Comment Bullet meet foot (Score 5, Insightful) 186
Sounds like a good way to drive privatized space travel to another country.
Submission + - Anonymous Hacker Who Exposed the Steubenville Rapists Gets More Prison Time Than (geekrepublic.org)
An anonymous reader writes: Deric Lostutter, the 26-year-old “hacktivist” who leaked the evidence that led to the conviction of two of the Steubenville, Ohio rapists is now facing more time behind bars than the rapists he exposed. The Steubenville Rape Case made national headlines when a video made by the rapists themselves, and their friends, proved that their victim was unconscious and unable to consent.
Cairo 2D Graphics May Become Part of ISO C++ 430
An anonymous reader sends this news from Phoronix:
"The C++ standards committee is looking at adopting a Cairo C++ interface as part of a future revision to the ISO C++ standard to provide 2D drawing. Herb Sutter, the chair of the ISO C++ standards committee, sent out a message to the Cairo developers this week about their pursuit to potentially standardize a basic 2D drawing library for ISO C++. The committee right now is looking at using a C++-ified version of Cairo. Sutter wrote, 'we are currently investigating the direction of proposing a mechanically C++-ified version of Cairo. Specifically, "mechanically C++-ified" means taking Cairo as-is and transforming it with a one-page list of mechanical changes such as turning _create functions into constructors, (mystruct*, int length) function parameters to vector<struct>& parameters, that sort of thing — the design and abstractions and functions are unchanged.'"
Comment Re:"$1,474?" said the Federal Government, (Score 1) 139
I normally don't do this, but, "Woosh!"
Comment Re:Other Fields? (Score 1) 381
Out of mod points, but I agree entirely.
Comment Re:Javascript is the reason why the web is a PITA (Score 1, Funny) 152
You don't need a plugin to run Javascript
Yeah, I need a plugin to NOT run Javascript.
Comment Re:Why a Roman one? (Score 2) 50
The aquaduct?
Comment Re:As A Matter of Fact... (Score 1) 399
I am Spartacus.
Comment "Moonwalk" is a bit of a misnomer... (Score 1) 63
Are legs really required for EVA?
Comment Customer? (Score 1) 160
The person being tracked in the stores is NOT the customer. The customers are the advertising companies buying this information from Google.
Comment Re:No name fake site that has no rep is a honeypot (Score 1) 225
No, just the Mormons.
Comment Re:Nintendo is here to stay! (Score 0) 277
Wait, are you talking about Nintendo or the United States?
Comment Re:Really by fax? (Score 1) 162
Should we provide a definition for every colloquialism we use?
Comment Re:Uh.. (Score 1) 298
I don't know why my comment is marked as "troll". I was just pointing out why they could impose an *import* ban on a device produced by an American-based company.
Comment Re:Proof that Obama is corrupt (Score 5, Insightful) 298
Samsung just needed to make small adjustments and has updated their models to provide models that don't violate the patents, the ban is on slightly older models that did violate the patents. Apple's ban was much wider and didn't have any small workaround and would have destroyed their market.
But that doesn't make sense. Samsung commits relatively minor patent infringements, and the import ban stands. Apple commits major patent infringements that result in a much more severe ban and the ban is vetoed.
