• Examining Exhibit J, I believe the Android implementation was copy-pasted from Sun's. In fact, it was a pretty lousy, newbie-ish job trying to mask it.
  Just looking at the bad parameters and local variable names makes me want to punch the idiot who named them. And what's with all the magic numbers hard-coded? On the other hand, I praise the Sun developers for their implementation.
  About the iteration structures, I also prefer using the for iterator instead of a while structure, it makes more sense when you want to scope the variable. Unfortunately the structure becomes a bit top-heavy with all the inlining.
• Examining Exhibit I, I'd first ask what is the problem. API documentations should be one and the same, it's a standardization FFS! The only strange thing I find with that Javadoc, is why java.security.Security is a java class, and not a java interface.

You could argue that the class design is really trivial, and how two different implementation could be identical under the KISS principle, but it's really hard to believe it's a clean room implementation. It's a bastardized version of Sun's code.

Sci-fi weapons agains Croczilla? Meh.

The only one who can save Australia from monster crocodiles is a 131 feet tall Crocodile Dundee!

Software developers already live taking patent risks just by doing their work, developing software. Media encoding isn't the only patent elephant stomping in our lawn, we're pretty much surrounded by thousands, specially ye ol' $PATENT which just now happened to be implemented on the internet or on a smartphone/tablet/portable device of the week.

If you are afraid of software patents, I'm afraid you have to look for a job in another area where you don't even come close to inventing/designing anything.

You would be right if they were aiming for the name in english. Íkaros is his name in latin.

At least its easier to write than greek: , which Slashdot can't even parse...

If you take decades to find a reflector in the nearest astral body, it quite puts in perspective the whole difficulty of searching for extraterrestrial life light-years away.

Perhaps they could spend a supranonimillenary amount of money to make such aquatic plataform airborne, along with some anguineous lifeforms aboard, for massive damage.

Oh god, a dozen years later, the conflict between Total Annihilation and StarCraft will be reborn.

Hell yeah!

Heh, I remember playing Doom in my uncle's computer back in 94 as as 9 year old boy, and loved it, adored it.

16 years later, now an employed programmer, I still think it is made of black sorcery and an ingenious amount of coding. That's awesome!

Does Carmack /id Soft have a donation paypal-esque account? I'd love to give them what is due for all those early years of pure fun.

It will take months to face the Lich King because the last wing of the Icecrown Citadel raid will only be released some 12 weeks from now.

For example, the second wing, The Plagueworks, is going to open in 4 weeks from now.

So they've got a black hole generator for 400 million less. Sounds like a winner.