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  1. Re: It's because the U.S. was first. on Are America's Big Telecom Companies Suppressing Fiber? (salon.com) · · Score: 1

    Credit cards with mag strips have been around forever in lots of countries. Like when atmâ(TM)s had single line displays.
    Chips in phone cards have been around since the 90â(TM)s.
    What are you arguing?

  2. /. Is showing its age. Receipts suck and are super inefficient for small business owners who buy things retail. Stop thinking about all the negatives. Iâ(TM)m sure someone can think of a non tracking way to get an electronic receipt on your phone in a standardized way.

  3. Re: Not all the West... on The Internet, Divided Between the US and China, Has Become a Battleground (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Thatâ(TM)s only on paper. In reality he USA is probably more of a theocracy than most (all?) western nations today. Even trump goes to church for show, otherwise you are unelectable.

  4. The earth canâ(TM)t afford for BP to be right.

  5. Invoices need to be electronic. on Google Docs Gets an API For Task Automation (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Rant..
    Invoices are generated by a computer and then get typed into the receivers computer by a human. Super inefficient and prone to error. Invoices need to be electronic and this needed to happen years ago. Iâ(TM)m not talking about special cases for big business. This is a small business problem and needs to happen in atime ftware such as quickbooks without vendor lock-in.

  6. Re: Oh, man! on What Does It Take To Keep a Classic IBM 1401 Mainframe Alive? (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    This is why I read slashdot. Thanks.

  7. Re: Siri is terrible on Voice Tech Like Alexa and Siri Hasn't Found Its True Calling Yet (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    Yes it does suck. Itâ(TM)s surprising how much it sucks actually.

  8. Thanks for all the great reads over the years...decades. Roblimo R.I.P.

  9. Re: Yeah, Slashdot has become wildly 'conservative on Pentagon Reports 2000% Increase in Russia Trolls Since Friday (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    So true. Maybe slashdot has aged and become more far right leaning, but I think this hypothesis is more likely.

  10. Antitrust on Opinion: Chrome is Turning Into the New Internet Explorer 6 (theverge.com) · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Break up google. But most people are not capitalists and would disagree. Let the corporations rule!

  11. I donâ(TM)t need a doctor to tell me what to place in my eye? If the contacts meet government quality standards, then that should be the end of the regulations.

  12. Re: Did they find the pure-strain gold? on iFixit's iPhone X Teardown Reveals Two Battery Cells, 'Unprecedented' Logic Board (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1

    187000 tonnes of gold has been mined through time at 19000 kg/m^3 is 9842 m^3 of gold. An Olympic swimming pool is 2500m^3 or about 4 pools worth.

  13. Happy birthday on 20 Years of Stuff That Matters · · Score: 1

    Happy Birthday. There were a pile of gnome stories way back when about every little change, Linux desktop supremacy was just around the corner, or so we thought,

    Does anyone remember before you could register a handle? I seem to remember browsing the site and being able to sign the bottom of a post with any handle or am I crazy? There was no reason to register if I remember right, then some change happened and everyone was registering like mad,

  14. Re:It has nothing to do with Trump on Mozilla Employee Denied Entry To the United States (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 0

    Freedom of speech is highly regarded by USians, but it stops at the border. The hypocrisy.

  15. He is right. Snowden is not a disinterested party, but he is still right.

  16. My cable company on Cable TV 'Failing' As a Business, Cable Industry Lobbyist Says (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    My cable company takes all content makes it 720p and compresses the shit out. They then send it out to my 1080p tv and it looks like shit. Netflix looks great. And they wonder why they lose customers? Theyhave a very simple job and They can't even do that right.

  17. Re: LEGO Mindstorms/LabVIEW on Ask Slashdot: Is There a Way To Write Working Code By Drawing Flow Charts? · · Score: 1

    Yes it is great for controlling instruments. It's not really slow per se. It really depends what you are trying to do. The biggest issue is it is very easy to write a mess with anything half complicated. But these same PhD's write FORTRAN and Matlab code with zero functions too.

  18. Re: Not "misunderstood" on Trump Misunderstood MIT Climate Research, University Officials Say (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Fine, no problem. Where is the alternate plan? I haven't seen recognition yet from the administration that global warming is real and a problem?
    When you withdraw from Paris and don't have a plan for the biggest threat EVER to humanity......well you dropped the ball.

  19. N 6.6M on Living Near Heavy Traffic Increases Risk of Dementia, Study Finds (theguardian.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The study tracked 6.6 million people. This is awesome. These are the type of studies we need, big data studies. Everyone is always worried about medical records, but when you have a single payer system there is less of a worry about that. Imagine what else they can discover from that dataset!

  20. Save lives on Tesla Autopilot 'Predicts' Accident Before It Happens (engadget.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This will save lives, full stop. You can crap all over Elon if you want, but the guy actually gets shit done. No it's not perfect, but it keeps getting better and it is at the point where it will save lives.

  21. Channels on AT&T Unveils DirecTV Now Streaming TV Service With Over 100 Channels (theverge.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    These clowns don't get it. I don't want to watch channels. I want to watch episodes, movies, and events on my schedule (with the exception of live events). Take everything direct tv has and stream it individually, now that is something worth paying for.

  22. All the effort spent on glyphosate..... Versus actual drugs that work in humans. I wonder if this is the tip of the iceberg?

  23. Nyquist can stop spinning. on Scientists In Japan Build 100Gbps Wireless Network Using Terahertz Transmitter · · Score: 0

    TFA says "and now another team claims it can hit 100Gbps by pushing into the TeraHertz (300GHz+).". Nyquist can stop spinning.

  24. Big deal on World's Smallest Optical Switch Uses a Single Atom (gizmag.com) · · Score: 2

    I actually read the article. This seems like a pretty big deal. The megahertz switching speed is the only negative.

  25. fibre on Japanese Researchers Achieve Record 56Gbps Wireless Transmission · · Score: 1

    I don't think the submitter has any clue how much bandwidth an aerial fiber has. Hard to deploy? String the fiber up.