http://www.fogcreek.com/FogBUGZ/

Its great, its simple, it also cost a bit of money, but its worth every cent.

They need smart people more then ever, but maybe not CS majors....

If I where to run that big company, with 99% of their income from one product (adwords et al), I would hire all the smart people in the world to figure out how to diversify myself successfully (No, google apps & Sketchup Pro wont save them).

You might say the same thing about other companies, like Microsoft, but its far far easier for customers to flee an advertising model en masse , than over night switch their IT infrastructure.

Considering that adwords becomes more expensive and more crowded by the day, Google needs to do something ...

Alternatives is good even if they are bad. If BBC was to turn a blind spot on a important matter, you would never know without alternatives. But I agree with you, BBC is very good source for news.

It sure is a doubled edged sword, but there is allot of success stories also, patents is a mechanism to keep competition "fair".

Without patents, it would be even easier for medium/large/mega cooperation to prey on small companies inventions, I write even because just having a patent today do not mean that your immune against this behavior.

Its possible that article duping activity could sustain at least three Slashdot sites, that actually cover the same events, with no additional work.

One even made it all the way to a governator position !

NextStep isnt dead, it just got a new name when Next told Apple to buy them....

Thats 20 years after Unix was released, right ?

#define _SECURE_SCL 0 to disable checked iterators

I think the Google Lunar x-prize is pointless. Its now more or less 5 years to it expire, but the full sum is only paid out if someone makes the trip before the end of 2012.

The orginal x-prize took 8 years for someone to win, and that prize had a strong commercial (space tourism) appeal, while the Google prize have not.

Tried to be funny, will never attempt that again, promise....

The trick is to switch the fuses after the server move so they barley can run a workstation on each outlet.

The water crisis is not about total amount of water, it is the displacement of water from one point to another.

Water in the form of glacier ice in the Himalayas (providing drinking water for millions and millions down stream), that instead becomes rain in Australia , is a water crisis.

Geo-engineering is a short term last resort solution when everything else fails. It has so many unknown factors that in worst case it can lead to an even worse disaster than the one its trying to prevent.

Reducing emissions is the best way in the long run. Part from reducing the Co2 emissions it drives technology development towards more efficient use of energy, new products, new companies, new jobs etc etc.

We have to face the facts, quick fixes does not exists to this problem, we have to clean up our mess and take the consequences.