Comments on: OSCON 2008: Environmentally Unfriendly

By: OSCON 2008: Open Source Software in Satellite Science Data Processing at NASA, by Curt Tilmes :: canspice.org

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 18:48:06 +0000

[...] was originally going to go to Greening the Conference Circuit because these conferences are environmentally unfriendly, but decided to go to something tangentially-related to what I do. Satellite science is kind of [...]

By: Duncan Arrow

Duncan Arrow — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:15:56 +0000

There is still a significant environmental cost to flash drives - especially if they’re cheap! Consider the raw materials (including nasty chemicals), manufacturing and shipping costs to make the drives in the first place.

Also, if they’re cheap, they’ll probably be 128Mb large or less, which is useless for most people and will therefore get disposed of pretty quickly in any case (or break and get thrown away, coz they’re cheap).

There’s no easy solution, except for stopping producing things in the first place - whether it be magazines, foam rockets, flash drives or o’Reilly dildos…

By: Brad

Brad — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 18:54:49 +0000

I guess that’s the “there’s no such thing as bad publicity” option?

By: Maximillian Dornseif

Maximillian Dornseif — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 18:27:10 +0000

They don’t put the stuff on flash drives because 90% would delete it without ever looking.

By using paper they made even you remember the brand “Web host industry review”.