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  1. Re:Of course not on After Aaron Swartz's Death, the Focus Now Falls On the Prosecutors · · Score: 1

    If a prosecutor has reason to believe that somebody is innocent, they should drop the charges at once.

    Or at least admit to the court that they have a reasonable doubt.

  2. Re:Maybe the over reaching US legal hand on Kim Dotcom Reveals Mega Will Offer 50GB of Free Storage · · Score: 1

    Anyone who still supports Obama is a full fledged authoritarian.

    There isn't anyone else that agrees 100% with me on 100% of policies, therefore nobody is capable of representing me other than myself. Viva le direct democracy!

  3. Re:This is wrong. on FBI Responds To ACLU GPS Tracking Complaint · · Score: 1

    are either complicit

    I'm going to go with complicit. After all, their guy will be President some day so they wouldn't want to do anything that would limit their options.

  4. Re:Of course not on After Aaron Swartz's Death, the Focus Now Falls On the Prosecutors · · Score: 1

    Unless they've got real evidence, and are not just calling up Annie Dookhan and asking her to put the evidence in the fast lane. (Wonder if any of the prosecutors calling her on her personal cell will be investigated.... nah.)

  5. Re:Of course not on After Aaron Swartz's Death, the Focus Now Falls On the Prosecutors · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The simple fact is that whichever party they're a member of, prosecutors have incredible levels of immunity from the effects of both their own malice and incompetence.

    To go on the attack against Republicans, here in Texas, we (the taxpayers) had to pay out a pretty hefty wrongful imprisonment fee because one prosecutor hid the existence of a bloody bandana for years, and when it was finally discovered, a second prosecutor blocked testing of it for several years more.

    When the Innocence Project finally got a court to force the prosecutors to allow testing of the blood, it turned up the victim's DNA and another man's DNA... the other man having gone on to possibly kill other people while an innocent guy sat in jail in his place. No big deal, apparently. The first guy might get to face a court regarding the withholding of evidence, but his tribunal seems to keep slipping farther into the future.

    At least the second guy got voted out by an angry public (though that's not going to get them their millions of tax dollars back), but don't cry too much for him, his best bud Gov. Rick Perry will keep him employed.

  6. Re:Upgrades aren't cheap on Health Care Providers Failing To Adopt e-Records, Says RAND · · Score: 1

    Have you looked at the existing paper records? They'll never duplicate them because the secret is that the doctor's scribble really IS just nununununununununu over and over.

  7. Re:Did You Think, Maybe... on Dean Kamen Invents Stomach Pump For Dieters · · Score: 1

    Your metabolism can slow down to some extent, but it's not as drastic as you say.

    I'm not fat, I'm carbing up for the 2020 marathon I'm going to run.

    I suspect that it's more drastic than you think.

  8. Re:Biomechanics on Crowd Funding For Crank Physics · · Score: 1

    Quantum physics trumps /all/ forms of logical thinking.

  9. Re:Precision controller on Gabe Newell Reveals More About Steam Boxes, New Input Devices · · Score: 1

    Actually, after giving it some thought, I realized that I've never tried using a trackball with my left thumb. Might have to try and give it a shot somehow (my m570 is definitely right-handed). Maybe there is a reason after all.

  10. Re:Payment type and payment ID on Ask Slashdot: Are Timed Coding Tests Valuable? · · Score: 1

    Because at the same time you add the "total" field, you also add the "payment type" (e.g. credit card, PayPal, Dwolla) and the "payment ID", so that the "total" reflects how much money was actually collected in that transaction rather than being a denormalized value.

    As an answer to the question I gave, it's a good idea. From a business perspective though, the next question is "What happens when you let someone run up a tab of unpaid invoices, and they pay several invoices at once." Some people use NET 30, you know.

    The GP poster has a good point too. My "bonus points" was because my personal belief that Excessive Normalization is like Premature Optimization, but there are other solutions too (I don't use MS-SQL but I believe his temporary table is more readable but otherwise basically identical to the usual subquery usually used to solve these things).

  11. Re:Why are Slashdotters obsessed with Anonymous? on Anonymous Files Petition To Make DDoS Legal Form of Protest · · Score: 3, Interesting

    "It's only censorship if the government does it"

  12. Re:now they can concentrate on ignoring mentally i on Connecticut Groups Cancels Plan to Destroy Violent Games · · Score: 5, Funny

    Just watch out for the eight-year-old white girl in the middle of the ghetto with quantum physics books.

    She's about to start some shit.

