I've used recursion in assembler code plenty of times, not sure what you mean here.

print "Die!" foreach 1..3;

Maybe they will start to care when the journalists and certain political parties stop lying to them about what's actually happening.

So you've missed the various pirate parties getting mandates in many European nations in some places even nationwide, not to mention two seats in the European Parliament.

I'm sure that's where we're heading, but slowly. But there are some drawbacks selling directly to customers.

Dealing with whiny and irrational end customers can be a horrible experience. A company that can get away with it while still making money may very well feel that it's better to pay the overhead of a middleman. You also take a risk with your brand, if you don't spend enough on customer support, your brand is tarnished by that, even if your cars are solid.

Actually, the GPU is much faster, by far, than any* DSP setup. The GPU consists of hundreds or thousands of DSP building blocks, although more limited in what they can perform and in which order.

* Naturally you can build out a DSP system to match the speed of a GPU, as you can build a rack of CPUs to outperform a single GPU. That's not my point.

Megayear is actually very common in science circles when talking about time spans where using millions of years makes sense. It's usually written "Ma" or "mya".

That's not relevant. What's relevant is who the original creators wants to grant permission. They may very well be fine with people using these cats at random on the internet, that doesn't mean they have given everyone permission to use it in a commercial context by an anti-internet company.

What are you talking about? You specifically settle out of court just so that you're not setting a precedent. Legally, they would gain nothing doing this.

This is a problem that has already been solved. The answer is: You treat it like it's simply "security by obscurity" and assume it will be broken any day soon. The sad fact is that this is true for most of the encryption schemes thought up over the years.

And honestly, if homomorphic encryption can't work with a well tested and analyzed encryption algorithm, I'm not sure I'm very impressed about it..

You can generally not compress an encrypted stream of data.

Good encryption masks all the structure/redundancy from the data, which the compressor needs in order to remove useless bits.

So how much did the slashdot ad cost, and how do I block this kind of ads with adblock?

Did timothy and Zothecula share the cash equally?

I thought that was what wikipedia was for.

Every file system is/should be labled "experimental" in a way. The long answer from the btrfs FAQ is pretty good, and makes some sense:

Yeah, it's not the privatization that's an issue, it's the profit part. You know, the incentive that according to the great invisible hand in the sky should improve quality and decrease overhead..