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  1. Re: Linux Mint gets it right. on Cinnamon 2.6: a Massive Update Loaded With Performance Improvements · · Score: 1

    Hard to blame the distros for thinking that version 5.3 would be a stable version of 5.

  2. Re:Simplistic on Future of Employment: How Susceptible Are Jobs To Computerization? · · Score: 1

    Trains normally have a person there to make sure people pay their fare. But not all trains do -- for example, the Vancouver SkyTrain is fully automated (and regularly cheated on since there's nobody to check tickets).

  3. Re:I'm afraid! Please send hugs! on Patriot Act Spy Powers To Expire As Rand Paul Blocks USA Freedom Act Vote · · Score: 1

    There's never good reason to be afraid of anthrax in the mail, unless maybe you're a hated major public figure. Remind me how many people that killed?

  4. Re:Clickbait on There Is a Finite Limit On How Long Intelligence Can Exist In Our Universe · · Score: 1

    I see it more as a simplistic children's picture book introduction to cosmology. It's good for that.

  5. Re:Essential? really? on FCC Proposes To Extend So-Called "Obamaphone" Program To Broadband · · Score: 1

    If you don't have the transportation to get to the library (or time off work for the few hours a week your library is actually open), then the internet is your library.

  6. Re: Eliminate all tax withholding on FCC Proposes To Extend So-Called "Obamaphone" Program To Broadband · · Score: 1

    Possibly if this individual has a bunch of kids they get enough credits, otherwise no. If you include social security taxes, then individuals making as little as a few thousand a year pay taxes -- if you exclude that, then you have to make about $12,000 before you start paying federal income tax. California state income tax kicks in around $18,000 if I recall. And sales taxes affect everybody.

  7. Re:How about import duties? on FCC Proposes To Extend So-Called "Obamaphone" Program To Broadband · · Score: 1

    If you stress yourself into a bunch of medical problems working 60 hour weeks, you end up costing more money. Perhaps it's good to encourage people to work smarter not harder. In general, when they're the same number of hours, higher paying jobs are actually less stressful than entry level jobs -- so people have non-financial incentive to move up.

  8. Re: other people's money on FCC Proposes To Extend So-Called "Obamaphone" Program To Broadband · · Score: 1

    Even if it were $25, the much greater ease for people to find new work or pick up new skills and network and discover new opportunities when they have internet is very likely to pay for itself. Getting a degree is not the primary expected positive outcome.

  9. Re:other people's money on FCC Proposes To Extend So-Called "Obamaphone" Program To Broadband · · Score: 0

    How about summary trials and executions by unpaid citizen volunteers? It'll be a libertarian paradise.

  10. Re:CEO cheerleading book on Red Hat CEO Publishes Open Source Management Memoir · · Score: 1

    Noise-blocking headphones and/or listening to white noise can provide an experience closer to quiet than a cubicle.

  11. Re:All for a good cause on The Marshall Islands, Nuclear Testing, and the NPT · · Score: 1

    The USA did it in Nevada as well, but has used a lot more varied testing locations.

  12. Re:other states? on The Marshall Islands, Nuclear Testing, and the NPT · · Score: 1

    If Ukraine had an advanced economy, 300 million people and oceans and friendly countries on all borders, it'd be working out great.

  13. Re:Holy hell on California Is Giving Away Free Solar Panels To Its Poorest Residents · · Score: 1

    In the USA, the poverty level is about $14,000 per year for single persons.

  14. Re:$70000 is poorest? on California Is Giving Away Free Solar Panels To Its Poorest Residents · · Score: 1

    As a Californian making $10-$15K/year, excuse me if I don't think we need to donate charity handouts to people making $70K, which by the way is well above the median income.

  15. Re:That poor man on California Is Giving Away Free Solar Panels To Its Poorest Residents · · Score: 1

    Anyone who owns a home, other than perhaps a total shack they inherited, is not poor. Not even close. As usual, this is a giveaway to the upper middle class.

  16. Re:China already selectively eliminates females on Sex-Switched Mosquitoes May Help In Fight Against Diseases · · Score: 1

    Since India + China are half the world's population, they tend to be around the world average on things. Remove them and the rest of the world's average would probably be ~1.05.

  17. Re:Largest known? on Largest Eruption In the Known Universe Is ~100 Times the Size of Milky Way · · Score: 1

    The observable universe is actually about 92 billion light years across (radius 45 billion).

  18. Re:females operate on emotion, not logic on Google's Diversity Chief: Mamas Don't Let Their Baby Girls Grow Up To Be Coders · · Score: 2

    While I agree that domestic violence is a bigger problem for women and am not supported the grandparent poster, I think the higher arrest rates are likely to be a function of men only reporting the more severe incidents to the police due to the humiliation/emasculation factor. If men wait to only call the police when they have visible bruises/cuts, that makes it a lot more likely that the police visit will result in an arrest than when there's no readily obvious physical evidence. This is likely a factor in why 62% of female perpetrators were only reported once as well.

  19. Re:Economy on California Votes To Ban Microbeads · · Score: 1

    You've probably been in a prolonged coma. because the budget deficit problem was solved many years ago. Even when it was a problem, it was a problem because only because a combination of laws and court rulings requiring certain amounts of money to be spent on things while simultaneously forbidding (or making impractical by need for 2/3 public vote etc) most ways to collect revenue to pay for it.

  20. Re:Exotic on Asteroid Risk Greatly Overestimated By Almost Everyone · · Score: 1

    The most quick and humane execution method is North Korea's execution by anti-aircraft missile.

  21. Re:Almost? on Chrome For Android Is Now Almost Entirely Open Source · · Score: 1

    The market decides what the primary product is. 99% of us want the adobe backdoors and patents and don't want to be forced to work for them.

  22. Re:I want the same question answered clearly on Ask Slashdot: What's the Best Dumb Phone? · · Score: 1

    If you don't call much and don't need a great network, t-mobile's $3 a month for 30 minutes (+10 cents/min beyond that) is a lot cheaper.

  23. Re:What is it you want again? on Ask Slashdot: What's the Best Dumb Phone? · · Score: 1

    If you never use mobile internet or games, it's not that hard to get 5 days charge out of a smartphone. I probably charge my smartphone every 5 days or so because I don't use it much.

  24. Re:So three strikes should be more widespread? on 'Prisonized' Neighborhoods Make Recidivism More Likely · · Score: 1

    Based on your lack of empathy and desire to see innocent people suffer to protect you, I project you as having a 50% chance of committing a crime in the future. I therefore propose locking you up for life in prison right now so you won't have the chance.

  25. Re:Probably True on 'Prisonized' Neighborhoods Make Recidivism More Likely · · Score: 1

    If you help them find work and housing in a new community, they don't want to go back to where they came from.