Do you deny that there are people who can't take care of themselves, through no fault of their own? If so, then you are delusional. If not, then you are an asshole.
The box was placed by the police department. See this follow up article (Google Translate), in which the police department (it doesn't specify which one, but probably that of The Hague) states that the box is theirs and it was being used in a large financial crime investigation. Nothing to do with investigating the recruitment of youths to come fight in Syria, as had been speculated. They say they had permission from the public prosecutor to use it.
I'm just going to state the obivous: NEVER, EVER, BUY ANYTHING ENCUMBERED WITH DRM! Or at least not without knowing you can remove it. This is what I do. I buy digital content all the time, but music only in the form of MP3's or otherwise unencrypted formats, and ebooks only in MOBI or ePub formats, from which the DRM is easily removed.
I don't buy movies online, since they aren't sold without DRM yet, and it can't be reliably removed yet. I buy them on physical discs, which may have DRM, but which I can at least pass on to anyone I want.
What is BBM? It would have been nice to define that in the summary, instead of assuming that every Slashdot reader is an experienced Blackberry user...
This is just a dumb publicitiy stunt. I hope nobody will be stupid enough to fall for it and take him on.
You can't prove a negative.
It's very unlikely that any judge would be completely impartial, and no way to make sure.
There is no hard evidence, no way to test theories, no way to ground the whole discussion in reality whatsoever. It would essentially be bar talk.
Win or lose, the outcome will be completely meaningless. I'm sure this person would spin a win for him as proof that Genesis is true, but of course it wouldn't be. Most likely it just means that his opponent happened to be a less skilled debater. The same would be true of a loss, of course.
Java is also from Oracle, and runs really well on SPARC, and Java is still hugely popular for writing enterprise applications, so there may be some potential there for them. Oracle Database obviously runs on SPARC as well, so it makes a pretty good platform for large enterprise applications.
Other tests have already shown that Americans rate atheists lower than muslims, so I would expect it to have a lesser effect. There is a strange and hypocritical effect where religious people think less badly of people of other religions, even if those religions completely contradict their own, than they do of people with no religion at all...
I considered crime as a career option when I was young, and decided that it was for losers. Concealing repeated crime would require so much hard work and attention to detail, that anyone qualified to do it is also qualified for a rather high-paying job.
So in other words your decision had nothing to do with crime being, you know, wrong? You're really a criminal at heart who just opts not to actually do any crime for practical reasons? That doesn't exactly speak highly to your moral character...
In reality, they're immature and have no self esteem so they can never resist bragging online about their exploits. That's actually usually half the reason they did it.
This is only partially true. You are describing script kiddies. But there is another, much scarier kind of black hat hacker. Ruthless criminals with much deeper knowledge, who do it for the money and know how to hide and protect themselves effectively. They don't brag or show off and are much less likely to get caught due to doing something stupid.
Creative Commons licenses are not meant for software. They are meant for, and work much better with, artistic expressions such as music, stories, paintings, movies, etc.. The terms are a bad match for software and it will cause no end of problems.
And I wonder why TFA calls the british jet Typhoon, because here, most people refer to it as Eurofighter.
Because it's called the Typhoon. Eurofighter is the consortium that builds it, which could conceivably build other ones. I've heard it called Eurofighter, Typhoon and Eurofighter Typhoon regularly here in Europe.
Oh great, another "war on ". Terrorism and drugs don't scare people any more so American politicians need a new "war" to use as a front for trampling human rights all over the globe and enriching their military-industrial backers...
Who the hell modded this "Troll"? Seems to me you could only think this was a troll if you're too monumentally stupid to understand what I was saying. Or too dumb to know what "troll" means...
Strictly speaking you're right, but as it is not a scientific article I think you're allowed a little leeway in deciding what the actual precision probably was. After all there is no way to tell whether 1000 really means 1x10^3, 10x10^2, 100x10^1 or precisely 1000.
I love it when when, when converting US customary units to SI units, the precision of numbers suddenly increases by orders of magnitude. 1000 miles is obviously an approximation. Let's be charitable and say it means 10x10^2. If you convert it to kilometers the precision should stay the same. 10x10^2 miles is about 16x10^2 or 1600 km.
Before reading the article, my prediction would be that there is little difference, but that Java edges slightly ahead. They are extremely similar languages, used for very similar purposes, both compiled to "interpreted" bytecode, and there are only so many ways you can optimise compiling and executing bytecode which surely by now are in use by both camps. But Java is older and has had more time to be optimised, and there is more competition between different VM's, which is why I would expect slightly higher performance from it. Let's see if I'm right...
Maybe we should kill a few, then they wouldn't think they are so immune.
Careful. You used to be free to make jokes like that. Now you're likely to be thrown in Guantanamo Bay (either literally, figuratively or metaphorically). If you happen to be out of the country they might decide to skip the preliminaries and just kill you.
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Sometimes somebody really isn't a Scotsman though...
