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  1. Within a drop Weight of 1 Liter of Water? on Kilogram Gets a New Definition (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Please don't make the metric system stop making sense. We already have a nonsensical measuring system, here in the U.S. .

  2. Sorry, but Not A OOP Fan. on The Internet Has a Huge C/C++ Problem and Developers Don't Want to Deal With It (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    I think I understand the value that C++ brings to bringing large groups of people to work on a large project, but a lot of dirt piles up in the little corners.

  3. Where is the energy for the adjustments going to come from? Solar? Nuclear?

  4. Your Driverless Car - Dead in a War on Russia Jammed GPS During Major NATO Military Exercise With US Troops (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Not only would GPS be the low-hanging fruit, ripe for disabling. If everyone has driver-less vehicles, America's productivity stops.

  5. As a Premier User.... on Nasty Adobe Bug Deleted $250,000 Worth of Man's Files, Lawsuit Claims (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    I've found that Adobe Premier has some poor file management decisions built into it. Adobe has always done it's own thing irrespective of operating system conventions and procedures as far as temporary files and folders are concerned

    Though, content creators need multiple backups at every step of the process. A video editing program like many content creation, engineering, and scientific programs are very demanding on computer systems. Anything can happen.

    Unfortunately because of Internet patch-as-you-sell methods, we are all beta-testers, now

  6. Re:Fewer Cores and Hypertrheading is likely better on Intel Launches New Core i9-9980XE 18-Core CPU With 4.5GHz Boost Clock (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't agree with your blanket generalization, ending in an unresolved comparison. Better for what?

    The processor is made and optimized for running parallel tasks. Chores like raytracing, video transcoding and export, photo editing filters, science applications, and web-servers generally like this kind of processor.

    I am in no way an Intel fan, but a 4.5GHz boost clock is quite respectable. I should think that it can handle single-core and low-core tasks well.

  7. Mozilla is really whoring Firefox. How low will it go. Did you notice there was an ad, almost like this post in Slashot?

  8. Donald Trump is nothing but hate and greed.

  9. Voice Recognition Shouldn't Needs The Internet on Voice Tech Like Alexa and Siri Hasn't Found Its True Calling Yet (recode.net) · · Score: 2

    I like the idea of voice recognition, but it's insane to trust any company to put a computing box in my room that records everything and sends out what information that company chooses over the internet. Own your own voice recognition.

  10. A Bad American Would Attack It's Own Media/People on Attacks on the Media Are a Threat To Democracy, Justin Trudeau Says (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."

  11. Twitter - Propaganda Outlet for Trump on Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey Says Follower Count is Meaningless · · Score: 1

    When a company's most visible user is allowed a platform to launch hate attacks against both groups of people an individuals, there is indeed a problem.

    Are their people doing meaningful things with Twitter, that far outweigh the damage done by the twitter president using twitter as his main propaganda outlet?

    What would Trump do, if twitter either banded him, or if twitter had to close their doors, because half of all subscribers, unsubscribed, just like I did?

  12. Call to End Binding Arbatration on Facebook Follows Google To End Mandatory Arbitration For Sexual-Harassment Claims (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    It's never a company that is at the disadvantage.

  13. Foldered SSD = Disposable Computer on Mac Mini Teardown Reveals User-Upgradable RAM, But Soldered Down CPU and Storage (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1

    Additionally, my roommate wanted 4TB for his music collection. Sadly, he has to use external storage, now. So much for people using Minis for servers. Idiots!

  14. Choice is Good on There Are Way Too Many Streaming Services · · Score: 1

    Who would mind a little competition? Certainly, not the consumer.

  15. Everyone Against Net-Neutrality Please Die on Sprint Is Throttling Microsoft's Skype Service, Study Finds (fortune.com) · · Score: 0

    Net neutrality is necessary for humanities future. This is an issue worth burning my excellent Karma.

  16. Feds Failed to Make Roads Safe for Non-Motorists on Has the Love Affair With Driving Gotten Stuck in Traffic? (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    America has written it's laws like everyone is born with a SUV strapped to their ass.
    If you make our transportation systems safer for pedestrians, bicyclists, motorcyclists, and scooterists, it will cut down traffic, and reduce our dependence on oil.

    Scooters, motorcycles, and mopeds help reduce traffic in other countries.

    (Some scooters get 92MPG, many motorcycles get 64MPG.)

  17. Marketing People Are Not Designers on Samsung Will Put Notches On Its Future Phones (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Notches solve nothing!

