Two MEPs, Christian Engström from the Swedish Pirate Party and Marietje Schaake from Dutch liberal party D66, have submitted a formal question to the European Commission (the EU government). The commission is obliged to reply within a couple of weeks, though there will probably be no real answer.
Doing things and eating well are comparatively expensive.
No and no.
If by "doing things" you mean exercise, it costs absolutely nothing except maybe an extra shower now and then and a little bit more wear on clothes and shoes. You don't need to buy anything other than what you already have. Sure, you can get running shoes for $500, a bike for $2000 or a home gym for $5000, but you don't need any of that. Just do some pushups in the morning. Go for a walk. Play some basketball.
Healthy food is not expensive, especially not compared to unhealthy food. Vegetables cost much less than meat. Potatoes, rice, beans, lentils etc cost almost nothing. Besides, what you eat is much less important than how much. If someone is eating 3 big macs a day and gets fat, he could have 2 instead, and go for that walk, and he'd be fine.
Yes, many people would reap many health benefits from losing weight, but almost as many underweight people would reap similar benefits from gaining weight.
Are you saying that there are almost as many unhealthily underweight individuals as unhealthily overweight ones? Are you talking about Arizona, USA, the developed world or the whole planet? Because for any of those options, except possibly the last one, I find that extremely hard to believe.
Are you saying that there are large and medium-sized cities in the US that don't actually have any fibre connections? Or is there something special about Google's fibres?
Nokia should just get out of the "smart" phones altogether and focus on what they've always done best - cheap, sturdy, basic phones that can make calls and send text messages and have weeks of battery life.No need to find special chargers when I go to a country with strange power outlets for a week. If I drop it in a lake, I'll get a new one for 20€. I know that I'm probably in the minority, but that's the sort of phone that I want, and I'm sure that there are enough of us to sustain Nokia if they stop wasting money on developing these expensive almost-a-real-computer devices.
By flexible arrays, do you mean the variable-length arrays from C99?
There is really no reason to use arrays in C++. For resizable containers you have std::vector, for fixed-size ones there is now std::array. Access times and cache properties are identical, since both of them are specified to store the data as a contiguous array internally. They don't have the stupid special problems that raw arrays do (can't be copied or assigned to directly, quietly decay to pointers when used as function arguments) but you can get raw arrays from either of them for when you need to interface with C APIs.
Designated initialisers would have been nice. I miss concepts more though, but variadic templates more than make up for that.
If that's an issue it's an issue with the specification, not the implementation. std::list is specified to have bidirectional iterators, and you can't get those without backward links.
The gas-driven cars are doing far more damage to everyone else than the rest of them. An increased tax on gas (which is still ridiculously cheap in the US) encourages people to get smaller and more efficient cars and doesn't require any new mandatory monitoring or any new infrastructure at all. Just bump the tax percentage a bit, and you're done.
The main problem here isn't that people aren't deleting their data, it's that phones don't come with block-level or at least filesystem-level encryption for all data by default. If you're marketing something to everyone, including the idiots, you should make it idiot-proof.
That's exactly what smart pointers like tr1::shared_ptr or auto_ptr is for (and unique_ptr in the upcoming standard). Initialise the auto_ptr with your allocated data, pass it to the worker thread. When the worker thread lets the auto_ptr copy go out of scope the memory will be deallocated. If you need reference counting, use tr1::shared_ptr instead. It will be moved out of the tr1 namespace in C++0x.
You are like a blind guy asking "when was the last time you really used your eyes for anything but reading" because you have never heard of art, when you presume destructors are "really just for freeing memory" you demonstrate a horrific limitation in your understating of object, functional, and event driven programming.. Just because you don't understand the non-beginner ways to use a construct doesn't mean the construct is only used the way a beginner would use it.
Also, freeing memory manually in C++ is almost always the wrong way of doing things. There are plenty of adaptable containers in the standard library, and when you want to write you own and actually do need to keep track of memory directly there are smart pointers that deallocate whatever object or array they're pointing to when they go out of scope. Raw pointers and manual deallocation are only needed in very special cases, like when you're writing lock-free data structures or have to deal with C APIs.
C++ really isn't about manual memory management, it's about scope-based memory management. You don't have to free things manually, and yet you can be completely certain of when a certain chunk of memory is deallocated.
Unless you are working a lot with audio, video, or hi-res scientific measurements, or you actually pay for the amount of traffic you use instead of flatrate, online backup combined with local backup is the safest.
I recommend Duplicity. It is free software, it's reliable, it encrypts everything by default, it supports a number of communication protocols. It's of course incremental, so even if it will take a long time for the first transfer, later synchronisations should be snappier. Put a cheap file server in a friends house, pay for space in some web hotel, or use one of those fancy storage systems at Tahoe or Amazon.
