This. We need to stop calling them smartphones. It's a pocket computer. And I got one because I wanted one, not because I needed one.

Hell, I don't really need my home computer, either. But I want it, so I have it.

But the tool that enables piracy on the current scale and scope is not P2P, it's the Internet.

PARC is now an independent entity, which is not the same as being sold off. It now researches on behalf of other entities besides Xerox, but Xerox remains its largest customer.

Bingo. Remove P2P from the equation, and people will share copyright videos using other means (just like they did before P2P).

A few key phrases from TFA: "...a trick that keeps the info safe from hackers, accidental loss and even snooping administrators ... a useful trick if you need to perform operations on health care or financial data in a situation like cloud computing, where the computer (or the IT administrator) doing the calculations can’t always be trusted to access the private numbers being crunched".

The correct answer is "not enough, which is why I'm here."

Almost right, but not quite. As I understand it, Sun's (now Oracle's) JDK will still exist, but it will no longer be the Reference Implementation. OpenJDK will become the Reference Implementation.

This does, of course, mean that OpenJDK will be the "real" Java, and that there should (in theory) be no differences between Oracle JDK and OpenJDK— and if there are differences, then it's Oracle JDK that's wrong. But Oracle's JDK will still exist.

I recently received an invitation in the mail to an invite-only party/sale at the Hyundai dealership where I bought my car. On the invitation it described a deal they're having on that day: "Buy a new Hyundai, get another Hyundai free". Next to this was a tiny asterisk, and at the bottom in smaller type it explained: "Receive a free Hyundai product with the purchase of any new Hyundai car". So, in other words, "we'll throw in a baseball cap or a t-shirt if you buy a car".

Oooh! I'll bite (literally)!

Yes.

http://www.phantomplate.com/

http://loover.com/

http://www.regblocker.com/

http://www.photoblockercanada.com/

Probably many others too. I have no idea the legality of these, but I've seen a few of them in the wild. I don't personally use or endorse any of them.

What's particularly interesting is that it's not just the act of moving into a new (and unknown) room, but the act of moving into a different room than the one you were just in, even if that other room is one with which you're already familiar. In other words, it's not the newness, but the shift.

In the experiment, the doors were opened for the subject. Additional doors that were not part of their planned path were kept closed, so they hardly had to think about where to go next, just follow the automatically opening doors. Also, the first part of the experiment was conducted entirely using a first-person video game, so the only actions required by the subject were most likely holding down the "W" key while moving the mouse left and right.

And entirely a strawman. The wage disparity exists between men and women doing the same work, and that is where the complaint exists.

Slashdot, can we have a "Remove Article" option for articles like this that are quickly revealed to be a joke? The site doesn't track anything, and it even says so. The article is pointless.

Wouldn't that need a GUI created in Visual BASIC?