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  1. Re:*stop eating the seed corn* on Boffins Fear We Might Be Running Out of Ideas (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    In fact Musk is a great entrepreneur, that's what he's good at. Tesla could have used him as a business partner.

  2. They should have put their solution on a blockchain so they could have raised $10+ million with an ICO!

  3. Re:Polio eradication progress on Plants 'Hijacked' To Make Polio Vaccine (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    People forget about this when dismissing anti-vaxxers as having no case. I'm not saying the anti-vaxxers are correct or completely justified, but there is a provable non-zero individual risk with vaccines that we must not forget about.

  4. Gold + Bitcoin (Re:Liquidity) on Bitcoin Just Surged Past $4,000. TechCrunch Explains Why (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Also some may be opting to pull it out into gold or other things, there are now gold for bitcoin places

    There is even a gold-backed blockchain (you can read my little write-up about it here).

    Bitcoin may be in a bubble. But honestly most of the hype is not around Bitcoin itself. Bitcoin is not a store of value, and offers little utility. Other blockchains are doing more useful things. The Ethereum blockchain is finding many powerful uses, but as its price as a coin as somewhat settled recently, people are less interested in trading it.

    The Bitcoin bubble will eventually burst. The best blockchains, those that provide real utility, will live on.

  5. Re:Let us have our fun. on 'I'm a Teapot' Error Code Saved From Extinction By Public Outcry (gizmodo.com.au) · · Score: 1

    I don't want Chrome, Safari, Edge, Apache, IIS, nginx and all sorts of cache/proxy solutions have to deal with 418 "I'm a teapot" just because somebody found it funny.

    The good news is that HTTP 418 is in a class of codes shared by all 4xx responses. No new code required to handle this code with a generic error message.

  6. Standardized UI Actions: Forwards vs Backwards on Ubuntu Will Revert Window Controls To the Right-Hand Side in Next Release (neowin.net) · · Score: 2

    I can't speak specifically to Ubuntu's UI, but in general, the close/exit action belongs on the left side. The majority of us read and write from left-to-right, and so an action on the left is to move backwards while an action on the right is to go further. Web browsers reinforce this notion with the idea of back and forward buttons (though their placement may not be ideal).

    It's an easy, logical standard and allows the users to quickly grasp the likely effect of their action in a pop-up dialog, for example. The affirmative choice goes on the right edge and the close / cancellation / negative response goes on the left edge. This also automatically means there is a good space between the two very opposite operations, vastly reducing the chance of a mis-click. In similar fashion, I always put the save/update action on the right and the delete action on the left.

    Why is this not a common standard by now?

  7. Purposeful Glitches on Ask Slashdot: What Software (Or Hardware) Glitch Makes You Angry? · · Score: 1

    Auto-updating software that provides no user control over their schedules. This appears to be a modern trend in software updates. Chrome and the Dropbox client are pretty bad offenders but there are others as well. I have very limited bandwidth on my connection to the Internet and any time my system becomes unusable for the web it is usually because DropboxMacUpdate or ksfetch are consuming all the bandwidth. I swear, it's like all modern software assumes everybody is on a fat pipe these days.

    And don't get me started about auto-playing videos in the web browser...

  8. I already wasted my mods on earlier comments so I'm throwing them away for this reply. I feel as you do, that the states should fund the federal republic directly, and I don't understand why this concept is so underrated. Yes, it's a conservative view, towards reducing bureaucracy.

  9. "Didju"... aka "Bitch" on Google Home Ends A Domestic Dispute By Calling The Police (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 2

    Train your virtual assistant to the name "Didju." Alternatively, the name "Bitch" may prove quite useful and/or hilarious.

  10. Re:MS like to ignore their customers on Skype Users Slam Microsoft's Attempt To Infuse App With Social Media Magic (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Have to justify the need for more H1-B visas somehow!

  11. Stallman would say... on WikiLeaks Unveils CIA Implants That Steal SSH Credentials From Windows, Linux PCs (thehackernews.com) · · Score: 1, Informative

    Just change your password to . Passwords are a form of control; be free!

