No no no not 4.0! I said 3.0! Nobody's coming up with 4.0! Who can surf in 4.0?

3 is the key number. Think about it! Three's a company. Three's a magic number The holy Threee-nity!
Step into my office!

To paraphrase the popular saying:
Applications don't leak information people leak information.

If your employees are stupid enough to discuss US invasion plans over hotmail, and you ban hotmail they will find even dumber way to discuss it trust me.

They aren't being left behind
They are right behind.

Since when is the fact that programs have bugs news.

Being a programmer is almost as depressing as being a meteorologist. People use your services/products on daily bases but only remember you when you get things wrong.

Also making a bug free application is almost as hard as making a faultless weather prediction for an entire month.

I don't know why we,programmers and meteorologist, even try (though programmers also catch and throw).

Here's the algorithm

1. Patent an 'invention'
2. If you notice someone is using your invention, DON'T SUE
3. Wait for them to actually succeed, and invest time. money and creativity in creating something useful that's loosely based on your half-baked idea that you patented
4. Sue the successful company
5. Profit

or just randomly sue successful start ups until you find one that used your patent

Patents have really lost their purpose.

By the way I've just patented

1 step one
2 ???
3 profit

pattern so from now on I can sue anyone who used a systematic approach to generated profit.

P.S.
Anyone else chuckled after reading the name Charles Nutter?

My dad has harnessed this power and uses it consciously when somebody tries to talk to him.

It's sort of spam filter.

Now semiseriously this might help you sleep but wouldn't it also make you more vulnerable and exposed when sleeping. Noise can be an indicator of danger. Evolutionary wouldn't the early human actually benefit from light sleep? Or to put it into modern context wouldn't you like to be woken up if someone is breaking into your house? What I am saying is that I am not sure I would call these people 'lucky'.

Are you summarizing sex or doom?

Sex...it's just like doom.

It's been 17 years since I enjoyed either.

Are summarizing sex or doom?

Sex...it's like doom.

Bonus 'joke':
It's been 17 years since I enjoyed either.

1 Elo BenchmarkOpen 0.723834
2 EdROpen 0.729125
3 whiteknightOpen 0.731656
so at this moment elo is back on top.

Could it be that people have been done some quickly jumpening to conclusions?

I guess george is working at /. now.

This worth the news simply cause this is one of the few decent looking games for linux.
Any linux purist (i.e. someone who has no dual boot) who likes computer (as opposed to console) games should try this, yes all ten of you.
If not for any other reason then to encourage more developers to do this.
If more developers do this it will indirectly improve code quality, cause programming a multi platform game/software requires a certain level of code quality.
I hope linux and windows client here are developed separately.

I still prefer League Of Legends, mainly for it's more lighthearted design.

or pedophilia.

Seriously though, it was ..well not 'nice'...but a right thing to do I suppose. I am not sure how old are these kids you're talking about. If they were 12-13, maybe using violence was not the best choice....but i suppose if they were around 18..and still bullying it is fair to say they deserve a beating.

But you are right, support from and adult or older sibling in these situations means a lot. The worst thing about these situations is that the bullied person starts feeling like they are on their own.