A non-American here.

I've been following the discussions about Bradley Manning on Slashdot very closely. I see that, as time passes by, the American Slashdotters become more and more convinced that he is guilty and should be convicted. That he acted both illegally and wrongly.

OK, let's assume that he is guilty (both legally and morally).What should he have done? Shut his mouth like the rest of the sissies in the US military? But this is forbidden by the US constitution. Many of you say that there are proper channels and he should have used them. Why? How many war attrocities have emerged through these channels (because now we know that they exist)?

What if Bradley Manning hasn't chosen to act in this illegal manner? Well... nobody would knew about the attrocities executed on behalf of the American population. And their (your) conscience would be clean...

undo wrongful moderation.

> Jobs would never have let the iPhone5 ship with that junk in it.

Um, yeah, he would ship a phone that drops calls...

I chose "heart" but that was because I didn't read all the options thoroughly. Yes, it is true that I have a genetic predisposition to a cardiac arrest but that doesn't mean I am going to get one any time soon. My girlfriend, however, got her diabetes type I almost 30 years ago. So I want a re-vote - pancreas, for someone else.

The mean IQ is 100, by definition.

> I haven't seen any clear way to calculate say an integral using something like c++ or c#.

You need a course on Numerical methods for that.

No, but it is somewhere in the middle of the end of the USA as a technological leader.

That was actually John Atanasoff's idea.

I don't think so. It seems that the Microsoft tax will be mandatory. I don't mind the money wasted as much as being part of Microsoft's statistics. So I don't buy computers with Windows preinstalled.
And the first EEE PC's were so promising...

Yes, you are talking.

I turns out that Slashdot does not support the Cyrillic language anyway.