it totally breaks all that added security you were supposed to get through virtualization

Virtualization does not add any security to the overall system. Adding more code to a system cannot make it more secure by definition. You need less code running in the system to have less bugs in the system that malware authors can exploit. Adding virtualization adds yet another attack vector for malware: attacking the hypervisor. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Pill_(malware), for example. There are good reasons for using virtualization, but improving overall system security isn't one of them.

I'd take that comment with a grain of salt.
I will be mentoring a student, too.
And yes, I expect to be bouncing patches back to students (we have two), and suggest improvements, and maybe even provide a code example here and there to help them. It's part of the learning process they will go through. Just like any contributor.
But coding is only one side of open source development. There are many more. Another goal is to try to integrate the student with the project, and let it be a fun and rewarding experience. If students stay with the project even after the summer of code is over, you've done the best possible job as a mentor. That is the hard part. It's much harder than getting the code right.

Was Google created to promote and facilitate illegal file-sharing? No? Then Google is safe.

And what about Slashdot? Was it created to promote and facilitate illegal file-sharing? No? Well maybe not unless you follow this link and copy the content you are seeing to your friend's computer.
Come on. This ruling breaks the internet.

I studied CS at FU-Berlin, the program can be quite demanding, but it's very good. Some courses are taught in English, and in those courses you can write the exams in either German or English. If you're just going to spend a semester abroad, you may be able to get away with taking all your courses in English. You'll inevitably need to learn some German though, if only for social life (even though many people are fluent in English), but the effort may well be worth it. There is also a welcoming Linux geek society at the faculty. Oh, and Berlin is a very nice city. There's the typical tourist attractions, but also a large and very active hacking community which naturally provides lots of entertainment for CS students (projects such as the CCC, freifunk, C-base, bootlab). Beware -- many students have been known to end up stranded in these communities. Check here for information about application procedures for students from abroad.

• Thinking in C++ by Bruce Eckel http://mindview.net/Books/TICPP/ThinkingInCPP2e.html
• Computer Networks by Andrew Tanenbaum http://www.prenhall.com/tanenbaum/details2.html
• Structured Computer Organization by Andrew Tanenbaum http://www.pearsonhighered.com/educator/academic/product/0,,0131485210,00%2Ben-USS_01DBC.html
• Producing Open Source Software by Karl Fogel http://producingoss.com/
• Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System by Marshall Kirk McKusick and George V. Neville-Neil http://www.mckusick.com/books.html
• Code Quality by Diomidis Spinellis http://www.spinellis.gr/codequality/

Did anybody spot that most of the article was dedicated to describing the game and its distribution hopes, as if it were a game review, while the confiscation itself got just a single sentence in the article? This is a fucking advert.

Yep, and it sure worked:

The server at www.waronterrortheboardgame.com is taking too long to respond.