Obviously it's a crash course in Java from a legal perspective, which is totally different than from a programming perspective. Which programmer cares whether there's established legal precedents to determine whether the JVM creates additional 'copies' of infringing software from a damages perspective?

Nice positioning. Search and rescue staff will still fly around in helicopters with mk1 eyeballs because they don't trust the drone. However, while trying to sell the image-recognition package as a bolt-on to a heli will fail due to pushback from observers, selling in a drone package will be considerably more palatable, psychologically.

An excoriation of Clinton's hypocrisy on this subject.

Er, no.

1. Not everyone has access to the web at work to find out. Often, the first you hear about traffic congestion is via the radio in your car.
2. Not everyone has flexible work hours
3. Not everyone has many choices of route home
4. People are lazy.

I wasn't aware that the privacy commissioner actually had any power. Perhaps he's just realised, and that's why he's grumpy.

How long can this trend be maintained before major problems arise in the economy ?

before problems arise? Have you not been paying attention for the last two years?

Seems more practical to recharge bikes (either electric-assisted, or motorcycles), rather than cars.

• You can physically get a bike closer to the telephone box than you can a car.
• You can fill a bike battery an appreciable amount in an hour, given the system's power generation constraints.
• You can fit a bunch of charging bikes around a box with bike rack technology
• There's thousands of bike riders in that country already, unlike the car-heavy US

According to wikipedia (yeah, I know, I know), FORTRAN is "a general-purpose, procedural, imperative programming language that is especially suited to numeric computation and scientific computing.".

F#, on the other hand, is a "multi-paradigm programming language [...] that encompasses functional programming as well as imperative object-oriented programming disciplines."

In summary, FORTRAN is for Formula Translation, I guess? F# is Functional, but with language support for OO or C-style programming.

I admit I know bugger all about Fortran, but I suspect it doesn't have the full functional programming support that, say, Haskell boasts. At any rate, even if it did, it's likely that the last 50 years have advanced the field of programming sufficiently to make a new language worthwhile. So if you're up for functional programming on the .NET platform, F# is a great addition.

Wow, that article really has a 'blame the victim' mentality, with the coda "and here's why".

The article even ends with the appeasement of "what can you change about the way you act to avoid being bullied"

Just like Battered Wife Syndrome, bullying is something that, ultimately, is the fault of the aggressor. Appeasement is not the solution.

This article reminds me of the short story Twilight by John W. Campbell. I read it when I was a kid and it left a lasting impression that, should humans lose their curiosity, the striving for knowledge might yet continue.

And then when I read about the current state of the education system, I get just a bit worried...