Same story, it's a joke password I've been using for the past 8 years or so for sites I don't trust or throw away accounts.

Killing yourself while climbing into a volcano sounds less stupid than throwing a bucket of water over your head and claiming it is good for research into a diseases.

Whatever floats their boat, it's still stupid.

Well, its still less stupid than throwing a bucket of ice water over your head and then posting it on Facebook.

But building a drone that could work in a volcano would be pretty challenging, lets give it a go!

And I can totally imagine them coming home and their grandparents asking them "Where did you go this year?" in the most obnoxious wasy possible, like all grandparents do. Good luck explaining this one!

Lua at least has a standard, can't say the same about Fortran where you just sort of decide whatever the hell you want to use at the time of writing your code. Oh, and you'll just love VHDL where you can make up array indices as you go, no questions asked.

Compilers actually started reading code though :(

I would like to add one thing: People forget that a kernel has to run on pretty much bare metal. If you're lucky you have BIOS there helping you a bit at the start, but not really. (Yay for obscure backwards compatibility tricks that the folks at Microsoft, IBM and Intel came up with.) So your standard libraries are usually quite limited, if you have them at all. And even then they're usually too slow to deal with anyway, so you end up rewriting everything in X86 assembly anyway.

Discrimination! A virus is also software, how dare you be so racist towards them!

-- PETCOM (People for the Ethical Treatment of COmputer Malware - All organisations need a crappy acronym name!)

They still have them in stock. I managed to find a new battery for a 10+ year old IBM Thinkpad for a very reasonable price, so you're not looking hard enough.
(And that's what you deserve for using a flawed product.Ten inch screens are post stamp size, useless for practical computing or even note taking.)

Sheesh, way to make it difficult. Am I the only person who just orders a new battery on the manufacturer's website or from their Amazon page?

As time continues we have to agree more and more with Linus I guess...

Sure, so not a single European country has satellites either?

Yeah, he got it all wrong. You need to sell old rusty/broken aeroplane fixtures with sharp edges that otherwise get trashed. Saves you money on disposal of those, and you can make an extra buck out of the cage fight. Maybe provide a live video feed of the fight to the passengers in business class?

Yes, but at least you have useful easy to access documentation with VC++. So when it messes up (as all compiler tool chains invariably do) , you have something to check before you switch to mailing lists, forums, and IRC.