While corporations dominate society and write the laws, each advance in technology is an opening for them to further restrict its users.
The Stallman Law
I couldn’t have told you the first thing about Java before this problem. I have done, and still do, a significant amount of programming in other languages. I’ve written blocks of code like rangeCheck a hundred times before. I could do it, you could do it. The idea that someone would copy that when they could do it themselves just as fast, it was an accident. There’s no way you could say that was speeding them along to the marketplace. You’re one of the best lawyers in America, how could you even make that kind of argument?
Judge William Haskell Alsup - Oracle vs. Google Trial, Day 17
Quantum Mechanics is actually an hardware problem.
I thought this was impossible, given the actual mouse-driven nature of desktop computing…
But cats MUST absolutely check the Internet going crazy about them, I guess.
Sometimes’s a blessing We don’t give tips in Italy.
(also: we lack an equivalent figure of speech for “my 2 cents”, so…)
(also-bis: who the heck is able to give tips in Italy nowadays anyway…)
Seh, magari.
The Never Ending Birthday.
Control vs. Chaos.
Programmer’s breakfast.
