By your logic then americans "know less shit about finances" that people in most other western countries? Because America leads the the wealth inequality chart by quite a fair margin.

How can you write an article like that and not even mention how long the bridge would be??

I'd buy it if it had the old (non-chiclet) keyboard!

We should make this a Slashdot poll:
1. I like Snowden
2. I dislike Snowden

Well... Athletes who train a lot and are in good shape have the lowest resting heart rate. But in order to get in good shape you have to do a lot of training which means a high heart rate (during exercise). So... :)

Nothing will change until someone at the bribing company is personally held responsible and faces the danger of jail time

Same thing with small action cameras; Everyone refers to them as "GoPro", regardless of what brand it is. I think people just like to simplify their world

It's scary how more than half of people want the police to have cameras "everywhere, regardless of cost". I think it shows how people lack confidence in the police these days. That, in itself, is sad

Ideally, for most high level applications, the programmer doesn't have to use a programming language that forces him or her to do manual memory management. The programmer can use a language like Python or Java where memory management happens in the background. And that is how it's supposed to be. There are more relevant problems to deal with.

Now, on the other hand, let's say that the project is writing some sort of device driver or real time software. Perhaps something operating close to the 'core' and in an environment with limited resources. Then that programmer will have to use a language like C or C++ and do their own memory management.

It's a good thing that we have an education system that produces both these types of programmers. However, I think that most programmers, during their career, learn to do both these types of programming. For me: I started out programming in C/C++ and I've since moved on to Python and Java, because that's the kind of projects that I usually get these days. Now, if someone hired me to work on an application that required tight resource management. Well, then I would use C/C++ and do memory management myself

From the article: "C#: Microsoft created C# about 15 years ago as a new kind of programming language similar to Java; since then, the platform has grown several times over. "

So to summarize: From the creation of C#, when it had close to 0 users, the platform/language has grown "several times over"...

If we go there we could find the cure for cancer... or, well, at least melanoma

I would pay for a news source with no economic or political agenda... You know. an unbiased news site.

Okay so spying to safeguard national security makes sense. Even if it means stepping on the toes of your allies... perhaps? Now we hear of NSA involved in industrial espionage. For the good of US companies so that makes sense. How far away is spying for political gain? Spying for the party currently in power against political opponents?

By biking you get into better shape and thereby become healthier (lose weight, less risk of heart disease and so on...). So that's one aspect that should be weighed against the danger of biking. There's no such health benefit with other forms of commuting (unless you're jogging to work).

Trying to recall what kinds of modems that I used to own (I was born 1970): First there was a 1200 baud one... don't remember what make it was. Then I had a 2400 baud Supra Modem. I peaked with a US Robotics HST+ 14400/75 baud.