Don't worry. President Gingrich will happily ignore the decision and detain them anyways!

Nah, we'll just lobby our congresscritters to pass a law increasing the speed of light, since that's what we always do when we don't like something.

Agreed about the diversity of viewpoints. We need more free speech, not less. As for backups, I'd recommend CrashPlan. Mozy's backup and restore software sucked worse than an industrial vacuum. Losing a bunch of my data from a restore failure and their rates soaring was the last straw for me. Carbonite was better, but it sucked up too much CPU and bandwidth and couldn't be configured otherwise. Crashplan just works, is very configurable, can back up to my other PCs or external harddrive (for fast restores), and is cheaper than the others. You can get the software for free and pay $5 month (or less for longer periods) to store it encrypted on their servers.

Except that the UK would have to enforce it. The UK can't fine, imprison, or otherwise make your life miserable if you are from another country.

"Hello TSA? I'd like to report someone who, besides looking like a fat slob, is supportive of ideas that are fascist/communist like randomly searching people. Name of the person? Sure, her name is Janet Napolitano."

Hehe. Wait for the morons who voted this to hold a garage sale and send in the SWAT. I bet this will get changed quite quickly after that. Bonus points if the SWAT kills their dog.

Meh. Then it's obvious that you are destroying data. What you ought to do is have a button that looks hazily like a power button, but is in fact a reset button like you described. The officer presses the button, then he is on the hook for destroying data.

How about WhisperCore?

Seconded. The old version targeting Turbo C++ taught me how OOP works, and did a good job at it too, although it took me another book to finally grasp pointers.

The top of my list is Operating Systems: A Design Oriented Approach by Charles Crowley. It got me very interested in how the hardware works, but it also taught me fundamental design techniques that I use to this day.

Of course there are people today who care enough about our rights to stand up for them. They're called Anonymous. They may be trying to create change the wrong way, but at least they are standing up against corporations, organizations, and governments who try to censor and tear down the First Amendment.

There's Tahoe, which is pretty much what you described.

Or enough people start using the black market and a black market currency to do almost all of their trading instead. In most countries, it is more expensive to use the black market and risk the punishments for tax evasion than to simply pay the tax, but there is a level where it become more economically smart to use the black market and risk getting caught than to pay the onerous taxes.

Yes, via generics. They are even more flexible than C++ because you can add constraints.

Not directly. .NET is garbage collected, and although finalizers are called whenever the object is cleaned up (so you know it will be called), there is no guarantee when it will be called. Unlike Java though, C# does support support Ruby/Python style closure blocks ("using" statement) so although it is not automatic, RAII can be done.

Yep, and they even have the same assembly format, common type specifications, and IL code across platforms. Whereas C++'s objects and libraries vary based on platform and architecture, .NET is uniform across implementations.

Man, you just wasted a lot of dialogue on an obvious troll. Troll: 1 Neokushan: 0.

Mod parent up.
This is exactly my point. As long as there are drug buyers and sellers via Silk Road, there will also be bitcoin buyers and sellers.