I don't take hime seriously because of this:

http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2009/08/12/special-report-is-us-chief-information-officer-cio-vivek-kundra-a-phony/

Bungie was done at 3 like it said in the summary.

Also, the Story Arc that Started in Halo:CE ended at 3. I'm guessing that this will be a new story arc.

Try canceling a cash payment.

Non-Reversible is good and already exists, it just doesn't have a commonplace existence electronically yet.

I'm pretty sure that getting access to a foreign satellite, and then finding said satellite without the aid of a "Satellite positioning applet ... found by searching google", since there is no internet there to begin with, will be more difficult than crimping some connectors.

Also, not sure what the wrench sizes are for, but pretty sure Egypt uses metric.

Just sayin'

Informative nonetheless.

You forgot drunk driving.

Advanced tools? Are you fucking mental?

From Ars:

encoded in plain text in a URL

That's a fucking query string you dolt! This is akin to going to www.example.com/?id=1234 and just iterating through the 1234 part in a script and harvesting an email address it whenever it returns something valid.

Change the user agent your script is using to an iPad and you're golden.

AT&T and co. left all that "out there" in the open; a ICCID validator for iPad users. The only "advanced tools" required was knowledge of query strings and user agents and some kind of scripting. This isn't one obscure hack, this is blatantly ignorant security practices on AT&T's part.

My anecdotal evidence is showing again, but I have been involved in a fair number of pipe dream conversions away from COBOL and C++ to things like Java and C#. To me it looks like it is losing mind share from small business CIO's and the youth.

And besides those behemoths (which 20-30 years ago, fyi, these same points were being made against COBOL), I think the point the GP is trying to make is that nothing really new is coming out that excites people about it being developed in C++ (besides gaming). It has become more of a chore, a weeder language, a necessary evil in the minds of a lot of youth today (anecdotal!) like learning x86 Assembly was (and in some cases still is) in the past.

The fact of the matter is: C++ is playing catch up. There is nothing new here, those features are being supported in production environments in other languages. Better late then never sure, but not fixing the <<template>> for a dozen years is inexcusable (especially in light of detailed compiler errors) and trumps arguments that it took so long to fix because it is a slow moving rock of stability.

I think that was covered with the burning out working at a bank bit, and really mostly working in a form of SQL anyway.

I concur with your anecdotal evidence with my own observations and I share your opinions. But it seems like its moot compared to some of the hard data I've seen in the past.. It may be trending down, but it's not down yet.

I believe it is also a regional thing, C# seems to dominate the Mid-Western US with Java domination on the US coasts. With C++ being, well, elsewhere out of my ethnocentric regionalisms. Again, just my own personal anecdotal evidence.

Yes they both grew bitter:

One because he was told by the Continental Congress that he owed them money after spending a substantial portion of his own wealth on the war effort, the other because he felt he was "actively involved in something that [he] was completely against"

I totally get your confusion.

Obviously he is distributing terrorism recruitment material. Speech is only free if you agree with it and it doesn't cause too much of a ruckus. He practically yelled FIRE! in a crowded theater. ... *sigh*

It doesn't even name which Justices sided where! It's almost like they took a straw poll, saw no real majority and said, "fuck it, next!"

Bradley Manning is comparable to Benedict Arnold?

Really? The general and war hero that grew bitter with his level of recognition and attribution during the revolutionary war, and as such changed sides? Or is it that his name is regarded as a synonym for traitor?

I'm pretty sure this guy is more comparable to Mark Felt or Daniel Ellsberg or Sam Adams(b. 1934).

I disagree, there are plenty of similarities. It just has become different, again, because when people put ".. with computers" on the end of something, it makes it completely different. Which is asinine.

You seemed to have an inordinate love for the state. But I'll retract that since I saw that last remark you made about doubting the authenticity that wiki leaks actually aided China and Saudi. You're just overly irritable to perceived bullshit.

No they have formed a picket line. Have you ever even seen one? Sitting there with signs doesn't do a whole lot of good all the time (though there are plenty where that's all that it amounts to), if there are high tensions, high stakes, and there are actual scabs crossing the line, then fuck yeah there is going to be people being accosted, mostly verbal, and no one is going to move freely in any sense of the word.

What the people did in the civil rights movement was illegal.
Pentagon papers. Was viewed as Illegal, tried for espionage.
Holding unions. Criminal conspiracy.
Revolutionary war. Illegal.

A protest is useless if it doesn't actually cause a stir. Even Gandhi was arrested.

I too have legitimate doubts of your authenticity do to your blinding amounts of fascism, it's hard for me to fathom such idiocy.