You mean like computers? One computer can do the math that it used to take large groups of manual labor to accomplish. So, now we have tech industry that employs far more people than the ones it replaced. And railroads put a lot of wagon drivers out of work. And yet, I'm sure the shipping industry spends billions of dollars per year. Historically speaking, replacing human labor with something more efficient has happened quite a lot.

Should we dig ditches using tea spoons? Because after all, using a shovel replaces dozens of workers using tea spoons...

I'm pretty sure if the guy plugged his laptop into the wall or his cell phone, no one would complain.

Against vehicles I would expect it would be done from a UAV instead. Speaking of which, if you could target aircraft with this someone would have a really bad day...

Is the summary misleading, or are they taking about 3rd party partners and not "affiliates" like the summary said. Amazon Affiliates just put a banner add on their web site. It is more like running an advertisement inside the state than it is like a car dealership.

The "F" in F-Droid stands for Free. That's not what I was thinking it stood for at first...

Yes. The right to remain silent is good for society. As far as talking to the police when you are pretty sure you will be convicted anyway... When exactly do you know that? Are you a lawyer? The evidence you think they have might not be admissible for some reason. The lab might screw up the forensics. The cop involved might be found to have planted evidence in some other case. They can and will lie to you about what evidence they have collected. So, yes, you may get a better deal by cooperating. But you should never do so unless you have a lawyer first.

I think other than Jar Jar, the thing that killed the newest 3 Star Wars movies was the horrible acting. It is like every actor everywhere wanted to be in the movies, but they cast extras who stood around in swimsuits from the background of Bay Watch. (Not really. But it kind of seemed that way.) Then, there was the writing. I mean, take young Anikin Skywalker. The one thing they needed to demonstrate about him is a strong emotional connection with his mother. It should have been a little bit like Heavy Rain. There should have been a strong bond there and he should have been sad to leave her but done it anyway. Instead, it seemed they wanted to make him like Wesley Crusher from Star Trek. Then, the love scenes were like watching Natalie Portman try and do a love sceen with a wall. They were just so flat and unbelievable. Seriously, did the casting director from Star Wars go on to cast people from Twilight? Then, there was Jar Jar. I actually could have forgiven them for Jar Jar if they would have done the third one right. I would have had Jar Jar say something inane to Anikin like "Don't worry about your mother. Meesa think a slave is not worth worrying about." Then Anikin would have went all darkside on him and obliterated him. That would have been epic.

In modern society, people who don't know how to use computers are handicapped. People who don't know how to program are functionally illiterate.

You can program games in Unity http://www.unity3d.com/ in JavaScript and release them on Windows, Mac, Android, IOS, Playstation 3 (4 is probably coming soon), Xbox 360, etc. They have a full fledged debugging support using Monodevelop.

Apple said that you don't need 3G and even that it is bad since it kills battery life. Remember?

The Motorola Xoom sold about 250,000 Xoom tablets in the first quarter after they were released. The sales steadily declined since then. I think after 6 or 7 quarters, they had sold around 500,000 of them. Still, it is not like Motorola is exiting the tablet market. I think they will do better now that they are part of Google.

Christianity is founded on moral relativism, though most Christians won't admit it. For example, if I throw people in lakes of fire it is frowned upon. But, if God does it, then it is moral.

Almost all of the ones I have downloaded recently don't distribute binaries for Windows. Usually someone else forks the project and makes their own installer like http://rubyinstaller.org/ for example. Or, http://www.activestate.com/activeperl/downloads or http://strawberryperl.com/ or http://dwimperl.com/windows.html . The makers of popular languages like Perl and Ruby don't bother making installers. They just put up links to other people who do it. Some times other projects lag significantly behind the main project.

Whatever language is used for introductory programming, I think a few bad features are automatic initialization of variables, and being case insensitive. If you learn to program on languages with these features, it is difficult to adapt to C. In other news, it is better to learn about addition before multiplication. Also, it is better to learn about summation before you learn about integrals.

I thought Oracle lost all of its claims except for the rangecheck funtion thing in Oracle v. Google. How did that weaken copyright in interfaces?