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Comment Re:In a country with as much land as the USA (Score -1, Troll) 146

Wind and solar have yet to be proven to be net positives, and the further production is from the consumers the worse it is. All current battery tech is terrible as well. People compare theoretical 'one day...' stats of solar, wind, EVs, etc against not even current combustion and nuclear tech.

The major component people are leaving out is that the reason solar, wind, batteries, etc appear cheap is that they are heavily subsidized and incentivized.

If people want to talk about the finances of energy they need to study the Blue Economy starting at the top. They are all WorldBank and other central banking entity initiatives, they don't come from any gov.

Comment The reason it's about money (Score 1) 38

Carbon Credits are a World Bank initiative, they come from global banking system itself, not a any government. That's why all environmental efforts focus on carbon and direct pollution and habitat destruction, which will kill us all faster than even the most pessimistic Climate Change models. Carbon Credits are an economic weapon, not an effort to save the environment. They are also tied to actual Carbon capture/avoidance about as tightly as a stock price is to the performance of a company. Many Carbon sequestration projects actively damage and pollute the environment, because the entire CC agenda puts Carbon Credit $$$ over actual environmental concerns.

Comment Re:Maybe next time... (Score 1) 51

It's all money magic. There's zero tether between a companies tech or it's performance and any stock price, gov programs, WB initiatives, etc. The only reason for any of these projections is to steer public perception of markets, so that there seems to be justified and dudiligent allocation of funds to these projects/initiatives. 'If ai doesn't succeed...' isn't a projection, it's a threat, a signal, a command to throw more money at this or else.

Submission + - 'Kill Switch'—Iran Shuts Down Musk's Starlink For First Time (forbes.com)

Thelasko writes: We have not seen this before. Iran’s digital blackout has now deployed military jammers, reportedly supplied by Russia, to shut down access to Starlink Internet. This is a game-changer for the Plan-B connectivity frequently used by protesters and anti-regime activists when ordinary access to the internet is stopped..

“Despite reports that tens of thousands of Starlink units are operating inside Iran,” says Iran Wire, “the blackout has also reached satellite connections.” It is reported that about 30 per cent of Starlink’s uplink and downlink traffic was (initially) disrupted," quickly rising “to more than 80 per cent” within hours.

Comment Re: We eat many chemicals also from "natural" food (Score 1) 67

I also don't like sensationalized claims, but for many 'chemicals' being found in our food we do know the dosages in our foods cause problems.

Beyond that there was such a steep decline in the nutritional content of US crops that the USDA stopped publishing their nutritional analysis about a decade ago, something they'd been sharing since at least the 50s.

I'm not for generally one for regulations, but since there are regulations preventing me from farming myself, and our land and water is vulnerable to the decisions of others, a food should be defined as containing X nutrition and not containing Y contaminants, and Y contaminants should be tightly controlled from all sources.

Comment Re: Remember 15 years ago... (Score 1) 85

Bitcoin had never offered anonymity. Only dumb people and con artists have proposed that. It's only ever been claimed to be as anonymous as posting on Slashdot COULD be. If you used a burner email for registration, used proper opsec for your internet connection and use hardware that is no connected to you, and never post any information anywhere that could link your ID to your Slashdot account.

BTC is bad enough all by itself, we don't have to resort to strawmanning it based on the activity of dumb people.

Submission + - Microsoft's update also breaks USB scanners (slashdot.org) 2

shanen writes: Not requesting a dupe, but the story died too soon for me to add the data point. I don't use the scanner often enough, eh? Not sure how to revive interest, but I actually think some stories should move down the top page more slowly, and this is one that probably deserved more than the standard one-day lifetime. Not sure when I remembered that some "USB topic" had gone past on Slashdot recently...

So I searched google and for some strange reason the google didn't return any links to the horse's mouth at Microsoft. What?

That provoked me into trying Bing and then Copilot, which produced a rather hilarious and infuriating discussion. Some of it might be amusing here, but I don't need the headache of getting sued by Microsoft if I dared to quote what their AI said. Much of the discussion involved "regression testing" and how little anyone should trust Microsoft. Confessions from the jackass's mouth?

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