That's more than I pay for shared web hosting with "unlimited" everything, including shell access and the ability to set up my own private Git / Hg / Svn repositories.

They will probably make a mess out of it... Last time I went to Staples, I wanted to print some chapters from an Open Publication License book and a datasheet for a Microchip ethernet controller. They refused to print the book without written permission from the publisher, even though the Open Publication License was clearly stated. As for the datasheet, they wanted to charge me a copyright tax because it has "© 2004 Microchip Technology Inc." on the cover...

I said "no thanks" and ended up printing everything on a small mom and pop shop, no fuss at all. Plus no fee for handling USB pen drive, no waiting for almost an hour while someone prints a few hundred photos or decides on wedding invitations, and cheaper prices...

Funny, your comment reminds me of a teacher I had, he used to say the same thing with almost the same words. You're not from Portugal, are you?

It was not completely discarded, it was canceled after all the criticism, but they already said they're revising the proposal and will present it again.

Rotate Right? What's the relevance in this story?

Don't waste your money on cheap USB to serial port adapters from ebay. I bought one really cheap and it gave me nothing but trouble. They even sent a free replacement, but nothing would work with it. I heard good things about FTDI adapters, next time I consider buying one that will be my choice.

I don't know about that, but I have a feeling the US will activate its emergency broadcast system in the near future...

Yes, that's true. When I talked about injection attacks I was thinking more about using this to run JSON-like strings of code when you don't trust the source.

It allows for something similar to eval in .NET. From the article:

"Hejlsberg demonstrated a C# program that passed a few code snippets to the C# compiler as strings; the compiler returned the resulting IL assembly code as an object, which was then passed to the Common Language Runtime (CLR) for execution. Voilà! With Roslyn, C# gains a dynamic language's ability to generate and invoke code at runtime.

Put that same code into a loop that accepts input from the user, and you've created a fully interactive read-eval-print loop (REPL) console for C#, allowing you to manipulate and experiment with .Net APIs and objects in real time."

If your program is doing what the demo code does, then sure, you're asking for code injection attacks.

Except it is relevant. Jobs' death caused mass hysteria that elevated him to god level, while Ritchie will go unnoticed by all except the IT community. What would be of Apple and Jobs without C and Unix?

But anyway, I haven't seen many people here are taking a gratuitous slam at Steve Jobs... Aren't you overreacting?

Same here. What's not to like about the awesome bar?

I agree, but we should be careful not to underestimate cellphone cameras, they can be surprisingly good:

iPhone @ New York streets
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jonatasluzia/6103884318/
http://365iphone.blogspot.com/2011/08/1382010.html
http://365iphone.blogspot.com/2011/08/2882011.html
http://365iphone.blogspot.com/2011/08/2382011_24.html
http://365iphone.blogspot.com/2011/08/2082011.html
http://365iphone.blogspot.com/2011/08/1782011_17.html
http://365iphone.blogspot.com/2011/07/1872011_18.html

Gee, where did I said I brake hard when people are right behind me? That's obviously stupid. Eventually, people catch up to you and think "there aren't any cars between the 50 meters separating this guy and the red light, why the hell is he going at 20 kph?!". Way to take a general observation and extrapolate the worst possible case...

I do this too, but it sucks when people behind you don't get it and go mad on you... And that's almost always the case.

Funny, I'm doing exactly the opposite. Facebook treats all of my contacts as friends and when I share something it has to be shared with all of them. Yes, I can exclude people, but for that I have to pick them one by one...

G+ circles let me organize my contacts in as many categories as I want and I can choose which circles will be able to see what I'm posting. So I can have something like this:

* Family
* People who would not be offended by goatse
* People I know
* Random people I met online
* People I subscribe too (a la twitter, I guess...)
* Rest of the internet

I'm very happy with the circles feature, it makes it very easy to manage all of this.