The world must be a scary place for them!

The good thing about first aid and insurance are that they help make realistic issues better. I don't keep a surgical table or have volcano insurance because those aren't issues I will realistically have to deal with, and if they are then there are others better equipped to handle them

Should we teach everyone about all dangerous things? Have a class on crossbow safety just in case people come across a medieval crossbow?

We give 16 year olds access to cars because cars are useful. Guns really have no use in modern society other than dangerous toys.

Need to start a movement to walk by the school in a different costume every day to see what triggers the police response. Think storm trooper man is up for the job?

So being so afraid that you feel the need to carry guns everywhere is "brave" now?

It saves quite a bit of space though as you just need one room rather than two.

After a time limit, lock the screen and turn off the monitor.

Unless they changed it in the past 30 years, I believe you'd have to do:
number : integer;
read(number);

I think that's one thing that makes Java both desired and despised. There are a lot of "clever" code chunks in other languages that are short AND easier to read. Even if it's not as easy to read, it's much nicer to decipher 4 lines of "clever" code than 100 lines of enterprise code spread over multiple files. To find out what a function does, you sometimes have to dig down through several layers of classes and compare across files. It's straightforward if you have the time to deal with it and you don't have to know too much about complicated theories to do it.

You should switch to a RAID5! Then you'd get a little extra capacity while still being protected against 1 drive failing.

Then the reflective layer is covered with burnt cover residue and heats up...

Hadoop is open source software so it's more significant if it's in decline than a closed commercial alternative.

But this is great for those projects needing an embedded computer that doesn't need a display. Just the WiFi alone will run you more than $9 in most cases if you just need to add it to a project that doesn't have USB capabilities.

Why is that? If DRM was the concern, then they are backtracking that (or there were ways around it). The cost maybe? What exactly are you trying to protest here?

If someone rents a house, they cannot rent it to another person during that time. A house has physical value, making a new house costs money. The same is not true for a song.

I think there is value in shorter copyright periods. It gives artists protections against their works being ripped off, Longer copyrights don't help that case as much since most works are popular when they are first released, not 150 years after.

Can you tell me the benefit of copyright on works where the artist is dead?

If a person makes a house and sells it, then it is no longer theirs to sell (or as you'd say, it's "confiscated"). There are also lots of other people around to sell houses. If you're selling your house for too much, I can buy it from the guy next door.

If we had better laws regarding copyright then we wouldn't need the GPL (though that's also a response to non-open-source software which is a different matter). Code licensing should also not be perpetual

That was a jab at people who say you can "steal" music - glad you got it!

I'm not advocating for the elimination of copyright - just shortening it to a reasonable period. If copyright lasted 3-7 years (government protected monopoly), artists would still make most of the money they do now (most songs aren't even going to be making money for that long) while society would benefit from having the works come into public domain. Really a win-win situation unless you're a media mega-corp.