I found some bugs documenting my own code lately, but I think that only works if you write the documentation a month or so after you wrote the code.

If they had a 3D chat client and game in 1995, which contains portions of the patent (which was filed in 1999),
they essentially made their own prior art.

IANAL either, but AFAIK you had 1 year in the US during which you could file a patent after its technology went public, and in Europe you had to file the patent before you made you technology public.

There is some logic about reasoning about low-probability events here:

http://web.archive.org/web/20110712221603/http://thedeadobserver.hostwebs.com/

cool if you know the hotkeys, useless otherwise

No, if you move the horse, black can win.

However, to make it fair, black shouldn't move the horsie either ..

Then I discovered it was mostly firebug with the network log turned on that ate the memory with every ajax request made by setInterval.

Here's something about the developer:
http://www.theverge.com/gaming/2012/3/21/2884331/redemption-derek-smart-flame-line-of-defense-battlecruiser-3000AD

Oh well, forget it ..

Well, because of that.

Don't think it will get any better with video ..

In the end, you get a choice between two candidates, while you may hold a variety of opinions on 20 subjects.

Also, after elections, the electee usually backpedals when he has to conduct actual business (as usual).

.. it might actually work.

For function f(x){ return array('x'=>$x); }

You can't even do the above in PHP because it was developed to make parsing easy (see $), not coding.

I guess the validity of $x='x';$$$$$$$$$$$$$x; makes up for that ;-)

It is also lacking a means to list variables in your scope, I think.

.. you end up in jail and the money isn't yours either.

Reading the DRACO description on Wikipedia, I cannot tell whether the cure is worse than the disease.

The only part in the Wikipedia article I liked was the cleavage.