Communism is centralized control of production. Free Software and Open Source are exactly the opposite. Patents and copyrights are much closer to Communism, as the Government issues directions for who gets to produce stuff.

I think everyone would be happy with a 20% yearly growth in their income.

Those adapter classes exist to make interfaces with lots of methods easier to manage. I've learned and forgotten many languages over my 30 years of programming, but Java is one of those elegant languages that makes programming pleasant. The only thing I truly hate about it is the stupid memory limits imposed by its early life for applets. That one thing makes desktop programming more irritating than it needs to be.

I bet not one of these bankers does any non-neglible prison time.

It boggles my mind that people still haven't caught on to this. I'm going to expand on your message just a little bit:

Once you give your data to "the cloud", it becomes the property of government snooping agencies. It doesn't even matter if you're in a country that doesn't actively snoop (if you believe that such a thing exists anymore). Companies change hands, and they do so across political boundaries. Companies cannot be trusted with your data. Period.

Hopefully, this little incident opens some eyes.

That's because it doesn't. This program is on the same complexity scale as chapter 2 or 3 in an introduction to programming book, when it reaches the concept of variables. It's an exercise in triviality, not artificial intelligence.

No, he's not. He is completely ignorant of history. Even if you can't see it right now, there is trap hidden somewhere in Microsoft's actions. There is ALWAYS a hidden trap in any apparently-friendly action Microsoft takes. You either see it up front and avoid Microsoft like the plague that it is, or you fall victim to the trap after it's sprung.

Don't any of you remember Microsoft's last promise to not sue over Dot Net runtime patents?! On the surface, it seemed like Microsoft had turned a corner away from the Dark Side. But a closer analysis revealed that Microsoft's promise only extended to one very specific version of the Dot Net runtime, which was a version that was quickly superceded by the next version of the Dot Net runtime.

The trap was that we were meant to believe that we were covered by the patent pledge for the Dot Net runtime. However, if you tried to implement Microsoft's superceding version, the patent pledge no longer applied.

Rather than trying to figure out whether you're the dinner guest or the dinner in the wolf's lair, it's just far safer to stay away from the wolf altogether. No one ever got eaten by staying away from Microsoft.

Measles is one of several diseases that was nearly eradicated before the vaccine was introduced. The effectiveness of the Measles vaccine is based more on religious faith than on science.

The recent New York "outbreak" of 24 cases (only 24 cases, but whatever: we like a good hysterical response to a non-issue) consisted of 20 people who were vaccinated and 4 that were not. That does not speak well to the effectiveness of this particular vaccine, but does lend credence to the notion that good sanitation is more effective than the pharmaceutical cash grab that is modern vaccinations.

More damning of the Measles vaccine is that the source of the New York outbreak was a fully vaccinated person. Measles vaccinations seem a lot like snake oil.