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Comment I should point out that WA has stronger privacy (Score 2) 440

I should point out that citizens of Washington State have a State Constitution which specifically gives us stronger privacy rights than most Americans.

You can't even use GPS trackers on our cars without a specific court order, even though you can do this in most states.

Same goes for our cell phone data.

Same goes for our front yards.

Now turn off your cop cam you're recording my lawn illegally, copper!

Comment Maps are limited by the cartographic method (Score 1) 150

A map by territory shows places that are pretty empty but have a common language.

A map by population has problems handling multiple languages in use in one location.

A map by language density using vertical bars or color shading to imply pop density might work, if dithered properly.

Submission + - Ice XVI Is the Strangest Form of Solid Water Yet 1

rossgneumann writes: Water ice, the unlikely solid that is less dense than its liquid form, is already a thing that should not be. But ice only gets stranger from there. As described in the current issue of Nature, researchers have discovered/developed the least dense form of ice so-far observed: Ice XVI.

Submission + - Linking drought and climate change: difficult to do (fivethirtyeight.com)

Geoffrey.landis writes: An article about the current California drought on 538 points out that even though global climate warming may exacerbate droughts, it's nearly impossible to attribute any particular drought to climate warming: The complex, dynamic nature of our atmosphere and oceans makes it extremely difficult to link any particular weather event to climate change. That’s because of the intermingling of natural variations with human-caused ones. http://fivethirtyeight.com/fea... They also cite a Nature editorial pointing out the same thing about extreme weather: http://www.nature.com/news/ext...

Submission + - Shellshock Worm Exploiting Unpatched QNAP NAS Devices (threatpost.com)

msm1267 writes: A worm exploiting network attached storage devices vulnerable to the Bash flaw is scanning the Internet for more victims.

The worm opens a backdoor on QNAP devices, but to date it appears the attackers are using the exploit to run a click-fraud scam, in addition to maintaining persistence on owned boxes.

“The goal appears to be to backdoor the system, so an attacker could come back later to install additional malware,” said Johannes Ullrich, head of the Internet Storm Center at the SANS Institute.

QNAP of Taiwan released a patch in October for the Bash vulnerability in its Turbo NAS products. Like many other vulnerable products and devices, owners may not be aware that Bash is present and exposed. Bash was among a litany of Internet-wide vulnerabilities uncovered this year; the flaw in Bash, or Bourne Again Shell, affects Linux and UNIX distributions primarily, but also Windows in some cases. Bash is accessed, often quietly, by any number of functions which makes comprehensive patching difficult even though all major Linux distributions and most vendors have issued patches.

Submission + - The GPLv2 goes to court (opensource.com)

Jason Baker writes: Despite its importance, the GPLv2 has been the subject of very few court decisions, and virtually all of the most important terms of the GPLv2 have not been interpreted by courts. This lack of court decisions is about to change due to the five interrelated cases arising from a dispute between Versata Software, Inc. ("Versata") (its parent company, Trilogy Development Corporation, is also involved, but Versata is taking the lead) and Ameriprise Financial, Inc. ("Ameriprise"). The courts in two separate cases issued decisions on November 25, just before Thanksgiving.

These cases are dealing with four important terms in the GPLv2: 1) What are the remedies for breach of the terms of the GPLv2? 2) What is a "distribution" under the GPLv2 that triggers the obligations under the GPLv2? 3) Does the GPLv2 include a patent license? 4) What type of integration between proprietary code and GPLv2 licensed code will result in creating a “derivative work” and subject such proprietary code to the terms of the GPLv2?

Comment Accenture wants to outsource jobs (Score 1) 280

Just saying. I mean, they have offices here, we know them well, it's part of why the pipeline deals are falling apart, since the internal energy firm documents show they intend to outsource all the factory and tech jobs to overseas temporary workers.

Energy firms should be more like Seattle City Light (public utility) which realized that many renters and home owners have houses that aren't suitable for installing solar or wind - e.g. in cities, part of a townhouse complex or condo or apartment where the bill payer can't easily install their own solar or wind power, but is willing to buy shares in City Light owned solar installations (in city) or wind farms (outside city).

Adapt or die.

Capitalism cares nothing for your heavily taxpayers subsidized fossil fuel lifestyle. Solar and wind are currently cheaper than oil and coal, for example. Remove the tax subsidies and cheap mining leases and fossil fuels would be even less optimal for consumers.

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