Do you disagree with the State's decision that someone has to care about those people? If so, what would you do with them instead? And how would you cope if you were one?

Mr. Pajitnov prototyped Tetris on an Electronica 60, a Soviet clone of a PDP-11. Yet he goes RIAA on anyone who clones his own work.

In other words, the emperor penguins at the South Pole and the elves at the North Pole are successful communists. So how can we emulate them?

Then what should society do with adults whose disabilities interfere with working or with finding a job?

Because if the U.S. legislature and courts make software engineering impractical, your country will end up with a lot of skilled U.S. citizens applying for work visas.

That and end users' inability to configure iOS's Gatekeeper.

How would the OS X UI be inappropriate for a phone docked to a Bluetooth keyboard and AirPlay monitor? The docked phone's touch screen would behave like a trackpad. Or how would it be inappropriate for an iPad with a clip-on keyboard and trackpad?

In the real world, theoretical performance matters less than observed performance on the specific applications that end users want to run on a device. How well do Intel's FinFET CPUs run the existing library of games and other proprietary ARM-native apps for phones and tablets that aren't yet available as fat binaries? Is its ARM-to-x86 JIT up to even half the performance of native code yet?

If I wanted just a phone, I'd buy a flip phone and pay a lower monthly bill. People buy iPhone or Android devices instead of flip phones because they want a multi-purpose* mobile computing device.

List of third-party implementations of ARM architecture shows Qualcomm Snapdragon (ARMv7), Apple A series (ARMv8), Applied Micro X-Gene (ARMv8), NVIDIA Denver (ARMv8), and Cavium ThunderX (ARMv8). Everything else is ARM's own Cortex reference design.

The problem in the novel is "I have to get my time machine back", and the conflict is between the Time Traveller and the environment. Learning how to communicate with the locals is a subproblem of this problem.

It just bugs me that the writers of both adaptations were afraid to spend a mere three minutes of the script on language elicitation. A feature film is not like an episode of Star Trek: $subtitle where you have 44 minutes to tell a story with no time to spend on language-of-the-week. It could have been done as in Avatar or Dances With Wolves before it. Even The Fifth Element managed to work Leeloo's ongoing acquisition of English as a second language into a plot thread. (Multipass!) The Eloi have the mental capacity of five-year-olds, whether by evolution or by the mind-altering pesticides that their Morlock masters spray on their food. So based on the scant clues in the novel, their language can't be that hard to pick up.

Is this quite as true of the 1960 and 2002 movies of The Time Machine? I watched both and my first disbelief breaker was how English survived 800 millennia when Proto-Indo-European fractured into modern languages in only six.

Oh wait, the Animal Crossing anime isn't a sequel to The Island of Dr. Moreau, is it?

Slashdot itself started as Rob Malda's personal blog.

And for each journal entry, there's an option to post it as a submission. Or do Bennett's journal entries skip the submission queue?

SelectaVision CED anyone?

A patent examiner shall issue a patent to an inventor so long as the inventor can prove that an invention is novel, useful, and non-obvious. On which of these three grounds shall the examiner deny the patent?

I admit my timeline of the first Discman's introduction was somewhat incorrect. Yes, Brothers in Arms is one of the quietest popular CDs I own. Let me correct myself: the rise in popularity of portable CD players. But the volume of a Discman through anything but headphones depends on the external amplifier.