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).
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.
I think they are more referring to his antisemitism and embracing of conspiracy theories.
Examples:
https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/17...
https://www.reuters.com/techno...
https://www.vox.com/technology...
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/t...
https://www.politico.com/news/...
I agree, I've avoided recommending Kaspersky products to customers since the KGB/FSB and government-sponsored hacker connection articles made the news which was around 2012 I believe. It was also a major news item when the US government banned Kaspersky products on government systems in 2017.
If people are paying you to make security recommendations, it's your job to understand security risks.
NIST 800-53r5 SA-21, for example: "Because the system, system component, or system service may be used in critical activities essential to the national or economic security interests of the United States, organizations have a strong interest in ensuring that developers are trustworthy...Authorization and personnel screening criteria include clearances, background checks, citizenship, and nationality...Developer trustworthiness may also include a review and analysis of company ownership and relationships that the company has with entities that may potentially affect the quality and reliability of the systems, components, or services being developed."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
In general terms, avoiding software that originates in countries with hostile foreign governments has been a common computer security concern for a long time.
The summary is misleading and leaves out "with the express purpose" to make the law sound stupid. The law bans geoengineering, not breathing or even pollution.
The intentional injection, release, or dispersion, by any means, of chemicals, chemical compounds, substances, or apparatus within the borders of this state into the atmosphere with the express purpose of affecting temperature, weather, or the intensity of the sunlight, which may threaten the Sasquatch and its natural habitat, is prohibited.
I added the bold.
Source:
https://legiscan.com/TN/amendm...
The speed limiter in question is set at 80 mph (10 higher than any legal speed limit in the state). It doesn't adjust for the speed limit of the road, so there is no need for maps. The cars with it would still be able to go 80 mph regardless of whether the road's speed limit is 70 or 50.
That isn't what the bill says:
28170. As used in this article, “intelligent speed limiter system” means an integrated vehicle system that uses, at minimum, the GPS location of the vehicle compared with a database of posted speed limits, to determine the speed limit, and electronically limits the speed of the vehicle to prevent the driver from exceeding the speed limit by more than 10 miles per hour.
https://leginfo.legislature.ca...
So all the issues people are raising with GPS would apply. E.g., merging onto the freeway and it still thinks you are on a side street so you go to merge onto the freeway and get speed limited to 35 mph. That would improve safety!
What if instead of paying for the battery as part of a new EV, you bought your EV with a subscription to a hot-swap network like you subscribe your cell phone to a cellular network. Instead of paying say $44k for an EV, it was $34k without you owning the battery, but you paid a base $100/month to be part of a battery network like gas stations where you could go to swap out a battery whenever you were low charge plus an extra fee based on the number of swaps you did per month (say $10/swap to pay for the electricity for charging). You would still be able to charge the battery at home to avoid extra swaps if you wanted if you had a charger at home, but people living in apartments or street parking wouldn't have to worry about where to charge.
I don't see EVs entirely replacing gas cars until a solution like this exists or another way for people who don't have a place to charge at night to charge an EV without having to wait 30+ minutes.
That's not true, or at least not what studies show. Studies that have actually been done on socioeconomic shoplifting find that shoplifting rates go up with income. "In fact, research consistently points to the wealthy being more apt to cheat, steal, and make unethical decisions than the poor."
A lot of shoplifting problems today are due to an increase in organized retail theft. "Organized retail crime now accounts for about half of store losses from theft."
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/p...
https://business.time.com/2011...
https://www.cnbc.com/2011/07/1...
I call it what it is. When groups have double standards for Jews, that's antisemitism. There is a good standard called the 3 D's that distinguishes legitimate criticism of Israel from antisemitism: delegitimization, demonization, and double standards.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
A two-state solution was accepted by the Jews, but rejected by the Palestinians on several occasions:
1937: Peel Commission,
1947: UN Partition Plan
1948: After the Israeli War of Independence/Arab-Israeli War of 1948
1967: After the Arab-Israeli war of 1967. This one has some debate. Israel said they sent the offer through the US to neighboring Arab countries, but the Arab countries said they never got the offer.
