How do they know they know each others secrets...

Or do you mean they trust each other because they trust that they know each others secrets...

Checken and egg, your statement is proven false.

Commonly Espionage tries to find other peoples secrets so they have more secrets to keep to themselves, it doesnt increase the public knowledge, therefore doesnt increase trust within society.

Nice try, but still a fail.

"without mutual spying, there will most likely be unilateral spying."

without mutual conflict, there will most likely be unilateral conflict (terrorism), WAR is PEACE.

Secrets create trust, double plus newspeak bro, fits in very well with;
  War is peace,
  Freedom is slavery,
  Ignorance is strength.

But seriosuly, you are so brainwashed that i am wasting pixels even ...

Agree, and its much easier to do that if there is trust between the parties/countries.
Trust makes relationships (economic and social) more efficient as it enables greater teamwork between parties, it also makes people feel safe and part of a community.
Trust is one the most valuable social resources we have, it takes years to nuture and grow, and these people constantly undermine it and destroy under the pretence that they are "helping" us.
They fail at being human.

Take billions from society and your evil, give 10% of it back and your an angel.

Whats wrong with young people today, cant even hold a grudge, getofmylawn.

Ive been tempted to try this, i remember early gnome as being really responsive... so how is it on new hardware as far as latency goes (app startup etc) ?

I have stuff on their servers and mine is blank too.

I am disapoint ?

I dont know berkleyDB, can you explain the reasonaing behing concluding that "site configuration" changes are part fo the program.

Does it not have seperate config files or something... maybe you could submit a patch ?

If he had bad motives he wouldnt have disclosed it in the first place.

If microsoft are too dumb to monitor popular outside forums where faults in their products are discussed then they deserve a black eye, doesnt matter who gives it to them.

My doctor says its ok for me to argue with myself, as long as i win the argument.

Dude, its, like, totally real, man.
The photon is chillin with the physicists at an event in the parallel university after it went through teh wormhole.

Can i have my grant money now ?

gigadays, WTF !!!

ISO have just announced that you are wrong, its not gigadays, its gigidays.

Yes please, we blame it on the cows and not the people.

Now we just have to kill all the cows and livestock, then i can use all my fossil fuels until I have none left.

Because what we really need in this debate is more excusses.

"The hardest part of solving a problem is understanding it" - ?

The reason its hard to estimate development time is because programming involves design, design is a creative task.

Nobody can predict how long it takes to be creative, its a universal unknown. Creative workers (such as graphic artists) often estimate the design phase by giving themselves a hard limit and then just choosing the best idea they could come up with.

Most programmers dont even acknowledge their work is a creative expression, so they are bad at estimating what a reasonable "hard limit" might be. But even so, im not sure the same method of 'choosing the best idea within a given time limit' is suitable to programming. Some things just have to meet certain objective benchmarks or there is no point continuing.

Best idea i can come up with is to allocate your self "design time" first, which wont be long enough. Then you should be able to get a reasonable estimate of implementation time.