The whole point of the Thompson hack is that it would survive a source code audit. If you compiled the clean source for the compiler with a dirty compiler, it would insert the backdoor into the new executable, making it self-replicating in an virtually undetectable fashion. The code you compiled yourself would be byte-for-byte identical with the bootstrap compiler.

Quoting the proposed version of legislature is meaningless. The bits you quote as "proof" for your anti-gun stance were stricken from those laws before they were adopted. Quoting the losing side of a 200-year-old debate to prove your point is disingenuous at best.

While sequel is an acceptable, if unnecessary, pronunciation of SQL, I have found it rare except in the specific case of users of Microsoft SQL server, where it seems to be the rule rather than the exception

I worked as a DBA for over a decade and never once met a DBA who pronounced it as anything but "sequel".

So fix the (broken) gameplay mechanic that allows bot users to have an advantage.

Having to 'grind' at mindless / meaningless tasks in game in order to play the interesting parts of the game is just bad game design - it disrespects the player's time and money. It's a transparent attempt to increase subscriber revenue. Get rid of the grind and you eliminate the incentive to use a bot in the first place.

More to the point, the Saudi royal family owns Saudi Aramco, not the other way around.

Why we call these f*tards our "allies" is beyond me. We should take all the money we spend propping up their regime and spend it on alternative energy research.

I pay attention to what the tea party candidates actually DO, versus what they SAY.

They SAY they're about fiscal responsibility and small government. What they actually DO when they're elected is work to enact far-right social policy.

Hell, can you just imagine the nightmare it must have been to get all the insurance companies to provide all their data/plans in a standardized format so they could be integrated to the store front?

That's where being the Government has the advantage: you just mandate that the data be supplied in such-and-such a format, and fine companies for non-compliance. I've been on both sides of that equation, and (from an engineer's perspective) it actually works pretty well.

That, and it was designed and managed by committee. Worse, you had people on the committee who wanted it to fail.

You have to remember that, prior to Nixon's Southern Strategy, southern Democrats (AKA Dixiecrats) were the Tea Party of their day: racist, xenophobic, religious fundamentalists bent on socially regressive and theocratic policies.

The south remained solidly Democratic from 1865 to 1965, a legacy of the Civil War and Reconstruction. The only thing that got them to switch sides was because the butthurt of a Yankee Catholic giving civil rights to the n*****s was greater than the butthurt of a Republican giving them freedom in the first place.

Most people tend to forget that, from Lincoln to Teddy Roosevelt, the Republicans were the progressive party, and the Democrats were the Conservatives. It wasn't until after the Taft-Roosevelt split at the 1912 Republican National Convention in that the GOP started becoming the party of big business and fiscal conservatism. The progressives eventually migrated to the Democratic party, but this just exacerbated the existing split between the northern Democrats and the Dixiecrat faction. For much of it's history the Democratic party was as dysfunctional and fractious as the GOP is today - unsurprising, considering that the Tea Party, the Dixiecrats, and the Civil War era Know Nothings are basically different manifestations of the same ideology and encompass the same demographic.

So, if the parent had a child with them when they purchased the game, it must have been FOR the child. I guess if you buy beer at the supermarket with the kid in tow, it's for them too.

We have a lot of PS3 games that our kids are not allowed to play (and that the adults aren't allowed to play until after the kids go to bed).

Like the contents of the liquor cabinet and the gun safe, they know it's there, and that they're not allowed to use it (and, more importantly, WHY). Every household with children contains things that are not for children. A big part of parenting is teaching your kids to recognize and avoid the things that can hurt them (without turning them into the forbidden fruit).

Why do you need electronics at all?

All you need to brew alcohol is watertight container of moderate size, a sugar-rich solution, and a teaspoon or two of yeast. People were doing it for thousands of years. There's even some evidence to suggest that the neolithic transition to sedentary farming was motivated by the desire to have a large surplus of grains available to ferment.

It's called a post-scarcity economy. We're already seeing the effects in the digital space. And, as with digital copying, the established players are going to fight it tooth and nail.

I suspect it won't be a real problem for quite some time, because the printer manufacturers know on which side their bread is buttered. Consumable costs will be kept high. Printing at home is still more expensive than going to a print shop. It costs me around $3 to $5 in consumables to print a 11x14 photo on my (professional grade) photo printer. I can get a better quality print for less than half the cost, including shipping, by sending it to a print shop. The same applies to regular printing, especially in bulk. Color Inkjet printing costs upwards of $.25/page. B&W Laser printing is around $.10/page. A print shop will do better work for a fraction of that.

A printer doesn't require any skill to operate. Even a CNC mill requires some training to use.

Not to mention that a 3d printer is at least an order of magnitude less expensive.

3.8W is hardly a minute amount of power. If I did my math right, it's approximately the amount of power it takes to lift a full soda can (~390g) 1 meter in 1 second.

Let's say each Google query takes 10 seconds of viewing time, so you could save 38 watt-seconds per query by going black. Multiply this by 3 Billion queries per day, times 365 days/year. That's 12GWh (to 2 significant figures) of electricity that could be saved annually by changing a couple lines of code.

Power costs around $0.10/KWh. I don't consider $1.2M/year to be a minute amount of money.

What part of "public" don't you understand?

The fact remains that the current law is incompatible with the explicit text, not to mention the spirit, of the Constitution. The Fugitive Slave Act was once "current law". The Alien and Sedition act was once "current law". The Alien Enemies Act and Executive Order 9066 were once "current law". None were ever right, all of them are a stain on our national honor.

The fact that we've surrendered our RIGHT to travel freely on public highways using normal and customary conveyances without a peep is just pathetic. It's going to remain a "privilege" as long as PEOPLE LIKE YOU keep believing the LIE.