People like to joke about the video game like nature of their mission - one can understand this thinking to a point.

On the ground combat it isn't - no one disputes that.

The drone pilots know they are killing people, and they get stressed over it like any one else would. They have to make operational decisions, and again - they know that they are ending lives. The distance matters not.

Yeah, they deserve medals for their particular skill-set.

What is the definition of a decent programming language?

It's a pretty ambiguous requirement.

C? Java? Python? Perl? Javascript?

Each is 'decent' in it's own way.

Another way to ask is this: What do you feel the shortcomings of the Excel VB language variant are?

Disco still sucks.

But what harm? Does she articulate what the harm is?

Oh, that's right. Men look at women as objects of desire.

That must be bad. So immoral and demeaning, me and every other guy on the planet being hard wired to want sexual gratification from women. As if doing so harms women in some way.

Maybe what they are really afraid of is declining birth rates.

With more guys satisfying themselves with porn, there's less chance of pregnancy.

Not that I agree with a ban, at all. I'm simply pointing out reasoning that might not have made it to the public statements. We've heard arguments like this about pron before.

BTW, whatever happened to autopr0n? He used to have nice little site there.

I suspect it won't be too long before someone figures out how to build it, and posts instructions.

Besides the fact that every consumer windows starting with XP is based upon the NT kernel, with the consumery stuff rewritten and layered on top.

The win 1 -> 3.11 -> 95 -> 98 -> ME line was retired, thankfully, after ME.

In this case one should trust the data. The CEO publishing said data knows his product, and that positive test cases are repeatable.

Gotta side with Tesla here.

(take THAT Mr Edison. ;)

Yeah, the corporate contract. I'm a software manager for a big faceless corporate entity.

I've tried to start my own web sites, but found that I can't compete with Facebook and Amazon, even with nifty SEO ideas to get me to the top of Google and Bing. It was fun learning though, and getting back to writing code - which my day job no longer allows.

I'm sure that my employer actually owns the IP now for those 2 little sites. Good luck with that.

More recently, I've returned to playing music as a hobby, and am finding that I'm decent at writing rock songs.. the music anyway.

Never thought about it before parent's post, but I wonder if my company owns my creative output too, even though it has nothing to do with technology.

It was the only way to be sure,

In Soviet Russia, game plays YOU.

Didn't he say something about a virus?????

Kind of a cool problem. I suppose that short of altering the moon's orbit, someone is going to have to build adjustments into the software... Would that even be possible? Such adjustments or approximations might invalidate results.

Oh the hell with it.... I'm tired of thinking logically today. I need a beer.

This is easy. make the fucking thing available for download every week. (I"m assuming it isn't). Charge $5.99 an ep, or offer a subscription for a full season.

Do something..... most people will indeed go the legal route and pay for the show. I would.

I don't want HBO, but I live at my buddy's house on Sunday nights when this show is on. I'd gladly pay for it.

The dummies running these media companies just don't get it.. even now after all these years they are still clueless.

Look at the Blood and Chrome debacle. Are you fracking kidding me? Sci-Fi** won't air THAT show? They're clueless if they think they won't get viewership and a secondary market for downloads.

**I refuse to use the new name.