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  1. Possible Problem Admitting Facts on Possible Radioactive Leak Investigated At Washington Nuclear Site (upi.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, I guess they have no way of knowing : P

  2. Special Presecuter Needed on Trump Fires FBI Director James Comey (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    I hope the next president honors American values.

  3. In a World Withougt Pedestrians and Bicycles... on The Intelligent Intersection Could Banish Traffic Lights Forever (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ...and motorcycles, and baby strollers, and delivery people moving boxes, and letter carriers, and dogs, and cats, and children playing.

  4. They are using money made from fossil fuels, which cause global warming.
    They might not have the money if it weren't for fossil fuels.
    Because of the fossil fuel use, they will less icebergs to choose from.

  5. Anti-Consumerist Agenda on FCC Takes First Step Toward Allowing More Broadcast TV Mergers (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Why strip away the best virtue of capitalism, you jackasses?

  6. It's not like it has:
    A bigger screen for an easier to use phone,
    Better battery life with less charging,
    Moe memory for less swapping to Flash,
    Replaceable flash because it wears out,
    A keyboard, because I can't type well on a screen, because I use my thumbs for ridged backing (like when you peel a potatoes.)
    A better user interface, because you still can't do as much with your phone as a computer from the 1900s,
    A more durable phone, we drop them,
    A matte screen because glossy is stupid outdoors,
    A better lens on the camera,
    A larger sensor for lower light snapshots without all that grain,
    or better reception, because we all want that.

    I feel my old Galaxy Note 3 is fast enough. If you want me to want a phone, fix some other things.

  7. I hope his everything is sold.

  8. Pointers Aren't Nesesary In Arduino on 'Pragmatic Programmer' Author Andy Hunt Loves Arduino, Hates JavaScript (bestprogrammingbooks.com) · · Score: 0

    I wrote more than 2,000 lines, plenty of global variables--and no pointers. It's a serial port controlled command-line stepper motor control program with 40 commands that fits in 24k.

    Video of what it does:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lm8oprDhAnQ

    http://forum.arduino.cc/index.php?topic=469343.msg3213804

    Having worked with Arduino's for years, I question pointer use for all but operating system and hardware level programs.

  9. Cinnamon is so much a better desktop experience than Gnome 3.

    I have called for the removal of the Gnome leaders, for abandoning people who need to get work done.

    Activities menu? You have to be kidding me!

  10. Cinnamon is what Gnome 3 should have been.

  11. Gnome still sufferers from the same stupidity that Unity did, that people don't need to do useful things with their computers.

  12. Exposes Our Defence Contractors on US Congress Votes To Shred ISP Privacy Rules (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Allowing the selling off browser history in a country that private contractors supply arms for the military a dangerous and reckless action that has terrible consequences that threaten America's security.

  13. Not Over My House on Aerospace Startup Will Build A Supersonic Mach 2.2 Aircraft (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Who the hell wants to hear man-made thunder all the time?

  14. What non-partizan entity could review anything?

  15. Oh, Didn't Know. Now I Will Avoid Fedex on FedEx Will Pay You $5 To Install Flash (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Well, they made their decision, and I made mine.

  16. Perhaps this will lead developers to spare our machine resources--probably not.

  17. Gotta Fill Prisons Somehow on Most Teens Who Abuse Opioids First Got Them From a Doctor (livescience.com) · · Score: 1

    Are you tired of having empty prisons? Do you need something to do since your officers cannot put people in jail for marijuana? Feel like the drug war is a losing battle? Well, welcome to the golden opportunists of opioid abuse incarceration. Just stoke the fires of a long-time medical problem, and instead of offering medical solutions for a medical problem, offer to put people in your jails. As a bonus, everyone is a suspect, and most people feel pain from time to time. Ka-ching! Watch the money start rolling in again. Soon, your officers and police, and lawyers, and judges, and bailsman will be a busy as ever.

  18. Audacity is a Great Ugly Duckling on Popular Open-Source Audio Editor Audacity Adds Windows 10 Support, More Improvements (audacityteam.org) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I've used Audacity for years. It's a powerful, useful audio editor. The releases are stable. It's a great program.

    Though, the UI is not in keeping with the quality of the rest of the program. I have written to the developers. The response I got back suggested that the developers are not really open for any kind of visual changes. In fact, the reskinning functionally was removed in later versions.

    I would like a UI that looks more like Ardour. Though, if the developers don't like dark themed UI's, perhaps a slider could be added something like in Adobe Premier so the user can change the light/dark elements on the fly. Other work needs to be done, like modernizing the icons and making sure it is ready for 4K.

    Additionally, thank you for Audacity. It is a wonderful program, worthy of being a showpiece in the open source community.

  19. Might Just Be Trump Propaganda on CBS Reports 'Suspicious' Cell Phone Tower Activity In Washington DC (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 0

    Trump is in a position where he needs to prove his wiretapping claim--and fast.

    I find the timing in which the CIA was hacked, very interesting as well.

  20. The Beta Test Ends on Microsoft To End Support For Windows Vista In Less Than a Month (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    It was really never ready, was it?

  21. And Don't Use You Your Female Name in Slashdot on Women Still Underrepresented in Information Security (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    If you do, you might as well not submit anything.
    I tried to shorten mine like D.C. Fontana, but I am not allowed.

  22. The Pi Symbol is Nonsense on This Is How the Number 3.14 Got the Name 'Pi' (time.com) · · Score: 1

    The pi symbol could easily be replaced with something that depicts the representation between radius and circumference, freeing up a tiny bit of learned memory for everyone who uses math. There is no reason to use a purely symbolic constant to represent a naturally occurring relationship. Save the ancient Greek symbols for meaningless artifacts which only occur in math space.

    I understand that many people who would write that this is not necessary, would also write that they would not want to have to relearn the new symbol, thereby proving a point that it took too much effort to lean the old one.

    Oddly a pie as in pie symbol makes more sense to more people.

    There is a reason why so many people forget so much of their math.

  23. Where is the Russian Hacking Probe? on Federal Criminal Probe Being Opened Into WikiLeaks' Publication of CIA Documents (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    We stood by an election orchestrated by a foreign government, and we didn't stop, yet continued walking forward into Trump's madness. Trump was exactly what this country needed not!

  24. Bullshit, just bullshit. They could just put them on youtube, and someone could learn something.

    Instead those in charge need a real education.

  25. First, Proprietary GUI Must Go! on Ask Slashdot: What Would Happen If All Software Ran On All Platforms? · · Score: 1

    Even beyond the legal bullshit, programmers can usually become experts in several languages, but it's a hard to become well versed in more than one GUI because there is no reason for anyone to make their GUI have less lock-in. To them, more lock-in is better.