Comment Tons! (Score 1) 922
Flash Gordon, Buck Rogers, The Day of the Triffids, Chocky, The Tomorrow People, ...
Comment Re:Remember your tin foil hat (Score 4, Insightful) 533
But you didn't!
This is not about whether people are interesting or not. This is about privacy, which seems to be devalued in the public's opinion.
1984 was a cautionary tale, not a guidebook.
Comment C# (Score 1) 634
C# is a modern, multi-paradigm, feature-rich and evolving language. It can be most intriguing for a young programmer because you can play at various levels of abstraction (from unsafe all the way up to LINQ) and express computation in various ways (you may do a Lambda expression for one thing and a method for another). And you can use it as a scripting language, as well.
Young programmers running Windows can always get Visual Studio for free via DreamSpark. Young programmers running anything else can get MonoDevelop. There really is no excuse to skip this incredibly productive language.
The plus side? migrating from C# to other paradigms should be simple. And the C# user community is just as friendly as any other free language's (minus the "RTFM, N00b!" replies.)
Slashdot's Disagree Mail 167
I get a lot of mail from obviously unbalanced people. Enough in fact, that I've often wondered if there was a institution that allowed their patients to only read Slashdot. We've even had a few visits from some questionable individuals. A man who tried to bribe me with a car if I let him "reverse engineer" Rob Malda's Life comes to mind. He insisted on Rob being present for the process and couldn't explain to me what it entailed, so I suggested he leave. The personal visits are rare, however, compared to the amount of mail I get. Here are a few of my favorites; let's hope these people have started to take their medication. Read below and don't be worried if you don't understand all of it.
Submission + - New MAcBook Pros from Apple, LED displays
rfernand79 writes: As previously rumored in various sites, Apple introduced updates to the MacBook Pro line. The new machines are based on Intel's Santa Rosa architecture, and come with backlit LED displays. They can also host up to 4 GB of RAM. And they arrive just in time for the "get a free iPod" back-to-school promotion.
