If the thought "I might harm someone" never enters your mind when you are driving a 1000+ pound vehicle at 60+ miles an hour, either you have no clue how kinetic energy works, or you're bloody irresponsible. Either should disqualify you from a driver's license, in my opinion. If you're on the road, you might harm someone; there's no way around that.

Wait... profit? I think I'm not going to ask ;)

I use macs only occasionally, and find this feature extremely annoying. It completely throws off my eye/hand coordination. I'm sure it's wonderful if you're used to it, but it makes it annoyingly difficult to put the cursor where I want it. If I want to move it just couple of inches to the left, I move the mouse slowly, and it only moves a few pixels. If I speed up, acceleration kicks in and the cursor is halfway across the screen when, according to my (linear, subconscious) estimate, it should be on target.

This would be fine if I could find the option to turn it off.

The difference with pedophiles is that young children are incapable of making the decision to consent.

That's funny. I'm in college right now, and several of our courses touch on those things. Makefiles, modularization, and basic use of a debugger are introduced in a Programming in C and UNIX course. These concepts are developed in later courses, and the upper-level project-based courses stress that without good code organization and management, producing a good product is nearly impossible. (I'm thinking especially of one particular course involving writing an OS kernel in 6 weeks with a partner.)

That's not to say that a few school projects can substitute for real world experience, but it's certainly not as if all we do is theory and math.