Frankly, every loss of human life is a tragedy, whether American citizens or so-called "brown people".

I don't think this was an explanation of why older workers aren't as good as young ones... I read it as why they're less appealing to management (who've just learned that the Cloud is the next big thing. Or node.js. Or something).

The whole "that will be obsolete or irrelevant in 1.7 years" makes it pretty clear to me that the poster shares the "new-fangled" opinion.

I would argue that using "theft" for copyright infringement is just as ridiculous, and the only reason it's not "unlikely" is because it's happening.

I propose we try to counter this "evolution" by encouraging the term "culture rape" for copyright itself (at least in those instances where it's excessive).

It was understandable, at least. Although add voice-recognition into the mix and it's a whole different kettle of fish.

Sadly I do not have mod points. But well played, good sir.

Not Michael Jackson. He means Mick Jagger.

Not to mention that if you don't specify a CPU time limit, and you get an (apparently) infinitely running process you have no way of determining a winner short of solving the halting problem -- which may be a little too much effort if you're just looking to have a kids' programming competition.

Could you explain to me how this is a Catch 22 situation? To me it just looks like a difficult moral choice.

Just don't send the scientists, or we'll get a wonderful Ayn-Randist theme park at the bottom of the ocean :P

Put them above/below you, and turn on keystone correction. Hell, you can put all six on the floor and point them up if you can't afford to hang them from the ceiling (although if you can afford six projectors, you probably can...)

The root of the problem is that a computer has different (and/or no) "taste" in music. Now, I don't know where humans get their taste in music (I'm hardly an expert in the area) and it brings up the old nature vs nurture argument, but at the end of the day, you can't expect a computer to develop new musical styles that humans like without some way of evaluating what styles humans like.

Actually, I was visiting Romania recently, and I saw a store which (translated) was called "Clothes for fat people".

It made my day.

I believe the point is that with Flatter^H^Hr you pay a fixed monthly fee, which is divided between the recipients. It means that you don't need to decide how much to give, and you can Flattr an artist without worrying whether you can afford to donate any more money.

Personally, I think it's a good idea, and not a duplicate of Paypal, although 10% does seem a bit steep...

Nononono, that's all wrong. There should be a Message class, with a deleteIfSpam method that takes an instance of SpamDefinition as a parameter.