> Kansas City, it's a big destination for conventions
> because it's in the middle of the country.

Really? I used to have to travel there for work occasionally... not conventions or anything, just a remote site. So I'm not sure about its convention facilities. But KC's airport is just bloody awful and most definitely not suitable for the level of traffic of a major convention destination. The only airport I've personally experienced as worse is Newark... and that's mostly the people that make the place so unpleasant. MCI's people are nice. But the airport itself is just so god-awfully designed I have to think the architect was an active misanthrope who intentionally set it up it to make people miserable. Arrivals aren't so bad... but departures or transfers... ugh... it's like they wanted KC to be a roach motel. You can enter, but you can't leave.

I think a big problem is that there are no controls on the use of that little three arrows in a triangle logo that is supposed to indicate recyclability. So there are many products that are not, in fact, recyclable that do have the logo on them. So how do I know that this plastic bottle is recyclable and this other one is not if they both have the logo? How do I know that only the lid of the pizza box can be recycled, but the bottom of the box has a plasticized sealant that can't be recycled when the logo is on the bottom and there are no instructions otherwise? And as someone else mentioned, just what the hell is the difference between cardboard and paperboard and which inks do and do not make either one impossible to recycle and how is anyone to know when they're on-the-spot at the recycling station and everything has the logo?

So what happens... that could very easily have been predicted if anyone with at least two brain cells to rub together had bothered to do so... is that many people just say "fuck it," look for the logo, and if its there it goes into the recycle bin. Now, you may point to the recycling habits in Japan to counter. But let's be real, Americans are stubborn arses about such things. It will be a multi-generational effort to instill that sort of attentiveness to sorting and recycling here. And no such effort is underway, not even in.California.

What is therefore needed is a new recycling logo... one that is trademarked and only licensed to be used on items that genuinely are recyclable; in fact and not some wishfully thinking fever dream. Granted, there will still be people who use the bins interchangeably. We'll never get the "caring about the environment is communism" people. But if we took this one small step to drastically lower the effort, we'd have the "fuck it" people properly and effectively recycling. And I would bet good money that there are more of the latter than the former.

I watch a lot of maritime disaster videos, so YouTubeâ(TM)s genius algorithm thinks Iâ(TM)d be interested in traveling on a cruise ship.

There's always Debian.

As others have said, Thread is IPv6 so it is theoretically addressable from the Internet (though current border devices don't allow that). But since "protected subnet" is not the primary security mechanism for Matter, we'll likely avoid Skynet Over Thread.

If I understand you, you believe that IoT is the biggest threat on the internet? Uh, no, the internet has way worse threats. And you think that I hurt your security by installing them?

So, I think that you are terrified of things you don't understand, and "things you don't understand" includes most technical issues. So, you screech and whine loudly about those things. "Ignorance and prejudice and fear walk hand in hand". Also "those who know what's best for us must rise and save us from ourselves." And Thread is not even in the top 20 current issues covered by that song...

Sounds good. Thread is available for anyone and is a mesh, so the more you deploy, the healthier the network becomes. Matter gives actual security, not "you can't easily get to the network so we assume it's safe". And it all works locally, without needing to talk outside your house. Plus, matter + thread controllers/routers are available in all Amazon/Apple/Google controllers, so you don't need Yet More Random Devices to make things work.

If you don't want smart devices in your house, no worries. Please stop moaning and whining every time they are mentioned; we know. And the world has so many real problems that we don't have the bandwidth to listen to problems solved by "well, I won't install any and I'll shut the fuck up." But if you do want convenient control over your house, and are willing to trade off some security for some functionality, this is an improvement.

No surprise at all that they sided with the corporations. Nothing positive for the consumers and people was ever going to get through that gauntlet of wickedness and corruption in the first place.

Just like the subject says, supersymmetry, an elegant solution to a number of problems, in particular the best theoretical extension to the Standard Model, slides closer to oblivion with each large scale and small scale (accelerator) experiment meant to find these large supersymmetrical particles.

Why would there be one? This looks like a bog-standard corporate acquisition with some kowtowing to trump. Skeezy for the latter, but I don't see any climate angle to Juniper's networking kit.

Well, your buying power would be crippled.

Yeah? And why would I take my iPhone to some dodgy kiosk in the mall versus walking another hundred feet to the actual Apple store; where I know the techs are adequately trained, have the actual Apple tools and spare parts (Which the kiosk may or may not invest in even if Apple is mandated to let them glom onto their supply chain relationships.), the repair is likely for free with Applecare, the company will stand by its work, and they may just swap out my borken kit (This has happened to me three times; twice with iPhones and once with an Apple Watch.) with a refurbished or even new one to same me the time?

Sure, itâ(TM)s quite possible for two people to exchange offhand remarks about the local weather apropos of nothing, with no broader point in mind. It happens all the time, even, I suppose, right in the middle of a discussion of the impact of climate change on the very parameters they were discussing.

The thing to understand is we're talking about sixth tenths of a degree warming since 1990, when averaged over *the entire globe* for the *entire year*. If the change were actually distributed that way -- evenly everywhere over the whole year -- nobody would notice any change whatsoever; there would be no natural system disruption. The temperature rise would be nearly impossible to detect against the natural background variation.

That's the thinking of people who point out that the weather outside their doors is unusually cool despite global warming. And if that was what climate change models actually predicted, they'd be right. But that's not what the models predict. They predict a patchwork of some places experiencing unusual heat while others experience unusual coolness, a patchwork that is constantly shifting over time. Only when you do the massive statistical work of averaging *everywhere, all the time* out over the course of the year does it manifest unambiguously as "warming".

In the short term -- over the course of the coming decade for example, -- it's less misleading to think of the troposphere becoming more *energetic*. When you consider six tenths of a degree increase across the roughly 10^18 kg of the troposphere, that is as vast, almost unthinkable amount of energy increase. Note that this also accompanied by a *cooling* of the stratosphere. Together these produce a a series of extreme weather events, both extreme heat *and* extreme cold, that aggregated into an average increase that's meaningless as a predictor of what any location experiences at any point in time.

Ah yes, this moral panic is totally different than all the other times people have been whipped into a frenzy by an almost bon existent problem.

We have real problems to solve. I'll leave the fake ones to people like you.