  12. Re: he's an idiot on Customer's 20-Year-Old Email Account Shut Down Over Unusual Address (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 5, Funny

    Because a 5 is not a v.

    The Romans would disagree.

  13. Re:How is this news? on Amazon's Drive-Up Grocery Stores Are Now Open To the Public In Seattle (theverge.com) · · Score: 0

    This is in the Cloud.

    That's Seattle for ya.

  14. Human? What about the bots? on Twitter Is Ditching the Egg (fastcodesign.com) · · Score: 2

    Aren't half the Twitter users simply bots? That the new icon is a human silhouette sounds like wishful thinking to me. So does the silhouette fill in to become a robot once the user has demonstrated enough bot-like activity?

  15. This IS needed. It is a form of user protection. There's no other option to clear cookies other than this.

    Not true. You can still navigate to the cookie store on disk and delete the cookies there. So by your logic, having it in a menu is just a convenience feature, something WANTED but "NOT NEEDED". Even browsing the Internet in a graphical browser can be extrapolated to a mere convenience. If I'm not mistaken, convenience is part of the whole reason we use computers.

  16. As a Montanan and long-time Slashdotter... on Will Montana Become America's Third State To Ditch Daylight Savings Time? (missoulian.com) · · Score: 1

    All I can say is the future looks bright no matter what my clock says. It's 6:30pm and nearly dark outside, there is snow on the ground, and later tonight it's time to set the clocks forward. Is it Spring already? Just another reminder of the years going by! I'm still working on my Web Shell Java/XML Framework; any help on IOVAR is appreciated.

    As to the local time: my first instinct is to say I hope we don't change the law at this point. Best to continue to practice Daylight Savings Time like our neighboring states in order to ease confusion, although I am in favor of abolishment on a larger scale.

  17. Re:we have slack at work, and I don't understand w on Are Your Slack Conversations Really Private and Secure? (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    Hierarchies and structure are too much for the WWW hipsterNet. The DNS will continue to flatten, databases have no schema, and AI will be required to make sense of any of it.

  18. 650 - 530 = 120, thanks Slashdot! on Excessive Radiation Inside Fukushima Fries Clean-Up Robot (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    What would I be doing without sites like Slashdot pointing out basic arithmetic for me in the summaries of their home page? Thinking, that's what!

  19. Metered Users Also Suffer on Most of the Web Really Sucks If You Have a Slow Connection (danluu.com) · · Score: 1

    Users like myself who are on a metered connection also suffer, but in a slightly different way. All those pesky videos that (partially) download on page load when you're just trying to read a news article. The bandwidth is plenty fast, which actually exacerbates the problem. How is it that Chrome provides a switch to turn off images, but not videos?

    Another commenter here talked about pipelining. Again, this comes back to a lack of proper browsing features in our de-facto web browser, Chrome. We want power options, Google!

  20. Re:Can we all agree that this man should be pardon on Edward Snowden Loses Norway Safe Passage Case (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm just an old cook who tends to like the forefathers idea of freedom.

    I agree their freedom was good, but slightly undone! Mmm, tasty freedom.

  21. All my friends wear Apple Watches. Some of them might even be real.

    Hold on to your real friends!

  22. 3 Words for Linux on OMGUbuntu: 'Why Use Linux?' Answered in 3 Short Words (omgubuntu.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Compiling. Networking. CUDA.

  23. Re:...A Faraday "Cage"? on Rolling Drone Delivery Robots Have Arrived (starship.xyz) · · Score: 1

    as it comes to your house

    Not the smartest place to take a delivery, in your scenario!

  24. Re:Where can I find a UNIX-like Linux distro?! on Adios Apt and Yum? Ubuntu's Snap Apps Are Coming To Distros Everywhere (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I have to recommend Gentoo for you. Gentoo is really a meta-distribution... and super flexible. You can use OpenRC if you like SysV style init, or you can use systemd if you like the new way. You can use it with Linux kernel or you can use it with BSD kernel. Gentoo is a great system to really discover and learn about what brings a working distribution together and do things the UNIX way.

  25. Separation cannot be constant since they are accelerating to a maximum velocity of 0.2C.