Yeah, I got the creepy feeling the first few times I watch real-time weather satellite images. It's strange to realize that you're looking down on yourself even tho there was no possibility of seeing yourself at that low resolution. :)

Go out, buy a RC model plane and stick a cell phone on it. DIY drone. Try regulating that.

All true but why is everyone so concerned now? They had plenty of time to protest this bill before it became law. Why the heck weren't they protesting back then?

Anyone who believes Google hired enough people to read the millions of email it handles per day deserves Microsoft.

All humour is just tragedy you laugh at.

I think Fox News is the best comedy show in America. Stop picking on it.

"time_t has also been 64-bit for a number of decades now" Fixed that for you.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Male_pregnancy#In_humans

Eliminate all fructose and sugar from your diet. Non-diet soft drinks are loaded with fructose; don't drink them. Don't eat muffins or donuts; they have too much sugar. Best snack: corn chips fried in lard. Second best: potato chips (watch for added fructose tho).

Don't be too sure that touch screens won't appear on PCs. At one time, PCs had only one monitor (can you believe it?) What's wrong with having a touch screen instead of a keyboard and multiple monitors?

"Responsible disclosure" means "We don't want to bother fixing it." If the vulnerability is not make public, it is never fixed. This has been done many times before. The only way to get them fixed is to make them public.

Bruce (who else?)

The difference between exceptions and error codes is that uncaught exceptions cause the program to terminate. To ignore them, the programmer must add code. If there's no code to handle an error code, you don't know if the programmer wants it ignored, or that he was completely unaware of it.

Yes, it is. Not being thorough is bad always engineering.

The biggest problem with exceptions is that they get thrown too far, changing them into comefroms (the opposite of a goto). And like gotos, they encourage spaghetti code. The best way to deal with them is to limit them to thrown exceptions only to their callers. That way, all exceptions become part of the subroutine's interface. Remember, for a programmer, out of sight is out of mind. If it's not part of the interface, it will be forgotten. For those who are interested, you can read my blog for details and an example.