>> As far as the human genome goes we can store it and revert back to unedited DNA any time we like

Lets assume that some therapy that tweaks DNA in a way that gets passed on is later found to be detrimental. By the time we identify and agree the need to revert, the genie would be well and truly out the bottle.

>> It is simply a matter of not allowing people to reproduce who have had unwanted consequences from edited genes.

Nice one Adolf. This is incredibly naive, You really think the victims themselves will go along with that? You really think there won't be a whole bunch of liberal hollywood movie stars having fund raisers for mutants rights to have babies?

"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it"

>> few organizations are capable of moving thousands of people, some of them infected, to different locations on the globe,

Isn't that a good thing? I mean Quarantining is a good idea right?

Slow Down Cowboy!

nVidia requires you to wait between each successful usage of the brakes to allow everyone a fair chance at avoiding accidents.

It's been 4 minutes since you last successfully used your brakes.

>> dude, you're a fucking moron.

"Dude" go fuck yourself.

Generating source code.

No you get. over. it, Your statement is clueless.
The compiler is not doing anything creative or original at all so it is definately not WRITING code. It is simply compiling it which most usually includes intermidiate steps such as conversion to lexemes, then to trigraphs, then to assembly, then optimized assembly, then target-specific binary.
Each step is simply converting the output of the previuos step to another logically equivalent form. There is no create input so It is not writing (i.e. creating) anything at all itself. That is ONLY the file you wrote that forms the initial input.

1) he's clearly asking the question "do (sic) ITIL hates skilled people?" its even in the title.
2) The question was perflectly clear to me.
3) Peecee does not trump the truth
4) Actually most of us here ARE "IT sorts"
5) why? non-excessive swearing can be legitimately used to get a point over forcefully. And where did he swear anyway?

Here's some tips for you:
1) Don't be a dick. You must already be aware you're making dickish comments otherwise you wouldn't have hid behind posting anonymously.

2) At least bother to read the whole fucking article before you trash it so you dont make any more obviously misguided criticisms.

No it doesn't write code. It compiles the code you wrote. Thats why its called a compiler.

>>>> The United States of America is the nexus of true freedom in this universe.

Bwahahahahahaha. Thanks I needed a laugh.

Dumbidum? Does It have electrolytes?

Thank you for sharing that. It was like the old man wrote it himself. And I don't think there's any higher commendation.

All the fans knew it was coming for a while now, but with this news the world suddenly seems a lot more grey. I guess octarine isn't quite as imaginary as we all thought.

Gods bless, Terry. You will be sorely missed.

We use C or C++ with provisos depending on what Design Assurance Level (A-E) the product is, (See FAA standard DO178B that covers software development for avionics). We have to comply with our processes based on DO178B so depending on the DAL of the project we may or may not be able to use mechanisms that lead to unpredictable code paths such as exceptions, recursion, inheritance etc. IMHO the actual effect of that is to make the risk of potential problems worse.

Yeah I take it you're a web developer or something similar where most code is considered throwaway or "here today gone tomorrow".

Auto code generation of any kind just doesn't fly (literally) in my field (embedded, avionics).