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Comment Re:Are we comparing apples to apples? (Score 2) 252

The house is burning down, and you are talking about the furniture... Using the current EPA figures agriculture accounts for 10% of total greenhouse emissions, and that's all cows, sheep, etc. in the US. Transportation is #1 (by a small margin). So you can make a much larger impact on greenhouse emissions by buying local. Eating 100% less meat impacts my footprint by 10% at best, but buying all my produce at the farmer's market nets me a 29% return. Switching all my lights to high-efficiency LED bulbs knocks a big chunk out of my 25% electricity footprint, forever. There are many good choices to reduce or offset our footprint, but focusing on veganism as the only solution is missing 90% of the problem. Source: https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissio...

Comment Re:Actually ... (Score 2) 114

... which you can do with C, just turn on the --pedantic flag and then don't stop changing your code until it compiles clean. I'm not saying they should not try using Rust, just that a large part of the problem is the mindset of the developers who ignore all the warnings the compiler is already generating. I guess Rust solves this by not having a non-pedantic mode, partly.

Comment Re:Haters (Score 1) 226

It is a good question, I'd like to know, too. This isn't the same site it was back before there were accounts, of course, but it isn't the same site it was four years ago either. It's not just the lack of nerds, but there seem to be groups of shills pushing political agendas as well. I wonder if all the nerds here have been replaced by H1B's...
Windows

MS, Intel "Goofed Up" Win 7 XP Virtualization 315

clang_jangle writes "Ars Technica has a short article up describing how Microsoft and Intel have 'goofed up' Windows 7's XP Mode by ensuring many PCs will not be able to use it. (And it won't be easy to figure out in advance if your PC is one of them.) Meanwhile, over at Infoworld, Redmond is criticized for having the 'right idea, wrong technology' with their latest compatibility scheme, and PC World says 'great idea, on paper.' With Windows 7 due to be released in 2010, and Redmond apparently eager to move on from XP, perhaps this is not really a 'goof' at all?"
Debian

Preparing To Migrate Off of SHA-1 In OpenPGP 152

jamie found a note on debian-administration.org, the first in a promised series on migrating off of SHA-1 in OpenPGP. "Last week at eurocrypt, a small group of researchers announced a fairly serious attack against the SHA-1 digest algorithm, which is used in many cryptosystems, including OpenPGP. The general consensus is that we should be 'moving in an orderly fashion toward the theater exits,' deprecating SHA-1 where possible with an eye toward abandoning it soon (one point of reference: US govt. federal agencies have been directed to cease all reliance on SHA-1 by the end of 2010, and this directive was issued before the latest results). ... So what can you do to help facilitate the move away from SHA-1? I'll outline three steps that current gpg users can do today, and then I'll walk through how to do each one..."
Government

Austria To Pull Out of CERN 168

andre.david notes an AFP report that Austria has announced its intention to withdraw from CERN, citing budget concerns, adding: "Austrian particle physicists are not happy with this. From HEPHY, the Austrian Institute for High Energy Physics: 'All of a surprise Johannes Hahn... announced that he wants to terminate the Austrian membership at CERN... This [would] affect spin-off projects like the planned cancer treatment center MedAustron... which is dependent on collaborating with CERN... Strangely enough this intention just arrives at a time where scientists are about to harvest the fruits of LHC...' Will other countries follow suit?" "Austria is pulling out of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Science Minister Johannes Hahn announced Thursday, citing budget concerns. The €20M ($26.9M) yearly membership in CERN... makes up 70 percent of the money available in Austria for participation in international institutes and could be better used to fund other European projects, he said. Hahn said he hoped Austria could find 'a new kind of cooperation' with CERN and described Vienna's withdrawal from the project as a 'pause,' noting that some 30 states were already working together with the Geneva-based centre without being members. The newly-available funds will now allow Austria to take part in new European projects, boost its participation in old ones as well as help the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), the country's main organization funding research."
Media (Apple)

Apple Reconsiders, Approves NIN iPhone App 146

gyrogeerloose writes "According to MacRumors, NIN's iPhone application has been approved. Trent Reznor has reported via his Twitter account that the now-approved app was resubmitted without modification, which suggests that Apple reconsidered their initial rejection. This should really come as no surprise to anyone who follows Apple news since it follows the company's typical pattern of handing potentially controversial iPhone apps, especially when it concerns high-profile rejections."
The Courts

Mininova Starts Filtering Torrents 267

Dreen writes with this snippet from TorrentFreak: "Just a few days before their court appearance, Mininova, the largest BitTorrent site on the Internet, has started to filter content. The site is using a third-party content recognition system that will detect and remove torrent files that link to copyright-infringing files."
PC Games (Games)

Submission + - Jonathon Blow adding Map Editor to Braid (examiner.com)

Erik J writes: "Braid creator Jonathon Blow has revealed that a map editor and image tool will be added to the popular puzzle game. First, though, Braid will receive a patch to fix some issues players have reported. Blow explains: "After I get a new version out in a few days that fixes the problems some people are having, and when more people have played/finished the game, I am going to post some documentation for the editor. The way it works is you can make levels with the editor (up to a full game, potentially) and run that with -universe later... also a tool will be released that lets you take Photoshop files and import them into the game, if you want to put new graphics in your levels." It is unclear if these capabilities are coming only to PC or to the Xbox 360 version as well."

Comment Re:Quick primer (Score 1) 288

When you start running more than one screen process under the same user it can make it difficult to re-attach because you have to tell it which pty to attach to.

This is where the "-S sessionname" option is handy. I used to have multiple instances of long computations running, and each screen session would have multiple windows containing the code editing, compiling, and execution. Using the session name made it very easy to tell which was which.

Use the "screen -list" command to see all the different screen sessions you have started, along with their names.

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