Do you deny that there are people who can't take care of themselves, through no fault of their own? If so, then you are delusional. If not, then you are an asshole.
The box was placed by the police department. See this follow up article (Google Translate), in which the police department (it doesn't specify which one, but probably that of The Hague) states that the box is theirs and it was being used in a large financial crime investigation. Nothing to do with investigating the recruitment of youths to come fight in Syria, as had been speculated. They say they had permission from the public prosecutor to use it.
I'm just going to state the obivous: NEVER, EVER, BUY ANYTHING ENCUMBERED WITH DRM! Or at least not without knowing you can remove it. This is what I do. I buy digital content all the time, but music only in the form of MP3's or otherwise unencrypted formats, and ebooks only in MOBI or ePub formats, from which the DRM is easily removed.
I don't buy movies online, since they aren't sold without DRM yet, and it can't be reliably removed yet. I buy them on physical discs, which may have DRM, but which I can at least pass on to anyone I want.
What is BBM? It would have been nice to define that in the summary, instead of assuming that every Slashdot reader is an experienced Blackberry user...
"Public websites are public! News at 11!"
This is just a dumb publicitiy stunt. I hope nobody will be stupid enough to fall for it and take him on.
It's bullshit. Again, I hope nobody falls for it.
Java is also from Oracle, and runs really well on SPARC, and Java is still hugely popular for writing enterprise applications, so there may be some potential there for them. Oracle Database obviously runs on SPARC as well, so it makes a pretty good platform for large enterprise applications.
Other tests have already shown that Americans rate atheists lower than muslims, so I would expect it to have a lesser effect. There is a strange and hypocritical effect where religious people think less badly of people of other religions, even if those religions completely contradict their own, than they do of people with no religion at all...
It's wrong to pay your taxes ...
Thanks for demonstrating my point!
I considered crime as a career option when I was young, and decided that it was for losers. Concealing repeated crime would require so much hard work and attention to detail, that anyone qualified to do it is also qualified for a rather high-paying job.
So in other words your decision had nothing to do with crime being, you know, wrong? You're really a criminal at heart who just opts not to actually do any crime for practical reasons? That doesn't exactly speak highly to your moral character...
In reality, they're immature and have no self esteem so they can never resist bragging online about their exploits. That's actually usually half the reason they did it.
This is only partially true. You are describing script kiddies. But there is another, much scarier kind of black hat hacker. Ruthless criminals with much deeper knowledge, who do it for the money and know how to hide and protect themselves effectively. They don't brag or show off and are much less likely to get caught due to doing something stupid.
Creative Commons licenses are not meant for software. They are meant for, and work much better with, artistic expressions such as music, stories, paintings, movies, etc.. The terms are a bad match for software and it will cause no end of problems.
Thanks for explaining that, grandpa...
OK, so their plan is to replace the OS with a really inefficient OS? What could possibly go wrong?!
This was news to anybody? "Shaking the foundations of psychology and economics"? I highly doubt it.
And I wonder why TFA calls the british jet Typhoon, because here, most people refer to it as Eurofighter.
Because it's called the Typhoon. Eurofighter is the consortium that builds it, which could conceivably build other ones. I've heard it called Eurofighter, Typhoon and Eurofighter Typhoon regularly here in Europe.
This is true. It's also possible they meant an actual valve, for bleeding off overpressure in the battery, or something like that.
Oh great, another "war on ". Terrorism and drugs don't scare people any more so American politicians need a new "war" to use as a front for trampling human rights all over the globe and enriching their military-industrial backers...
Who the hell modded this "Troll"? Seems to me you could only think this was a troll if you're too monumentally stupid to understand what I was saying. Or too dumb to know what "troll" means...
Strictly speaking you're right, but as it is not a scientific article I think you're allowed a little leeway in deciding what the actual precision probably was. After all there is no way to tell whether 1000 really means 1x10^3, 10x10^2, 100x10^1 or precisely 1000.
I knew I had to put another when in there, but this is ridiculous...
I love it when when, when converting US customary units to SI units, the precision of numbers suddenly increases by orders of magnitude. 1000 miles is obviously an approximation. Let's be charitable and say it means 10x10^2. If you convert it to kilometers the precision should stay the same. 10x10^2 miles is about 16x10^2 or 1600 km.
Before reading the article, my prediction would be that there is little difference, but that Java edges slightly ahead. They are extremely similar languages, used for very similar purposes, both compiled to "interpreted" bytecode, and there are only so many ways you can optimise compiling and executing bytecode which surely by now are in use by both camps. But Java is older and has had more time to be optimised, and there is more competition between different VM's, which is why I would expect slightly higher performance from it. Let's see if I'm right...
Maybe we should kill a few, then they wouldn't think they are so immune.
Careful. You used to be free to make jokes like that. Now you're likely to be thrown in Guantanamo Bay (either literally, figuratively or metaphorically). If you happen to be out of the country they might decide to skip the preliminaries and just kill you.