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Submission + - RFK Jr nominated for Head of HHS (independent.co.uk)

schwit1 writes: HHS included the CDC and FDA

Kennedy ran as independent candidate while attacking Covid-era lockdown rules, and has referred to vaccines as unproven and dangerous

Submission + - Cheap fix floated for plane vapour's climate damage (bbc.co.uk)

AmiMoJo writes: The climate-damaging vapours left behind by jet planes could be easily tackled, aviation experts say, with a new study suggesting they could be eliminated for a few pounds per flight. Jet condensation trails, or contrails, have spawned wild conspiracy theories alleging mind control and the spreading of disease, but scientists say the real problem is their warming effect.

“They create an artificial layer of clouds, which traps the heat from the Earth that’s trying to escape to outer space,” said Carlos Lopez de la Osa, from the Transport & Environment campaign group, which has carried out a new study on the solutions to contrails. “The scale of the warming that's associated with them is roughly having a similar impact to that of aviation carbon emissions.”

Tweaking the flight paths of a handful of aircraft could reduce contrail warming by more than half by 2040, at a cost of less than £4 per flight. Geography and a flight's latitude have a strong influence on whether a contrail is warming. Time of day also influences the climate effects of contrails. Those formed by evening and night flights have the largest warming contribution. Seasonality is also important — the most warming contrails tend to occur in winter. “Planes are already flying around thunderstorms and turbulence areas,” Mr Lopez de la Osa said. “We will need to add one more constraint to flight planning, which is avoiding areas of contrail formation.”

Comment Re: Slashdot Died when CmdrTaco Left (Score 1) 726

I have a comment slightly older than this submission from 1999: https://science.slashdot.org/s... which I honestly regretted for years. You can't imagine how many skool kids and teachers contacted me asking for more info on the freakin mammoths!

Fond memories of the earlier days, though things were clearly going down hill by 2007. Rarely visit any more as the story links are pretty much all dupes of what is available elsewhere, sooner.

Comment More Useful Daylight in Summer (Score 4, Insightful) 228

All that matters is we get some extra daylight after work during the warm time of year so we can enjoy it. Is it a little darker in the morning that first month? Small price to pay. To alleviate the supposed "stress" of the one hour change, do it on Sat. instead of Sun. But honestly, are people dropping dead flying across a one hour time zone change?

Comment Re:Hopefully better than their hard drives. (Score 2) 78

RAID != backup Please try to remember that kids. It has its place but don't be fool enough to think RAID will save you. RAID is perfectly happy to copy corrupt data until the bad drive is marked as failed. RAID is really only useful when a drive goes immediately from ON and working properly to OFF and dead.

Comment Re:Who buys DVDs anymore? They're not even HD (Score 1) 316

Take a look at the catalogue of things you can rent on dvd. Its not the netflix of say, 2005, where the dvd library was quite large and it was easy to get both newer releases as well as old stuff - meaning anything from say 5 to 10 years prior to the 1930s. Now the list is pretty much confined to 5 years or so, mostly direct to dvd and tv shows.

Comment AICP is good too (Score 2) 215

I have 7.1.1 running on a circa 2013 phone. AICP seems to be a pretty active group and do weekly builds for quite a lot of older phones. Prior to that I tried Ressurection but punted after bootloop issues, AICP installed first try. So I can't really say if its the "best" but it certainly seems to function well and that's more important to me than having a gadzilling bells and whistles.

Comment Re:Who buys DVDs anymore? They're not even HD (Score 4, Insightful) 316

The owning economy as opposed to the sharing/renting economy. And as past analysis have shown, the Netflix movie catalog is shit.

Even so, at one time you could at least rent a DVD from netflix of an "old" movie. No more. And nowhere else either, streaming or physical. In effect, a huge percentage of the movie catalogue is no longer available.

Comment Re:phone bug exploit fire (Score 1) 142

this is actually a legit concern. A bad actor (likely at the state level) exploits a zero day with a fake wifi access point in the boarding area that loads malware on passenger phones. Malware causes a race condition that results in phones rapidly overheating/catching fire while in flight. Flight crew then needs to deal with many near simultaneous phones on fire - whether on person, in seat backs or in overhead bins. Would think odds of one spreading would be fairly good.

Comment Attention Deficit (Score 1) 624

Among the many other reasons noted, not mentioned is the seeming inability of the public to read more than one or two paragraphs. Perhaps three if you slip a photo of a kitten in between.

Serious/legit journalism generally requires at least a few hundred words to report on anything beyond the most trivial. And those reports often may use "big" words or terms specific to some topic. The need to concentrate for a few minutes on one thing and actually comprehend it is lost to the previous millenium.

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