More likely the result of fear-tactic news scaring people into keeping their kids indoors 24 hours a day except for school. Playgrounds are where perverts lurk, remember? Gotta keep little Billy safe!
Of course, indoors there are videogames - but there's also books, and television. Gaming is just one possible indoor activity - if you don't let your kids outside, don't be surprised if they end up fucked up.
I hate to keep harping on this, because I hate Firefox, but I hate intrusive ads even more.
And by 'Adblock' I don't mean 'sorta like Adblock but not really', but something that straight-out duplicates the functionality, allowing be to block any element of any website anywhere, with nothing more than a right-click and perhaps a wildcard.
Please, someone save me from RAM slaying bloat of Firefox!
Now, that's written specifically for lawyers, but it should be clear enough, perhaps more clear because of that, for most of the Slashdot crowd to get it - all software is math, no exceptions, and math should not be patentable.
Um, no, you're wrong. There's plenty of scripting languages (perl.org php.net and python.org , if you want info on just a few), and even for web frameworks, you've got stuff like apache as an alternative.
No matter what history says, I don't think there's as much on the author's side as you think.
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You haven't read much science fiction.
What's wrong with sexual titillation from a drawn image of imaginary characters?
Bullshit.
More likely the result of fear-tactic news scaring people into keeping their kids indoors 24 hours a day except for school. Playgrounds are where perverts lurk, remember? Gotta keep little Billy safe!
Of course, indoors there are videogames - but there's also books, and television. Gaming is just one possible indoor activity - if you don't let your kids outside, don't be surprised if they end up fucked up.
So why am I seeing this shit on the front page?
A two line summary to a /video link/. On the front page of Slashdot.
Alright, I give up. Shark jumped, I'm outta here.
What if it's the people who don't have Autism who are sick? What if it's 'normal' that's wrong?
Bestiality is illegal. Let's outlaw all images of naked animals; the logic is the same, unfortunately.
Special effects.
Even the Taliban was not so sophisticated in their attack.
He's an alleged drug dealer.
Which means he is not a drug dealer.
He is innocent.
(until proven guilty in a court of law, but that bit always gets left out)
It does, actually, yes.
Touchscreen keyboard, yes.
It's still a keyboard.
Y'know, the iPhone has a keyboard.
"It wasn't uncommon for someone to spend a month on a project and then just discard all their data because the data didn't make sense."
That doesn't mean the data is wrong, it means the /hypothesis/ was wrong, if not the theory, and needs to be modified.
If they're really throwing out date just because it 'doesn't make sense', they're doing religion, not science.
I hate to keep harping on this, because I hate Firefox, but I hate intrusive ads even more.
And by 'Adblock' I don't mean 'sorta like Adblock but not really', but something that straight-out duplicates the functionality, allowing be to block any element of any website anywhere, with nothing more than a right-click and perhaps a wildcard.
Please, someone save me from RAM slaying bloat of Firefox!
Yeah, how /do/ people pronounce this decade?
The 00's - the 'ohs', 'double zeros', 'aughts', 'zeroes'....
I'll just do my best not to refer to it.
How often do you call 'nationwide'?
And yet people use such things as gmail, hotmail, facebook, and etc.
Use adblock plus to block google analytics, don't use any social networking sites...
Honestly, your best bet would be to get off the internet at this point.
All software is math, no exceptions.
You can't patent math.
Well, in the current state of things, you /can/ patent math, and that's something a lot of people are hoping is revoked.
Imagine if something like calculus had been patented, or the quadratic equation?
We'd be fucked, as a species.
For a concise, well written and much elaborated explanation, see "An Explanation of Computation Theory for Lawyers": http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20091111151305785
Now, that's written specifically for lawyers, but it should be clear enough, perhaps more clear because of that, for most of the Slashdot crowd to get it - all software is math, no exceptions, and math should not be patentable.
"The study uses the assumption that LEDs last 2.5 times longer than CFLs, and 25 times longer than incandescents."
So...
They made it all up.
They /guessed/.
They didn't do any research, and didn't actually study anything, they just invented some numbers, then played with them.
No wonder so many people think so poorly of the environmental movement, if garbage like this gets any sort of positive press at all.
Tell me, at a glance, what makes a pirate vessel look different from a fishing vessel?
Yeah, I don't know either.
Um, no, you're wrong. There's plenty of scripting languages (perl.org php.net and python.org , if you want info on just a few), and even for web frameworks, you've got stuff like apache as an alternative.
No matter what history says, I don't think there's as much on the author's side as you think.
So you think Apple should just accept every fart-app hack, poorly written, buggy piece of scrap code a developer ships their way?
They have to have /some/ quality control. Opening the floodgates wouldn't do them any good at all.
I dunno, iPhone's seem to be pretty popular.