City May Tax Sugary Drinks Like Cigarettes; Will History Revere Bill Gates and Forget Steve Jobs?

Don't miss a single issue of this newsletter. Add slashdot@newsletters.slashdot.org to your address book. City May Tax Sugary Drinks Like Cigarettes Why Aren't You Running KDE? Earth Approaching Tipping Point, Say Scientists A Day In the Life of a "Booth Babe" Will History Revere Bill Gates and Forget Steve Jobs? Hot Comment: One word: Explosives From the Vault: Desktop Linux Is Dead Watch It: Tapping into the Power of Linux OS VellOS City May Tax Sugary Drinks Like Cigarettes Voters in Richmond, California are set to decide in November whether to make the Bay Area city the nation's first municipality to tax soda and other sugary beverages to help fight childhood obesity. The penny-per-ounce tax is projected to raise between $2 million and $8 million. Sound Off>> Why Aren't You Running KDE? There have been some great reviews and comparisons of KDE with the other options lately. Sure, early releases of 4.x were painful but the desktop today is fully-functional and polished. So the question to those who run *nix desktops and are frustrated by the latest Gnome variants: Why aren't you running KDE? Sound Off>> Earth Approaching Tipping Point, Say Scientists A prestigious group of 22 internationally known scientists is warning that population growth, widespread destruction of natural ecosystems, and climate change may be driving Earth toward an irreversible change in the biosphere. Sound Off>> A Day In the Life of a "Booth Babe" "Booth babes," models paid to showcase products, abound at tech trade shows. But ever wonder what these workers think of their jobs? Well, it's not all glitz and glamour. High heels, long hours and leering visitors are among the occupational hazards. Sound Off>> Will History Revere Bill Gates and Forget Steve Jobs? Likening Bill Gates' charitable work to the German armaments maker Oskar Schindler's famous efforts to save his Jewish workers from the gas chambers during World War II, author Malcolm Gladwell said that history will remember Gates fondly while Steve Jobs will slip into obscurity. Sound Off>> One word: Explosives "My early chemistry researches were finding household chemicals that could blow things up. I found them. YMMV" -- by Maximum Prophet Read More>> Desktop Linux Is Dead Ten years ago, digitaldc posted this quote from PCWorld: "It kills me to say this: The dream of Linux as a major desktop OS is now pretty much dead. Despite phenomenal security and stability -- and amazing strides in usability, performance, and compatibility -- Linux simply isn't catching on with desktop users. And if there ever was a chance for desktop Linux to succeed, that ship has long since sunk." Sound Off>> Tapping into the Power of Linux OS VellOS Vello's Remote Data Replication Manager allows cloud users to execute replication-on-demand for large volumes of data within and between data centers. Watch the Video>> Follow Slashdot on Twitter and Facebook. To unsubscribe, click here or send an email to: unsubscribe-213087@elabs10.com To ensure delivery of this newsletter to your inbox and to enable images, please add slashdot@newsletters.slashdot.org to your e-mail address book or safe senders list. Slashdot | 594 Howard Street, Suite 300 | San Francisco, CA 94105 To view our Privacy Policy click here.