You missed the point, nobody is claiming anyone has "bought the results". TFS is asking a question, ie - would researchers do that research anyway if it was not funded by industry? - And the answer is no since researchers have to eat like everyone else and public institutions are unlikely to fully fund it.

I'm not claiming there is zero corruption in Science but if (reputable) scientific results were as easy to buy as many slashdotter's seem to believe then the Koch brothers would already own the IPCC.

The recent heatwave will have knocked plenty of people offline at the pole, the first hot day in a Melbourne summer is always chaos on the trains for similar reasons (hot metal expands). However this incident just appears to be iiNet's server room air-con that fell over, nothing to do with the weather.

In 1960's Australia people were expected to stand for "God save the queen" at the cinema. A B/W picture of the Queen would come on the screen just before the movie, the anthem would start playing, and the audience would all stand up in silence

At least they have a minister for science, here in Australia one of the first things our new PM did was to get rid of the position "minister of science" in his new cabinet, a position that has been supported by both sides for over 75yrs. He has spent the last year or so defunding institutions such as the CSIRO, in his ideology science is subservient to industry, in particular the mining industry, which is why he merged the science ministry into the industry portfolio, decommissioned the climate commission and rolled back the "carbon tax".

You're talking about homeopathy, which was dreamt up by a German crackpot a couple of centuries ago. Sadly if you go to your local health food store, you will find the shelves full of bottled water labeled as homeopathic remedies.

West of where? China and the US emit roughly the same amount in total tonnage, the US alone emits 3-4X that of China on a per-capita basis. The west is almost single handedly responsible for the current excess in the atmosphere since both China and India did not have large carbon footprints until recent decades.

I doubt it, their business model is making them $quillions, I don't think they give a flying fuck if it works for you and I.

That, plus the price gouging that goes on, for example Aussie's famously pay 50-100% more for digital content than customers in the US and EU regions.

The DDOS attack is likely to have a ransom attached to it, so it boils down to two options; spend money on honest and reliable uptime protection, or submit to the attackers dishonest and fickle protection racket. I'm pretty sure the first option would be cheaper in the long run, sure it's a relatively expensive line item on an IT budget but not enough to seriously damage the total budget of a small bank.

My toaster has an IQ of 4000, it should be smart enough to fix itself.

Exactly, I'm over 50 and that's the reason my mum stopped darning socks back in the 60's.

Yep, that's why it's called a design "methodology", it ignores the implementation details. OOD is an older design methodology you are apparently completely unaware of even though many languages have gone out of their way adding features to make it easier to implement OO designs. "Functional decomposition" is the oldest methodology commonly used by developers and is also well supported by specific language features. "Design patterns" is the only popular methodology that is not well supported by language features, perhaps that's why you noticed it "transcends language features"?

Agree that mixing two methodologies will end in tears but that doesn't mean you can't use OO language features to implement a design pattern.

You have it backwards, OO is primarily a design methodology, not a language feature. If you look carefully, most of the examples in K&R are actually implementations of good OOD written long before the term was coined. The "OOP features" found in today's languages actually evolved from the use of OOD, not the other way around.

How do I know this? - I'm degree qualified and have been using it professionally for almost 25yrs. Do yourself a favour, admit to yourself you might not understand OO properly and crack open an OOD textbook.

Before taxi driving I worked and lived in a sawmill town, the nearest taxi was 2.5hr drive away, the nearest store 30min away, unprofitable means "not worth the effort", so what's your point?

The key words are "non supported". The way it works in a legal sense, it would be like trying to sue a gas station owner because the hose wouldn't stretch to where you parked your car.