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  1. Re: Oakhurst Dairy is correct on Lack of Oxford Comma Could Cost Maine Company Millions in Overtime Dispute (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Let's say that we modify the law so that distribution, or packing for distribution are not covered.

    "[Overtime does not apply to] The canning, processing, preserving, freezing, drying, marketing, storing, packing for shipment of [the listed items]

    Is that a gramatically correct sentence? The last comma in the list should be replaced with "and" or "or" for it to be valid English.

  2. I think the people that object to this are going to prefer to watch on a decent sized screen.

  3. This would actually be an interesting idea in a movie with two realities though, contrasting the freedom of one reality with the limitations of the other.

  4. That does sound more plausible. With Marvel and DC establishing shared Cinematic universes, Disney mining the Star Wars franchise, and the "Monsterverse" (King Kong, Godzilla etc.) and "Universal Monsters" (The Mummy and a bunch more upcoming films) doing the same thing, everyone else wants to get in on the act.

  5. Re:This just in: slashdotters are OLD on 'The Matrix' Reboot: It's Finally Happened. Hollywood Has Run Out of All the Ideas (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Ocean's 11. The Thomas Crown Affair. The Omega Man (remake of The Last Man On Earth). The Thing.

    Remakes are mostly not as good as the original but there have been some good ones.

  6. Re:This just in: slashdotters are OLD on 'The Matrix' Reboot: It's Finally Happened. Hollywood Has Run Out of All the Ideas (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Yup. The Dam Busters is a 1955 movie dramatisation of the book. A pretty famous British film, repeated frequently on TV, with an iconic theme tune (The Dam Busters March).

    Either I'm completely missing a joke, or am surprised you haven't heard of it. It was shown on TV pretty frequently in the C64 era.

  7. Re:Starship troopers movie was not based on the bo on 'The Matrix' Reboot: It's Finally Happened. Hollywood Has Run Out of All the Ideas (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Interesting. But at least the start of the script must have been substantially rewritten. The boot camp stuff was definitely based on the book.

  8. Re:It's not 3.14. It's 3.141592653589793238462643. on This Is How the Number 3.14 Got the Name 'Pi' (time.com) · · Score: 1

    That would be the difference between a clock that keeps reasonable time, and one that loses over 40 seconds a day.

  9. Better than 90% of the world seems unlikely. And it's worse than 90% of Europeans or Americans. Why, I have such wonderful things as a living room, *and* a spare bedroom.

    I still can't picture this. Where did you go out to? You can't see a movie if you need to be able to respond to calls (unless you were a complete dick who responded to call at a cinema). You have no friends to do stuff with, so what are your options? And how did you even meet your wife? Since you wouldn't have had much space for clothes storage, the regular shlop to do laundry (or did they provide a substantial closet as well?) seems like a tedious chore.

  10. Re:It's not 3.14. It's 3.141592653589793238462643. on This Is How the Number 3.14 Got the Name 'Pi' (time.com) · · Score: 1

    I thought Newton only calculated up to 3.14159265358979 (15 digits)

  11. Re:Who owns the servers? on Apple, Amazon, and Microsoft Are Helping Google Fight an Order To Hand Over Foreign Emails (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The FBI is subject to US law.

    A wholly owned subsidiary company may well be a foreign company. The majority shareholder is not responsible for their actions. I believe this applies even if the shareholder owns 100% of the company. Google cannot comply with an order targeting another company.

    The FBI can not simply seize google.com. They need a court order to do so. Such a court order cannot be used simply to harass.

  12. That seems like a miserable existence. What did you do for fun? Did you never have friends visit? What did you do with all the money you saved?

  13. They must be using ISO-8859-1 somewhere. My £ (C2A3 in UTF-8) symbol gets converted to £ (same bytes in ISO-8859-1). So what happened with the slashdot.jp patches? Are they in the main slashcode database or is .jp using their own fork?

  14. It makes sense in the US, where many police budgets are at a local level, and controlled by local government, but we do things differently in the UK. The police force is regional but largely the responsibility of the national government.

    This sort of thing is still a factor for some people, but much less significant compared with matters such as health care, defence and the economy.

  15. Slashdot does have a naÃve implementation of text. While there is a whole smÃrgÃ¥sbord of options UTF-8 is a pretty well established standard. It's embarrassing for a site whose raison d'Ãtre is technology. Maybe a bounty of say £100 would encourage someone to fix it.

    Seriously though, what does prevent Slashdot from handling it properly? Surely the text gets entered and stored in the DB as UTF-8. A fix can't be too difficult to implement.

  16. Re:The thing to do, here on Police Allegedly Threaten A UK Photographer With Seizure Of All His Computers (wordpress.com) · · Score: 1

    I guess for the same reason as the New Yorker

    Personally, I think this is hokum. I am perfectly aware of what "cooperate" spells. Most people do.

  17. Re:Another perspective... on Police Allegedly Threaten A UK Photographer With Seizure Of All His Computers (wordpress.com) · · Score: 1

    They assumed that the data would be stored somewhere in all that crap. Maybe they're wrong. Maybe this photographer is lying. One way to find out.

    The prosecution service needs to build a case. Waiting until court for a photo that may or may not show anything is not a practical way to do this.

  18. The UK is leaving the EU for a whole load of reasons. I seriously doubt that many of the 52% who voted leave wanted a xenophobic police state. In fact, most of the most authoritarian politicians supported remain. Authoritarians like large institutions like the EU.

  19. How would this affect impartiality? on Police Allegedly Threaten A UK Photographer With Seizure Of All His Computers (wordpress.com) · · Score: 1

    The photographer had photos documenting an event. The event happened. The police want the unbiased document.

    If neutrality is so important, also offer exactly the same to the accused.

  20. Re:How are light gun games developed now? on What the Death of CRT Display Means For Classic Arcade Machines (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Does it work with LCDs though? There is a certain amount of latency with these screens so I imagine they are going to be just a bit too slow.

  21. Re:Aren't UK libel punishments harsh? on Ask Slashdot: How Would You Handle A Bogus Copyright Infringement Notice? · · Score: 1

    Not exactly.

    Libel is expensive to defend. the defendant needs to prove the allegations are true. Not just that you had reason to believe the allegations are true.

    If the defendant fails to do that, then the plaintiff has to prove that he has suffered damages.

  22. This is what we want. The energy we get back when we refill is proportional to that used when we empty. So we store more energy per tank this way.

  23. Re:"enough to fill a medium-sized dustbin" on New Scientific Test Finds Up To 75 Liters of Urine In Public Pools (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    It's a receptacle that holds around 75 litres :)

    More serious answer - a trash can - It's in the Guardian so aimed at a British audience that would have no trouble visualising this.

  24. Re:I lived this another way ... on Programmers Are Confessing Their Coding Sins To Protest a Broken Job Interview Process (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    Surely there's still a multiplier for a contractor though, even if it is lower. They still need a desk and equipment.

  25. Pi is defined as the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter. What is there to prove?

    Why does it matter that Pi is transcendental? The approximation we use in any mathematics library isn't even irrational!