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Still have not made up the energy savings that the 2007 extensions were to provide. Additionally, the data centre in Indiana that we had to deal with in 2005 and 2006 when the state decided to adopt daylight savings / summer time.

Convincing management that systems could not just be changed to America/New_York took man-months of discussion.

The "energy savings" angle needs to be ignored as a benefit, because it takes significant energy to make these adjustments. If things are going to be changed, consider two time-zones for the lower 48: https://qz.com/142199/the-us-needs-to-retire-daylight-savings-and-just-have-two-time-zones-one-hour-apart/

When Chennai, India was hit with unexpected rain and a reservoir breached flooding the city, Ola drivers operated rescue service using boats.

I'll do software jobs and Americans should do menial jobs. This type of uncivilized Caste system is not acceptable in USA; https://qz.com/918834/indians-...

https://qz.com/889524/the-us-s...

If that is correct, then the article linked to in the summary was in error. To quote:

"Amazon is contesting a search warrant from police in Arkansas, who are seeking 48 hours worth of recordings and responses made by an Amazon Echo that belonged to a murder victim."

https://qz.com/917790/amazon-c... (second paragraph)

Behind every great fortune there is crime;
1% owns 60% wealth http://qz.com/843902/1-of-indi...

There was a similar article last summer about Americans.

Yahoo's timeline: value

The Economist found that between 2012 and 2015 the three biggest Indian outsourcing firmsâ"TCS, Wipro and Infosysâ"submitted over 150,000 visa applications for positions that paid a median salary of $69,500. In contrast, Americaâ(TM)s five biggest tech firmsâ"Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Google and Microsoftâ"submitted just 31,000 applications, and proposed to pay their workers a median salary of $117,000 http://www.economist.com/news/... https://qz.com/889524/the-us-s...

Somewhat agreed...

What the US and EU have lost is the challenge of tackling scale. We develop precision, but unscalable, limited tech nowadays. Scalable tech is now developed in other countries, i.e computers and phones for instance.

Sure companies like Apple designs and develops, but doesn't produce. Both are challenging problems. But I think the scale problem is harder, and more important (it's the source of tech adoption). For example: one has to ask which is harder and more beneficial: a one of 100 watches precise down to the 1/1000000 of a second or mass producing 1000000 watches that work for a lifetime? Just the former provides consumers with exclusivity rights.... and that will last only so long.

As for scale, look at Ehang, they just flew 1000 drones they are tackling the scale problem, and eventually will get the exclusivity reins.

You are right that we have a long history of people crying wolf. As part of a course on the policy and ethical implications of AI, I am teaching the history of Luddite reactions from the printing press to the more recent robotic "revolution". Even recently with ATMs, there was a prediction of fewer branches and tellers which did not happen. So we're good right? Well...

Unfortunately, there is one thing that should stand out as being potentially different this time -- in previous instances of the Chicken Little scenarios, it was those who were worried about being displaced that were sounding the alarm, not those creating the technology. This time, it's the other way around. The vast majority of AI researchers, particularly in the private sector, are bullish on the elimination of most blue-collar and service jobs (even management and hedge fund investors are not safe) in the not too distant future. And if you have doubts, we have ample room to believe that the changes are not 50 years away:

• Manufacturing jobs are finally returning to North America...for robots
• Chinese factory replaces 90% of human workers with robots. Production rises by 250%, defects drop by 80%
• BBC News: Foxconn replaces '60,000 factory workers with robots'
• Attention all humans of Shanghai! Robo chefs will now whip you up a bowl of ramen in 90 seconds flat
• Japanese white-collar workers are already being replaced by artificial intelligence
• Mining 24 Hours a Day with Robots
• China Has Launched the Robocops You Have Been Waiting For
• Robots are already replacing fast-food workers Trump’s pick for labor chief, the CEO of Hardee's and Carl’s Jr., likes the idea.
• Inside Silicon Valley’s Robot Pizzeria
• Fmr. McDonald's USA CEO: $35K Robots Cheaper Than Hiring at $15 Per Hour
• Fast-food CEO says he's investing in machines because the government is making it difficult to afford employees

And other things to think about....

