It doesn't matter whether or not it works, it's unconstitutional. That's what the judge should be ruling on.

God doesn't think he's a doctor.

Left and right are not the only options. http://www.theadvocates.org/quiz

Oh yeah, I know: Fuck you DHS. "Terrorism" is not the root password to the constitution.

We already have Lisp. All other languages are unnecessary.

Rudely replying to my own post.

We don't even need to rely on the government database. Web cams in private cars feeding data to REST service at an aggregating website, maybe with a Raspberry Pi onboard to do some preprocessing....

Excuse me, I have some hacking to do.

If the government is using our money to build these systems, they should make the data available publicly, in real time. While I'd much rather they didn't collect it at all, knowing where the police cruisers are at all times would be some small compensation.

Keep your list of projects and tasks within projects in priority order. If management wants to increase the priority of something, they need to see that means lowering the priority of something else.

Looks like Google needs a new slogan.

Same thing for me, except with CLozure CL instead of SBCL. Works beautifully and the expressiveness of Lisp means that you get more functionality with less code.

"Centrist" isn't automatically correct. This country was founded by extremists who created a constitution based on individual liberty and very limited government. That's what we need, not more mealy mouthed compromise.

Perhaps you should spend some time looking into alternative voting systems before flaming on Slashdot. In an at large system with N representatives for M people, any candidate getting M/N votes will get a seat. That increases the chances of a minority view being heard. In a gerrymandered system, the incumbent parties can ensure that the minority view is spread out over every district, diluting it to insignificance.

Districting only serves to virtually guarantee safe seats for the incumbent parties. We need at large elections to increase the representation of minority views and weaken the established players.

Got three, thanks! Will be sending out others shortly.

patrick(at)softwarematters.org, please. Thanks!