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  1. Scooters and Skateboards? on Californians Have Now Purchased Half a Million EVs (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Did you count the scooters and skateboards?

  2. Quake Fulfilled Doom's Promise on Doom Turns 25: The FPS That Wowed Players, Gummed Up Servers, and Enraged Admins (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Quake had true 3D levels that can pass over one another. Quake had 3D adversaries. Quake had network gameplay with Quakeworld. Quake had OpenGL support with GLQuake that launched the GPU world, really starting with the Voodoo 1. Quake had translucent water, which was amazing the first time I ever saw it. And lastly, Quake is still the bar that any small platform must aspire to by answering the question, "Does it run Quake."

  3. Goverment Needs to Regulate Own Recognition on Facial Recognition Has To Be Regulated To Protect the Public, Says AI Report (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 2

    The pot cannot regulate the kettle.

  4. Good Time to Stop Hardware Obsolencene on Intel Optimistic About Its Next-Gen 7nm Process Technology (anandtech.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    With chip makers struggling to make faster chips, this is a good time to make a stand to stop companies from making comparable hardware obsolete--just because they want to sell chips. If they can make faster chips then buy them, but please do not buy side-graded hardware, that's no better than what you have--because it fills up the landfills. My 7-year-old intel 2600k is only 30% slower than current quad-core offerings. I need more cores, but I am not throwing this motherboard, chip, and memory out, any time soon.

  5. Bear Spray = Tear Gas? on 24 Amazon Workers Sent To Hospital After Robot Accidentally Unleashes Bear Spray · · Score: 1

    Bear spray is usually pepper or CS tear gas in a large can.

  6. Facial recognition tech can't identify genitalia? LOL

  7. Walked Away from Their Business Model on A Quarter of Tumblr's Users Are There To Consume Porn, Data Scientists Estimate (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    They won't be the first company to shed their skin and walk away from what made them.

  8. Ajit Pai Must Go! on FCC Chairman Admits Russia Meddled In Net Neutrality Debate (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    The United States of America must not be governed by company installed sycophants.

  9. Galaxy Note 4 Better than Galaxy Note 8 on We're No Longer in Smartphone Plateau. We're in the Smartphone Decline. (nymag.com) · · Score: 2

    Of course, I've owned both. The curved screens make no sense in the real world.

  10. I have been using Libreoffice and formally OpenOffice for decades. It's great software, and the file saves are compressed so they don't take up as much space as .doc and .xls.

  11. As Useful as FXAA on Nvidia Uses AI To Render Virtual Worlds In Real Time (tomshardware.com) · · Score: 1

    If successful it would do little more rob people of a creative outlet and a living, for a lot of that stuff you saw in computer games was art, as well as bread-and-butter. What problem does it solve?

  12. Rather Have a Keyboard on My Phone on Apple Will Wait Until at Least 2020 To Release a 5G iPhone: Report (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    I can't type as fast as I could on my old LG Lotus--especially while walking. 4G is fast enough as long as I haven't gone over my limit.

  13. There are a lot of other vegetarian meats available, many more convincing than the meat in the article.

  14. Steam is Not So Good for Females, Anyway on Steam is Finally Coming To China But Chinese Gamers Don't Want It (abacusnews.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    Currently, there are no Steam forum rules specifically protecting females/women/girls from attacks, degrading posts, and misogyny. I posted a request for a rule addition and it was locked the first day.

    https://steamcommunity.com/dis...

    I posted an article here on Slashdot, but sadly it and dozens of others never made it to the front page. I have excellent Karma, and help out with the moderating here.

  15. Why not the synthetic "frack," " fracking," from Battlestar Galactica, or "taffing," "taffers," from the Thief series of video games.

  16. Don't Need Folding Screens on Samsung's Foldable Screen Tech Has Been Stolen, Sold To China (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Marketing people need folding screens to sell cellphones, apparently. I am a "power user" who just want's a good flat screen--without rounding corners that have a blue line, and that sticks up, so we cannot put a proper screen protector on them.

  17. Dollar: For All Debts Public or Private on NYC Politician Wants To Ban Cashless Restaurants (eater.com) · · Score: 1

    Dollar: it's the law.

  18. Their Goes Their Business Model on Starbucks Says It Will Start Blocking Porn On Its Stores' Wi-Fi In 2019 (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Meant as a joke, actually there are consequences. Starbucks cannot block porn without spying on people.

  19. Perhaps they will fix... on Microsoft Releases Windows 10 Build 18290 With Start Menu Improvements (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Perhaps they will fix the Wifi that keeps disconnecting. Perhaps they will finish the user settings. Perhaps they will fix the bugs that let the users set default programs. Perhaps they will fix the Bluetooth file transfer, that thinks you want to okay every single transfer. Perhaps not, because Microsoft is an old top-heavy company filled with dead wood.

  20. Isn't AutoCad Malware in Itself? on I've Got a Bridge To Sell You. Why AutoCAD Malware Keeps Chugging On (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    Historically, they've treated your computer as theirs.

  21. Still Angry at Youtube on YouTube To Make New Originals Available For Free, Ad-Supported Viewing (variety.com) · · Score: 0

    I have created plenty of content...for a demonized youtube channel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?... If I only had 200 more subscribers. Sigh.

  22. You recommending fiction as your argument.

  23. I liked my Galaxy Note 4 Better Than 8 on Samsung's Upcoming Galaxy S Phone Will Sport Six Cameras and Support 5G, Report Says (wsj.com) · · Score: 2

    Curved screens don't make sense in the real world. There's a blue line on each edge of the screen. I've already broken 2 screen protectors. I can't even find cases that protect the edge of the screen from drops. And we don't need a whole bunch of crappy cameras, just one good one.

  24. No non-living thing should be programed to use the word "I."

  25. I used my toothbrush more than anyone else. on GitHub's Annual Report Reveals This Year's Top Contributor: Microsoft (github.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Microsoft was using a product they bought. Award given?