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"I didn't bother counting, but I doubt there were more than 10K LOCs in the Apollo code, "

Well, you're wrong. Way off, actually.

Code is available here: https://googlecode.blogspot.no...
Here are some crude stats (from a source tree I know nothing about...)

[boa@localhost trunk]$ for i in Artemis072 Colossus2* Comanche055 Luminary* Solarium055; do printf $i; find $i -name \*.agc | xargs wc -l | grep total; done
Artemis072 64444 total
Colossus237 62565 total
Colossus249 64223 total
Comanche055 65585 total
Luminary099 65058 total
Luminary131 63217 total
Solarium055 30074 total
[boa@localhost trunk]$

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So, defendant Anonymous, are you familiar with the term "cherry picking?". Why don't you tell the court what you understand the the phrase "cherry picking" to mean?

Defendant Anonymous, do you turn to the internet for information about climate change? You do? Since you know what cherry picking is and you have already described yourself as highly engaged with the topic of climate change, did you ever consider the possiblity that this statistic was itself cherry picking? Did you actively seek out disconfrirmatory evidence for this statistic?

Defendant Anonymous, I refer you to your posting on Slashdot Mar 2012 where you directly accused a poster of cherry picking his statistic. So you were well aware not only of the concept fo cherry picking but that cherry picking was used in the climate change debate....

Defandant Anonymous, I present to you a graph posted by a fellow poster WoofyGoofy in rebuttal to a comment you made describing "no climate change in nearly 19 years", do you recognize that graph? Would you say that that graph describes an instance of cherry picking? Speka up Defandant Anonymous.

Defendant Anonymous, were you aware of what people said the consequences of global warming would be upon hundreds of millions of people, if it were true? Speak up so the court can hear you Defendant Anonymous. Yes you were? And yet, you continued to post statements as facts , statements which a reasonably prudent person who did not possess a wanton disregard for the truth, would have rejected as likely falsehods. Isn't that right Defendant Anonymous? By your own measure, the statements you made were most likely false, weren't they Defendant Anonymous?

Ladies nad Gentlemen of the jury, we have here nothing more than the very description of the law under which Defendant Anonymous has been charged- Gross Negligence and a Depraved Indifference For Human Welfare With Special Circumstances.

Ladies and Gentlement of the jury, Defendant Anonymous and millions more just like him are precisely and individually culpable for the destrcutive falsehoods they either knew or should have known they were spreading through the years 1990-2020. These were years in which the Great Climate Crisis still could have been averted save for the actions of Defendant Anonymous and his ilk, actions which displayed a Depraved Indifference to Human Welfare. Actions which they knew or shoudl have known would contribute to the millions of deaths and political upheavals we see nightly on the news. ladies and Gentlemen of the jury, the Supreme Court in 2025 had already found that each citizen, individually has and always has had an implicit, unshirkable obligation to be honest and to act in good conscience in their utterances and writings when the fate of other human beings rests in the balance of those utternaces, no matter how small a part their individual utterances and writings may have played in the ultimate fate of those fellow humans. That same ruling found that each individual can be charged with the totality of the crime to which they contributed, and that theories of so called "proportional guilt" serve only to thwart a justice which must not be thwarted.

  What we have before us here in the public postings of Defendant Anonymous is nothing less than a criminal act of the highest order, Because of Defendant Anonymous, and others soon to be tried, the Earth is where it is and there is no going back.

Ladies and Gentleman of the jury, I submit that there is one verdict which wil serve justice, a verdict of guilty on the charge before you. Defendant Anonymous knowingly and with malice aforethought made utterances and wrote statements which he himself knew or should have known were likely false. Bring back a verdict fo guilty, and may God have mercy on his soul.

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In those days, they had punt guns. These were wide bore barrels mounted directly onto a punt. and each could propel pellets in a wide and long enough range to take out a good number of a flock of ducks at one time. But there seem to be others that might have been used on land:

http://homemadedefense.blogspo...

And even if Theo and crew don't port it themselves I would pretty much bank on the fact that, say, someone at Debian will take the BSD code and port it to Linux - it's not as if OpenBSD will have a problem with this.

The problem with crypto is it's really easy to end up with something that works but isn't secure.

Libressl and openssl take different approaches. Openssl's appoach is to rely on the OS as little as possible. Libressl is targetted at openbsd and relies heavilly on library features provided by openbsd.

http://insanecoding.blogspot.n...
http://insanecoding.blogspot.n...

If and when there is a linux port of libressl that is blessed by the libressl team then it might be worth considering but a bad port of libressl could easilly end up being a lot worse than openssl.

