bigfoot

That was my position too, but I was recently told there's a tool called waypipe that is supposed to solve this. Haven't tried it yet, though.

Exactly: "spare" is the imperative ("save!"), "sparen" the base form ("to save").

But don't get me wrong, I'd love to see your optimism come true here.

No. For simple economic reasons, such as too much testing effort vs. too little revenue.

The saddest part of this story is that Netflix/Amazon/younameit will continue to ignore and block Linux users as the niche market they are -- even if a future Firefox or Chrome version comes with the new standardized DRM everyone asked for. Lose/lose situation.

Given that a NSA dev team was well aware that the spyware would be discovered and disassembled at some point in time, it was reasonable to intentionally leave behind evidence that points to countries other than the US. I'm not saying that's what happened, but I'd not take the cricket references too serious either.

OK, agreed. C (and C++) just suck regarding this detail.

Archaic and impractical. Example: Instead of using Linux' pragmatic approach to function prototypes:

"In function prototypes, include parameter names with their data types. Although this is not required by the C language, it is preferred in Linux because it is a simple way to add valuable information for the reader."

OpenBSD enforces this:

"Prototypes should not have variable names associated with the types; i.e., void function(int); not: void function(int a);"

Instead of letting the code tell the parameters' purposes, this now has to be deduced from informal descriptions, or the function definition in some .c file.

Under what license may I reuse those snippets -- or are they too short to provoke legal issues anyways?