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Comment Re:Billionaires... (Score 2) 459

by XxtraLarGe (#59796722) Attached to: Silicon Valley Leaders' Plea to Democrats: Anyone but Sanders

They make their money by abusing workers, putting people out of jobs, tax avoidance, & lobbying for deregulation, "light touch" enforcement, & de-funding regulating agencies or putting industry cronies in charge of them. Bernie Sanders has promised to take on that kind of anti-social behaviour.

The funny thing about Bernie is he used to rail against billionaires AND millionaires until he became a millionaire.

Comment Re:Stay the course, Sony! (Score 1) 88

by XxtraLarGe (#59728766) Attached to: Sony Is Struggling With PlayStation 5 Price Due To Costly Parts

So the cheaper box is going to win out. Even the availability of specific games on a given console doesn't matter much anymore, because all of the big games come out on all the consoles.

There's two things that drove my choice in picking the PlayStation over the Xbox, and I'm sure there are many others that feel the same: Exclusive games and the controller. Sony's exclusives are much better (G.O.W, Uncharted, Last of Us, Spiderman, etc.) than Microsoft's, and the PS4 controller is much better than the Xbox controller. The Xbox controller has gotten better, but I just can't get used to the asymmetric joysticks. PSVR is also a big plus for me as well.

Comment Re:Is part of the plan (Score 1) 57

by XxtraLarGe (#59528630) Attached to: Microsoft Details Its Migration Plans for the New Microsoft Edge
I'm doing the training at work for our transition from Windows 7 to Windows 10. I have one slide on Microsoft Edge. All it says is "Do not use Microsoft Edge". I've also created videos for our users showing them how to change their default web browser and also their default PDF viewer. Whenever I do a remote support session, if i see Edge in their taskbar, I unpin it, along with the abominable Windows Mail as well.

Comment Re:and why would you? (Score 1) 62

by XxtraLarGe (#59528570) Attached to: Microsoft: We Never Encourage a Ransomware Victim To Pay

leaving your customers with a buggy operating system that permits these sort of attacks to succeed in the first place

How exactly is it the operating system's fault? Ransomware authors aren't hacking into computers & encrypting things, they're tricking the end user into launching an executable that does it. Same thing could happen on a Mac or on Linux. Humans are always the weakest link in security.

Comment Re:Defendants (Score 2) 108

Elon Musk, Larry Page, Sergey Brin, Michael Dell, and Bill Gates. They personally oversee the mining operation and punish the children that don't work hard enough, Temple of Doom style.

But it's definitely not these childrens' parents. The parents had no idea, and thought the kids were in school all day!

Comment Re:Chernobyl (Score 1) 107

He was? Did he put it in the subtitles ("This is a lie"), or did you have to go and read some blog about what parts were lies and what parts were not?

HBO usually does an "Inside the Episode" thing where most of these changes were discussed. Additionally, I think they mentioned many of the changes before the closing credits of the last episode.

Comment Re:Pain Management Allows Many Lives to Continue (Score 1) 180

by XxtraLarGe (#59515726) Attached to: Chronic Pain is an Impossible Problem

The third problem is that what is bought on the streets is unregulated and often not what it was presented as. This is one of the main causes of the opioid poisoning crisis, and it is poisoning rather then ODing as the users didn't intend to OD.

In summary, the War on Drugs is the biggest problem.
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Climate Change is Forcing One Person From Their Home Every Two Seconds, Oxfam Says (cnn.com) 184

Posted by msmash from the closer-look dept.
Climate-fueled disasters have forced about 20 million people a year to leave their homes in the past decade -- equivalent to one every two seconds -- according to a new report from Oxfam. From a news report: This makes the climate the biggest driver of internal displacement for the period, with the world's poorer countries at the highest risk, despite their smaller contributions to global carbon pollution compared to richer nations. People are seven times more likely to be internally displaced by floods, cyclones and wildfires than volcanic eruptions and earthquakes, and three times more likely than by conflict, according to the report released Monday, The issue is one of a raft of topics set to be discussed at the United Nations Climate Change Conference COP 25, which starts on Monday in Madrid. Oxfam is calling on the international community to do more to fund recovery programs for poorer countries affected by the climate emergency, which is set to intensify as extreme weather events are projected to increase in both severity and frequency.
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One-Third of Tropical African Plant Species at Risk of Extinction (sciencemag.org) 43

Posted by msmash from the closer-look dept.
A third of plant species in tropical Africa are threatened with extinction, a new study suggests. Plants are crucial to many ecosystems and life in general, providing food and oxygen, as well as being the source of myriad materials and medicines. However, human activities including logging, mining and agriculture pose a major threat. From a report: While the extinction risk of animals around the world has been well studied, the risk facing many plants remains unclear: 86% of mammal species have been assessed by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) for its Red List, compared with only 8% of plant species. Now experts say they have come up with a rapid approach to give a preliminary classification. "Our approach can help to prioritise either species or regions on which proper IUCN Red Listing should focus," said Dr Gilles Dauby of the French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development and a co-author of the research.

He said the list was recognised as an authoritative source, and was crucial to planning projects that could affect the environment. The new study is the latest to throw the plight of plants into the spotlight. Earlier this year, scientists completed the most thorough analysis to date of plant extinctions, finding that 571 species had been wiped out since the start of the industrial revolution -- a figure they say is likely to be an underestimate. Writing in the journal Science Advances, Dauby and colleagues report how they focused on two IUCN Red List criteria -- one relating to population size reduction and the other to habitat decline -- to develop a computer algorithm to automatically classify the conservation status of plants.
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Oxford Dictionaries Declares 'Climate Emergency' the Word of 2019 (theguardian.com) 118

Posted by msmash from the for-the-record dept.
Oxford Dictionaries has declared "climate emergency" the word of the year for 2019, following a hundred-fold increase in usage that it says demonstrated a "greater immediacy" in the way we talk about the climate. From a report: Defined as "a situation in which urgent action is required to reduce or halt climate change and avoid potentially irreversible environmental damage resulting from it," Oxford said the words soared from "relative obscurity" to "one of the most prominent -- and prominently debated -- terms of 2019." According to the dictionary's data, usage of "climate emergency" soared 10,796%. Oxford said the choice was reflective, not just of the rise in climate awareness, but the focus specifically on the language we use to discuss it. The rise of "climate emergency" reflected a conscious push towards language of immediacy and urgency, the dictionary said. In 2019, "climate" became the most common word associated with "emergency," three times more than "health emergency" in second.

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