And replying to myself.....

Reading the associated Twitter account, the voice seems young and very un-South African to my mind. Seems more like US or British youf.

First thought I had was this as well.

Then I recalled the SAPS officer that struggled to write down a statement in printed letters and the officers without driving licenses. Those with the skills to do this are not the thugs on the street patrols that the complaints would have been about.

There was a joke in the old days about why there were 3 SAP officers in a van, one to do the reading, one to do the writing and the third to keep an eye on the two intellectuals. I suspect it is still much the same.

ANY pointer, be it int*, char*, void* or object* is a pointer to absolutely anything. Allowing a pointer to be of type void makes sense for defining functions that accept a pointer to several data structures that will be cast into the right form in the function.

So, just because I'm unknown and don't get my face splashed over the covers of the celeb magazines gives some perverted idiot the right to take photos of my gentleman's sausage and go home and wank over it?

The point at which robots not programmed to demand legal rights begin to demand legal rights is when we either need to amend the laws or run like hell if we don't. Until then, let's leave the problem alone.

No. The law documents a set of parameters that humans have determined is satisfactory information to prove whether someone is to be executed. The law itself is not sentient, or even instinctive. It is merely documentation of processes and parameters.

Exactly. NASA's definition of an emergency spacewalk is one that wasn't on the schedule a month in advance and that nobody has practiced for in the giant swimming pool. It's something that needs to be done quickly before they lose too much coolant, but it isn't an emergency in the sense of "Roll Engine Company 3 and 4 and bring the long ladder trucks"

This administration did criticize the Librarian of Congress for the unlocking rules change though.

Cyberdyne Systems Command and Control System Model Skynet 1.0.0 approves of this message.

Loaded up their sample and had a look at the traffic logged in my proxy when I changed a page, loads up hundreds, and I mean hundreds, of json-delivered images to assemble one page.

The DRM might work until you get an OCD hacker on it who will focus on how to reassemble the thing.

And each page spikes my CPUs to 50% for a minute or two as it switches.

Depends whether they are they physical or software products? And whether assembly of physical products is outsourced to other companies.

If they are software products, then most of the cost will be in the labor side, not the non-labor side of the budget and without that information, an informed opinion isn't possible.

$17,000 will get you a pair of very decent servers that can host virtualization quite happily for a couple of years. Or one rather cheap CNC machine if you're making physical products.

Marketing on the other hand is expensive. $250,000 won't buy you a TV advert series on mainstream channels. You'll probably squeeze printed media, maybe a booth at a couple of tech events and online advertising out of that.

When the machine is so dead that the BIOS doesn't even start?

Precisely. Kepler's been up and observing for 4 years now. Since it hunts for occultations, the scientists can only be certain that observed planets are alone out to a 4 year orbit, which excludes anything outside of Mars in our system. And that is if the system is aligned so that the orbital plane is correctly positioned for Sol-visible occultations.

For a star where Kepler has observed something, they can only say there's no planets inside 4 year orbits, everything else is speculation. For a star where nothing has been observed yet, they can't say anything with certainty.

You proved his point. The terr's claim it is Jihad, but it is not because they are targeting other Muslims not unbelievers.

No Mr atheist. He doesn't feel inferior. He sees that the other person feels superior. There's an unsubtle difference between the two perceptions.