And even if Theo and crew don't port it themselves I would pretty much bank on the fact that, say, someone at Debian will take the BSD code and port it to Linux - it's not as if OpenBSD will have a problem with this.

The problem with crypto is it's really easy to end up with something that works but isn't secure.

Libressl and openssl take different approaches. Openssl's appoach is to rely on the OS as little as possible. Libressl is targetted at openbsd and relies heavilly on library features provided by openbsd.

http://insanecoding.blogspot.n...
http://insanecoding.blogspot.n...

If and when there is a linux port of libressl that is blessed by the libressl team then it might be worth considering but a bad port of libressl could easilly end up being a lot worse than openssl.

Ditto IANA manufacturer type, but I do have first hand experience with a plastic thing starting to smell like cat pee.
It was in the year 2012, my red nylon spatula, having a red scraper part and a black handle part, which I'd owned for a few years, suddely turned my kitchen drawer into a stinky mess. Of course I thought it was food residue, but it quickly turned out to be eminating from specifically the red "active" bit of the spatula. I tried dishwashing it away, to no avail. I sent an email to the seller, but unfortunately my interest died out when the seller pointed out I should talk to the producer. Now I've forwarded the mail to the correct people, let's see if they have an explanation.

This article was my only clue at the time http://sandwalk.blogspot.no/2007/01/smell-of-cat-pee.html
Although (bio)chemical pathways are interesting, without a trained eye for structures and experience with plastics, I'm lost.

If heroine were legal, nobody would die.

Because heroin never killed anybody. Even in peer reviewed medical journals like the Lancet where they ranked alcohol #5, tobacco #9 and cannabis #11, heroin was by far #1. It's already the kind of drug no sane, recreational drug user would take only an addict looking to blast his mind and body into oblivion. Yes you might save a few who'd get hooked on Krokodil but if you get more heroin addicts instead you'll do way more harm than good.

http://mrparasite1965.blogspot.no/2011/01/how-to-cope-with-sociopaths.html

Both your points are valid if read under a certain light. I was not specific enough.

Ad 3. By isolation I mean family members not allowed to contact each other because their contact is considered directly harmful to the scientologist him or herself. Please see the documentation on this since I was just doing bullet points from the top of my head. Yes, this happens in other cults too and in some fundamentalist countries, but it is NOT practiced in majority religions. If you need to look up the difference between a cult and a religion, there is a lot of reading material available for you; but I don't see people sending out distress calls because their kid has joined Christianity the same way people do with Scientology.

There is even a HOW-TO page for how to leave Scientology: http://leavescientology.blogspot.no/

Scientology does of course recruit. I've been to one of those interviews myself, during which I noticed there was only one author in the entire library we were sitting. Sneaky bastards.

Ad 10. This is NOT babbling. It is a known fact that L. R. Hubbard was a big fan of the navy, and that his portrait is often in a navy suit. His Sea Org is a military operation, please see: http://www.xenu.net/archive/so/

Whereas Catholicism has its own power structure it was never meant to be democratic. The pope was / is (?) a tyrant and his position grew out from the Roman empire. They've had some 1500 years to develop their own structures, and they have been denied military power for a long while. Scientology's structure was made up by Hubbard in a few years and it has its own special unites for dealing with Suppressive Persons (Sea Org), dealing with media, harassing critics aso.

I think, however, we must remember to distinguish between core philosophy and moderate interpretations. The old testament isn't exactly child-friendly, nor is the Bible or the Qu'uran, but modern Jews, Christians and Muslims are in the majority moderate and not pressured into a single form of worship or a single interpretation of their respective religions. If you don't like the local preacher, you can move or leave the group. Scientology is different. It is a cult.

See the senior thesis of Laura Kay Fuller Scientology & Totalitarianism @ http://www.xenu.net/archive/thesis/index.html

(Nitpicking, there are people who continue "Dianetic practice" after leaving the Church. They call it "the tech", or technology, and as such they should look into empiricism and inter-subjective accessible research. No publication in "Dianetic research" is peer reviewed. There is a reason why ex-cult members may need years of de-programming.)

Yes, the Pope has some interesting concepts about the world, such as denying the use of condoms to fight the spread of HIV/Aids. Different to what would be the case in a cult, Catholics can openly disagree and argue that the Bible is misinterpreted on some grounds (most of the Bible is conflicting to say the least). There is only one interpretation in a cult, and that is the interpretation of the cult leader.

