Comment Re:Speaking as an Apple fanboi ... (Score 1) 254
How do you view porn on a DS? I have a friend who wants to know how...
What Data Recovery Tools Do the Pros Use? 399
Life2Death writes "I've been working with computers for a long time, and every once and a while someone close to me has a drive go belly up on them. I know there are big, expensive recovery houses that specialize in mission-critical data recovery, like if your house blew up and you have millions of files you need or something, but for the local IT group, what do you guys use? Given that most people are on NTFS (Windows XP) by the numbers, what would you use? I found a ton of tools when I googled, and everyone and their brother suggests something else, so I want to know what software 'just works' on most recoveries of bad, but partially working hard drives. Free software always has a warm spot in my heart."
Comment Re:TESTING models? (Score 1) 198
Which fund is this?
What Free IDE Do You Use? 1055
postermmxvicom writes "I program only occasionally and mostly for personal interest. I went to update my favorite free IDE, Dev C++, yesterday and noticed that it had not been updated since 2005! I went looking for other free IDEs and came across Code::Blocks and Visual Studio Express. I work from a Windows machine, use C++, and make mostly console apps; but have written a few Windows apps and D3D or OpenGL apps. I wanted to know what free IDEs you use and recommend. What do you like about them? What features do they lack? What about them irritate you (and what do you do to work around these annoyances)? For instance, when I used Visual C++ 6.0 in college, there was an error in getline that had to be fixed, and the code indenting in DevC++ needed to be tweaked to suit my liking."
Company Claims EEG Scans Can Help Identify ADHD 373
Al writes "Technology Review has an article about a company hoping to expand the clinical use of electroencephalography. Thanks to better sensor technologies, data-processing techniques, and more detailed knowledge of the brain, EEG is expanding into completely new areas. A startup called ElMindA, is developing an EEG system to help doctors diagnose attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Scientists have also used ElMindA's system to characterize brain-activity patterns in patients with ADHD, identifying statistical parameters that differ between normal people and those with ADHD." If "normal people" can sit through high-school classes without being distracted and grumpy, count me out.
Submission + - Judge shields Craigslist from prosecution in SC (cnn.com) 1
viyh writes: "A South Carolina judge has ordered the state attorney general's office to stop pursuing criminal charges against Craigslist.com while a lawsuit related to prostitution ads on the popular classifieds site makes its way through the courts."
Submission + - Students, The Other Unprotected Lab Animals 1
theodp writes: "Slate reports on the horrible — and preventable — death of a young UCLA biochemist in a t-butyl lithium incident, which lead a Chemical Health and Safety columnist to the disheartening conclusion that most academic laboratories are unsafe venues for work or study. It's estimated that accidents and injuries occur hundreds of times more frequently in academic labs than in industrial ones. Why? For one thing, Slate says, occupational safety and health laws that protect workers in hazardous jobs apply only to employees, not to undergrads, grad students, or research fellows who receive stipends from outside funders."
Comment LSD therapy (Score 4, Interesting) 811
This will be controversial but hear me through. Assuming he doesn't have any medical conditions that make it dangerous for him to take LSD, get him some. The basic idea behind this is the psychedilic helps him hit rock bottom, so he wants to change his life. It worked pretty well for treating alcoholism before LSD was banned.
Unmasking Blog Commenters Not a Huge Threat To Freedom 105
Frequent Slashdot contributor Bennett Haselton writes with his take on a recent court decision about the rights of online commenters.
"Although a court has ruled that the police can subpoena the identities of users who posted comments in a newspaper's blog, I think this is not as big of a threat to journalistic integrity as it might seem. And in any case when the judge ruled against the privacy rights of 'bloggers,' he didn't actually mean 'bloggers."
Read on for the rest of Bennett's thoughts.
Comment Re:Logistically impossible (Score 1) 212
Putting on my paranoid hat, how do you know that event happened, and wasn't staged? Governments do use propaganda...
Comment Re:Focuses on Interfaces to Ease the Pain (Score 1) 297
Java doesn't let developers overload operators, but the language does anyways. It's frustrating that + is overloaded to mean add numbers and concatenate strings, but I'm not allowed to do something similar in my own programs.
Comment Re:the manual virus (Score 1) 147
Magi.
Comment Re:Makes sense (Score 1) 1124
Who's the most recent president who *didn't* grow the government? I thought all president's liked a bigger government, you know more power...
Comment Re:And.... (Score 1) 1124
The US already has de facto socialized healthcare. Hospitals can't turn away people who are about to die. That drives up the prices because most of the people that need emergency care are poor which means they can't afford healthcare, early treatment, and preventative treatment. Logically, the government should spend money on prevention (education, encouraging exercise, diets, condoms, etc.), but either doesn't spend the money, or doesn't spend it effectively (abstinence only education, bogus food pyramid etc.).
According to a lot of American's definitions free condoms is socialism, but that's socialism I can live with.
Comment Re:Insightful fact... (Score 1) 289
It's not a fluke, it's convergent evolution. To any problem there's a near infinite amount of bad solutions, but a finite amount of good solutions. This is why competent people solving a problem can come up with similar solutions without collaborating.