Israel tried to negotiate for two-state also on:
2000 Camp David Summit
2007 Annapolis Conference
2013-14 Israeli-Palestinian peace talks
The big issues in the more recent negotiations have been control of Jerusalem and that Palestinians recognize Israel and its right to exist.
Prior to 2009, most Israeli's and Palestinian's wanted a two-state solution. At the moment neither side seems to think it will happen. Palestinian's aren't out in the street protesting for a two-state solution, they are protesting for the destruction of Israel and Palestine to be restored "from the river to the sea."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
You haven't shown anything I said not to be true. So who is lying?
The problem is that criticism of Israel is so often not objective, like yours.
Israel isn't committing genocide or apartheid. Israel was perfectly happy patrolling the border with Gaza until Hamas attacked and leaving Gaza alone. Except for inspecting shipments arriving for weapons and Israel supplying water and power, Hamas was left to rule Gaza. It's not Israel's fault that Gaza elected Hamas to lead Gaza. Once Hamas attacked and has said they would keep attacking, Israel had no choice but to defend themselves. Israel seems to be the only country in the world that needs to defend themselves for defending themselves. Hamas is the one who has repeatedly said they want to kill all the Jews in Palestine. Hamas is the one that is trying to commit genocide, not Israel! Hamas and the Palestinians are the guilty party here, not Israel!
As I mentioned before Arab Israelis have equal rights, so there is no apartheid in Israel. B'tselem and Amnesty International's apartheid claims are based on false claims like equating Palestinians and Arab Israelis and also claims that those who don't serve in the military don't get as many public benefits (same as veterans in the US get extra benefits. They make it sound like Arab Israelis can't serve in the military and get the same benefits, which isn't the case, they just choose not to. It's not apartheid if you make a choice to get less benefits, but B'tselem and Amnesty International claim it is.
Israel has offered a two state solution and to negotiate borders on numerous occasions since 1948. Every time, Palestinians have said they don't want a two state solution, the only thing they want and as stated in Hamas's charter is the destruction of Israel and Zionism and every inch of Palestine. Israel can't negotiate with Palestinians until they are actually willing to negotiate rather than call for Israel's destruction as their only objective.
Hamas had control of Gaza before October 7th and the PLO has control over 40% of the west bank (this percentage could be negotiated if the Palestinian's actually wanted to negotiate). B'tselem and Amnesty International includes Gaza and PLO territory in their apartheid claims against Israel, and those areas aren't even run by Israel; talk about misleading!
If Gaza would hand over the hostages and put someone in power who would actually negotiate for peace, I'm sure Israel would be ecstatic and happily end the war. Instead, when Hamas led hostages into Gaza, even the ordinary citizens on the street were beating the hostages including the children. Many Palestinians aren't innocent civilians, they elected terrorists leaders who still have their support, and have engaged in torturing hostages.
Instead of asking Israel to stop defending itself, why not ask Palestinians to stop engaging in and supporting terrorism and negotiate for peace?
I admit I don't much about B'tselem specifically, but they make a habit of demonizing Israel. They claim to have some Jewish Israelis on staff, but most of their staff seems to be Arab Israelis. Antisemitism among Arab Israelis is pretty high.
Some students chanting for Palestinian rights unintentionally using slogans that can mean "genocide".
I put genocide in quotes because I doubt even Hamas wants to murder all the Jews in Israel, they just want to expel them.
Abdel Aziz Rantisi, Hamas leader, June 10, 2003, interview with Al-Jazeera, Jerusalem Post
"By God, we will not leave one Jew in Palestine. We will fight them with all the strength we have. This is our land, not the Jews..."
Some Hamas leaders aren't even shy about saying they want to kill all Jews in interviews.
Always look over your shoulder because everyone is watching and plotting against you.
