As long as the Church of Satan can run their ad too..... yep, and that's why they have such a policy.

Oh, I have a better idea. How about we each pay a $100 to get a mark on our forehead or hand to mark us as vetted by the state, proving we are not potential terrorists. That'll make it easy to tell the good guys from the baddies. And it will generate lots of revenue for the state. Win win!

ITER is a money sink specifically designed to suck as much funding away from real fusion research as possible.

s/too/to/ s/the have/the comments have/ Damn it Slashdot, get an edit button.

It appears the ignorance level here on Slashdot has risen too an all time high. With the exception of one or two, none of the have any idea what they are talking about. People should be more careful about bashing things they know absolutely nothing about. Julia is a fairly kickass language and if you are a coder it should be on your radar -- up there with Go, Rust, Elixir, Clojure, etc. Having dabbled in most languages, I'd say it just might be the best of the lot, although I do dislike its module system.

I agree with you. I can't understand why so many people are against free speech.

Well said.

It is so easy to just lump people into a group called Evil. Then we need not think of the consequences. Do people stop to think what might drive other people to do "evil" acts? Consider, what might you do if a foreign country dropped a bomb on your land and killed your relatives? I bet you'd be inclined toward doing some "evil" things too. I think it is very hard for Americans to understand that the Iraq war and Syria civil war has resulted in hundreds of thousands dead and what that can do to people. While many people hold on to a shred of humanity, usually b/c they still have children to protect, others look for someone to blame and they look for groups to join to do something about it. Until we actually start discussing these nuances instead of just lumping everything into "Evil", these conflicts will never end, but simply continue in a cycle of endless escalation.

I watched the pilot and the overall plot is very cool. The effects are great too. The dialog can be a bit flat but given the production level its probably about as good as one can ask. I really wish CBS would pick this series up. I know that they plan a new show in 2017, but is it enough to get me buy into CBS All Access? Maybe. But give me two new Star Trek shows, and yeah, I'm definitely in! I bet a lot of fans would feel the same way.

Is there anyway to solve DDOS attacks for good? Would a more robust DNS system work? Say one that dynamically assigns multiple IPs and rotates them with a frequency based on load?

I am so tired of this over-hashed argument (see what I did there?). Fingerprints are not meant to be passwords, they are *secure usernames*. In other words they provide a username that no one knows or can figure out. As such they provide some security, but not to the degree of a good secret password. So by itself a fingerprint shouldn't be used for security. But, a fingerprint makes a good part of a multi-part system. In most cases a fingerprint and a pin is quite sufficient and much better than a known or obvious username and a typically poor secret password. P.S. Inferred handscans are even more secure than fingerprints, and given all the issues with passwords, are probably sufficient in themselves in most cases.

On a related note I've wondered if > and < and + and -, are really the best symbols for their use. Clearly addition as "adding to", and subtraction is "taking away", os the natural symbols for those would be arrows. 5 <- 4 is 9 and 5 -> 4 is 1. Hence > and < seem like better symbols for addition and subtraction.

Wow. When did parents give up responsibility for raising there kids to toy manufactures?

That'll work out well.

The problem is that the field of software engineering is in a constant state of flux and overloaded with various approaches. Every few years there is a new big language, or framework, or methodology. Few, if any, can truly keep up with it all. So, with a few exceptions (e.g. c/c++), it is nearly impossible to qualify/certify the job. It would be like testing an actor on a single role, which he/she might never play again.