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  1. Cockroaches are fine on Insect Die-off: Even Common Species Are Becoming Rare (sciencedaily.com) · · Score: 1

    Cockroaches seems to adapt the new world. Mosquitoes and lice too.

  2. Companies deserve no respect on Ask Slashdot: Which Tech Company Do You Respect Most? · · Score: 1

    Companies have no soul. Their respectable behavior can change overnight if key people change. Hence they deserve no respect. People running companies do,on the other hand.

  3. The result is not surprising. Glucose is a chemically reactive molecule, it binds with various tissues in the body, harming them in the process. The process is called glycation.

    With diabetes, glucose levels are always high, and the damage is maximum. But even without diabetes, more glucose spikes will cause more damage . It is not surprising the brain also takes its toll in the process.

  4. Gompertz-Makeham law on Naked Mole Rats Defy Mortality Mathematics (discovermagazine.com) · · Score: 1

    Naked mole rats violate to the Gompertz-Makeham law, and she has over 3,000 data points to back her conclusion.

    According to Wikipedia, this law is describes human death rate, hence it should come as no surprise that naked mole rats violate it.

  5. After Intel ME flaws on Apple Could Use ARM Coprocessors for Three Updated Mac Models (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    After Intel ME flaws, Apple ME flaws?

  6. Hardly a disease on One in 50 of Us is Face Blind -- and Many Don't Even Realize (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    In my opinion, it is a mistake to call disease a condition shared by 1/50 of population, and that is so harmless that people ignore they have it.

  7. Sleep experiment on Do Particles Have Consciousness? (qz.com) · · Score: 2

    Here is a simple experiment about consciousness: every night, sleep turns your body into a huge bunch of non conscious particles. How does that fit with panconsciousness?

  8. BOYD consequence on Is It Time For Zero-Trust Corporate Networks? (csoonline.com) · · Score: 2

    Zero trust is an obvious BOYD consequence. The only unexpected point is how long it took between the two concepts landing in corporate networks.

  9. Unemployment insurance on Uber CEO Urges 'Portable Benefits' for Gig Economy Workers (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    If Uber is honest about this, they should accept to pay for contractor unemployment insurance. And of course the more they would let unemployed, the most expensive for them it would be.

  10. Advantage over speed camera? on Ford Has An Idea For An Autonomous Police Car That Could Find A Hiding Spot (jalopnik.com) · · Score: 1

    Perhaps there is an advantage over speed camera, but it is not obvious.

    There is a huge drawback: a police car without policeman will be a nice target for vandalism

  11. Influrence failed in France on Facebook Says It Can't Guarantee Social Media is Good For Democracy (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Russia influence failed in France, facing huge and obvious influence from french medias that backed Emmanuel Macron.

  12. Signed microcode update on Red Hat Reverts Spectre Patches to Address Boot Issues (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 2

    I wondered about CPU micrcode hacking and I got the answer here: the micrcode update is signed. That suggests modern Intel CPU have a crypto engine to verify the update. I wonder how long will we live before someone leaks private key.

  13. Water war on 'New California' Movement Wants To Create a 51st State (wqad.com) · · Score: 1

    And the next step is a water war between the old and new California.

  14. Soy oil as a byproduct? on Turning Soybeans Into Diesel Fuel Is Costing Us Billions (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    If I understand correctly, soy oil is a byproduct. The primary use of soy is soy cake to feed cattle. Where will it go if not in biodiesel?

    Of course we could give up soy cake feed for cattle, and use grass instead. It would make a healthier meat, but we would have to eat less.

  15. Too late, as usual on France Says 'Au Revoir' to the Word 'Smartphone' (smithsonianmag.com) · · Score: 1

    The idea is not that bad, but as usual it comes too late, years after everyone got used to "smartphone". It will probably not go further than "jeune pousse" for startup.

  16. Poll method on Many Enterprise Mobile Devices Will Never Be Patched Against Meltdown, Spectre (betanews.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Given the mess of patch availability, I wonder how they can sort the cases where patch is not installed, patch is not yet available, and patch will never be available

  17. Remove fossil oil, and relation between nations change. Saudis will be obvious loosers. I wonder if Russia's economy is diverse enough to avoid collapse. And without oil, US interest for middle east vanish, will US Israel support too?

  18. What kind of UBI on Is Finland's Universal Basic Income Trial Too Good To Be True? (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    There are two flavors of UBI. If the money is enough to live, then employers have to convince workers the jobs are worth it. If it is too low to live, workers must take any job, and employers can pay less because there is UBI, this is just a socialized help for the employers.

    At $652, it depends where you live. In some cities, this is clearly the second flavor of UBI.

  19. Re:Absention gets the seat on Ask Slashdot: How Would You Use Computers To Make Elections Better? · · Score: 1

    If one candidate goes negative, you know it was a highly negative election, and even if it might have been deserved, the winner should only get a half term.

    Why half a term? The candidate legitimacy is below zero, it should not be elected at all.

  20. Absention gets the seat on Ask Slashdot: How Would You Use Computers To Make Elections Better? · · Score: 1

    What about this one? If more than 50% of voters abstain,nobody is elected, and we start over the election with new candidates.

  21. Remember Slashdot beta? on Snapchat's Big Redesign Bashed In 83 Percent of User Reviews (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It is always the same story. Someone thinks the site needs to be refreshed, but users do not like change for the sake of it, especially about user interfaces.

  22. Biometric authentication is flawed on 'I Tried the First Phone With An In-Display Fingerprint Sensor' (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Biometric authentication uses authentication credentials that are almost public and cannot be revoked. The challenge for the attacker is only to reproduce them, and once done, the system needs to be replaced, since there is no "password change".

  23. Related pre-Clovis news on Ancient DNA Reveals a Completely Unknown Population of Native Americans (sciencealert.com) · · Score: 1
  24. Re:No upload speed on Roombas Will Soon Build a Wi-Fi Coverage Map While They Clean (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    The robot logs received signal strength. If you want to log how the signal it sends is received at the Access Point, you need some software on the Access Point.

  25. Re:Statins on US Drugmaker Raises Price of Vitamins By More Than 800% (ft.com) · · Score: 1

    Sure, but these are rare cases, and I do not know if statins are the right treatment there or not.