I believe that Bruce McCandless is arguing that Dido is using his image to promote her album (like an endorsement). It would be like Pepsi taking a picture of Tom Cruise on the street and putting his picture in their advertisements.

I believe that the laws in the USA confer the right of the famous to control the use of their likeness in publicity for things that are not related to them or what they do, meaning that companies have to have a contract with the person before any endorsement or advertising can occur.

Protip: Windows is not a virus, because virii by definition are self-replicating. Computers do not spontaneously break out in Windows.

Windows fits better under the heading "malware" (or "crapware").

It's a total of $1,068,928,721.46 USD, which is about $83.45 CAD.

Completely different.

The primary purpose of the DATA statement is to give names to constants; instead of referring to pi as 3.141592653589793 at every appearance, the variable PI can be given that value with a DATA statement and used instead of the longer form of the constant. This also simplifies modifying the program, should the value of pi change.

* Early FORTRAN manual for Xerox Computers

Amazing as it seems, FORTRAN was created to handle changing the value of Pi.

This is not the line that you are looking for.

*handwave*

Exactly right.

What I don't understand is the current outcry about the bugs. It's a prealpha release. I'm betting that, as they got so much money from so many people on Kickstarter, they were feeling a lot of pressure to get something out the door, that people could talk about, and devs could start looking at to work on themselves.

I'd say that this move is mostly throwing the hungry dogs a bone - proof of concept, and a rough idea of the architecture; nothing more.

I think the GP was saying that he was thinking of the children...

So as long as we keep broadcasting reality TV, we're safe?

We ended up getting an edited version of it. Woo.

This just in: Australian Government stupid. News at 11...

I thought Brosnan was better, due to his ability to deliver the dry humour. Craig Daniel Craig, OTOH, takes himself a little too seriously.

Then, as a fellow Aussie IT geek, I have a "whoosh" for you. The only thing that is "cringable" in this matter is Senator Conroy.

In Australia, we don't bother getting permission for security tests either. We just dress up as Bin Laden, and pretend to be Canadian...

The stupid thing about what you're saying is that the patent system itself is Government interference. If you want the Govt to stop interfering, remove the patent system.

Hell yes, your hair's a mess.

If you don't read Bloom County, then you probably won't get it. That doesn't make it offtopic.