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Comment Responsibility Deflection (Score 1) 95

Voltus will sign up homes and businesses and give them financial incentives to curb their usage when local power demand is high

For businesses, tweaking temperature and increasing HVAC recirculation (i.e cutting down on fresh air) reduces power consumption.

So when the AC air in these building is unusually cold, warm or stale:
- at the doctor's,
- at the mall,
- at the cinema,
- at (God forbid!) the hospital! ...should we think of Voltus and Google?

What is Ellen Zuckerman, head of energy market development for North and South America at Google, doing to mitigate the impact on vulnerable on humans? Does she have constraints applied in her spreadsheet model to avoid this? Or has the accountability headache of managing impact just been passed downward to "Where it belongs!"

Comment anyone can be searched on entry (Score 1, Funny) 321

If you enter the country, you can be searched without a warrant. Not needing a warrant means they don't have to present a reason for the search to a judge (or anyone else). The lie is the legal equivalent of them saying "because". CSAM is the generic bogeyman excuse they'll give if they don't want the suspect to tip off and of his buddies.

Comment "Think of the users that will no longer be fooled (Score 3, Interesting) 73

Yes. Think. And the best course of action is to make the 'hacked' board advertise it's hacked state on bootup -- via VGA, blinking board LEDs, and even sound output. Something like, "Warning, my RAM has been hacked." But allow the user to proceed if they accept the risk.

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