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Check out all of SourceForge’s improvements. | Follow Slashdot on LinkedIn × 130795768 story Tesla Files Lawsuit Demanding Reopening of Plant As Musk Faces Criticism (reuters.com) 73 -- 73 Posted by EditorDavid on Sunday May 10, 2020 @02:34PM from the judgment-day dept. Because a California county is preventing Tesla from reopening its plant , "The County's position left us no choice but to take legal action," Tesla announced Saturday . Reuters reports: Tesla filed a lawsuit against the county in San Francisco federal court on Saturday, calling the continued restrictions a "power-grab" by the county since California's governor had said on Thursday that manufacturers in the state would be allowed to reopen.... The county said it does not consider Tesla an essential business. County officials did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the lawsuit. The outspoken Musk also took to Twitter on Saturday to complain and threatened to leave the state. "If we even retain Fremont manufacturing activity at all, it will be dependen (sp) on how Tesla is treated in the future," he tweeted, referring to the San Francisco Bay area facility that is Tesla's only U.S. vehicle factory. One member of the California state government's Assembly tweeted a three-word response: " F*ck Elon Musk ." Then they followed it up with a longer tweet. "I'm tired of subsidizing a company that continues to put workers at risk, union busts & bullies public servants." And an Inc. magazine columnist argues " Elon Musk is bluffing... Tesla isn't going anywhere ," calling Musk's remarks "mostly a personality-driven publicity stunt by a tech billionaire." Building a new manufacturing facility from the ground up, or even retrofitting an existing plant isn't something that happens quickly... [Reuters cited an analyst at Wedbush who estimated that relocating Tesla's production would take between 12 and 18 months .] Obviously, no one can fault Musk for being frustrated that Tesla is unable to reopen its factory. Continuing as a business when you're unable to actually build the products you sell is no easy task. And Tesla's founder and CEO hasn't been shy about his feelings towards the Covid-19 lockdown... Right now, however, Tesla's biggest problem isn't that it can't turn the assembly lines back on. Right now, its biggest problem is that it's hard to tell when to take its leader seriously. If, for example, GM's CEO, Mary Barra, said that the company was frustrated with how Michigan was handling the coronavirus pandemic and was moving the company's HQ out of the state as a result, it would be astonishing news. Thousands of people would worry about their jobs; the state would have seek to address the comment. In other words, people would take it seriously. Not so, Musk's tweets, which are met with head shakes and smirks. That's a big deal, now more than ever. 130792520 story Which Linux Desktop Environment is the Best? (tomshardware.com) 81 -- 81 Posted by EditorDavid on Sunday May 10, 2020 @01:34PM from the gitchy-gitchy-GUI dept. Tom's Hardware " put five of the most popular desktop environments up against each other in a no-holds-barred, seven-round face-off. We've rated GNOME, KDE, Cinnamon, Awesome and Regolith on a 10-point scale based on Installation, Applications, User Experience, User Documentation, Performance, Extensions and Configurability." It's a good read, with a detailed and thoughtful 3,700-word analysis, especially about memory performance: When you use the standard desktops, Gnome and KDE, you will likely notice that you are using a lot of memory... If you haven't noticed yet, try running htop in a separate window while you try out your choices. You should see a substantial difference with Awesome, i3 and, if you are elite, dwm. The difference in memory footprint is staggering when you start measuring. GNOME starts with somewhere in the region of 3GB at boot. This can be trimmed down by serious tweaking, but not very much. In comparison, the Awesome window manager weighs in at around 600MB... You can put a lot of eye candy and daemons before you weigh down your system as much as the others... Getting the advantage comes at a cost, though: you need to learn a few new habits to use Awesome desktop environment. Among GNOME, KDE, and Cinnamon, the article ultimately calls KDE "the most polished... decorative and versatile of the bunch. This comes at a cost, though." Cinnamon has the best balance between extensions and ease of use, while it is also fast and responsive. At the same time, it is not that heavy on resources. You can also add a wide range of extensions in the shape of widgets that send you ongoing and updated information. Regolith requires a bit more training, but it does set itself up for you so you can continue as you did with GNOME. Adding extensions and other gadgets is a bit more tricky, however... With Awesome you have to set up and practice to use it! It's easily the hardest in the group to get started with. When you are up and running, Awesome does deliver the most benefits from a resource point of view... Overall Winner: Cinnamon...because of its strong combination of user experience, performance and customization. Click through to read reactions and share your own thoughts . (And to see a short list of some of the article's other highlights.) nix 130680016 story US Military Is Furious At FCC Over 5G Plan That Could Interfere With GPS 70 -- 70 Posted by BeauHD on Saturday May 09, 2020 @09:00AM from the just-as-long-as-it-doesn't-cause-COVID-19 dept. An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: GPS is facing a major interference threat from a 5G network approved by the Federal Communications Commission , U.S. military officials told Congress in a hearing on Wednesday . In testimony to the Senate Committee on Armed Services, Department of Defense Chief Information Officer Dana Deasy disputed the FCC's claims that conditions imposed on the Ligado network will protect GPS from interference. When the FCC approved Ligado's plan last month, the agency required a 23MHz guard band to provide a buffer between the Ligado cellular network and GPS. Deasy argued that this guard band won't prevent interference with GPS signals. Results from tests by federal agencies show that "conditions in this FCC order will not prevent impacts to millions of GPS receivers across the United States, with massive complaints expected to come," Deasy said. The FCC unanimously approved Ligado's application, but the decision is facing congressional scrutiny. "I do not think it is a good idea to place at risk the GPS signals that enable our national and economic security for the benefit of one company and its investors," Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) said at the hearing, according to CNBC . "This is about much more than risking our military readiness and capabilities. Interfering with GPS will hurt the entire American economy." A spokesperson for FCC Chairman Ajit Pai called the military's concerns "baseless fear-mongering" in a statement quoted by Multichannel News . "The FCC made a unanimous, bipartisan decision based on sound engineering principles," the spokesperson said. The FCC said "the metric used by the Department of ...