Who is Ass King Nicely?

If it were just a few bad eggs, you might be right. However, it always seems that when they are discovered, (most of) the rest of the group closes ranks and attempts to shield them from facing the music. This applies to lawyers, doctors, police, military, the church, government bureaucracy, corporations, etc.

In my view, this makes (most of) them all equally culpable.

Corporations have no souls to damn, nor bodies to kick, so they're all (senior managment & board of directors) responsible.

(Paraphrased from an apocryphal story of an English judge)

Han Solo as a crotchety old man.

In my day, we had to make the Kessel run in under 12 parsecs, both ways!

What I find interesting is that Java security problems were almost a non-issue until Sun was bought by Oracle.

'... and kidney cells from newborn rats to produce the other tissues that make up the organ.'

Finally, a good reason to have children.

What are the differentiators? How do you decide?

You 'Ask Slashdot' and of the 217 responses you'll get 495 opinions, an Apple flamefest, a Google flamefest, 3 links to goatse, and the three responses that would actually be helpful to you marked as Troll.

No, I'm neither bitter nor cynical!

That's because the stories are from two different observers in different frames of reference; sheesh!

Obviously, one of them was in Ezekiel's spaceship.

(Now we know were Einstein got the idea.)

More likely than what?

How much more likely?

To how many more recidivists does this equate?

It's when they pay you to write software! Yes; pay you! But you generally don't get to pick what the software is to do :(

I remember recording various bzzts, pings, bwrrps and the like from the radio onto tape which were Commodore 64 programs.

I am the admin for a small HS and am quite happy with our Google Apps right now

Maybe that's because it's your students', rather than your, personal information that's being sold by Google.

Yes, but it would be nice if that underlying instruction set were directly exposed and the CISC layer removed. More cache control would also be great.

(and I want a pony!)

True, but many more scientists are alive than have died; so: become a scientist and live forever!

'...sneakers and jeans and black turtleneck were cool (in 1963).'

No, they weren't.