Eliminate all fructose and sugar from your diet. Non-diet soft drinks are loaded with fructose; don't drink them. Don't eat muffins or donuts; they have too much sugar. Best snack: corn chips fried in lard. Second best: potato chips (watch for added fructose tho).

Don't be too sure that touch screens won't appear on PCs. At one time, PCs had only one monitor (can you believe it?) What's wrong with having a touch screen instead of a keyboard and multiple monitors?

"Responsible disclosure" means "We don't want to bother fixing it." If the vulnerability is not make public, it is never fixed. This has been done many times before. The only way to get them fixed is to make them public.

Bruce (who else?)

The difference between exceptions and error codes is that uncaught exceptions cause the program to terminate. To ignore them, the programmer must add code. If there's no code to handle an error code, you don't know if the programmer wants it ignored, or that he was completely unaware of it.

Yes, it is. Not being thorough is bad always engineering.

The biggest problem with exceptions is that they get thrown too far, changing them into comefroms (the opposite of a goto). And like gotos, they encourage spaghetti code. The best way to deal with them is to limit them to thrown exceptions only to their callers. That way, all exceptions become part of the subroutine's interface. Remember, for a programmer, out of sight is out of mind. If it's not part of the interface, it will be forgotten. For those who are interested, you can read my blog for details and an example.

If not, it's an arbitrary decision. And it leaves their government opened to be sued.

...because they would rather work smart than work hastily.

Completely overlooking the fact that before Twitter there was less to distract them. And overlooking the fact that those who may have to do something else, like write a term paper, may want to follow the game via Twitter. Reducing access _always_ means reducing your audience.

Once more, human stupidity rears its ugly head. Limiting people's access limits their interest. Example: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20121109/13423720996/draconian-downloading-law-japan-goes-into-effect-music-sales-drop.shtml They can kiss good-bye to their students support for sports...and their future alumni support too.

Communism has become Newspeak for totalitarianism. Just like the National Socialist German Workers' Party. Bad governments can change the meaning of words faster than you can think.

China's censorship will suppress ideas and reduce innovation. They are currently enjoying an economic boom but that will slow down as wages increase (and they will). How does China expect people to innovate when they're afraid of collaborating? Censorship never helps an economy.

Yes, Richard has shown that you don't have to be disagreeing to be insulting.

I always thought that putting a radio-telescope on the back side of the moon would be a good idea since the moon would block all the electromagnetic noise from Earth. Two could be installed, one just over the curve near the north pole and one near the south pole. This would give a baseline of appropriately the diameter of the moon. It would be one, big ear.