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Writer Peter Watts Sentenced; No Jail Time 299

Posted by timothy on Friday April 30, 2010 @10:30PM from the new-spirit-of-openness dept.

shadowbearer writes "SF writer Peter Watts, a Canadian citizen, whose story we have read about before in these pages, was sentenced three days ago in a Port Huron, MI court. There's not a lot of detail in the story, and although he is still being treated like a terrorist (cannot enter or pass through the US, DNA samples) he was not ordered to do any time in jail, was freed, and has returned home to his family. The judge in the case was, I believe, as sympathetic as the legal system would allow him to be."

Comment Re:Ok, state machines (Score 1) 121

by joshwalker on Thursday April 10, 2003 @12:13PM (#5702467) Attached to: Practical Statecharts in C/C++

When I heard the author speak at a meeting of the ACCU recently, he described statecharts somewhat differently from the basic FSMs I knew.

Basically, statecharts allow some extensions to FSM: nested states, init/entry/exit actions for states, and probably some others. Apparently these are all defined in UML.

The author's basic approach is to represent the state as a pointer-to-member-function. Except that he's working on embedded systems, which means he uses C, which means he hacks his own OO in C. I must admit that this distracted somewhat from his main point.

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