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Submission + - Would you secure personal data with DRM tools?

Comment coal? (Score 1) 181

Oh please. With such lop sided support for the notion we might already have enough carbon in the air,why not apply this to low-grade heat differentials in
* oceans
* buildings in sunny places like the parched SW US states
* my freakin' roof [and that is in upstate NY]


but first, please headline the INSTALLED $/Watt. we can take it from there...or not.

or did some coal company pay for this finding?

Comment W3C is shooting the messenger (Score 1) 447

I would add an objection 4.) In the full communications stack, of which HTML is only one layer above transport, why is ANY notion of content ownership being grafted on? Blurring the lines that have so successfully provided a "division of labor" factoring of data communications is NOT helpful. You have proprietary content? Fine, provide an application to decrypt/display it and leave what was once a vendor neutral tool alone.

Comment if you combine this effect with global warming.. (Score 1) 114

which is melting away all those glaciers where the POP's are lodging, then the load of carcinogens is washing into the Ganges...no matter what the folks down stream do or don't do about their own sources of pollution. Now the poor of India can have equal access to the cancer rates of the first-world economies.

If we can't spread the wealth around, what good are we anyway?

Comment negative feedback mechanism, at last (Score 1) 398

The list of positive feedbacks, mechanisms demonstrated or hypothetical in which increase of avg. temps would cause release of more GHG, causing more warming etc. in a run-away loop,...is a long and scary list that includes thawing tundra and peat bogs, boiling methane hydrate slush off of the continental shelf, increasing absorption of sunlight due to shrinking ice coverage and reduced gas absorption capacity of a warming ocean.

Here finally is one little mechanism, if we don't rush to build parking lots in Siberia and the Yukon, that might go in favor of stability.
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Submission + - What the web "really is" for most users (ftrain.com)

museumpeace writes: "I have only found one other [ 2004] slashdot story reference to the rather insightful Paul Ford. But then, he seems unaware of /.
He has written a post that gets to the heart of web forum psychology and business models which is being kicked around in other tech forums. He analyzes the art of balancing content with comment, gives a few good thoughts on meta filtering and feedback, citing many examples but curiously omitting Slashdot.org."

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