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Comment Re:Cancelled the Keystone pipeline (Score 1) 345

Where's the win in that?

In the increase in price of oil relative to renewable energy sources.

So allow the pipeline and use the political capital you get from that authorization to tax the carbon emitted by burning the oil.

It's a more efficient solution and potentially results in lower emissions than just cancelling the pipeline.

And what about the protected heritage sites destroyed in the process?
Gonna build a replica out of all the money you made and call it good?

Comment Re:Seems like this drives under-reporting income (Score 2) 187

"More power to them" - yeah right. That's not how societies work, as seen with, oh I don't know, Greece??!

Do you remember the time a few years ago when the Greek economy was collapsing and the rest of the EU had to pitch in?

Real disconnect you have there.

Comment Re: Warming during an interglacial period (Score 1) 407

So instead of "correcting" the system, you would rather continue breaking it?
Because that is what we're doing day in and day out.

The status quo is not "nothing changes".
We now know that we're actively destroying this complex system that we so far had an extremely poor understanding of, and we should probably stop doing that, or we will suffer the consequences.

You're of course correct when you say that the poorest, not the richest, will suffer most of the consequences. Even more reason to be cautious when billionaires tell you not to worry.

Comment Re:I don't see the issue (Score 1) 38

You don't see the issue because you are not looking at the matter from the relevant direction.

The facts fit multiple theories. For example:

Police saw some Alexa enabled device in the home, figured it *might* have caught something and are following that lead.
Since the warrant probably contains a time range instead of a precise time stamp, there may well be valid commands that Alexa recorded for that range - for example the victim asking for the weather in the morning, which they have now sent to the police, as expected by law.

You don't *have* to go conspiracy theory on everything.

Comment Re:Opprotunity! (Score 1) 161

California regulators let this happen. This is about a failure of the state to properly regulate water.

Huge farming corporations own most of the water. They get the water cheap, use it to produce certain high value corps, and then export it for top dollar. People in cities get water use restrictions while the big agricultural users get all of the water they need. It burns me that such a precious public resource goes directly to the coffers of private corporations. We fight over future plans like desalination while huge farms flood the desert in the middle of the day. Seriously, WTF?

But regulating a public good like water or clean air is socialism!
Free market all the way to the grave!

Comment Re:What Ubisoft Does Best (Score 1) 138

There is no option to log-on because the current site is a low-traffic fallback site to accomodate the number of users trying to change their password. The whole ubi.com consists of "Change your password" and three YouTube links right now.

The usual site will be up again in a few days, if you want to change your e-mail address, try again then.

This is how it should be done by the way: at least allowing 99% of users to change their password even when the site is getting hammered.

Security

Adobe Download Manager Installing Software Without Consent 98

"Not all is worth cheering about as Adobe turns 20," writes reader adeelarshad82, who excerpts from a story at PC Magazine's Security Watch: "Researcher Aviv Raff has found a problem in ADM (Adobe Download Manager) and the method through which it is delivered from adobe.com. The net effect of the problem is that a user can be tricked into downloading and installing software using ADM without actual consent. Tonight Adobe acknowledged the report and said they were working on the issue with Raff and NOS Microsystems, the company that wrote ADM."

Comment Re:It's just not *right* (Score 5, Insightful) 43

According to wikipedia, Bethesda bought all and every Fallout IP when Interplay was unable to continue development on their version of Fallout 3 and had to lay off their main (PC) team in 2003.
TFS says they still retained their right to sell the games they do not own any rights to anymore, as long as they get marketing and packaging approved bei Bethesda. So they can still make money with their old games as long as it doesn't interfere with Bethesda's new titles and gets their approval - that is a pretty good deal for a game studio that probably would have closed down if it weren't for Bethesda, don't you think?

Comment Re:Mind-blowing? (Score 1) 173

And the scratching... that is just pathetic. I thought at first that it make a wall into a touch surface. Capable of detecting the POSITION. But no, this can just detect some sound.

Use two of those Mics to triangulate the position of your fingernail and you have your position tracking.

Just needs "some" tweaking of the software and a way of describing the relative position of the two mics (by a echo-like click sound on init maybe?).

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