Example: embedded programming - cannot get away from low-level native code. However, I think that as patterns etc get more entrenched, for mainline programming you will move further away from native code and make more use of scripting == interpreted languages.

1. Encrypt the files and make them available on a web-page.
2. Wait until the Internet Archive dudes have done their thing.
3. ... (backed-up for ever!) ...
4. profit!

Normal ('straight') employees are now penalized for not acting unnaturally. (For the obtuse: for doing the same work & hours & etc, the normal employee will get less income). It would be far more wise to spend the funds towards therapy for these poor things, to rather help them to live closer to natural normal standards.

Your score should have been +1000, Spot-on

The rule of precedent should apply, as you imply, regardless of the medium.

We who use opensource software, and by that I mean mostly Linux users, do not need to 'pirate' any software. We usually have better free equivalents readily at hand, an apt-get, yum, or rpm away. The FA looks more like an attempt at FUD by (Microsoft - to avoid lying) commercial interrests - it's just another bought blogger/journalist.

There is a very stable C++ IDE in Ultimate++.

Quoting from the site:
"U++ is a C++ cross-platform rapid application development framework focused on programmers productivity. It includes a set of libraries (GUI, SQL, etc..), and an integrated development environment.
...
TheIDE can work with GCC, MinGW and Visual C++ 9.0 as contained in free Windows Vista SDK and contains a full featured debugger. TheIDE can also be used to develop non-U++ applications."

As a botanist, I worry about some of the new genetically engineered or the kind of super plant getting out of control. In the same manner, I guess I should worry about an enhanced high yield algae escaping some sort of super algae farm. Would it have the same effect on the environment as other specialized "plants"? Would it be some kind of fairly fragile monoculture type algae that would not do well in the wild? Algae is already a major problem in the Mediterranean and along the west coast of the US recently. I wonder if anyone has examined of this critter might be a problem? A high yield algae would certainly find it's way back into the oceans and lakes.

Sure Tet... Will do... Last time it was really nice... Even though that night, I didn't go at the same time to bed as her either. I just wonder sometimes what I did to deserve this.

I don't even know who Ted Dziuba is and googling for him doesn't return a WikiPedia article in the first page of results, which is as much effort as I can bother to make to find out.

NoScript is completely ineffectual against even passably mediocre tracking technologies. I mean, I can think of at least a couple of ways to bypass NoScript without breaking a mental sweat.

Let's see...

Request comes to web server. Web server gets IP address, referrer (or referer if you're the W3C). That immediately goes into a database, along with a unique GUID that then gets appended as a variable to every link on my page. This can either be done GET-style as a URL parameter...

http://slashdot.org/~Civil_Disobedient/?12345 ...or, I can just put it as part of the actual link, like this:

http://slashdot.org/12345/~Civil_Disobedient/ ...and then mod_rewrite it to the first form. Or I could do this just as easily:

http://slashdot.org/12345~Civil_Disobedient/

There's really nothing that can be done to stop it, but this shouldn't make you any more paranoid than saying there's nothing you can do to stop store owners from memorizing faces and purchases.

Apple should embrace mac cloners. Having cheaper clones of mac will only help to popularize macs and the os-x operating system (thanks to this little phenomenon). Windows is only as popular as it is because it comes preinstalled on nearly every computer you buy. Mac fans should see this as a blessing.

We have not yet sorted out if software is a service or a commodity: if it is the latter then the '==physical key"-conjecture might hold; if a service then it is all in the mind...

It seems the judge did not ask for, nor got sufficient evidence, which points to ($#@$ stupid) lawyers/barristers representing the cases.

My gut feel is, apart from this miscarriage of justice, that the issue can only be resolved by investigating the intentions for encryption: if that intention was to protect the data from perusal by others, then this falls clearly under the gambit of "the privilege against self incrimination".