Comment Because I am. (Score 2) 818
I do. My desktop on openSuse 12.1 is KDE you fool.
Submission + - Reddit Subpoenaed in Wrongful Death Lawsuit (ibtimes.com)
redletterdave writes: "In March, a 51-year-old Reddit user named "Black Visions" wrote his last post on Reddit. He had been writing frequently about depression and suicide, but in his last post where he also threatened his own suicide, others decided to egg him on even further. That turned out to the be the last straw: Seattle news soon reported Jerry had jumped eight stories from a hotel room in the Double Tree in Tukwila, Washington. Reddit announced on Wednesday that the user's sister Sandy has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against nine Reddit users who egged him on, and Reddit has also been subpoenaed in identifying the information of another three individuals."
System Measures Stress In Emergency Callers' Voice 238
cylonlover writes "Chances are that if you're calling 9-1-1 (or 9-9-9, or whatever it is where you are), you're not likely to tell the operator that your case isn't all that urgent, and that it can wait. The problem is, sometimes emergency dispatch centers are so overloaded with callers – all of them stating that they need assistance right now – that some sort of system is required in order to determine who should get help first. Dutch researchers claim to have developed just such a system, which analyzes callers' voices to determine how stressed-out they are."
Comment Re:Accountability and Ease of Transfer (Score 1) 351
Don't be a jackass. If you aren't going to bother addressing the obvious differences between copyright infringement and petty theft, then you don't have any business expressing your ignorant opinion on the subject.
The point is, since you are incapable of figuring it out yourself, that accountability has completely gone out the window. Whether I am a jackass or not has nothing to do with my comparison of petty theft to anything. I am a jackass because I am a jackass, it is unrelated to the topic. The obvious similarity is that both are wrong and the fact that you feel that there are different levels of wrong demonstrates how right I am. Rest assured that my opinion is anything but ignorant.
Journal Journal: All story submissions should be journal entries! 6
While perusing the Firehose I came to the realization that most of those stories are going to be lost to antiquity. Oh, they'll be discussed on other websites, but slashdot actually provides us journal functionality so that they can be discussed here even if your submission doesn't make it as a story.
Comment Re:It happens a lot (Score 1) 2088
I followed the link for the Taco story and it has already been updated with this story here.
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