Let's start with pedantry first. That is a much more important -- and challenging -- medical condition to solve. It is a particularly cruel disease that affects a disproportionate number of slashdotters.

Requiring car manufacturers to "own" all of the possible software defects for the life of a car means that manufacturers will have to put a limited life on some of these systems. Otherwise each car they make will have a potentially infinite cost. "You want anti-lock brakes after 5 years? Here's the maintenance fee... and you can expect that to rise by 10% per year."

I hear the battlefields of Ukraine are beautiful this time of year.

There is this dry, air-conditioned place most of us here on /. never leave called "indoors".

Yes, and today we have POSIX and we code for that. And we use Boost ASIO to hide the Windows/POSIX differences from the application developer.

I guess that means the the overall budget will be smaller than last year?

You mix "free trade" and "capitalism" in your sentences as if they were interchangeable and equivalent. They are not. The U.S. had capitalism without free international trade for a long time -- and still does. Free trade only helps the traders. It just means that the taxes that were levied on duties now have to be collected elsewhere. It's a nice phrase for "shifting the tax burden" -- nothing else. Free trade does not magically lower the cost of government.

This is capitalism in practice. Show me an example of capitalism that exists without cronyism in the real world -- outside of the economists' idealized computer models. "Pure capitalism" is the economists' version of the "perfectly spherical cow".

That would be "in a monopoly venture with Boeing in ULA", gaming the system to extract more money from Uncle Sam.

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

I was taught that back in civics class... a long time ago, in a country far, far away.

If we legalize the making of alcohol, tobacco and firearms, then what are we going to do with all the money we spend on the Bureau of Alchol, Tobacco and Firearms??? Add even more letters to their TLA to justify its existence?

This organization needs to be ended and its responsibilities folded into the Department of Commerce and the FBI.

How does one permanently remove a project from SourceForge that has been transferred elsewhere so this does not occur?

I bought my wife a Google Nexus 10 tablet. She is super happy running Linux.