Apparently the background is that companies have been getting sued under California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA) for using cookies on their websites, but instead of modifying the law to be clear that cookies do not constitute illegal “pen registers” or “trap and trace devices” under CIPA they made a generic change that allows businesses to wiretap for any commercial business purpose.
What we really need to invest in here in the US is EVs with battery swap capabilities and battery swap station infrastructure. IMO, that is even better than PHEV for the environment with all the convenience and lower costs. The battery swaps take 2-3 minutes or under 4 minutes if you include the parking time (e.g., on Nio you push a button on the touch screen when it's your turn in line at the station if there is a line and it automatically parks in the battery swap station).
The battery swap EV is gaining popularity in China and Europe.
Instead of paying more for EVs with their large batteries, you pay less for one without a battery (it would come with one from the battery swap plan you select, but you don't own it). You pay for a monthly battery swap plan based on how much you drive which costs less than you would pay for gas. You don't have to worry about how long the battery lasts because they are maintained by the battery swap stations. They can have flexible plans where you can upgrade your battery size when you need to go on a longer trip.
You aren't limited to small EVs either, this can support SUVs (Nio makes SUVs) that are popular in the US. There are companies doing battery swap with big rigs even (they have even big rig battery swaps under 4 mins).
Does this also say something more about the "coffee nap"?
Trump's second administration is ripping up parts of the country’s cyber playbook and taking many of its best players off the field, from threat hunters and election defenders at CISA to the leader of the NSA and Cyber Command. Amid a barrage of severe attacks like Volt Typhoon and rising trade tensions, lawmakers, former officials, and cyber professionals say that sweeping and confusing cuts are making the country more vulnerable and emboldening its adversaries. “There are intrusions happening now that we either will never know about or won’t see for years because our adversaries are undoubtedly stepping up their activity, and we have a shrinking, distracted workforce,” says Jeff Greene, a cybersecurity expert who has held top roles at CISA and the White House.
Is there any chance of Disney Lucasfilm ever being run by adults again? They announce new movies several times a year, but none of them get made, which is good, because the ones that do get made are all garbage. Well, all but one.
I can't believe they haven't damaged the company so much they have to start selling properties off, and I'll be happy when they do.
Disney delenda est.
Bingo. (no mod points today)
I wish I had mod points for this. My son-in-law works in this stuff and he's been frustrated about resistance to carbon-reduction efforts. The specific one he mentioned a while back I believe involved adding a (possibly calcium-containing) base to let a precipitate fall onto the sea bed sequestering the carbon. People were worried about sticking basic chemicals into the sea without realizing that reducing acidity itself was good in addition to carbon sequestration - that they're actually related.
It looks like the approximately 30 cm length and 1 cm outer radius cylinder produces up to 50 microvolts and 60 nA or 3 picowatts if I'm reading the article correctly? So to power a 12W LED light bulb you would need to build 1.2 million km of cylinders. I don't know if you can scale up the size of the cylinders, but let's say you can chain them together to increase the voltage and current. If you built a 200m tall power plant full of them, you could stack 20,000 cylinders. If the building was 600m wide, then you could have 60,000 cylinders wide, and the building would be 1km long. So you would need a 1000m x 600m x 200m size power plant that would likely cost billions of dollars to build to power a single LED light bulb... Actually larger to account for space for more than the cylinders. Obviously the building would need lighting, so it wouldn't even produce enough power for itself.
For the example of charging a cell phone that someone else posted, you would probably want about twice that (24W). So two power plants to charge a cell phone.
Obviously they hope their research leads to advancements in scalability. It seems more likely to me that the experiment won't be repeatable and some other interference was the cause of their results, but this is not my area of expertise.
Nobody was banned for "conservative viewpoints". They were banned for posting blatant lies.
I think you are confused. You are treating "conservate viewpoints" and blatant lies as if they aren't the same thing.
You're already carrying the sphere!
