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byAmiMoJo
2026 @04:50AM
(#65963830)
Attached to: Fourth US Wind Farm Project Blocked By Trump Allowed to Resume Construction
Filtering out stationary objects at known locations isn't so hard. Plus you can install cameras on them and have 24/7 visibility of ocean areas, although satellites offer some of that already.
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byAmiMoJo
2026 @04:46AM
(#65963826)
Attached to: Walmart Begins Building Out Nationwide EV Charging Network Across America
That's how it works in the UK with supermarkets installing charging. Particularly for people who can't charge at home, they go there to grab some electrons and do the weekly shop at the same time. Same as they would fill their fossil car up after shopping, only more convenient since they don't have to stand around waiting for it.
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byAmiMoJo
2026 @04:43AM
(#65963822)
Attached to: Is the TV Industry Finally Conceding That the Future May Not Be 8K?
It's down to the availability of panels. They will make a panel with a certain pixel density, and it can be cut to various sizes which results in various resolutions. Of course, the larger you cut it, the more expensive it will be, due both to the amount of material involved but also because the chance of there being defects increases.
Hopefully 8k monitors are not too far off. 4k is good but not perfect. The 6k ones are similar pixel density to smaller 4k monitors, just larger.
180719690
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byAmiMoJo
2026 @04:40AM
(#65963818)
Attached to: Is the TV Industry Finally Conceding That the Future May Not Be 8K?
The problem with 3D is that it's very hard to get it right. If part of the image is out of focus, some people are going to get headaches. If there is too much use of depth with stuff popping out of the screen, headaches. And even if it is done perfectly, you need special glasses and a good seating position.
8k is the same as all other 2D TV on the viewer's end. The issue is making it. At 8k you can't do manual focus, for example. You need upgraded editing equipment. It's been deployed in Japan for years, and they still struggle with it. We are reaching the limits of what can be done at reasonable cost with current technology.
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byrsilvergun
1, 2026 @06:11PM
(#65963168)
Attached to: When 20-Year-Old Bill Gates Fought the World's First Software Pirates
And I took time out of my day running the Chinese government just a comment on slash Dot.
Also can you tell your buddy Donald Trump to stop fucking kids? I need to make a trade deal with them but he's just so busy being a pedophile. I mean 30 credible rape accusations eight of which involved children and now we find out from the Epstein files that he was just selling underaged girls. I mean we already knew he was doing it but we've got it in writing now
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byrsilvergun
1, 2026 @06:09PM
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Attached to: Is Meta's Huge Spending on AI Actually Paying Off?
The goal here is to create a post capitalist society without socialism. What the cool kids called techno feudalism.
AI replaces the paying of wages. Instead of employees and consumers the 3,000 billionaires on the planet will have machines and a tiny handful of engineers to keep them working. Also a tiny handful of thugs to keep the engineers in line.
Everyone else including you will live in the kind of abject poverty previously associated with the worst of the American native American reservations before the casinos. Every now and then if you start to develop a civilization on your own they will send drones to slaughter you similar to what they did to Black Wall Street as it was called.
I don't know if they will actually succeed but that is absolutely the plan.
The ruling class doesn't like capitalism. Just because they benefit from it doesn't mean they enjoy it. They absolutely despise being dependent on filthy worms like us for their power and prestige. And for the first time in human history they have a way to be almost completely free of us.
I think the hard part is it's very hard for people to wrap their heads around the idea that someone who benefited so much from capitalism would destroy it.
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byrsilvergun
1, 2026 @05:06PM
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Attached to: Bitcoin Drops 40% in Four Months. Bloomberg Blames Absence of Buyers and Belief
A lot of people have lost their shirts. Meanwhile with Trump as president there's basically no money laundering laws being enforced. So why bother going to the trouble of using crypto to launder your money? And at the end of the day money laundering is the killer app for cryptocurrency.
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byrsilvergun
1, 2026 @02:47PM
(#65962850)
Attached to: When 20-Year-Old Bill Gates Fought the World's First Software Pirates
Microsoft basic was stolen code fished out of school trash cans.
Are we seeing this nonsense because he's in the Epstein files? I imagine his PR firm is working overtime right now.
