I thought about that a bit. It's easy to remove all but the functions intended to be used parameterized, but that doesn't prevent you from doing something stupid, it just doesn't invite you to be stupid. There is certainly something to be said for that.

The solution for the second part would be a bit heavy weight and never really satisfactory. For example:

"SELECT info from STUFF where id=$uid;"

Pretty much anyone would agree that uid should be parameterized. However, what about:

"SELECT $field from $table where $other_field = $value;"

Which of those do we want to force into parameters for all cases? Surely we don't want to force the first query to be re-written as:

"SELECT $1 from $2 where $3=$4;", array('info','STUFF','id',$uid)

But short of that, we can't stop someone from being stupid.

Even better, roll it back to the original intent. Line 2, subtract $100,000. Line 3. If line 2 >0, divide by 10 and enter here. Else, don't bother filing.

By now, that number may be closer to $200,000 given inflation.

Originally, it was intended that the vast majority of people wouldn't even be required to file. Those who were were almost certain to already employ an accountant.

The really sad part is that the court's logic was approaching non-sequitur. The law is full of requirements for adverse disclosures. If adverse disclosures are a violation of free speech, then I don't have to disclose if I sell a car that was totaled and 'restored' and I don't have to disclose undocumented income to the IRS. Also, no need to disclose any known issues if I sell my house. Next, I suppose they'll rule that a restaurant need not post an extremely adverse health inspection.

Your logic failed. He didn't say the left never does. He just pointed out the ones the right makes, which were the ones relevant to the thread.

You have to remember that the lines are moving. Compared to Reagan, Eisenhower was a pinko. But compared to Bush Jr., Reagan was at least a left leaning Democrat.

Sure, the added input options might be nice, but that still doesn't alter the desire for a more traditional desktop UI. Of course that doesn't apply on an iPhone since that is clearly a mobile device. Small screen, held in one hand, no desk.

But note that virtual keyboards are already supported at the input layer. If someone actually wanted to do speech to text (and speech to text worked well enough) there's no reason a daemon process couldn't listen to the mike and then generate synthetic keystrokes. As a side benefit, that would work on the text consoles as well.

It really depends on the genre because the more locked-down platforms handle some genres better than PCs. Party games, fighting games, and cooperative platformers really need two to four players holding gamepads and looking at one screen. A PC can technically do those, but in practice, desktop or laptop PC's monitor isn't big enough for more than one person, and I'm told few people are aware that they can use virtually any HDTV as a PC monitor. The touch screen that ships with a mobile device makes certain genres hard to control as well, as I discovered when I repeatedly failed to make a certain jump in the demo of Pixeline and the Jungle Treasure on my first-generation Nexus 7 tablet.

ObMicrosoft: Look at the drama surrounding updates to Fez .

It is interesting to see how the wildlife has fared in the exclusion zone. Perhaps it is truly fair to say that general human activity is more harmful to nature than nuclear waste.

I also find it interestiung that there are a few people who never left the exclusion zone. They are still alive and living on food they grow in the zone.

I wouldn't call radiation healthy, but perhaps we need to review our understanding of the risks.

Oddly enough, because I have 'tree hugging' tendencies, I fully support nuclear power. It's the one tech we have for power that when done right releases no pollutants into the environment and otherwise minimises it's impact. No flooded land and disturbed fish and no chopped eagles.

It seems unlikely. People are just abandoning Gnome and finding the alternatives to be just fine. But my real point was that I'd like to give systemd and their new dependencies on the kitchen sink a miss entirely. Let them crap on their own distro.

As for the laptops, when used as a conventional laptop, people will likely want to stick with a conventional desktop UI just as laptops have always been used. When converted to tablet mode, they might be more interested in a mobile desktop.

Gnome 3 might actually work for a tablet, I just wish they had had the good sense to acknowledge that it is a tablet only UI and make it clear that it was not a successor to Gnome 2. But I have to say, given the way they have done it and the way they have added on top the hardware and system requirements, I don't thing they actually realized it was only useful for a tablet until late in the game.

Resistive is actually the older tech. I have used both. In practice, the resistive is not quite as effective as capacitive, but they're close enough that high end resistive can beat a capacitive setup. Resistive is popular in industrial settings and under rugged conditions.

But the point stands, when the screens are bigger, set up on a desk, and a keyboard connected for serious work, people will likely want to have a traditional desktop rather than a mobile UI.

This Netflix situation is more like:

1. I ask my cousin in N.Y.C. to drive to Auburn, Maine with a package for me
2. He arrives later that day and we reminisce about family over drinks
3. The next day, I move to Vermont, and ask him to deliver another package, but it takes two weeks for him to get there because my cousin can't afford to pay a fee to the state of Vermont to be able to travel at speeds over 5% of the posted speed limit

...or at least it's no worse an analogy. It's equally bad at describing what the fuck is actually happening, which is that Comcast is extorting other companies because it can.

Tell that to someone who nags me to "DO THE [expletive] WORK and quit whining" when I try to promote awareness of the consequences of entry barriers to getting a video game published.

Some people might think "firstpost.com" is a troll site like "hotgrits.org" or anything in the .cx top-level domain. So let me explain this input method in my own words. It works in much the same way that activating tiny hyperlinks in the Chrome browser for Android works. Tap once in the vicinity of the key you want to press, and it'll zoom in on an area of the keyboard centered on where you pressed. Tap again to actually enter a letter.