the result of a single sentence tucked into the farm bill lifting the 10-year statute of limitations on old debts

Why do you let your politicians get away with such bullshit?

BestParking:

This app is incompatible with all of your devices. Offers in-app purchases.

Incompatible with a Nexus 5? *plonk*

ParkMe:

There are 5 apps by this name I can find in the Play Store. But the one I think you're talking about shows up in the "related apps" for those, and looking closer, it gives the same message as above.

So to answer your question as to why noone is using your apps, make them compatible with phones people are using first!

they contributed back to the world #ifdef'ed with their own incompatible license.

While it would be incompatible with the GPL, this is BSD code you are talking about here. The BSD developers get exactly what they asked for with their license.

Exactly, and that's why it's displacing GCC, and why RMS loses his shit about LLVM. People are moving to LLVM BECAUSE OF GPLv3.

More precisely, people are moving to LLVM because certain companies are pouring resources into it (which they may be doing because of their dislike of GPLv3), making it currently the most advanced Free compiler chain available.

Basically: Do children gain more from not being constantly put down for spelling and grammar when they are still at an early age than what they lose by being left to figure it out for themselves by reading (instead of figuring it out when the teacher's red pen tells them they are a failure).

At my sons' school, they have spelling tests. The rest of the time, they mostly let spelling mistakes slide. If they are writing something for literacy class, their grammar gets corrected, otherwise mostly the teacher lets it slide. IMHO this is a good thing, as the children get to feel good about the "well researched!" comment on their school project without being turned off all schoolwork by constant reminders that they are lagging behind on spelling and grammer (due to their first language not being English).

Condi Rice has served on several boards of directors including Hewlett Packard, Chevron and the Rand corporation shes professional and experienced. Shes not going to sell dropbox out to the NSA

Just because the last three companies she was on the board of did not need to be sold out, it doesn't follow that she won't sell this one out. Remember, warrantless wiretapping began on her watch. As a former National Security Advisor, her ties to the intelligence community are strong.

The issue has nothing to do with Iraq. Nor the fact that she's a woman, or that she is Black. The real issue here is that in the wake of Snowdon's revelations about widespread surveillance of the general public by three letter government agencies, a former National Security Advisor is being appointed to the board of a widely used online storage site that has thus far managed to convince some people that it is on the side of privacy.

French equivalent "la bonne vie"

Or perhaps la vie fade (dolce has a wide range of meaning).

Seriously, anybody who has the necessity to have a named, or fixed location on the WWW should not have a problem getting a fixed IP cheap by their ISP

I'm in Asia. My ISP doesn't do static IPs anymore. I'm lucky I'm on one that isn't doing carrier-grade NAT, though I don't know how long that will last.

I guess I was lucky, in that I was using some indirection which made it easier to switch. From the start, I had my own domain, which was aliased to a dyndns.org domain (actually thruhere.net). I lost that when my update script missed the deadline for some reason, and they'd already moved that domain away from their free offerings so I couldn't get the same address back. I made the switch then, and only had to update my alias and wait a couple of hours for that to propagate. Given that I generally manage to keep the same IP address for 2 - 3 months at a time, I could manually update the IP address if it came to that, but it is easier to have a script to take care of the updating.

Dyn.com (the for-profit successor of dyndns.org) has been progressively making it harder to maintain your free address for the past 3 or 4 years. First, they made it so you had to update your DNS record once a month to avoid being cancelled (even if your IP address didn't change in that time), then they made it so you had to submit the update through their ad-infested web page, and I think they also increased the frequency that you had to do that. There are many alternatives which still provide a free service that is convenient to use, I'd have thought most users would have switched by now.

Not at all. Noone was dishonest about the reason they wanted him to resign.

Why does Eich's right to free speech trump the right to free speech of those calling for his resignation?

The number of deep pockets able to compete here must be pretty limited

Judging by the number of personal assistant apps that became available for Android within days of Siri being announced, I'm not sure that deep pockets are all that necessary.

The "man lying with a man" does not have to be stretched at all

That would depend on what they choose to do while they are in bed together. There is a rather infamous picture which you can probably still find linked to every story on Slashdot if you browse the comments at -1, that demonstrates a rather unpleasant combination of these two biblical verses, which you might find educational.