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Sunday February 01, 2026 @02:15PM
Geoffrey.landis writes: Walmart, the world’s largest retailer, is making a big change to some of its parking lots: they plan to add spaces for electric vehicle charging at select locations in 19 states. (non-paywalled site here). The move follows up on a plan announced in 2023 to build a network of charging stations at Walmart and Sam’s Club stores throughout the U.S. While the company has charging stations at some locations already, it recently updated its website to indicate stations are coming soon to dozens of locations. Walmart said "With a store or club located within 10 miles of approximately 90% of Americans, we are uniquely positioned to deliver a convenient charging option that will help make EV ownership possible whether people live in rural, suburban or urban areas," according to Walmart Senior Vice President of Energy Transformation, Vishal Kapadia.
Walmart plans to have the nationwide network operating by 2030. Customers who want to use the charging stations must use the Walmart App to sign in and pay. The full list of Walmart locations that have recently opened or soon to open EV charging stations is here.
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bysound+vision
01, 2026 @01:52PM
(#65962740)
Attached to: US Government Also Received a Whistleblower Complaint That WhatsApp Chats Aren't Private
While I'd certainly like to know what happened, it's easier just to consider anything he offers you to be tainted.
"Possibly compromised" is identical to "considered compromised" for anyone serious about security.
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bysound+vision
01, 2026 @01:28PM
(#65962710)
Attached to: China Executes 11 Members of Myanmar Scam Mafia
It's a phishing operation. Slashdot covers infosec. Slashdot has regularly reported on these scam centers over the years, including their efforts to secure internet access.
Do you even read Slashdot?
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byGeoffrey.landis
ary 01, 2026 @01:22PM
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Attached to: 99% of New US Energy Capacity Will Be Green in 2026
Nobody is rushing to bring new hydropower or geothermal plants online, and they're just as renewable as wind or solar.
Hydropower is only possible in that very small fraction of the world that has the right combination of rivers and mountains to be able to dam. Most of the really good spots have already been used. And, dams have their own problems. They stop the flow of the river and can play havoc with the locale ecology.
Geothermal is even more problematical and site dependent. If you're in Iceland, which is highly geologically active, it's practical, but most other places it's far from economical. The geothermal gradient is only about 25 or 30 K per kilometer, and to get good carnot effficiency you really really want to be at least twice your heatsink temperature, likely to be no lower than 300K. It's less bad if you just want low-grade heat, not electrical power, for example for heating houses in winter, but low-grade heat distribution tends to be complicated and hence expensive, and, the amount of power you can draw is limited by the thermal conductivity of rock.
So, overall, new hydropower or geothermal plants may be just as renewable as wind or solar, but for the most part the economics don't work.
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bysound+vision
01, 2026 @01:20PM
(#65962692)
Attached to: China Executes 11 Members of Myanmar Scam Mafia
Sounds like those 11 made the mistake of staying in Laukkaing after the military lost control. The article mentions continued scamming in cities that aren't turning them over to the Chinese.
I'm not against the death penalty, but when you concurrently have a huge loophole that allows no penalty, you still have a crime problem regardless of the executions that do occur.
I'm reminded of a Russian saying that goes something like: "The harshness of the law is negated by its optional nature."
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byGeoffrey.landis
ary 01, 2026 @01:02PM
(#65962666)
Attached to: Fourth US Wind Farm Project Blocked By Trump Allowed to Resume Construction
...off Martha's Vineyard, near where the Obamas and major celebrities live.
The project we're discussing is Vineyard Wind. It is an off-shore wind power project located off the coast of Martha's Vineyard.
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byhey!
6 @12:40PM
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Attached to: 99% of New US Energy Capacity Will Be Green in 2026
I think it plausible that 99% of new energy this year come from renewable sources because many of those sources come from renewable types with relatively short construction times.
Up until recently, the US adds about 50 GW of capaicty per year. There's a huge uptick in generation capacity because of energy demands from data centers, so recently it's more like 65 GW/year. The challenge is you can't exploit *this year's* high market prices by starting a nuclear power plant that won't come on line for a decade. Even a combined cycle natural gas plant is going to take five years. But you can have a wind farm up and running in months.
It's not the renewability *per se* that's driving this; it's profiting from the high prices before the AI bubble bursts. Nobody is rushing to bring new hydropower or geothermal plants online, and they're just as renewable as wind or solar.
This move to renewables is not about changing the world. it's about short term financial optimization. But these short term, local optimizations *will* change the world, and planning to handle the transformations driven by short-term market forces is going to take coordinated, long term national action. At present there are regional mandates that will stabilize the local grid against variations in electricity supply. But carving up the nation into small regional markets means higher prices and economic inefficiencies where electricity is transfered from high price areas to stabilize low price areas. Market economics don't work if there are non-market forces (stability) that trump profitability.
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