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  1. I still don't see how humans and CO2 are causing warming on Mars. https://www.space.com/33001-ma...

  2. Correlation_does_not_imply_causation on Leaked Federal Climate Report Finds Link Between Climate Change, Human Activity (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 0
  3. Chinese spies, Russian spies, Asgardian spies on Ask Slashdot: Are My Drone Apps Phoning Home? · · Score: 2

    You would have to assume that any devices made and software updated by international companies could be potentially co-opted by those states in time of war to spy on national activities - anything with a camera, microphone, and internet connection. That includes the bazillion security cameras, drones, TVs with cameras, phones and laptops. I uninstalled a firmware upgrade to my security camera when I saw they wanted to upload all data to their cloud when I have a perfectly good one at home. Same with the wi-fi smart router. Time to get out the tin foil hats.

  4. I've been using LIbreOffice and previously OpenOffice for over 5 years now for writing requirements and system documentation. One of the features that is seriously confusing and frustrating is how outline numbering and heading numbering works (or doesn't). Near as I can figure there are 2 subsystems/modules to handle numbering: one for bullet/list numbering, and the other for headings, and they don't play well together.

  5. Supporting tools on Ask Slashdot: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Desktop Default Application Survey · · Score: 1
    I dabble in development, but mostly work in project management and business analysis.

    The primary tool I see needing the most work in my daily use is a good note taking tool alternate to OneNote. I've used Baskets, but found it has stability issues and had not been updated is a while. Other tools are too rudimentary being text only or having a predefined structure like being a daily journal.

    Other favorite tools are LibreOffice, PDF editors, mind mapping View Your Mind, yEd, Inkscape and Dia, ProjectLibre, NotePadQQ, Vokoscreen, Remmina remote desktop

    For collaboration I use cloud tools like HipChat and Zoom.us

  6. Logon failed on Ask Slashdot: What Software (Or Hardware) Glitch Makes You Angry? · · Score: 1
    All the variations on password validation rules on different web sites, applications, and internal systems drives me nuts. I keep different general passwords for:
    1. work
    2. banking (where I keep money)
    3. regular shopping (regular recurring places I spend money like utilities, and online stores)
    4. irregular shopping (one-off shopping stores)
    5. games

    My passwords already have upper case, lower case, number and special char, at least 8 chars. Having many variations on what is allowed or not exacerbates the problem when sites don't allow a special char like '*' or have some other unusual requirement.

  7. Scotty - give me full power on NASA Finally Admits It Doesn't Have the Funding To Land Humans on Mars (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Perhaps they can focus on making better space propulsion systems to make solar system travel faster. Current tech is mostly chemical rockets and using gravity as a slingshot. What they need to develop is the equivalent of the Star Trek impulse engine. Try hiring more Scottish engineers?

  8. Brilliant marketing to sell umbrellas on Umbrella-sharing Startup Loses Nearly All of Its 300,000 Umbrellas In a Matter of Weeks (shanghaiist.com) · · Score: 1

    Did they make money by selling them at 17 yuan (about $2.79). Made in China - good chance they did.

  9. Splitting hairs on Trump Fires FBI Director James Comey (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    It seems it really should not matter how the classified emails and documents got onto Anthony Weiner's or Huma's home computer, whether by emails or backups. Either way, classified materials should never have been there.

  10. APL - IBM 360 Tektronix and IBM Selectric terminal on Slashdot Asks: What Was Your First Programming Language? (stanforddaily.com) · · Score: 1

    First contact with programming languages was APL at Orange Coast College in 1972. Next was PDP-8 Basic and paper tape on teletypes.

  11. Stilt houses on Deltas and flood plains on For the First Time On Record, Human-Caused Climate Change Has Rerouted an Entire River (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    In many parts of the world from India and Bangladesh, Indonesia and South America, rivers changing course is a common occurrence and the residents there have learned to build their houses on stilts to avoid flooding. As silt builds up and dams the flow of part of a river on mostly flat terrain, the water will find a new path of least resistance to the sea.

  12. Crazy Cat Lady on Owning a Cat Does Not Lead To Mental Illness, Study Finds (theverge.com) · · Score: 2
    There is usually some truth behind a stereotype. The question is what came first - the crazy or the cats?

