Rather than engage in such whiny and wimpish behavior, it would be more useful to join the Chinese Communist Party to gain the favors one needs in what used to be referred to as a 'Commie' country, as in communist, not comedy.

Imagine that, the owner of several neo-conservative media outlets become a communist. Oligarchs will do whatever it takes to gain wealth and power. Unfortunately for Murdoch he will never be allowed to achieve what he did outside China, in China.

This has caused me to wonder what will happen if Wikileaks itself has a leak of it's own. Would that be a recursive leak? Will they treat it just like any other leak or zero out the bits?

On a national level, both Japan and the US have tried this approach and failed.

As trillionaires, we the United States citizens decided to get or blow up Japan after they decided to get or blow up Hawaii, notably, both islands, and notably both wealthy nations with plenty of idle time to think about such things instead of mowing the yard.

When they wouldn't sell, we threw a gazillion little and two huuuuuge bombs to blow it up - didn't work - so we got ready to do it with a gazillion huuuuuger bombs until the Soviets said Niet! Then we poured money into the Island and still didn't end up owning it.

Instead we sold Hawaii, while retaining mineral rights, and recently, close to everything we had in Financial Services in their part of the world. We also decided to sell our 'freedom' by borrowing a trillion dollars from them. Man we are good - at shooting ourselves in the foot.

They felt sorry for us and decided to build the PS3 to get even more out of us - while we bicker over how to reduce ourselves further.

Announcing onelanguage dot com, an extension of Google Translate, ushering in an era where programmers need only learn one language and have it converted to another language of choice.

FAQ:

Q. How accurate is it?
A. Same as Google Translate. You have to learn the output language to know which parts of the language you already know result in garbage-out. We suggest you use our new Pidgin versions of Python, PHP, Java, and Ruby.

Chrome is also open source so by this logic it will very likely suffer the same fate and be dumped. Rather than go back to IE I have decided to retire.

/. is free.
/. is all you need to know.
/. is god, 'er 42.

Oh dear, /. is in violation. Imagine that, /. without tags.

Need tech support from the son but can post /.? Awesome. Can he help me get my great-grandmother to post?

Don't need a huge bomb, Hit the ventilation and entrance shafts, as well as communication links with existing 500 pounders vs. 5,000+ pounders.

Otherwise useful for mining coal.

I think he is speaking in Japanese gibberish. The translation reveals he said "The majority of my messages the empty is the queer word which starts. Did not need that you dispute ahead!"

Boot into a newfangled FireLinux distribution using Firefox as the desktop, cloud resident data, and Java to run whatever you want, given the FOSS emulator to do so.

Then write a Java emulator for Java to run Java within Java within Java within Java ...

IBM has had a hierarchical database called IMS since 1966 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Information_Management_System

It holds and manipulates data in a hierarchy accessed and manipulated with the DL/I query language http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Language_Interface

Now, if the venerable IBM would please grow up and Open Source IMS we could have the best of both worlds.

Better still, reverse engineer the thing from IBM specs, dropping all the legacy fluff accumulated over 40 years, and call it MyHQL.

Many have tried only to stumble when their own stupidity is found to be in violation of their own patent, rendering it invalid.

Hold the outsourcer accountable - the method name invoked is in a local dialect which stymied European developers. They believed "A330.greenDam()" meant "turn on auto-pilot when entering storm", instead of "turn off auto-pilot when entering storm".

Sounds like an investigation of HCL is due. If his hiring mirrors what is being said, HCL may be in violation of EEOC laws by discriminating against Americans.