gerts

> Pure liberty without mass is nonsensical.

That's a photon.

In the Unix environment, you may often write Java, Python, and Shell, all in a day's work on one project.

perl does give you a lot of that, since if has a vaguely lisp-ish facility for modifying language syntax, and is in general very flexible, so it supports things like inheritance, deferred evaluation, etc..

http://search.cpan.org/search?query=acme&mode=all

This is what happens when someone in the US discovers a vulnerability in transit ticketing:

http://www.openmediaboston.org/node/288

Eisenstadt went on a bit of extended speculation there. Having parents tends to create a secure environment that leads to middling experience. Losing that doesn't make you work harder, it just takes away a "normal" life and leads you to find your way elsewhere -- either up or down (as SatvikVeri correctly observes.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tit_for_tat

The goal is to make it not worth the oppressor's effort to rip you off.

Raise the price of a PAX ticket $15 to take a bite out of the scalpers, and boom, $1 million.

It's bizarrely under-promoted now, but PA made a big deal when they launched PA Report a while back.

http://penny-arcade.com/report/about

So, SF should cost more, since it's more desirable, and push people to poor ignored Cleveland to balance out the pressure.

This is why you don't run your computer using the default UI theme on the most popular OS.

SiteKey is completely susceptible to Man-in-the-middle (unless the user is a scrupulous cookie-manager and refuses to re-authenticate a computer more than once), so adds minimal value over regular SSL.

Or install AdBlock guiltfree because the website is obviously hostile beyond forgiveness.

It's self-evident that people aren't giving $100 to PBS because they really want the PBS-logo beer cozy and can't find it cheaper or easier elsewhere.

That's a donation, and along with it the donor does some advertising exposure via the cozy.

yes, who wrote the bug

...and who reviewed the bad design

...and who reviewed the bad code

...and who wrote the bad tests

...and who built the spaghetti system that can't isolate failures

...and who pushed new code to production without smoke-testing

...and who demanded the product ship before it was ready