Politicians held over protests as PM says "anti-peace" forces spreading false information about investment zone plan.

An anonymous reader writes: Ruby developers have announced the official release of Ruby 2.3.0. This release introduces a frozen string literal pragma, which is "a new magic comment and command line option to freeze all string literals in the source files." It also adds a safe navigation operator &. similar to what exists in C#, Groovy, and Swift. Ruby 2.3.0 also has many performance improvements. For more details, see the news file and the full changelog.

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Cable-car system is Chiatura's public transport, and it has been running for free, 24 hours a day, since 1952.

Army of Islam names successor after Zahran Alloush dies in Damascus suburb in raid claimed by government forces.

Burundi says proposed force is a violation of sovereignty and no troops will enter the country without permission.

An anonymous reader writes: The Steam game distribution platform is suffering from a particularly bad bug right now. If you log in and try to look at your account details, you're shown the details of another user's account — seemingly picked at random. This includes email address, last 4 digits of a phone number, whether SteamGuard (their two-factor authentication) is enabled, and the last 2 digits of an associated credit card. If you play a game, Steam will show you as being logged in as somebody else while in that game. Many users are being shown pages in other languages, as they are mistaken for players in different regions. This bug follows an apparent DDoS attack that took the service down for several hours. The bug doesn't seem to allow people to purchase games using a different account. That's good, though that means most, perhaps all players, are unable to buy games on Christmas during Steam's huge Winter Sale.

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Convert LaTeX commands to Unicode

interface to the SixXS.org services

Sim::OPT it a tool for detailed metadesign managing parametric explorations in simulation-assisted design and performing optimization by block coordinate descent.

Sim::OPT it a tool for detailed metadesign managing parametric explorations in simulation-assisted design and performing optimization by block coordinate descent.

Fast XS drop-in replacement for Config.pm with perfect hashing

periegetes writes: This idea has been bugging me for a while. It takes months to organize a physical election, and several days to count the results, so it makes sense that we don't organize elections every day. However, with the computing resources at our disposal, it would be child's play to setup a site where every citizen could vote for (or against) proposed laws themselves, and could even change their vote at all times, cutting out the middle man and restoring true democracy to the world. That last part may be a stretch, but I, for one, would feel more involved in my government if I didn't have to watch it screw up for years before getting another say in it. I've found precious few articles discussing the matter, which usually means I'm missing an obvious problem. Why, in the age of Big Data and petaflops, don't we consider continuous voting?

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