The title of this story would have been better as Ars writes a poor researched story to bash Texas judge.

hell the writer couldn't be bothered to find out the judge's first name or or the name of the fathe in the 'boy in the box' case.

The remarks she made online were basically innoucous, and the judges she was sanctioned on were all probably from Austin.

It's partially that, it's partially that jurors are not supposed make up their mind till the end of the trial and talking to others tend to make you form opinions.

A judge is expected to be more disciplined when receiving evidence. For example, in a bench trial a judge will hear all evidence including inadmissible evidence. After all it's not inadmissible until the judge rules it so. The judge is then supposed to be able to ignore the inadmissible evidence when reaching his decision.

You are also wrong about the mistrial. The judge was remove mainly because of her remarks on the web site. A new judge ruled that changing judges in the middle was grounds for a mistrial. They then had a second trial where the man was acquitted.

He was acquitted for many reason, the biggest is that it wasn't Harry Potter being kept in the cupboard under the stairs. The kid seems to have had mental problems and a tendency to violence. So the box was the best that his parents could do, and most of the time the door was open.

The actual box was 8'x6'x7'.
Presumably 8'x6' is the floor size.

You do realize that that is a "chamber of commerce" type website? That it is slow to update, and the law firms website is now down. Presumably it was put up before she became a judge.

Does that include keeping Middle Easterners out?

So as someone who more used to C++98, is there something that will take me, not just to the constructs of C++14, but also to the style and idioms of C++14?

Until an appeals court rules otherwise. Hell, other courts don't even have to give credence to the precedent.

Actually I believe that it was observed in those experiments that chimps actually start to teach each other sign language.

is like a female CEO posing for a selfie as Carlie Fiorina.

Not when it's a character from Voyager.

Until Microsoft decided to go after GO and cut off their airsupply with Pen for Windows.

They don't need to figure out how to get into space, because they know we will take them along.

trying to correct bad impressions that my mother gets from this guy.

I mentioned it to my internist and he told me most doctors he knows consider him a quack.

Amazing how some people will sell their soul for money and television appearances.

Cause that is about the only person who was praising Microsoft Open Tech when it started.

Microsoft has a long way to convince me that they are committed to OSS. So far their acclaimed commitments seem to be mostly fluff with very little real substance in them..