The Xbox 360 is just a Netflix machine to me, that happens to also have stripped down versions of Minecraft & Fallout 3 built in. Since consoles are all garbage compared to computers, it seems contentious to compare them based on hardware quality. All that really matters in the console world is what you are allowed to run on them.

I have not bought any Sony hardware since the rootkit fiasco.

I have read some more of your comments, and I think perhaps your problem is inflation. Call everyone a liar, and pretty soon it means nothing even to call a genuine liar, a liar. In a way, you try to spray the word everywhere with innuendo and implication, hoping that it will stick on the people who actually are. Instead you appear as a boy who cries wolf, not quite a liar, but not a purveyor of truth either.

Try thinking of more intelligent insults for people, and I think your persuasion will be more effective.

A lie is a false statement made with the deliberate intent to deceive. While my statement was factually false, it was made based on an inaccurate reading of the articles in question, and presented in good faith. It would seem that declaring all incorrect statements to be lies is a form of hyperbole to you (in true Slashdot fashion) certainly not to be taken seriously.

That is my point, the constitution is obstructing to justice... there are probably some police officers and prosecutors who lament it for, "letting guilty criminals walk free".

Also, as a friendly reminder, your 5th amendment protections must be specifically invoked, and will in no way protect you from making a confession or otherwise saying something that you should not.

I had not read the other article citing the interrogation of the crew, and subsequent confession. Why lie? I didn't. Consider the day that you might be presumed guilty of something.

While fishing law does not, Sarbanes–Oxley frequently affects nerds at their places of employment.

More accurately, here we have a case of a fisherman being accused of keeping undersized fish. The officer who accused him of doing so left the only evidence whatsoever of the crime with the accused. Upon discovering that the evidence indicated no crime had occurred, he made the outlandish claim that the evidence had been tampered with, having no evidence besides his testimony given as support.

The argument is whether select sentences from the, "Public Company Accounting Reform and Investor Protection Act", should be allowed to be used to prosecute someone for a crime unrelated in any way to accounting reform, or investor protection.

A strong argument could be made that not simply confessing, when someone was very obviously guilty, would be obstructing to justice.

Buy a Patek Philippe instead, it is probably cheaper in the long run.

The bag on the counter technique provides a time complexity improvement on the scale of O(1)... probably safe to ignore. Forcing people to complete the transactions faster is probably not practical, so the only way to increase throughput is to have more cashier stations.

The real news will be when PETA likes something.

I am using a brand new Model M to type this message. Unicomp bought the rights and machinery to manufacture many IBM and Lexmark keyboards. You can buy them from the manufacturer here: http://www.pckeyboard.com/ . It is embarrassing that /. would advertise some shill refurb site without mentioning this great resource.

Whoooosh....

So all of Java is garbage, because it is not enough like a scripting language?

You liking Python better is not a good enough reason for Java to be dismissed as trash, and it hardly justifies claiming it is worse than C++, of all the verbose garbage languages.

Try Groovy.