SCOTUS OKs Health Care Act; Whither the Command Line?

Don't miss a single issue of this newsletter. Add slashdot@newsletters.slashdot.org to your address book. Supreme Court Rules Affordable Care Act Constitutional Has the Command Line Outstayed Its Welcome? Google's Sergey Brin Shows Off Google Glass Why Microsoft Killed the Windows Start Button What's to Love About C? After Recent U.S. Storms, Why Are Millions Still Without Power? Hot Comment: Beat them don't teach them! From the Vault: Death Penalty For Hackers? Watch It: Android-Controlled Lego Battle Robots Go to War Supreme Court Rules Affordable Care Act Constitutional The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that the Affordable Care Act is constitutional. The health insurance mandate, also known as "Obamacare" was found to be "permissible under Congress's taxing authority. Sound Off>> Has the Command Line Outstayed Its Welcome? The Linux blogsphere has once again jumped into the hot topic of the much-abused command line -- specifically, whether it's outlived its usefulness in this era of the GUI. Sound Off>> Google's Sergey Brin Shows Off Google Glass Slashdot editor Timothy Lord joined a demo of a Glass demonstration hosted by Google co-founder Sergey Brin to find out if these vaunted glasses, which act as a heads-up display and a video camera that can broadcast exactly what a user is seeing, are practical or just another cute tech toy. Sound Off>> Why Microsoft Killed the Windows Start Button Microsoft claims it took the controversial decision to remove the Start button from the traditional Windows desktop because people had stopped using it and are instead using the taskbar. Sound Off>> What's to Love About C? The mass opinion against C is so negative, it's hard to believe that anybody would program anything in the language. Yet they do, and it is in no danger of disappearing. What features does it have that other languages do not? Sound Off>> After Recent U.S. Storms, Why Are Millions Still Without Power? The unusual nature of the "derecho" complicates efforts to restore power to get more than 1.4 million people from Illinois to Virginia. Utilities say don't have enough staff to handle severe-storm outages, but is it a given that a strong storm would cause this magnitude of damage to the electricity grid? Sound Off>> Re: Beat them don't teach them! "How about letting teachers beat parents instead? It might actually be more effective." --by thesandtiger Read More>> Death Penalty For Hackers? Seven years ago, The New York Times ran an Op-Ed page piece titled, "Worse Than Death" that called for harsher "hacker" penalties as a deterrent, quoting one academic as recommending even, well, the death penalty--as a deterrent for the likes of Sasser author Sven Jaschan. Read More>> Android-Controlled Lego Battle Robots Go to War From Slashdot TV: About a month ago, Google asked Stupid Fun Club to create something fun that is powered by Android. The result: BattleBots-style destructo-devices that are remote controlled from an Android tablet. See them bring havoc to the Google IO show floor.  Watch the Video>> Follow Slashdot on Twitter and Facebook. To unsubscribe, click here or send an email to: unsubscribe-213087@elabs10.com To ensure delivery of this newsletter to your inbox and to enable images, please add slashdot@newsletters.slashdot.org to your e-mail address book or safe senders list. Slashdot | 594 Howard Street, Suite 300 | San Francisco, CA 94105 To view our Privacy Policy click here.