Countries in lower latitudes hardly see difference in daylight between summer and winter and hence they do not need DST. The odd one out is China because even though they need it their rulers seem to like monotony in all aspects.

Completely agree. As a person living in tropical country, and having visited western countries, I always found the concept of daylight saving in summer a very scientific and right thing to do. I find it really amusing that many people in those countries find it difficult - when almost everything is digital - no grandfather clocks or other mechanical clocks to be phyiscally adjusted. It is almost like its a fashion to reject long-standing rules/processes.

If we compare the cost of paper money - the printing, distribution, lockers, security .... Who bears that cost? Why can't the same approach be applied to digital circulation? As others have pointed out, this feels like appeasing the US in trade negotiations rather than burden of running the infra.

I'm amazed at people's ingenuity and spending good part of their life in making emulators of so many old machine - even though there is no practical use of those emulattions. Truly motivated people. Glad slashdot keeps insprinng now and then.

Really curious - what exactly has Intel done to rise so much? Just last year everyone was blaming Intel and that they are doomed to be laggards. I can understand Micron growing - for all AIs need huge RAM. But what about Intel? What are they suddenly manufacturing now that is so much in demand that the stock have zoomed?

Good point. It is maddening to see hundreds of programs all called 2048 when you are trying to get one specific one. These apps do not even have an id that one can use to locate later. What kind of software engineering is this?

Instead of 'Can' they 'should' remove such passengers. Hope all other airlines and other public transport systems and companies adopt this quickly.

Throughout this article, the issue highlighted is the UI. I once looked at WPS Office (Excel equivalent) and was totally struck by how its UI is same as Excel. PLUS they have added their own value adds like how the the entire column and row where the cursor is, is highlighted. This is so useful. But after looking at that i never went back to it because is is not OSS or not trusted as much as Microsoft. If an outfit such as WPS can replicate the UI why does not LO adopt many of the good UI aspects of Word/Excel?

I use the QuickBar on the Title bar to skip navigating through menus and ribbons for many buttons. Just drag the frequently used buttons to it. They are accessible even when the ribbon is hidden.

I have used word processors regularly from Wordstar on DOS, to WordPerfect on DOS to Word on Windows from version 2 onwards. I definitely find the ribbon very useful - it reduces the number of menu navigation every time. Without ribbon, I feel as if one had is tied. For the last couple of years have switched to LibreOffice on linux. The spreadsheet as someone earlier mentioned earlier does not look nice. The grid is too dark and the text inside the cells is too close to the grid giving an overall un-professional look to the content - it looks too congested. Styles are another issue in Write - I have found it less intuitive than Word.

A car is already trackable though its license plate. So what is this 'alarm' of being trackable via tyre sensors. The only difference being that license plate tracking requires line of sight. Seems like shouting hoarse for the sake of attention.

This has nothing to do with stupidity, It is a simple matter of the police not having the intiricate knowledge of crypto usage. If someone were a good computer programmer but have no knowledge of farming, should farmers call them stupid - obviously no, its just lacking knowledge.

A light-boom? fusion of light pushing itself and causing flash of light?

All that is fine, but one always reads the code in our mind. Thus int i = 0 will be read as 'int i equals zero'. Now pray how do we read emojis - unless there is a universal dictionary it will be fruitless discussing code with others or remembering.

Opening of this is a treasure trove for the AI engines to feed on.