Seeing as how the next primary is in Florida, it seems like being for a lunar base and other NASA projects would more likely be pandering.

But you put it in a list of advantages PC-BSD has over a Linux-based operating system, and it's not one.

It's cute that you think the US government needs handset manufacturers to include backdoors in order to wiretap. It's much easier to just control the networks. \tinfoil

I didn't say that rape and murder define Occupiers (the opposite, actually), but you seem to be saying that a couple wackos with guns and inappropriate signs should define the Tea Party. Your bias is showing.

You either don't know the popular ideals of the Tea Party, or you're intentionally trying to distort them. I'll give you the benefit of the doubt. I can't really call myself a Tea Partier, so I'm not that best person to educate you, but I'll just say that a bloody revolution is actually not a prominent theme among their ranks and leave it at that.

I get what you're saying, but I guess I just disagree that the presence of guns automatically makes a situation more dangerous. As they say, guns don't kill people; people kill people. A civil person with a gun will cause less harm than a person without a gun who is intent on causing harm. That said, an uncivil person with a gun can cause considerably more damage than an uncivil person without a gun, but that's irrelevant if the group is entirely civil (which the Tea Party seems to be, or at least those actually bearing the firearms).

As to why bring a gun to a rally, I think it mostly has to do with the large overlap of 2nd-amendment advocates (NRA types) and the Tea Party. It may be a lot less common in some states versus others, but some people choose to carry firearms (either concealed or "open") everywhere they are legally allowed, if only to exercise their right to do so. Other people have real concerns over their own self-defense in general, so perhaps they carried at rallies, even though they may not have felt any explicit threat by attending the rally versus any other place where they live. I bet that some of the guns at rallies (especially rifles) were unloaded and used only as props to go with the colonial garb of some Tea Partiers. I can't say for sure. I've never actually been to any of these rallies, but I have come across the types of people that I just described around where I live, so I only have that limited insight into the minds of these people.

Sure. In America, it is still legal to own guns and carry them in most public places (usually requiring a permit if the weapon is concealed). It may be important to note that of all the Tea Party rallies, no weapons were ever fired, or at least nobody was killed. Going out on a limb here, but I think terrorists usually use their guns to kill as many people as they can, so maybe the term "terrorist" is misapplied to Tea Party people. There were actually a few cases of rape and even murder among the Occupiers, but it's just as ridiculous to call them terrorists.

Yeah, except a company which decides to use and modify open source software without giving back does not revoke anyone else' right to the code... so, in other words, it's not like that at all.

A bot scanning their addon repository is their (presumably temporary) solution? How about roll back to the previous version scheme until they can actually fix their software? Any plugin system which relies on hardcoded version numbers is clearly broken.

I have no idea how this made front page...

I really really really really really really want the old Google Search interface back. ;-( More importantly, I wish Google Search would actually search for what I type in. It's amazing and sad to see what they've done with their most useful product lately.

If your compiler isn't threaded, then at least run multiple compile jobs simultaneously--this is probably better anyway. If your build system can't do this, your tools are broken.

Perhaps you haven't had your coffee yet.

It's not so much about overuse. Rather, it's the misuse of macros and gotos (and any other coding construct) that can lead to bad code. Macros and gotos get a bad rap because they get misused more often than other constructs, mostly by those who are really new to programming. When used appropriately, these constructs can make code more readable and easier to maintain. It's too bad that so many students are being taught to avoid gotos at all cost; better to teach them when gotos can be used to good effect.