Has anyone considered pitting them against each other in mortal human combat? That would surely make the cream rise to the top!

I use Emacs as an IRC client, an RPN calculator, a mini text browser, for browsing usenet, and I even play a couple of games in it... but when I edit text I use vim.

Exploitable wealth is not always oil. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/14/world/asia/14minerals.html?pagewanted=all

Yeah I am fully aware that this information is nothing more than estimates. I am aware that photographic grains do not line themselves up in perfect X,Y grid coordinates. However kens site is the only place I have seen a written honest attempt to estimate the actual resolution of film. Now for years I have heard digital camera salesmen try to tell me that this high MP camera or that high MP camera will somehow equate to a 35MM camera. However I have had some experience in scanning very old prints. These prints I am scanning are not 35mm by any means, but instead they are very old plate style photographic prints that overall carry more resolution than a 35mm image, however a modern 35mm image will carry far more detail per square mm than one of these prints I am scanning. That being said. with a scanner I am able to pull details out of these pictures that would be hard to see with a proper jewelers loop.
My point being that there is no digital camera alive today that can actually come close to the resolution of proper photographic film of any format.

http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/film-resolution.htm So you are saying your cell phones camera is 175 megapixles at 24 frames a second or better? I would be very interested as to what brand of phone you own.

David Jones: The Russians put our camera made by *our* German scientists and your film made by *your* German scientists into their satellite made by *their* German scientists.

Long answer: YES!
TLDR: no.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hundredth_monkey_effect

you are ignoring the point I am making however. you can alter the OS to have less trust. You can warn the end user in a dozen different ways. But without the end user having an inkling of awareness about security risks they will simple click through and disregard OS protections. Security starts with the users not the OS.

You can add all the hooks you want to any OS you want. None of it means anything when the end user can circumvent these protections because curiosity got the best of them. The only real solution here is education of the end users so they know not to trust any little piece of plastic they find in the parking lot.

normally when people are serious about not being called a troll they will include citations to back up what they are saying. Thus far you are totally trolling. Citations please?

Not when about 90% of police stops include a camera in the police car that cannot be turned off as long as the police lights are flashing. Most recording equipment in police cars are only re-viewable by the officer (as opposed to erasable), The officer has no say in whether or not the equipment is actually running as long as the car is in any sort of emergency mode.

I am far more likely to believe googles exec about his uptime than I am to believe you about yours.

does HIPAA even apply to anything beside health related services? I suppose you could argue that it would include lawyers working health related cases where medical records are required for litigation. but that all seems kinda niche to me and not representative of the majority of corporate interests. Feel free to correct me if I am wrong.

and BTW you are quite right about the trade secrets.