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  1. Ubuntu 18.04 will be supported for 10 years or until 2028.

  2. Re:Nations will do anything to stop global warming on Rising Temperatures Could Melt Most Himalayan Glaciers By 2100 (nationalgeographic.com) · · Score: 1

    And most of them under building has been in that state for decades. And no construction is taking place.

    The construction is in a hiatus.

    For many the hiatus will be eternal. The only reason its not been stopped is that the cost of getting a new permit if it ever becomes profitable to build nuclear power again.

    The reason: Wind and sun power is cheaper to build and maintain.

  3. Re:Not dead on Ask Slashdot: How Dead Is Java? (jaxenter.com) · · Score: 1

    Flash and Java was created at the same time and none of them was actually meant for the web to start. But around 95-96 they both got added to the new hyped www.

    HTML5 is meant to kill off Flash. Java on the web never really took off.

  4. Have 32 inboxes on Slashdot Asks: How Do You Manage Your Inbox? (npr.org) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Automatically move emails to the appropriate inbox from the main inbox.

    Computors is good at sorting - let them do it for you.

  5. Re:Once again: Slackware NOT affected. on Linux systemd Affected by Memory Corruption Vulnerabilities, No Patches Yet (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Slackware - being the oldest distro out there still alive - is as close as standard UNIX as you can come in Linux world.

  6. Linux is a multi-user system from the ground and up.

  7. EU has abondoned daylight saving time on America Braces For Daylight Saving Time - And Missing Medical Records (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    In 2018 EU decided to end daylight saving time. Or rather let all nation decide for themselves if they want it or not and thus themselves decide which time zone to be in. https://www.bbc.com/news/world...

  8. Re:YEAR OF THE LINUX DESKTOP on Linux Desktop Market Share Crosses 3% (netmarketshare.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Desktop is over. Now its all about smartphones.

    And well. The year of Linux on smartphones was a couple of years ago.

    Linux has already won. Poeple don't really know it yet.

  9. So patent troll can now continue to troll others ? on Kaspersky Lab Forces 'Patent Troll' To Pay Cash To End Case (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Looks like it. The patent is still valid. Others might not be as resilient in fighting the patent. So the troll can continue to extort money from unsuspected victims.

  10. Re:Energy security? on Massive Solar Plant In the Sahara Could Help Keep the EU Powered (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 2

    Tunisia - and the other north african countries - are coastal and border the mediterranean sea so cable is going straight into the sea towards europe.

  11. Actually, its all about the energy in the food that matters. If you insist on eating a lot of food the body will grow in weight and if you eat less you won't.

    Short term it will be stored as sugar in the blood and long term overconsumption will be stored as fat. So celebrating one day and eating alot of food won't make you increase in weight. But long term overeating will.

    Diets like 5:2 uses the 2 days of not eating to cleanse the blood from extra sugar - which are consumed the days of not eating alot.

    Atkinsons diet uses the fact that protein rich food contains less energy to get people to eat the same amount but consume less energy.

    Its not magic. Its just pure science. Or simply put: Shit in, shit out.

    Those using sweetener is probably so addicted to the sweet taste, that they consume alot of other products which give that taste. Thust they overconsumate on food and get too much energy. So it can be better to altogheter do away with the need for sweet food.

  12. Re:You all presumably know why. on In Which Linus Torvalds Makes An 'Init' Joke (lkml.org) · · Score: 1

    > So SystemD is the Emacs of init?

    More like Microsoft Office of init.

    I

  13. Already old report on Coal Market Set To Collapse Worldwide By 2040 As Solar, Wind Dominate (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    India just scrapped plans for 15 coal plants and went with solar instead. The report is way behind on cost of solar power. Solar is already below cost of coal in India and China.

     

  14. Re:What happened next? on Theresa May Loses Overall Majority In UK Parliament (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Tories + DUP is a majority. And with SF not even gonna bother to send MPs to take the few seats they got its a workable solution.
    DUP is the "english-irish" and SF is the "irish-irish" from Northem ireland.

    Yes, its gonna be wobbly since MPs does not have to vote for their own party. So the whip is gonna need to work overtime to make sure all votes goes the right way.

    On the other hand May said if she loses 6 MPs she gonna resign. Now she lost 12 and gonna stay anyway.

  15. Re:Random generated content on Should Archive.org Ignore Robots.txt Directives And Cache Everything? (archive.org) · · Score: 1

    You are assuming the web page will have the same URL. But what if the script auto-generates new URLs for each request ?

