Last time I checked there were about 7 billion people who never actually did it.

And even if the numbers would be reliable it doesn't measure usage, but only the amount of 'chat' around a language. So it will favor languages which are badly documented, buggy, in the news somehow, controversial as well as educational languages and languages used by hobbyists. All of those are reasons to write blog posts, ask questions on forums or create youtube videos boasting the rating.

For example the rating of C might actually be boosted by all the people writing about the death of Dennis Ritchie...

So true. High-frequency trading should be made illegal, like most things which just extract money from others without providing value in return.

But since everybody seems to think paying $3.99 for the app is too much already, the changes of somebody actually paying the $25,- google fee on top of that seem pretty slim. (You could skip the $3.99 and port dosbox yourself though. Should be feasible, at least two people did so before.)

In the Netherlands countings are public (this might be true in the UK as well), anybody can just walk in after the polling station is closed and watch or even film the whole affair. Results are published per polling station so you can just sit there, count along and just along and compare your result to the published one. This makes it pretty hard to mess with the votes.

There's a nice paradox with paper ballots, because the counting is split between lots of people it does become more likely somebody tries to mess with the votes but it becomes really really hard to mess with the votes in a significant way. You can't make a full polling station vote for a candidate without at least attracting (unless everybody was voting for this candidate anyway, but in that case you won't gain much). You also can't realistically get rig the count in enough polling stations to make a difference. This is the single biggest advantage of paper ballots over computer voting. A handful of software developers might skew the results with a few percent in lots of polling stations, which could actually make a difference.

RDP can share a single application, rdesktop supports application sharing mode. You can run a single Outlook window over RDP on you linux box, works like a charm.

With automated trading systems this probably isn't entirely true anymore, since automated systems are likely take these bids into account when making their trading decisions. You could use this to trick your competitors into buying or selling a certain stock.

Automated trading shouldn't be accepted by regulators anyway. It probably is a nice game to play, but at the end of the day it takes money without giving anything back in return. Most other ways of making money without doing something useful are called theft or fraud. All those 'schemes' to become richer without actually adding any value is pretty bad for an economy (and essentially just theft, however fancy).

How is that statement not true, it works perfectly for me. If you reduce the number of guns around (which is probably pretty hard once they are all out there) you reduce the number of current and future criminals with guns.
Don't believe me? Just compare gun ownership and gun related deaths.

So if you feel an SUV is more are dangerous in accidents don't buy an SUV, instead of making the problem worse buy buying one and risking you kill somebody with it. At least when it comes to pedestrian safety SUVs are pretty bad compared to other cars, making SUVs illegal in urban areas will do more to protect your kids then buying one.

A report claiming Agile is just a scam to sell services will set you back $199,-. You just have to appreciate the irony there...

True, but owning a few million bucks worth of MS shares kind of changes your priorities doesn't it...

Not everybody lives in the US and the new Focus is sold worldwide...

Fixed.

ABS used to be pretty shitty, but the world has moved on since. It's just that GM didn't notice...

(But only in slow moving traffic)

Ford is talking about cars which are capable of following the flow of traffic automatically. But there will still be a driver in there, there will still be a steering wheel and brake pedals and they will overrule those systems if the driver decides to use them. Just do whatever you feel is the right thing to do when flashing lights show up behind you...

Which also solves the issue of responsibility, it will still be the drivers responsibility to operate the car properly. It's just a few other automatic systems. With the introduction of cruise control driver stayed responsible for the speed of the car. These systems won't be any different.