peterwoo

The language is not context free, although I agree there is a parsing solution which is not terribly complex.

Python is not context free.

> If you're going to say that terrorists can be killed without judicial overview, which I think you have to, then you can't say that doesn't apply to those terrorists who happen to be American.

What about (people labelled as) terrorists who happen to be American residents?

So it's just serendipitous that this isn't the obvious and massive vulnerability it initially seemed to be.

Everything you've said here is simply dismissive.

"Kernel dev. policy is not to break user space. ENOENT is not a valid return from ioctl. Kernel maintainers are expected to know and adhere to this" is the only point that Linus had to make in this discussion.

People just don't understand why he added a bunch of swearing and questioning of the dev's basic intelligence. That's all.

I wonder what (# of expired links clicked each year * 8 seconds / link) amounts to.

How small?

Would you be willing to suggest a global minimum bound on the amount of data that you should be allowed to push onto anyone's mail server?

What does the average user want it to do, that it doesn't?

The big discussion lately has essentially come from people who DO know what SMTP is. And apart from "Gmail is slow", from what I've seen there's been a lot of complaining about mostly specialized use cases.

RMS doesn't require that software be "free as in beer". It's okay to sell and purchase software -- so long as person making payment actually ends up owning what they get.

http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?FreeAsInBeer

Code duplication is an overhead. Not as bad as RTTI, but static memory footprint is still important in the embedded/systems world -- sometimes more so than runtime memory footprint!