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Comment What Do You Expect? (Score 1) 475

by mattwrock (#33871000) Attached to: Lawyer Is Big Winner In Webcamgate Settlement
The people writing the laws ARE Lawyers! The Legislative and Executive branches are full of lawyers. We have over 50,000 federal laws and growing daily. Add to it state and local statues, and it's amazing that more people aren't in jail. Compound this fact that most people can even understand the laws (because lawyers using their pedantic language), and there is little hope of defending yourself. That's why any bill is well over 1,000 pages.
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Today's Children Are Officially Potty Mouths Screenshot-sm 449

Posted by samzenpus from the kids-say-the-#@^*est-things dept.
tetrahedrassface writes "When the Sociolinguistics Symposium met earlier this month swearing scholar Timothy Jay revealed that an increase in child swearing is directly related to an increase in adult swearing. It seems that vulgarity is increasing as pop culture continues to popularize vulgarities. The blame lies with media, public figures, politicians, but mostly ourselves. From the article: 'Children as young as two are now dropping f-bombs, with researchers reporting that more kids are using profanity — and at earlier ages — than has been recorded in at least three decades.'"
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High Fructose Corn Syrup To Get a Makeover 646

Posted by samzenpus from the same-great-taste dept.
An anonymous reader writes "With its sweetener linked to obesity, some cancers and diabetes, the Corn Refiners Association (CRA) doesn't want you to think 'fructose' when you see high fructose corn syrup in your soda, ketchup or pickles. Instead, the AP reports, the CRA submitted an application to the FDA, hoping to change the name of their top-selling product to 'corn sugar.'"

Comment I am running both right now (Score 1) 702

by mattwrock (#33589636) Attached to: Windows 7 vs. Ubuntu 10.04
Our shop has XP as our standard OS. Instead of moving to Windows 7 directly, I suggested we use Ubuntu 10.4 as our base OS, and we make a Windows 7 VM. This not only gives us flexibility in what our clients run, our legacy guys can use Ubuntu to web surfing and email, and use XP/Windows7 for legacy development. I am impressed with Ubuntu. It found our network during install and was ready to go. Most of the packages do not need a command line, and updates work just like Windows. The thing that caught my attention though was the Windows 7 "wait" circle looks shockingly like Ubuntu's "wait" circle!
Classic Games (Games)

The Best Video Games On Awful Systems 272

Posted by Soulskill from the diamond-in-the-rough dept.
Buffalo55 writes "For the most part, classic games manage to reappear on different systems. Just look at Nintendo. The publisher has done an excellent job bringing NES, SNES, Genesis and even old school Neo Geo titles to the Wii's Virtual Console, while Microsoft's Game Room brings the best of Atari's 2600 into the living room. Of course, not every console was a success. The '90s, in particular, saw quite a few flops from companies like Panasonic, Sega and Atari. Just because a system is a failure, though, doesn't mean all of its games suck. On the contrary, most of these machines have a few gems that fell between the cracks once the console croaked." What overlooked game on a failed platform would you like to see revived?
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Submission + - Windows 96 T urns 15, Has Mircosfot Peaked? (cnn.com)

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mattwrock writes: "Windows 95 turns 15, but this is the first time I have seen in the "mainstream" press questioning the future of Microsoft. The chief threat to Microsoft and Apple is the "Generic Web Experience", which Apple does has an entrant. If the mainstream press is talking about Microsoft that people on Slashdot has been saying for some time, is Microsoft worried?"

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