I've run into bizarre behavior with windows command lines plenty of times before, but I'd never put all the pieces together and realized that:
a) windows really does pass around unadorned monolithic strings containing the entire command line of an executed command, and
b) there's no parsing standard for command lines in windows
sigh, windows
I see we've hit the first E: Embrace. I'm betting it'll only be a few months until they're Extending the protocol. Any wagers on how long until we hit Extinguish? 3 years maybe?
Need someone who knows more about EU law to chime in here: does this mean valve et al will be forced to implement a way for users to resell/transfer games to other users?
From wikipedia:
China Daily is an English-language daily newspaper owned by the Central Propaganda Department of the Chinese Communist Party.
Ah good, a trustworthy source.
The excellent PBS Spacetime - a physics and cosmology education channel - has released a new video detailing the effects and likelihood of supernovae in our stellar neighborhood.