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  1. Unemployed Drivers on Uber Wants To Resume Self-Driving Car Tests On Public Roads (go.com) · · Score: 1

    This is the nature of a class war.

  2. Unless you work for the cellphone industry, there is no harm in taking precautions. Even a bluetooth headset puts out far less power than your cellphone.
    At one time, people thought that Diethylstilbestrol, Thalidomide, and radium were safe.

  3. Soldered SSD + Soldered Battery = Disposable on Apple Launches Program To Repair Old Devices Like the iPhone 4S (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 1

    These are the two cellphone construction techniques that make generate e-waste.

  4. Firstly, thank you. I appreciate the help.

    As a 52 year old transsexual person, who transitioned more than 25 years ago. I have experienced a lot of discrimination, bigotry, and violence because I am a transsexual person.

    It is my hope that those who follow me will have an easier and safer life than I did.

  5. Life of Poverty By Initial Conditions Must End on Alaska's Universal Basic Income Doesn't Increase Unemployment (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    In too many lives, if you born poor, you might live out the rest of your life poor.

  6. How Do Poor People Afford Internet? on The Average Cable Bill Has Increased More Than 50 Percent Since 2010 (streamingobserver.com) · · Score: 0

    Internet access is almost necessary to do many financial and civil tasks, and yet, it is difficult for many low-income people afford the internet.

  7. Non-Removable SSD = Disposable Product on Mac Mini Receives First Overhaul in Four Years; New iPad Pro With No Home Button Announced (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    SSDs do go bad. Now, with Moore's law gone, those machines could have lasted longer than they will now. If Apple cared about the environment more than their money, they would make them repairable.

    I create content, and 10% of my Samsung 850 SSD life is used up.

  8. When you release compressed air, it cools the environment. It's the nature of it, and air conditioning.

  9. Better part of a hundred Dollars for internet access?
    Why must we coddle monopolies such as Comcast, ATT&T, and Google in this country?

  10. whereas "self" = 's','h','e','l','f' ;

  11. I dare state that things have progressed as far as they can--by using off of the self cellphone displays.
    We need custom screens which are no larger than 25mm.

  12. Stingray, Anyone? on Nobody's Cellphone Is Really That Secure, Bruce Schneier Reminds (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    He should not use any means of communication for anything which is not secure and encrypted.

  13. Companies now swoop down on Silicon Valley, buy houses, and flip them for a profit. This is not how you build communities!

  14. Kids Need To Play Outside, Too on Should Parents End 'Screen Time' For Children? (indianexpress.com) · · Score: 1

    There's nothing wrong with computers, but kids have to play to be healthy.

  15. Trump Should Have Been Banned From Twitter on President Trump Accuses Twitter of Political Bias (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    A person is using twitter to launch personal attacks against others.

    Boycott Twitter.

  16. Machines Not Qualified to Judge People on Facebook Uses Machine Learning To Remove 8.7 Million Child Exploitation Posts (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 0

    I seriously doubt that such a machine could tell the difference between an exploited child post--from myself trying to sort through the sexual abuse that I personally endured as a child, which I sometimes share with others, in hope that it might create a dialogue to help them.

    Machines cannot judge people.

  17. Worthless Credit Monitoring - Just Send the Cash on Yahoo To Pay $50 Million, Offer Credit Monitoring For Massive Security Breach (go.com) · · Score: 1

    Who the hell decided this case?!

  18. Excessive wear. I have a computer with 24gb of memory, I don't need a disk cache for anything.
    As a content provider, I already have 1/10th of the useful life of my 1TB Samsung 850 SSD used.

  19. You have no right to prepare an assault on other people.

  20. Meanwhile Demonitized Me Kept the $80 They Owed on YouTube Is Investing $20 Million In Educational Content, Creators (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Isn't it wonderful when a company can be so magnanimous with other people's promised money. And not just my channel, but thousands of others.
    https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCALWDnHfbhcpdPco0cXIeOQ/videos?sort=dd&view=0&shelf_id=0

    "End of BrendaEM's Youtube Channel."

  21. There is still no single-click option for protecting SSDs.
    Pocket must go!
    Adding a single-line URL/Search bar never needed to be added to the codebase.
    Firefox is likely collecting data using Topsites.
    No would would need a private mode or it's bloat if you weren't collecting data in the first place.
    No one likes looking at square corners on tabs.
    The API changes so radically and so often and so deeply and abrupt depreciating, that you can just forget about having a good extension base.
    Firefox should have supported its own MAF format, but it didn't.

  22. One Remaining Movie in Every Categtory on Netflix To Raise $2 Billion In Debt To Fund More Original Content (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 2

    Nextflix has done everything in their power to go out of business. They devised a bogus rating system. They are doing away with reviews altogether. They put movies in categories where they don't belong. There are fewer movies, now. There are hardly any cult moves, hardly any classics. They've alienated studios by creating their own content.

    What more can they do and still keep the lights on?

  23. Simple Answer: Drive on TSA Lays Out Plans To Use Facial Recognition For Domestic Flights (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    You also vote with your Dollars. Vote against it.
    The truth is, most sighted people could check the ID. Obviously, they are going to use this to scan everyone. Just don't go, but call your local airline and tell them exactly why. Then it will change.

  24. Or Do Something Practical? on Bloodhound's 1,000 MPH Car Project Needs Money (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    There is so much room for improvement in the daily automobile. I doubt that a 1,000mph would add anything to our world.

    Not only would they building a car with limited usefulness, it's calibrated in US-CU and not Metric.
    It's all about being infatuated with an idea, a number.

  25. Some People Have Families on Slashdot Asks: Should 'Crunch' Overtime Be Optional? (forbes.com) · · Score: 1

    As an ex-gamer, I understand crunch-time. Although I am single, others have families.