Exactly. The basic idea of business is "I provide you with something you want, you give me reasonable compensation," not a massive accountancy circle-jerk. It's like how patents were used to protect inventors of physical devices and create a public good, but are now being used to say "There is no legal way for you to implement this algorithm neener neener neener."

You're so cool.

Shellinabox has been doing this in JavaScript for a while now. There's source and binary packages for everything from Red Hat to Debian armel.

Seriously? That's how a German hacker got into the US military networks in 1989. Granted, he used tymnet and mechanically switched phone systems to cover his tracks, but once he got a login prompt it was the same thing.

You speak of a computer centric culture - keep in mind that the military a) is completely hierarchical, and thus run by old guys who can't tell the difference between an Altair and an iMac, and b) most people who understand computers well at all want nothing to do with the military.

Mind explaining those last two acronyms for us civilians?

Weare and Nashua are shitty places - the best parts of New Hampshire don't touch I-93.

Actually, it's been theorized that menopause is an evolutionary trait designed to give us helpful, caring grandmothers. I belive orcas are another species that do this.

That seems vaguely familiar.

Hire schmire. You can buy guns yourself.

That's cool, I'm an OpenJDK guy myself. I just think Oracle is trying to lure people to Oracle Enterprise Linux with it.

Is that why Republicans consider "flip-flopping" and "waffling" (better known as "changing one's mind) to be such a bad thing?

They're the same length.

Right, because there's no such thing as a keygen.

It's nobody's business but my own what books I read. If I want to copy a digital book and send it to my friends, I will do that. If I want to convert between formats and shift between devices, I will do that. Anyone who wants to tell me what, how, when, or where I can and can't read can die in a fire. Sometimes the "crazy" guys in the caves are right; just look at Richard Stallman.