OpenSSL might be a bad example.

OK, this specific example's not so bad, but in general: I won't consider someone a bad programmer because the subject-specific process or such they devised isn't correct. Does the code do what they intended? That's the measure.

You can be a good programmer, but a terrible architect, designer, or cryptographer.

That's not how it works. Bad programmers are bad programmers - it doesn't matter what language they touch.

How would you feel if the postman was just supposed to check to see if it was still in your box, and take it if it was?

I'd be fine with that, provided a court was the one to decide it should be done.

Your gmail account is your mailbox, not your house. If you were to save the contents of that message somewhere else, that would be akin to bringing the letter inside from the mailbox.

It's not vanishing, it's doing exactly what we don't want - dispersing into the biosphere.

Ah, derp - I didn't consider the resources involved, just licensing.

I don't suppose there's a way to get a feed for only the products you care about?

I can't imagine Microsoft has to pay Microsoft for Microsoft products. Accounting may want them to move the money around, but that's stupid and pointless because it doesn't actually cost them money to give it to themselves.

Me too! aaaaaaaaaa until the box was full :P

I never did figure out how that's so easy to remember... you wouldn't think it would be, but there it is 10+ years later.

... are you suggesting he's a cambion?

HAMs love a good fox hunt.

True, but then again all those folks who's calls get dropped are now distracted by trying to figure out what's going on, or reconnect. Not everyone has a fancy voice-command system to help out with that.

Even if you ignore all that it's a false idea anyway. Unless you can stop him from having ever interacted with another human could you remove his influence on the gene pool. You don't need to reproduce (in any fashion) to influence the gene pool.

Extreme example: Hitler had a huge influence on the pool.

Your interacting with other members of the gene pool makes you a member, if not directly, because you influence the success of the other members.

Even if you're dead, you still have a lasting influence.

... and yet in others, they work beyond 70 hours and still have more shit to get done than they can do - and every mistake has the potential to end their career and bring forth the lawyers.