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  1. The oled screen will unevenly degrade and/or burn in within a year or two so yeah you need it.

  2. Boring job on Walmart Tests Shelf-Scanning Robots In Over 50 Stores (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    That job sounds really boring. It should be banned. Human beings have a insane computer in their brain and we are paying people to walk around checking store shelves? What does it say about our civilization that we have humans doing this task? Any aliens assigned to watch Earth must be laughing their asses off at us (they are aliens so literally their mouth could be in their ass). Anyway, why the hell are there people trying to preserve this kind of work? Itâ(TM)s criminal to relegate humans to doing manual repetive stupid labor.

    Force the companies to pay a tax or dividend to humans instead of forcing companies to pay for workers â" it is a form of taxation to make a company unnecessarily hire people. Let the tax pay humans to sit at home raising kids or watching TV or learning quantum mechanics. There a good career for humans become a quantum mechanic.

  3. Re: Space Pioneer on Astronaut Paul Weitz Dies At 85; Veteran of Skylab and Shuttle Missions · · Score: 1

    Someone dies at 85 and we are sure itâ(TM)s radiation?? How about not believing things until you study it scientifically? Nowadays a moron with no qualifications in science considers their own speculative opinion more valid than that of a doctor with a PhD in the field. Have other non astronauts got this condition? What is the prevalence of cancer in astronauts versus non astronauts of similar background? Itâ(TM)s crazy that people believe stuff without examining the situation rationally. Many people die of cancer when they are old. It happens, itâ(TM)s common.

  4. Re: What does this mean? on Singapore To Stop Adding Cars to City From February 2018 (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Seriously? I go to Singapore all the time â" never had any issues with police or the laws. If anything it seems to be quite lax in a lot of areas.

  5. Why spend $2 billion on FDA approval when you can make more money selling twigs and leaf extract from a random shrub growing next to a toilet in the Amazon? If you donâ(TM)t feel like going to Brazil, a plant near a port-a-potty at the online shopping company Amazonâ(TM)s warehouse will do.
    Big organic and big nutraceutical companies make far more profit than any pharmaceutical and do zero peer reviewed research.

  6. Dosage matters, unless you are a nutcase like Alex Jones who thinks one atom of aluminum (the most abundant metal on the Earthâ(TM)s surface) will instantly guaranteed give you autism. Itâ(TM)s better to have pesticides and cheaper more plentiful food than famines and global catastrophic starvation and possible extinction via war.

  7. Some of them did damage though, like the Samsung Galaxy SIII onwards. Basically Samsung's phablet strategy. Something I predicted in 2005 on slashdot well before the iPhone https://slashdot.org/comments....

  8. Re: Big Soda? can i buy one? on Sedentary Lifestyle Study Called 'A Raging Dumpster Fire' (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    The most vile "Bigs" are Big Nutraceutical and Big Organic.

  9. Re: H1B, cheap labor on Silicon Valley Bosses Are Globalists, Not Libertarians (economist.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    You can definitely be a libertarian and a globalist at the same time. In fact the two are compatible. The dangerous philosophies are the authoritarian systems such as nationalism and socialism. They block people from interacting with and trading with each other based on what an authority think is best!

  10. Libertarian globalism on Silicon Valley Bosses Are Globalists, Not Libertarians (economist.com) · · Score: 2

    You can be a libertarian and a globalist at the same time. In fact the two are compatible. The dangerous philosophies are the authoritarian systems such as nationalism and socialism. They block people from interacting with and trading with each other based on what an authority think is best.

  11. Another thing we can outsource to AI.

  12. OLED suffers from burn-in -- which means a "ghost image" gets permanently imprinted if the same image is displayed for too long. That's because OLED color pixels degrade disproportionately over time. An issue last seen in the 1990s CRT monitors. It's not a good technology if you want your phone to last a few years. Hopefully Micro LED will be along soon if they can work out its mass production issues. I am waiting on that.

  13. The original iPhone basically stole ideas from existing phones especially from the myOrigo (the first phone to have accelerometers to switch landscape/portrait horizontal etc). Apple even stole the look and feel of its browser task switcher from Nokia.
    Worst of all, the iPhone idea itself was blatantly stolen from me right here on slashdot in 2005. Proof: https://slashdot.org/comments....

