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  1. Re:The UK arrest warrant is still valid. on WikiLeaks' Julian Assange Asks UK Judge to Drop His Arrest Warrant (theguardian.com) · · Score: 0

    So what crime did he commit in the UK, for which he should have been arrested?!?

  2. Unable to sell... on Bitcoin Watchers Running Out of Explanations Blame Slump on Moon (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    For those who want to get out, they face another problem: a transaction takes days!

  3. And the rest of the world uses computers, smartphones, cpus and gadgets with software-code partly made in USA... So should the rest of the world stop using technology alltogether?!?

  4. Huawei Y3 also had the default keyboard app showing ads after a few weeks of usage. I had to uninstall the keyboard app to get rid of this nuisance.

  5. Re:Jobs get relocated, not killed on Robots Could Wipe Out Another 6 Million Retail Jobs (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Ok, there may not be a big need for robot-designers, if those robots are all the same.
    But do you think one single person can build, install, maintain and repair 1000 robots simultaneously?
    To build those robots there's a whole netwotk of component-suppliers needed...

    When cars replaced the diligence, a whole world of new jobs for car-makers, car-repairs, gas-stations, car dealers or taxi-drivers emerged. Coachmen lost their job, but plenty new jobs emerged. So it is with robots.

  6. Jobs get relocated, not killed on Robots Could Wipe Out Another 6 Million Retail Jobs (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    And who designs, builds, programs, sells, maintains, repairs and disposes all those robots?
    Another 6 million new jobs created, I bet.
    Jobs get shifted, not killed.

  7. Re:Unwise to play by the rules? on Italy Bans Uber (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    No. Only few cities have agreements with Airbnb like you describe.
    The default (which applies to 99% of the hosts) ist that Airbnb does not collect taxes and pay them to your city/country for you.

    Anyhow its wrong to ask a city to make particular agreements with Airbnb, Wimdo or whoever comes next. There are laws, which regulate rentals, and they should be obeyed - by the hosts as well as by Airbnb.

    Airbnb should not accept hosts, which do not have a license - it's as simple as that. But then Airbnb would have the burden to check the legality (and even the existence!) of their hosts, which means on site labour. But Airbnb lives from the fact, that there are fake properties, and therefore Airbnb urges guests to pay through them as an escrow service. Airbnb pretends to be liable for problems which wouldn't exist, if there wasn't Airbnb. Believe me: my family rented apartments for several decades without any problems and without paying commissions to any agency. Now with Airbnb the unfair competition grows exponetially and problems arise which never happened before. And for that disservice we should pay 18% to Airbnb?!?

  8. Re:Unwise to play by the rules? on Italy Bans Uber (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    bullshit! You don't know italan law.

    Real estate tax for my home ("prima casa") is different (effectively zero in many regions of Italy) than that for an apartment I earn money with.
    To pay tourist taxes, you have to register your guests, but you cannot register guests, if you're not allowed to rent an apartment or room. There's no way to pay taxes for guests that illegaly live in your house.
    Airbnb does not pay any taxes in Italy.
    All earnings are taxable. But if you don't issue a receipt, you have (officially) no income and thus no taxes are due - but that's illicit / black market.

    People renting through Airbnb without lodging licence are illegal in many ways. Airbnb doesn't care, if hosters act legally or not . Airbnb simply wants to pocket 6% from the hoster and 12% from the guest - that's their business-model.

  9. Re:Unwise to play by the rules? on Italy Bans Uber (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    You're so right.

    As a private hoster in Italy with regular license, I hope that Airbnb shuts down soon and all advertisers get a visit by the tax fraud investigators. People renting rooms and apartments through Airbnb have no licence, do not pay real estate taxes, tourist taxes, and neither income taxes, do not contribute to the local tourist board, have no assurance, do not fill out police rercordings ... and are thus unfair competition.

  10. Simply stating "We know for a fact that Russia...(or whoever)" doesn't make it a fact.
    I call bullshit - that's it.

  11. Container ships are worse on Planes, Trains, and Automobiles Have Become Top Carbon Polluters (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    Planes, trains, and automobiles?
    You forgot the biggest polluters: ships!

  12. Re:comparsion stats? on Tesla Receives 115,000 Model 3 Preorders Worth $115 Million In 24 Hours (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I agree that this big touch-screen is not only awkward and ugly but also dangerous in case of an accident. But I am convinced that this is only a temporary solution.

    On the front bumper, where you expect the grille, there's the space for a license plate.

