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  1. Cape Coast - negative rise on NASA Scientists Suggest We've Been Underestimating Sea Level Rise (vice.com) · · Score: 0

    Planting sea level monitors on the southern US coast is probably not useful, since the tectonic plate there is sinking. NASA should plant some measuring devices on the Southern Cape coast of Africa. There, I counted 14 ancient beaches on a mountain side and there are probably more, further away that I could not see or were too eroded to distinguish from a distance - easily a kilometer of sea level 'subsiding'.

  2. Re:Thank you Editor on New Attack Can Seize Control of Drones · · Score: 1, Funny

    Oh wow, someone hacked a RC toy. Woohoo.

  3. Macbook Air on Ask Slashdot: What's The Best Cheap Linux-Friendly Netbook? · · Score: 1

    A new 2015, end of line discounted Macbook Air will make a very nice Linux machine.

  4. "1. Spread misinformation (half truths at best)
    2. Wait for real estate prices to drop
    3. Snatch nice areas close to mediterranean white sand beaches"
    Hmm - Spanish girl... snatch... white (nuda) beach...
    Sounds like a plan I can live with!

  5. Re:Not just Southern Spain on Climate Change Rate To Turn Southern Spain To Desert By 2100, Report Warns (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Doom's day preachers have been at it since time immemorial. Go and read the Illiad - the world's oldest book - it also talks about past golden times and future doom and gloom and that was in about 850 BC. There is nothing new under the sun really.

  6. Yes, it is a total Bullshit headline.

    The capacity of new renewable installations, overtook the capacity of new coal power stations and since nobody is building any new coal power stations, someone could cook up a headline.

  7. That is about $30,000 per car sold in the US. So they are basically refunding everything and eating all sales over many years as a total loss. That makes me wonder how much profit they make on each car under normal circumstances.

  8. Re:The big gap in the plans on Elon Musk's Mars Colony Would Have a Horde of Mining Robots (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Soylent Green biscuits of course.

  9. Drill, drill, drill... on Elon Musk's Mars Colony Would Have a Horde of Mining Robots (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    It may be better to ship an oil drilling rig and look for oil and gas than try to synthesize it.

  10. Re:Kudos to Hangzhou Xiongmai ... on China Electronics Firm To Recall Some US Products After Hacking Attack (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    It can be plug and play - just don't make it configurable over a routable network, only over 192.168.x.y, 172.x.y.z or 10.x.y.z.

  11. Re:Give 'em the middle finger on Feds Walk Into a Building, Demand Everyone's Fingerprints To Open Phones (dailyherald.com) · · Score: 1

    If a device is encrypted, then you need not destruct it. Just turn it off.

  12. Re:Something you have, something you know on Feds Walk Into a Building, Demand Everyone's Fingerprints To Open Phones (dailyherald.com) · · Score: 2

    The Underground Railroad has always run from the USA to Canada. People have been voting with their feet for centuries.

  13. Military-grade security: Samsung exploding phone on Feds Walk Into a Building, Demand Everyone's Fingerprints To Open Phones (dailyherald.com) · · Score: 1

    Just get a Samsung 7 phone. When you drop it, it explodes and erases all data on it. So just say that the Police startled you and you accidentally dropped the phone.

  14. Re:Hold down power button and ... on Feds Walk Into a Building, Demand Everyone's Fingerprints To Open Phones (dailyherald.com) · · Score: 2

    The phone is already full of finger prints, including the one on the fingerprint reader. All you need to recover it is sticky tape or cyanoacrylate, make a rubber molding and apply it again to the sensor. Fingerprints are a schtoopidttt way to lock a phone. It is like leaving the key under the doormat.

  15. Re:Hold down power button and ... on Feds Walk Into a Building, Demand Everyone's Fingerprints To Open Phones (dailyherald.com) · · Score: 0

    There is no reason to use planes to deport people. You could simply compel them to walk or swim home.

  16. Sure, these devices might also explode in a thermo-nukular-fireball, but it is pretty damn unlikely. Mainly, Apple is miffed at losing revenue.

  17. Re:Yahoo Wants To Know on Yahoo Wants To Know If FBI Ordered Yahoo To Scan Emails (onthewire.io) · · Score: 1

    Hello, tap, tap, whoosh, whoosh... is this intertube thing on?

  18. Another Yahoo Apologist AI chat bot?

  19. Re: Irony on Yahoo Wants To Know If FBI Ordered Yahoo To Scan Emails (onthewire.io) · · Score: 0

    Unfortunately you sound like a Yahoo Apologist AI chat bot.

  20. They can, but they are not allowed to. They are trying to do an end-run around the muzzle order, to salvage their sale. Yahoo is contaminated now with radio-active US Gubmint BOHICA red tape. Nobody will touch them now without a very long depleted barium barge pole.

  21. Re:What a brave new world on Yahoo Wants To Know If FBI Ordered Yahoo To Scan Emails (onthewire.io) · · Score: 2

    Nothing new actually. Refer to Der Process of Franz Kafka at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... I actually have a Praha Franz Kafka T-shirt - it looks very nice.

  22. Re:Makes it hard to access stored data.. Wrong on 32GB iPhone 7 Has 8 Times Slower Storage Performance Than 128GB Model (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    The write speed doesn't matter. The read speed is fast. Usually you transfer data from a phone to your laptop PC. If you want to do it the other way around, then you are holding your laptop wrong.

  23. Re:Oh the lander landed... on ESA Lander's Signal Cut Out Just Before It Was Supposed To Land on Mars (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Spontaneous disassembly is the word I think.

  24. Re:But what part of the plant. on Cyber Attackers Have Successfully Hit A Nuclear Power Plant And A Lab (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    They exfiltrated radio active data from the AC plant. The data will make Wiki Leaks glow in the dark and halve Julian Assange's heating bill.