Disinterest = Absence of bias
Uninterest = Lack of interest

The ads are paying for our 'free' service. No ads, no service. It's a simple equation.

Would it have been as reprehensible if it had been a similar picture of Grace Hopper? Or does is it tainted by where it was published?

The spirit of Thomas Becket is not dead!

Actually, the incremental inconvenience will be minor. After the bombings in London, the users brought all the available cell phone and wired phone systems down simply by volume of traffic.

You can always strike out the offending clause and initial the strikeout. The other party then has the option of accepting this, or not, as they choose. (They always make you sign first, I have noticed).

In any case such clauses were ruled unlawful in UK courts years ago as they prevent you using your skills.

I don't recall ever handling an N greater than one (mostly malloc/free), but would probably continue as at present where a block that reserves a resource also releases it at the same level of nesting. I don't always keep to the single entry/single exit paradigm, but would in this case. Using a goto would make it easy to accidentally skip the release and thereby cause resource leakage.

I have written a hell of a lot of c and c++ in the last quarter of a century and have never used goto. I have used setjmp/longjmp though.

To be fair the problem may have been caused by a local configuration e.g. I have many fonts and work in three scripts, one of which is right-to-left. The testers might simply have overlooked that particular case. OTOH...

After successfully forcing the machine to reboot into safe mode last night (to stop a perpetual cyclic restart) I found that the screen fonts were being incorrectly rendered to the point of being unreadable. Hours later it turned out to be KB3013455, now uninstalled. Today several sites say that this affects Vista and several flavours of Windows Server.

I live in the UK. My bank wants me to sign up for internet banking, but they will not use email to request an appointment. Apparently the internet is safe enough for _my_ money, but not _their_ letters.

It teaches good habits (but with the demise of Turbo Pascal I am unable to suggest a worthy compiler).

I was taught Fortran originally and now spend my time working in C on embedded processors, which shows the futility of trying to teach a 'useful' language. Several other languages and assemblers have also passed through my brain in the intervening forty years or so, including Basic, but I still think that Pascal is the only suitable pedagogical language.

If I buy drugs and give them to you then we are both guilty of offenses. The robot cannot own anything, so although it may be difficult to pin the purchase function, clearly the possession charge must be answered.

It certainly was loud. I was in the next plane to take off from the same Heathrow runway on several occasions and can tell you that it is the only plane I ever heard above the noise of my own aircraft (usually Tristar, if memory serves). It was worth it! One of the most beautiful planes flying.

My touchstone is that if it doesn't make you sweat then it isn't a sport. Darts and snooker are entertaining, and require skill, but are not sports.