Guns are designed for no other purpose than to kill or maim. Easy availability allows for more and deadlier crimes, so their use should be restricted. However, Apple devices are the targets of crime owing to their desirability.

There were robberies before iPhones and iPods and there will be robberies still when they are long forgotten. But reducing the availability of deadly weapons makes them harder to pull off.

Can you alter the attack and release settings?

Having pored over it for quite some time, I can only assume it's some peculiarity of US English which I will need help to see.

I'm not sure why this was modded down. Flash in particular has problems with smaller die sizes, and while lower longevity has certain economic benefits, environmentally it's a dead end.

The other thing is the 11-year solar cycle... if we develop some ultra-high density technology during the low ebb, we may find that half our electronics get frazzled during the solar maximum.

Maybe you're being sarcastic, but CNC stands for Computer Numerically Controlled...

For those turned off by the first link (which is a spoof flash animation), the other two are actually true.

I want to be able to run ComicLife without being tied to my ageing mac mini. The win32 port does not work in WINE (which is amusing because Skyrim, Portal, Thief, SONAR etc work fine), and I can find no linux-based alternatives to it since it's very much a niche product.

Sometimes I've pondered writing my own, but there are too many things I don't know how to do properly or lack the artistry for, like smooth image scaling, vector speech bubbles or the text flowing engine.

Heh, nice. I have a Watkins tape delay from about 1967, that's about the oldest piece of electronics I regularly use. I have a mid 70s AKAI that I use occasionally, but most of the studio machines are late 80s or 1990s vintage. I also have a JoeCo BBR which I use to digitize the 24-track tapes for archival purposes, uses a USB2 external disk.

One of my biggest regrets was not buying one of the last TASCAM BR-20 decks in 2003. Sadly I really needed the money...

Yet you are arguing that the photographer's descendants should be entitled to a continual cut for something their grandfather did, and that the photograph must not be preserved if there are no descendants.

I might just about buy the descendants-get-a-cut part if it was something like a major film that benefited many, but in the example you're arguing with, the photo is only important to that one family and it's essentially being held hostage by the photographer's descendants. The essential point of being able to record media is to allow a creator's works to survive after they are gone, after all...

It's not a question of dissenting views, the fact is that there has been a recent pattern of brand-new users jumping in at the top of the thread and praising Microsoft or some similar entity. The most blatant ones were the Visual Studio spam, but there have been a lot of similar ones. Now I suppose it might just be a particularly dedicated troll, but it has to be said, it looked a hell of a lot like a fairly clever PR drive - I probably wouldn't have noticed had it been done more sparingly, it was the fact that there were so many of them that made them look suspicious.

The other thing is that you're arguing that Slashdot is being singled out. If I were trying to seed opinion I'd cover a range of them. Personally, I only regularly check Slashdot and the Reg to get my tech news fix so I'm not in a position to comment.

"How long can the press maintain the “Drug crazed madman” perspective? I think it will end with Vice Magazine’s story. They have seen, and heard everything."

...I have to admit, reading that blog entry, 'drug-crazed madman' was pretty much the first thing that sprang to mind.

http://www.whoismcafee.com/i-am-safe/

Mine has a rather nice keyboard.

Well, I figured that you might be able to print the heater too, but yeah, I was afraid there was more to the guts of it than a simple metal structure.

Could you print the core of an ECC83 or something?

The last comment at the bottom of the article is a post by one of the project team, linking to a FAQ written in response to the comments.

http://hydroice.wordpress.com/