I solved this problem at my last job by setting up a testing environment that pulled changes from the repository. It helped that the system being worked on was large and complex enough that it would be a pain in the ass to try to set up a local copy on your own machine for testing, so everyone would just use the test server, which, in order to use, required a commit to the development repository so the test server could pull the commit and put it into testing (in fact, this was accomplished in the post-commit script). The SVN server would receive commits from every developer continually through the day, and even the tiny change always had at least one "backup" somewhere.

The only downside to this is commit log pollution, but it wasn't really a problem -- these tiny commits would just have an empty log comment that could be easily ignored, and when things were finally working well, the changes would then be merged into the main branch with a properly documented commit.

/eyeroll

You can do whatever you want with your own software. Only other people require a license, and are bound by the terms of it. License terms do not apply to the copyright owner -- that doesn't even make any sense.

You cannot steal what already belongs to you. Even if it was a gift.

Sure they do! A few years ago, Microsoft was found guilty of violating the laws, and received a harsh sentence. They had to give people coupons or something...

...and when there's too much noise, it drowns out the signal. Trolls allowed to run amok are an effective form of censorship, preventing anyone else from having their voice heard. The "grow a skin or log off" group think censorship is fine, as long as it's not done by moderators.

Ha, I wish... all I get to vote for is politicians. We don't actually get to vote for the people the politicians take their orders from, nor are the people who set and implement national military or economic policy in any way democratically selected or answerable to anyone but (in theory) their shareholders (and even that's not really the case).

What's that got to do with anything? We're insisting that these people are not POWs (otherwise, they'd be entitled to a bunch of protections under the Geneva convention).

Now now, don't confuse Senator Obama with President Obama. They're entirely different people...

(I'm not sure to what extent I'm joking...)

That seems a bit of a stretch. The more straightforward insidious reason to report the second half of last year's data is because it looks a lot better than the first half of the year's data. People will see 9-10 thousand in half a year and assume, okay, that means about 18-20 thousand in a year, when in fact the whole year's stats were much worse...

You think whether the cert is self-signed or not is relevant in this case, you fundamentally misunderstand the problem. Having Verisign sign the cert wouldn't do jack-diddly-squat here.

The really obvious flaw in your logic is that it requires more than the claim to be true. If I claim the US is secretly recording the content of conversations between Americans (based on my personal speculation), that doesn't make me a traitor, even if it's true. On the other hand, I'm arguably a traitor if the government gives me access to that information and I then betray my NDA/oath/security clearance and reveal it. He really did need to have the access he claims, or it's not really treason, because he's not revealing anything, he's just speculating and saying frankly what speculators on Slashdot have been saying for years. They don't all become traitors if their speculation turns out to be correct.

You do realize that the majority of mass killings and other terrorist incidents in the U.S. have been the result of the actions of right-wing white male Christians, right?

Anyone is allowed to if they want to. It's a problem when your boss tells you to and makes it a job requirement.

Microsoft's little rape joke and the fact that this ever even saw the light of day shows a lot about gaming culture...

Well, yes, but not on the same timescale. In the absence of competition, they'd have just continued pumping out A340's for a couple more decades while making mild investments in research and advancement of the tech until coming out with a replacement two decades later and with half the innovation (the other half would eventually be made... in a couple more decades).