Microsoft needs to grow a pair and lay down the law to any company that wants to be an OEM for their products. Apple wouldn't let the carriers pull this stunt on their phones.

So they're breeding mice with the genes of a human brain? As Kramer said in that episode, there is a secret plan for pig men, or rather rat men.

That was my first thought too on reading this story. They've made it hard to see the program instructions, so just go back a step and reverse engineer the decrypting algorithm.

Like many coders, I too have written code to upload files, but I'm damned if I know what files were uploaded or what their copyright status is.

Je Suis Kim Dotcom.

More like going after Al Capone's tea lady for putting a nip of whisky in her night cap.

Pretty much everyone knows dealing drugs is illegal. But when you've got drop box, youtube, and everyone else allowing everyone to upload stuff to their sites, how are you supposed to know it is criminal? Even more so when all you are doing is writing code, not making value judgments on what is going to be uploaded with it.

Yes, technically. But if you're told "make a web site so people can upload stuff", and then for some esoteric reason, the feds decide that the uploading is criminal copyright conspiracy, that's hardly fair is it?

ISIS might think these videos serve their purpose, but in reality they will cause their downfall. I don't see any reason to take them down just because ISIS think it is helping them when in the reality is it will destroy them. Truth can only hurt those in the wrong.

You think filthy 1s and 0s are bad, you should see a dirty number 2.

by the same token Since all iteration can be implemented as recursion, there is really not much legitimate examples of iteration.

Errrm did you stop to think that the term tail-recursive contains the term recursive? Nah, didn't think so.

LOL

Depends on the programming language. In Scheme ALL iteration is reduced to recursion. But then, if the compiler is a clever one, it just turns into unrolled jumps. It's all the same I the end.

In a tail recursive programming language there is absolutely nothing wrong with using recursion to do things that some people might think is an appropriate use of it. In Scheme, looping constructs are implemented in terms of recursion.

Having cleaned up a lot of projects, I don't think a magic tool is the answer. You have to have management approval to fiddle and deal with the testing and new bug outcome. You should work hard to remove all warnings in the code, that often does wonders and exposes a lot of flaws. You need to understand the code and slowly, a, step at a time, evolve the code until it's pretty and we'll structured. Don't rewrite from scratch. Evolve a, step at a time. Fix one architectural issue, make sure it still works, and then keep going, keep refactoring.

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