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  1. Re:As a Republican on Planet At Risk of Heading Towards Irreversible 'Hothouse Earth' State (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    The globalists have no interest in the environment. They see you as the pollutant.

    Mod UP

    Profound admission that has a ring of truth. Absolved of all guilt, Globalist corporateers surely have a bot/AI solution set that eliminates the pollutant AND is sustainable powered.

  2. Not possible to delete carbon development economically without enough people who can afford the Tesla driven economy to make an impact. What makes it "Mission Impossible" are politicians driving oil, coal and gas field development.

    ReForest while Old Growth trees burn in CA (US largest trees)...sounds too much like " all you have to do" politics. Maybe there could be a subsidy on burnt wood forest product development.

    Carbon Mining (aka recapture) will payoff. Naturally and commercially its what capitalism does best. There's money to be made and a resource ripe for the picking. There's a reason the seat of Gov't is named ' The Capital' and it knows how to incentivize resource mining.

  3. that's the best informed manifesto beaconing humanity back to common sense that's grounded in the real physical environment.

    Technology does change wetware, how it processes and enforces binary judgement at the expense of thinking outside the box. Its the best manifesto at the right moment.

  4. Apple retreats its BIG analogy naming convention. Small is better. Less risk to breakage, damage and theft.

    Stuff an iPad mini with features like folding keyboard and wireless everything - that's real world Pro.

    Travel requires going places; NOT going BIG. Folding keyboard in a vest pocket, MiniPAD slipped in vest lining pocket; earphones and charge cord/plug stuffed in hand warmers; good worldwide.

    iPad Pro with BIG 10-12" screens are just Huuuge 4x4 SUV's going BIG not going places and getting things done. You can't take them anywhere outside the US. Instantly, you are a target for theft. Break it and good luck getting it fixed too.

  5. Automatic scaleability on What OpenStreetMap Can Be (systemed.net) · · Score: 1

    Maps are about getting somewhere, going places and getting back again. Simple.

    A walk in the woods, drop into a single track to nowhere or two track over the horizon; you go because its there. 1x1,2x2 and 4x4 all scale the same paths. Jeep made a brand out of getting you there. Famously, Jeep emerged out of WWII and into everyman's driveway. Jeep and 4x4 didn't takeoff for decades. But one thing changed everything - automatic scaleability. Jeep replaced manual shift transmissions with automatic shift. What happened next led to SUV's and changed the industry to the point that FORD simply dropped its car lineup keeping SUV's.

    The automatic transmission meant that the ' lady' of the household could drive the Jeep in the driveway. That made getting her signature at the bottom of the car loan easier. That led to leather seats, cup holders, butt warmers and the SUV's today. That's scaleability. A simple automatic shifting transmission allowed everyone to enjoy going places - off road even.

    SO build the UX element that defines Open Map's automatic transmission where anyone who wants, can map their trail, single track or off road adventure where no map has gone before.

  6. Apple bruised by Verification and Validation fail on Apple Confirms MacBook Pro Thermal Throttling, Issues Software Fix (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    What does it say? When a customer more brutally stress tests your brand-new product than your own V&V department, it says that the fruit of your labors isn't the highest quality produce, best calibre nor the embodiment you claim.

    Its bad apples. It's bruised fruit on sale which AAPL should send packing and sell the next fruit off the tree. To hell with a Bandaid® patch. Its still bad fruit. Cutting out the part that's bad with a patch around and over the bad spot still leaves a bad taste!

    SteveJobs would fire V&V, re-engineer and sell fresh apples with no apologies and free upgrades for those who got bad apples

  7. Re: The problem with an all white design is... on Google Video Shows All-White Redesigns For Gmail, Google Photos, and More (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    It called â Snowblindâ(TM). It occurs when the background is white, foreground is a few grayscale shades off-white and the screen, book or map is also within the same grayscale range.

    Driving this occurs not only in whiteout snow conditions. It also happens in fog, cloud filled conditions in mountainous terrain and night time driving where inversions fill-in lower altitudes.

    You develop blindness driving, then look down at you map or white phone depiction of a route and itâ(TM)s blind to you. You cannot see a thing.

  8. The future has yet to be invented... on Is Python the Future of Programming? (economist.com) · · Score: 1

    Unlike hardware, software programming has no future. Witness the demise of coding into skilled trade, software salary i.e. wage slavery and artificial intelligence creating self-correcting code, auto algorithms, ad infinitum

  9. FCC regulates spectrum – a public good on FCC Opens Public Comments On T-Mobile-Sprint Merger (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    T-mobile needs a license to merge Sprint into obscurity for the common good of 5G success.

    T-mobile is the highest embodiment of existing cellular network technology that affords the best human scaled feature set for mass consumption at reasonable cost. That deserves T-mobile bid to live-on into the next generation technology platform - 5G.

  10. Carpetbaggers on Anti-Amazon Graffiti Increasing In Seattle (with Photos) (geekwire.com) · · Score: 1

    ...corrupt. Seattle, San Francisco et. al. have growth to fund and Tech overlords, queen's coaches and company housing impacts leave cities devastated with congestion, homeless, infrastructure and skyrocketing costs in an escalating economy run by absentee feudal corporations

  11. Lab Tests on NeXTstep OS kernel... on Apple Refreshes MacBook Pro Lineup (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    in the 90's proved more cores is not faster.