• Dallas Police Used Robot With Bomb to Kill Ambush Suspect
• Microsoft Foresees AR Tracking Your Keys, Milk, Entire Life
• White House: US Needs a Stronger Social Safety Net To Help Workers Displaced by Robots
• McKinsey's 2016 Analy

H1B Indians are importing their uncivilized Caste system to USA https://qz.com/889524/the-us-s... http://www.washingtonpost.com/...

Do you want import their "uncivilized" culture with fast-track green cards? https://qz.com/889524/the-us-s... http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new... http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...

Zero-sum https://qz.com/899306/will-the...

Casteists/Racists/Terrorists should be expelled from USA https://qz.com/889524/the-us-s...

Is it just me, or does the quartz report referenced in the summary have nothing to do with what the summary is referring to it for?

Quartz has a chart embedded in its report that shows the cost of education by major at the University of Florida.

I mean, I searched that entire article for any mention of 'education', 'tuition', or even 'florida' and found nothing. Did someone post the wrong URL?

Yup. For some reason the /. editor added the summary and then put the wrong link in the summary. I had left it out since TFA had the link already in it.

It is NOT just you. WHY is no one mentioning this? I know Slashdot always jokes about not RTFA, but this just bizarre. Here's the correct link: https://qz.com/884450/which-co...

Quartz has a chart embedded in its report that shows the cost of education by major at the University of Florida.

I mean, I searched that entire article for any mention of 'education', 'tuition', or even 'florida' and found nothing. Did someone post the wrong URL?

World's largest polluter in what?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

According to this, China is the top of the pile for CO2. The US environmental regulations have caused us to have very clean air and water, where China has no regulation and pollutes their land air and water to the point where people are dying from it. But I guess you don't care about facts and figures and work more off your gut?

Here's another article about it:

http://www.activesustainabilit...

You don't see people walking around with dust masks on in the US, but I am sure you already knew that.

For fine particulates, China is still pretty bad, though Saudi Arabia surpasses them there. Likely it is due to the desert there though.

https://qz.com/794542/air-poll...

Most polluted cities, US not even on the list anywhere:

http://www.politifact.com/trut...

As far as disproportionate, not really. VW has more diesels on the roads in the US than any other car manufacturer. The impact is more for this issue than other diesel manufacturers who were also fined steeply. Considering the EU feels it can fine Apple for paying the taxes they owe in Ireland, I am not sure how you think this fine is somehow disproportionate.

If you did put stock in the opinions of Nobel laureates, you'd want to look at more than one source to understand their broad consensus. Here's a declaration by 36 of them calling for urgent action on climate change. So 1/36 dissenters means that there's about a 97% consensus among Nobel laureates.

Apple removed the English and Chinese-language versions of the New York Times app on 23 December, although it was not immediately clear why.

Maybe because the NYT was banned in China in 2012?? http://www.cnn.com/2012/10/26/world/asia/china-times-website-blocked/

and

From How the New York Times is eluding censors in China

Using apps: Articles are published on apps targeting the Chinese-language market that have often been ignored by Chinese censors for weeks or months at a time, before being blocked. Often these apps are openly branded with the “New York Times” name.

I'm not saying censoring them is right, but this crap they are peddling about not knowing why their apps were pulled from China is pure bullshit. They know exactly why: They were banned in 2012 by the Chinese government! China just never got around to asking for the apps to be pulled until now.

There is nothing innovative about the Uber model. Their ride matching algorithm is poor (regressive pattern matching algorithm with weighted outcomes = meh whatever) they just identified a market and monopolized exactly as the taxi companies did. But hey its 'an app' and f**k it in all those places around the world where real full time jobs are being lost... come in with a 19th century share cropping model. The middle man extracts the profit, owns the IP, runs the monopoly and relies on a bad low pay gig economy for people desperate enough to run a car making a loss to do the work. http://qz.com/312537/the-secre... http://bilbo.economicoutlook.n...

The labor force participation rate ticked down to 62.7 percent.

