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Submission + - U.S. Senate candidate Martin Gottesfeld releases Jeff Sessions' home number (freemartyg.com)

Submitted by Danngggg
Danngggg writes: Regular readers of Slashdot will remember Martin “MartyG” Gottesfeld from the articles at the Huffington Post, Rolling Stone, and others . Gottesfeld is now running for Senate against Elizabeth Warren in Massachusetts. As one of the first official acts of his candidacy, he has released the home phone number of U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions. From the article...

Please note: It would be a federal felony to threaten a federal official. Jeff Sessions' home number is: [you have to click the link to get the full number] and calling a politician to ask questions or to express your opinion of their work or to petition for the redress of grievances is still well-protected by the First Amendment though. Even our most hopped-up kangaroo courts haven't dared tread on that yet.

Comment still miss astrid tasks (Score 2) 278

by Tensor (#56208115) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Best To-Do/Task List Software?
Before Yahoo, with their longsightedness bought and killed it for absolutely no reason, astrid tasks was effing glorious. The old sources are still up https://github.com/todoroo/astrid and this for is still being worked on https://github.com/tasks/tasks there is also an android app for this second one.

Submission + - Temperature Driven Sea Level Rise Is Accelerating, Not Constant, Study Finds (cnn.com)

Submitted by dryriver
dryriver writes: A research team studying climate change driven sea level rise has found that unlike previously assumed by some, sea level rise is not constant year on year, but rather accelerating as the earth warms. This means that rather than sea levels rising about 30 centimeters by 2100 as some projections based on constant rise rates had forecast, the real sea level rise by the end of the century may be 60 centimeters or even higher, causing major problems for coastal cities and coastal areas around the world. Extreme water levels, such as high tides and surges from strong storms, would be made exponentially worse. The chief reason previous projections appear to have underestimated how quickly sea levels would rise is that ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica and mountain glaciers are disappearing much faster than had been projected before. Currently, over half of the observed rise is the result of "thermal expansion": As ocean water warms, it expands, and sea levels rise. The rest of the rise is the result of melted ice in Greenland and Antarctica and mountain glaciers flowing into the oceans. This is a troubling finding when considering the recent rapid ice loss in the ice sheets. "Sixty-five centimeters is probably on the low end for 2100," researcher Steve Nerem said, "since it assumes the rate and acceleration we have seen over the last 25 years continues for the next 82 years." We are already seeing signs of ice sheet instability in Greenland and Antarctica, so if they experience rapid changes, then we would likely see more than 65 centimeters of sea level rise by 2100." "We are already seeing signs of ice sheet instability in Greenland and Antarctica, so if they experience rapid changes, then we would likely see more than 65 centimeters of sea level rise by 2100." Penn State climate scientist Michael Mann, who was not involved with the study, said "it confirms what we have long feared: that the sooner-than-expected ice loss from the west Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets is leading to acceleration in sea level rise sooner than was projected."

Comment illegally? (Score 1) 2

wouldn't this be a textbook legal fair-use of DRM removal ? i own the copy, and the "manager" of those rights is no more. that 3rd party-added drm is illegally preventing me to access my legally bought content. as i bought an electronic facsimile copy and, as such, it can't have any "code" or drm, or nothing, its just an electronic representation of a printed text. IANAL obviously.

Comment Re:Bah! (Score 1) 181

Sad.

This is not how real life works.

She signed a contract, this is in it. period. Are you really suggesting with a straight face that it would be ok for a company to unilaterally break a binding work contract cos she made people ACTUALLY GO TO WORK ?? ... indeed, the devil incarnate, burn the bitch !!!

This is exactly the kind of entitlement problem that faces the workforce today. Yours obviously, not hers. Me? i´d just want to know who she hired to negotiate her contract!

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