In an older test (http://archive09.linux.com/articles/42031) the most succesful virus managed to go into an endless loop, actually having negative performance influence on Linux – until Ctrl-C was hit.

In Denmark we have a login system (NemID) which is needed to log in to all home-banking systems and all government websites like administration of taxes, social security etc. The login is done with a Java applet (which doesn't even work in OpenJDK, only Oracle).

But that is not an -ii suffix. It's still an -i suffix (Pri-us, Pri-i)!

Whether virus has a morphologically marked plural in latin is debatable. The discussion you link to claims that "virus" is a 4th declension noun, but all dictionaries I've checked (including Oxford!) says it's a 2nd declension noun. Anyway, "virus" is a neuter, not masculine noun, which means that the latin plural (if it really is 2nd declension) is not "viri" ("virii" does not make sense to me; is it an anglicism?), but "vira", which btw is well established as an alternative to "virus", at least in Denmark.

Ironically, AppleScript, which apparently tries to be "human friendly", is the first programming language I've tried where I gave up figuring out how to do some simple operation that looks alike in all other languages (some string operation, I think it was), even after searching the documentation. I now believe OSA really is an acronym for Obnoxious Syntax Abomination.

True, but sometimes people do follow lines of thought that can be taken ad absurdum. I believe the line is often drawn at what is immediately inituive, for example the immediate risk of contamination (or at least most of us are brought up to wash our hands and dress wounds). That you may or may not catch a flu may be percieved as a more remote threat. I do not claim that this line of thought is 100% coherent; all I know is that there are actually people who refuse e.g. ensurance for this reason.

I'm also baffled by this. The only reason I can think of (except them being in Christian Science) is that she follow the same line of thought that leads some (and I stress: SOME) protestants to have issues with contraceptions and/or ensurance: By taking such precautions you don't trust God to do what's best for you.

Nah, it's three: One to hold the bulb, one to write "house.merry_go_round() = function() {...};", and one to scold the second developer for not putting that method in House.prototype in the first place.

The article IS for the layman. The quote is not really representative for its general style.

An interesting feature of Sinfest is the development of the characters. In most comics the characters have some basic features from the beginning and are gradually shaped during the years. In Sinfest, on the other hand, some of the characters (e.g. Lil' Devil) undergo life-changing experiences.

Good ol' M-x cook-turkey

I was going to write a similar comment, but you already said it.

Hehe, I first watched Forgotten Silver on TV and missed the start, so I didn't get any hints that it was a hoax, and like many other people I did not pay proper attention to the comical or unreliable parts. Years later I saw a certain DVD on the shelf in a store and thought: "Hey, great, a Peter Jackson movie ... wait a minute, that story seems familiar ..."

Which of the following is most likely to be on hand:

• 1. A coin
• 2. A book
• 3. A hand

(The answer is of course: 4. A smartphone with a head-or-tails app.)

The logic of survival of the fittest can (logically) not in itself explain progression in evolution, only why regression doesn't happen.