Come on man, it's right in the summary. But "statistically employed" isn't the term you are looking for, you are thinking of "Labor Underutilization"

If you don't care to actually google something, read this, it seems like a pretty reasonable explanation of what that number means and gives a whole bunch of other numbers and trends that are actually a more useful gauge of unemployment. link I have no idea if the source is reputable, but the charts are sourced from CBO numbers, so I assume it's accurate.

Like you I've never seen any of this "fake" news anywhere I frequent. So I followed the links to one of these "fake" stories. Here is what I found:

From the Slashdot summary you click the link and end up at a news site called Quartz. Wikipedia characterizes Quartz as a site that "targets high-earning readers who traditionally read other left-leaning publications," a bit of the left wing echo chamber, in other words. In the Quartz story you find one link to what is described as a fake news story at a site called The Daily Signal. The Daily Single is a Heritage Foundation deal; a piece of the right wing echo chamber. The story itself is categorized by The Daily Signal as "Energy / Commentary," and — indeed — it reads like commentary, making no pretense at being news. The last paragraph:

It’s past time for the American people to stand up to Musk and demand that our legislators and other elected officials bring him back to earth before spending one more dollar of our money. He’s wasted enough of it already.

Pure commentary.

I conclude that this Slashdot story is fake; the one "fake news" story being cited by Slashdot via Quartz isn't a news story at all; it's political commentary, labeled as commentary and reads like any other piece of commentary. If this is what the left is hanging its hat on I say go for it; your delusions aren't helping you at all and I hope you continue to indulge them.

Ok I think Trump is a moron who will probably fuck the country over,

If that is your expectation? What is your conclusion, maybe this:

but I support the democratic process therefore support him as the elected leader.

Democratic process? People go and vote, one person, one vote to be counted. Is it then fair, to filter those votes by state through another element - electoral college - historical origin described there: http://www.history.com/topics/... and turn the result into the opposite what the vote count resulted in?
Not the first time this happened and supposedly again this time. Isn't this the opposite of a democratic process and can be manipulated?

In general, you have a 2-party system in the US and all kinds of things happen to leave it that way. Not really a great mechanism to reflect different opinions and promote changes.

One thing I am already sick of is the amount of anti-Trump articles doing the rounds based purely on speculation of what he might do as POTUS.
  This sort of thing is bearable during an election when everyone is trying to convince others to vote for their person, but its over, he won, let it go.

Hold it right there - not just yet the POTUS but given plans for his presidency, selecting and announcing his cabinet members and coming back to his election campaign promises. That has already great impact on people and other states which are watching anxiously. That's not speculation, those are facts!

One example: Deport "illegal" aliens in whatever great numbers - millions or even a fraction of that - what are the logistics to run such an undertaking, the legal background to even do this and the repercussions in people's mind - aren't US immigration offices overloaded with applicants fearing Trump action's consequences. In an orderly legal system, there will be court cases with deportations but personal/judges have been cut short: http://qz.com/771583/a-record-...

He should be given the chance to lead and be judged on his actual decisions, not what we think he might do. All this Anti-Trump hysteria is doing is proving Trump right and feeding the monster.

Trump has no political experience at all:
Professional Experience
Chairman, Trump Hotels and Casino Resorts, Incorporated
Founder/Chairman/President/Chief Executive Officer, The Trump Organization, 1975-present

And seem to have screwed people during his career, I think it's just natural to be suspicious. Why don't YOU relax?

I think Android counts for more than 85% of smartphone sales now, more like 99%.

You think wrong. Latest is 87.5%.

Personally, most to the people I see in my city have iPhones. But there are more poor countries and poor people in the world than rich.

http://qz.com/826672/android-g...

> the legacy is not being carried on well

Au contraire. The focus on mobile and cloud at the expense of the Mac line is exactly where the Steve wanted to head.
http://qz.com/196005/the-steve...

Germans use lots of cash as well. Not so much an issue of gray markets or tax evasion with them. They had a front row seat when index cards were used to round up the Jews. So when they raise issues of privacy, I'm going to listen.

TFA is just wrong, wrong, wrong. Not the first, not the biggest, not the most difficult. Read this instead http://qz.com/656104/a-fleet-o... A week of driving, trucks from several manufacturers, 2000 km Stockholm to Rotterdam across 4 borders. Uber don't have a clue what they are up against. 120 miles? F**king amateurs.

