A lot of python 2 libs won't have too much trouble running under 3 without modifications.

They do realise that even more Internet services are not even in the US....right? Or does their jurisdiction actually extend to other countries now?

What are you talking about? Nearly every single provider has unlimited download offers. They're not usually too expensive either. This is been the case for many years.

Heck, I can't remember the last time I went to someone's house and they had a limit.

I have a sourceforge project. All I did was pull down the repo to another location and run a diff on my working repo and the one I pulled down. There were no unexpected differences. I'm struggling to see why this is so hard to understand. It's simple to figure out if your project has changed in an unexpected way. It also easy to overwrite the repository on the sourceforge server with a clean one if you are suspicious.

Seriously, an attack this public will not catch out many projects. And I fail to see how someone would be able to "prove" that a project stole code when it's been made so public that SF was compromised. Just that fact would cast a huge amount of doubt over that sort of claim. Especially when one of the developers hands over an untainted version from their home machine for inspection.

Um...each developer will have a working copy on their local machine. This is most likely to be the last known good version. A quick diff will show up the changes that they've recently made and they can verify that the differences are valid. It's really not that complicated.

If someone wants to go through the trouble of hacking the version control to the point it can propagate to the developers machine, stop them from reverting changes that may have been pulled down just before the repositories were locked down, I'm pretty sure they'd be smart enough to break into sourceforge without making such a big mess and alerting everyone. We can go around with increasingly unlikely scenarios forever but the fact is, a quick check is all that's realistically required.

It's simple for the devs, now alerted to a potential compromise, to just branch the repo and do a quick diff between the last known good revision and the one on the server. I doubt a big public attack is going to compromise many projects and those it does manage to compromise are probably mismanaged anyway.

Is it heavy alcohol use or the sudden halt of alcohol use in people who are physically addicted? The article linked indicates that it's more likely to be the latter.

Don't worry, it's not very long :)

I'm always surprised that google hasn't just listened and given us http://simple.google.com./ It'd get rid of any whining and allow them to clutter the front page as much as they like.

It's not a monopoly. There are many private health providers in the UK. You may buy medical insurance if you like, or just pay up when you want treatment. The NHS is available for everyone (provided you're eligible) and if people want extra, the only reason they can't is if they can't afford it. It's kind of like the US system except you still get good care if you don't have the funds and they don't hand you a clip board for your insurance details when you walk into a hospital.

In case that direct link redirects to the main page (it did for me), the html page that has a link to the PDF is here.

The company I work for does exactly this. However, my contract says that work created in the course of my employment belongs to them, so it's ALWAYS a good idea to get written permission to either give back to OSS projects tweaked* or open source anything written on company time, premises or equipment. A quick email can avoid misunderstandings and even legal arguments later.

* If I understand correctly (and please, correct me if I'm wrong), open source projects used and edited internally and never released, don't actually need to be fed back to the OSS project it belongs to. We generally do offer work done back to the original authors though!

Jabber was renamed XMPP. XMPP is what facebook uses for chat.