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  1. Re:It's a good start, BUT on California Has a New Law: No More All-Male Boards (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    The best/worst part is, I don't really know if you're sarcastic or serious.

  2. Would you care to share a link to your search engine? I would genuinely like to try it out a bit.

  3. Jeff Bezos' (and the "new left") virtue signaling on Amazon's Aggressive Anti-Union Tactics Revealed In Leaked Video (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    The new left, rabidly anti-Trump and anti-white-male, are not left-leaning in any way. It's all smoke and mirrors. They are, as many have suspected by now, just fascists supporting as much censorship as they can get away with.

  4. Re:Lol fitness on Slashdot Asks: Anyone Considering an Apple Watch 4? (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Suunto makes well-built gear. Good-old, honest, uncompromising Finnish tech.

  5. I smell a rat on Saudi Arabia Invests $1 Billion In Potential Tesla Rival (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    The overwhelmingly most important source of income of Saudi Arabia, by a ridiculously huge margin, is crude oil exports. And the overwhelming majority of crude oil is used for gasoline production.

    Let us be realistic for a moment: oil production is the #1 strategic concern of Saudi Arabia, and electric cars are their anathema.

  6. Re:Didn't Used To, But It Does on Does LinkedIn Suck? (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    And respond to (almost) all connection requests with, "Have we met?" Usually the last I hear from them.

    Microsoft has put a stop to that, now: it is not possible to answer a link request with a question, anymore.

  7. Re:right on SpaceX Says It Signed First Private Passenger To the Moon (nbcnewyork.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    What he has achieved with Tesla and SpaceX is nothing short of ... frankly, unbelievable. Before Tesla, there was no electric car marketplace. Now there is, and there's even competition.

    And SpaceX is the #1 private space company in the world. Maybe #1 overall.

    And now the Boring Company is making some important strides, too.

    If anyone can bring (back) men to the moon, it's Mr. Musk,

  8. Let the caler pay, like in the rest of the world. on Almost Half of US Cellphone Calls Will Be Scams By Next Year, Says Report (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    hello USA, rest of the world here: we don't have this massive scam call problem, because here it is always the caller to pay.

    Frankly, this is a Planet USA peculiarity. I am sure you guys can't, for the most part, imagine how it could even be possible to be otherwise than in the USA, but it can.

  9. Re:Hundred Days on Slashdot Asks: What Book(s) Are You Reading This Month? · · Score: 1

    I bet you are a fan of ForgottenWeapons. Am I right?

  10. Re:"Lost in Math" on Slashdot Asks: What Book(s) Are You Reading This Month? · · Score: 1

    That's a great book. I would never read pop sci books written by journalists, but she is a theoretical physicist. Highly recommended book.

  11. Re:Not everyone's cup of tea ... on Slashdot Asks: What Book(s) Are You Reading This Month? · · Score: 1

    I'll have to check this one out. Thank you.

  12. Really? Ex BeOS fan, here. on Beta Release Nears For BeOS-inspired Open Source OS Haiku (computerworld.com.au) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I loved BeOS. Fuck it, I still love it - still the ONLY OS that completely prioritizes the user. When you interact with the OS you can feel it actually listens to you. None of that "wait, I got a huge file to copy, but I'll be with you in a few seconds". No, BeOS has interaction with the user as it's highest priority. AFAIK it is a near-real time OS, which helps with media processing and replay. Also, extremely low latencies, useful for MIDI sequencers and softsynths.

    But I wasn't really happy with what Haiku-OS was doing. The team was working not to create the main working skeleton of BeOS, but rather some ancillary projects like package management. BeOS did not have a package manager. Sure, that's not nice but all I wanted is to at least get to the point of readiness of BeOS, not shoot for the moon.

    And because of decisions like that, after 17 years we're only at a Beta stage. Sad.

  13. A lot of Finnish users will be in trouble on Google Slammed Over Chrome Change That Strips 'www' From Domain URLs (itwire.com) · · Score: 1

    In Finland, there is this silly custom where www.somedomain.fi will get you what you want, but somedomain.fi will not. These are the minority, definitely,. but there are quite a lot of them.

    Hopefully the good Google software engineers have anticipated this and will automatically look up the www.someting version of any given site.

  14. That wasn't slurring words. I have had a bad concussion years ago and slurred my words in the following weeks. I still slur my words sometimes - obviously, the concussion has caused permanent damage to my brain - so I have learned to recognize it in others. I especially recognize it with MMA fighters after some cases of KOs. Daniel Cormier, after being KOd by Jon Jones, was clearly slurring his words but the MMA community stayed silent on this, probably because they wanted to protect the sport.

