If somebody with any say at Slashdot is reading this, please do the right thing and get the focus back to where it used to be, on science and technology. There are many, many other places we can go to read and bitch about the day-in, day-out shenanigans of American politics. Slashdot shouldn't be one of them.

You... I like you

You can read about it here:
www.sprysoftware.com

It's a better solution because
- You DON'T need a Windows license
- It's smaller: You can run more apps with less memory

I agree with you that there are probably gravitational perturbations to the Oort cloud or inner asteroid-belt that result in extinction-events but I also expect that there is another phenomena: the varying levels of cosmic rays as we pass through the galaxy's arms.

FWIW I like your explanation, simple concise, logical.

I'm just sayin'

... or to sell any information they have on you to the highest bidder

Yes, but considering TCP is a core part of IP... what you did kind of falls flat.

Nope, that's like saying hamburgers are a core part of cows.

You make hambugers out of cows, you don't make cows out of hamburgers.

You make TCP out of IP, you don't make IP out of TCP.

It might be bloated and slow. But it is also easily extendable and human readable.

What's could be good if HUMANS were intended to read it.

Yeah, it's a good thing no humans work as programmers or ever debug this thing

Agreed, but at the same time more people are staying home and watching DVDs

You say it isn't how it went down but I put to you that the bigger the company, the more insulated from everything the policy-makers are, in general.

And when you actually start to believe your own hype, well there's no telling what dumb things you might do.

The first person to get an additional head grafted onto their shoulders should be declared president of the galaxy!

We visit a Microsoft boardroom, where execs are discussing their future plans

Exec 1: Hey, I've got an idea, you know how on that android-y thingy, you can download free apps but to make their money back on them, the developers serve ads? Why don't we do that?

Exec 2: You mean serve people ads with software they've already paid for???

Exec1: Yeah!

Exec 3: Genius! Let's break for lunch!

Instead of asking questions like that, why don't you build Skype and any other software you're working on to NOT have backdoors

That way, if ever the machines DO try to take over the world, they won't have a bunch of convenient control channels in all the important software to do so.

Can 3D printers print 3D printers yet?

From everything I'm hearing, Agile appears to encourage laziness on the part of the client.

It's not that I don't want to satisfy the client, of course I do, it's just that the client has to do his part in specifying clearly what s/he wants. You know, specs.

And yes, sometimes the developer DOES know what the client wants better than the client does. A seasoned developer with knowledge/experience in the target domain will typically understand lots of things more in-depth and realistically than a client who simply has a pie-in-the-sky vision of things.