Comment Re:Going to have a hard time topping modern remake (Score 1) 173
I already have a procedurally generated space exploration game on my wish list, Starbound
Comment unemployed veterans (Score 2) 223
Wasn't there some news recently about record numbers of unemployed veterans? Kick the private contractors out and bring in a bunch of people with security clearance and guard duty experience.
Comment Re:Location Choices (Score 1) 17
If at your viking hall, I'll chip in for a keg from Big Boss, Lone Rider or other NC beer. Other beer-friendly options include Big Boss taproom, Boylan Bridge brewpub, Hibernian or Busy Bee.
Comment Re:As soon as you have anything to take (Score 2) 293
IANAL, but be advised there are procedures to get around that shielding (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piercing_the_corporate_veil). I ran a software consulting business as an S-corporation years ago and got strongly worded advice to be very careful not to mix personal and company funds, to use any corporation-purchased computers for work only, and not to claim a general use room in our home as a home office for deductions.
Comment What is the difference (Score 2) 326
between a wedge and an inclined plane? I guess Heron of Alexandria not having prior art on that simple machine makes it a more attractive patent target?
Comment Re:My Karma is Excellent, Please Disable Advertisi (Score 1) 233
If you don't want to honor the checkbox to disable advertising, could you at least add a checkbox to disable video? Slashdot has been an "idle moments at work" pastime for me for years, and as such, I don't watch video -- slashvertisement or otherwise.
Comment shop class (Score 5, Interesting) 292
High school intro to programming should fill the same niche as shop class -- to get students interested in creating stuff.
Submission + - Crayons under the Spectrophotometer (photo-mark.com)
Volhav writes: Like many as a child, the photographer Mark Meyer wondered what the difference between Yellow-Green and Green-Yellow was in that Crayola box of crayons. Using a monitor calibration tool and the Argyll 3rd party software he evaluated a box of 64 color box of Crayola crayons, and plotted them out with sRGB values. He even included a nice printable poster size version of the chart in his blog post. For the geek or curious this was a pretty interesting plot.
Submission + - Cellphones Increasingly Used as Evidence in Court
Hugh Pickens writes: "The NY Times reports that the case of Mikhail Mallayev, who was convicted in March of murder after data from his his cellphone disproved his alibi, highlights the surge in law enforcement's use of increasingly sophisticated cellular tracking techniques to keep tabs on suspects before they are arrested and build criminal cases against them by mapping their past movements. But cellphone tracking is raising concerns about civil liberties in a debate that pits public safety against privacy rights. Investigators seeking warrants must provide a judge with probable cause that a crime has been committed but investigators often obtain cell-tracking records under lower standards of judicial review — through subpoenas, which are granted routinely, or through an intermediate type of court order based on an argument that the information requested would be relevant to an investigation. "Cell phone providers store an increasing amount of sensitive data about where you are and when, based on which cell towers your phone uses when making a call. Until now, the government has routinely seized these records without search warrants," said EFF Senior Staff Attorney Kevin Bankston. Last year the Federal District Court in Pittsburgh ruled that a search warrant was required even for historical phone location records, but the Justice Department has appealed the ruling. "The cost of carrying a cellphone should not include the loss of one's personal privacy," said Catherine Crump, a lawyer for the American Civil Liberties Union."
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