This is bottom-grade science. Too much Farquharson around at SDSU. Even the Wikipedia page is bog standard.

It is mostly idiot politicians yelling at scientists.

I can see the headlines now: Barbara Streisand sues for trademark dilution.

Now that's discipline.

Not even wrong.

(1) Just about everything is doing better than Java.
(2) .NET's fate is tied to Windows which is has ceded nearly all its market share to Android.

I'm looking for something like: moderate .. -1 "unix newbie"

Nup. Mutual Assured Destruction kept the cold war from being a hot war.

The very same. Do check the date on your copy of that book though. While the 1996 revised edition did somewhat embrace the internet, the 1995 first edition had this to say :

The Internet, wrote Gates, is one of "the important precursors of the information highway," along with PCs, CD-ROMs, phone networks, and cable systems, but "none represents the actual information highway. ... today's Internet is not the information highway I imagine, although you can think of it as the beginning of the highway."

Bill Gates: More Profit Than Prophet

A most irritating Slashdot bug. But do take the opportunity to post something sensible, such as "Why wouldn't top bankers pay top dollars for top secrets?

To keep the guns out of Mexico, eh? Not such a bad idea ...

Well the normal procedure is to leap 500,000 feet into the air, and scatter yourself over a large area.

I wish I was a loser like Elon Musk.

If the computer could open a superposition of the two vials, it would go like shit off a greased shovel.

You won't get better confirming evidence from the NSA. This is how they roll.

The Standard Model is a coherent, thorough description of a very large number of physical phenomena: atomic theory, radioactivity, antimatter, electromagnetism, the nuclear forces, neutral currents, neutrinos, the bewildering range of particles produced by colliders - and much more.