Debuggers have been handling this for decades already. You just embed the original line numbers in the generated source.

Someone is bound to write that debugger plugin, if they haven't already.

Then again, any language is just another syntax for writing Assembler.

Your argument rests on the faulty assumption that there is an infinite number of dirt poor people in the world. This is simply not true.

  About 1/3 of the world (Europe, North America and Australia, Japan etc) are already rich since a long time. China and India is another 1/3 that are rapidly moving up to that state. Several other places are also reducing poverty, and the fact is that we'll run out of dirt poor people in a few decades.

The globalisation and outsourcing that so many people are complaining about is actually part of the greatest eradication of poverty in history.

Sending humans, fucking or not, would cost 100 or 1000 times as much as this alleged waste of money.

Any cell phone that displays your location needs to track and store it in some form.

Smart phones aside, one of the main purposes of a cell phone is to constantly transmit it's location to the cell phone network, which stores it.

All this excited reporting, and nowhere can I find the actual numbers of this new budget deal. And I have both a serious news addiction and considerable search term skills.

Does anyone know the correct values of X and Y in this sentence?

For the fiscal year of Oct 2010 - Sep 2011, the US government plans to spend $X out of an expected income of $Y.

On a more rhetorical level I also wonder why it is this simple basic fact about the dominating news story for at least several weeks is simply not reported?

Well, people havent quit running competitions, even though cars are much faster.

I think one major cause of nucleophobia is that doses of a millionth of anything dangerous or less are easily measurable

Negligible doses of most every poison is always around, but are unmeasurable. Radiation radiates its presence and is observed, reported and terrifying.

"Don't spy, the government hates competition".

As long as the US government routinely and massively records email, web traffic and phone conversations, they have no business telling others to not do the same or much smaller things.

It's fine to come up with standards for safe power, as long as you apply them equally to all power generation.

For this one I guess the question is if you would want to live by the exhaust of a coal fired power plant?

I know I would much rather live by the nuclear storage. No other place will be as monitored for radiation, for one thing.

It only has to be better than the average driver.

At least from a rational standpoint. From a legal standpoint it probably has to be 100 times better and wait 10 years "just in case".

That has been rephrased slightly to keep up with the times. It is now Land of the fee.

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When I'm at a museum, I can't help wonder why is this not a web site??

I mean, all an art museum is is a way to display pictures to the public, but in a phenomenally expensive and impractical way, compared to HTML.

I realize this field is slow to change and that display quality can still improve slightly, but in the medium term this is inevitable.

At least to the extent the attraction of museums is to display these pictures. When it comes to letting visitors be near the objects that celebrity artists have touched, nothing will change.

I'm sure this had nothing to do with the accidental US bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade at the time.

So this malware is brilliant at some things but makes rookie mistakes in others.

Maybe it was some very skilled programmers working in a field they were not fully familiar with?

Perhaps US and Israel do not have super skilled virus authors on their payroll? I would actually like that to be true.