Sorry if I ruined your joke. But most Americans know they live in North America. Just like folks who live in West Virgina know they aren't in Virgina.

I agree 100% with what you said.

But nobody is distributing in this case. Which is pretty key when dealing with copyright (literally the right to copy).

are you suggesting that cheating on starcraft is a form of wire fraud? interesting.
there is no legal foundation for such a claim, but it's an interesting idea.

A patch is not a derivative work. it does not include the complete work, or even a portion large enough to make fair use controversial.

a patch is a mechanism by which you can modify a single copy. not a tool to distribute modified copies.

do we ban highlighter markers because they create a derivative work, even though the markers themselves do not contain any original work?

Due process is for wimps. Even the left praises the Magnitsky Act as a way to go after those who violate human rights. But the irony to me is that the law itself is an abuse of rights, such as the right to a fair trial. The act was passed for all the right reasons, but it is as evil as any of the other blunders we have made in the US.

You don't have the right to modify software? I thought copyright only covered making copies, at least initially?

A tool that uses a small bit under fair use to match binary offsets or checksums should not be copyright infringement. I'm pretty afraid that some well meaning judge that wishes to protect players would establish some bad precedence here.

Last I checked, sports bribery was outside the jurisdiction of copyright law.

Does the ends justify the means?

Programmers should sift through an old bug database.

I'm waiting for there to be a law against counteracting unlawful snooping.

I'm a solid C/10. I'd never hire a 7/10, or even a 9/10. I've met a few E/10s and F/10s.

Misogyny, you has it.

Who can't afford overhead and bloat?

The Hypervisor for those Embedded ARM SoCs. HYP mode is appropriate for a kernel that is only a few dozen kilobytes in size, and ARM's HYP mode doesn't play nicely as a Type-2 hypervisor (KVM, VMware, etc).

Plus your typical ARM SoC has several DSPs or microcontrollers on the chip.

I guess we're still not to the point where we can have one programming language we use for everything. I mean if you ignore plain old boring C as an option.

I've never felt pain while dreaming. that sounds like a weird experience!

"Software is simply bloated up until you're forced to buy a new one."

I do this weird trick, I don't upgrade the software. If I was happy with the software on my phone in 2011, why wouldn't I still be happy with it in 2014 ?

it helps that I don't go online much or install a lot of third party software, I understand sometimes security fixes are necessary. (otoh, I was saved from the heartbleed bug on my laptop because it was such an old copy of debian)

I know how to make a rope making machine with sticks and a nail. While I'm a software engineer right now, I think I could make a pretty good living as a rope maker, this assumes if rope suddenly becomes a lot more valuable than it is now.

It's good to have a fallback career because it would probably be quite a while before anyone makes computers for me to program.