  14. Re: Almost took my leg off last year... on Galaxy Note 8 Sets New Pre-Order Record For Samsung Despite Last Year's Disaster (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    It was just a flesh wound anyway.

  15. Re: Any real reason to buy this over S8+? on Galaxy Note 8 Sets New Pre-Order Record For Samsung Despite Last Year's Disaster (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    The stylus can be useful if you are drawing because a finger obscures exactly where you are touching whereas with a stylus you can see it in realtime.

  16. And you would allow that?? Yeah right.

  17. God is not big on that:

    Quotes from the Bible:
    Ezekiel 18:19-20
    âoeYet you say, âWhy should not the son suffer for the iniquity of the father?â(TM) When the son has done what is just and right, and has been careful to observe all my statutes, he shall surely live. The soul who sins shall die. The son shall not suffer for the iniquity of the father, nor the father suffer for the iniquity of the son. The righteousness of the righteous shall be upon himself, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon himself."

    There are plenty of other quotes too such as:
    Deuteronomy 24:16
    âoeFathers shall not be put to death because of their children, nor shall children be put to death because of their fathers. Each one shall be put to death for his own sin."

    Exodus 34:7
    "Keeping steadfast love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and the children's children, to the third and the fourth generation.â

    Of course it contradicts those in Isaiah (context uncertain, and may not not directly from God and may be speaking about a specific person's sons)!!

    Isaiah 14:21
    "Prepare slaughter for his sons because of the guilt of their fathers, lest they rise and possess the earth, and fill the face of the world with cities.â

    That's the Bible for you, enough contradictions to justify any position!

  18. Re: Seperation of powers on The Trump Administration Has Announced the End of DACA -- Unless Congress Can Act To Save It (recode.net) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The president is an executive, any executive has a right and responsibility to decide which enforcement should be prioritized and how to go about with that prioritization. There aren't enough resources to enforce every law, and so you need the executive (who is usually elected) to decide which ones should be prioritized. Otherwise you would have police chiefs that devote all the police to enforce speeding tickets while rape and murder go unsolved? Or do you put all your resources into solving murder cases while robberies and rape go unsolved? Or you can be like Sheriff Arpaio who didn't bother with serious violent crime but spent most of his resources trying to arrest illegal farm workers.

  19. Uh those numbers have been flipped:

    In 1992 the number of murders was 23,760.
    In 2015 the number of murders was 15,696.

    The amount reduced!!
    Source: http://www.disastercenter.com/...

    Post a valid link, and assume people won't check it??

  20. Re: There's just so much more to accomplish today on Stanford Study Finds New Dads In US Are Older Than Ever (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 1

    Whasi whasi. Iger vihopsen maga baga booga!

  21. Re: women's choice on Stanford Study Finds New Dads In US Are Older Than Ever (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 1

    Get yourself a GitHub account and make a portfolio of open source tools or contribute to other ones by tackling their bug list or TODO items. Do it. Google it, there are tutorials online in many sites such as coursera, udemy, Khan academy etc. Better yet start making apps. App developers are super in-demand. Whether it's mobile apps for Android and iOS or REST apps for corporate stuff. If you have a decent portfolio you can point to, you will get a job -- doesn't matter if you are white or a gay female disabled person of color. Don't fall into the depression cycle!! If you are going to waste time, do something worthwhile instead. My examples are programming oriented but if you have a different skill, talent, or interest go for that. You got to reach inside yourself and grab the willpower. Then some of the other things you want will reach you.

  22. Re: if north korea hits some one they will be gone on Japan Activated Air Raid Sirens During North Korea's Missile Test Monday (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    We are going to wait until they build up a huge arsenal?

  23. Re: The web has changed on Why We Need To Decentralize The Web (postlight.com) · · Score: 1

    The timecube guy was/is deranged and everybody knew it and it wasn't being passed off as factual.

  24. Re: The web has changed on Why We Need To Decentralize The Web (postlight.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah basically when it required some skill to have a webpage people more intelligent things were being said. Now you have some guys flat earth theory or anti GMO rant on being more widely distributed and presented as quality over science about the eclipse or genetic engineering by actual scientists.

  25. Re: Skeuomorphic interfaces on Why Are There So Many Knobs in Audio Software? (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    Have it sliding in a circle. That won't be hard to use with a mouse at all.