If something is not ilegal, then it's legal. This "alegal" thing is a dangerous concept.

We can't expect the laws to define absolutely every aspect of the human (or alien!) experience.

Oh, I thought someone had patented the very idea of open sourcing code.

Yeah, but stuxnet was designed to spread even without the internet.

"plants with lots of DNA have more trouble tolerating pollution and extreme climatic extinction"

What kind of genome do you need to survive extinction?

But the government still taxes these people, without providing a police force? So basically the guys who own firearms are the ones who are being oppresed by their government, and the ones who do not feel the need to own weapons, are the ones who live under good governments.

Let's be honests here: you've never lived under an oppressive government, ever. If you did, you'd realize that your rifle would only get you killed if you tried to buy some freedom of your own with it.

More honesty: you like shooting at things, which is ok. Just don't try to rationalize your gun mania into some kind of fight against a government out to oppress you, because it makes you look stupid.

How does xargs replace hadoop, even in trivial examples?

Unless you are talking about running hadoop in a single machine, which is just waaay too trivial an example.

Super simple question: yes, they should have read-only access.

Unless you are concerned about privacy issues, but then you probably solved those for your sysadmins too, so no biggie.

That's not very a precise description of what a neuron does. And the complexity of the brain is not just in the number of neurons in it, which you can argue Moore's Law will eventually make trivial (or more probably, will stop being valir at some point), but in the number of connections each neuron has, which can number in the thousands.

Moore's Law won't help you at all to get the brain connections right any soon.

The real nugget of the Myers post is: "The genome is not the code; the genome is the data".

The spanish original doesn't say legitimate.

Also, it says that ISPs cannot block content, applications or services, based on the origin or property of those.

Wait. How were those loony statements?

What's the point of wearing an american flag t-shirt on cinco de mayo, if it is not being a complete asshole?

Well, until you have to go make scripts for some old AIX machine where you can't install whatever you want.

And probably it doesn't have bash, and the ksh doesn't behave in standard ways.

IIRC in the UK, the government has to give you permission to sue it, before you can actually sue it.

What kind of imbecile metric is "terrorist incidents per mile flown"?!?!

You may as well make it terrorist incident per atom transported to get a much more impressive number.