The Association for the Advancement of Assonance in the Americas would like a word.

Nothing magical makes technology work just for the US federal government. If technology exists, others can use it, too. What is so hard about this concept? A better question to ask is why should we trust a government that wants this ability all to itself?

It's in the interests of ARM and AMD to support both GCC and LLVM/clang. So far as I recall, both companies do contribute heavily in code and other resources to both projects.

Code that compiles reliably under both is likely to be better code than that which compiles only under one or the other.

I'm okay with them using GPS with a warrant so long as it's not a rubber-stamp warrant from an undiscerning judge.

It's an improvement. This won't stop the use of such tactics, of course. Now they'll just get a warrant to tag your car with GPS tracking and shop around for the easiest judge to sign off on it. That's some protection.

One quiver, many arrows.

A contract is easier to enforce than many trade secrets laws, and can apply to proprietary information that doesn't neatly fit the definition of trade secrets. But yes, there's also trade secrets laws. They complement one another, non-competes and other things.

You skipped the case in which it's not unique code but for which you don't have a library.

See the part that says "any product or service". That's entirely too broad. Have you seen the breadth of things Amazon sells? This could probably only be enforced if someone was taking proprietary information about how Amazon does things and improves the processes at a competitor.

I really hate how every little thing gets some catchy marketing name now that is hard to search. Just give me the damn CVE.

My back was so screwed up from an auto accident I could barely walk upright for months. When you can't get from the bed to the car or the car to your desk without wincing the whole way, a bike or elliptical is a pretty big challenge. That sort of thing can get better, and I lost the weight later. It can take some time, though, especially when still working crazy amounts of hours.

Yeah, it takes someone incredibly lazy to work 80 hours a week and suffer injuries that keep one from working out properly. Incredibly lazy. Nobody's everyone's hero for their fitness level. They might be their own personal hero, or a hero to a friend or family member, but they aren't public heroes like people who save someone stranger's life. It's something that lots of people do. Doing it doesn't make any of us an expert in it. A weight loss expert is someone who knows how to help a lot of other people overcome their specific situations to lose weight. It's someone who can actually give advice based on a deep understanding of the various issues. It's not someone who says "this is what worked for me so it's definitely going to work for everyone on Slashdot."

"Whee! 30 pounds! I'm a weight loss wonder story fit for the front page!" It's a good start. Maybe it was all you needed to lose. I know several people (myself included) down by a hundred or more. None of us claim to be experts.

I bought a boxed copy of Caldera OpenLinux back before they merged with SCO and started their "we own Linux" campaign. Even if I needed a Linux license from them, which nobody does, I already had it.