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Comment DOD largest Employer on the Planet plus the DHS (Score 1) 46

The DOD is the largest employer on the planet. The DHS isn't even a part of the DOD. It is a separate entity. That being said we are not even looking at the periphery of other US government. The salaries of these new hires will not come from your taxes. These salaries will come from borrowing from the Federal Reserve which is how the US government funds things. Our taxes don't even cover the interests on those debts. The cyber security experts of diversity will be an additional waste product. We definitely need a variety of people doing jobs. But those jobs will end up penalizing other Americans who are not part of the "team." So what will the NSA be doing? How about the FBI and CIA? How about the DIA? The DHS will be allowed to attack Americans with WOKE employees. Nothing to worry about here.
Earth

Submission + - What's the Carbon Footprint of Bicycling?

Hugh Pickens writes writes: "Brian Palmer writes that although none of the major manufacturers has released data on their energy consumption and how much greenhouse gas making a bicycle requires, Shreya Dave, a graduate student at MIT, recently estimated that manufacturing an average bicycle results in the emission of approximately 530 pounds of greenhouse gases. Therefor given a "typical U.S. diet," you would have to ride your bike instead of driving for around 400 miles to cover the bike's initial carbon footprint. However calculating the total environmental impact of a mode of transit involves more than just the easy-to-measure metrics like mileage per gallon. Using a life-cycle assessment Dave concluded that an ordinary sedan's carbon footprint is more than 10 times greater than a conventional bicycle (PDF) on a mile-for-mile basis, assuming each survives 15 years and you ride the bike 2,000 miles per year. What about other ways to get to work? According to Dave's life-cycle analysis, the only vehicle that comes close to a bicycle is the peak-hour bus—and it's not really that close. A fully loaded bus is responsible for 2.6-times the carbon emissions total of a bicycle per passenger mile while off-peak buses account for more than 20 times as many greenhouse gases as a bicycle. What about the carbon footprint of walking? “Walking is not zero emission because we need food energy to move ourselves from place to place,” says environmentalist Chris Goodall. “Food production creates carbon emissions.”"

Comment Buy the phone in that country (Score 4, Interesting) 198

You will just need to buy that phone in the country you are going in. Otherwise you may loose it through customs unless you are a diplomat. Best to get something boring and assume that everything you send is readable by anyone. If you keep something that is valuable there is nothing that customs would like better than to have your device.

Comment Best Buddha (Score 1) 357

In support for the father I am getting an old Super Beetle and painting Buddha Squad. The church is always in a funny position. You have to send a message to others otherwise you will loose your tithe and way of life. It is an obvious parody and spoof with a positive message. Best Buy may just say: Look you guys are funny, but don't put VWs all over the place. When the numbers increase, then it is an obvious ploy to use Best Buy's marketing to push a different cause.
Data Storage

"Limited Edition" SSD Has Fastest Storage Speed 122

Vigile writes "The idea of having a 'Limited Edition' solid state drive might seem counter-intuitive, but regardless of the naming, the new OCZ Vertex LE is based on the new Sandforce SSD controller that promises significant increases in performance, along with improved ability to detect and correct errors in the data stored in flash. While the initial Sandforce drive was called the 'Vertex 2 Pro' and included a super-capacitor for data integrity, the Vertex LE drops that feature to improve cost efficiency. In PC Perspectives's performance tests, the drive was able to best the Intel X25-M line in file creation and copying duties, had minimal fragmentation or slow-down effects, and was very competitive in IOs per second as well. It seems that current SSD manufacturers are all targeting Intel and the new Sandforce controller is likely the first to be up to the challenge."
Security

Adobe Download Manager Installing Software Without Consent 98

"Not all is worth cheering about as Adobe turns 20," writes reader adeelarshad82, who excerpts from a story at PC Magazine's Security Watch: "Researcher Aviv Raff has found a problem in ADM (Adobe Download Manager) and the method through which it is delivered from adobe.com. The net effect of the problem is that a user can be tricked into downloading and installing software using ADM without actual consent. Tonight Adobe acknowledged the report and said they were working on the issue with Raff and NOS Microsystems, the company that wrote ADM."
Debian

FreeNAS Switching From FreeBSD To Debian Linux 206

dnaumov writes "FreeNAS, a popular, free NAS solution, is moving away from using FreeBSD as its underlying core OS and switching to Debian Linux. Version 0.8 of FreeNAS as well as all further releases are going to be based on Linux, while the FreeBSD-based 0.7 branch of FreeNAS is going into maintenance-only mode, according to main developer Volker Theile. A discussion about the switch, including comments from the developers, can be found on the FreeNAS SourceForge discussion forum. Some users applaud the change, which promises improved hardware compatibility, while others voice concerns regarding the future of their existing setups and lack of ZFS support in Linux."

Comment Re:Main mistake they made? (Score 1) 587

Wow! Higher than Best Buy! Is that possible? Anyway... They used to be a great store, but last year the year before last I shopped at Christmas and the store was in some kind of "lock-down" it was terrible to shop there. There were barricades to prevent free movement through the store, so you had to follow the maze out. It was awful. I never went in again.

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