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  1. Re:Saving lives? on Volvo To Impose 112mph Speed Limit On All New Cars From 2020 (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    He didn't talk about the utility of the vehicle, or the utility of going faster, so I am just using his logic.

  2. Saving lives? on Volvo To Impose 112mph Speed Limit On All New Cars From 2020 (theguardian.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Maybe they can save lives by not selling cars at all. Have they tried that? Using their logic, seems it would be worth it.

  3. Four types of tech conferences on Are Tech Conferences Overrated? (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    There are four types of tech conferences: https://momjian.us/main/blogs/... Only some of them are useful to specific groups.

  4. Mozilla? on Corporations Just Quietly Changed How the Web Works (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    "Unfortunately, Mozilla alone cannot change the industry on DRM at this point."

    Hey, Mozilla, worry about continuing to be relevant --- DRM is the last of your worries. ;-)

  5. Washington Police Center? on Seattle City Council Unanimously Approves Income Tax For the Rich (geekwire.com) · · Score: 1

    I think the summary meant to say "Washington Policy Center". Wow, only one letter difference.

  6. Wikipedia says, "One jiao is equal to one-tenth of a yuan or ten fn ()."

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

  7. I guess everyone else knows how to convert yuan and jiao , but I didn't. Ten jiao equals one yuan, so 50 jiao equals 5 yuan. The story probably would have made more sense in uniform currency units. The idea is that if you had the umbrella for less than four hours, it was worth returning it.

  8. Security theatre theatre on Airport Security Fails 17 Times Out of 18 In Minneapolis (fox9.com) · · Score: 1

    In that case, it was "security theatre theatre" because it was a test/drama itself.

  9. Re:Yonah was 11 years ago on Skype Retires Older Apps for Windows, Linux (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh, interesting. These laptops are scheduled for replacement in the next two months.

  10. Re:Reinstall 64-bit Linux and continue on Skype Retires Older Apps for Windows, Linux (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    I will probably just use the web client for Skype text chat and do voice/video calls using my Android tablet, which is what I usually do now anyway.

  11. Re:Reinstall 64-bit Linux and continue on Skype Retires Older Apps for Windows, Linux (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Mine, Intel Core Duo CPU T2400 @ 1.83GHz × 2 . :-( Runs Ubuntu just fine.

  12. 32-bit Linux is out on Skype Retires Older Apps for Windows, Linux (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 2

    The summary should have mentioned there is no solution for 32-bit Linux machines.

  13. "The crunch came" on The Great Japan Potato-Chip Crisis: Panic Buying, $12 Bags (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    "The crunch came" --- ah, I see what you did there. :-)

  14. Amazon will mess it up on Voice Is the Next Big Platform, But Amazon Already Owns It (backchannel.com) · · Score: 1

    My experience with Amazon devices is that they will have Echo favor Amazon services at some point, and its use will decline. Amazon seems to do that will all of the hardware they produce.

  15. Smallcaps on Has the Internet Killed Curly Quotes? (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    I think the big loss is the lack of smallcaps use on most websites.

  16. You forgot #5 on Electoral College Elects Donald Trump As President (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    You forgot #5:

    5. Annoy enough people with 1-4 that they vote for your opponent.

  17. Chinese Foods? on Catastrophic Chinese Floods Triggered By Air Pollution · · Score: 0

    Am I the only one who read the title as "Catastrophic Chinese Foods Triggered By Air Pollution", and I am thinking, how does food cause pollution? That must have been some nasty food. ;-)

  18. Get ready for some work on Ask Slashdot: Options For Cheap Home Automation? · · Score: 2

    The home automation landscape has options differentiated by bandwidth, price point, device compatibility, and software capability. Low bandwidth devices are cheap but lack reliability, e.g X10. Expensive devices are often limited in device compatibility, Leviton. Basically, to make it all work you have to get the devices you need, then decide on a way to connect them all to a central server that can access them --- then start programming. You can see my home automation presentations at http://momjian.us/main/present....

    The reason this is hard is that there is so much variety in what people want to automate. With a car, the manufacturer totally controls the environment, and when you buy a new car, everything is new. With home automation, the home automation provider rarely controls the entire environment, so implementing home automation always requires customization. I suppose the only easy option is to buy a new home and have the builder install everything from scratch with home automation designed from the start. However, that rarely happens because people rarely want home automation from the start, and even if you do that, the home automation landscape changes so frequently that it would soon be obsolete.

  19. Use your Coax on Slashdot Asks: What's In Your Home Datacenter? · · Score: 1

    If you have coax in your house, you can easily run 100Mb on those coax cables with adaptors.

  20. Die soon? on Thieves Who Stole Cobalt-60 Will Soon Be Dead · · Score: 1

    Uh, everyone is going to die. I assume they meant the thieves will die "soon".

  21. Pay on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Fight Usage Caps? · · Score: 1

    You get a commercial account that doesn't have these restrictions.

  22. Re:We have the way out! on Intel, Unisys Partner On New Range of Servers · · Score: 1

    Did anyone recognize this matches the introduction to the radio show "Escape"?

            http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escape_(radio_program)

  23. Re:GUADEC? on The Last GUADEC? · · Score: 1

    No where does it say what GUADEC means, only that it is a GNOME conference. The larger point is that it wasn't even clear the news item was related to GNOME until almost the end of the news summary.

  24. GUADEC? on The Last GUADEC? · · Score: 5, Informative

    I am sure I am not the only one who doesn't know what GUADEC is, and in fact even the event homepage (https://www.guadec.org/) doesn't spell out what it is. It is the GNOME Users And Developers European Conference.

  25. $25? on Windows Blue: Microsoft's Plan To Release a New Version of Windows Every Year · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Apple can charge $25 because they have made money on the hardware. Hard to see how MS makes sufficient revenue from this, unless they anticipate controlling more of the hardware than they do now.