You didn't read their report, did you? They ranked Dell very slightly higher because although their CO2 emissions at the time were a little higher, they were making a credible effort to increase clean renewable energy use. Greenpeace give points for making an effort to improve.
Any electrical engineers there? HVAC engineers? POWERPLANT engineers?
Why yes, actually. You really didn't read that report, did you?
Er, no. Apparently you were not listening. Greenpeace is for a move away from nuclear, coal and gas towards renewable energy sources. Like what Germany is doing. In 30 or 40 years they will be nuclear and probably coal free as well.
It's not really clean if it generates waste that you currently have no long term storage policy for, and no way to recycle into something useful. Yes, you could pull a thorium reactor out of your ass to reprocess it, but until you do I'm not convinced that is an economically viable plan. If it were, why is no-one doing it and making a fortune?
One mistake by a court which doesn't set a precedent isn't indicative of the law or national policy.
There is no right to be forgotten, because it would mean I don't have a right to remember and thus share that memory.
That's not what the right to be forgotten is. It would more accurately be described as the "right to be forgotten by commercial entities".
In the EU we have data protection laws that affect anyone collecting personal data for business use. For example a company with a client database must take steps to ensure that it is protected and people's personal data is not leaked, and that it isn't sold for profit without consent. There are rules concerning things like credit reference agencies keeping data on things beyond the period which they can legally be considered, e.g. bankruptcy that doesn't have to be declared after 5 years. Subjects can also request that their data is removed if they no longer have any relationship with the company, e.g. if you close your Facebook account they must remove all your old data too.
In this case Google crawls the web for information about people. They must treat that information according to data protection rules. It doesn't matter if the information is a matter of public record. An old bankruptcy might have been written about in a newspaper, but that doesn't mean that a credit reference agency can report it after 5 years. People may remember, they may not, that's just life and a measure of how noteworthy the individual is. The point is that when they apply for a new business loan the credit reference agency isn't allowed to remind the bank. Even if the bank employee remembers they can't use that information in their decision, and if they do they won't be able to justify it to the regulator later since the credit report didn't mention it.
People use Google to research other people. Google is extremely good at finding and sorting information about people. Why should Google be allowed to opt out of rules that affect credit reference agencies, for example?
Note that your personal right to remember is completely unaffected. You are not required to forgot or remove information from your personal web site.
They have a lot of work to do to convince people that Beats sound good.
This patent seems to be specifically about noise cancelling, which is the one area Bose is actually good at. Their noise cancelling does seem to be slightly better than the competition, e.g. Sony and Audio Technica. Only slightly though.
Straw man. Greenpeace do not argue that all fossil fuel use is automatically bad and should be avoided, they simply argue that the current massive scale of use is bad.
I'm really starting to dislike the way every debate about the environment, women, nuclear power, guns and many other topics instantly gets flooded with ad hominem attacks, straw men and other logical fallacies. It's like a tabloid newspaper or low quality TV news channel. I'm sure Slashdot wasn't like this a few years back.
i just don't believe anything those idealistic eco hippies say.
Do you realize how stupid that is?
John Stewart Mill made the point that you should consider every argument, even if only one person in the entire world is making it against the consensus of everyone else, on its merits. The person speaking does not matter, only the merits of the argument.
Effectively you harm yourself by dismissing things that could be beneficial for you, simply because you dislike the messenger.
Nice rant about hipsters, but do you have any actual arguments against what Greenpeace is saying?
I'm actually surprised that Amazon is doing so badly. Most large data centres realized that since energy is one of their biggest costs and they have all that otherwise unused roof space they might as well rake in some solar power. The up-front cost is relatively minimal and the pay off term pretty short for heavy users. Even fairly far north it's worth doing.
16 bytes plus the model.
I have arthritis but it wasn't diagnosed until well after I left school. My teachers used to complain that I didn't write enough, or that after a few lines my handwriting was hard to read. Now I know why. Writing by hand just put me off writing stuff completely, which is a shame because I enjoy it now I can type instead.
How many schools can afford licences for AutioCAD and Photoshop? They each cost several times as much as the laptop. There are plenty of productivity apps for ChromeOS, and of course Google Apps for office stuff.
Thanks. The comments on every single nuclear story on Slashdot seem to miss the point entirely. The units are just a way to measure the relative efficiency of the work being done to prevent leakage. The effects are observable, there is no need to guess based on the numbers. This is apparently too complex for most commentators to understand
It seems that more and more mathematicians are using a new, high level language named "research student".
