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  1. Youtube is for illiterate people on YouTube To Blame For Rise in Flat Earth Believers, Says Study (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Ones who start with Youtube, probably have trouble reading text, so they prefer video as source of information.
    Of course, most of flatearthers are those who haven't read their textbooks in school.

  2. No need for VPN software other than SSH. on Alphabet's Cybersecurity Group Touts Its New Open Source Private VPN (digitalocean.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    If you have you own (or event shared with other people) server where you can login via SSH, you don't need any other VPN software. Just start ssh session to it with dynamic forwarding and use it as Socks5 proxy.
    Any cheap server on Digital Ocean, Amazon or elsewhere would do as long as you reasonable sure that it is located in the country which don't track you.

    Of course, openssh has more elaborate VPN soulution built in, but it requires administrative rights on both ends of link. And dynamic port forwarding works by default as long as you have ssh client (putty would do) which supports it, and you can tune proxy settings in your browser.

  3. This is not a good idea on Ask Slashdot: Should Open-Source Developer Teams Hire Professional UI/UX Designers? · · Score: 1

    This is not how thing should be done in the software world.
    If something can be done only for money, not for fun, it means that this is dull, boring job and no one gets fun from it.

    Really., UI programming using current UI tools is boring and dissatisfying job. So no good developer would like to do it, and will try to shift burden to the juniors.

    But computers are there to automate dull and boring things. What we need it is UI langiage (may be as set of other language functions/operators), which would let us think about UI in appropriate terms. So developers would feel writing of UI as self-expression, not a dull and boring thing.

    Donald Knuth once wrote TeX and give millions of scientists all over the world right language to think about printed representation of their work.

    What we need is similar set of abstractions for UI.

  4. Definitely legal language is something which children shouldn't be exposed to. Otherwise they never learn write and speak on human language correctly.

  5. Because users don't want them on Ask Slashdot: Why Do Popular Websites Add New Features So Sparingly? · · Score: 1

    People typically don't like when their environment changes unexpectedly.

    So, if you make substantial changes of popular site, you unavoidable get your old users angry.
    Even if they need these features (and typically they are not - they use just a small subset of existing features), they may think that need to change their habits is too big cost for new feature.

    If you produce desktop programs, your users have an option to continue use old version.

    Lot of people still use Windows XP ten years after new and shiny version of Windows appear and after few years of gratis upgrade campaign.

    It is pain in the ass to support several major versions at once, but vendors have to do so. Because users don't upgrade until something forces them to. And if "something" is policy of sofware vendor, you have big chances, that user would go to competitor. One have to relearn software anyway, when upgrading. Why not learn other product, which promises not to force such a trouble on you.

    It is almost impossible to keep several versions of website running on the same host and let user choose look and feel in their preferences.

    So, if you want to attract new users, you can use shining new features. If you want to keep your old users, you should be as much conservative as possible.

    Remember - progress is evil.It is just too often appears to be lesser evil of all possible choises.

  6. US collects taxes from the income US citizen have abroad. It seems that US thinks that pay taxes is the most important obligation citizen have to state. (all other contries typically don't do so, and let country where person made money tax him),
    China apparenly thinks that right order of thoughts is the most important obligation to state. So it censors its citizens even abroad.

  7. 2045? on Hawaii Passes Law To Make State Carbon Neutral By 2045 (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It is almost 30 years in future.

    Hodja Nasreddin once offered Persian Shakh to teach his donkey speak and read in 30 years. Then he explained that either Shakh or donkey or Hodja himself would definitely die in 30 years, so he wouldn't be punished for breaking this promise.

    It seems that Hawaian lawmakers expect that either they will be dead or state would be submerged by 2045.

  8. Re:Russian newspaper? on Elon Musk To Fight Fake News, Rate Journalists' Credibility Via a Site Called 'Pravda' · · Score: 1

    Pravda is not just Russian newspaper. It is chief propaganda newspaper of the Communist party since 1912, i.e. even before Russian revolution.

    So, Americans would hate this site, because it is something Russian, most Russians would hate it because it remind them of communists and Soviet times, and Russian communists hate Musk anyway, because he "stole" what they think biggest communist government achievement - human space flight technology.

  9. Re:claws-mail of course on Slashdot Asks: Which Is Your Favorite Email Client? · · Score: 2

    I wouldn't say it is so lightweight. But it is better than mutt when it comes to handling several accounts at once.

    I don't like how it works over slow GPRS connections, especialliy with big mailboxes - archives of high volume mailing lists - it cannot do long operations in background, but mutt is no better.