I can understand why some people (anti-theists) would just chuck all religions in the same Crazy category, but then you are not being analytic. Yes, Creationists are funny but they don't employ slave labour to punish those who question their beliefs. The FBI has investigated the use of slave labour in Scientology compounds on more than one occasion (http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/02/07/scientology-investigated-slave-labor/), which is also a topic of the featured book I believe (have not read it yet). Also read about "The Hole"; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hole_(Scientology)

The difference lies between Crazy and Evil. Scientology is terrible. All the testimony I've read from ex-members reveals normal good-hearted people wanting to mak

Especially one of these:

http://rainbowboys.blogspot.no/2009/02/tank-silencer.html

They did use green - they had trees and stuff.

Not that the color really mattered to a kid. With regular bricks, you could make a delta wing fighter plane from the jumbo-jet wing sections. A missile defence system could be built from those 4x4 rotating turntables and a hinge joint. Use a couple of 8x1's or 8x2's for the missile and the sloping 2x1's for the missile wings.

As far as building tanks with Lego Technical kits, you could get the Technical Lego 856 Bulldozer. Strip the model down to a couple of long bars, axles, gears and the caterpillar treads, then add a couple of electric motors to drive each tread separately. Then with couple of battery packs, the whole tank could go at least 2 metres/second on carpet.

MS: MyComp~1\docume~1\games

Seriously? That's an argument? I mean, seriously? Haven't seen that since the 1990s. Are you complaining about the MS-DOS compatibility of the file names? What would have happened if MS had made backwards compatibility impossible? Seriously? Are you complaining about the disk annotation? You do know that that is optional right?

Unix: hda... Apple: hda..... MS: C:

All of the mentioned items, Unix, Linux and Apple, are Unix variations. Are you complaining that Windows is not Unix? Are you trying to look serious when doing so? I mean, seriously?

That IE pre IE9 was junk will get no counter-arguments from me. It was. I have never argued it was not.

Everyone: Javascript. MS: jscript

BZZZT! Wrong. Everyone Javascript. MS: three different ones, including JavaScript. As of IE10, IE is also very standards compliant at the JavaScript end. Again, I have never argued that MS is best, does best, is the greatest. I use Chrome personally almost exclusively, but MS is in fact doing many right things at the moment.

W7 notebook's docs say you have to have W7pro on the network to be able to network

No, it doesn't. Really, it doesn't. Please read it again.

What other OSes are you running

This is a short list of current and previous operating systems I have used.

Current: Windows 7, Windows 8, I have Ubuntu 11 for all my JBoss development at work (since we deploy on Ubuntu, it's easier to use Ubuntu as the dev platform). I use Open Suse 12 at home for my Ruby development but Windows 7 for other app dev. I have Android on my Samsung Galaxy III and Windows Phone 7 on my LG Windows Phone.

My favorite OS in many was was VAX VMS since it had ACLs and file versioning (yep, full versioning. You could go back to any version of your file by just specifying the version number when opening it) built into the operating system while Unix heads were still arguing that a stream of bytes is always best (it isn't, it was a good idea with the hardware at the time, but it has damaged good file systems for decades since) and rwx------ was plenty secure and flexible (it isn't). I ran DOS from the 2.x days, I replaced it on my AT box with Minix first and later version 0.97 of Linux and then there was Slackware - oh heaven. I was a huge fan of OS/2 particularly OS/Warp which kicked everybody's ass at the time, and had some innovations that neither Linux nor Windows ever will have. An OO desktop for example and a fantastic programming model, even better than the NeXT model. Oh, yeah, and I had a NeXT Cube on my desk at Uni, it looked awesome but was basically (in the end) useless.

Most of this I did while you were still having your butt wiped by your mother.

Microsoft does have limited resources, spreading them shot-gun style is interesting for their employees but doesn't fix their fundamental issue

Seriously? That is your argument? Do you really think that developing TypeScript in the programming language division of Microsoft, a division that has nothing whatsoever to do with the browser division, slows down the browser guys? Really? Do you think, for example, it would help the browser guys if Anders, who was one of a handful of developers on TypeScript, moved to the browser division? Why would you think that? Ignoring the fact that Anders would leave on the spot, what do you think he could have done to improve the quality of IE10? Oh, and BTW, IE10 is released to MSDN subscribers now (has been for a while) and will be released to the rest of the world in about three weeks.

http://kristopolous.blogspot.no/2011/11/acid3-of-js-has-few-surprises.html

Obviously Microsoft is working very hard to become compliant. What exactly is it that you are complaining about?

Bogus backdoor: http://erratasec.blogspot.no/2012/05/bogus-story-no-chinese-backdoor-in.html