Just tunnel the traffic over a v... oh.

All strings coerce to boolean true in JS, as they do in C (with the exception of the empty string):

char* a = "false";
if (a) {
    printf("a is true?\n");
}

In fact, most values coerce to true except integer zero, NaN, undefined, null and empty string.

That study's results haven't been replicated yet and it was pre-publication when it was reported on. It's the scientific equivalent of a rumor.

Yep, I've used Park Plus here in Calgary and I think it's great. It's convenient for first time users (walk to any Park Plus box, enter your license plate and leave). For more frequent users, the mobile version is even easier.

Being able to pay only for the parking time you need is fantastic.

This would be a great way to power all those desalinization plants on the coast!

Yeah, you nailed the point. If Apple allowed arbitrary apps to be downloaded from the web (outside of the App Store), this would be a non-issue.

Exactly - copyright has never been to encourage "hard work", though it may in some cases. It is primarily for progressing the state of the arts and sciences:

"To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries"

A small (but trivial) counterpoint: many aspects of mechanical work could involve copyright, but they would have to be genuinely creative (ie: copyrighting your specific plans for laying out a mechanical motor).

The source for the disassembler is pretty simple.

http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome/trunk/src/courgette/disassembler.cc

Porting that to parse x86 out of ELF or another executable container wouldn't be too difficult. Porting it to parse x64 or PPC would be tougher.

DeltaRPM uses bsdiff - an impressive but generic binary diff algorithm.

Courgette is designed to replace this binary diff with one that understands compiled code well enough to optimize the binary diffs by a significant amount.

... "modern SSDs are nearly saturating the existing standard" ...

I'm either not familiar with your fancy money math here or you meant that NASA could send people to Mars for "20 billion".

If they were smart, they'd release the keys for ripping after a month and get everyone but the most dedicated pirates out of the loop. I'd feel a lot better about buying BD disks if I knew a guaranteed rip was coming one month later. As it stands right now, I'll rent them but hold off on buying them until I could possibly rip them (which I might or might not, but I like to have the choice).

Gort? Is that you?

Correction: In the USA, AT&T is the exclusive provider. In Canada, Rogers and Fido (same company basically) offer the iPhone, officially.