The coke bit has regional variance. In the entire southern US "coke" is a fully generic term for all carbonated beverages: http://laughingsquid.com/soda-pop-or-coke-maps-of-regional-d...

Wikipedia lists "Coke" among marks that, while still protected, are often used generically: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_generic_and_genericized...

I think many marks on that list, including coke, could very well lose their status if someone were to bother to fight the legal battle.

And the object responds to the "foo" message by calling a method.

The difference is whether we're discussing the invocation or the response. OP's usage of method isn't incorrect in this case if it's discussing the response. It is true that all message responses (including accessors) are implemented using methods.

> It is true that all message responses (including accessors) are implemented using methods.

An object can respond to a message even though it doesn't have a method with that name. A classic example are Rails' dynamic finders:

  User.methods.include?(:find_by_name)
   => false
  User.respond_to?(:find_by_name)
   => true

> An object can respond to a message even though it doesn't have a method with that name.

Sure, by using a different method (method_missing); its still all method calls.

Yes and the responses are implemented with methods. Always.

The source of the 30% statistic is from a selection-biased sample of people who undergo paternity testing because there is already a question as to who is the father. It's not an accurate figure.

The actual rate is likely somewhere between 1-3%.

More detail here: http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2730/whos-your-dadd...

Sure, but you can say the same about going to bed at night with the intent of waking up in the morning.

It is. Cgroup provides limits for memory, CPU time. We already have other accounting mechanisms for processes/threads (rlimits) and for inodes and disk space (disk quota systems). We've had those for ages. I imagine there will be more work to integrate these various accounting mechanisms with cgroup as the work continues.

Interestingly these programs are currently disallowed in California, I believe due mostly to Prop 103: http://www.consumerwatchdog.org/focusarea/prop-103-californi...

Indeed. I can negotiate a connection to google.com:80 successfully on a 1000ms latency pipe just fine. Slowly, but fine.

"Isn't that mainly terrorism, not paedophilia?"

It's nothing at all. Plenty of innocent people are on those lists having done nothing.

That the pretext is terrorism is irrelevant.

Interestingly the system you describe, marking two points and measuring time between them is illegal in California:

Definition of a speed trap: http://www.dmv.ca.gov/pubs/vctop/d17/vc40802.htm

Speed traps are prohibited: https://www.dmv.ca.gov/pubs/vctop/d17/vc40801.htm

It's not really an analogy; The divide is still along similar racial lines. Civil asset forfeiture laws predominantly impact poor black or Hispanic people. Here's what the ACLU has to say: https://www.aclu.org/criminal-law-reform/civil-asset-forfeit...

" Asset forfeiture practices often go hand-in-hand with racial profiling and disproportionately impact low-income African-American or Hispanic people who the police decide look suspicious and for whom the arcane process of trying to get one’s property back is an expensive challenge. ACLU believes that such routine “civil asset forfeiture” puts our civil liberties and property rights under assault, and calls for reform of state and federal civil asset forfeiture laws."