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So are the Feds going to go after Oracle and Larry for "unauthorized access to a computer" and "wire fraud"? With, like, real jail time?

Here's a possibly more comprehensive take on the same idea, illustrated by creating a badge: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RkvUX_4Ros It demonstrates the creation of a graphical element in a live …

Ahh, but the goal isn't to achieve justice, at least not for all the participants. A prosecutor's goal is to get convictions and/or pleas, if possible at minimum cost. In Germany, for example, the pr…

Tricky, at the very least. First, you have the problem that legislators have to outdo themselves in their "tough on crime" poses, leading to ever more draconian laws and potential sentences. Don't se…

And let's not even get started on the problems if you're not a citizen. Trivial example: at the 29c3, an NSA whistleblower was complaining that the NSA was now eavesdropping on US citizens , oh th…

It's not the swapping, it's the (configuration) complexity and test performance, among other issues. See http://www.confreaks.com/videos/759-rubymidwest2011-keynote-... . I particularly like the exa…

I never claimed it was. Sheesh.

Dude, that is exactly what I was saying...

"Zero is not nothing." Yes. In a computer, there is nothing that is nothing. You always have something that signifies nothing. C pointers also do not hold "nothing". What you refer to as "nothing" …

Glad you are aware that in at least some contexts, zero really is nothing, rather than '0 isn't really "nothing", though', as you claimed earlier. You write: 'Putting a zero into an int certainly…

You generally try to make tests positive, which then makes this work ( -isEqual: rather than -isDifferent:). Of course, there is one place where you have to go the other way: -isNil: does not work…

Step back for a second and think about what the number 0 means. If I give you 0 dollars, what have I given you? Or go to Wikipedia: 'The wThe word zero came via French zéro from Venetian zero, which…

Did you bother to read about Newspeak or click on the links? Did you see the part about Java "AbstractAbstractFactory" actually being very close to "worse" than global variables? http://newspeaklangu…

Well you could, but now you've coupled your system to the database.

Very succinctly put. Newspeak solves this by eliminating the global scope and eliminating "import". Every module is parametrized with everything it needs.

Well put! Another reason to grab the time once and distribute it is that you typically don't want the passage of time during processing to affect results, that is, you want your system to perceive "a…