  18. Rather Have Physical Keyboard and Flat Screen on Google Is Adding Android Support For Foldable Screens (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    I could type a lot faster with a texting-style keyboard on a feature phone.

    I have already broken 3 screen protectors on a Galaxy Note 8. I hate rounded over screens because they are too vulnerable. The blue lines going up the screen  edges don't look too good either.

  19. People's Lives Are Too Noisy on NASA is Showering One City With Sonic Booms and Hoping No One Notices (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    No, I am sorry, there has to be rational and reasonable noise limit.

  20. From A Bay Area Slashdotter - Soon Homeless on San Francisco Passes a First-of-its-Kind Tax on Big Businesses To Help the Homeless (recode.net) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    In the SF Bay area, the cost of homes are artificially high because the properties have changed hands so many times in the last decade--each time the price goes up from the agent and the banker. Now, we have large investment firms flipping houses, also driving up the costs. Here, we aren't making communities, we are making a collection of houses that few people own, which is exactly what the banks want.

    On my street in Campbell, I've seen the same houses go $750,000 to over a $1,000,000 in less than 5 years. Even with two tech workers, it's not easy to pay that off.

    The thing you won't be able to understand: a lot of the homeless in the SF Bay area, are blue-collar working people. People work to maintain the cities they often cannot afford to live in. This is also what happened in Orange County. The people who clean Irvine and Tustin Ranch live in Costa Mesa. What is also being built here seems a little like the old Science Fiction movie Metropolis.

    Most of the traffic problems here are caused by single drivers going to work from where they can afford to work where they cannot afford to live.

    There is also an attitude here that people don't believe how rich they are, which is caused by the high property. If you make $40,000 year, you might not be able to afford a 2-bedroom apartment here.

    There are a few simple solutions:
    1.) If you buy a house, you must keep it and live in for 5 years--unless you get divorced or show bankruptcy. This makes property homes and communities and not investment tokens.
    2.) Zone more areas for apartments.
    3.) Stop outlawing poverty and homelessness. Homelessness is an equal-opportunity affliction. This means no more police harassment.
    4.) Give people a place to shower and go to the bathroom. It's not only the homeless people who need to use bathrooms. Pregnant women and men with prostate problems have to go more, too.
    6.) Let people sleep in their cars.
    7.) Make sure that homeless people can vote.
    8.) Make social workers live as homeless people for 1 month before giving them jobs--on the lowest benefit afforded to the homeless people.
    9.) Build small pod-hotels for the homeless people, like they have in Japan.
    10.) Offer wash-machines for homeless people. If people can was their clothes, then they don't need to carry as much with them.
    11.) Require that the "Salvation Army" either give homeless people clothes--or give up their non-profit status.
    12.) Give more money to help the homeless, and get that money from reduced administration. It takes a lot of money in administration costs to deny people help.
    13.) Consider giving 1/4th of the tax money to help a homeless person that might otherwise be spent to keep someone in jail.
    14.) Give homeless people carts and storage solutions but expect them to organize their stuff. Riding along the Los Gatos Creek trail, I've seen homeless camps that where a shambles, but I also saw a well organized one, with signs of cottage industry.
    15.) Few if any social programs have any kind of meaningful feedback. All social interviews should have a program in social worker performance review sheet. Are the programs working? Was the interviewer fair?

    The problems surrounding homelessness won't get fixed unless the people involved run. As far as I know, the only politician around here gives a damn about the homeless--was himself homeless as a child when his families home burned down.

  21. No E-Voting - We Know Too Much on Voting Machine Manual Instructed Election Officials To Use Weak Passwords (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    The people here on Slashdot who might be able to devise a secure electronic voting machine--are a minority compared of those here who could hack it.

  22. Marketing People Should Not Design Products on It's Not Your Imagination: Smartphone Battery Life Is Getting Worse (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Big batteries are one of the best features of a cellphone.

    Get rid of the curved screens, too! I already broke 2 screen protectors on my Galaxy Note 8. I liked the Galaxy Note 4 Better.

  23. Daylight Wasting Time Must End on America Braces For Daylight Saving Time - And Missing Medical Records (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    There's no reason why it needs to be light out at 9:00 on a Summer night.

  24. Yet Trump Remains on Twitter Deletes Over 10,000 Bots That Discouraged US Midterm Voting (cnn.com) · · Score: 0

    Trump has used Twitter to launch hundreds of hurtful attacks.

    Don't like it?
    Boycott Twitter, and Fox News.

  25. Test it on Island of Uber Execs on Uber Wants To Resume Self-Driving Car Tests On Public Roads (go.com) · · Score: 1

    Test it on your own people.