I'm sorry, Sweden isn't nearly as retarded as you seem to think it is. I highly doubt anyone would take it as a direct attack on the Pirate Party with the exception of those too ignorant to matter anyway.
You have obviously never been to Sweden. I live here.
Yes, The Pirate Bay was up and running again three days after that raid, and still is, and probably will be for the forseeable future. But the prosecutor _did_ raid their web hosting company, take their computers and dozens of other ones that just happened to be in the same room, and kept them for years, long after the time it could have taken the police to mirror the data. That's what I meant.
TPB had the resources and contacts to enable them to just copy their backups to other computers around the world and get the site running again, and I'm sure that WikiLeaks too have lots of hidden backup servers and hidden backup people to run them. Probably lots more than TPB. That doesn't mean that their enemies in e.g. the Pentagon will not try to close them down, one by one.
No. Not more so than any other organisation.
And any legal attack would have to go through the Swedish legal system. There is no "international law", there are just treaties that countries implement in their own legislation.
While it's a nice publicity stunt for the Pirate Party (with the
Swedish elections coming up in little more than a month), WikiLeaks
may also gain from it. Swedish politicians may well be pressured by
the US government, or by others depending on what WikiLeaks publishes
in the future, to close down those servers like they did with The
Pirate Bay. But now that they are hosted by the Pirate Party that
would be seen as a direct attack on a political opponent, with the
obvious effects on public opinion. That will likely make them think
twice before ordering a shutdown, which probably wasn't the case with
The Pirate Bay.
And yes, government representatives giving direct orders to police and
prosecutors is illegal in Sweden. But in practice it happens all the
time due to widespread patronage and cronyism and few legal checks
against it.
With infinite programming capabilities for encryption of recordings, offsite backups, and other sexy things you can think of. Hook it up to a small sensor that triggers the recording whenever a door opens and it can get really interesting. Computer, webcam, sensor, all fitting in your jacket pocket to install at home when you go on vacation, in the hotel room when you leave for a day trip, at the office when you leave for the weekend etc.
One thing that is at least as important for free software systems as speed increases is class compliance.
Take audio and MIDI devices for example. Almost all USB 1.0 audio and MIDI devices are class compliant, and thus work reasonably well with the standard kernel module snd-usb-audio. But with USB 2.0 that changed for some reason - now many more devices require special drivers that often do not exist for Linux. It would be nice if Intel and friends could somehow push for more class compliant USB devices.
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No, the tidal effects exist for any observer.
As long as they keep extending it, I'll keep ignoring it. I think that's fair.
Two MEPs, Christian Engström from the Swedish Pirate Party and Marietje Schaake from Dutch liberal party D66, have submitted a formal question to the European Commission (the EU government). The commission is obliged to reply within a couple of weeks, though there will probably be no real answer.
Doing things and eating well are comparatively expensive.
No and no.
If by "doing things" you mean exercise, it costs absolutely nothing except maybe an extra shower now and then and a little bit more wear on clothes and shoes. You don't need to buy anything other than what you already have. Sure, you can get running shoes for $500, a bike for $2000 or a home gym for $5000, but you don't need any of that. Just do some pushups in the morning. Go for a walk. Play some basketball.
Healthy food is not expensive, especially not compared to unhealthy food. Vegetables cost much less than meat. Potatoes, rice, beans, lentils etc cost almost nothing. Besides, what you eat is much less important than how much. If someone is eating 3 big macs a day and gets fat, he could have 2 instead, and go for that walk, and he'd be fine.
Yes, many people would reap many health benefits from losing weight, but almost as many underweight people would reap similar benefits from gaining weight.
Are you saying that there are almost as many unhealthily underweight individuals as unhealthily overweight ones? Are you talking about Arizona, USA, the developed world or the whole planet? Because for any of those options, except possibly the last one, I find that extremely hard to believe.
I'm not in the US.
Are you saying that there are large and medium-sized cities in the US that don't actually have any fibre connections? Or is there something special about Google's fibres?
Nokia should just get out of the "smart" phones altogether and focus on what they've always done best - cheap, sturdy, basic phones that can make calls and send text messages and have weeks of battery life.No need to find special chargers when I go to a country with strange power outlets for a week. If I drop it in a lake, I'll get a new one for 20€. I know that I'm probably in the minority, but that's the sort of phone that I want, and I'm sure that there are enough of us to sustain Nokia if they stop wasting money on developing these expensive almost-a-real-computer devices.
By flexible arrays, do you mean the variable-length arrays from C99? There is really no reason to use arrays in C++. For resizable containers you have std::vector, for fixed-size ones there is now std::array. Access times and cache properties are identical, since both of them are specified to store the data as a contiguous array internally. They don't have the stupid special problems that raw arrays do (can't be copied or assigned to directly, quietly decay to pointers when used as function arguments) but you can get raw arrays from either of them for when you need to interface with C APIs. Designated initialisers would have been nice. I miss concepts more though, but variadic templates more than make up for that.