Yes, but this is Uber, posterboy of publicity. Because it's Uber it's new and fresh (regardless of how many people have done it before).

My question is, did they sell the pisswater (sorry, as a UK resident it is against the law to call Budweiser a beer) for $2 a bottle off the street and call it "beverage sharing".

TFA is just wrong, wrong, wrong. Not the first, not the biggest, not the most difficult.

Read this instead http://qz.com/656104/a-fleet-o...

A week of driving, trucks from several manufacturers, 2000 km Stockholm to Rotterdam across 4 borders.

Uber don't have a clue what they are up against. 120 miles? F**king amateurs.

or the other 99%ers that live in towns that are at or below sea level. The US has plenty of cities that could disappear. Eventually the Earth will recover on it's own (assuming we don't screw it up more), but I wont be around thousands of years from now when it does.

Given that the game has 1 hour of actual playing time and maybe 7 or 8 seconds of action per play and about 2 plays per minute that doesn't add up to much action in a game that drones on about 3 and a half hours.

"1 hour of actual playing time"? Try 11 minutes of actual football action. While the sport has some pretty amazing highlights there is a TON of waiting around while nothing actually happens.

Indeed. Who the hell? Her speaking fees are so unreasonably high compared to everyone else in the world, surely the only answer is corruption and bribery. Pull your head out. http://qz.com/441327/yes-hilla... http://www.inquisitr.com/22032...

Riiight, will those "facts" include the fact that Google was caught rigging search results to be Pro Clinton? Or how about the fact that Eric Schmidt is working for the Clinton Campaign? How about the fact that Google has a meeting a week with the Obama administration?

Well, since you're big on actual quotes, let's look at an actual quote of what she said last night:

As I recall, that was something I said about Abraham Lincoln after having seen the wonderful Steven Spielberg movie "Abraham Lincoln" . . .

Which could only be considered "completely accurate" if you're engaging in some good old-fashioned Clintonian word parsing. The message she intended to convey, of course, was that she was only talking about Lincoln, not today, and certainly not about herself. But your own quote shows she wasn't only talking about Lincoln -- she simply invoked Lincoln as a historic example of the general principle she was espousing:

. . . and that's not just a comment about today. That, I think, has probably been true for all of our history, and if you saw the Spielberg movie, Lincoln . . .

And then, after finishing with Lincoln, she returned to her general principle:

I mean, politics is like sausage being made. It is unsavory, and it always has been that way, but we usually end up where we need to be. But if everybody's watching, you know, all of the back room discussions and the deals, you know, then people get a little nervous, to say the least. So, you need both a public and a private position.

So no, her representation last night was not even close to "completely accurate" -- it was the best spin she could come up with to try to save face.

Except this is another example of how since the IPO they have become just another bloated shitty tech company.

Before the IPO Google was this great mad scientist of a company, throwing out all these wild ideas and new products and just letting the market see what stuck. I remember before Gmail many said having email as conversations was seriously stupid, that nobody would want to give up the letter formatting they were used to, but Google did it anyway...but that was then, this is now.

Sadly Google now seems no different than Apple and MSFT, more worried about keeping their position and buying lobbyists to get laws written for them than they are just doing what made Google great which was letting all these smart people come up with cool ideas and seeing what stuck. Maybe its inevitable, once a company grows beyond a certain size or goes public it has to become just another douchebag corp, but its still a shame that Google went from an almost Willy Wonka level of new and strange ideas to rigging search results to protect their political investment.

Oh and before anybody claims its being hypocritical since the video is on YouTube? Yeah...they demonitized the video so they took the ad revenue on a million hit video and kept it, thus punishing those who dare speak against them...but hey they didn't BAN it right?

India has more cows than any country in the world.
http://beef2live.com/story-wor...

http://qz.com/643433/all-you-w...
India's cows produce more climate damage that all of its cars and trucks.
http://content.time.com/time/w...

The immigrants..

(yada yada...)

