Well, when you have several projects using same framework/skeleton, and the latter is downloaded and copied over and over again in every project - it became verbose on highest level and can be called boilerplate.
I think, such reaction is just because article is less "techy" than it could be, but more about "moral" aspect.
OTOH, what is so interesting in simple face recognition, innit? That future became a past quite fast, meanwhile teh human rights never get old. (smile.jpg)
I would really like to see amount of customers who have no problems with PP against customers who had. That would be the best, objective and simple analysis.
Terre en fuite (Fleeing Earth) (1960) by François Bordes (pen name Francis Carsac), though, there is still no translation in english of that gem, where Earth and Venus was converted to spaceships for running away from exploding Sun!
I think it's just change of habits. For example, in russian "coffee" was masculine gender for long time, until significant amount of people started to erroneously call it in neutral gender. Now rules is "okay" with both.
My comment was just (probably ugly) joke attempt. Though, you was right - I didn't understand 503 fully, and then I became interested after your hint and googled for it.
Now I know, that it can be easily a cause (out of the many) when owner simply "suspended" site for a while, and fixing stuff.