    NeXTstep OS...which is the same kernel OS in MacOS X revealed that its architecture did not gain increases in throughput above 4 cores. This testing was done when 4+ cores emerged with " more cores the better" marketing hype.

    Darwin kernel (ex BSD) with proprietary enhancements for MacOS X by Apple is not a modular kernel but hybrid monolithic/modular architecture that takes advantage of modularity by design.

    Additional core improvement to throughput must be a function of off-loading CPU intensives by algorithmic and hardware optimizations.

  12. Beatles: " Life is what happens while... on Are the Wealthy Plotting To Leave Us Behind? (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    ...you are making other plans"

    Travels to escapist encampments in South America teach a very paranoid, sadistic outcome in store for those in whom choice is simply an escape plan.

  13. ZeroScreen on We've Reached 'Peak Screen'. So What Comes Next? (wral.com) · · Score: 1

    Apple was keyboardless 1st.
    Apple will be Screenless 1st.

    Adjudged laggards with Siri acquisition from SRI then letting the technology languish, I was wrong to be so hasty. Voice took time for uptake and still itâ(TM)s not evident exactly who, who or which synthesis voice will be âoe itâ. But AI has made it more interesting by adding refinement and logic.

    Next may just be less is more functional the same way ditching chicklet keys removed one extraneous layer. Screen may be rendered obsolete next.

  14. Endemic undiversity on Diversity At Google Hasn't Changed Much Over the Last Year (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Mostly, GOOG wants a well oiled machine. Diversity is not engineering. So GOOG continues engineering its workplace to achieve error-free outcomes. A good design parameter - for a machine.

    Unique, individual, counter-intuitives and creatives are not the COGS in the machine but exceptions. Exceptions interrupt the flow, disrupt the running of the machine. Females in a minority have no voice, other than to accept GOOG's very generous offer to FREEZE their eggs. Which fits nicely with their FREE lunch that keeps people working –– like a machine.

    And when the machine doesn't work who do you think they fire ' for cause' in an 'at will' state like CA? Yep...unique, individual, counter-intuitives and creatives. SO females can grab their frozen eggs and run to the nursery after they've been shown their pink slips. BUT the untold story remains here...Google's diversity doesn't change because that's NOT the machine that they built.

    NOT until the US.gov makes them.

  15. Design Brief 8.5 foot radius on Personal Flying Machine Contest Gets 600 Entries (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    tells you that Boeing & Co are in the game - Personal Aircraft Game.

    What they don't know is what competition they are up against ala Elon Musk and SpaceX. Not to repeat that faux pas
    they're investing in a game. Show me yours first Game; its money well spent.

  16. Are we missing out? on The End of Video Coding? (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    In a word. NO. There is nothing missed.

    New technology, per 1991 ATT research, doesn't have a chance of disrupting older technology without order of magnitudes greater than 10X measurable improvement. GOOG failed upon search to locate the research. Here's the latest I can Google https://bit.ly/2tc6oJl

  17. Dear Gullible - on The World Isn't Prepared for Retirement (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Gen X and Millenials if you believe everything you read, you'll fall for this piece of WallSt. PR bullshit. I own 1 stock.

    Had I not bought AAPL at $12 and $17 USD back in 1996 en-mass, I would not have a nice retirement. A BabyBoomer, many of my peers lost 50% during the 2008 recession and Dot.com crash before it.

    Invest in people, know them well then put your money down on a company that stands for something other than next quarter's earnings statement.

    Lacking the intel, sources and time to do otherwise; you shouldn't be in equities traded Casino style in AI nanoseconds.

  18. Bottomline == Maintainable on Four Years On, Developers Ponder The Real Purpose of Apple's Swift Programming Language (monkeydom.de) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The only criteria that's relevant if you're already supporting a profitable application on either iOS or OS X platforms - maintainable. How fast does a language enable the rev of your code base, does it abstract your code base above platforms and can its libraries and API's bridge between manufacturer hardware swaps and recompiles without cost of a total rewrite.

    Those were lessons learned during NeXT transitions from little to big endian and Mac OS X revs that Apple made 3X/yr during SteveJobs reign.

  19. APL sorts out Left-Brain programmers. As a result, COBOL ASCII char set derivative languages prevailed with a vastly larger pool of coders available ti industry at vastly smaller sums.

