too Focused On Taking the Easy Path in Health Care (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Unlike you, I've worked in both sides. Private is more expensive.

  25. Just do Single Payer on Silicon Valley Is Too Focused On Taking the Easy Path in Health Care (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Single Payer Healthcare works.

    It's cheaper.

    It's Medicare For All.

    The vast majority of democracies with good GDP do it.

    We should too.

    And it's way way way cheaper.

    Did I mention the cheaper part?