Yup, for the UI you want something more like QNX Photon.

Indeed. The whole point of the game is to get gamers outside and walking and visiting interesting and significant places. (One game slogan is "it's time to move".)

The problem isn't that the location is in the game. The problem is that some players act like complete arses, ruining those locations for everyone else. In retrospect, this is an obvious point.

Kind of like how the Prime Directive always makes the best course of action perfectly clear.

Of course, if you didn't keep it in a cage, then maybe it wouldn't lash out against its handlers.

If it implements all the REQUIRED features, then it is TLS.

If you're not free to marry nobody, and are unhappy about this, I'd be honoured to get behind your cause.

One of the hardest lessons I ever learned in this business is that if you tell a customer (often any customer) about it, you support it. It does not matter in the slightest whether it's officially documented or not.

I learned this lesson long before I started reading Raymond Chen's blog, which is full of examples.

And they involve coercion.

In what possible universe is an incentive "coercion"?

I wish you that you end up out of work on the street with no retirement, because that's the world you want to create.

I want a world where people are held responsible for the actions of corporations. How much prison time did those responsible for the Bhopal disaster do, again?

They can't, and the idea that Sweden should have to make a guarantee to a fugitive from justice is silly.

This is correct, however it's the law in many places that you can't be deported to another country if there's a risk of that country doing something that is abhorrent. I don't know what the law is in Sweden, but it is likely that he could not be extradited to a country where he may face execution.

Yes, the large number of US politicians calling for Assange to be executed is probably bluster. However, the fact remains that the US still executes people despite it being the 21st century, and still has execution on the books for crimes that Assange could conceivably be charged with, should he ever end up in US jurisdiction. Yes, those charges may only be used to try to coerce a plea "bargain". Still, the risk is nonzero.

This isn't something that Sweden can really deal with upfront, but were he to end up in Sweden and were the US to demand extradition, that is something that may well be fought in the Swedish courts.

The statute of limitations, so far as I understand it, is a limitation on how long prosecutors can wait to press charges.

Well, they haven't done that yet, either.

Any government policy addressing climate change necessarily involves coercion.

Incentives and nudges are approaches which could work in theory... ...but you're probably right. There's no such thing as enlightened self-interest (to a first approximation), and the Invisible Handwave of the Market has proven that it won't fix this by itself. If the alternative to a modest amount of coercion is a reasonable-sized risk of destruction of the planet's life support system, I guess we're stuck with a modest amount of coercion.

Everything is a tradeoff.

If you screw corporations, you screw the people owning them.

If only that were true. Limited liability sucks in that respect.

Notice how everybody who proposes ways of addressing climate change agrees that people need to be coerced to live differently [...]

Uhm... no? Everyone who thinks that climate change is an issue that needs addressing (i.e. everyone who is correct) agrees that the behaviour of people needs to change. Whether that happens by coercion, by persuasion, or by some other means, is an open question.

P.S. Corporations are not "people".

I can personally vouch for Professor Hogg. That is indeed his or her real name.

I identify as as false name.

Some people wear black nail polish for the same reason that Steve Jobs wore black turtlenecks: because black goes with everything.

If you're as fashion-impaired as I am, it's useful to stick with something that you know will work. Dressing with some modicum of sense is a courtesy to others.