    Then they will get an unlimited amount of web pages.

    Its not hard to make a web page that works that way.

  16. Re:How about the rest of us? on Microsoft Delivers Secure China-Only Cut of Windows 10 (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Do you want the more secure Windows 10 ?

    They you must make sure your goverment wants it too. So it can demand it.

  17. Re:Global Politics on The City of Munich Might Stick With Linux (fsfe.org) · · Score: 1

    FSFE is based in Germany. So in that sense it's a local group.

  18. Re:That's not a plan, Stan on Sweden Pledges To Cut All Greenhouse Gas Emissions By 2045 (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Its a goal with defined plan how to get there. The prime minister each year write a paper outlining how far off Sweden is from reaching the goal and whats happend in the last year and present it to the parlament. Also in it outline new legislation that will make sure the goal is reached by the end date.

    The parlament then can accept of reject the proposals for further changes to make sure Sweden can reach the final goal.

    So its not a farfetched goal and its not a very detailed plan but rather a method how to reach the goal by constant improvements on the mechanism how the goal is achieved by a yearly refinement of the plans. Also it involves a clear report of how close or far away from reaching the goal Sweden is each year. .

  19. Re:Quick Workaround on Windows DRM-Protected Files Used To Decloak Tor Browser Users (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Or just stop using Windows.

  20. Its all about how many viruses that are let through.

    Microsoft being 3000% worse then F-Secure is not bad ?

  21. Windows share in 2015 was 11.7 % on Windows 10 Gains 14% Desktop Market Share in 2016, Edge Continues to Struggle (petri.com) · · Score: 1

    and had declined for 4 years. Everything points towards continued decline for Windows sales for 2016. So 2016 will probably be fifth year with declining sales for Windows.

    As for Windows - they stopped selling Windows 7 and 8 in 2016 so well of course Windows 10 will continue to increase. Customer can't get anything else in the future.

    Android had 54% in 2015. So looks like mobile is the way to go.

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

  22. Reviewers has not played the game for 100 hours on Ask Slashdot: Why Are Some Great Games Panned and Some Inferior Games Praised? (soldnersecretwars.de) · · Score: 1

    Most reviewers has played the game for a couple of hours. They have not really learned to play the game and get good at it. They do not know, if its has a lasting playability, or if its contains many hidden bugs thats not visible from just trying out the game. The less they play the game, the faster they can send out a review to their subscribers. Cause in this world, it's all about being first to get the views.

    So most reviews is about the first few parts of the game. The initial visual effects and how you are introduced to the game. Maybe as long as the first 3rd of the game.

    The goal of the publisher/developers of the game is to create hype. So that so many as possible buy the game from start. So they can get back the investments into the game asap. For that, they need good game reviews. Alot of hype to build up press coverage. The game nees to bee mentioned in the press so more people hear about the game.

    Many follow the hype. Wants to be the first among their friends who has the new cool game. So they buy into the game and are the first to play it. This does not have to be AAA games from AAA developers, it can also be indie games like "No Mans Sky". Who might be a good and innovative game, but in the end is not maybe all what it was said it should be. That is also true for alot of AAA games. But they sell more since its a big publisher behind it.

    Those wanting to be first to review the game or play the game is actually like the people posting "First post" on message forums. They seek to be notorious but noone really likes them for it. What people really want is good review who give a good understanding of the game and its underlaying mechanics. At least if you are a serious gamer who is in it for playing the game and not someone who does it to be in the incrowd and be cool among your friends.

    Well, the game makers who take their money for it, love them. Then they go back to the drawin board to make the next AAA title. Actually most developers of games does it for the love of games. For the fun of playing games and making them. It's just so they need the money to pay the bills for the next big game.

    Many game don't stand the test of time. Other do. Its hard to know which ones who will unless you play the game for a longer period of time.

  23. Lets hope they fail. on Most Firefox Users Still Running Windows 7 (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    Microsoft is pushing hard for Windows 10 to become the operating system of choice for everyone across the world

    I wanna continue to run Linux.

  24. Re:McAfee is only for the clueless on McAfee Takes Six Months To Patch Remote Code Exploit In Linux VirusScan Enterprise (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Yes, its called Linux.

  25. Re:I'm surprised on NSA's Best Are 'Leaving In Big Numbers,' Insiders Say (cyberscoop.com) · · Score: 1

    It's good on the resumÍe. You get security clearance and are more hireable with companies who wanna sell security solutions towards goverments.

    Also if you wanna leak to wikileaks - thats the place to go.