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  1. Please Report All US Scams to the FBI on T-Mobile, Comcast Turn on Call Verification Between Networks in Latest Robocall Fight (usatoday.com) · · Score: 2

    We also need make our politicians to be tougher on robocalls.

  2. The Earth Will Be Just Fine After We are Extinct on Microplastics Are Blowing In the Wind (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    There will be life here after we are gone, along the way, people will be miserable.

  3. An 8 Year-Disaster that Keeps Giving! on Fukushima: the Removal of Nuclear Fuel Rods From Damaged Reactor Building Begins (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    The Fukishima cleanup cost 187 billion Dollars and counting.

  4. Make Net Neutrailty Pass, or It's All Over on Net Neutrality Bill Sails Through the House But Faces an Uncertain Political Future (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    This is the internet people. Save it!

  5. We Need a Level Playing Field on House Democrats Refuse To Weaken Net Neutrality Bill, Defeat GOP Amendments (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    We cannot have fairness commerce without a level playing field.

  6. PNG on What's The Correct Way to Pronounce 'GIF'? (thenewstack.io) · · Score: 1

    Don't worry about it. Use PNGs.

  7. Proceute the Police, Too. on California Man Sentenced To 20 Years In Deadly Kansas 'Swatting' (fox4kc.com) · · Score: 0

    We cannot have a society that will kill on a stranger's word.

  8. U.S. Changed Standards to Suit Accident on Fukushima Contaminants Found As Far North As Alaska's Bering Strait · · Score: 1

    Immediately after the accident, the U.S. changed their radioactivity standards. West-coast fish should be checked for radioactivity.

  9. Android Play is a Minefield on Google: Play Protect Cut Harmful Android App Installs by 20% in 2018 (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Until Google does something about unwarranted permissions, their microcosm puddle is polluted.

  10. Endocrine Disrupters on California Law Banning Paper Receipts Clears First Hurdle In State Legislature (latimes.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    It's not so much the paper that bothers me, it's the bisphenol A.

  11. In the End No Jobs Will be Left to Automate on Number of Workers in Jobs That Can Be Automated Falls (ft.com) · · Score: 1

    ...Because there will be no jobs left.

  12. Yet 25,00 People Are Homeless in Silicon Valley on Kamala Harris Introduces Bill To Send Millions To Local Governments For Tech Support (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Interesting priorities.

  13. And hackers, if you are listening.... on Ajit Pai's Rosy Broadband Deployment Claim May Be Based On Gigantic Error (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    For such a enemy of humanity's greatest invention, we really know very little about him.

  14. Try Working in a Factory on Starbucks' Music Is Driving Employees Nuts (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    I am not saying that repetitive music is fun, but let's put this into perspective; try working in factory, or a body shop, or construction, or that place that changes your tires, or work as one of those people who fix your roads....

  15. Screens not going to last. on Huawei Unveils the Mate X, a Foldable 5G Smartphone That Costs $2,600 (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    It's a marketing achievement. Meh.

  16. Biometrics A Slippery Slope on Android Is Helping Kill Passwords on a Billion Devices (wired.com) · · Score: 2

    First it was fingerprints, then it was the face. While the question where it will end exists, does anyone notice that they are just scanner our bodies part by part, and selling the information?

  17. Not Enough CPU for Content Creation on Apple Expected To Move Mac Line To Custom ARM-Based Chips Starting Next Year, Says Report (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Their next computers will absolutely stink at designing the ones after. They will also stink at working on the advertising video and renderings.

  18. Incrementally Impressed on Researchers Make Coldest Quantum Gas of Molecules (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    Lene Hau wasn't as cool, but what she did was astoning, and if she were a man, she would have won a Noble. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  19. Arbatration Should Be Outlawed on Google Will End Forced Arbitration For Employees (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    In a nutshell, arbitration is an effort to strip a person of their rights, as well as circumvent the court system, and our laws, in general. Arbitration is subversive to our laws and moral standards.

  20. Nice looking! It's like...a cellphone for people who have stuff to do.

  21. 5 Platforms of Audo Recording Sadness on Apple's Newest Macs Seem To Have a Serious Audio Bug (thurrott.com) · · Score: 1

    Windows has no true multichannel audio subsystem suitable for audio recording, so everyone uses ASIO, which is proprietary. Audio under windows could have better latency.
    Linux has a good audio subsystem, JACK, but it's not standardized, and the kernel has to be completely recompiled for low-latency.
    Macs have a good audio system, but they have no 5.1 ports on anything, and to read this article, they screwing things up.
    Android doesn't have much of an audio system, and it frequently pauses, and so far, only Audio Evolution has done much with USB recording interfaces.
    IOS can play with audio devices, but there's no removable media, and only a hint of the file access necessary for content creation.

    Sigh.

  22. Here in the Valley.... on Programming Interview Questions Are Too Hard and Too Short (triplebyte.com) · · Score: 1

    I've talked with several programmers here in Silicon Valley, who seem to state that HR and management wants you to code a whole project for nothing.

    ...and how would you code this?
    ...and then what should we--I mean--what would you do?

  23. Air doesn't like to make the right-angled turns required from a thin laptop. Apple will likely not produce a notebook computer with the big heatsinks and power brick necessary for serious work. A small heatsink is fine when you apply an occasional Photoshop filter, or nudge something in a CAD program, but when it comes time to export video, or animate something, render something, or compile something, or run a solver, then a computer needs proper cooling.

  24. Re:Now, ditch Quadro on Nvidia CEO Foresees a Great Year for PC Gaming Laptops (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Just ditch Quadro, period.

  25. Boycott Trump's Propaganda Outlet on After Calls For an Edit Button, Twitter Says it is Considering a 'Clarification' Feature (mashable.com) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    We never needed twitter.