  13. Re:I dunno... on Ask Slashdot: Are Timed Coding Tests Valuable? · · Score: 1

    sort($list);

    The most interesting thing about your example is that it works despite the fact that php's sort documentation insists that SORT_REGULAR compares values without changing the data type. It turns out that it lies, and unless you explicitly set SORT_STRING, "10" will be converted to 10 for comparison.

    This is why PHP can't have nice things.

  14. Re:Yes on Ask Slashdot: Are Timed Coding Tests Valuable? · · Score: 1

    updated the left-hand side of a loop condition, and the kid who was interviewing me didn't have the listening skills or mastery of basic algebra to understand that can be equivalent to updating the right-hand side.

    Huh?

    It sounds like you're describing something like "for (x=0; x<max; x++)" Do they expect everyone to write "max>x"?

  15. Re:Useful for weeding out non-programmers on Ask Slashdot: Are Timed Coding Tests Valuable? · · Score: 2

    Mmm, yes, SQL peeves. Trying to do graphs/trees in SQL is one thing, but nesting aggregates is another aggravation (I admit that the proliferation of window functions through the ecosystem has made this easier to write in SQL than it used to be).

    Consider if you have something like

    product (id, name, price)
    invoice (id, customer, date)
    customer (id, name)
    line_item (id, invoice, product, discount_to_price)

    I'd suggest asking the person to write queries that will tell you (in no particular order of difficulty):
    1. What is the average invoice total and average number of items sold?
    2. How much is the total discount on the invoice with the highest total?
    3. Who are your top 10% of customers by invoice total?
    4. Who are your top 10% of customers by discounts received?

    I'd personally be tempted to give bonus points to people whose first answer is

    alter table invoice add column total ...

  16. Re:That's some tortured reasoning. on Man Charged With HIPAA Violations For Video Taping Police · · Score: 1

    I say "infliction of mental distress through use of photonic capture" would be wriggled in there some way.

    He stole my soul!

  17. Precision controller on Gabe Newell Reveals More About Steam Boxes, New Input Devices · · Score: 1

    Replace the D-pad with a thumb-sized trackball mouse and I'm sold.

  18. Re:On So Much Fire? on Australia Is On So Much Fire, You Can See It From Orbit · · Score: 1

    Clearly, Australia has ALL THE FIRE.

  19. Re:Sorry, let me clarify on Worldwide Shortage of Barium · · Score: 1

    All that makes it sound like recycling the (already purified) barium from shit is very cost-effective compared to mining and purifying more, rather like Aluminum.

  20. Depends on what the meaning of is is on Texas High School Student Loses Lawsuit Challenging RFID Tracking Requirement · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Sounds like any perjury on their part would hinge on what it means to work and whether the judge allows them to make their own definition of the word.

  21. Re:And this is why libraries are better than ebook on The Problem With Internet Dating's Frictionless Market · · Score: 1

    No, but Project Gutenburg does.

  22. Re:the government screwed the bank too? on AIG Contemplates Joining Stockholder Suit Against US Gov't · · Score: 1

    due to the Fair Housing Act in the 1980's

    More than half the subprime loans were issued by non-regulated non-banks.

    And were the banks actually required to write subprime loans

    More than half the subprime loans were issued by non-regulated non-banks.

    Keep parroting ancient talking points, they're easy to blow away.

    You want a single group to point and assign blame? Blame the rating agencies who rated toxic mortgages AAA. If they had given honest ratings, the mortgages would have been unsellable, and companies like ditech.com (aka GM) would have stopped making worthless mortgages they couldn't collect on or unload to suckers, and suckers like pension funds and fannie mae would not have bought them to fill out their balance sheet.

  23. Re:Roman Empire on America's Real Criminal Element: Lead · · Score: 1

    No pun is a good pun without at least a double entendre. How loose was the Moulin Rouge?

  24. Re:Another chance for criminals to blame someone e on America's Real Criminal Element: Lead · · Score: 3, Insightful

    basically anything except their own half witted feckless personalities

    And now we know that lead causes people to develop half-witted feckless personalities.

  25. Re:Freezy Freakies on Futuristic Highway Will Glow In the Dark For Icy Conditions · · Score: 1

    The white lines do glow in the dark when your headlights hit them, that's why they're reflective.

    So does the water covering them when it's raining. The latest I've seen is to have a black square painted around the white stripe, and that seems to help a lot with visibility in rain. The reflective bumps jetole mentioned are most helpful, but what happens is that the stripes aren't painted where they used the bumps, and the bumps come loose after a few months of people hitting them to hear the noise.