"functional purity creates less buggy code".

At the same percentage it was justified to change the law in Germany in 1930s to make Jews illegal.

Perhaps not valid for the US, but here in Southern Europe the economic situation is such that it makes it very difficult to buy new PCs. We do want to upgrade, we just do not have the money.

Why hard code the size of addresses? for just a single bit of information, the ip headers could contain either the standard address or an extensible one.

That would have been really clever from his part.

But I guess going the emulation route is cooler.

For each email received, the receiving server shall send a request to the sending server to have the email resend. The request should be done via an email, as if the receiver answered the sender.

Once the receiver receives the email back, intact, then it is confirmed that this is an original email. Otherwise the email shall be deleted.

This is nothing more than the receiver calling the sender to ask "did you send this email?", automated.

After a few years of terrorists tricking the system with their face alterations, what is it that will come? Can you guess?

Can you say 'chip'?

Chipping will be mandatory then, and everyone not accepting it will be labelled as a terrorist.

Thank god people haven't understood yet this. As soon as they realize that what a computer lacks is a model of the world, i.e. information, we are almost done as programmers.

The real reason I cannot give a command to my computer to "create me a site like slashdot" for example, is that the computer doesn't know what I am saying.

As soon as deep knowledge AI systems are fully developed, and loaded with the appropriate knowledge, our days as programmers will be over.

I've read all comments, and it seems everyone here accepts that providing a file sharing service is an illegal activity.

Did this man actually uploaded copyrighted material? He did not.

Did he worked on it with the purpose of others uploading movies? He did not. He just provided a file sharing service, which I have used it myself to distribute family videos that were large enough to not be sharable by email.

So why do you all accept this ludicrus position that file sharing is illegal?

Almost all ancient cultures depicted a solar system of 12 planets. Early civilizations like the Sumerians considered the planets to be Gods, which later transpired to the Greek Dodecatheon (12 gods) and the 12 disciples of Jesus.

It is quite surprising to me that we can't detect these bodies. It is ok not to detect them on visible light, but what about the infrared? IRAS was supposed to have discovered a large planetary body at the border of our solar system in 1982. Shouldn't we have ten times better infrared telescopes today?

And why isn't it detecting waves on a daily basis? The universe is supposed to contain billions of black holes.

Also, you don't need to simulate a universe in real time.

Based on the knowlesdge we have, we can write a universe simulation that runs slower than our universe.

Pretty soon the people that work and support the rest of the society will demand more rights for them or less rights for those that do not work.

This will create huge social problems, and may even lead to civil war.

Muslims all over the world think the West is corrupt and immoral and it must be set on the right path.

2nd and 3rd generation Muslims that live in western countries fill ashamed of and guilty to help maintain these western immoral and corrupt societies. Some of those react by embracing terrorism.

1st generation Muslim immigrants that have struggled to get a place in western societies don't choose terrorism because they are torn inside: from one side, they dislike the West, and from the other side, they feel obliged to the West.

It has nothing to do with poorness or social outcasting. It has only to do with how Muslims see the western civilization. That is why terrorists are not poor or uneducated.

Since the system gives you the ability to cancel orders, I don't see what the guy did as illegal.

It is within the rules of the game, so it is legal 100%.