It's entirely possible to open source games while still selling them. The trick is that you only make the source available to people who buy the game. The GPL is even set up to handle this -- it only requires you to make source code available to anyone you distribute binaries to. Several Humble Indie Bundle games have done this and it hasn't seemed to hurt them (especially since people have ended up helping them port those same games).

I think the big problem is the phrase "free software", which (to normal people) means "software you give away for free", when what free software advocates really care about is "software you can use without being permanently tied to the author".

This is the exact opposite of how normal people describe powerful languages. The most powerful languages let you get the most work done while fighting your language the least. With a language like Java or Python, I can generally *guess* what the correct function to do a task is, and it tends to work (although if you do this in Java, you tend to get the worst possible implentation -- but it will work correctly). In PHP, you need to read the full documentation for every function you call, then Google it to make sure the documentation isn't lying or leaving something important out (like "calling this function will call the interpreter to crash", or "using this function will expose remote execution vulnerabilities").

I agree. You might notice that the BAD CAR represent PHP (the thing which I'm saying sucks), and I *do* blame the developers, not users.

Say someone sells a car where there's three pedals: a gas pedal in the normal place, a brake pedal in an unusual place, a pedal that functions like a brake normally, but swerves into oncoming traffic if you're going over 50 mph. Is it the users fault that suddenly they're all crashing? The manual clearly states, "don't ever use the pedal where the brake pedal used to be, because you might swerve into oncoming traffic". But still, isn't it mainly the manufacturer's fault for including that pedal at all?

I can't bring myself to actually miss anything about ColdFusion, but I do find it interesting that they managed to solve the #1 security problem on the web. If only they could automatically detect when you're trying to store a password, and run it through bcrypt first ;)

I would argue that this one is sometimes the fault of the tool. In most database APIs, there's a function like:

run_sql(String command, Object[] data)

But the language that most amateur programmers use only has:

mysql_query(String command);

Looking at that function signature, who's the know that you're supposed to also use mysql_real_escape_string. Even if you know what you're doing, you might accidentally use addslashes or mysql_escape_string. Or forget it for one parameter.

Interestingly, the language that does this best, is also the second worst language ever invented (after PHP). In ColdFusion, if you do this:

select * from cats where cat_name = '#catname#'

It's perfectly safe, since ColdFusion detects that catname is inside of quotes, so it automatically escapes it. You can still use variables inside of SQL, since it only escapes them when they're inside quotes.

Nokia's design does the thing where you push it in once and locks in, and you push it in again and it pops out. The idea is that they're easier to remove.

Exactly.

You can use the same key multiple times. As long as your key isn't compromised, you could theoretically sign all kernel releases for all time with one key. If this were true, Microsoft would have to ship a new motherboard with every Windows update.

Yes, the post also mentions that they're going to make some changes to GRUB 2 so that in secure boot mode, modules are disabled and it will only boot signed kernels (using any key loaded in EFI). FTA:

Oh, and the CPU multiplier is just how much faster the CPU is than the system bus. It's been a loooong time since any CPU's have run at 1x.

The multiplier on my processor (2 year old i5) was set around 20x by default. I suspect the i7 starts out higher. I think this is less than twice as fast as the non-overclocked version.