So you want to kill a thread… Dangerous. How about asking a thread to die instead? Of course it’s unsafe to just kill a thread dead in its tracks. What if the thread has some resource acquired or is controlling other threads itself? It’s much better to communicate with a thread and tell it to stop, then just wait for it to kill itself.

A kill command from a wireless carrier could be used to remotely disable a netbook? wtf?!

I’m doing all my python development in Eclipse using the pydev plugins.  At random and without warning, Eclipse keeps freezing on me!  WTF.  Here’s what I get when I kill it:
JVM terminated. Exit code=1
/usr/bin/gij
-Xms40m
-Xmx256m
-XX:MaxPermSize=128m
-Dosgi.sharedConfiguration.area=/usr/lib64/eclipse/configuration
-jar /usr/share/eclipse/startup.jar
-os linux
-ws gtk
-arch x86_64
-showsplash
-launcher /usr/lib64/eclipse/eclipse
-name Eclipse
–launcher.library /usr/lib64/eclipse/plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.gtk.linux.x86_64_1.0.0.v20070606/eclipse_1017a.so
-startup /usr/share/eclipse/startup.jar
-exitdata 838010
-vm /usr/bin/gij
-vmargs
-Xms40m
-Xmx256m
-XX:MaxPermSize=128m
-Dosgi.sharedConfiguration.area=/usr/lib64/eclipse/configuration
-jar /usr/share/eclipse/startup.jar
This happens on Fedora 8 and …