Bah. Knuth wrote volumes of books full of algorithms. I can't think of a single algorithm that Dijkstra ever came up with.

You misspelled the word "clod", you insensitive clod.

it should drive up the cost of using the attorneys so high as to make it not profitable to use bogus dmca notices.

A better way to make bogus dmca notices unprofitable is to sue them for damages. The EFF has had some success going after known dmca abusers.

Maybe they will. I was watching fox news today and apparently we are now socialists.

Nerds aren't good at writing software for non-nerds.

But non-nerds aren't good at writing software for anyone.

I've found puzzles and word games to be a good way to learn useful data structures and algorithms. There's not a lot of complex UI stuff required for games like boggle or scrabble. Implementing a crossword puzzle generator can also be a fun and challenging.

Complaining about Apple will not hurt them, but withholding your funds from them sure as hell will.

Well, if the 40 people in the world who realize that they can install an os that didn't come on their computer and think that OS X is worth installing withhold their funds then...

apple probably won't notice.

but if all 40 of them come here and complain, then apple will...

still probably not notice.

I'm annoyed. Geocities was a convenient place for me to dump files I needed to access from home or work.

The internet is not just something you dump something on. It's not a big truck.

...unless they could get VCs to foot the bill.

Sure, but what about ~50,000 lines of python..

Well, I'd still prefer ~50,000 lines of python over the equivalent 500,000 lines of java (with 1,000,000 lines of XML).

The reason it's chosen is that all that extra code and restrictiveness makes for some very maintainable code Personally I find 20 lines of python to be a bit more maintainable than the equivalent 200 lines of Java (with 400 lines of XML).

I'm pretty sure Lessig already proposed this 5 years ago. Both ideas of short copyright and a requirement that the source code should be released for copyright to be valid.

So the HTML 5 guys are in a bit of a bind.

For once, the DNS guys get the last laugh.

I don't see how you can compare Android to the iPhone as both being closed. The iPhone is closed in every single way. Android in nearly none.

Well, his name is "BadAnalogyGuy"...

Hey, is it any surprise campus security are afraid of Command Line Interface Terrorism?

I'm sure they've been searching for CLIT for a long time.