Right - Nintendo doesn't even *pretend* to be an open platform. So they're better, right? :-P

Holy crap - why isn't that man in jail?!?

Think about why a KB was defined as 2^10 bytes. Because it's closest to the "kilo" or 1000. So whoever came up with this definition is just trying to confuse us.

Awesome! Big Brother can't track you yet. Maybe you should buy a GPS to ensure that Google knows where you are at all times.

This is such bullshit. The Jewish movement Irgun was responsible for many attacks on the British and Palestinians, but the mainstream Israeli army was the Haganah, not the Irgun. The Irgun was forcibly shut down by the Israeli government once the State of Israel was declared. Notably, the head of the Irgun, Menachem Begin, was the one who ended up making peace with Egypt under Anwar Sadat.

I disagree - I think that there can be good reasons to only change the bare minimum. If you have a mission-critical, *working* program, reliability and stability are more important than efficiency or elegance. So your nested-if's example looks silly, but at least it works :-)