You jest, but this actually has been studied. Turns out a meat-rich diet in humans produces about 2-4x more greenhouse gas "emissions" than a plant-based one.

Seriously.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/p...

Really? Someone downmodded this guy "Troll"? Are you really that threatened by what he has to say that you're basically sticking your fingers in your ears? That would seem to say a lot more about you than it does about him.

Whoever's turn it is to meta-moderate, here you go.

Bring on the downmods, my soul is prepared.

...I'm not sure that math works out, but the point is well taken.

I'm sure I'd care a lot more about this if I Heart Media didn't own half the spectrum, playing the same garbage across all of it. My wife and I have a game we play in the car, where we try to guess how many stations are playing the latest top 40 hit simultaneously. Highest we've seen is four. Four different stations all playing the same goddamn song at the same time. With internet and satellite radio ubiquitous, we really need to start reevaluating how we prioritize the spectrum.

Almost certainly Google Voice is one source. They have 9 years worth of transcribed voicemails and call recordings to pull from, and I remember them stating things like voice recognition and natural language processing research as uses for such data when you signed up.

100% they're using data from Google Assistant as well.

Google has plenty of sources for this kind of data that people have opted in to.

Is there any way they can be shot down without exacerbating Kessler Syndrome? Even if not, if the alternative is Facebook becoming the defacto owner of internet access, a few centuries without spaceflight might be worth it...

Okay well don't leave us hanging, are you willing to share it?

This is a cute idea, but I don't think much will come of it. ISPs won't be selling individual browsing histories- despite whatever changes to the laws happen, the liability would be staggering and most buyers would be looking for data in a bulk, automated way that scales. As an advertiser, one individual's complete browsing history is completely useless to me; there's no market for that data that ISN'T to publicly shame people or otherwise spy on people. While I suppose private investigators and law enforcement might be a niche market for this sort of thing, I just don't it happening in a significant way.

What you'd actually be buying are audience segments against IP addresses and possibly device IDs, which could then in turn be matched up to other data sets. Ie, if I'm Coscto, I might be trying to identify "Devices that have recently shopped at Walmart.com". Once I have that, I might be able to match some percentage (maybe 10-40%) of those devices to some other kind of data set (for example, to add demographic data). That's just two data points- not nearly enough to identify anyone- and I've already likely narrowed my starting set of devices down to 10-20% of what the ISP provided me.

It IS possible to ultimately drill down into this kind of data far enough that you can be pretty sure you've found the history for an individual person- in theory anyway. But the amount of time/effort/luck involved to get there makes this impractical to do at scale (i.e., for all the Congress-critters) or to keep up to date manually as cookies expire/are deleted, IP addresses change, people upgrade their phones every 1-2 years... it takes full time teams of people to do this at a very basic level.

Plus there's the whole "That wasn't me, damn neighbors stealing my wifi" defense for anything nefarious.

Source: I work in programmatic audience targeting for a Fortune 100. (I promise we're not evil, we just want to sell you stuff you might actually want)

Per their financial statements, they're trying to build up an endowment (like a university and many other large non-profits) so they can support themselves off investment income, and not need to rely as much on direct donations. Those incremental donations after the fundraising goal is reached are even more valuable since they can go directly towards growing the endowment.

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Your definition is not the political definition. There is no real conservative candidate running in this election- "Conservatives" are either voting Johnson, McMullin, or most realistically, staring sadly at the ballot wondering what went wrong. Whatever the result, we should expect to see a major shake up of the traditional "right" parties following this clown show of an election. The Republican party is no more conservative than the Democrats.

Why would Spotify feature artists they're not making as much money on? Anyone who's surprised by this is probably the same sort of person who asks their waiter for a food recommendation at a restaurant (hint: it's whichever entree gets him the bigger tip). If you think any company's curated list of [product] is more than an excuse to push the products they make the most money off of, I've got a bridge to sell you.

The claims that Spotify is intentionally manipulating their search results is just dumb.

So what you're saying is that there should be bands of temperate zones sandwiched between these two extremes, which might be an excellent place to focus the search for life? Possibly with very interesting life indeed, due to the adaptations needed to cope with the extreme radiation, along with the increased likelihood of genetic mutation from the same. This guy is optimistic

Skyrim is 5 years old. Civ 4 is 11 (!) years old (and Civ 5 has native Linux support). Not all, but MOST of the top titles from the past couple years have native Linux support. Many of those that don't can be run just fine using WINE or even a VM, especially older games. Anything built in Unity will have native support for Windows, Mac, and Linux without much extra effort by the developer, and as such Linux support is now the norm for most indie games as well.

Here are some highlights with full native Linux support (SteamDB is helpful for this):
* The Witcher 3 / Wild Hunt
* Don't Starve
* Terraria
* Kerbal Space Program
* Almost everything by Valve (Portal, Half Life 2, CS:GO)
* Factorio
* Torchlight
* Xcom
* L4D2
* Borderlands 2
* Stellaris

As a gamer who just switched his main gaming rig from Windows to Ubuntu (in part because of this Windows 10 nonsense), while there are still some headaches, it's a better time than ever to make the switch. We're really reaching a tipping point.

Biggest client updates:

-UbuntuGnome (featuring Gnome 3.6 by default) is now an official flavor

-Unity 7

-LibreOffice 4

-Improved support for CUPS

-Software Updater simplified

-Friends service replaces Gwibber

I love me some Second Amendment as well, but I really hope you don't have kids living with you...