MrCawfee - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Makes me sick (Score 1) 511

by MrCawfee on Wednesday November 18, 2009 @03:29AM (#30140762) Attached to: AU Senator Calls Scientology a "Criminal Organization"

We work on the principle you have a right to everything, unless prohibited by law

That is the real kicker there, the bill of rights specifies certain things that can not be prohibited by law. It doesn't specifiy the only rights you have, it specifies the rights that can not be taken away.

Comment Re:Grrr (Score 3, Informative) 260

by MrCawfee on Monday November 16, 2009 @10:26PM (#30125060) Attached to: We Really Don't Know Jack About Maintenance

How do you design software that is able to be maintained? Many of the techniques for software maintenance are designed by these institutions, so saying "Software Maintenance" is not computer science is a bit far fetched. Writing maintainable software isn't only in the Initech domain.

And really if you are excluding software maintenance from the field of computer science, you pretty much have to exclude every other software technique. Techniques for writing maintainable code go hand in hand with every other development technique.

Comment Borland gives me warm memories (Score 1) 351

by MrCawfee on Wednesday May 06, 2009 @01:25PM (#27848173) Attached to: Borland Being Purchased By Micro Focus

Thinking of Borland still gives me fuzzy memories. Every IDE they have made I have liked using (i even liked Kylix in itself, except it was impossible to use on (or the applications for that matter) non supported distributions of Linux).

I know they effectively died because of their decision to focus on the middleware.

Their tools were great, but it was sad that their management couldn't plan the products for the newer market place.

Submission + - Japan Immigration directed to forcibly take prints (yahoo.co.jp)

Submitted by CB-in-Tokyo on Wednesday November 21, 2007 @05:09PM

CB-in-Tokyo writes: In reaction to the protests caused by Japan's new fingerprinting system, the Ministry of Justice has issued a directive (English Translation) that all foreigners that do not agree to give their fingerprints be incarcerated and "pursuaded" to give their prints, immediately to be followed by deportation. Immigration officials state that during the period of incarceration, "We will sufficiently persuade the refuser to cooperate, and endeavor not to do this by force."

The new fingerprinting and photographing system is under a lot of fire by the foreign community in Japan as it targets not only tourists, but also permanent residents. The system is being presented outwardly as a way to counter terrorism, but is being touted internally by celebrity spokespeople as a way to cut down on foreign crime in Japan. It is illegal under Japanese law to fingerprint citizens, unless they have been accused of a crime, however foreign residents have no such protection, and now under the new directive foreigners who refuse will no longer not just be refused entry, but also coerced into providing personal biometric data.

Submission + - Mom Sues Music Company Over Baby Video Removal 8

Submitted by penguin_dance on Friday October 26, 2007 @04:29PM

penguin_dance writes: A Pennsylvania mom is fighting back, suing Universal Music Publishing Group for having a home movie taken down off of YouTube. The movie, featuring her 18-month old bouncing to Prince's song, "Let's Go Crazy," was cited for removal by the Group for copyright infringement. Mom Stephanie Lenz was first afraid they'd come after her — then she got angry. She got YouTube to put the video back up and now she's enlisted the help of Electronic Frontier Foundation and filed a civil lawsuit.

"I thought even though I didn't do anything wrong that they might want to file some kind of suit against me, take my house, come after me. And I didn't like feeling afraid," she continued. "I didn't like feeling that I could get in trouble for something as simple as posting a home video for my friends and family to see."

Submission + - 15% of United States Workforce Routinely Drunk (sciencedaily.com) 3

Submitted by

bl8n8r

on Saturday October 20, 2007 @01:59PM

bl8n8r writes: "According to an article based on research conducted by the University of Buffalo, Alcohol use and impairment at work is a problem for 15% of the U.S. workforce (19.2 million people). Not surprisingly, Among the broad group of occupations with the highest rate of use were the management and sales occupations with grounds maintenance pulling in an honorable mention. Perhaps the next interview will go better if you bring along some Crown Royal"

Submission + - Hellgate EULA: EA checks out your apps. (bluesnews.com)

Submitted by wild_quinine on Saturday October 20, 2007 @12:35AM

wild_quinine writes: Bluesnews reports on a controversy sweeping web forums at the moment: article 3 of the EULA for the Hellgate: London demo specifies an unusually large amount of information about your system can be obtained, and transferred to any third parties EA sees fit.

3. Consent to Use of Data. You agree that EA, its affiliates, and each Related Party may collect, use, store and transmit technical and related information that identifies your computer, including without limitation your Internet Protocol address, operating system, application software and peripheral hardware, that may be gathered periodically to facilitate the provision of software updates, dynamically served content, product support and other services to you, including online play. EA and/or the Related Parties may also use this information in the aggregate and, in a form which does not personally identify you, to improve our products and services and we may share that aggregate data with our third party service providers.

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