There are multiple non-"C" DSL languages and virtual machines in the BSD kernels already and they have been there for over 20 years.

Here is a prime example http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Packet_Filter

Lua is a very clean, small, and relatively fast object oriented language. It is probably the best possible choice for a general purpose dynamic language to embed in a kernel.

Wasn't he ousted earlier? Might this be a case of sour grapes and a way to get back and give RIM, I mean Blackberry, a bit of a Raspberry?

FTFY

What could possibly go wrong

I would argue and better qualified people than I would agree, that self signed certs are actually more secure for uses like this.

FTFY

http://www.amazon.com/Battle-Mercury-Winston-Science-Fiction/dp/B000OP9M4Q

Lester Del Rey under a psuedonym and it had not only ice on the dark side of Mercury, but also Frozen Oxygen.

Am I the only one that thought Evilynne was smoking hot? Gota love bad girls.

No, a Black Pudding is the most evil of all puddings, followed by it's cousin, the grey ooze.

I am on their mailing list as a customer and nearly fell out of my chair laughing today, reading their most recent PHB Ad email.

It was all about how their latest VCloud offering would OPERATIONALIZE your Cloud, and VDirector would magically train your admins. They even threw in BPM, the only thing the email was missing was any mention of DevOps. They are totally marketing to Management now, and not to the techs.

This one was easy to beat in the dial up days. Order a second line for fax/data (unlisted by default) and use that as your voice line, and put fax/modem on the listed line.

There are many more choices than 1984 and BNW. There was that Asimov story about the single human who helped the Androids/Robots achieve freedom by committing Genocide on the whole human race. At the end, he is the only human alive and his supposed girl friend reveals she is an Android.

Then there is John Brunner's "A Jagged Orbit" which was good, but depressing.

Then we can stray into Fantasy with Stephen R. Donaldson and the Thomas Convenant series. I could not get past the second book. It was too depressing.

Then finally, one of my all time favorites that was kind of depressing. "The Siege of Wonder" by Mark S. Geston. It details a war between Science and Magic. You can't help but root for Magic. Science discovers that all of Human behavior, even love, can be modeled by Mathematics. People who fully understand the math, tend to all commit suicide. Science wins the war, but nobody seems to be all that happy about the victory. Very good book, but leaves you depressed at the end.

No, you have to climb into a refrigerator to survive that.

Isn't this called Facebook?

I predict that in 100 years, fusion will only be 50 more years out from being in practical use.

No, there really is a consensus among climatologists. 0ver 97% of climatologists who are actively publishing on climate change and over 85% of climatologists in general agree that human influences are responsible for most of the global warming we are seeing

And the 3% that don't agree, don't get funding, tenure or publishing. Quite the incentive to toe the Religious line. Also, 97% of all statistics are made up on the spot.