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Comment This wasn't directed AT Parler (Score 5, Informative) 377

The complaint against what DDoS-Guard was submitted in November, long before Parler fled there. DDoS-Guard had purchased a large block of IP addresses that were for use by Belize-based companies. DDoS-Guard has no other presence in Belize, and is therefore not qualified, so LACNIC is making them forfeit the block of IP addresses. They could have avoided this by simply opening an Internet cafe, but they have NOTHING there.

It makes sense that the provider Parler fled to was a shady operation, so I wouldn't call it ENTIRELY a coincidence. But it is pretty much a coincidence.

 

Comment I'm guessing this is some sort of PHONE? (Score 1) 98

Nowhere in the write-up do you mention that you are talking about a phone. I'm guessing it probably is because the category is Android, but maybe if people aren't familiar wit OnePlus it would help to use the word just once?

Or are beyond calling them phones and just going with "device" now? Because you don't even call it a device, either.

Submission + - Congress needs to address international postage rates for USPS to survive (ft.com) 1

sziring writes: Have you ever purchased something off ebay with free shipping direct from China via USPS? How does the USPS actually make money off that? Turns out they might not. From the article in the Financial Times, "Today manufacturers in countries as small as Cambodia and as large as China pay less to send small parcels from their countries to New York than US manufacturers do to ship packages from Los Angeles to the Big Apple. This puts American manufacturers and workers at a significant competitive disadvantage and forces the US Postal Service to subsidize a system that weakens America’s manufacturing base."

Submission + - Governors on East and West coasts form pacts to decide when to reopen economies (cnn.com)

gollum123 writes: States on the country's East and West coasts are forming their own regional pacts to work together on how to reopen from the stay-at-home orders each has issued to limit the spread of the novel coronavirus. The first such group to be announced came Monday on the East Coast. Democratic New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said his state, New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Delaware and Rhode Island each plan to name a public health and economic official to a regional working group. The chief of staff of the governor of each state also will be a part of the group, which will begin work immediately to design a reopening plan. Later on Monday, the West Coast states of California, Washington and Oregon also announced they are joining forces in a plan to begin incremental release of stay-at-home orders. When announcing the three-state coordination of the western governors during his midday briefing on Monday, Newsom quoted an old proverb: "If you want to go fast, go alone, but if you want to go far, go together."

Comment Re:Presence of antibodies (Score 1) 146

The article itself is more cautious about whether seropositive people are immune. The headline writer, very disappointing for an MIT publication, left off the scare-quotes the author used for immune.

And the story itself, for example, includes this quote:
"The test will enable us to determine which health-care workers might be at low risk for working with covid-19 patients,"

Then again, the article then uses pull quotes without full context that seem more conclusive, but without the full quote or ability to read German, I don't know if there were qualifications in the study itself:
  ' This group of people, they say, “can no longer be infected with SARS-CoV-2,” as the virus is known to scientists. '

I have sent a tweet to the author noting the problematic headline.

Comment Re:Sirius XM? Spam Fountain! (Score 1) 38

<quote>It looks like the No Account Setup option is gone.</quote>

It's still there. Just click where it says "Start Free Trial" and ignore the instructions to create an account.

It will will even work from Chrome on Android phones if you request the Desktop version of the page from Chrome settings. But the stream will stop on you phone if power-saving puts the Chrome app to sleep.

Submission + - Frog stems cells used to make living robots. (theguardian.com)

Cy Guy writes: Having not learned the lessons of Jurassic Park and the Terminator, scientists from the University of Vermont and Tufts have created "reconfigurable organisms" using stem cells from frogs. But don't worry, the research was funded the Department of Defense, so I'm sure nothing could possibly go wrong this time.

Comment Re:Hmmm (Score 1) 200

"anchoring cables like a ski lift"

Climate change is responsible for closing a lot of smaller ski areas, so this would be a way to both provide jobs in those communities while actually fighting climate change by making solar power more viable as a 24/7 power source.

Coal producing areas such as Appalachia also being impacted by transitioning away from a carbon economy could also benefit installing these systems.

Both of those areas are already impacted by humans and thus lesson concerns of "Destroy[ing] nature to preserve nature" as raised above [ https://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=15353458&cid=59494824 ] It's not like the systems would have to be installed in the Rockies or Himalayas to get 1 km of elevation change. (Though the proposals of remote Hawaiian islands and the Galapagos are going to raise responses like that, so they may want to work on their elevator pitch.)

Comment Lawsuit is frivolous, BK was clear about this (Score 5, Informative) 350

The Impossible Whopper launched nationally on Aug 8. On Aug 2, a week before that, this story ran nationally clearly saying that if you wanted a truly beef-free, vegan burger you had to specify you didn't want it broiled and that you didn't want mayo on it.

https://www.today.com/food/new...

TODAY: Why Burger King's new Impossible Whopper isn't totally vegetarian

"...unless you ask for the Impossible Whopper in a specific way, it might not meet your definition of true vegetarian fare. While the burger itself contains no meat, Burger King acknowledges that the Impossible patties are flame-grilled on the same broiler as its chicken and beef products."

Comment Best of both worlds? (Score 1) 188

Getting an SUV doesn't have to mean bad gas mileage, there are plenty of Hybrid SUV's on the market getting up to 50 MPG.
https://moneyinc.com/best-hybr...
In some ways it's an ideal match because there is lots of space to put the hybrid batteries.

If you are over 6 feet tall, a lot of smaller cars aren't an option.

Comment N00b Questions (Score 1) 2

The question to me (and I'm admittedly highly ignorant on the subject) is how many cryptocurrencies the world can support.

Also, given the anonymous aspects of many crypto-currencies, it could be difficult to assess the legitimacy of the crowd-funder; it'd be important to investors to know they weren't buying into a Ponzi scheme.

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