  13. Re:flight simulator on Slashdot Asks: What's Your Favorite Easter Egg? (slashdot.org) · · Score: 1

    Mine favorite too.

  14. Re:So Germany is not a state? on California Has Become the First State To Get Over 5% of Its Power From Solar · · Score: 4, Informative

    You're partly wrong.
    It was Italy that voted against nuclear in 1986. 2 reactors where working at that time and had to be shut down. In 2011 there was another referendum to reenter the nuclear powe production, but italians confirmed they'd like to remain nuclearless.

    East Germany (not todays Germany) shut down in 1990 its last nuclear power plant due to security concerns, and no new reactors were planned or build afterwards.

    In 2000 Germany (now united) decided to gradually reduce the use of nuclear power, and thus in 2003 the first power plant went offline. Others followed in subsequent years. In 2010 they decided to slow down the decommissionment and let the reactors live a few more years. In 2011, after the Fukushima tragedy, Germany decided to shut the reactors as soon as possible. 8 reactors were then shut down immediately, and the rest will be shut down in steps till 2022.

  15. Re:from a psychologist that has helped children gr on Ask Slashdot: Terminally Ill - What Wisdom Should I Pass On To My Geek Daughter? · · Score: 1

    Fully agree with point 12!
    You shouldn't try to tell her what she has to do - you can't predict what she will face anyway.
    Tell her instead what she will likely want to hear from you, that nobody else could tell her: about you, your life, your past, your setbacks, your delights, your thoughts, your fears - anything!

  16. Re:WHY IS THE INTERNET FOCUSED ON THIS SHIT on Passwords: Too Much and Not Enough · · Score: 1

    Hah!
    I used the same password all over. Fortunately I now know better.

  17. We all could save energy... on How Facebook Is Saving Power By 10-15% Through Better Load Balancing · · Score: 2, Funny

    Not only Facebook, but the end-users also could save a lot of electricity by not using Facebook at all. People should get out and have a real social life.

  18. hoover full of dust on Apple's New Mac Pro Gets High Repairability Score · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't the air-inlet-rips at the bottom and the fan at the top act like a vacuum cleaner and fill the can with dust? I would let the fan spin backwards: suck clean air from the top and eject the cold air at the bottom.

  19. Spam-Collectors? on EU Parliament: Other Countries Spy, But Less Than the UK, US · · Score: 1

    As more than 90% of all e-mails are spam-mails, will the NSA & Co. also collect all of that trash? Or have they good filters at hand to avoid filling their storage capacities with junk? What filters are they employing? If their filters are good, and the monitor *all* national and/or worldwide traffic, they could do us all a big favour and filter out that junk! Or even better: identify and eliminate the sources of this nuisance. Thanks in advance!

  20. interpretation of data... on Apache Web Server Share Falls Below 50 Percent For First Time Since 2009 · · Score: 1

    Apache isn't below 50%. What counts, are "active sites", not parked domains or similar (see Netcraft). Numbers for active sites fluctuate much less and show us a more realistic picture. Apache is still at 53,62%.

    And no, IIS is not the winner, but a distant second with only 11,78% market share. Considering, IIS had once 38% (october 2007), IIS is the biggest looser so far.

  21. Re:Default Interface on Ask Slashdot: Seamonkey vs. Firefox — Any Takers? · · Score: 1

    No way NeXT had a pathetic 320x240 4000 color display. NeXT started with a 1120x832 grayscale display. The 4000-color display was an Amiga-thing.

  22. Re:Very true, for many reasons. on System Admins Should Know How To Code · · Score: 1

    If not a botnet, maybe he's running Google. :-)

  23. Re:Dyslexic much? on Skydiver Leaps From 18 Miles Up In 'Space Jump' Practice · · Score: 1

    No, the unit "m", which stands for "meter", cannot be omitted - it's central to the measurement. While the copula "per" could be omitted. Even "mph" has the unit "m", where it stands for "miles". Otherwise you americans would write "ph" ("per hour"), which means nothing.

  24. Re:Dyslexic much? on Skydiver Leaps From 18 Miles Up In 'Space Jump' Practice · · Score: 1

    I thought the same. The unit is "km" per hour (therefore "kmh"), while "k" alone only means a thousand of those units. So "kph" means "a thousand of nothing per hour". :-)

  25. Re:Topstyle and... on Ask Slashdot: Value of Website Design Tools vs. Hand Coding? · · Score: 1

    I still use Homesite too. :-)
    You should look mirabyte Web Architect, if you're in search of a more recent tool.