This.

I further argue with the basic right of bicyclists to use the road. A bicycle isn't high-speed like a car, and they aren't a pedestrian. They're dangerous to both. Therefore they really don't belong on roads or sidewalks. Where bicycles fit in is with the same class as Equestrians. Horses don't go trotting down the road, and neither should bikes.

They're not indented very far and that makes working out a comment's descendants take some work. Most of the value of slashdot compard to any other aggregation site is the discussion so I'm leary of any change which would lessen this sites commenting.

Now, just about any OTHER site in the world taking comments is a different story!

Speaking as a Diabetic- yes I do.

I wear an infusion pump already. And a continuous monitor. They're plastic screens and buttons I clip to my belt. They have to be easily accessible because there is so much variance day-to-day.

Having everything talk via ANT or BT or something. Having one controller for it all. It'd be wonderful. I think your point is that it's too dangerous to put all that burden on a single piece of commodity hardware. And that's a valid point, in theory. But in reality, if I can replace the pump UI and CGM UI with a phone **that I'm already carrying** I end up with a whole lot fewer widgets to keep track of. Also, by virtue of commoditization, I could replace the software stack infinitely easier than a purpose-built controller, Dangerous? Sure. But understand the position we're in now:

1. Taking too much insulin is deadly.
2. It's easy to take too much insulin.
3. Since 2009, pumps and CGMs have been available in much of the world which automatically stop delivering insulin when your blood sugar is low.
4. The FDA has not allowed this technology in the United States.

I don't care if it's dangerous or voids the warranty or puts the FDA boogey-man on me. If a development like this occurs in the future and the FDA impedes it, I would like the opportunity to get it. Running on an open stack, even a quasi-open stack, is the only viable way for that to happen. And for today, smartphones are the best way to make that happen.

Yes, I missed the joke. Fail.

This exists. Dell XPS 18. http://www.dell.com/us/eep/p/xps-18-1810/pd

Yup. Wasn't until getting into comments that I even remembered this Mega existing.

The SSID is the DDNS host that resolves back to its own IP. It's prefaced by the operating frequency, so

2.4 dot blah dot dyndns dot com - WPA
5.0 dot blah dot dyndns dot com - WPA
guest dot blah dot dyndns dot com - VLANed off with an English-language passphrase

Omnigraffle. Far and away the best app I've used for flowcharting on any platform. Its autolayout blows Visio out of the water. It's outline view is great. Different people will have different uses for Visio, but for everything I need, Omnigraffle is loads better.

I'm a web developer and have taken JS & CSS for common for years and years now. Spent about 6y working at a small local web design shop and it just wasn't feasible to double contract amounts to make sites work without JS.

That said, there's no reason to require JS if it can be done without. Lots of page book-keeping, like menus, active page indicators, etc, can be done with CSS. Some stuff, like Amazon's polygonal focus on subnav can degrade nicely. Fantastic. But I'm not going to build an Ajax-y interface AND a static HTML interface (for free) to coddle people with nothing more than a distrust of JavaScript.

console.log behavior is rather different for objects. Seeing the string "[object object]" is nowhere near as useful as a tree-rendered outline of the object.

If an employer required me to use IE to apply, I'd think long and hard whether it's really worthwhile. My current employer has adopted a new HR system which will soon require a Java applet to apply and if I wasn't already employed that might be enough to dissuade me. (Already working here, I know Java is non-existent internally, but as a new applicant, I'd assume it was a Java shop).

>> while Congress tries to cut every social program, including the FDA, because the country is broke.
Speaking as a person with health problems, PLEASE. The FDA is a disaster. Taking the FDA's budget and burning that money would be less counter productive than the FDA's continued existence. So yes, PLEASE, defund, shutter and otherwise end the FDA.

>> and not a cent for caring for the citizens of this nation, nor our own infrastructure.
And let's keep it that way. "Caring" for me is making my life harder.

Of course this whole comment is off topic. But it's silly to think it's automatically better to spend that $$$ anywhere else.

Think software has a larger block of Libertarians than most other office workers. /. had a poll last week showing Dems and Libertarians in a neck-and-neck race for the biggest political block. Libertarians and Unions don't line up terribly neatly. That's going to be a quick roadblock to any attempt to unionize.

Like the +4 comment from a techie above? This is a very real problem. http://mobile.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3189429&cid=41672519

Just a different way of thinking. Purely functional programming is possible in JavaScript, and is basically mandated in Clojure. So it's more like comparing JavaScript and "use strict"; -- you want to be pure in your algorithms and so it babysits you.