I have mod points, but given the fact that you're bound to get modded up Funny or Insightful anyhow, I'll simply take this opportunity to say "yep."

Also, two can play at this game. Please cite your claimed sources, since you've made the bold statement of being so intimately familiar with the subject matter, and have noted that there are "plenty of studies in this field" that you must have sitting on your desk for rapid reference. Provide a BTC address and I'll be delighted to cover the costs of you shipping me a hardcopy. I'll be glad to review your studies and provide an analysis at length within fourteen days.

It appears you've been asleep for the last ten years, and possibly the twenty years preceding it that laid the foundation for the severe civil liberties issues we're facing now. Your UID indicates you should be old enough to understand this, unless you've led a rather sheltered life.

Bruce is right. Even if our society managed to put enough measures in place to mitigate all but the risks associated with an asteroid impact, you surely would not want to live in that society, as the term "living" would be a loosely defined term at best. It would be a society essentially devoid of free will.

You also managed to miss the GP's point that in his experience, most of the "defects" aren't actually defects at all, but false positives that result from Coverity depending on a certain coding style.

Would you care to share your justification for submitting a story with a grossly misleading headline and story? The code analysis in question wasn't performed on software written in the Python programming language; it was performed on the Python interpreter written in C. Again, why would you submit a story under such horrendously misleading premises? You've probably caused a pile of headaches for developers who will have to explain the difference between C and Python to their development "managers."

You're absolutely right. I wouldn't pay £5 for that car.

I've got a VM running Windows 3.11. It's finished, and for what it does, it works. Want me to ship you the VMDK?

Ah, I see. So when a minority of people wanted the right to vote, you wouldn't have given a flying fuck. When a minority of people want to get married, you wouldn't have given a flying fuck. See how this works?

Political definitions are terribly difficult to get right, but if pressed I'd have to identify myself as a "conservative with serious libertarian leanings" as a means of expressing my personal belief system. I happen to fully support the "minority rights" I detailed above in virtually every historical and contemporary sense they're commonly discussed. In other words, I believe in personal freedom, personal responsibility and letting others make their own choices, coupled with a healthy measure of attention to fiscal accountability at all levels of government.

I'll add in the fact that I have two daughters and a third child on the way. I also appreciate the value of firearms. Would you care to guess the best way to prevent accidents with guns in any given home? You might start by drilling it into your children that weapons are not toys, followed by careful instruction in their proper storage and operation. You might be amazed by the results. As for idiots who don't treat things that can harm them with extreme caution, well, this is called natural selection, and it's the way our species managed to get where it is today.

You sound like the sort of person who gets a hard-on at the mere thought of government pushing every citizen into nice, neat little boxes for their own good and that of their comrades, no matter how utterly fucking stupid they or their comrades may be in their failure to exercise due caution with materials that might just cause physical harm if improperly applied to human tissue.

In short, go fuck yourself, you asinine, jackboot licking little piece of shit.

A "one for one" copy means a "bit for bit" copy, as in the kind of images I routinely make of physical and virtual hard disks. This kind of copy isn't influenced by partitions or filesystems present on a disk. You get an exact replica of the disk in a file.

Well, at least the United States, with our established accessory laws, hasn't quite risen to the level of prosecuting people for merely encouraging the commission of a crime. Otherwise, you could be just as well be fucked.

I'm trying to look on the bright side here. It's difficult, but I'm trying.

I see what you did there. You changed the checkboxes to radio buttons, implying only one item may be chosen. That's funny.

I'd be more interested in observing people who selected both items. They might be okay with vaccinations, but are also preparing to do something fantastically interesting that results in their demise.

He'll spend the rest of his life serving on the boards of various corporations.

The best part is that this isn't even a story. The linked post, in its entirety, is as follows:

That's it. Nothing else. It's a blurb on a blog, not a story. This is an awesome example of /. editors not even bothering to click on a submission link before posting it to the home page.

The GP is correct; the claim wasn't that India is majority Muslim, merely that it has the third largest Muslim population on the planet. India does indeed have the third largest Muslim population in the world. As of 2010, there were 177,286,000 followers of Islam in India, which equated to approximately 10% of the planet's Muslim population.