has been done. for example: first the voter uses a unique code to verify his vote is cast as intended. since the code is secret and unique to him, nobody else can see his vote until decrypted, but by then all votes will have been veryfiably anonymized, mixed, and all vote hashes publicly listed. the voter can check the list to see if his vote has been counted as cast and, vioilà, nobody knows shit about who he was or what he voted. secret!

from your own investigation you might have already inferred that "freedom of speech" is a indeed pretty broad concept. distributing content is speech. meta-speech if you like because the very act of doing so can be a statement. for me personally it undoubtly is.

copyright law originates from the very basic desire to control the printing press, a few centuries ago. the bits about the "creator" came later on and are just a byproduct, today that's the facade for another fundamental goal which is the control of information and business. of course this pleases those who make big profit from that. however, it screws everyone else, and diminishes society by promoting selfish values and severely damaging liberty of expression, freedom of speech if you prefer.

funny how you display such a narrow minded concept of "free speech" and yet call me the moron :-)

that's funny because copyright law is fundamentally about censoring free speech.

so you can record a song and sell zillions of zero-cost copies for a profit. great! if i then buy one of those and share my own copy with anybody i'm suddenly a pirate? read my lips: gfy.

that all notices are public is nice, so we can all see who the real pirates are.

you're not getting it: corporations are already bigger than most governments, and no government whatsoever can function without them anymore.

care to name the actuall well designed and maintained system that would have saved poor mommy from herself?

yeah, thought so.

bad news: to use a computer in the open network safely you need to know a few things. there's no way around that.

ms or apple or google might tell otherwise, but it's just fake.

doorbell rings. it's a handsome smiling man in worker suit, says something about plumbing, but you didn't call him, so you consider that if you let him in he might steal your cookies/rape your dog/kill you with an ice pick, so you don't.

we can't get a dumbfuck door to do what you just did?

no, we can't. it's just a dumbfuck door, you dumbfuck (no offense, just for the pun)

so what. blame is irrelevant. fact is big fish eats little fish, and that's the reality our world boils down while some continue living in an illusion of morality or justice. the financial system has destroyed millions of lives because it could, because there were dollars to be made and it doesn't give a fuck. entire nations are thrown into misery and scores of people get killed for the same reason. the same mom in the story is responsible for the death and ordeal of some kids in africa just for possessing a first world cheap electronic appliance (aka computer). who is to blame? we all are, in our stupidity. does it even make sense to blame someone, when there is no justice? our civilization is totally amoral beneath a tiny crust of hypocrisy. duh, i think i need a cup of tea.

damnation noun \dam-n-shn\
: the state of being in hell as punishment after death
http://www.merriam-webster.com...

pro-tip: not that it is the only latin word with arbitrary new meanings in english. go figure, some weird antropomorphization going on.

this simply narrows down your search, doesn't make anyone a suspect. it might turn out to be bogus and the motives totally different.

but they claim to have found a connection, that's a lead. not a strong one, in my opinion, but they may have no better. anyone wondering how they got access to the irc content? duh ...

woosh!

it's funny because scala IS a front end to java. yes, it was to the same 1.6 jvm op considered stalled. then one wonders: what do developers actually demand from a vm? what's the problem if it works, is solid, stable and predictable and doesn't get some new fancy (and mostly unneeded) goodies in a while?

yeah, well, if you want to share unrelated personal experiencies, when doing client stuff i use pure client frameworks (angular nowadays for the most part) as opposed to full server/client stacks which in my view don't cut it, and i like them to be focused and simple. regarding ides i've used all of them but i'm perfectly fine with emacs and a console. if your code needs a specific ide to work on it then it's pretty low value for me. yes, java projects tend to be file spewing monsters and i ocassionally fire up some ide (eclipse or intellij, any will do), but you'll have a hard time convincing me to set up visual studio just to inspect or run some of your c# code, i'll probably point you in the general direction away from my lawn.

ruby was completely unecessary, didn't bother with it and i'm glad it passed away with the hype (as expected) leaving just a legacy of crappy apps that need to be rewritten (or forgotten), c# was also redundant and late (unless you were a windows only freak) glad to hear they now want to mature and open up a bit, php is handy for small quick apps but nothing more (no matter how much they want to revamp it now), python is actually very cool (although i seldom have opportunity to use it) and go ... well, go seems weird on purpose, it has some nice features but what was the need to screw up so much of the syntax for no reason? sick of evangelists, i think i'll pass, too ...

thanks, i wasn't aware on that. not that i would bet on ms' "strong comitment", but lets wait and see what comes out from that!

i can understand that ms has found itself at some point isolated from current sw development state of the art and trends, and that they now want to catch up is a good thing. they just need to keep working and contributing and stop throwing fancy "product names" at ceos faces, and start thinking about developers in a non ms-centric world, which is what it is.

doesn't that apply to .net development as well? java has been a frequent choice in universities (despite ms efforts) and thus many freshmen are at least somewhat versed in java. ok, still freshmen, but at least with an academic background. you couldn't say the same about some vb/asp guys back in the days.

i work for a once start-up that is now a big international company, building sw that is complex, cpu and io intensive and that must be secure and scale, and often subject to academic review. it has been a java shop since day one. there's some libraries in c, several scripting languages used here and there, but not a single project has been developed in .net that i know of, and only very rarely some partner (which are specialized companies in several other countries) has done his part in .net. actually, only non-techies use windows at all in the company. as a developer you are given the choice, but only a few happen to choose windows and many of those switch to linux anyway after a while. not saying that all this couldn't be done in .net as well but, you see, scenarios vary and i happen to be in exactly your opposite.

funny how you tried to escape java "going down the tubes" by switching to a ... java emitter.