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  1. Power of Slashdot on On its 10th Anniversary, Grammarly Looks Way Beyond Grammar (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 2

    Havenâ(TM)t see any Gramarly ads, but this fine fluff piece on Slashdot pried open my mind space. A how many other keyboard drones also got touched worldwide? What was the excuse ? birthday aniversary? Friend of a friend? Hereâ(TM)s hoping Slashdot doesnâ(TM)t get overrun with PR postings, even if becoming aware of a subscription web company of note is mildly interesting....

  2. Uplinks are sexier on Russia Limits Operations of Foreign Communications Satellite Operators (zdnet.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Look around at all the rooftop dishes in you neighborhood. Which one is beaming or more likely intermittently bursting in a sneaky and sophisticated way a high capacity data uplink? how do you think espionage works? Shortwavew and Morse code? Microfiche hidden in shoe heels? Obviously every terestial Internet data path is being sniffed. And you can bet rural personal uplinks and even dish TV logo-ed urban apartment balcony dishes are suspected of being covert alternatives to all the flash in personal electronics and body cavities as ways to get data back to China, albeit not with the much more useful near real-time capabilities of Earthline VPN feeding covert terrestrial uplink dishes. Why Russia is making a The new regulation law about down links is just theater. Putin Angle-ing for a Netflix board seat?

  3. Fundamental flaw with this approach. on Ask Slashdot: Could An AI Conceivably Create Futureproof Product Designs? · · Score: 1

    The assumption that future designs are a learnable linear extrapolation from previous designs is questionable. As designs have occasional generational, non linear discontinuities. And fads and fashion details like color are discontinuous. Think avocado bathroom fixtures.

  4. Smart people tight teams make popular software tha on Dev vs. Ops: The State of Accountability (overops.com) · · Score: 1

    Non-coding managers will always be be prey to anyone or anything insulating them from the unacceptable truth that making software system sing is an art form more similar to making music than a production line. Find the right artists and keep the band together and sweet music will flow to your customers.

  5. Moon landing has Elon Muskâ(TM)s name written on NASA Is Outsourcing Its Next Moon Lander To a Private Company (pressherald.com) · · Score: 1

    Space X l has reaction rocket soft landing in earth gravity coded and done in hardware. Moon gravity shoudl be do-able quickly. And who else has ready to go reliable launch capacity at any Scale as these contracts require? Look for a Space X trans lunar orbital mission soon?

  6. Does switching bands make you a worse musician? on Does Switching Jobs Make You a Worse Programmer? (forrestbrazeal.com) · · Score: 1

    Programming is a whole life encompassing art. Not a cog in the machine productivity defined labor.

  7. If a government doesnâ(TM)t want you to have on Is Google's Promotion of HTTPS Misguided? (this.how) · · Score: 1

    Your voice isnâ(TM)t worthy for Google to surface it in search results. Or if a corporation wonâ(TM)t advertize. With Google if it accepts selected dis-approved certificate Authorities then all we need is anyone with cash to buy a certicate Authority and Google will give them a veto power over Internet content? QED!

  8. New California electronic license plates will have on China's Surveillance State Will Soon Track Cars (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Of course t he LCD screens will spare you the excruciating effort of putting on those pesky annual renewal stickers manually. Downside is the Stateâ(TM)s ability to put a BOLO notice on you carâ(TM)s plates in real time.

  9. Clever hiding NSA hardware at Energy on US Once Again Boasts the World's Fastest Supercomputer (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    If you had access to a computer this powerful, what would you do with it? just asking...

  10. Just saw one nostrils steaming, and big as a freight train still roaming the untracked West.

  11. missile Away and other favorite purchases on Electronics Surplus Shop 'WeirdStuff Warehouse' Is Closing (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    Some have forgotten Sikicon Valley's major role as a design and manufacturing center for the military industrial complex. radar guided missiles and many classified projects still too secret to be mentioned and some like the Glomr explorer and stealth war ships like Spirit come to mind. From the surplus missile equipment I scored gems like complex 4-way bulb lit buttons labeled Target gated that someday I will repurpose into a desk gadget. the old ejection seat bailout bottle will always be my go-to portable compressed air storage resource. The Valley lost its heart when manufacturing and hardware gave way to ephemeral bytes.

  12. Why isn't incoming traffic inspected and blocked? on Chinese Hackers Hit US Firms Linked To South China Sea Dispute (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Couldn't something be done to choke off more suspicious incoming traffic? Or does it fan out to non-aligned proxy nations to be disguised and forwarded?

  13. In the 1970s John McCarthy once recounted this cautionary tale regarding AI's tantalizing prospects to a crowded lecture hall: "We made a grant proposal to the military five years ago. We said we would build a vision system and robotic arm that could read the instructions for a Heathkit radio kit and assemble it. We proposed it would take five years and $150,000." That was five years ago he said to amused laughter. "That's they way it always seems with AI" he continued. success is always only 5 years and $150,000 away" He continued. Finally, only fifty years and hundreds of millions of dollars later Alpha Zero is getting close. Too bad Heathkit isn't around to see it...

