Here is a thesis, in light of something I've seen recently : one of the weaknesses of today's high leveldynamic languages is that they have basically no good way of handlingbeing unable to allocate more memory. In fact I think this applies topretty much any language that assumes garbage collection and automaticmemory management.

There are two problems. First, dynamic languages only rarely allocatememory in more or less explicit ways, in operations which can alreadyfail for other reasons (and thus your code already needs

Suppose that you want to fix the SSL CA racket, so that SSL CAs actuallyhad a motive to do a good job (whatever that means). One vaguelypopular approach is to align their economic interests through thetraditional tool of liability, so you pass laws that make SSL CAs liableif they issue bad certificates. However, as I've mentioned before , I don't think that this will actuallywork.

The core problem that I see is jurisdiction, in two forms. The first andmost obvious