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Submission + - A New Invite-Only Forum for Victims of Google's Google+ Purge (vortex.com)

Submitted by Lauren Weinstein
Lauren Weinstein writes: A significant number of my G+ followers have already joined. But I’ve been frequently asked if I would consider opening it up further for other G+ users who feel burned by Google’s upcoming demolition of G+, especially since many G+ users are not finding the currently publicly available alternatives to be appealing, for a range of very good reasons. Facebook is nonstarter for many, and various of the other public alternatives are already infested with alt-right and other forms of trolls who were justifiably kicked off of the mainstream platforms.

So while I am indeed willing to accept invitation requests more broadly from G+ users and other folks who are feeling increasingly without a welcoming social media home, please carefully consider the following before applying ...

Submission + - Trump's Tariffs Are Bad for the Audio Business (audioholics.com) 1

Submitted by Audiofan
Audiofan writes: The president’s escalating tariff war is wreaking havoc on American businesses that rely on Chinese manufacturing and supply chains. The results are higher prices for consumers, and real risk to small audio businesses, which may not be able to survive in the current climate. Makers of consumer loudspeakers, wireless headphones, high-end audiophile electronics, and professional recording gear are beginning to speak out about how these tariffs are affecting their businesses. Could this spell the end of the American-made loudspeaker manufacturing business that may have no choice but to produce MORE not less of their products overseas to offset the costs on tariffs for globally sourced parts?

Comment Smaller screen size please. (Score 2) 41

by zixxt (#55608327) Attached to: Samsung's Galaxy S9 Will Appear At CES In January, Says Report

What is up with huge screen sizes anymore? Before you had the galaxy S with a good size screen and left the bigger screens for the Note and Mega series. Now even the Galaxy S line is a monster to hold in hand, I guess my last Galaxy will be the S7 since its still had a sane and manageable display size.

Comment Re:Adobe Flash!? (Score 2) 105

by zixxt (#55206309) Attached to: HP Users Complain About 10-Minute Login Lag During 'Win 10 Update'

Another, KB4038806, was a "critical" patch for Adobe Flash Player that allowed remote code execution.

People still keep Adobe Flash on their system?

Flash rocks! I play about a dozen flash based games, and on my netbooks flash videos are faster, use less memory and smoother then html5 videos. Heck I was watch full screen flash animation videos on my old Pentium 133.

Submission + - Palemoon blocks AdNauseam extension (palemoon.org)

Submitted by asvravi
asvravi writes: Palemoon browser, the leading alternative to Firefox, has started blocking the AdNauseam extension, citing harm to the web in general. AdNauseam is a browser extension that automates ad clicks universally and blindly on behalf of its users. Many users of Palemoon are outraged at this censorship and with Palemoon going against its own philosophy of "Your browser, Your way".

Submission + - Tasers Implicated In Far More Deaths Than We Previously Thought (fastcompany.com)

Submitted by tedlistens
tedlistens writes: The Taser is thought to be a “less than lethal” alternative to a firearm during aggressive police encounters. Independent studies have showed that when deployed correctly—according to “guidelines” manufacturer Axon offers to police—Tasers reduce injuries among both officers and the people they subdue. But amid a lack of official data about their use and effects, a new report by Reuters found 1,005 incidents in the U.S. in which people died after police stunned them with the electrical weapons, most since the early 2000s. The Taser was ruled to be a cause or contributing factor in 153 of those deaths—far more than the 24 cases the company has counted. Reuters found that 9 in 10 of those who died were unarmed and one in four suffered from mental illness or neurological disorders; In 9 of every 10 incidents reviewed, the deceased was unarmed; More than 100 of the fatal encounters began with a 911 call for help during a medical emergency. Earlier this year, Axon rebranded, dropping the name Taser International to underscore its focus on body cameras and digital evidence, which is meant in part to add new transparency to fatal police encounters.

