(I resisted upgrading because of one win98 game...).

Dammit, man, which game?!

Again, it's all relative. Do you really think it takes your modern (less than 10 years old?) multicore computer THAT much time to parse though even several million records? In a binary database format? Enough time that you'd even notice?

Counterpoint: Black people are still being publically executed for walking while black, or shopping while black. The latter including a white guy, on the phone with 911, blatantly making shit up.

Then it's a MIRV (though renamed to MIAV or something) with a reusable booster.

http://www.iss.net/security_ce...

I take issue more with the fact that it completely misses the point. "Everyone using Bash has the freedom to download, inspect, and modify the code....and yet this bug has been around for years."

Because nobody remembers the days when UNIX was just as 'keep security out of the way of the user' as Windows was. Nobody remembers the good old days of sendmail happily handing root access for the asking. 'wizard', 'debug', etc. Nobody remembers that UNIX is 'MULTICS with most of the security stripped out.' UNIX as in eunuchs as in a castrated version of MULTICS.

I liked SAO better when it was called '.hack//sign', personally.

Isn't that the entire point of Software As A Service?

The term you're looking for is 'ad-hoc reporting,' rather than realtime.

You are actually required to program your application to expect failed database calls.

The problem with programming is that most programmers consider basic error handling and sanity checking to be optional.

I think the point he's trying to make is 'we can solve this problem, today. We, as a species, apparently choose not to. So why assume a new solution will be better implemented than the existing ones?'

99% confidence that you work for the military/industrial complex. If so, resign and get a job that contributes to society

He says, using the computer which is a direct result of WW2 code breaking technology, across the Internet, a direct descendant of Arpanet.

Depends on what kind of LongBow you mean.

Bioware/EA's MMO Star Wars The Old Republic is a counter to that - 8 huge personal (single player, in a multiplayer world) storylines, one for each basic character class, with minimal and entirely optional multiplayer content until you get to the endgame, at which point it becomes almost totally about multiplayer in a traditional MMO grind-fest for gear.

Alternatively, you can do the tutorial planet, then jump immediately into PvP, PvP Dogfighting, flashpoints, etc etc, i.e. do nothing BUT multiplayer, while hitting three or four missions per planet to progress the storyline.

You get to play your way.