Bruce (who else?)

The difference between exceptions and error codes is that uncaught exceptions cause the program to terminate. To ignore them, the programmer must add code. If there's no code to handle an error code, you don't know if the programmer wants it ignored, or that he was completely unaware of it.

Yes, it is. Not being thorough is bad always engineering.

The biggest problem with exceptions is that they get thrown too far, changing them into comefroms (the opposite of a goto). And like gotos, they encourage spaghetti code. The best way to deal with them is to limit them to thrown exceptions only to their callers. That way, all exceptions become part of the subroutine's interface. Remember, for a programmer, out of sight is out of mind. If it's not part of the interface, it will be forgotten. For those who are interested, you can read my blog for details and an example.

If not, it's an arbitrary decision. And it leaves their government opened to be sued.

...because they would rather work smart than work hastily.

Completely overlooking the fact that before Twitter there was less to distract them. And overlooking the fact that those who may have to do something else, like write a term paper, may want to follow the game via Twitter. Reducing access _always_ means reducing your audience.

Once more, human stupidity rears its ugly head. Limiting people's access limits their interest. Example: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20121109/13423720996/draconian-downloading-law-japan-goes-into-effect-music-sales-drop.shtml They can kiss good-bye to their students support for sports...and their future alumni support too.

Communism has become Newspeak for totalitarianism. Just like the National Socialist German Workers' Party. Bad governments can change the meaning of words faster than you can think.

China's censorship will suppress ideas and reduce innovation. They are currently enjoying an economic boom but that will slow down as wages increase (and they will). How does China expect people to innovate when they're afraid of collaborating? Censorship never helps an economy.

Yes, Richard has shown that you don't have to be disagreeing to be insulting.

I always thought that putting a radio-telescope on the back side of the moon would be a good idea since the moon would block all the electromagnetic noise from Earth. Two could be installed, one just over the curve near the north pole and one near the south pole. This would give a baseline of appropriately the diameter of the moon. It would be one, big ear.

I remember Z80, Pascal and BASIC. And I disagree with you. The tech landscape is less volatile now than back when everything was new. Nowadays, everyone is too conservative, unwilling to take a chance. And the patents wars don't help. I would say that for the next 5 years, smartphones and tablets will be the rage, so getting involved with them is your best bet. And learn to speak Chinese or Hindi. Being able to swear at the hardware guys in their own language is always a bonus. ;)

But the US was the world leader for the second half of the 20th century largely because of the scientific advances it made in atomic physics, agriculture, electronics, computers, and space, to mention a few. That's the point of the video: stop the science and kiss world-leadership goodbye.

A presidential candidate that support creationism is not a religious kook? An anti-science president will mean the US won't be a world leader in this century.