Amateur simply means "doesn't do it for a living", not "doesn't have as much skill". An amateur can be possessed of as much if not more skill than a professional. The reverse is also possible, of course.

I have to admit it's the main thing I like about X; I tend to use my Linux machine via Xming from Windows. That said I would like the option of having accelerated compositing et al when using a machine locally whilst still being able to use X remotely.

Yeah and even we don't use it any more. Well, not all of it anyway.

Given many (most?) major companies and organizations maintain an active Twitter presence operated by their PR or customer relations department? Yes.

Unjust enrichment law might apply, but IANAL so I don't know.

Depends where you are. In the UK at least, as far as I know, they aren't required to honour a mistake if a reasonable person wouldn't have believed it was correct.

Not that anyone has figured out yet anyway. I wouldn't wish to preclude the possibility.

£500 then or now? Because that would be about £215k now.

"Les cites des enfant perdu" is also good.

Actually it's not Linux's fault that Final Cut Pro is made by Apple now; they bought it years ago.

The same reason a lot of Brits write "should of" instead of "should have", I suspect: they're writing it the way they say it.

To be fair it also said "there's also clang; but it uses the same switches as gcc so you can just use it as a drop in replacement." But other than that...yeah, it doesn't really containing anything startling.

Some games are only a hair's breadth away from being Linux ready anyway - I've certain played quite a few Windows games that use SDL, Ogre, OpenAL, etc..

Sort of: they use torrenting stats to work out what's popular and acquire licences to stream it.

Now I'm just curious about age-to-UID mapping - I'm just about to hit 36.

I don't think you could prove they were lying even if they were open source. All looking at the source code would tell you is that they implemented Dual_EC_DRBG; exactly the same as looking at the OpenSSL source code will tell you. I doubt there would be a handy comment saying "/* Implemented a known-weak method on behalf of the NSA. */" around it.

The problem Dual_EC_DRBG, as far as I can tell, is in the choice of constants used in it; the constants are defined by the NIST standard.