...But supposedly it's a good joke and if you're not in then you're a racist fascist anti-democrat.>

(yada yada)

No, it's not a joke. It's not a joke that millions of immigrants are blamed worldwide if one commits a crime somewhere in the world but hundreds of crimes by racist, fascist anti-democrats are too common to be news anywhere. How many people know about the 64 arson attacks on refugee centres in Sweden and numerous similar attacks in Germany, Denmark and daily incidents of violence against immigrants in Ireland, the UK and elsewhere? How many know of the Afghan refugee driven to suicide in Sweden this week?

It's funny that here in Ireland, people shun the immigrants in the local repair shops but happily send hundreds of Euro to multinational sweatshops overseas where 90% of the money leaves the EU, never to return. The repair tax break is a good start but I can see right now that this is a small problem. We really need to repair our society so that we don't have so much shit for people like you to shovel onto the backs of immigrants and refugees.

The last I'd heard, news fact-checking organizations were reporting that he told the truth 15% of the time. Why would I ever care what the opinion of someone like was?

And don't tell me "because he's going to be president". The people of the United States are still smarter than that.

Here's one of your news organizations fact checking some things about Donald Trump.

Bruce, I don't know if you've noticed, but the media sometimes misrepresents things. For example, the polls say that 44% of Trumps supporters have a college degree, which the media is quick to point out is less than 50%, so Trump supporters are mostly uneducated.

What they (and you) fail to notice is that the national average for college degrees is 30%, so on average Trump supporters are more educated than the national average. (And here's a reference to the analysis as backing for that statement.)

From that article:

What’s more, Silver found that 44% of Trump voters have college undergraduate degrees, compared to 29% of US adults.

What I don't understand is why Clinton supporters always resort to insults.

I mean, you're especially recognized as being a smart person, yet I don't see you posting a rational reason why Clinton would be a good president.

Set aside that she's not Trump, because there are at least two other candidates, can you point to one thing she's done that has been of benefit to the people of this country? (With links please - don't just make things up.)

Bruce, You're a smart dude.

Can you explain why you need to defend Clinton... with insults?

P.S. - The term "offensive" is used entirely too much recently, but I was honestly offended by your statement. It was an insult, targetting a clearly defined group of people; hence, offensive.

(some might say their phones are contributing to cancer)

No, no, and no. Not only did that "one major study" that supposedly proved it have all sorts of problems, but a much longer, human study found the exact opposite to all those years of supposition. Cell phones don't cause any more cancer than your car radio.

http://qz.com/765902/ubi-would... will PREVENT https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik...

Germany might be a special case because of Störerhaftung, its presumption of liabilty of operators of open Wi-Fi hotspots for their users' infringing or otherwise illegal activity. In any other country, users who rely on UMTS, LTE, or satellite can take their laptops to a restaurant or public library to use unmetered Wi-Fi.

Right now, there are not many alternatives, especially in the x86 world. AMD is a US company too, I would not bet on them resisting a national Security Letter.

Other countries:
The Chinese have the Longsoon, a MIPS-derived homegrown architecture. The Russians have the Elbrus processor family.

For the Elbrus, I found a story on qz.com (http://qz.com/419923/this-22-pound-made-in-russia-laptop-is-actually-pretty-useful/) about a computer with the Elbrus-4C CPU inside. Expensive ($7500), only for sale to corporations and somewhat obsolete compared to the latest western PCs.

I guess for China and Russia it will be worthwhile to use those in security-critical environments, but for others not so much.

Since 1971 America is bullying Saudi Arabia to sell Oil exclusively in US Dollars;
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/...
Result is friction between The Muslim and The West;
http://qz.com/562128/isil-is-a...

A Russian cyberattack that targeted Democratic politicians was bigger than it first appeared and breached private email accounts of more than 100 party officials and groups (could be paywalled; alternate source), reports The New York Times, citing officials with knowledge of the case. From the report:

New York times: invested majority stake by Carlos Slim with ties to obama and the Clinton foundation

The widening scope of the attack has prompted the F.B.I. to broaden its investigation, and agents have begun notifying a long list of Democratic officials that the Russians may have breached their personal accounts. The main targets appear to have been the personal email accounts of Hillary Clinton's campaign officials and party operatives, along with a number of party organizations. Officials have acknowledged that the Russian hackers gained access to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, which is the fund-raising arm for House Democrats, and to the Democratic National Committee, including a D.N.C. voter analytics program used by Mrs. Clinton's presidential campaign.