Submission + - Science fiction author Brian Aldiss dies aged 92 (theguardian.com)

Submitted by Freshly Exhumed
Freshly Exhumed writes: Acclaimed Science Fiction author Brian Aldiss, first published in the 1950s, has died at the age of 92. Aldiss wrote such science fiction classics as Non-Stop, Hothouse and Greybeard, as well as the Helliconia trilogy, winning the Hugo and Nebula prizes for science fiction and fantasy, an honorary doctorate from the University of Reading, the title of grand master from the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, and an OBE for services to literature. Tributes from contemporaries and younger authors have been plentiful.

Submission + - Trump Administration Dissolves Climate Change Advisory Panel (washingtonpost.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The Trump administration has decided to disband the federal advisory panel for the National Climate Assessment, a group aimed at helping policymakers and private-sector officials incorporate the government’s climate analysis into long-term planning. The charter for the 15-person Advisory Committee for the Sustained National Climate Assessment — which includes academics as well as local officials and corporate representatives — expires Sunday. On Friday, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s acting administrator, Ben Friedman, informed the committee’s chair that the agency would not renew the panel. The National Climate Assessment is supposed to be issued every four years but has come out only three times since passage of the 1990 law calling for such analysis. The next one, due for release in 2018, already has become a contentious issue for the Trump administration. The committee was established to help translate findings from the National Climate Assessment into concrete guidance for both public and private-sector officials. Its members have been writing a report to inform federal officials on the data sets and approaches that would best be included, and chair Richard Moss said in an interview Saturday that ending the group’s work was shortsighted.

Submission + - What Happens to Creativity as We Age? (nytimes.com)

Submitted by mpol
mpol writes: New York times published a short article about creativity and human age. The conclusion seems to be that teenagers have more loose and wild thoughts than adults.

There are different aspects of creativity ofcourse. When you get older you have more of a sense of what is going to work and what not.
Another aspect is that aging and creativity might be different in the average population, while the people on Slashdot are more often in a creative position already, where you keep on developing your creativity.
You could also say there are different classes in creativity, like Newton and Einstein who created really novel ideas, versus a software developer who executes an idea and creates someting.

How has age affected the way you are creative?

Submission + - Best programming language for schoolchildren

Submitted by SPopulisQR
SPopulisQR writes: New school year is approaching and I wanted to ask what are appropriate programming languages for children of various age. Specifically, 1) what coding languages should be considered then 2) are there are any self guided coding websites, that can be used by children to learn coding using guidance and help online? Let's say the ages are 8 and 12.

Submission + - SPAM: A Global Fish War is Coming

Submitted by schwit1
schwit1 writes: The demand for fish as a protein source is increasing. The global population today is 7.5 billion people, and is expected to be 9.7 billion by 2050, with the largest growth coming in Africa and Asia. Fish consumption has increased from an average of 9.9 kilograms per person in the 1960s to 19.7 kilograms in 2013 with estimates for 2014 and 2015 above 20 kilograms. The ten most productive species are fully fished and demand continues to rise in regions generally with little governance and many disputed boundaries.
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Submission + - SPAM: Ukraine hacker cooperating with FBI in Russia probe

Submitted by schwit1
schwit1 writes: A hacker in Ukraine who goes by the online alias “Profexer” is cooperating with the FBI in its investigation of Russian interference in the U.S. presidential election, The New York Times is reporting.

Profexer, whose real identity is unknown, wrote and sold malware on the dark web. The intelligence community publicly identified code he had written as a tool used in the hacking of the Democratic National Committee ahead of last year’s presidential election.

The hacker’s activity on the web came to a halt shortly after the malware was identified.

The New York Times, citing Ukrainian police, reported Wednesday that the individual turned himself into the FBI earlier this year and became a witness for the bureau in its investigation. FBI investigators are probing Russian interference efforts and whether there was coordination between associates of President Trump’s campaign and Moscow. Special counsel Robert Mueller is heading the investigation.
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