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  1. Re: One button to the main screen! Is that changed on Ars Technica Reviews iOS 7 · · Score: 1

    And it wasn't commonly sold until 6 months to a year after that. Nor did most phone manufacturers change to the new style immediately with 4.0. Samsung still hasn't done so (hey and I don't totally blame them, I like the menu button). Plus 2.3 is still 30%+ of all phones. So yeah, 4.0 is still pretty new to most people.

  2. Re:One button to the main screen! Is that changed? on Ars Technica Reviews iOS 7 · · Score: 1

    No it will not. It will call finish on the activity. That is NOT the same as closing the app. All static variables are kept in memory, including the Application object and globals (like login info) which are kept there.

  3. Re: One button to the main screen! Is that changed on Ars Technica Reviews iOS 7 · · Score: 1

    No it doesn't. It by default calls Activity.finish(). This does NOT close the app, does not clear it from memory, and saved variables and state still persist.

  4. Re:One button to the main screen! Is that changed? on Ars Technica Reviews iOS 7 · · Score: 1

    This is actually fairly new. Pre-4.0, all devices has a hardware menu and back button. 4.0 introduced software back buttons and the on screen action bar with menu button in there. Its actually something that causes a fair amount of pain in app design and documentation (depending on screen size/density and model, an option may be an icon on the action bar, or in a menu behind a hardware button, or in a menu behind a software button on screen. Or both).

  5. Re:One button to the main screen! Is that changed? on Ars Technica Reviews iOS 7 · · Score: 0

    If you're at the main menu, it exits

    No, it puts the app into the background- like a minimize button on a PC. This is an important difference- it does not log you out of an app, it does not lose any saved data. Sometimes this is useful, other times its a major security hole.

    Apps on Android do not exit unless you run out of memory and the OS kills it.

  6. Re:What does that mean? on Exxon Charged With Illegally Dumping Waste In Pennsylvania · · Score: 1

    Almost always. In some criminal cases the corporate veil can be pierced.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piercing_the_corporate_veil

  7. Re:A me too case? on Japan's L-Zero Maglev Train Reaches 310 mph In Trials · · Score: 1

    Except that light rail you ride on for 20 minutes is also relatively uncramped, except at rush hour. And a 3 hr ride from say Baltimore to NYC is also quite comfortable. They can afford the extra room on rail because they don't need to spend anywhere near as much extra fuel to move it.

    Also, in many countries rail is nationalized, so they aren't after every last penny like private airlines.

  8. Re:A me too case? on Japan's L-Zero Maglev Train Reaches 310 mph In Trials · · Score: 0

    Or you could eliminate a lot of airports and air travel, which is horribly inefficient and environmentally unfriendly. Maybe not in Japan, but imagine going from New York to LA by train in 8 hours or so, and having the comforts of a train rather than the cramped confines of a plane.

  9. Re:If I... on Why One Woman Says Sending Your Kid To Private School Is Evil · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You can vote for a new school board. Volunteer to help their election campaign. Or run for election yourself. You actually have MORE voice there than with a private school, where losing 1 customer is quite frankly not a big deal.

  10. Re:whitespace on Interviews: Guido van Rossum Answers Your Questions · · Score: 1

    And if this was enforced by the compiler as a rule of the language, I might find it silly but I'd be ok with it. Trying to enforce it by style guides and hoping that the developers know of the existence of a random tool is idiotic.

  11. Re:whitespace on Interviews: Guido van Rossum Answers Your Questions · · Score: 2

    If you have to follow a style guide to get compiling code, your language is broken. If you have to know of the existence of a one off tool to get compiling code, your language is broken. The fact that tool even needs to exist is proof of my point.

  12. Re:whitespace on Interviews: Guido van Rossum Answers Your Questions · · Score: 1

    It doesn't matter how nicely the website renders it- if it was written with an indent of 3 spaces and you dump it into code with an indent of 4 or tabs, you're going to have problems.

  13. Re:whitespace on Interviews: Guido van Rossum Answers Your Questions · · Score: 1

    A website is a proper means of code sharing. If your language has issues with it, your language is broken and unusable. There is no excuse for not supporting the most popular method of idea exchange in the last 20 years.

  14. Re:whitespace on Interviews: Guido van Rossum Answers Your Questions · · Score: 1

    Funny- I've lost weeks of my life tracking down python indentation errors, and I've only used it sporadically. I've used C and C like languages for almost 2 decades and I've lost maybe 2-3 days of my life total on missing }. It almost never happens, and never happens with a good IDE. Whereas spacing issues happen whenever you copy paste from a website.