    An APL Right-Brain programmer thinks abstractly along with other things:
    Right brain controls left side of body
    Prefer visual instructions with examples
    Good at sports
    Good at art
    Follow Eastern thought*
    Cat lovers
    Enjoy clowning around
    Can be hypnotized
    Like to read fantasy and mystery stories
    Can listen to music or TV while studying
    Like to write fiction
    Prefer group
    Fun to dream about things that will probably never happen
    Enjoy making up own drawings and images
    Good at geometry
    Like organizing things to show relation
    Can memorize music
    Occasionally absentminded
    Like to act out stories
    Enjoy interacting affectively with others
    Think better when lying down
    Become restless during long verbal explanations
    Enjoy creative storytelling
    Prefer to learn through free exploration
    Good at recalling spatial imagery
    Read for main details
    Skilled in showing relationships between ideas
    Preference for summarizing over outlining
    Solve problems intuitively
    Very Spontaneous and unpredictable
    Dreamer
    philosophical

    APL was IBM's core to its IBM 160/370 mainframe OS'n. Today it remains mainly on WallSt. and research where fast transform results with time sequence data afford leverage measured in real USD. Few are those who could grok APL without the crutch of ASCII.

    Hence the therapy reference...

  20. ZERO security risk... on Microsoft Sinks Data Centre Off Orkney To Test Energy Efficiency (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Well-Cache ( i.e. water well, ocean depth) - hermetically sealed hi-value water storage scheme in which any breach by design self-destructs its contents that provides a Zero risk highly secure environment. ZERO risk based on the NIST Common Misuse Scoring System (NISTIR 7864)

  21. Shuck what INTEL wants... on Intel Wants PCs To Be More Than Just 'Personal Computers' (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    I need threaded comms, interprocess comm and seamless mesh nets. I have work to do, shit ton of devices that steal productive time away with too weak bridges that have to be reconnected to Bluetooth, NFC, WiFi and NAT. Keep the 27" desktop screen and lose the cords. Keep the modular boxen paradigm. I don't care what happens on the portable side.

    Take you GHz elsewhere. I need extra boards++, DAC's, encryption and graphics for the future-proof work ahead. I'm plenty productive. Seventy percent of my time is formatting for the other Intel boxen for whom there exists legacy programs and need to be compatible on some 3rd standard.

  22. Who are the people in the 1% on Ask Slashdot: Did Baby Boomers Break America? (time.com) · · Score: 1

    ... one in eight Americans might visit the 1 percent for a year, only one in a hundred stay there for a decade or more. - https://bit.ly/2GY7EV8

  23. Re:Plot twist. on Ask Slashdot: Did Baby Boomers Break America? (time.com) · · Score: 1

    The ring of truth behind culpability is the blank endorsement the Greatest Generation gave the US gov't which had laid postwar windfalls at their feet. BabyBoomers who followed created geometric progressions of windfall through a 1960's surging economy of wealth. The Greatest Generation's ingenuity was to protect the rewards of their labors. Liberty by war became a measured of productivity - liberty by labor. It's that ingenuity that begat the politics we live with today.

    The first time in history US politicians proceeded to rob Social Security retirement benefits for its General Fund, I saw how it would end for BabyBoomers. Bretton Woods abandoned the Gold Standard creating fiat currency which ended all doubt. The Greatest Generation had no appetite for protest on full stomachs and bulging savings. That broke the world.

    BabyBoomers knew, like myself, but too young to vote BabyBoomers were old enough to protest. JFK, Civil Rights, MLK, RFK, Vietnam War... all reduced serious threat to the system. After nearly 60,000 killed-in-action, over 150,000 wounded, and some 1,600 missing, BabyBoomers caved to the pressure. They chose to follow like their parents before them, raising family, buying a home and pursuing the American Dream, in a world they knew was going for broke.

    Millennials witness aftereffects of the Greatest Generation and their BabyBoomer parents. Leveraging gain through fiat is a protected right in liberty served by financial institutions who rake $1 of every $12 GDP. Millennials know the value of hard work, the economic story of liberty since WWII is in technology that made it unnecessary to learn to spell. Technology promise is to make it unnecessary to learn to work through artificial intelligence. What they must do, is learn how liberty works.

    The defining challenge of their time with technology integrating work will be innovating on top of the founding principles of democracy which integrated liberty with work. " Liberty for all" is a measurable statistic derived from the productive work of man. Wages already disconnected from productivity for decades shows statistically that elections are won or lost on whose savings lost the most. The next plot twist for millennials will be to redefine " liberty for all" in absence of both work and productivity.

  24. 88 ft/sec – 152 ft braking distance = deadST on Tesla Model 3 Falls Short of Consumer Reports Recommendation (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    This points to 'coefficient of friction' variance in Tesla 3 choice of OEM tire and the rubber compound thermal characteristics supplied to Consumer Reports rather than mechanical, software or ABS system. After all, Consumer Reports recorded deadSTOP by its own test data which 119 ft was reported.

    Tesla have three choice of actions: Do nothing, Market safety first, Mfgr safety data specification for OEM standard.

  25. T-unlimited mobile is all good all right on Should T-Mobile Stop Claiming It Has 'Best Unlimited Network'? (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    I've used ATT, Verizon, CellularONE and it's T-mobile that have the best mix of price, availability and coverage here in CALIFORNIA. Rarely and I do mean rare is the case that I can't get signal. AND if I don't my partner's Verizon doesn't either; most of the time along the Pacific Coast.

    Gone are the ATT node management, compression and dropped calls. Gone is the less than friendlies at Verizon and its hostile billing practices that would add charges without notice. T-mobile really does have unlimited, great call clarity and coverage that equals or betters its competition.