That's simply idiotic. I just hope that American companies don't follow suit (although I expect that a disturbing proportion of them already store passwords in plain text)

It has very little to do with the distro; the problem is largely with hardware support and software availability. Even Ubuntu, arguably the most user-friendly distro has problems with sound playback on modern, commonly available sound hardware. Maybe I don't mind running 'sudo killall pulseaudio' every now and then when there's no sound playback - try explaining that to the common user. Then there's the software, of course. I love the open desktop, but Linux is nowhere near the point where it can compete with Windows on that front - even if it has gone quite a ways since its humble beginnings.

In all seriousness, Ruby's designers are so capricious, that this isn't really that far from a possibility.

Java paved the way for C#. I prefer C# as well, but you must remember that one of the reasons the language is so good is because it was able to build on top of what Java already had done, and in many cases, learn from its mistakes. I'm hoping that Gosling's new job will yield us a new language, especially in light of Oracle's recent assholery with Android.

As AC below pointed out, bad code can be written in any language. I worked for a University of California campus, when UCLA got hacked a couple of years ago, due to a SQL injection attack. Their choice of platform? C#/MSSQL. Programmers on our own team (C#, MSSQL) wrote SQL injection-friendly code - I can't remember how many times I've caught unsanitized input being put into a SQL query without proper sanitization or "SqlParameter-ization" - people who wrote enterprise-level apps for years prior, and who should know better. PHP has mysql_real_escape_string, which sanitizes input. I've written my own Ruby-on-Rails-ish helper functions to sanitize input in a less hackish fashion in PHP. There's always a way. This type of shit will continue to happen until people realize that security in today's web development is as important (if not more so) than programming skill, and stop hiring dipshits without proper screening.

I would imagine that most of those who practice polygamy wouldn't readily admit to it. So while I don't think Utah is all polygamist, I wonder about the accuracy of the 2%.

The idiots are fucked. Unless the codes were sold for cash, the trail will be easy to follow. Expect a large number of console/account bans, followed by arrests fairly shortly.

s/nerds/idiots and deviants/

While Linux and the open desktop have certainly come a ways since - even 5 years ago, it saddens me to say that neither are ready for the proverbial "prime time". While I can't imagine using anything but GNOME these days, I have a much larger threshold of putting up with things like unavailable codecs, incompatible drivers, and just plain software unavailability - possibly because in most such cases, I'm willing to make the effort to figure out how to make things work. We're getting there though, and the state of Everyman Linux is certainly leaps and bounds above of where it was as little as 5 years ago.

Romanes eunt domus

I think if he was a servant of the enemy, he'd look fairer and feel fouler.

Mutt Cutts?

"Melllvar" has 3 "L"'s. One would hope that you'd done enough Star Trek conventions to know how to spell "Melllvar"

Obligatory MP reference: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdEVWlnWc7s Gratuitous boobies ~:50s

Maybe we'll all find out that Julian Assange was Duke wearing a disguise all along.