Pure rationality cannot trample human rights. That leads to... unsavory consequences. History is full of dictators who believe they have "purely rational" reasons for genocide.

May it cause the powers that be to rethink ending a person's life out of some misguided and ultimately incorrect notion of "deterrence".

Next issue: Making software patents entirely illegal. Math is a public good.

For the record, my parent comment was a theoretical way that they could serve these ads; it has no basis in any known Bell plans that I've read.

Deep packet inspection + replacement of common ad providers like DoubleClick in third party websites?

Incorrect.

From http://mentalfloss.com/article/19433/3-bald-encounters-set-star-trek#ixzz2iT1NI3pu

As a sibling mentioned, your analogy is flawed to the point of being ridiculous. The UN is an international body of cooperation between sovereign countries, not a country with states who by definition are not sovereign since they are part of their parent country.

Don't make me bring out Picard.

Oh yeah, I remember when the UN decided that it was a country too! *facepalm*

Go away, George.

If you can learn to compose well-written proposals and stay relatively positive, you can always do contracting (assuming you have skills that are in demand). Take a look at Guru.com. You'll be bidding against third world countries, but you wouldn't want the sort of employer that would hire them anyway, and there are ones looking for quality over cost.

Whereas in the US, she's just be plain old screwed if she happened to be uninsured. I'm not sure what you're arguing here.

Simply click this link and input your debit card details! I promise nothing bad will happen.

My entire day job is coding in PHP (and Javascript, and MySQL, and Mongo, and Node, and...). Seems to work well for my company, as well as the dozens of others with whom I've worked.

But keep using whatever's hot right now, it won't affect me one iota.

Users expect what their UI usually gives them. Break from that pattern at your peril.

I've created my own forum software in the past. GP is vastly understating the complexity of modern forum software. That said, I encourage actual web developers to try it as an exercise.

Also, I think GP isn't differentiating between "secure" on the surface when you look at code that you've written, and "secure" against multiple thousands of potential adversaries when a product is used everywhere. They will think of things that you haven't. That's why you get code audited.