I think the reason he doesn't just say "I want this" and have it be done is not because he can't, but because he realizes that he has advisors to figure out if it is a good idea. It could be that all of the issues could be handled, but that doing so would cost a lot of tax payer dollars.
Do you really think that no one on Obama's team can figure out whether or not there are issues with him having a PDA. This article seems to indicate that they know something the rest of Obama's team and he himself don't know.... But they obviously have no idea what the issues with the presidential records act are, let alone the ridiculousity of chiseling a security argumenet down to a self destruct feature. I hope everyone on/. already knows there is more to security than whether or not the device can be erased after someone realizes it is lost (potentially well after it has fall into nefarious hands).
If you were in the line of work where they ask you to do math during a job interview, I highly doubt they would care if you pulled a calculator out of your pocket. What kind of lame job requires you to answer math questions during the interview anyways?
And when it comes to improved architectures, what quite possibly the #1 thing that has been done over the years to improve performance? Increase parallelism. Pipelining, superscalar architectures, multi-threaded single cores, VLIW, etc.
All of those things you said are transparent to the programmer. Except for multi-threaded single cores (which is just a separate issue engine for the same underlying execute engines, so its like a dual front end for the same back end, a sort of precursor to multi-cores) ; and VLIW, which any decent compiler can take advantage of without the programmer caring.
Multicore, on the other hand, requires you to get rather fancy with synchronization in imperative languages or, as the article suggests, moving to a completely different paradigm.
Sounds like Alzheimer's is going to become the "new cancer" where everything causes Alzheimer's. Can we just fastforward to the part where they admit they don't have a clue what causes it, please?
Gen Y here, I think if you can't buy it new at all, then there is no reason not to read a "questionable" e-version. If you can buy it, even if you can't buy an e-version, then I say you should pay for a legit copy, but then you can read the e-version.
From wikipedia: "Entrapment is the act of a law enforcement agent in inducing a person to commit an offence which the person would not have, or was unlikely to have, otherwise committed."
This is not a case of entrapment because the person was not induced to commit an offense. He was induced to come to the country after the offense was committed.
A good example of entrapment would be if the FBI tricked him in to coming in the country and then arrested him for coming in to the country illegally (invalid visa or some such).
From The U.S. Constitution, Article III, Section 2 (emphasis added):
In all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, and those in which a State shall be Party, the supreme Court shall have original Jurisdiction. In all the other Cases before mentioned, the supreme Court shall have appellate Jurisdiction, both as to Law and Fact, with such Exceptions, and under such Regulations as the Congress shall make.
Sadly, it doesn't look too far off. I don't know who is watching it, but whoever they are, I feel simultaneously sorry for them and enraged at them inflicting more Fringe upon the world.
If McCain is elected, expect the criminalization of file downloading and harsh penalties applied against only the people who actively oppose government policies. This is the American way of doing things and there are many historical precedents for using harsh laws against harmless activities in this manner.
Wow what a wild assertion. Got anything to back that up? FUD much?
Everything you said is true, and I believe it is correct. But I think in a language where variables (as you said, not to be confused with values) have no types it would be nigh impossible to code bug-free situations dealing with user input. All user input is strings, and there are no types on variables, so you have to remember to do explicit conversions and the parser/compiler doesn't provide any warnings when you fail to do so.
[blockquote]I'm no where NEAR 250K in income but even I can understand why I can pay proportionally more than someone making 1/2 my salary.[/blockquote]
It may not be your intention, but it sounds to me like you're advocating a flat tax. That's when everyone pays a percent (lets go with 10% for example's sake). So if you make $250K per year you'd pay $25K in taxes. Those poor people who only make $25K per year would only pay $2.5K taxes.
That's what you meant by proportional, right? Or did you mean that those making $25K per year should pay 0, while those making $100K per year pay $10K and those making $250K per year pay $75K? Because that's how the currect fucked up system works.
Weakly typed means variables have no type to speak or, or they are every type.
