If I had mod points I would moderate you at +1 missed the obvious.

And I must say that as the Editor in Chief he has a very simplistic view of the problem. If I understand, his view is that a global exception added at the compiler level would somehow solve all the problems. He gives the example of calling "open" without worrying about it failing. Of course he doesn't state how to handle the failure when it occurs. For example

open(file1); // ok
open(file2); // failure

What happens to file1 in this case? How is the code cleaned up? There may be a case where you don't want to just close all files in the functions, but just create file2 if the open failed. (for example).

His complaint is that there is too many options available for error handling, and that they lead to cluttered code. As far as I can see the alternative is not enough options available and code not always doing what you want, and having to fight the compiler in order to get what you want.

If I had Mod points you would be +1 obvious :)

Who would have thunk it? On US citizen suing another. Oh the shock of it all!

Which begs the question, how do you know what your dog's asshole tastes like?

I wasn't sure anyone would get the reference. You must live in southern Ontario or perhaps Michigan.

I see, hadn't thought about which finger to put the ring on, but you've made it so clear.

So I says to the guy
"Hey, turn that music up!" ... That's when I lost it!!!

A Ring would be so much better. One ring to rule all my appliances,

Missed that it was revenue not profit, ignore my comment :)

If a media center made 20 million over the last year, (and presumably similar figures the previous 2 years) then it should have sold for no less then 60 million. Someone needed the cash!

But, Mousie, thou art no thy lane
In proving foresight may be vain
The best laid schemes o' Mice and Men
Gang aft a-glape
An lea'e us nought tae fix the pain
But fucking sellotape ya yank-sassenach fannybaws!

There fixed it.

I'd rather news of scientific discovery and really cool stuff, then news about patents, frauds, etc ad nausium.
This kind of news is why I still visit slashdot!

according to www.stockchase.com KKR

"Would characterize dividend as not being safe because it is merely a function of income that the company generates on a quarterly basis. It goes up and down depending on whether they are capitalizing any deals. This quarter will probably have a very nice dividend because they just sold a position in Alliance Boots to Walgreens. Trades at a very reasonable price."

In other news godaddy is still having problems. They weren't relaying emails from a website I have with them, I complained and the whole godaddy went down. Maybe I caused it? Am I anonymous?

They would relay emails to my gmail address, but not to my local ISP.

It gives the little old men and ladies a nice part time job for a while, and good times are had by all. I used to think that computer voting would be better but now that I've seen it in action, I'm glad we stuck to hand counting. Also it's fun watching the result get tallied, it's not instant so there is some buildup/drama.

Voting as entertainment and job market. :)

The problem is that it's telco's that are required to retain the info for 2 years. If you've worked at any ISP you know that anyone with any access can look at anything. So suppose your significant other got scammed into buying diamond earrings, and thinking that it was a secure website, posted all her delivery info and credit card info.
You've got 2 years of possible problems.
So suppose you get into a rant about some silly online argument with ImATroll and then the guy who's name is ImATroll is murdered. Who in the last two years had problems with him.
So suppose you supported the liberal cause last year, but this year they are being stupid. Expect plenty of phone calls and emails asking for your continued support....

Yeah the examples are silly and off the cuff, but you get the idea.