Either the demographic of /. has changed dramatically or simply clickbait

I have not read InfoWorld in a while, but I was kinda surprised that they would be the source of such a, *ahem*, mundane article

In 'Brewster's Millions', Richard Pryor runs for office to waste a lot of money and has his election motto be, 'Vote for none of the above', but he throws the election because the major plot point is that he needs to be penniless to inherit his fortune and the salary of office would blow it

Then there was 'Dave' where an actor is a stand in for a President who dies, then finally fakes his own death to get eh right person into office.

There still seems to be something out there that is closer to what you are mentioning but it isn't ringing a bell right now. If we are not careful Adam Sandler will use it as a plot for a movie

Rollerball

It brought it to common desktop computers

If I wanted to put forward a game that pushed the limits of home gaming (at the time) it would have to be Commander Keen, followed quickly by Wolfenstein

More likely, somebody's "thesis on impact of biological factors of equine performance" was not as substantial as they may have thought

What is that Scientific Method again? Form hypothesis, test, prove/disprove, reconsider...

I think that they are at the reconsider step in regards to their hypothesis, but the scientific method works just fine as long as nobody assumes that a hypothesis is some unalterable biblical truth

Just irritated that some lame-o blames having a poor thesis on 'science' being wrong

Yeah, but...

For all of their 'science' and use of terms like centrifugal, their thesis was ultimately flawed, then they go and try and blame 'science' as being flawed when, in fact, it was the author of the article that seems to have failed to understand the variables involved

Sure it is part of popular culture, and certainly it is an awesome accomplishment, but linking to some article where an imbecile demonstrates their complete lack of understanding of the scientific method, or has the gumption to recognize their flawed thesis...

lame

but, but... Science!

... delicious jelly or Boston creme?

I dunno, could it be expressed in patterns of camouflage or foliage?

Nice summary, but beyond the intention that all Java implementations be 100% compatible, Sun released much of Java under GNU GPL in 2006.
I will admit up front that I tried to read the GNU licensing back in the early 90's and I found it to be such a tar-pit-trap of self referencing and whole creation of terminology that I have felt ill towards Stallman ever since

I believe that this litigation may be the ultimate dissection of the GNU GPL and I am more than interested in seeing how the Supreme Court parses it all out.
While I totally agree with you that the intent of Oracle may be for compatibility, the intent of the GPL certainly supports modification as long as the modified code continues to support the GPL

President Carter moved the US away from using breeder reactor technology because the US had an abundant supply of coal

This reflected a failure to recognize the need to sequester the carbon from the CO2 emissions, which made coal power seem to cost less than nuclear

The continued failure to recognize the true cost of coal, as well as any fossil fuel, is the only reason that business has not supported nuclear power

If we recognize the true costs of fossil fuels, nuclear power becomes the clear winner, at least for the next 100 years during which we can develop power sources with even less impact

We cannot afford the impact to climate that another 100 years of fossil fuel use would cause

...and I have read that we cannot clone mastodons because the 10,000 years that the DNA has sat in a frozen dry environment has caused too many data errors

a millions years... good luck. You are either expecting very long telomeres to be fixing it during replication or having it stored near absolute zero