How is that a 'loophole'? GPL is only meant to prevent you from distributing someone else's work under a different license. Using it for your own purposes is fine.
As for closing that 'loophole' every company that uses a single piece of GPL'ed software would have to release all their code, that includes mine and I'm pretty sure I'd be out of a job if that were to happen. If we made GPL4 like what you imply, any software using that would die a quick death since nobody(by nobody I mean organizations which bring in the money) will be using it.

Maybe this would mean only the technically inclined would be able to communicate freely using some distributed DNS+encryption etc. I'm not saying if that is a good thing or bad but we definitely are making anti-progress.

I agree with the part that largely bad code is a programmer's fault rather than the language, a skilled programmer could right a great program in LOLCODE. The problem with PHP is the inconsistency in syntax. Lot of function takes arguments in a different way eg: some functions take the variable being modified first, some do the opposite. The language changes too rapidly. A lot of code written for 5.2 is deprecated in 5.3.

I hate working in PHP and I love writing code in Python/C/C++. And no I don't have a lot of experience with the .net family

I am working on a project that was outsourced to my company. The project is way too complicated and requires a deep knowledge of stock/forex markets which I don't have but my PHB accepted the project and now I'm stuck with it and I'm the *only* person who's writing the whole application. I am producing shitty code and I hate doing that. But how to compare putting in a lot of time trying to find a job that probably will suck as much vs delivering shit code that will never come back to me?

I've been India all my life and never heard that. In fact in most places of worship(temples etc.) you are required to remove your foot wear and go bare feet, thus exposing them.

Exactly. Montenegro was assigned the TLD .me and what it is used for is 'fuck.me' and 'screw.me'. Heck even I have a .me domain and I didn't know the name of the country before getting the domain.

A bit off topic but this is very interesting find, just a few weeks after the 'Faster than light neutrinos'. Why can't we put money into projects like these instead of killing people in other countries. Err correction: Bringing democracy to other people.

Don't we all have moments where we say 'Oh I know that but can't remember'. But some time later we recall that. What I'm interested in is some research on how we recall things and how it is related to stress/age/sex/sleep etc.

I really don't get this stereotype. I am a programmer most of the time but I also communicate with my organization's clients and from the results I don't think I do a bad job. I agree for geeks people skills don't come naturally but when you apply your brain to study human interactions, geeks can be better at communicating with people. Although I guess it would be a different part of the brain that would be involved in interactions with people.

I have been in this situation. I accepted the counter offer my company gave. In retrospect that was a big mistake. I could no longer work from home. Earlier nobody cared how many hours I put in as long as the work was done but after the 'raise' I would get an email anytime I was at work less than 8 hours and I had to send in a daily report of every action. In addition to the project I was handling I had to mentor 2 junior developers. When my Blackberry died(company provided) it was replaced with the cheapest model, one of the guys working under me had a better model(seems petty but it stings). I ended up leaving 6 months later anyway(there were many other reasons too). So my advise would be if you are getting a better offer, take it.

The title of the article is incredibly misleading.
You must be new here.

Off topic why is there a 'Preview' button on the 'Preview' screen something xen?

I always use facebook in Chrome's incognito mode. Works well for me. This is also available in firefox but don't remember the name of the feature.

Ok so I'm guessing you've never used a credit card. But in case you have, what makes you trust Visa/Mastercard more than google. Is it just because google's primary source of revenue is advertisement?

I have two google accounts, one for important stuff(communicating with potential employers when I decide to switch jobs, communicating with my bank etc.) and a second one for /., forums, facebook etc. On the first one I use my real name and I haven't joined G+, I have not noticed any degradation of any service because of that, can someone explain what am I losing except integration with G+? On the second one I use a nickname but it seems like a real name so I haven't had my account deleted etc. Can someone please tell me what the fuss is about? If you want to be anonymous just create a new online identity and for stuff that directly links to you don't use stuff like G+. Geeks worried about privacy? I wouldn't care until my browser started sending out headers with the info I registered with my ISP. As for Joe Average, I couldn't care less.