In PHP "5" and 5 are the same thing, there is no difference between them as far as the language is concerned. It is a string and an int, that's the very nature of a weakly typed language. That is what makes them "easy" all conversions are automagic.
That means in PHP you can do "5" + 5 and the answer should be "10" and 10. It is impossible to know when I give you "5" + 5 + "5" in PHP whether I meant concat or add or some combination.
Maybe I'm in the minority, but there is no way that tax breaks for me are going to translate into expecting smaller/less raises from my employer. And I think the same goes for most people.
Since PHP is a weakly typed language, using + for string concatenation would introduce a number of problems. + is used numeric addition, and thus automatically converts the operands to numbers before adding them.
So using + for string concat too would be basically impossible... When would you decide to concat the operands, and when would they be added? If you base it on the results of the string to number conversion, you get situations where the same line of code sometimes adds numbers and other times concatenates strings, or where it is impossible to concat two strings which contain only digits.
Hardly deadlier. That article is comparing the deaths of (mostly) unarmed civilians with the deaths of armed troops. If anything, that could be used to highlight the potential of widely adopted gun ownership to save lives because criminals are deterred by the possibility of getting shot.
Change has had a major spotlight in this campaign, and I think it is obvious everyone in the country is hungry for "change" in politics. What, specifically, will you do to bring noticeable, positive change to the office of the President of the United States of America?
A bit off topic, but I have a friend who is a pharmacist. The hours are decent, the money is good, but the employers all suck. Chances are you will be working for a chain store... they can only afford to pay 2-3 pharmacists so you get minimal vacation and have to plan it 6+ months in advance.
So I guess, the grass is always greener, as they say.
I didn't suggest doing it until they are 18. I think you should be watching their profiles until they are 18, that's stuff they are putting out there for their friends to see and you should be seeing it too (pictures, mostly).
I personally won't be logging my kid's every packet once they turn about 10-13. Until they are that age, there is nothing they should be doing that I shouldn't be able to see. It's for their protection. Once they are old enough they will get just a standard porn filter type thing and I'll stop reading their conversations.
I see no problem with reading the chat logs of an 11 year old, especially not if they know they might be being watched.
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I think the reason he doesn't just say "I want this" and have it be done is not because he can't, but because he realizes that he has advisors to figure out if it is a good idea. It could be that all of the issues could be handled, but that doing so would cost a lot of tax payer dollars.
Do you really think that no one on Obama's team can figure out whether or not there are issues with him having a PDA. This article seems to indicate that they know something the rest of Obama's team and he himself don't know.... But they obviously have no idea what the issues with the presidential records act are, let alone the ridiculousity of chiseling a security argumenet down to a self destruct feature. I hope everyone on /. already knows there is more to security than whether or not the device can be erased after someone realizes it is lost (potentially well after it has fall into nefarious hands).
He also misquoted it. In the middle of that he also says "God creates man". At least get the quote right... ugh.
If you were in the line of work where they ask you to do math during a job interview, I highly doubt they would care if you pulled a calculator out of your pocket. What kind of lame job requires you to answer math questions during the interview anyways?
All of those things you said are transparent to the programmer. Except for multi-threaded single cores (which is just a separate issue engine for the same underlying execute engines, so its like a dual front end for the same back end, a sort of precursor to multi-cores) ; and VLIW, which any decent compiler can take advantage of without the programmer caring.
Multicore, on the other hand, requires you to get rather fancy with synchronization in imperative languages or, as the article suggests, moving to a completely different paradigm.
Sounds like Alzheimer's is going to become the "new cancer" where everything causes Alzheimer's. Can we just fastforward to the part where they admit they don't have a clue what causes it, please?
Gen Y here, I think if you can't buy it new at all, then there is no reason not to read a "questionable" e-version. If you can buy it, even if you can't buy an e-version, then I say you should pay for a legit copy, but then you can read the e-version.
Dude that's awesome, thanks for the recommendation.
From wikipedia: "Entrapment is the act of a law enforcement agent in inducing a person to commit an offence which the person would not have, or was unlikely to have, otherwise committed."
