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  1. India and China a prime example on The Dirty Truth About 'Clean Diesel' (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    It's estimated that the majority of transit, trucks, cars and motorcycles in operation in both India and China spew out 10-20 times more pollution than they are supposedly emitting.

    Never trust. Verify. And don't verify in the lab. Grab random vehicles in operation on the roads and subject them to 10 mile tests. If they fail, melt them for scrap right there.

  2. Whatever you do, don't email or tweet stuff on Ask Slashdot: Jamming UK Metadata Collection? · · Score: 1

    It would be double plus ungood if all the metadata pointed to the government GHCQ as being the primary source of terrorism, for example.

    Metadata is meaningless out of context, but those who live in Fear will spend years on mole hunts.

  3. Re:when on Twitter Bans 'Hateful Conduct' (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    did slashdot get taken over by MRA/gamergate trash

    Somewhere back in 2004.

  4. Re:Ban != enforcement on Twitter Bans 'Hateful Conduct' (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually, yes, you can report it. I think I reported five GG people who were harassing certain Twitter posters today.

    On the other hand, it's not integrated into the tweet itself, it's more of an individual account thing. Which is kind of silly.

  5. Re:FTFY... on Twitter Bans 'Hateful Conduct' (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Nor is it the times of slavery. Sample some current reality sometime.

    I see you don't eat shrimp. Slavery is alive and well and not gone at all.

  6. Re:Can’t joke about violence: no freedom of on Twitter Bans 'Hateful Conduct' (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Why do you hate worms so?

  7. Re:FTFY... on Twitter Bans 'Hateful Conduct' (reuters.com) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I see you live in a world where you think you're a majority.

    News flash, you're not. The world is not your artificial 1950s portrayal of an Aryan brotherhood. Try reading a real newspaper.

  8. Also, I should point out we coded sliders into various military code, way before Bill Gates was even coding. He owes some of the first women software designers a HECK of a lot of money too.

    Yes it had + and - symbols on the range. This means, since it was military code, that essentially sliders are PUBLIC DOMAIN.

    No, you're not cleared to read the code. That's not my problem.

  9. Re:There is prior art on sliders on Microsoft Patents a Slider, Earning EFF's "Stupid Patent of the Month" Award (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Can't patent what White Castle has been selling for decades

    I think that's mustard.

  10. I had sliders in some BASIC screen code I wrote back in the 1970s, and Bill Gates owes me a heck of a lot of money now.

  11. This is why I use this thing called Inheritence on Coding Styles Survive Binary Compilation, Could Lead Investigators Back To Programmers (princeton.edu) · · Score: 1

    That way, the smoking code leads back to the person who I stole it from, rather than to me.

  12. Re:So Twitter is banning Twitter? on Twitter Bans 'Hateful Conduct' (reuters.com) · · Score: 0

    commas. investigate them.

    use them, love them, make them your friends.

    This is the way of the Force. Run on sentences are the Dark Side.

  13. Re:FTFY... on Twitter Bans 'Hateful Conduct' (reuters.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    x1000
    SJWs rejoice, now they can muzzle any and all opponents by crying "hate speech".

    I'm not sure you understand that what you think of as an attack on other people, that label SJW, is regarded as a badge of honor by most of the civilized world.

    It's like someone calling me by my former rank of Sergeant and thinking that it's a dis. It's not.

  14. About time on Twitter Bans 'Hateful Conduct' (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Sometimes the "reply" tweets where someone adds me in on twitter involve morons threatening other people, especially women.

    About time they banned Bill Cosby.

  15. Sounds like a good idea on Brazil's Biggest City Wants To Charge Fees For Uber Rides (engadget.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    And if Uber doesn't pay the fees, jail the executives.

  16. Could be worse, could be the US voter database on European Payment Card Protocols Wide Open To Fraud · · Score: 1

    That was left open and 230 million Americans had all their private details exposed, available for wholesale tax fraud.

    Last week.

  17. More Security Theater by the Gestapo TSA on TSA Moves Closer To Rejecting Some State Driver's Licenses For Airline Travel (nytimes.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Yet more security theater from the Gestapo or Stasi like TSA.

    We're Americans. Traveling in our own country.

    None of your security measures are effective, and you know it.

    Stop helping the terrorists by making Americans live in Fear, and stop this farce.

  18. Most fission plants are incredibly vulnerable, and I'd say more about how, but I don't want to give you ideas.

    Security is 99 percent perception and 1 percent reality.

    Now stop whining and just build solar on every new building and wind everywhere already.

    They're both cheaper than nuclear, which is heavily subsidized.

  19. Scotland is Green on British Court Rejects Donald Trump's Attempt To Block Wind Farm (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    All your fossil fuel lifestyle is belong to un-Scottish.

    Adapt. Or Die.

  20. Excuses, Excuses, Excuses! on North Carolina Town That Defeated Solar Plan Talks Back (newsobserver.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Actions not Words.

    Climate Change is NOW, boys and girls, and it cares nothing about your excuses. Nothing like 100 miles of Carolina coastline being inundated during an every 2-3 years "100 year storm" to give you deniers a wake up call ...

  21. Re:Most Misunderstood Failure? on Galloping Gertie, Engineering's Most Misunderstood Failure (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    You mean Windows 8. They all drove across the I-90 floating bridge that sunk, when it was pressure washed by people who didn't understand that it's the displacement that makes floating bridges float, not the weight of the bridge.

    Same lack of foresight. Many of those people are working on Bertha, the Tunnel of Doom, in Seattle.

  22. I have been targeted myself on Twitter Users Warned About Being Targeted By State-Sponsored Attacks (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    The US government is requiring me to register my drones.

    See!

    How will I bird watch all the nests now?

  23. Monetary Aid means offshored elites loot on A Typo Almost Derailed Paris Climate Deal (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Give them US solar panels, wind turbines, and battery systems instead.

  24. The US Constititution has regulated drone militia on FAA: Small Drones Must Be Registered By February (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    I for one am glad to be part of Pax Americana, the First Taurean Airborne.

  25. Lol, trying too hard or hardly trying? on Germany Fires Up Bizarre New Fusion Reactor (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 0

    Check out our working fusion reactor that's a lot smaller and works better, and way cheaper.

    It's on UW Seattle campus.

    I'll bet the German one has emissions they're hiding.

    (do your own search)