    Guido made 1 major mistake. It actually wasn't using whitespacing- it was in not forcing a specific amount of whitespace. If the language had enforced that every indent must be exactly 4 spaces, it wouldn't be an issue. The fact that 4 spaces or 3 spaces or a tab all work is what causes it to break horribly- to the point where I will no longer ever work on a Python program again. I'll tell my boss to find someone else to do it.

  15. Re:Obligitory Reagan quote... on Federal Judge Declares Bitcoin a Currency · · Score: 1

    The war for the US started in 1940. Even the Lend Lease Act, which started us boosting our wartime production, was a tiny portion of federal spending. Yet look at the graphs, you see unemployment went DOWN during the 1930s, before the war started.

    I know it must give you warm fuzzies to completely make shit up to support your worldview. But the facts don't support you at all.

  16. Re:Obligitory Reagan quote... on Federal Judge Declares Bitcoin a Currency · · Score: 2
  17. Re:Is everything currency, then? on Federal Judge Declares Bitcoin a Currency · · Score: 1

    As someone else pointed out, once answered the solution is no longer rare. In addition, its rarity/difficulty to solve only has value if for some reason I want the answer. So it still only has value because both people agree it has value, just like fiat currency.

  18. Re:Obligitory Reagan quote... on Federal Judge Declares Bitcoin a Currency · · Score: 1

    The middle class would have to pay it for that to happen. I'm a single person who's made over 150K and never had to pay AMT. It doesn't hit the middle class at all.

  19. Re:Obligitory Reagan quote... on Federal Judge Declares Bitcoin a Currency · · Score: 2

    And you apparently don't know dates or history. FDR became president in 1932, after the Depression started. His presidency saw unemploment decline steadily- until they tried to stop spending and balance the budget. Then it rose again until WWII ended that nonsense. Austerity fails again.

    Wilson was president until 1920- 9 years before the collapse. He may have contributed, but not as much as the guys in charge of the next decade did. Hoover only became president in 1929- the year of the collapse. He made things worse by not doing any of the things needed to help, but by that time it was pretty inevitable and we didn't understand economics the way we do now. He gets too much of the blame though.

    If you're going to blame the president the real blame goes to Coolidge, who was actually president for the 7 or 8 years prior to the depression (I believe 21-28, but it could have been 22, I forget when Harding died).

    And he's right on Reagan if you go by the stock market. The last stock market crash before 2008 was in 1987. We also went into a recession not too long afterwards, although it wasn't as bad as the most recent by a long shot. I don't have numbers offhand to check if it was or wasn't worse than Y2K.

  20. Re:No on Ask Slashdot: Is Development Leadership Overvalued? · · Score: 1

    A big no on #2 there. The skills that a good manager needs are different from the skills a good developer needs (although there is some overlap). Management isn't the place to stick the bad devs in- you want to put the moderate devs who have more skills in that side of things than they do in development in those roles, to maximize everyone's abilities.

  21. Re:Android 4.3? on Hands On With Motorola's Moto X · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Believe it or not, validation testing for carriers takes a long time- months. Switch a major piece of the software and you have to restart from scratch. This device probably entered testing before 4.3 was announced.

  22. Re:Quote from another dead hero on Training Materials for NSA Spying Tool "XKeyScore" Revealed · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Just fine. Its so much easier to do their own snooping when they just have to tap the lines going into one location. Not to mention they can seize the servers at will.

  23. Re:NSA doesn't like the system it created??? on Bradley Manning Convicted of Espionage, Acquitted of 'Aiding the Enemy' · · Score: 1

    Not at all. My point is that the circumstances around the event need to be factored in- just because someone broke a rule doesn't mean they should be punished. It was that assertion that I was objecting to.

  24. Re:NSA doesn't like the system it created??? on Bradley Manning Convicted of Espionage, Acquitted of 'Aiding the Enemy' · · Score: 1

    Should Rosa Parks have been convicted? In fact the entire concept of jury nullification rests on the idea that sometimes the law isn't right. So is the idea of an affirmative defense- for example self defense to a murder/manslaughter charge. The questions of "is the law/rule just" and "do the circumstances override the law" always need to be answered.

  25. Re:NSA doesn't like the system it created??? on Bradley Manning Convicted of Espionage, Acquitted of 'Aiding the Enemy' · · Score: 2

    Not at all. Sometimes the ends do justify the means. Sometimes the good you do eclipses the bad. We can argue whether or not it does here, but to blindly state "he broke a rule, he must be punished" is childish.