How about rock-paper-scissors?
[X] physical skills involved
[X] some kind of scoring system
[X] objectively declare winner
Ticks all your boxes!

Is it your feeling that SAS is "stifling any real innovation" or do you have examples of projects that are impossible with SAS but possible with Python or R?
Do those example projects actually help the bottom line of the company or are they just "cooler"?

If you can think of examples that have clear financial benefits to the company, you have a solid business case already.
If there are no such examples or other factors negate the benefits, then the company has nothing to gain by switching and should not switch.

Short answer; if you're asking on Slashdot for reasons to switch from product X to product Y, you probably have no real reason to switch.

Assuming the data was in some attachment (of could have been easily put in an attachment), how about just encrypting the attachment if it contains information so incredibly sensitive that it warrants a court order if it ever leaks out.

You don't need PGP, IMAP or any specific OS, just a small bit of common sense.

Losing a few thousand dollar is little more than a minor inconvenience for GS.
So how about it GS... send me a few thousand dollars.

Google is abso-fucking-lutely right to require a court order. If they don't, it'll just open the flood gates for other companies and people to "retract" damaging e-mails. The news here isn't that Google required proper legal procedures before violating it's users rights, it's that GS sends highly sensitive data by e-mail.

Just because an issue was quickly resolved doesn't make it a non-story.

If Goldman Sachs uses the insecure SMTP protocol to transmit highly sensitive unencrypted data, they deserve the reputation damage (and a security audit).

FTFY

Ask yourself. "is any of what I said an argument or am I trying to let the reader do my work?"

Now we're in agreement on that, do you see how wrong you are?

I guess you majored in "pedantry", with honors.

What "Authors have right to be paid for their work" means is that if other people want to use the result of their work, the authors can ask payment in return.

Ofcourse you fully understand what was meant, but thought treating another person like a moron would make you feel superior. Enjoy your fuzzy feelings.

How accurate does Cardboard track head movement?
Note that head displays have been done many times before over the past decades.
The problem has always been motion sickness inducing head tracking, never the display technology.

The ruling is a German ruling, not a European ruling (Europe has it's own court).
German rulings do not apply to Europe or any part of Europe other than Germany.

We're not talking about breaking into an author's house, stealing a transscript and copying it many times. We're talking about buying a legitimate copy from the author and passing that single, original medium along to somebody else.

Authors have right to be paid for their work. They do not have a right to be paid for paying customers selling the customers' property.

I for one am constantly aching for a CLI that can play musical notes. It's an essential feature and one I cannot possibly do without.

Sounds like "maffia" to me.

If the voluntary pool becomes large enough, we call it "government".

Libertarianism is one of those things that only works in small groups (and then only helps that small group), but fails on a nation-wide scale.
Kinda like how marxism works in small communes but turns into communism when applied on a nation-wide scale.

Reading the Wikipedia article, it doesn't seem all that negative.
There are some negative details in there, but these are simple facts, stated in a short and factual manner.
If you don't want people to know of your extortion practices, then either don't extort people or do a better job at it so you don't get convicted for it in a public court.

Being legally right does not mean being morally right in the eyes of those who pay your bills.