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  1. Well, if you're rich and white it's #1 on China Overtakes US For Healthy Lifespan, WHO Data Finds (reuters.com) · · Score: 0

    Basically, if you're rich and white the USA is still #1. If you add all those other groups in the ranking drops.

  2. Just wait until they can afford to eat on China Overtakes US For Healthy Lifespan, WHO Data Finds (reuters.com) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Just wait until the mass of Chinese can afford to eat 3 meals a day. Then we'll see what the stats say.

  3. Leave or deal with it on Coastal Megacity Karachi Is Running Out of Water (earther.com) · · Score: 2

    In the end, they can leave or deal with water scarcity. It sounds like things aren't bad enough for people to leave and improvements are impossible, so deal with it they will.

  4. During the pairing process you can pair with the older version of the protocol. However, the pairing process only happens when you add the device to your network and it only happens once.

    I'd agree with Sigma, this is a pretty minor issue.

    Sure someone could come in, disassemble your Z-Wave device, exclude the device, then re-pair it. At that point they have physical access to your stuff, so why not just crack open your home automation system?

  5. As the saying goes, there's no truth in the news on Elon Musk To Fight Fake News, Rate Journalists' Credibility Via a Site Called 'Pravda' · · Score: 2

    There's no truth in the news and there's no news in the truth.

    It has a better ring in Russian, since the two leading organs were Pravda (truth) and Izvestia (news).

  6. MoviePass has a $300m line of credit on MoviePass' Days Look Limited (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    MoviePass apparently has a $300 million line of credit. While that probably has covenants re: financial levels and performance, it's something they definitely can draw on if they need to.

  7. NeXTStep is the most sophisticated piece of software ever. It started out on 68k hardware, moved to x86 and ppc, then got a new couple of layers (Mac OS X), was ported to iOS, and is still going strong.

  8. What happened 800,000+ years ago? on Earth's Carbon Dioxide Levels Reach Highest Point In 800,000 Years (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 0, Redundant

    So obviously, what happened 800,000 years ago when the average CO2 levels were presumably higher than they are now?

  9. AE is a great Airplay Device with optical out. on Apple Discontinues Its AirPort Router Line (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    A little known fact is that you can AirPlay to an Airport Express and it'll output digital PCM to whatever's on the other side. I have a bunch of them feeding into different stereos all over the house, for cheap whole-home audio. Pretty good for a $30 device (used).

  10. Reproducibility? on EPA Proposes Limits To Science Used In Rulemaking (reuters.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Without data and methods, the study can't be reproduced, so the conclusions can't be challenged.

    That's not science.

    Anonymize the data. That's what everyone else does. Or compel data from the entities in question. Compelling data is only a rule change away.

  11. Custom IoT kernel? Why? on Microsoft Built Its Own Custom Linux Kernel For Its New IoT Service (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 2

    The only reason I can think of to use your own kernel fork is because you can power optimize it.

    For example, if you know your device only checks in every second and you only need .5 second resolution for your sensor then you can put your system to sleep and use an interrupt line attached to your sensor to wake everything up. Then you can run as much CPU as you need to fire up the radio, send the packet, and shut off.

    At that point you can also make your system 'almost realtime' by using the transmission window to receive data/commands/etc.

    Do you really need something running at 500 mhz? I mean damn, how much stuff you do expect to come off the wire?

  12. Dumb ideas have legs on 'An Apology for the Internet -- from the People Who Built It' (nymag.com) · · Score: 1

    It's fashionable nowadays to bemoan the state of whatever. They did the same thing back when Gutenburg started churning out porn on his printing press. They did the same when TV came out.

    Give it up, this isn't really that important.

  13. Patent is invalid, but ruling stands on Apple Must Pay Patent Troll More Than $500 Million In iMessage Case (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It's a strange quirk in the process that even though the patents have been declared invalid the ruling stands, at least until the validity of the patent has been adjudicated fully.

