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Comment Re: Well.... (Score 1) 558

Most milk bottles I've seen list volumes in both litres and pints, which solves the labelling problem fairly well in practice. You can usually work the difference between 1/2/4/6 pint bottles out from shape and size alone. I've seen 2 litre bottles in the past, but they're pretty rare.

The butter I have to hand is in 250g blocks, so is entirely metric-based for now.

Submission + - SPAM: Rene Auberjonois, Star Trek and Boston Legal Actor, Dies at 79

schwit1 writes: “Auberjonois was a prolific television actor, appearing as Paul Lewiston in 71 episodes of ‘Boston Legal’ and as Clayton Runnymede Endicott III in ABC’s long-running sitcom ‘Benson.’ He played Odo in ‘Star Trek: Deep Space Nine,’ and carried that role into video games, voicing the same role in ‘Harbinger’ and ‘The Fallen.’ He appeared in the movie ‘MASH’ as Father Mulcahy in the first of several collaborations with Robert Altman. Other film credits include Roy Balgey in 1976’s ‘King Kong’ and Reverend Oliver in ‘The Patriot,’ as well as parts in ‘McCabe & Mrs. Miller,’ ‘Eyes of Laura Mars’ and ‘Walker.’”
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The Almighty Buck

'We Need a New Capitalism' (nytimes.com) 435

Marc Benioff, the chairman and co-CEO of Salesforce, writes in an op-ed: Yet, as a capitalist, I believe it's time to say out loud what we all know to be true: Capitalism, as we know it, is dead. Yes, free markets -- and societies that cherish scientific research and innovation -- have pioneered new industries, discovered cures that have saved millions from disease and unleashed prosperity that has lifted billions of people out of poverty. On a personal level, the success that I've achieved has allowed me to embrace philanthropy and invest in improving local public schools and reducing homelessness in the San Francisco Bay Area, advancing children's health care and protecting our oceans. But capitalism as it has been practiced in recent decades -- with its obsession on maximizing profits for shareholders -- has also led to horrifying inequality. Globally, the 26 richest people in the world now have as much wealth as the poorest 3.8 billion people, and the relentless spewing of carbon emissions is pushing the planet toward catastrophic climate change. In the United States, income inequality has reached its highest level in at least 50 years, with the top 0.1 percent -- people like me -- owning roughly 20 percent of the wealth while many Americans cannot afford to pay for a $400 emergency. It's no wonder that support for capitalism has dropped, especially among young people.

To my fellow business leaders and billionaires, I say that we can no longer wash our hands of our responsibility for what people do with our products. Yes, profits are important, but so is society. And if our quest for greater profits leaves our world worse off than before, all we will have taught our children is the power of greed. It's time for a new capitalism -- a more fair, equal and sustainable capitalism that actually works for everyone and where businesses, including tech companies, don't just take from society but truly give back and have a positive impact. What might a new capitalism look like? First, business leaders need to embrace a broader vision of their responsibilities by looking beyond shareholder return and also measuring their stakeholder return. This requires that they focus not only on their shareholders, but also on all of their stakeholders -- their employees, customers, communities and the planet. Fortunately, nearly 200 executives with the Business Roundtable recently committed their companies, including Salesforce, to this approach, saying that the "purpose of a corporation" includes "a fundamental commitment to all of our stakeholders." As a next step, the government could formalize this commitment, perhaps with the Security and Exchange Commission requiring public companies to publicly disclose their key stakeholders and show how they are impacting those stakeholders.

Comment Re:Still conflating Meltdown with Spectre (Score 1) 204

I'd argue that this all comes down to patents. The OoO/speculative execution methods in the P6 architecture would be patented, and those P6 patents ought to be expiring about now. That means that using the fast Intel method of speculation would make sense if you are designing a brand new processor with OoO execution. The older ARM chips did little/no out-of-order or speculative execution, so the cost of adding any particular variant is probably similar.

Meanwhile, because AMD was competing with Intel directly on x86, they had to produce processors with OoO execution for years to keep up. The P6 patents meant AMD created their own implementation of OoO execution, and now the patents are no longer an issue, the cost of redesigning the chips meant that AMD stuck to their existing methods.

Comment Re:Can I post in polls? (Score 2) 85

I have just seen this happen, and it affects http://slashdot.org/ but not subdomains of the site. Adding "news." or whatever to the host name makes the site notice the login cookie. (The cookie values are identical for both slashdot.org and .slashdot.org, mind you.)

Comment Re:/etc/inittab (Score 1) 314

It's still possible in daemontools to run a shell script wrapper from /etc/service/foo/run around some real server in Java/Erlang/whatever. Stopping the service with "svc -d /etc/service/foo" will then entirely fail to kill the server process. I would imagine that the systemd's cgroup suport would avoid this happening.
The Internet

Britain Gets National .uk Web Address 111

hypnosec (2231454) writes 'Starting today businesses and individuals in the UK will be able to register a new national web address (".uk") and drop their existing ".co.uk" or ".com" suffix in favour of a shorter and snappier domain name. The entire process along with the transition is being overseen by private yet not-for-profit organisation Nominet, which has already started notifying existing customers with a ".co.uk" domain of their chance to adopt a ".uk" domain. Nominet will reserve all ".uk" domain names, which already have a ".co.uk" counterparts, for the next five years offering registrants the chance to adopt the new domain and to keep cyber squatters at bay.'

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