Sweden tried a transaction tax in the 90s, but they made the tax too high (1% if I remember correctly). The results were not good for the Swedish economy so they rolled the law back. So there you go, even socialist countries like Sweden can rollback socialist laws if they turn out bad.

Yeah, but it hasn't had PHP/Perl style string injection before. That can get nasty. though I am sure this feature is compiletime only considering the "security" focus of the language. If not it could be a serious problem (think PHP SQL-injections).

Take a simple one from Mac versus Windows: On the Mac, in a dialog box, the default button is always the right-most button. So you have a dialog box that says, "Are you sure you want to do this?" and the right-most button would say, "OK" and the button to the left of it would say, "Cancel." On Windows, the default "OK" button would be on the left with the "Cancel" button the right of it.

Oh, stop trolling. You have obviously never used Qt, it will automatically fix the order of the dialog buttons for you. You can even launch the same application under GNOME and get one order, and under KDE and get another. It is controlled by the widget-style it uses. And it does more than that, it also matches the reading direction of the language you are using so that it reverses for Hebrew, Arabic or other right-to-left languages.

There are things that you need to handle yourself in a crossplatform application, but that is not one of them.

I was refering to Swift. Objective-C is just unused everywhere outside of Apple because it is a horrible language.

More perl and ocaml. The syntax is ML like with a severe case of a double Perl and JavaScript infection.

Who the hell references arguments with $1 and $2?

Any idea how to download it without iTunes?

You don't. That would break the whole idea of vendor lock-in, wouldn't it?

Why do you think Swift is platform specific? I think it is will almost certainly not be; Apple will be more interested in getting the new language adopted rather than locking in people. Therefore at least the core language is very likely to be neutral. In fact, there is a pretty good chance it will be available through the llvm channels, and have a BSD license.

Objective-C is not technically platform specific either, it just is in practice, because there is no room or reason for yet another wannabe C++-killer. There are already plenty of languages better than C++, another one wont make a difference, so Swift will be like Objective-C, Apple only.

Coffee hot enough to give 3rd degree burns to the genitals will probably get a lawsuit anywhere. That case gets trotted out as a negative example every time, but if you take the time to read up on it, it's the opposite.

If by anywhere you mean the US, yes. It would still count as cold coffee in Europe, so no, no one is going to sue over coffee colder than normal.

Recommended by who? Coffee should be brewed at 90C and served fresh, which means close to 90C. If it is stored colder than that, it will still be served colder than freshly brewed coffee...

As far as I can tell, only because the person taking them had shared them with someone else. His punishment for for violating her privacy is that he has to delete the private photos he has.

This is not a general ruling but a specific ruling for this case. (also, last sentence in your link says it is not final)

I doubt he had to delete it. This smells of journalistic edging of the truth. If she withdraws consent then he is no longer allowed to distribute these photos or show them to anyone else. That is not the same as having to delete them, but certain media would certainly love to portray it that way, since it could harm their sources of compromising photos.

Why do you think they went extinct upon first contact with humans?

That opens the door to politically motivated prosecutions of civil servants who carried out a policy you just disagree with. Again, there are special crimes against humanity that everybody gets held responsible for, but do you really want to prosecute a worker-bee at the IRS because you disagree with an 'unjust' tax policy?

Nonsense! We are not talking about if something is just or unjust, but whether it is criminal or not. If you perform a criminal act, you have performed a criminal act and will be treated as such. That you were acting under order does not change the criminal nature of your actions. At very best you can claim to have acted in good faith, but that will just give lenience, not change your guilt.

Yes, that is how I read it too. (posting to undo accidental wrong mod)

I think you're talking about specific firewire host controller implementations rather than firewire in general. I imagine the same issue could happen with pcmcia or cardbus.

It is a feature of the design, and the reason firewire is fast. It can access memory directly, that makes it fast, and that makes it a giant security hole.

Funny thing. Thunderbolt has the same issue.