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Comment This summary is an absolute disaster (Score 1) 2

Law enforcement officials are investigating a former employee of a company that negotiates with hackers and facilitates cryptocurrency payments during ransomware attacks, according to a statement from the firm, DigitalMint. DigitalMint President Marc Jason Grens this week told organizations it works with that the US Justice Department is examining allegations that the then-employee struck deals with hackers to profit from extortion payments, according to a person familiar with the matter.

This sentence reads as if the company negotiates with hackers and facilitates cryptocurrency payments and that they fired an employee for doing their job because they started to get investigated for doing what the company purpose says they do. WTF, Slashdot? Do better.

Comment If you live in a city (Score 1) 20

Then you're breathing tire particulate. We took care of a good chunk of the car exhaust but air quality didn't really go up as much as you would think.

So that got boffins looking into why and they finally solved the problem of, where do your tires go when they wear down?

Think about it do we have to clean the roads of tire gunk? Do we have to wash tire Gunk off buildings all the time?

The stuff has to be going somewhere and the answer turned out to be it's so tiny as a particulate it gets into the air and you breathe it.

This is why electric cars won't solve or even help air quality. We already have plenty of zero emissions gas cars but that doesn't do anything about the tires. If anything electrics make the tire particulate problem worse because they are much heavier and they have tires that wear quicker so that they don't use as much of the battery range.

There really isn't a solution for every single person in the country to have their own personal 2000+ lb transportation machine. But dang gummit we grew up with cars and we will be damned if we even consider any other viable solution to getting around town. Otherwise the Communists win.

And there is nothing more terrifying than fully automated luxurious gay space communism.

Comment Re: Quick History lesson (Score 1) 180

Let me put it to you in simple terms. Trump is only helping the wealthy. You are not wealthy. Trump will therefore not help you.

originally I gave you the benefit of the doubt that you would have logic in the way you vote. Now I can see that I gave you too much credit.

Comment Re:First... (Score 1) 15

Once we wipe out enough of the species that it begins to show up on quarterly reports as loss of profit, maybe we'll consider doing something about it.

Interesting you should say that. I just heard this morning that as more immigrants get sent out of the country we may experience a net loss to the population for the first time in decades. In addtion, because of all these people no longer in the country, GDP will decrease because they aren't buying goods and services nor helping to produce goods and services.

We know this is already affecting industries such as housing where one MAGA voter whined it will take him years to replace the immigrants taken from him. Of course, in Florida, they're already aware of what happens when you go after immigrants. Food rots in the field and businesses can't fully operate.

Perhaps these extended droughts will accelerate these issues.

Comment Re:Erm... (Score 1) 155

Slashdot hates Elon Musk, for some good reasons and some bad reasons, but the pearl clutching over a couple of failures is pretty silly.

The article was not written by people on slashdot. It wasn't even about Elon Musk.

I don't know what this means.

From the article:

It took two decades of false starts, crashes and incomplete landings -- from Space IL's Beresheet to iSpace's Hakuto-R and Astrobotic's Peregrine -- before even one private firm delivered on the promise of lunar access. The prevailing industry answer -- "we need to innovate for lower cost" -- rings hollow. What's happening now isn't innovation; it's aspiration masquerading as disruption...

If I'm not mistaken it's the US's *only* way to get them there, no?

I think you could make the case we are losing ground to countries with other approaches.

Comment Re:First... (Score 2) 15

Adams's law of slow-moving disasters: we can avoid or mitigate these because we have time, resources, and only need to exercise the will to do so.

Second, as a planet, we need to decide if saving lives is important enough to justify the effort and expense, or not. Not just the US. Thus, the will is lacking.

On the contrary, the decision has already been made. Planet-wide, we, as a species, have decided that continued corporate profits must be protected at all costs, and that there are no consequences severe enough to justify impacting those profits even in a marginal manner. Human lives don't rank in the face of corporate profits. Hells, even the possibility of making the entire planet uninhabitable doesn't really register to those with the power to make a big enough difference to matter, because profits are the be-all, end-all of existence to those that could begin to enforce the changes necessary to stop, or even slow, the environmental damage we're causing.

Once we wipe out enough of the species that it begins to show up on quarterly reports as loss of profit, maybe we'll consider doing something about it. Until then? Full speed ahead.

Comment Climate change is breaking the water cycle (Score 0, Troll) 15

Which is what's causing the droughts.

Eventually things will get bad enough that we have widespread wars and we start to see drafts again. If nothing else the American empire like all failing empires is going to have to start trying to expand its borders in order to loot other countries.

That's why Trump has been putting out the idea of taking over Canada and Greenland. It's a classic tactic of right-wing extremists to introduce an idea and then back off and then keep introducing it until the public gets numb to it.

I don't think people realize just how big a fuck up letting Trump get a second term is. This isn't going to be like a regular Republican term where they just crashed the economy and we all take a 20% pay cut.

People are going to keep calling me Chicken Little right up until the shit hits the fan. It's all scheduled to blow up right after the midterm elections when the big beautiful bill goes in. And that's of course no accident.

Comment Re: Elites took 90 jets (or yachts) to Bezos' Wed (Score 1) 199

I would say an agreement makes a cut more likely to occur and that this is worth the pretty small amount of emissions associated with an international meeting.

In terms of doing things remotely, that would be great, but as I previously noted, we are a social species and trust tends to be better established with face-to-face meetings.

So the question is how many more emissions were actually cut because they met in person. Compared to the emissions that weren't cut because of the example they set. Frankly, the argument this was necessary is pure rationalization. This is all part of the notion that we can limit climate change while continuing to do business as usual.

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