rampant poodle - Slashdot User

Comment Water Vapor? (Score 1) 492

by rampant poodle on Friday December 19, 2008 @06:49PM (#26178795) Attached to: Scientist Patents New Method To Fight Global Warming

Admittedly I am out of my element here but there seems to be a couple of potential problems with this.

1. Water vapor is the most significant of the greenhouse gases.
2. Cloud cover prevents heat from being re-radiated into space.

I guess if you covered the whole earth with clouds it might reflect more sunlight and lead to a net temperature decrease. Not sure about that being a Real Good Idea.

Submission + - Congressman gets paid by RIAA and cuts education

Submitted by on Thursday June 14, 2007 @08:20AM

An anonymous reader writes: As reported by the following article by the consumerist the congressman Tom Feeney questions:

"Is it responsible for a Congress that wants to protect intellectual property rights to continue to fund network enhancements for universities if some of those enhancements are indirectly being used in fact to promote intellectual property theft?"

This is the link: http://www.consumerist.com/consumer/worst-company- in-america/#161557

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To me it sounds rather like a schizophrenic statement:

1) The copyright was intended to promote research
2) The universities DO research
3) Tom Feeney proposes to cut research to further protect copyright

Something is really fishy here. 1000$ for such a statement are really little money... BTW if you want to spend a few minutes checking out "contributions" to politicians by lobbyist this is your page: http://www.politicalmoneyline.com/

Further down the article the Consumerist states:

"One of the ways the RIAA operates is by donating money to politicians who then enact favorable legislation on their behalf. Don't let the optimist in you believe that this doesn't work. It does."

Submission + - HD-DVD Content Protection already hacked?

Submitted by El Lobo on Friday January 05, 2007 @05:25AM

El Lobo writes: Ever since the next generation high definition movie formats were announced, consumers have been up in arms about the proposed content protection by Hollywood film studios known as Advanced Access Content System or AACS for short. One annoyed consumer, going by the name of "muslix64", bought an Xbox 360 HD-DVD player over the holidays along with some HD-DVD's and was annoyed to discover he couldn't watch his movies at 1080p because his hardware lacked HDCP support. In what would seem like an act of frustration, the consumer set out about finding a way to playback his HD-DVD movies on a system without any content protection available.

http://www.tweaktown.com/articles/1025/hd_dvd_cont ent_protection_already_hacked_muslix64_believes_so /index.html

muslix64 has a video of the hacking on YouTube here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oZGYb92isE

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