The internet is full of disinformation and lies, just as well! Quite a bit of internet information is free...a ton of it is free for a reason, it is untrue.

Searching the internet on Google is not a replacement for historians doing extensive research, having that research reviewed, then publishing.

You do realize that those events are documented by first hand accounts and historians right? How is being erased from Google's databases close to erasing the memories of witnesses or even the ability of historians to publish books? Not even close sorry.

People say this shit all of the time then something happens to them or they get sick or something. Then they suddenly become the one exception to the rule. What you saying is more of the same kind of talk that control freaks say that think that they control who they meet, what they see, and what they hear all of the time. Thinking that the more self selected information that they dig up will prevent anything bad from happening to them or their loved ones.

Haven't you gotten the memo on this? Somewhere during the Reagan years people decided that rehabilitation is only for white collar criminals and government officials.

Yup. So remember to collect all those tissues and send them into your local Google offices.

That is what the justice system is for... to adjudicate and punish those that break the law. Google is just for nosy people that think they can avoid anyone that will ever commit a crime and never get sick because they can diagnose every sneeze they ever have.

I find these two aspects interesting and wonder what the trade off is. Longer compiler times?

"Designed for Safety
Swift eliminates entire classes of unsafe code. Variables are always initialized before use, arrays and integers are checked for overflow, and memory is managed automatically. Syntax is tuned to make it easy to define your intent — for example, simple three-character keywords define a variable (var) or constant (let)."

" Swift code is transformed into optimized native code, "

Constantly evaluating wether a user likes the changes you have made makes for mediocre software. Apple has made some huge changes, System 7, OS X, iMac, and iPhone.all huge risks and has great success with those. Sure big failures are baked in there too, but they Apple has shone when they have taken big chances.

Microsoft dedicates itself to customers that don't like many changes.

Lol unfortunately that is an apt metaphor. I would say it is also like making love while wearing full body latex condoms (the kind in the naked gun) smothering any of the uniqueness that different hardware and their APIs might give you.

I like the idea of free regular releases too. But the reality is that they don't seem to be able to break much technical ground with these. Like moving to ZFS or integrating virtual reality (kinda serious) .

As someone who has worked on several cross platform toolkits I can say that

"cross platform...is the new platform" == marketing bullshit

I am tired of this every year release cycle. Wish they would take a couple of years and swing for the fences on their software.

It inspired a race between two great nations to reach further than each other towards the stars.

The bad thing is that this doesn't seem likely again as we move out of the basic science business. I would love to proven wrong on this, but it seems that the US public looks upon basic research funded by the fed as some kind of socialist program. George W was instrumental in sabotaging basic science programs, especially those that study climate and geology, because there research objectives and discoveries didn't fit his agenda.

It is completely ironic that you suggest Putin won't take back Alaska because of the threat of nuclear war. The Ukrainians gave up their ICBMs so now the Russians are invading Ukraine.

The sad thing is that no one would make that "mistake" again. Say goodbye to any prospect of nuclear non-proliferation in the new century.

Wow, I agree with Cold Fjord, who would of thought I would see the day.

Yes Putin is just inventing bullshit here to justify his invasion of Ukraine sovereign land. He is expressly violating the 1994 agreement and in the process you can pretty much flush any idea of nuclear non-proliferation down the toilet. In fact I think this short sighted illegal reactionary move Putin probably moves us significantly towards the prospect of nuclear war.

Specifically, the 4th amendment, to the US constitution protecting US citizens against unreasonable search and seizures. Normally this would involve anything searched or seized without warrant.

Where the federal government goes to a court and requests some case for the search or seizure of specific information. Anything that deviates from these requests and the specific information they obtain warrants for is forbidden and against the law. So anyone that is involved in any of the warrant-less surveillance of US citizens either directly or indirectly should be thrown in jail.

So this procedure has been shown to be exact opposite of what the NSA and FBI have been doing. They have been collecting information under blanket approvals issued by some secret kangaroo court and then using parallel construction to establish some kind of case against those that get caught up in the net.