Why isn't anyone asking why these sheriffs departments are even buying this software with their soft funds? I'll bet there is a campaign contribution that correlates with each of these sales.

Your convolution of sales and marketing indicates ignorance. True, a good marketing guy would know how to spin the differentiator. However sales guys are always incentivized by the deals they close. If they believe that the public bug database is keeping them from making money you are going to hear it from them. If the sales guys can make a convincing argument, they should be listened to. If they make more money, the company makes more money. However, they should be reminded that closing off the bug database at this point will also be used against them.

It's really not that big of a secret: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N...

My thoughts exactly! How can patents developed with public dollars be anything other than in the public domain?

I know for a fact that my home router shells out to IP Chains to generate the NATed ports page. It will show this page to anyone and I can't turn it off -- remote administration is OFF, but for my router that just means only 192.* addresses can login and change things like the NATed ports. It still serves up the web pages to all requestors.

Our University CS departments teach the hatred of Microsoft while the MIS departments teach the love of Microsoft. They are both wrong.

TPB will get sued in a favorable location for the plaintiff. The plaintiff will use the judgment to go after TPB bank accounts. The back accounts are much harder to hide than the servers because TPB wants to get paid for the ads it displays.

The first couple of chapters of this book explain the decision making behind the syntax which really helps. http://www.amazon.com/Windows-...

A more accurate, but much less attention grabbing headline would have been "0.15% annual increase in Antarctic Sea continues for 35th year". Given the strong trend, most years would be expected to be "record years".

When the CIA launches a hellfire in this middle of nowhere, where do you think the information came from?

Good to know at least one federal agency seems to know what it means to execute their mandate.

Large programs usually have large numbers of external dependencies. The external calls are plain as day in the reversed code. Sure the variables may all be named a,b,c... but it really isn't that hard to find the parts you are interested in and figure out what the interfaces are. For his mods he had to figure out which code handled player positions, actions, health and maybe a few other things. I've done it many times and it is WAY easier in Java and .NET with multimegabyte-sized programs than it is with C and multikilobyte-sized monolithic programs where you have no external markers in the assembly as guides.

This is routinely done by Minecraft modders and many others.
“Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.” - Marcus Aurelius

I don't think Mojang has ever been that interested in creating APIs that support the level of moding that has been going on. It's 21k lines of code, if he re-writes Bukkit, it will just be more proprietary Minecraft code and their next release will be delayed 3 months. Meanwhile Wesley Wolfe has effectively made himself unemployable.

It sounds like ATM overhead addresses your issue. However as far as who to talk to, in California measurement enforcement is handled at the county level: http://www.cdfa.ca.gov/dms/. In Texas this falls to the Department of Agriculture and I'm pretty sure they won't care. http://www.texasagriculture.go...