I'd be interested to see a comparison of the contrasts between YouTube's new "Heroes" program and the disgraced AOL "Community Leader" program that was successfully sued for $15M USD in the past. [0]
Participants in the AOL Community Leader Program claimed that AOL was using them as employees without paying them. Thus the lawsuit.
As a Canadian I feel so cheated learning about Norway's Oil Fund.
Our government hasn't hardly saved a dime of our Oil Income.
We have been taking a small cut of the hundreds of thousands of barrels of oil we have been producing daily for the past 100+ years and spending it as fast as we possibly can.
>Most of the oil companies exploring for oil in Alberta were of U.S. origin, and at its peak in 1973, over 78 per cent of Canadian oil and gas production was under foreign ownership and over 90 per cent of oil and gas production companies were under foreign control, mostly American. [0]
>There's like a weird need for there to be a gate with a ranger taking entrance fees and such, for someone in the US to want to see and experience a place.
Or is the exact opposite true?
Perhaps the United States Government does a poor job of promoting their most breathtaking parks, and only creates parking lots and ticket takers once there is the financial incentive to do so (because the general public decides they want to amass there for any particular reason)?
Further advancement in secure random number generation across languages will probably lead to more "don't roll your own crypto" reminder posts in the near future.
But it's still a great feature to have in every programming language imho.