It's not paranoia, just yet another ego trip. "I'm so important they want to blow me away!" No Darl, you little turd, we want to see you live the rest of your hopefully long, long life as the insignificant worm you really are. That's a fitting punishment for egomaniacs.

You really needed to round that off with "you'll be incredibly lucky to get Darl working for you."

You can count "earth" as a resource the moon has that mars doesn't... Sure in a few thousand years it will be easier to live on Mars and take resources from Martian soil than ship them to the moon from earth, but for the next 5 or so human generations, it will be easier to ship stuff to the moon from earth.

However, why would anyone want to live on the moon, there is no solid business reason to colonize it.

I think the real moral here is to use Java rather than .net! :P

In all seriousness, it's only a matter of time before more .net exploits are discovered. Java is the more open solution, with a better security track record. *shudder*

I'll show you where it is: Open up your Firefox browser, surf to "about:config" and search for blocklist. There ya go. Oh wait, that's the place that allows you to turn off or fine tune Mozilla's blocklist.

I thought most bacteria did not engage in sexual reproduction, but instead basically cloned themselves for each successive generation. If that's the case with this particular species, I don't think it would be entirely fair to call this group inbred, considering all of them would be clones, not just this group.

I didn't clarify the question. The user asked a perfectly clear question. It was just the wrong one--it wasn't what he needed. I clarified what he actually wanted and supplied the *right* question.

Western countries have by far most access to cheap energy and cheap food. Yet their population diminshes and they (we) import immigrants to fill the gap. It is true for all advanced economies. Once a nation gets sophiscated enough to have people educated and equipped with birth control means, growth halts as people can "trade" number of children for economic conditions. Emerging countries will see the same thing once their societies will get sophiscated enough.

It's a shame that western nations keep so much countries in 3-rd world rank by manipulating/corrupting their governments, stealing their natural/energy resources and making them debt slaves. Excess population growth of many countries is actually an effect of those shameful actions. Cheap energy source and help in achieving real advancements (as opposite to this shameful circus performed by Bono, Geldof and other idiots) would solve the problem.

I've contributed a fair bit of code to clang, so I'm biased, but these are may views:

• The code is much cleaner. I wanted to extend GCC to support Objective-C 2 with the GNU runtime library. It was easier for me to write a complete code generation implementation for GNU libobjc in clang than it was to make simple changes to GCC, coming from no familiarity with either project.
• Clang is much easier for new developers to modify. Time from first looking at clang code to first diff being accepted was about a week for me, and that's including trying to remember how C++ worked after avoiding it for about 5 years.
• Clang is more modular. You can easily pull out the front end, for example, and incorporate it in an IDE for syntax highlighting.
• The modular infrastructure means that there are other interesting projects being built on top of clang, like the static analyser and an indent tool with full semantic awareness.
• Clang is much faster than GCC and uses less memory.
• Clang is BSD licensed, while GCC has just become GPLv3. This may not matter to you, but the FreeBSD team doesn't want any GPLv3 code in the base system.
• Clang uses LLVM for code generation, which comes with a lot of other advantages (it's trivial to write optimisation passes - I've written three) and you get things like link-time optimisation, JIT compilation, and so on for free (there was a demo of a C JIT based on clang at last year's LLVM devmtg).

People who don't know how brains learn, might believe the "that it never actually had" part.

But if you know anything about that, you will know that what they did, was the same thing as what we call "learning": Associating something with something else.
In this case they just provided the "bad feeling" part of the association, while the odor was in place. Causing the fly to learn that the odor causes that bad feeling.
The same thing as if someone would always kick you in the balls when you see a pretty lady. (Just that the kicker would be invisible.)

And actually, a large laser on your brain *is* something pretty bad, that is unknown to a fly.
So this is nothing very special at all! They just found another way to "kick the fly in the balls". ^^
With an indirect way, using ATP and laser, but still just that.

Acer users Linux to have an OS on machines for the Asian market where people will install pirated Windows. They sell Linux laptops without a GUI, and some other manufacturers sell laptops with FreeDos, for the same reason.

OK, funny, but that isn't the issue here. Whatever the license says, the code is still legal, distribution within the terms is still legal and Darl and company are still toerags. What could happen is that a piece of legalese in the license may suddenly turn out to translate into layman as "you may print this code out, roll it up and beat baby seals to death with it," and the copyright holder may not have wanted that many baby seals on his or her conscience.

The GPL (v2) has been around long enough that I would have imagined those kinks had been spotted but, as with other licenses, the law behind them may change. What "derivative work" means today may not be the same thing it means tomorrow. Quite why they're singling out the GPLv2 for this when all licenses are subject to the same foundations of sand I'm not really sure. Maybe they think it will promote discussion - the fools!

Yet the US courts are where the majority of this issue will be argued. Even I, as a Rightpondian, can see the sense in that. Chill. Not everything is a calculated insult to your national sovereignty.

Linus is probably one of the most pragmatic members of the open source movement, along with being a self-proclaimed bastard (you say that like it's a bad thing). Linus will only think about moving from GPLv2 if Linus thinks it's necessary or beneficial, not because some pen-pusher, pundit or journo tells him to.

ROFL...and i thought i was such a geek while explaining to my wife that there were whole fleets of ships in ST. She'd only seen (and thought) there was the enterprise.