  14. Meteor on Ask Slashdot: Best To-Do/Task List Software? · · Score: 1

    Self Serve: CLI server and free local mongo DB integrated with install. Modify to heart's content with JavaScript

  15. Profitable software on Floppies on Learning To Program Is Getting Harder (slashdot.org) · · Score: 1

    Like many others, here. I once wrote commercially useful software "Lessor II "that booted off a 5.25 " floppy. The original floppy floppies! Don't want to draw flames by identifying which standalone, language it was written in. Many could boot from the A: drive and a ROM'd motherboard (ahhh... "Motherboards"...sigh) It solved a business problem and licensed for over $1,000. Recently I have tried to develop within the newer Frameworks environments, and found it frustrating to developing with NPM,always downloading some knucklehead's newest contribution to an already good enough to begin development codebase. Watching some communities flaming amongst themselves and chasing the newest cool makes coding like watching two drunks play eightball.. they scratch so often you begin to wonder if they will ever get all the balls to stay down in the pockets. And when the cloud goes down; only needing 115 V. A.C to do useful computing will seem as robust as cockroach biology!

  16. u.s also Re:Linked page was just a press release on How To Check If You Interacted With Russian Propaganda On Facebook During the 2016 Election (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    us IP address and all I saw was fluff, no tool.

  17. Nick name: "Big Zero" on How Jony Ive Masterminded Apple's New Headquarters (wsj.com) · · Score: 2

    Keeps the outside world walled out from its private inner garden. Geometrically maximizes he distance between employees on the circumference of a circle.

  18. Coding is becoming relatively low wage! on Should The Government Pay For Veterans To Attend Code Schools? (backchannel.com) · · Score: 1

    Due to the growing infrastructure supporting the utilization (or if you are real engineer the misuse) of offshore coders, even formerly high rate positions are dropping to $25 per hour. Not much better than the proposed $15 per hour minimum wage for counter service jobs

  19. The IBM PC Tech ring binder on Ask Slashdot: What Was Your First Home Computer? · · Score: 2

    The first IBM PCs were slow to arrive but the gray ring Binder in a cloth wrapped box was. A treasure trove of info. Great primer on bios and hardware for newbie. Read it cover to cover uncounted times while I waited for the actual hardwareto arrive. IBM deserves kudos for bringing a lot of soon to be engineers up to speed. I also constantly visited the Pc store in downtown SF which became a social hub. For years used to look look at this manual every time I need to check the ASCII code table page... though I suppose the internet has moved us on from that. Great days, Showing off the piano app for my Aunt and Uncle, Mom and dad.

  20. Swedes wil fly or float to and from Sweden how? on Sweden Pledges To Cut All Greenhouse Gas Emissions By 2045 (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    There is no substitute on the horizon for kerosene belching jets. Even ferries are currently mostly diesel. So perhaps swedes will use their renewable chargedteslas togoto aver pavilions of the illusion of places beyond their orders,or wait, electric trains long way round to other carbon spewing countries?

  21. I apologize for the large size of this interface on Ask Slashdot: A Point of Contention - Modern User Interfaces · · Score: 1

    My manager never alots enough time to make one smaller!

  22. Re:Give me some steel working Men! on NASA Unveils Two New Missions To Study Truly Strange Asteroids (space.com) · · Score: 1

    But it is many millions of ton of iron ready to be placed into Mars, Earth or Moon orbit. right? Orbital mechanics is counter-intuitive to me.

  23. Give me some steel working Men! on NASA Unveils Two New Missions To Study Truly Strange Asteroids (space.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Psyche 16 is a heavy mass of iron. Already well out of the gravity well of the Sun. Give me a few resourceful and creative engineers (The challenge will be way too demanding for AI and Too far away from earth for near real-time robotics) and all I need is an energy source. With our minds and Promethean effort Iwe can craft an iron or steel (using easily scavenged local carbon )space ship forged in space). Then we’ll use the energy source, magnetism from the conductive iron and Iron ions to create an impulse drive to power our beautiful large Beam and Plate habitat on an epic voyage !. It’s all straight forward conventional physics Steel water tanks we’ll fill on the fly from Ice we find drifting out there like cometary space icebergs.. atmosphere by electrolysis. Calling on all you brave sons of Pittsburg! Imagine what we can do! We’ll make the Martian look like the dirt farmer he was!

  24. Foreign workers work diffently on IT Workers Facing Layoffs Jolted By CEO's Message (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    U.S. born engineers have been very successful and innovative. Foreign workers come from different educational backgrounds and experiences. As anyone who was worked besides them learns this gives them different attitudes and propensities. That make them counterfeits not plug-compatible with more experienced workers. When you factor in the costs of projects that eventually collapse or fail to gain traction with users, the ultimate cost of H1b Workers may be higher. Or if you are unwise... One of the many disastrous offshoring attempts may be very harmful to you own career.

  25. And if the sun cools, For a while? on Climate Change Rate To Turn Southern Spain To Desert By 2100, Report Warns (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't it be a hoot if we start accepting very detailed climate models just as the sun, perhaps as predicted by new solar dynamics models and historically low sunspot activity enters a cooling phase that is unmodeled as a reduction int the energy input to the earth?