The mysql module should have been shot before it was ever included. A database interface layer that doesn't support bound parameters is criminally irresponsible, and people who write such things should be held criminally responsible.

Pace of innovation? I can't understand you people who like to work 60 hour weeks just so the hamster wheel can spin faster. Get out more.

I've been thinking for a long time I could be in the wrong industry. I might be right. Y'all are nuts.

to them. If they can detect the sort of brain activity that correlates with intelligence, certainly this can be expanded to other brain activity. Throw a Union Jack on their screens and see how they respond. Boom, state loyalty tester. Throw two naked guys on their screen, boom, sexual orientation test. Throw scenes of snipers shooting civilians, boom, black ops aptitude test.

The cover story, as usual, doesn't matter.

It's what they did with Tor, isn't it? Separate the sheep from the goats (i.e. those who have no interest in hiding anything vs. those who do) and watch the hell out of the sheep?

The sheep are more responsive to mass propaganda. There's no need to watch them until they prove themselves goats.

means "compliant" and "loyal". Of course, "smart" in any context is nothing more than a measure of conformity to a particular culture's belief structure. Even here.

"the protection and preservation of existing power inequalities"

Those of us who actually make boards are quite happy to have scopes. Or those of us who work with analog circuits (YES! you CAN still buy REAL OP-AMPS in SO-8 packages OMGWTFBBQ!) or, say, power supplies, or any sort of signal processing. A scope is quite a bit more than a nice-to-have. You may as well tell a machinist a Bridgeport is a "nice thing to have".

Oracle v. Google was about a nine-line range checking routine, written by the same guy at different jobs. The jury found it copyrightable, I seem to remember. (WAT)

Fair Use still exists, but so too does everything short of barratry.

*shrug* Samsung Electronics has some tempting little eight-ARMed chips that would feel great on a Mini-ITX motherboard. Still not FOSS, but if that's really important to you, there's lowRISC (Berkeley RISC-V including development toolchain and Linux image) and just now Parallax's Propeller for your I/O needs...

is anti-American. Stop that.

but, hi, there's something called Android that's well over 90% permissively licensed.

encourage everyone to hack the pages their browser shows to make them their own. Stop being consumers.

3.6: "It is easier to move a problem around (for example, by moving the problem to a different part of the overall network architecture) than it is to solve it."

Because the Holy Bourgeois Aesthetic demands we only allow people with Strong, Stout Hearts to rule over us.

I think the Eich coup was about where I gave up on "social justice", as the game is presently played, being any more than a fashion accessory for the upper middle class.

Because JavaScript Cryptography Considered Harmful. Which, of course, depends on whether CAs, and the authorities that govern them, are part of your threat model.