    A study is needed to survey 100 'crazy cat people" (let's be equal opportunity here), to see when and how they got started. Get a blood sample to test for the parasite. Just don't tell a crazy person they have bugs in their brain.

  13. This series is epic and a book shelf must have for any serious computer scientist or engineer.

  14. Every manufacturer has to set a maximum MSRP to establish a market. Any discounts given by the manufacturer and retailers are sharing their profit with the consumers.,

    This seems like a case of a liberal government wanting to be the sole controller of taking and sharing of profits via taxation.

  15. Incomplete requirements.... on 'Here Be Dragons': The Seven Most Vexing Problems In Programming (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    and an associated endless stream of unmanaged change requests. There's a real dragon for you.

  16. Sounds like the Silicon Valley group was getting a head start on California Prop 64.

  17. Wonderful economic boom - northern route shipping on Study Links Human Actions To Specific Arctic Ice Melt (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    A softer or broken ice pack across Northern Canada would open a great shipping channel from Atlantic to Pacific avoiding the Panama Canal.

  18. Re:Y'know... Actually... on Scientists Study How Non-Scientists Deny Climate Change (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    I most rational people don't disagree that the climate is changing - of course it is - its a natural process that occurs over the span of decades and centuries. It gets warmer, it gets cooler, then it gets warmer again.
    Where I think the political alarmist climate change fanatics got it wrong or exaggerated is that its substantially influenced by man-made activity. What stinks about all this are the gaps in scientific integrity corrupted by politically motivated research funding and the political policies based on corrupted scientific data to drive policy, economics, and taxation in an unnatural way and those so-called world leaders who load their bank accounts with the plunder.
    Nature has a remarkable way of bringing things back into equilibrium. More carbon-dioxide in the air - trees and plants grow faster and sequester the excess CO2. Someplace gets too hot - more evaporation generates cloud cover reflecting excess heat into space and storms turn thermal energy into kinetic energy.
    Still, we have a responsibility to be good stewards of the planet we call home so some of the economic change.

  19. My woman is fat..... on Obesity Is Three Times As Deadly For Men Than Women, Says Study (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yes, mentioning that your woman is too obese is certainly more hazardous for men.

  20. Re:Drupal on Ask Slashdot: What's The Best CMS? · · Score: 1

    I've been running multiple Drupal sites for volunteer organizations for 10 years so efficiency in maintenance and updates was almost more important than the original site build. Happy to say, security updates and patches just take a few minutes, site page updates are mostly easy, and its fast enough for what we need. I've found existing modules for almost everything I need.

  21. Too many drivers on Tesla: Model X Accident Caused By Driver Error, Not Autopilot (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    This can also occur if there are more than one person in the drivers seat. Pants optional.

  22. Company Alert: We have a network virus!! on Slashdot Asks: What's Your Favorite Doom Story? · · Score: 5, Funny

    Our software engineering company (FileNet) network performance came to its knees every day between 5 and 6 pm. Networks team and engineering working hard to identify a possible network denial of service attach or an intrusion. Lots of multicast packets flying everywhere at a high rate of speed. Took about a week for figure out it was some staff playing doom.

  23. What kind of derivative would do that? on Airline Delays Flight Over Passenger's Suspicious Math Equations (usnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Does the article specific if he was a social derivative, an economic derivative, or a physical derivative? Geez, some are so sensitive to change over a few variables. Clearly the antidote is better integration.

  24. Forget the desktop, dominate the laptop on Torvalds Hasn't Given Up On Linux Desktop Domination, Will 'Wear Them Down' (cio.com) · · Score: 1

    I bet Linux could dominate the laptop and mobile devices by being more efficient on power usage than Windows. It is already dominant on the smart phones and tablets via Android. I run a Toshiba laptop and just wish it supported a Linux version - what seems to be missing is device drivers.

  25. What would this look like if was Open Source? on Toyota Teams With Microsoft On Connected Cars (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    There should be a competing open source framework and set of apps you could load that only affect the connectivity part and not actual automotive control. The framework would implement the basic car-2-car communications and protocols to communicate to the Toyota mothership. After that, its an app store with security testing and validation controls.