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Every time someone changes the meaning of a word or phrase my ears prick up. I got the first tipoff when the first oil crisis hit (you know, riding your bike on the highway, no cars except flashing blue were allowed). Suddenly the oil exporting countries were refered to as oil producing, which...

George Orwell was on to something. Who would have known?

We have a saying about this. When "the children" are mentioned by lobbyists or law makers, put firmly one hand on your rights and one on your wallet.

Sometimes the cure turns out to be worse than the illness. What is peddled as an alternative to established parties over here is not a new set of ideas in any way, they just went into hiding for the last 80 years. Doing nothing is not the way to go, but be careful what you do. Not looking at the...

I'd like to know what Theo had to say to such a request, if it was anything beyond that.

Maybe it's a ring. 122

It was hard to decide who to cheer for.

Indeed. This reminds me of one of the first DVD drives I had. It had a jumper sticking out trough a hole which would cause problems if you would slide it into a box from the front. The circuit board was visible and the jumper was labeled "RC enable". Pulled it, slid it in and was a happy camper.

Wasn't there some kind of "obscene pr0n" ban which was shelved after people started to flock to the police stations with suitcases and kept asking the constables if this exhibit A was illegal or legal to own after that deadline? DDOS by porn? Best thing is to follow such laws, badly. Like...

I think you all try to solve this with the wrong tools. You try to use sense when it is about law and lawyers. As long as we can weasel out of this in any way, do that and don't change a line. As long as the web page says f.e. "No account required to download and install, we don't provide any...

I had once the chance to work with Fortran on a Cray, and the debugger was absolute gold. Old f77 and before were really constrained when it came to flexibility, as there was no dynamic memory to have. You just make the arrays big enough. How it is today? I would need to check.

Maybe it is sufficient and much easier to move the post box of the foundation to, say, Geneva?

Sure, but in many a case where I see a goto I see that it is not needed and, in fact, produce worse code. There are places a goto is the only way, but it is a tool. You can not hand any tool to everybody and expect them to be equally skilled with that. I usually explain different ways to do...

A certain scene from Kentucky Fried Movie comes to mind... But make that hat green for example and I'd wear it.

Complexety invites in bugs, that goes for complex plans, complex algorithms and complex control flow. I have seen code ridden with a plaque of gotos, where the flow graph (in pencil on a chain printer stack of dead trees) looked like your 3yo threw spaghetti on the wall. Finding out why that...

You all never heard of the "please come from" statement... When writing compilers, you learn to really hate goto statements. They produce one hell of flow graphs and make it hard to use elegant and fast algorithms for register allocation, loop optimization, ...

I would debate that. You don't need any account on the ports collection to access them, and there should be nothing in there that is age restricted. So you have no reason to check any age. Germany has a guideline/rule not to request data you don't need. How about the rest of the world? Anyway...

I once had a demo of a compiler which hat the limitation of liking long weekends - "This compiler will not work on mondays" it said. And what happend to "Use/install at your own risk" because the FreeBSD project is not the manufacturer, they are a supplier of a system component. It becomes a...

I'm using RethinkDNS, works quite a charm.

There is, I found some in the f-droid store looking for "dns".