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  1. Fix... on The Patent Mafia and What You Can Do To Break It Up · · Score: 1

    We REALLY need to set up single-payer legal representation, even before looking at it for medical care.

  2. Re:Or Object Pascal on Ask Slashdot: What Language Should a Former Coder Dig Into? · · Score: 1

    It has the same power as C, but is more structured and readable. I love Pasal for things that manipulate strings a lot.

  3. Visibility on Twitter Leaked Obama's Visit To Afghanistan · · Score: 2

    Air Force One has to be the most uniquely recognizable aircraft on the planet. It's kind of hard to keep quiet when it flies into someplace, unless they flew in on a nondescript plane.

  4. And how many are actually sting operations? on How Online Black Markets Work · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I'd also expect that the cops are using some of these as sting operations.

  5. Re:Pascal but no Delphi on C/C++ Back On Top of the Programming Heap? · · Score: 1

    I use FreePascal quite a bit for certain things on Linux. I've used it to implement a database-driven faxing system, just because string handling is so much easier than in C or C++.

  6. Re:News for nerds? on Zimmerman Charged With 2nd-Degree Murder · · Score: 1

    Lots of nerds carry guns, though.

  7. Glad that on Why New Programming Languages Succeed Or Fail · · Score: 1

    At least Brainfuck never caught on!

  8. Re:Compatibility or conversion on Why New Programming Languages Succeed Or Fail · · Score: 1

    Let's face it - Java is basically just C with objects, a huge library, without pointers, and compiles to universal format that runs on a VM.

  9. Re:DSLR on Ask Slashdot: Mirrorless, Interchangeable Lens Camera Advice? · · Score: 1

    I, for one, still prefer the optical viewfinder of a DSLR to any electronic one. Plus, it doesn't suck juice from the battery, which means I can get a lot more shots per charge.

  10. Re:It's not all marketing on Ask Slashdot: Mirrorless, Interchangeable Lens Camera Advice? · · Score: 2

    It's also related to the quality of the lens. The physically smaller the lenses are, the tighter the tolerances and harder it is to make them truly sharp and distortion-free.

  11. Re:No reason not to get a dSLR on Ask Slashdot: Mirrorless, Interchangeable Lens Camera Advice? · · Score: 1

    I too use a D3100, and have found it to be a great camera. The absolutely most important technical factor in ANY camera is the quality of the glass, and even the "kit" 18-55mm lens that comes with them is sharp enough to capture pixel-level details on the 14.2 MP sensor, with no appreciable distortion at any zoom. Image quality is far in excess of what I ever got from my old film SLRs, including the venerable Nikon FA (which was close to top-of-the-line in its day).

    I looked at the higer end models such as the D5100 and D7000, and didn't find the marginal improvements to be compelling enough to justify spending 200 - 500 dollars more than I did on the D3100, which just rocks.

  12. Can you say "Copyright Infringement"? on Senators Slam Firm For Online Background Check · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Facebook posts are copyrighted by the poster, the same as any newspaper article or photograph is, and if they use those copyrighted works in their reports, they are infringing - and good luck trying to make a fair use exemption fly if sued over it.

  13. Re:All about the benjamins on Ask Slashdot: CS Degree Without Gen-Ed Requirements? · · Score: 1

    No, college is about making the college money. That's really all there is to it.

  14. Bass Ackwards on Apple Kicks HDD Marketing Debate Into High Gear · · Score: 1

    Electrons always flow from negative to positive, not vice-versa. That's basic electronics 101 stuff.

  15. And... on High-Tech Blimps Earning Their Wings · · Score: 1

    Yet it still can't detect the low-tech truck bomb or suicide bomber that is the biggest current threat.

  16. Reason To Care on Red Hat Releases Windows Virtualization Code · · Score: 1

    Windows itself may not be compelling, but a few of the apps sure are to a whole lot of people.

    I'm OS-agnostic, but certain apps (IE: Access) keep me locked-in to at least a Windows terminal server. Many mission-critical apps are not easily ported to other platforms.

    Likewise, qmail is a compelling reason to run Linux.

  17. Re:reStart? on First American Internet Addiction Treatment Center · · Score: 1

    OR for just $7999 they can go to my competing on-line only rehab service...

  18. Re:Guide to the most epic FAILs in this article on Poor Design Choices In the Star Wars Universe · · Score: 1

    Maybe the empire is close to a galactic core and not in the arms where star density is low?

  19. Closed Loop on US Navy Tries To Turn Seawater Into Jet Fuel · · Score: 2, Informative

    It removes CO2 from the water, where it will eventually return through the same process that put it there in the first place.

  20. Re:Was it worth breaking privacy? on Judge Rules To Reveal Anonymous Blogger's Identity Over Insults · · Score: 1

    Well, now the hard part of the suit begins. Defamation suits open the plaintiff up to discovery, as the defendant can look for evidence to prove their assertions.

    IE: Whoever she is suing can look for legal evidence of "skaniness" now.

  21. Re:Olde News? on Fatal Explosion At Russian Hydroelectric Dam · · Score: 1

    I'd bet it was almost certainly PCB-based oil. The Soviet Union never really did put any priority on "safety".

  22. Too Small on The Homemade Hard Disk Destroyer · · Score: 1

    I use a .458 Win Mag for this job. 500 grain soft points at 2100 fps does a great job of mangling platters and spraying so much debris through a drive that the data is gone.

  23. Wrong-O on Arizona Judge Tells Sheriff "Reveal Password Or Face Contempt" · · Score: 1

    Sheriffs themselves can be arrested by any other cop, state or federal. Please don't buy into that old myth.

  24. A Kit? on Building an Apple-1 From Scratch — Just Like Woz · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I was hoping for something more in-depth than just soldering stuff on a prefabricated PCB. That's a no-brainer.

    Now, go through the steps of doing a schematic, then translating it into artwork and etching the boards and it might be a pretty interesting article.

  25. Bernie Madoff Had A CPA on Why Should I Trust My Network Administrator? · · Score: 1

    ...and still stole billions from those who trusted him.