Oh! I know one company. Its IT infrastructure was built by a guy who really loves Macs. Now everybody at the company hates him.

"But it is not an iPad!"

Unfortunately, unanswered PHP questions tend to be plain stupid. So that doesn't count.

I think we are pretty much screwed if a group of smart burglars finds a way to predict the "predictive policing". Or will this remedy include protection against prediction of predicting predictive patterns? ^^

It's not like they want to store your photos of disputable value. Update operations on server's HDD are simply faster than delete operations. So FB just marks photos as unused (instead of actually deleting files). How often do they purge the unused content, is another question.

I hope LulzSec makes some funny stuff to Oracle's servers soon.

How about having four granddads and no grandmas? I'm sure men are all good with woodworking and stuff, but who would cook the soup for grandgaylings?

Duh, patents should become extinct to avoid future monopolies. Let's encourage progress! ^_^

That's not the main reason to change it. As of February 1st, PHP4 is dead. It would be just about time to rewrite the code to PHP5, as there will be no more security updates after August 8th. Then it's really dead.