DNC analytics is Groundworks from GOOGLE

Still trying blame the russians when its clear wikileaks is telling you something here.

This whole story is a political hit job written by a fully compromised media outlet. Gerbil and Stalin would be proud of the American Media at this point.

Feel Free to visit independent media and see whats going on. Youtube:

Drudge Report

Redacted tonight

infowars.com

The Jimmy Dore show

Paul Joseph Watson

The Young Turks are going all in for Hillary, avoid them till they get their heads out of their behinds.

A Russian cyberattack that targeted Democratic politicians was bigger than it first appeared and breached private email accounts of more than 100 party officials and groups (could be paywalled; alternate source), reports The New York Times, citing officials with knowledge of the case. From the report:

New York times: invested majority stake by Carlos Slim with ties to obama and the Clinton foundation

The widening scope of the attack has prompted the F.B.I. to broaden its investigation, and agents have begun notifying a long list of Democratic officials that the Russians may have breached their personal accounts. The main targets appear to have been the personal email accounts of Hillary Clinton's campaign officials and party operatives, along with a number of party organizations. Officials have acknowledged that the Russian hackers gained access to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, which is the fund-raising arm for House Democrats, and to the Democratic National Committee, including a D.N.C. voter analytics program used by Mrs. Clinton's presidential campaign.

DNC analytics is Groundworks from GOOGLE

Still trying blame the russians when its clear wikileaks is telling you something here.

This whole story is a political hit job written by a fully compromised media outlet. Gerbil and Stalin would be proud of the American Media at this point.

Feel Free to visit independent media and see whats going on. Youtube:

Drudge Report

Redacted tonight

infowars.com

The Jimmy Dore show

Paul Joseph Watson

The Young Turks are going all in for Hillary, avoid them till they get their heads out of their behinds.

And according to that same exact website (which is heavily anti-gun biased by design), this year there have been over 4x the number of defensive use incidents (where they only count "verified" defensive incidents, not the much looser criteria they use for "mass" shootings) as there have been "mass" shootings (defined as 4 or more people hurt) and 5x as many officer involved shootings.

So I guess by your logic, we need to ban the police officer emoji in order to reduce violence???

Also, your comparison between lists with 4+ people and Canada "massacres" is comparing completely different things. The Canada list is incomplete (says right on the page) and is also not a list of 4+ injuries like the first list.

But no surprise to the lack of logic in someone who apparently dislikes both free speech and the right to defend yourself. I guess with this post you get an "A" in your "Human Diversity in Math" course.

Battery prices have been falling very quickly for years. They were estimated to be ~$600 per kWh in 2012 and expected to reach $200 per kWh by 2020 and $160 by 2025
http://www.plugincars.com/lith...

We may already be at the $200 level or getting close and *should* beat that $160 level by 2019.

We're already several years ahead of that curve.

From QUARTZ:

The average lithium-ion battery pack has plunged to $150 per KWh from $1,200 per kilowatt hour in 2010, says MIT's Keith. Musk predicted on Tuesday that the Gigafactory could reach $100 per KWh by 2020,

Fact is neither Clinton nor Trump have ever declared personal bankruptcy.

Yes at least 4 businesses owned/run by Donald Trump have filed bankruptcy, and likely a few more.

http://www.rollingstone.com/po...

But have you bothered to look up how many businesses Trump owns and/or runs? The answer is over 500. That's a whole lot of successes for relatively few failures. Even conservatively, 95% of his businesses were/are successful.

http://qz.com/461688/a-list-of...

So your choice is really; Some loud mouth bozo with a 95% success rate in running businesses of all types, or a useless puppet with not a single success in her life.

Since 1971 OPEC is being bullied to sell Oil exclusively in US dollars resulting in friction between 1.8 billion Muslims Worldwide and The West;
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/...
http://qz.com/562128/isil-is-a...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik...
http://www.zerohedge.com/print...