If that's an issue it's an issue with the specification, not the implementation. std::list is specified to have bidirectional iterators, and you can't get those without backward links.
The gas-driven cars are doing far more damage to everyone else than the rest of them. An increased tax on gas (which is still ridiculously cheap in the US) encourages people to get smaller and more efficient cars and doesn't require any new mandatory monitoring or any new infrastructure at all. Just bump the tax percentage a bit, and you're done.
The main problem here isn't that people aren't deleting their data, it's that phones don't come with block-level or at least filesystem-level encryption for all data by default. If you're marketing something to everyone, including the idiots, you should make it idiot-proof.
That's exactly what smart pointers like tr1::shared_ptr or auto_ptr is for (and unique_ptr in the upcoming standard). Initialise the auto_ptr with your allocated data, pass it to the worker thread. When the worker thread lets the auto_ptr copy go out of scope the memory will be deallocated. If you need reference counting, use tr1::shared_ptr instead. It will be moved out of the tr1 namespace in C++0x.
Also, freeing memory manually in C++ is almost always the wrong way of doing things. There are plenty of adaptable containers in the standard library, and when you want to write you own and actually do need to keep track of memory directly there are smart pointers that deallocate whatever object or array they're pointing to when they go out of scope. Raw pointers and manual deallocation are only needed in very special cases, like when you're writing lock-free data structures or have to deal with C APIs.
C++ really isn't about manual memory management, it's about scope-based memory management. You don't have to free things manually, and yet you can be completely certain of when a certain chunk of memory is deallocated.
Just send a FOIA request to NSA or DHS, I'm sure they will keep a backup of all photos, tags, friend relations and pretty much everything else.
You seem to have trouble understanding the word "expect".
Unless you are working a lot with audio, video, or hi-res scientific measurements, or you actually pay for the amount of traffic you use instead of flatrate, online backup combined with local backup is the safest.
I recommend Duplicity. It is free software, it's reliable, it encrypts everything by default, it supports a number of communication protocols. It's of course incremental, so even if it will take a long time for the first transfer, later synchronisations should be snappier. Put a cheap file server in a friends house, pay for space in some web hotel, or use one of those fancy storage systems at Tahoe or Amazon.
Of course they do. Because they can.
With closed software you're stuck with what you have. With free software you can tweak it to infinity and beyond.
"Don't be evil."
I'm sorry, Sweden isn't nearly as retarded as you seem to think it is. I highly doubt anyone would take it as a direct attack on the Pirate Party with the exception of those too ignorant to matter anyway.
You have obviously never been to Sweden. I live here.
Yes, The Pirate Bay was up and running again three days after that raid, and still is, and probably will be for the forseeable future. But the prosecutor _did_ raid their web hosting company, take their computers and dozens of other ones that just happened to be in the same room, and kept them for years, long after the time it could have taken the police to mirror the data. That's what I meant.
TPB had the resources and contacts to enable them to just copy their backups to other computers around the world and get the site running again, and I'm sure that WikiLeaks too have lots of hidden backup servers and hidden backup people to run them. Probably lots more than TPB. That doesn't mean that their enemies in e.g. the Pentagon will not try to close them down, one by one.
No. Not more so than any other organisation. And any legal attack would have to go through the Swedish legal system. There is no "international law", there are just treaties that countries implement in their own legislation.
While it's a nice publicity stunt for the Pirate Party (with the Swedish elections coming up in little more than a month), WikiLeaks may also gain from it. Swedish politicians may well be pressured by the US government, or by others depending on what WikiLeaks publishes in the future, to close down those servers like they did with The Pirate Bay. But now that they are hosted by the Pirate Party that would be seen as a direct attack on a political opponent, with the obvious effects on public opinion. That will likely make them think twice before ordering a shutdown, which probably wasn't the case with The Pirate Bay.
And yes, government representatives giving direct orders to police and prosecutors is illegal in Sweden. But in practice it happens all the time due to widespread patronage and cronyism and few legal checks against it.
With infinite programming capabilities for encryption of recordings, offsite backups, and other sexy things you can think of. Hook it up to a small sensor that triggers the recording whenever a door opens and it can get really interesting. Computer, webcam, sensor, all fitting in your jacket pocket to install at home when you go on vacation, in the hotel room when you leave for a day trip, at the office when you leave for the weekend etc.
One thing that is at least as important for free software systems as speed increases is class compliance. Take audio and MIDI devices for example. Almost all USB 1.0 audio and MIDI devices are class compliant, and thus work reasonably well with the standard kernel module snd-usb-audio. But with USB 2.0 that changed for some reason - now many more devices require special drivers that often do not exist for Linux. It would be nice if Intel and friends could somehow push for more class compliant USB devices.