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  1. Background per desktop? on KDE Plasma 5.9 Released (softpedia.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Does anyone know if this feature is back yet? I stopped upgrading KDE because I like having different background images per-desktop and this feature was dropped in favor of the somewhat clunky activities system.

  2. Link to announcement on KDE Plasma 5.9 Released (softpedia.com) · · Score: 5, Informative
  3. I'm not suggesting that innovation doesn't exist elsewhere. Not at all, what I said, which I thought I was very clear about was where the hub is located, and it's not eastern Europe or Asian countries.

  4. Finally! on Tesla's Battery Revolution Just Reached Critical Mass (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    I can get my hands on non-counterfeit 18650 and A123's!!

  5. Re:What in the blue hell are you talking about on Trump's Next Immigration Move To Affect H-1B Visas; Require Tech Companies To Try To Hire Americans First: Bloomberg (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    But these countries you speak of are very likely in the wrong geo to be useful contracting partners. Software engineering can take place anywhere but the current hub of innovation exists in the western world. GMT -7 -- GMT +1.

  6. Love this service on Google Voice Receives First Update in Five Years (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I just love this service. I have a number similar enough to my day to day it's easy to remember, and I use that to give out to anyone and everyone that demands your phone number. The fact that MMS made no difference for what I use it for (mainly a way to screen unwanted calls). I'm glad to hear they're updating things, but from what I can tell, it looks exactly the same to me as it always has.

  7. ProtonMail users on ProtonMail Adds Tor Onion Site To Fight Risk Of State Censorship (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    I've been a user since their beta days, and I can say the service generally works well with a few exceptions in the UI. Most notably it's slow, very slow, and the TOR interface seems to be even slower. Combine that with lack of features (like mailbox purge) and mandatory space constraints it makes the service very hard to use for day to day messaging needs. That all said, I really do like the service and find the entire concept of browser based encrypted UI, with encryption handler happing within the browser itself very interesting and a neat way forward (possibly for larger sites like gmail in the future).

  8. Except for the zero proof that the RNC was hacked and repeated denials from the RNC chair that the RNC was hacked.

  9. Bah *revolations

  10. Re:No Grid Penetration on Washington Post Retracts Story About Russian Hackers Penetrating US Electricity Grid (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    CNN ceased being a credible news organization after the wikileaks revolutions

  11. Re: Its a talking point on FBI and Homeland Security Detail Russian Hacking Campaign In New Report (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    PHB?

  12. Re:All climate research data and modelling should on US Scientists Scramble To Protect Research On Climate Change (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Okay, so the reference is to human caused activities vs other? I can't seem to locate the total green house gas production, only the total "human caused". The numbers are big, relativity, but meaningless without proper context? If it's 16% of 0.0000001% of the total, then who cares? If it's 16% of 100% then that's concerning.

  13. Re:You sow the wind ... on US Scientists Scramble To Protect Research On Climate Change (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Global warming is a complex process resulting in increased total energy of the biosphere. What we have been told is a narrow story about carbon, methane, air temperature and hand wavy claims about sea levels. We simply don't know what we haven't been told. We can't guess where the gaps might be. It is inexcusable we weren't given the data.

    Excellent point.

  14. Re:All climate research data and modelling should on US Scientists Scramble To Protect Research On Climate Change (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    >16% of global greenhouse gas emissions
    Citation please? Human caused or total?

  15. Re:Steve McIntyre of Climate Audit Will Be Happy on US Scientists Scramble To Protect Research On Climate Change (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    The issue has been, and countenues to be that the source data has been adjusted, abridged, or modified from its original form. There may be good reasons for this, however doing so has thus far resulted in poor performance of the climate prediction models and overall distrust of the conclusions reached by awg supporters.

  16. Re:Google, Motorola, Intel . . . on Every US Taxpayer Has Effectively Paid Apple At Least $6 in Recent Years (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1, Troll

    3 or 4 bankruptcies and literally hundreds of businesses under his name. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... or in other words a failure rate of 0.6% to 0.8%. Or if that doesn't do it for you a success rate of 99.4% to 99.2% for his business holdings.

  17. Trump has stated that he would be "looking into" the H1B situation. Many talking heads, supporters and haters are assuming this means that changes are coming. The money thinks changes are coming, so likely changes are coming but he's not in office yet. In either case this is more winning for Trump even before he's entered office. Very much new CEO strategy.

  18. Re:Exodus of Jewish Scientists? on China Chases Silicon Valley Talent Who Are Worried About Trump Presidency (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Talk about jumping the shark.

  19. “Climate change is the greatest security threat of the 21st century,” said Maj Gen Munir Muniruzzaman, chairman of the Global Military Advisory Council on climate change.."

  20. Re:Surprised they aren't doing this already on The Internet Archive Is Building a Canadian Copy To Protect Itself From Trump (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    This is my feeling as well, however I've also aways had the feeling that the situation over there in archive land may not be so professional and seems to have grown up from a basement project. I would think that they would be better served emulating, or becoming part of the wikimedia foundation which has considerable experience (and qualified expertise) to deploy copies of the archive in many different foreign countries.

  21. Re:Silicon Valley able to cope with Trump regime? on Fearing Tighter US Visa Regime, Indian IT Firms Rush To Hire (moneycontrol.com) · · Score: 1

    Anyway, as I see Apple being pressured to bring back jobs to US (yeah, lots of luck with that)

    My understanding is that this is less to do with possible pressure from the next administration and more to do with the massive counter-fitting problem they're dealing with

  22. But... on VLC Media Player Previews 360-degree Video Support (videolan.org) · · Score: 1

    Still no useful bookmark support. Really the only reason I haven't switched mplayer / smplayer on my HTPC.

  23. *Clinton* sunk the Clinton campaign years ago with her own poor decision making and convoluted strategy to avoid pubic scrutiny.

  24. Re:Not a level playing field on Donald Trump Wins US Presidency (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    *Microphone drop*