Its already been made into a tv show called 'south atlantic raiders' by the comic strip. Well sort of. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0544884/

english 'iloveyou' is at #26 but the Mandarin for the same is 'wo ai ni' ... 'woaini1314' is at #83. the 1314 means "forever" ... because it sounds like forever when pronounced in Cantonese. At #93 is '5845201314' - when pronounced in mandarin - 'wo fa shi, wo ai ni, yi san yi si'. ... which sounds like - "i swear to love you forever and ever"... More here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numbers_in_Chinese_culture#Combinations

http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/114005/how-does-sopa-threaten-stack-overflow/114007#114007

I think the analogy you are after here is that media corporations really want a "CLOSED" Internet that is compliant and fully under their control, as opposed to an "OPEN" Internet which they can't control ... its the inevitable swing back to a closed technology, as happened with the telegraph (started off open then became dominated by western union) and the telephone (started off open then dominated by AT&T). The problem is that the technologies behind the Internet will make it extremely difficult to pull this off, but this may be the first salvo in the battle.

Erm, that's what they said about the first ever computer, you know, the quote that went: "there is a global market for a total of 8 computers" or something.

> The draft Computing Professionals Bill proposes to create two classes of people with computer skills:
> - A lower class of “Registered Computing Practitioner” — people without degrees in computing; and
> - An upper class of “Registered Computing Professional” — graduates in computing

Erm ... so these two have the same acronym ... RCP
they would be better off going with CM (code monkey) and SE (sofware engineer) ;-)

I'm probably wrong here but isn't this post just showing a ratio as opposed to a correlation coefficient? e.g. the javascript number of 294% could have been shown as 2.94 but maybe the % gives it a bit more impact?

exactly .... when all they"ve got is your full name, dob, address, credit history and maybe associated bank account getting an ip out of that lot is still going to be *extremely* difficult. hence google's insistence upon real identites for google+ it makes their marketing ability that much easier

In the form of taking deposits and lending it out at interest. No wonder there is so many of them in this list.

with Zuckerberg being the puppet master, selling off access to our life stories to corporate marketers.

yeah - C.S. Date's book on database design is very important for all relational database development.

Jeffrey Richter's books on CLR C# development (.NET) are also excellent - they cut through so much crap its unbelievable. They are specific to one technology, but do the job very well.

The over-obsession with building tools and/or code generators is one of the historical things that stops programmers from being productive ... i.e. actually delivering production software. I think this book would be a little less relevant now, given the frameworks/libraries and generally good development tools available off the shelf (e.g. visual studio, etc.)