  10. I think that they should drive rocket from California to Texas using its own power.

  11. Re:More control for Google on Google's New 'Plus Codes' Are An Open Source, Global Alternative To Street Addresses (9to5google.com) · · Score: 1, Troll

    There is no such thing as "Lawful Good Company". 150 years ago Marx have written "There is no such crime which captitalist wouldn't commit for 300% margin".

  12. Re:fcc? on FCC Accuses Stealthy Startup of Launching Rogue Satellites · · Score: 1

    No they cannot. China have prepared for this for years, and Russian authorities recently made statement that they are ready to operate russian segment of internet wiithout USA cooperation. So only US and EU people would suffer.

  13. What they will do if snowstorm tear off the wires? on Don't Pirate Or We'll Mess With Your Connected Thermostats, Warns East Coast ISP (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    People that buy thermostat, which depends on external server for proper operation deserve to be frozen to death.

    What they'll do if not the evil will of ISP, but natural force would cut them off internet?
    For instance if snowstorm would uproot couple of poles and break the wires?

    (Really the electricity would also be cut, so you'll need to keep a gasoline generator in the basement if your heating depend on electricity).

  14. There is much worse thing on FBI Software For Analyzing Fingerprints Contains Russian-Made Code, Whistleblowers Say (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Note that US Army uses algebra to calculate trajectories of ballistic missiles. And algebra was developed in Islamic aliphate in IX century.

    BTW, Russians in Kremlin use American software such as Wndows or MS Office. Moreover some years ago Russian President Medvedev accepted an iPhone as a gift from Jobs.

  15. It is reason to be proud on Russia Says It Will Ignore Any UN Ban of Killer Robots (ibtimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Since 1991 I've seldom felt so proud of my country.
    as when reading this news.

  16. Re:You are a Pirate Site if ... on Google Wipes 786 Pirate Sites From Search Results (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    No. you are extremist site, if they don't like your politics. It is much worse to be extremist, than to be just pirate.

  17. Re:I should remove these from my index too on Google Wipes 786 Pirate Sites From Search Results (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    You have to be registered Russian ISP or something alike (Google seems to qualify), and have electronic signature certificate, issued by Russian Goverment CA (of course it would be GOST R 34.10 algorithm, so you'll need appropriate software to sign request) to be able to download RosKomNadzor blacklist database legally. Ordinary people only have access to interface, which allows to check whether URL is blocked one URL at time.

    Fortunately there are some guerilliers, who maintain site https://rublacklist.net/ where they publish this classified information they somehow obtain.

  18. Re:Left on Ask Slashdot: Where Do Old Programmers Go? · · Score: 1

    Spaces flights are lo-o-o-ong, and there are few months between "I left Earth for Mars" and "I've arrived to Mars".
    Probably, he is writing from the BFR cabin.

  19. Re: Requirements first. on A 14-Year-Old Asks: When Should I Get a VPN? · · Score: 1

    In this case he shouldn't "get a subscription". Rather it is better to BUILD own VPN (say between home computer and laptop, or between home and school compuiter, if school IT police allows this).

  20. Unfortunately, it is not so easy. Can you imagine government officials using some Linux desktop instead of Windows and some opensource office suite instead of Microsoft Word?

    And it is only practical way to avoid use of proprietary software from US-based corporations in Russian government. We are trying, but it is hard way to go.

  21. Re:"How did he get there?" on The Oldest Known Human Remains In the Americas Have Been Found In a Mexican Cave (seeker.com) · · Score: 2

    Sailing across Pacific.

  22. Re:Fake News on The Oldest Known Human Remains In the Americas Have Been Found In a Mexican Cave (seeker.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    There is no such thing as native population. There are just descendants of previous conquerors.

  23. Study recent 25 years history of Russian election. You'll find a lot of lessons of corruption, administrative pressure and so on yet to be learned by American politicans.

  24. Re:There's your problem! on Being Outside Could Become Deadly In South Asia, Says Study (go.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    Most widespread greenhouse gas is water vapor. And you cannot limit it, because 72% of Earth surface is covered by water.
    Also there is a dynamic balance between carbon dioxide in atmosphere, carbon dioxide in ocean water and calcium carbonate in ocean deposits. So, if you limit carbon dioxide emission from human indiustry, there just be more emission from oceans.

    You cannot stop global warming. You have just two choices - die trying, or adapt to it and prosper.

  25. Re:Do Russians even have a clue what is happening on Russia Bans VPNs To Stop Users From Looking at Censored Sites (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh, really? Your american mass-media do not cover regular Moscow meetings since 2011?