This is not a case of entrapment because the person was not induced to commit an offense. He was induced to come to the country after the offense was committed.
A good example of entrapment would be if the FBI tricked him in to coming in the country and then arrested him for coming in to the country illegally (invalid visa or some such).
Sadly, it doesn't look too far off. I don't know who is watching it, but whoever they are, I feel simultaneously sorry for them and enraged at them inflicting more Fringe upon the world.
Wow what a wild assertion. Got anything to back that up? FUD much?
Everything you said is true, and I believe it is correct. But I think in a language where variables (as you said, not to be confused with values) have no types it would be nigh impossible to code bug-free situations dealing with user input. All user input is strings, and there are no types on variables, so you have to remember to do explicit conversions and the parser/compiler doesn't provide any warnings when you fail to do so.
[blockquote]I'm no where NEAR 250K in income but even I can understand why I can pay proportionally more than someone making 1/2 my salary.[/blockquote] It may not be your intention, but it sounds to me like you're advocating a flat tax. That's when everyone pays a percent (lets go with 10% for example's sake). So if you make $250K per year you'd pay $25K in taxes. Those poor people who only make $25K per year would only pay $2.5K taxes.
That's what you meant by proportional, right? Or did you mean that those making $25K per year should pay 0, while those making $100K per year pay $10K and those making $250K per year pay $75K? Because that's how the currect fucked up system works.
Weakly typed means variables have no type to speak or, or they are every type.
In PHP "5" and 5 are the same thing, there is no difference between them as far as the language is concerned. It is a string and an int, that's the very nature of a weakly typed language. That is what makes them "easy" all conversions are automagic.
That means in PHP you can do "5" + 5 and the answer should be "10" and 10. It is impossible to know when I give you "5" + 5 + "5" in PHP whether I meant concat or add or some combination.
Maybe I'm in the minority, but there is no way that tax breaks for me are going to translate into expecting smaller/less raises from my employer. And I think the same goes for most people.
Since PHP is a weakly typed language, using + for string concatenation would introduce a number of problems. + is used numeric addition, and thus automatically converts the operands to numbers before adding them.
So using + for string concat too would be basically impossible... When would you decide to concat the operands, and when would they be added? If you base it on the results of the string to number conversion, you get situations where the same line of code sometimes adds numbers and other times concatenates strings, or where it is impossible to concat two strings which contain only digits.
They don't call it a Diffie-Merkle-Hellman exchange, who the hell is this Merkle guy?
Most feature hardware DEcoding (such as those you linked to). Few feature hardware ENcoding, as TFA does.
Hardly deadlier. That article is comparing the deaths of (mostly) unarmed civilians with the deaths of armed troops. If anything, that could be used to highlight the potential of widely adopted gun ownership to save lives because criminals are deterred by the possibility of getting shot.
Change has had a major spotlight in this campaign, and I think it is obvious everyone in the country is hungry for "change" in politics. What, specifically, will you do to bring noticeable, positive change to the office of the President of the United States of America?
A bit off topic, but I have a friend who is a pharmacist. The hours are decent, the money is good, but the employers all suck. Chances are you will be working for a chain store... they can only afford to pay 2-3 pharmacists so you get minimal vacation and have to plan it 6+ months in advance.
So I guess, the grass is always greener, as they say.
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You put a whole lot of numbers in there, I'm betting there's a 77% chance you pulled at least 42% of them right out of your ass.
Every optical-scan voting system should use scantegrity.
I didn't suggest doing it until they are 18. I think you should be watching their profiles until they are 18, that's stuff they are putting out there for their friends to see and you should be seeing it too (pictures, mostly).
I personally won't be logging my kid's every packet once they turn about 10-13. Until they are that age, there is nothing they should be doing that I shouldn't be able to see. It's for their protection. Once they are old enough they will get just a standard porn filter type thing and I'll stop reading their conversations.
I see no problem with reading the chat logs of an 11 year old, especially not if they know they might be being watched.