https://repair.org/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

My grandma would not appreciate your comment. She was fond of saying
"If each person swept their own doorstep, the whole world would be clean."

It's not just about gas usage, it's about minimizing emissions, too:
"more efficient at minimizing fuel consumption AND emissions."

My dilthium crystals are working quite fine.

Apparently, many esteemed Slashdot posters do not have first-hand experience with life-threatening food allergies. I do...

It's pretty damn scary to witness someone endure an anaphylactic reaction to a food allergen as they desperately hope that the epinephrine injection will save their life.
Better global labeling of food allergens will help eliminate the risk. I like the idea of standard labels and icons. This unicode idea is a good one -- we should support it.
An even better solution would be figure out what is causing the increase in food allergens and fix that problem. Until then, yet another unicode standard seems helpful.
If you'd like to learn more about food allerges, check out https://www.foodallergy.org/ (FARE - Food Allergy Research and Education)

Yup!

https://bouldercolorado.gov/in...

"If approved, this ballot measure would reestablish city autonomy for investing in community broadband services currently limited by Colorado Senate Bill 152 pdf (SB-152). SB-152 significantly limits the ability of municipal governments to provide broadband services, including potential partnerships with private entities. SB-152 includes a provision allowing Colorado municipal governments to exempt themselves from the law’s provisions via a public vote.

The Boulder community would significantly benefit from more economical, higher-capacity broadband services, given the tech-savvy demographic, readiness for next-generation services, and publicly available fiber-optic infrastructure. Learn more about the benefits pdf.

Although the City of Boulder has no current plans to create a public broadband utility or engage in new public-private partnerships, passing the ballot measure would ensure that the planning and execution of new public initiatives would be unencumbered by significant limitations in state law.

Approved Ballot Question
Affirming the City’s Right to Provide Telecommunication Services Shall the City of Boulder be authorized to provide high-speed Internet services (advanced services), telecommunications services, and/or cable television services to residents, businesses, schools, libraries, nonprofit entities and other users of such services, either directly or indirectly with public or private sector partners, as expressly permitted by 29-27-101 to 304, “Competition in Utility and Entertainment Services,” of the Colorado Revised Statutes, without limiting its home rule authority?"

Here's one reason to be afraid of laser eye surgery:

http://eyemaxdifference.com/ni... "The NIDEK laser system has been specifically designed to simplify use of the laser for the surgeon and technicians.
...
Features of the new Windows®-based graphic user interface offer the ultimate combination of greater convenience and significant time savings."

Doesn't HP make inkjet cartridges? Who would want to work from home making those things. Got to be messy work...

I mostly have various rss feeds on my iGoogle home page. Very, very useful to quickly see what's happening on pages I pay attention to. (Like, Slashdot, of course.)

I don't use many of the other gadgets/toys. Well, Weather Underground, Woot watcher, Google Finance are useful, but I could live without them.

Are there alternative sites that provide a similar function?

http://libraries.mit.edu/archives/exhibits/exam/

English | Geometry | Algebra | Arithmetic

No Latin or Greek...

http://blogs.sun.com/OTNGarage/entry/sun_com_will_disappear_after "A few days ago I wrote: The www.sun.com site will be decommissioned on June 1 of this year. In the comments I went on to say that I doubted there would be 1:1 redirects. I was wrong. (Don't tell my wife I'm capable of saying that!) The www.sun.com domain will NOT be decommissioned or sold on June 1 of this year. Rather, sun.com URLs will redirect to oracle.com URLs, with 1:1 redirects where possible. Most of the content that was on BigAdmin, OpenSolaris.com, and some sections of SDN has already been migrated to the System Admin and Developer Community of the Oracle Technology Network (OTN). Our engineering team is working on a solution for the Hardware Compatibility List. I'll let you know where it ends up and in what form as soon as I know. If you find content on those legacy sites that you'd like to ensure we make available on OTN, please let me know. - Rick"

Great opportunity to manufacture and sell giant tin foil hats for cars.

How many Slashdot readers would change places with Hurd at this time? How could any of us ever get to quit a job and walk away with $40M?