Nobody needs to learn to drive any more. We can teleconference everywhere. If you need your body to be somewhere, just rent a taxi! It's all virtual these days.

Have you examined the pattern of misprints? Maybe they're there to uniquely identify your copy of the e-book. That way, if the text pops up on a torrent stream, you can expect a knockin'-at-the-door.

But I bet the "mostly guys" in your office don't steal your pink stuff.

I am continually surprised at how many different things my small kids can build out of even sub-100-piece sets. In the past, Lego kits came with pictures of alternate things to build, and maybe that's what you were thinking of. My kids (and friends') don't seem to need encouragement to use their imagination when it comes to building castles, spaceships, cars, monsters, robots, blaster platforms, robo-grandma, SuperPantsMan, and Frank Rock/Iron Man hybrids.

God could also have a really well defined momentum, and therefore the uncertainty inequality makes Him omnipresent.

"Reconnect the network or the milk gets it."

Just post your new password on /. and we'll figure this out for you. B-)

My password is 8 asterisks. Are they showing you my password? What gives with these clowns!

I want to know how come my telephone line has gone from $7/month in 1997 to $32/month today, with no change in service.

K&R was an excellent introduction (short, expensive, valuable). However, I think I learned more about the why of C from reading Harbison & Steele, "C, A Reference Manual". It was a book for compiler implementers and programmers, and went into some of the design decisions, which really helped my comprehension.

As I read it*, the argument is over the 37 verbatim copied headers that define the API. That's like Oracle making a beautiful (ahem), elaborate sign explaining how to ring their doorbell. Google made their own doorbell but copied the sign, embellishments included. While the content of the sign is "fact", the decorations are arguably product of a creative process.

While I'll have to wait for better analyses of the ruling, I think we can take away that if you're reimplementing a library, you might want to reimplement the headers too.

* IANAL, and I'm not speaking for my employer. I only scanned the ruling.

Looks like someone was curious about the protestors in the new season of "24", and started Googling!

And if guns are decriminalized, then de criminals will get de guns.

You bet! I only use double-ROT13 now (quad-ROT13 for important stuff).

But I have to kill it externally by the time I remember that I needed to use '-e' (which, to their credit, is on page 2 of the manual). B-P