The bizarre thing is that without the ongoing investigation it would probably be easier for Assange to get asylum in Sweden. Sweden expressly forbids ministers of government from having any direct involvement over administrative authorities. If he applied his case would in theory be handled under the exact same process as everyone else regardless the political situation. The Swedish prime minister would not be able to accept or reject anything, it would only be up to the responsible administrative authority to decide based only on current legislation.

And how many of them publish academic papers in theoretical computing science journals? I never said that being a lousy programmer means you're bright. What I said was that if you look at the people that do the really advanced theoretical computing science you will find that most of them are not the typical programmer type.

By calling it Computer Science we tend to think that it's all about programming the computer while it's actually not. Programming is of course part of it but it certainly isn't what it's all about. I'm a big fan of the alternative names like Computing Science or Datalogy. You should visit an automata conference and ask the people there if they consider themselves programmers. Sure some of them will but you'll soon realize that the brightest people in CS are not necessarily into the computer part of it, and hardly ever programs at all.

Since when is CS and coder the same thing?

If you by "figure out" means "google it" then sure, we definitely need more software engineers that tackle each problem they get with "let's ask google and cut and paste the first solution that compiles."

They are closer than ever. Sure you can be the type of sysadmin that goes in and just reboots the server when things don't work, but there are plenty of sysadmin jobs where you're basically a programmer. I recently left such a job where I was definitely more of a programmer, I just programmed in Puppet instead of something like Java.

I know what a netmask is, and I'm still far away from reaching that million. :-)

Retired sysadmin, in transition to developer.

I'm from Europe and I think this is absurd. It's not like we're one homogeneous mind that agrees on everything.

Either that or pay a professional to do it. Apple will do it for you when you buy a new battery.

The battery is clearly removable. According to the summary they will replace it for you if it drops below 80 % and they would not be able to do that if it was non-removable. Just because you can't quickly and easily remove it yourself doesn't mean that it's not removable. It is removable, you just need some time and tools to do it.

Another example of Europeans not understanding that their laws don't apply in America.

You don't update software on medical equipment anyway. That thing would have to be recertified.

If it's OpenJDK they can bundle it as much as they want.

It would absolutely be legal in Europe. Stores in Europe are free to chose what they want to sell and not, they are not required to carry everyone that wants to. If Apple decides that they don't want to carry competing streaming applications then they are fully within their right to do so, just like Debian is in their right to refuse to ship any application in their archive for whatever reason they want. Are you suggesting that Debian could not legally refuse to ship the non-free Spotify client in Europe?

Nothing requires Apple to carry everything in their store. They can deny any app for whatever reason they want.