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Submission + - Milford resident stopped by State police for radioactivity (ctpost.com)

Submitted by Okian Warrior
Okian Warrior writes: A Milford CT man was pulled over when a state police car radioactivity scanner flagged his car as being radioactive.

The man had been given a cardiac exam using radioactive dye, and had a note from his physician attesting to this, but this raises questions about the legality.

Given that it it not illegal to own or purchase or transport radioactive materials (within limits for hobbyist use), should the police be allowed to stop and search vehicles which show a slight level of radioactivity?

Comment Re:Hardly obsolete. (Score 1) 388

by tom112358 (#39953043) Attached to: Living Fossils: Old Tech That Just Won't Die

If your labor is greater than the 50k cost I would say it was a rip off and a bad investment

Probably not. The accumalated bug fixes over the course of 30 years have probably cost them much more than the purchase price. If the system were to be redone from scratch, it would bring with it a whole other set of bugs, which would have to be fixed.
Programming

Submission + - Ask slashdot: What programming language should an old hack REALLY dig into? 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: I was a consultant for nearly 20 years and I got into projects where I had to work with a huge variety of software, operating systems, hardware, programming languages, and other assorted technologies. After retiring from that I have spent the last 10 years in a completely different sector. Now I find myself wanting to really focus on coding for personal reasons. You can imagine how out-of-touch I am since I never really was more than a hack to begin with. I can learn syntax and basics in a weekend, question is, what Language should I become native to? Never liked anything 'lower-level' than C, and I don't have the funds to 'buy' my development environment....help me slashdot..you're my only hope...

Submission + - Romanian witches used Google to tell fortune (austriantimes.at)

Submitted by Hentes
Hentes writes: The internet has made many things easier, but unfortunately this also includes crime: it seems that nowadays not even people wanting to know their future are safe from fraud. Two gipsy fortune tellers are being investigated, after the Romanian police uncovered that they have utilised some extraordinary help in their clairvoyant acts. The pair used information collected from internet search and social networks to gain the trust of their costumers, claiming that they could see their personal data through their crystal ball. In some cases, they also used high-tech surveillance techniques such as hidden cameras and phone tapping. But they didn't stop at merely spying on their victims: their most bizarre case involved a scuba diver dressed as a "Loch Ness monster".
The duo are suspected of fraud, illegal wiretapping, and also bribery of the prosecutor
Patents

Submission + - Blizzard sued for patent infringement over WoW, CoD (marketwatch.com) 1

Submitted by thunderdanp
thunderdanp writes: Worlds Inc. filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Activision Blizzard, Inc., Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. and Activision Publishing, Inc. in the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts on March 30, 2012. Activision's World of Warcraft(R) and Call of Duty(R) video games have been identified in the complaint as infringing on Worlds' patents.

It appears these patents claim priority back to 1995, so invalidating these patents could be difficult, giving how much prior art might be excluded.
Unix

Journal Journal: Angry Birds Space for PC released - works on WINE

Journal by tom112358

Angry Birds Space for PC has been released, and works (or at least the free demo does) under WINE, allowing unix users to play as well. Having more than one source of gravity makes the game considerably more interesting, not very much more challenging.
Get it here (free demo available): http://shop.angrybirds.com/eu/games/pc-games/angry-birds-space-pc-version.html

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