    Anyhow, what i have seen in that clip about Trump at that press conference about the Middle East peace process, is not slurring but rather some weird issue with his teeth.

    But I would appreciate a link to Trump's aphasia in what the GP was referring to about Trump mispronouncing "anonymous".

  15. Between Telegram, Viber, and LINE, why use Skype? on After Making Skype Convoluted and Difficult To Use, Microsoft is Now Rolling Out Features To Restore Simplicity (thurrott.com) · · Score: 1

    All three apps I listed are better than Skype. Especially Viber. There is no good reason using that flaming pile of excrement called Skype.

  16. Re:$600 Chromebook $500 android/iPad/Surface Table on Is Chrome OS Threatening Windows? (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    Did you account for the fact that the Windows laptop comes with Windows 10, so it will reboot when bubba Microsoft says so, and it will upgrade, install or deinstall what bubba Microsoft says it will? That's my number one problem with Windows 10, and the main reason I avoid it as a plague.

  17. "Hate speech" can be anything the censors dislike. on AI Still Useless at Catching Hate Speech, Research Finds (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    "Hate speech" is just a construct to enable censorship of anything the powers controllig the media, dislike.

  18. Re: Well Fuck on No Healthy Level of Alcohol Consumption, Says Major Study (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Your liver does exactly the same amount of work whether you introduce cannabinoids through your digestive system or through your lungs - I suggest that you read some Wikipedia articles on how digestion and metabolism works. Or just grab a book on the topic. BTW, alcohol is far worse for your liver than cannabinoids.

  19. I agree, I couldn't make heads or tail out of that summary. This was egregiously low effort, even for a Slashdot editor.

  20. Re:What is the politically correct way to die? on No Healthy Level of Alcohol Consumption, Says Major Study (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Cancer, dementia, and cardiovascular failure.

    Reason: the only cell type that does not regenerate is central nervous system tissue - neurons, and cardiac muscle (myocardium). Hence, cardiovascular failure and dementia are inevitable in the long run.
    As for cancer: problems occur when replication of DNA introduces errors. These errors are inevitable in the long run, and this leads to cancer.

  21. Re: Well Fuck on No Healthy Level of Alcohol Consumption, Says Major Study (theguardian.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This is true - smoking pot can lead to emphysema. It's still less likely than inhaling smoke from wood or coal burning, but yeah, some potheads will smoke in such excess that they may suffer from emphysema at some point.

    But that's why I exclusively consume edibles! All the benefits, including health benefits, of cannabis, and none of the downsides.

    Edibles, gentlemen, it's the right thing to do.

  22. Re:I don't care, I feel great after ditching carbs on Low-Carb Diets Could Shorten Life, Study Suggests (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Are those your videos? That stuff is great and you should have posted this non-anonymously.

  23. Re:why focus on protein ? on Low-Carb Diets Could Shorten Life, Study Suggests (bbc.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The fad with saturated fats has really hurt the average health, because people started eating more carbs to make up for the missing calories. And as a result, there was an explosion of diabetes cases.

    As you say, when it comes to fats, the main thing you should look out for is whether they are trans-fats or not, and avoid trans-fats like the plague. But saturated fats have been proven to not be any worse for the cardiovascular system than non-saturated fats. Only this fact seems to have been suppressed in popular media.

  24. I don't care, I feel great after ditching carbs. on Low-Carb Diets Could Shorten Life, Study Suggests (bbc.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I've been diagnosed with diabetes a couple of years ago. I knew that lowering caloric intake can cure type 2 diabetes, but I am not fat, in fact, I am more on the skinny side, so I had few option of lowering my caloric intake much. However, I knew that carbs are associated with diabetes and started researching the issue more in depth. I decided to severely cut the amount of carbs I eat.

    It was difficult at first, but as time went on, I gradually found it easier and easier. I replaced it with vegetables everywhere I could, which turns out to be a lot of places.

    I am happy to announce that I have no symptoms or readings associated with diabetes anymore, and I do feel awesomely good. Whether this diet will shorten my life or not, I can't say (though I doubt it very much), but I really don't care. Quality of life matters more than length of life, and the quality of my life is so much higher than before the diet, I am glad to sacrifice a decade of shitty diabetic life for it.

  25. Re:WHO CARES WHAT THE CEO MAKES on US Bosses Now Earn 312 Times the Average Worker's Wage, Figures Show (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    The great majority of CEOs didn't found their own company - these have been appointed by a BOD filled with other CEO buddies.