I chuckle when I see what the Warren Court has wrought. Some pepper-spray and light usage of a police baton, and people are screaming the police are overly aggressive/brutal, and using it as proof of a "police city-state". Fourty-plus years ago, if one was unfortunate enough to have an encounter with a baton, the beating was vicious, and continual until the sounds of bones breaking was heard. Some didn't survive. Police interrogations were often just as physical as they were mental. And police could tap phone lines outside of the home without a warrant (Olmstead v. United States, 1928), which I totally agree with (of course, I grew up during the last few years of party lines in my hometown, so my perspective is everyone is listening...just like we did). An honest, object comparison of history to today will show this is nowhere near a police state.

At least the C++ community saw it for the bullshit that it is. While they went somewhat template-crazy at times, at least they managed to avoid the sheer stupidity of "design patterns", for the most part. That's probably why most real software today is written in C++.

That's because unlike Google, Bing doesn't favor its own services over others. Google favors their news service, maps, YouTube, shopping and every other service over others. Bing returns results objectively.

Being open does not make Slashdot easier to hack, because it's written in Perl and so even access to the source code does not make it possible for an attacker to understand what it's doing.

Are these the people who Google for "facebook login" and then proceed to assume that whatever they find is Facebook? The comments here are pure gold [readwriteweb.com].

I haven't RTFA but maybe Google includes Gmail, Youtube, Blogspot, etc?

Do you wonder why they keep locking your accounts and holding your money? You rolled over and took it the FIRST time and have done so since. You should've sued them the first time it happened.