I have to wonder how the Bill O'Reilly family handle this... he operates a "No Spin Zone".

Let's see how well a modern laundry machine tests against cleaning an iPhone and a rock at the same time....

If you break your opponents washing machine, they'll have you "taken the the cleaners"....

The "national gird" is set up so they can handle the loss of a plant or two (or maybe even three) without disruption, it just causes the online plants to spin up stronger. If your power company is claiming to be National Grid, they're indicating that they're sometimes using power from outside the area they serve.

We could have a replay of this event as the Boston area is dealing with a similar weekend storm this week too.

You just produced modded up Slashdot... that's on the web and part of a page. Have a little more confidence.

I think "designed" was my word error. GOTO was invented to make sense to the processor, but it's use combined with functions ended its time as the best idea to use.

GOTO makes sense at lower-level languages closer to the processor, but in languages based on procedures and subroutines they lead to harder for humans to understand code.

Goto these days is a stenography tool... it's designed to make the code harder to read.

"GOTO" existed before subroutines and functions were added, and it was back in the days of line numbers. This was the point where the main menu part of a program had to jump over to the appropriate part of the program, now we just call the appropriate routine.

It's hard to know what to teach in the middle of a debate, as when the class ends it's not over yet. Stay tuned to Slashdot for the updates.

If you don't like what HSBC is doing, you should get an account with a Swiss bank because Swiss Bank Accounts are not subject to... wait a second.

Let's see... give a bunch of college students a $99 license for Visual Basic 6.0 after it had been out for a year and what results on the campus of Syracuse University?

For a blow-by-blow account, check your Slashdot archives.

Take the news seriously! They magically moved from "the moon" to "the bag" which his widow hasn't touched in 20 years... wait a minute!

Passing a law like this with a 90 wait would mean the course wouldn't be ready until next school year.