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  1. The new Costco on How Amazon Became Corporate America's Nightmare (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    I got my degree at Amazon.

  2. The Indian Ocean: where stuff goes to get lost? on 132-Year-Old Science Experiment Washes Ashore In Australia (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    The Indian Ocean seems to be the place to be if you want to get lost permanently. MH370 likely went down there and this bottle took forever to make it out.

    If you want to dump something and not have it wash ashore the IO is the place to be.

  3. Time to block them all on Sri Lanka Blocks Facebook, Instagram To Prevent Spread of Hate Speech (lankabusinessonline.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's funny, the social networks have gotten to the point where they can disrupt a society more than they can help it. Time to shut them all down and start again.

  4. Peer review only works if you don't have a confirmation bias. If you do then it's not peer review, it's groupthink.

  5. Infrastructure note: UDP doesn't get dropped on GitHub Survived the Biggest DDoS Attack Ever Recorded (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Back in the day UDP was considered unreliable because it could be dropped by the network at any time for any reason.

    It should be noted that UDP is apparently just as reliable as TCP at the network level, in that equipment in general does -not- drop UDP at all. Behaviorally speaking the network attempts to guarantee delivery of everything, which is interesting and possibly unnecessary.

  6. Re:A robot dog doesn't need to fight back on Boston Dynamics Is Teaching Its Robot Dog To Fight Back Against Humans (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    That's when those metal limbs really come in handy.

  7. A robot dog doesn't need to fight back on Boston Dynamics Is Teaching Its Robot Dog To Fight Back Against Humans (theguardian.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    A robot dog doesn't need to fight back. All it needs to do is say, at a high volume, "get out of the way or I'll rip you in half."

    That should work on about 99% of the population.

  8. Tofu is ultra-processed. Does it cause issues as well?

  9. Great book, I found it and read it a few years ago. I know nothing about rocket propellent, and afterwards I knew a little bit more.

    He's really entertaining, and it makes for a good read. You have to be pretty good to make rocket fuel interesting for someone who knows nothing about rocket fuel.

  10. So how are they going to enforce this? on New Jersey Governor Signs Net Neutrality Order (thehill.com) · · Score: 0

    How is NJ going to enforce this? Are they going to investigate complains from everyone and investigate every time someone's net access slows down?

    Does that mean you can't slow down web content in favor of VoIP?

    What about slowing down other, non-web content?

    Is caching slowing down web content, because you're speeding up someone else's web content?

    How about content filtering/adblocking? Anonymization? Technically these are throttling/blocking web content.

  11. Please do the captain the needful on This Chinese Math Problem Has No Answer. Perhaps, It Has a Lot of Them. (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Will someone please do the needful for the captain so he can leave with his sheep and goats?

  12. Continuing revenue streams are important on Ask Slashdot: What Is Your View On Forced Subscription-Only Software? · · Score: 1

    Whether or not you like subscriptions, they have an important function: making a guaranteed revenue stream that you can plan against.

    What happens to a company when enough people don't pay the upgrade fee? It closes and the software dies.

    Subscriptions can guarantee the viability of a piece of software.

    The fact is, good developers cost money. Support costs money. QA costs money. Documentation costs money. A subscription allows you to forecast effectively, so you can hire and pay people.

  13. Re:Buy Audi or something else, speak with your wal on BMW's Apple CarPlay Annual Fee is Next-level Gouging (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    The problem with Audis is the huge dashboard. I mean WTF, the thing looks as big as a kitchen table.

  14. Re:If you don't like it don't buy it on BMW's Apple CarPlay Annual Fee is Next-level Gouging (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    First year free, like BMW assist.

  15. If you don't like it don't buy it on BMW's Apple CarPlay Annual Fee is Next-level Gouging (cnet.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You have to pay for BMW Assist and navigation updates too. If you don't like it don't buy the car. It's easy.

  16. Re:Propofol is great stuff on Scientists Change Our Understanding of How Anaesthesia Messes With the Brain (sciencealert.com) · · Score: 1

    If propofol could be put into a pill I'd take tons. Taking it was the most refreshing experience ever.

  17. This is for right-of-way etc. on Trump Pushes To Expand High-Speed Internet In Rural America (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    This is about right-of-way and locating facilities, not funding. How this will play out in real life is unclear.

  18. It will cost google less to settle this than to go through the aggravation of trying to defend its politically incorrect political correctness stance.

  19. When your connection gets throttled it throttles everything. That also might affect your VoIP service and everything else connected to your internet.

  20. It's not a bug, it's a design decision on Intel Responds To Alleged Chip Flaw, Claims Effects Won't Significantly Impact Average Users (hothardware.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    From what I've read, this "problem" looks to be a design decision on the part of Intel. Speculative access needs to be fast, and making it subject to access control basically removes the benefit of speculative access.

    Given how Intel the company operates, there's no way that this could be a bug

    I myself would rather run with the current behavior, since I don't particularly care about the problem; it's more an issue for shared hardware, and I don't generally share my hardware.

  21. AI poetry? on Ask Slashdot: What Would an AI-Written Poem Look Like? · · Score: 2

    Should I shed this mortal coil
    and lance these painful boils
    vote!

  22. Impossible? Of course not! on Experts Cast Doubt on 'Alien Alloys' in the New York Times' UFO Story (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1

    Of course it's impossible that there's an unidentifiable alloy. Any alloy we can't identify will be given a new name, like X2, identifying it.

  23. Correlation? Causation? Too complicated! on Faced With Rising Temperatures, People May Seek Asylum (axios.com) · · Score: 2

    Let's blame everything on climate change, because why not?

  24. Lamestream media on Ajit Pai Taunts Net Neutrality Critics. Mark Hamill Taunts Ajit Pai (mashable.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    Why do you think every piece of online "journalism" thinks the net neutrality repeal is bad? Maybe it's because they're feeding you a line of bullshit?

  25. I tell computers what to do on Ask Slashdot: How Can Programmers Explain Their Work To Non-Programmers? · · Score: 1

    You know, it's not that freaking hard to explain what you do.

    Programmer:

    "Computers are like 4 year olds. You have to tell them exactly what to do. That's what I do, I write recipes for the computer so it knows what to do."

    How about a solutions architect?

    "I try to understand everything that we're trying to bake so I can tell programmers what recipes to write."

    Project manager?

    "I make sure that all the recipes are written on-time so we can publish the cookbook and make the cakes."

    CTO?

    "I make sure that we're using the right kind of equipment, ingredients, and methodologies."

    VP of engineering?

    "I make sure that everyone makes their recipes the same way so that if someone quits we don't have to redo all of their recipes."

    CEO?

    "I explain to the customer why the banana cake they got was much better than the chocolate cake they ordered."