Supported or not, <regex> may yield surprising results when used with UTF-8 or other Unicode text, so those may require a non-<regex> library or the proposed <unicode> header for C++14 anyway.

Yup. from the unless-double-secret-probation-prohibits-canaries dept., pretty much.

Your post advocates a

(*) technical ( ) legislative ( ) market-based ( ) vigilante

approach to fighting NSLs. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work. ...

No need to worry about how free it is. Autodesk did it.

The even bigger shame is that this is what scientists end up doing...just imagine less science-friendly oil drillers and poachers who don't give a shit about clams that are in the way of, well, *tosses coin* clams.

I'd like to see examples of such security risks. Gitorious is one website that uses AGPL3 code, and hosts projects such as Qt and Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup. Given its profile I'm sure Gitorious and the hosted projects would love to know too.

I think they've already learned that, and use their knowledge of that to their advantage.

I like your optimism.

They'll find a way to close that to public access (except "on a need-to-know basis" and to Royal family members, staff, and "security" officials) too, as soon as they see how embarrassing (or criminal) parts of the archive may be. Clearly, they always find a way, however brutish.

Lol indeed. When Google aren't being ordered by the NSA (and by extension GCHQ and their political friends) to work for them, they volunteer outright. Enjoy the cache while it lasts and while they allow it, because they'll consider either an oversight.

Not one connection to the NSA, or Snowden's ex-girlfriend, or the World Bank, or two employees at Infowars who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss their true jobs with the Bilderberg Group? FAIL.

I wonder if the Slashdot admins will be doing either when they pull a YouTube and inevitably (it's always inevitably, for some reason) turn the main site into beta.slashdot.org.

Here's an easy one: "Archieved[sic] Stories" at the bottom. Listen to us, watch us, whatever, but please don't fuck it up, and fix what isn't right.

A moderator a day keeps the Real Name policies away.

You might be on to something. If a loud female causes males to..."yield" more, then a tattooed spank amplifier may well add to that and leave her utterly drenched.

It's Eric "maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place" Schmidt and Larry "shouting match [with Brin over more datamining]" Page we're talking about...they couldn't properly feign outrage about the NSA if the NSA found their personal sex tapes and demanded them at gunpoint.