There's no such thing as IP spoofing on TCP/IP traffic. Get real.

Copyright and trademark aren't the same thing. Don't mix them up. It makes the argument sound silly.

Copyright and trademarks are different concepts, with different laws applying to each. Most trademarks are ineligible for copyright protection, for example. Oh, and trademarks can be registered in the U.S. for a particular purpose only. Feel free to read what is the scope of Disney's mickey mouse trademarks.

I disagree. Having to look at the speedo just to keep your car going at a certain speed is a distraction. I'd much more likely be looking out the windshield while I drive, instead of on the instrument cluster. Cars aren't planes. I use cruise control down to 20mph in the school zones and consider the "wisdom" not to use it at low speeds or in city traffic to be at odds with reality. There's nothing sedating about regular cruise control. It lets me focus on the road ahead and on the other cars instead of pretending to be a fucking speed servo.

Sorry, I had a brain fart :/

If only most of the internet wasn't delivered by terrestrial fiber... Satellites, they are useful for many things, but not for internet for the most of us, not really.

"My point was that you should already know your data types." And you do. And the compiler does. It's somewhat silly to have to repeat yourself and type in the type twice. A literal has a fixed, known type, by definition. Types are also known and fixed in other circumstances, such as function return types. This becomes especially handy when a method returns a parametric type that may be hard to write. I've personally written expression template code where the specialized concrete type is a few lines long.

Do you really claim you'd rater write [4 lines of type] foo = bar(); instead of auto foo = bar()? Even for shorter types, it can be arduous.

This for (std::vector::const_iterator a = b.begin(); a != b.end(); ++a) vs for (auto a = b.begin(); a != b.end(); ++a)

Just write a function that checks the argument types and does what you wish.

Even then that's an infinite set, since one orbital parameter (a.k.a. the orbital slot) is free. An orbit isn't a path in the sky, it's a vector in the space of orbital parameters. You can't ignore the orbital spot and pretend that all geostationary orbits are the same - all those satellites would sit on each other, then :)

I did generalize it, assuming that any orbit with a 24h period is geostationary. Perhaps that was ill advised :)

Ahh, you think that most obscure tapes (think electrical tape) are IR-transparent? You're nuts.

I'm sorry, you're a moron. Sure it's arbitrary, since two orbital parameters are free and the term geostationary refers to an infinite set of orbits. Yet everyone understands that it's about the radius. Perhaps the title should have said "within the geostationary orbital radius".

They don't come from a lawyers office just because there's a lawyer's signature on them. The entire fucking document is forged, how hard is that to see? The legal firm had as much to do with them as the court did. It's entirely a fabrication, using some real names.

Whatever. It doesn't work in Greek, either.

It doesn't matter anyway, since the number for a name/word is counted by adding the letter values (hebrew and greek both have them) together. The number for www is 18, not 666. In ancient times, if you were jewish, and your sweetheart wanted to say in code that he/she loved you, the line would be "I love the person whose number is 140". 140 is your number (K=20, M=40, P=80 in Hebrew). This tradition does in fact carry forward in interesting ways - I distinctly remember that we had a similar system going in the elementary school. Someone came up with value assignments for all letters of the roman alphabet. At some point every literate kid in the building had those assignments memorized. It was a shortlived fad, even though it was good to get the kids doing some addition exercises and decomposition ("decoding") of integers into sums.

Yet SIL 4 is still hardwired :)