    It's the legal system doing out-of-order speculative branch execution for the court/legal system - with promises.

  14. Now we know how someone's breaking into iPhones on Recent iOS Update Kills Functionality On iPhone 8s Repaired With Aftermarket Screens (vice.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Well, now we know that the touch chip is a vector for unauthorized access.

    When you reverse engineer stuff you pay the price when things change. If it's only one vendor having the problem then you bought your stuff from the wrong vendor.

  15. Oh no, the data might even be stored in (gasp) Russia!

    Russia would be a safer place than the usual store of data, which seem to be publicly accessible S3 buckets.

  16. What if they aren't wearing the wristband? on Engineer Develops Sonar Alarm System To Monitor Kids In the Pool (newatlas.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The wristband is the flaw. A kid who isn't supposed to go into the pool isn't going to wear their special wristband, especially if it isn't their pool.

  17. Can ruby survive? I hope not on Can Ruby Survive Another 25 Years? (techradar.com) · · Score: 1

    Every once in a while Ruby crashes and burns when installing gems...on a system seemingly identical to another one that works fine.

    Once the Ruby guys can fix that I'm sure Ruby will do fine.

  18. you donâ(TM)t need the latest OS to use the l on Latest macOS Update Disables DisplayLink, Rendering Thousands of Monitors Dead (displaylink.com) · · Score: 1

    Not sure what the poster is saying, but you donâ(TM)t need the latest os to use the latest Xcode.

  19. Re:New boring tech? on Elon Musk Says Boring Company Will Sell 'Lego-Like' Kits of Excavated Rock (theverge.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    They're going to pour the slurry into molds and sell it.

    It makes sense, because instead of disposing of the earth (which is quite expensive) he's getting people to pay him for it. That's pretty clever any way you slice it.

  20. Most of you can't even get out of the basement on Flat-Earther's Steam-Powered Rocket Lofts Him 1,875 Feet Up Into Mojave Desert (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Most of you here can't even get out of your parents' basements. He built a freaking rocket and shot himself into the sky. And more impressive, he lived.

  21. The rate of improvement has slowed on Ask Slashdot: Were Developments In Technology More Exciting 30 Years Ago? · · Score: 1

    Back in the day, there were lots of new applications and interfaces that tried to do things in new ways. Some worked, some didn't.

    However, we seem to have gotten stuck in one of the neural network sub-optimal potholes. Email apps today are basically identical to Eudora. Calendars still suck. Even tools like slack are just warmed-over IRC.

    Just look at the UI for Kai's Power tools. Whoa!

    While there may be an optimal UI for various use cases, there's no particular reason that the Eudora UI should be the one that got standardized on.

    It seems the creativity left the industry once it became a valid career path.

  22. This has to be the dumbest story on earth on Russia Secretly Helped Venezuela Launch a Cryptocurrency To Evade US Sanctions (time.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    I can't believe some anonymus Russian prankster was able to put Russia, Venezuela, Trump, Putin, , CryptoCurrencies, oil, and imperialism in one story. They win this month's "hype bingo" contest.

    Yeah, some AC (who's veracity has been verified by other news outlets who got the same information from their anonymous sources) says Russia is involved, because why not?

  23. When the retarded speak, don't listen on Apple's Newest iPhone X Ad Captures an Embarrassing iOS 11 Bug (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    It's people like you who are dragging apple into the hole of mediocrity.

  24. Apple used to be the best on Apple's Newest iPhone X Ad Captures an Embarrassing iOS 11 Bug (theverge.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Apple's attention to detail was so good that they figured out the non-linear intensity needed to simulate breathing for their sleep lights.

    https://patents.google.com/pat...

    Now they can't even get a fucking animation to work properly.

  25. My killer app? 2FA on Android Wear Needs More Than a New Name To Fight Apple Watch (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I have a 2FA app on my watch so I never have to find my 2FA device, ever.