A lot of the links to Russia have been severed; it may be easier to get to the internet surreptitiously from Ukraine.

The dumbass Germans shutdown their nuclear power plants in favor of coal. They should be sued.

You've also got the waste heat from power generation and transmission required to power all the ACs that plug into the mains and draw their power from the grid. If an AC is powered by locally connected solar or whatever that's going to be pretty insignificant, but the rest are going to add up. The laws of thermodynamics totally apply, which means you are not magically moving heat from A to B in a zero sum game, you're consuming power to do it, and that means more waste heat in addition to the losses in the system through inefficiencies.

Cities are already microclimates and mass AC adoption is absolutely going to cause an aggregate, and almost certainly measurable, temperature increase across that microclimate, and especially so in narrow streets where there is limited airflow to disperse that extra heat. If the heatwave is already making outside temperatures unhealthy then adding another degree or whatever on top of it to help keep interiors cool via AC is going to really suck for those who are forced to go outside in it for whatever reason.

A better solution, given climate change has been a thing for decades, would have been to look at how pre-AC civilizations in equatorial regions built very efficient ways of keeping interiors cool passively in extreme heat and adopted those techniques in anticipation of hotter summers for any new builds over (realistically) the last 20-30 years. Hindsight, and naive optimism the Paris Agreement et al would work, is a wonderful thing though and here we are - putting a band aid in place that will actually make the overall problem slightly worse.

Good thing too because nothing much would survive the ground suddenly accelerating to those kinds of speeds.

I wonder what effect this will have on the rotation of the Earth. Maybe very small, but we are apparently due for another leap second soon. I had better add simulation of that to my code before it happens for real and breaks something.

It benefits the company too, they have better staff retention and general well-being.

If it's free stuff you are concerned about though, presumably you work 7 days a week and never go on holiday. Or is it just that there is a certain level of acceptable "theft" from the company that you deem to be fair?

The great thing about tinfoil hats is that you can remodel them to change your WiFi signature very easily.

Joking aside, it's a shame most people stopped masking after the pandemic. As well as preventing the spread of respiratory diseases, it was good for privacy in an age where face recognition is so cheap.

He actually meant 17 seconds * 40 watts = 680 joules, not watts.

Great job of trollery. You managed to completely derail the conversation.

No. The word "communism" actually has a meaning. "Bailing out too big to fail banks" is not part of the definition, and for that matter "taking government-mandated risks" isn't communism.

Well, before it was named the Department of Education, anyway. Before it was a separate named department, it was the federal Office of Education, which dates back to 1867.

Oddly enough, though, U.S. Universities are consistently the best in the world. There are a handful of non-US universities in the top ranks-- Oxford and Cambridge always are in the top five, for example-- but overall, yes, at the university level we are the best nation when it comes to educating our kids, at least at the top ranked universities.

Particularly graduate schools.

So, guess what part of U.S. education is most under fire by the current administration.

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Thanks for pointing this out.

It will do, but it also lacks any community input ("Oh, I have this problem but solved it by ...", or "Works for me ...", and so on ...

I emailed them, and got an autoreponse.

And it seems the RSS just started working again.

Hey Slashdot,

The RSS feeds are not working again.

Right now, the feed looks like this.

There are 6 more stories on the front page, newer than the SoftBank and OpenAI story.
The oldest that is not in the RSS feed is from last 23:30 on July 21st, and now it is 9:15am.

I reported this a few days ago, and was marked 'Troll', and 'OffTopic'.
For those who are hasty with moderation points, how else can someone report a site issue, when Slashdot has no place for it?

We get the politicians we deserve.

I was replying to a post stating that the same result could be produced by using a donated egg. A child produced by egg donation is not related to the mother who carries it.

You are misreading.

Because protection mechanisms for HTTPS are on the lookout for code broken into chunks and sent in hexidecimal while the DNS protections are not. Sure. Pull the other one.