....."Brazil? Where did that come from? And isn't that a place full run down stacked-box neighborhoods?" I dunno.......Brazil just doesn't give me the impression that its the kind of place I'd expect to have really great security as far as technology (or anything really) is concerned.

Well, what I meant was DON'T do this in GTA, but definitely in Call of Duty and other games used to train soldiers. No reason to give them a means by which they'd get to practice committing war crimes. In fact, now that I think of it, since its an online game, why not track how many real soldiers playing the game are committing more war crimes while playing the game? That might serve as an indicator for being more predisposed to going berserk.

It would ruin Grand Theft Auto, but for games that we're using to train soldiers, I'd definitely support this.

Getcha a really nice GREP tool of some sort where you can search through source code easily and do replacements when necessary. I use mind all the time. Comes in quite handy when you're working on code written by other developers.

i think people probably already have a good idea about what they actually think about the other people that they email back and forth with. a google app is just going to tell people things that they already know about themselves.

Should have happened within the first 30 minutes after the first iPad was issued out to the first student.

I remember other similar games "The 7th guest" and "Monkey Island". Good games that make you think instead of just running around shooting. Wish there were more like that. Leisure suit Larry was pretty good too I think.

Are you a work-from-home developer of some sort?

i gotta think people in china are intelligent enough to know this is a forced confession. and china's govt has to know their population is intelligent enough to know this. they're just basically making example of this guy as a message to its population to say "we can make you do whatever we want". i bet they threated to lobotomize the guy or something like that.

all of america is trying to underbid one another for work these days. and the jobs are often short-term. certainly has trivialized the work experince. how are we supposed to gather loot when we're constantly underbidding one another for small short-term gigs that amount to peanuts?

I agree. Big spoken numbers seem to be a trend going on. I was taking a bike ride through a gated neighborhood with larger homes the other day and right out on the lawn was the for-sale sign with the broker name: "Trillionaire Assets".

Sorry but thats just how it is, even in the Linux world. You can't relive the past. You gotta move on to newer things. Just look at my screen handle; I've learned this lesson myself. Don't waste time hoping it will make a comeback because it won't; not as long as there's a surplus of people willing to complain about how old and obsolete it is, and not as long as there's no significant payoff to be made.

Indeed. I won't argue that people can be collectively retarded in mass numbers at times. But I still don't think thats justification for empowering the government with wide-reaching internet censorship. If people wanna act crazy, I say: LET THEM. If I had to choose between the occasional outburst of mass hysteria versus the permanent ongoing supression of free speech, I'll take the former over the latter.

I can see it happening. The NSA is relatively new, so next comes the NMHPA (National Mass Hysteria Prevention Agency). They'll censor the internet systematically with advanced technology solutions and and say "No, we're not oppressing people's right to free speech. We're preventing panic caused by mass hysteria".

I have a small bit of of software that I think is pretty useful. However, the company that created it many years ago is long since out of business. As I understand it, the company's intellectual rights and other such software was acquired by a lawfirm of some sort. I've spoken with them about it, and they no longer have the original source code to the software, so they have no way to update and maintain it or create updates for it. I told them that its such an old piece of software that its very easy to decompile; we could just decompile and then move forward using that. But they said that even so, they still have no interest in making any attempt to do this because its just not something that they see as a profitable endeavor. So that pretty much makes it shelved and abandoned.

So what I'm wondering now is if I would be breaking any laws or putting myself at risk of getting sued if I decompiled it and then created an open source project using the decompiled code.