The Go programming language was invented partly to get rid of hour-long compile times of C/C++ programs. Rob Pile and co know what they are doing - naive solutions don't work with million line programs made up of thousands of files

Kids shouldn't be taught to read either, or by the age of 11 they could read the stupid things Abbott says. They shouldn't be taught arithmetic, or by the age of 11 they could add up the number of times he says stupid things. Let's just march boldly backwards into the future.

That's a logical approach

Malata sell karaoke DVD players. I bought one 2 years ago. Their own system in realtime shows the notes you should be singing and the ones you actually hit. So that part of the patent should fail due to prior art. As for networking: play a Malata karaoke song on your TV. Point a netbook at this screen running Skype. Your partner cuurently in a different country also running skype sees the screen and sings along. The return from Skype is captured by a microphone back into the karaoke scoring system. Surprisingly, the latency is sufficiently low that on the 3/4 occassions we have done this between China and Australia, my partner gets a better score than me. So nail the networking part as "obvious" to anyone technically competent. Good luck Apple - the Malata system certainly helped me get in tune!

If governments start poisoning DNS servers, then we may need to go back to using raw IP addresses. Instead of http://xyz.com/ use http://123.456.789.012./ DNS was always a trust-based system anyway and that trust is being removed. Alternatively, point your PC to DNS servers outside the affected country.

The wikileak pages have been blacklisted by the Australian ACMA as they contain links to blacklisted sites. This article contains links to the blacklisted wikileak pages. As a good, moral Australian citizen I have reported the Slashdot article to the ACMA with the request that it also be blacklisted. I accessed the Slashdot article via an RSS feed from Google Reader, so I have requested that it be blacklisted too. I did this two days ago and haven't yet received a ruling from the ACMA. I wonder what they will say... if ever...