So, what if it does? Where do you draw the line? Who gets to decide what is acceptable and what is not acceptable. You could go to a pub and chat to someone who will explain how to make an explosive from fertilizer and diesel. Are we going to ban pubs as well now? In fact if we ever meet in a pub I can tell you exactly how to make an explosive, down to the detonator and timers, as well as ensuring you get maximum shrapnel. Doesn't mean I'm going to do it, doesn't mean you are going to do it, we're just having a fucken conversation. When you start limiting what people can or cannot even talk about it's a very slippery slope. If you are worried about your kids "accidently" finding porn on the internet then they should not be on the internet in the first place. Don't start blocking everyone because of parents who can't raise their fucken kids properly.

Exactly, they are just waiting for the green card or indefinite leave to remain etc. Then they are out the door. What I love is management who think that a warm ass in a seat is all that is required to do the job. Same as the management who think throwing more people at a project that is behind schedule will fix things. Software development is not the same as digging a friggin ditch!

Aaaand, they have no internets or other entertainment. Fucking IS the entertainment. Basically what you said.

They will find a fresh McDonalds bun next to the fossilized remains of a human.

Maybe for the smaller operations. I have family who work for a large retailer, every year the pickers go on strike for higher wages/bonus/whatever and the DC's ground to a halt. They are starting a pilot DC which is fully automated. DC is already built, all that's left is the integration into the current system. I would also like to point out that I currently live in a third world country.

Telemarketers.

It's a COM issue, and has existed since there was a registry. If you write a COM dll you will still have to deal with DLL hell. The problem hasn't gone away, it's just been replaced with .Net and the global assembly cache. In .Net you can still specify that you want your DLL to register for COM interop - rarely needed to do it, but sometimes you are working on ancient code and it's the only way for it to talk to a .Net dll.

In my country summers get damn hot, tar melts and the trucks start wearing grooves into it, so they replaced it with concrete. Admittedly it requires more maintenance IMHO, but it does work as a viable substitute.

Erm, firstly that's racist, and second wtf does it have to do with anything?

If a company cant trust it's IT department it's screwed. I've worked in environments with billions, I had to get a security clearance to work there.
Most financial institutions will not hire someone who is black listed, too much temptation for them.

Because it's a feature!

Yeah, a friend of mine read the entire series and uses it to drop spoilers as punishment when someone insults him. Having read the series myself I am naturally immune.

This is moronic, if this is put in place only Americans will use American software (and then only some of them). NO other country is going to voluntarily use software they know has a "front door" regardless of all the "good intentions" promised by splitting the key up. May as well shoot Microsoft in the foot.

But that's the thing, the DID want to share it, probably not with everyone granted, but then they should have secured it so only the people they did want to give access to it would have access. I love the way the article implies it's somehow google's fault that some clueless idiot didn't click on a tick box and enter a user name and password. If people don't want to RTFM then they are going to get burned.

All this will do is force the file sharers to start encrypting everything. Give me access to the content I want, when I want it (I live outside the USA) and I will gladly pay. Until then, I will gladly pirate what I want, when I want it.

Sometimes, it's okay to just do a check twice
No, it's not. Because now if you need to change the check (or more likely someone else) you have to make sure you do it in both places. If the other person does not even look for the second check then you now have broken code. If you have to copy paste your own code with minimal or no changes then you are doing it wrong and it's time to refactor.