I have to agree with you here, i have never used a debugger, for any language. If i need to debug a function i will do it manually, inserting output statements in the source, usually to output variable values as the code runs. With that, and knowing what the values should be, means i can debug my source fairly easily.
I just don't get along well with debugers (especially interactive ones, all that stoping and starting code, eurgh). I'm sure there are good uses for debugers that i just havn't had the need for, but i'm damned if i know what they are;)
I think you mean Venus. Mars' atmosphere is mostly Carbon Dioxide, so there's not much Oxygen to actually oxidise anything with. Venus has a very nasty atmosphere (I.E huge clouds of sulphuric acid) that tend to corode things.
Modern open floor plan offices are noisy and distracting enough with telephones and what not.
Voice Recognition would be pretty useless in a "Call Centre" type situation, where you have the operator already talking to a customer and operating the computer at the same time. You can only talk to one or the other, and what if the computer thinks that you're talking to it, when you're talking to the customer?
Kind of makes voice recognition in many office enviroments useless, i would think.
You make a good point. Also, i've realised that it i can type "rm -rf *" quicker than i can yell "ARR-EMM SPACE ARR-EFF SPACE STAR". So, i guess the keyboard isn't about be replaced any time soon.
It's also wrong, someone shouting "ARRR-EMMM ARRR-EFFF STAR" would mean you'd get:
rm rf *
Which doesn't really do much (Unless you have a file called "rf" in the working directory). Me, i'd be shouting "ARRR-EMMM DASH ARRR-EFFF STAR", which would make much more sense;)
Strangely, not so. In Britian at least, the Police may ask you to provide a DNA sample, generally to exclude people from a crime (This is generally used in cases such as a sex attack, killing etc.) You are not obliged to give a sample, but many people do.
There is nothing to stop the DNA sample being added to the National database even if you have not commited a crime. This was the situation in this case, the gentleman in question had no previous convictions, but had provided a DNA sample in the past.
Not just brought in for questioning, but the Crown Prosecution Service did start procedings, which where dully droped. Although it did not go to court, the CPS were prosecuting.
The most amazing thing about this, is that the police now seem to rely on Forensic evidence so much that the prosecuted the man in question.
The most astounding thing about this, is that the suspect in question was disabled, epileptic (IIRC), had never even been to the place where the crime in question was commited, and had a rock solid alliby for the time & date the crime was comitted. Scotland Yard ignored all of this, and prosecuted solely on the basis of the forensic "evidence".
How many more people who are protesting their innocence, have been convicted on the basis of forensic evidence alone? How many of these convictions could now be wrong?
Other UK readers may remember that this system was demoed on Tommorows World way back when (I think late 80's, early 90's) I thought it was pretty cool then, but i guess it's taken a long time to get anyone interested in making the things.
Probably because, like me, he doesn't want to listen to a PSU/CPU fan(s) whining away in his bedroom while he tries to sleep. (In fact, i even have to switch my Cable TV box off at night, becuase of the PSU "buzz" it generates)
Simply claim when you are quizzed about an 'encrypted' file, that the file is in its native data format and has no other format:
Good point. Stick a JPEG or ELF header at the top, and hey, that may look like a PGP header buried in the code, but it's just a coincedence. After all, encrypted data and unencrypted data all look the same in hex.
Increasing restrictions on the private possession and use of firearms in the complete absence of any evidence that such restrictions actually have any appreciable impact on crime: violent or otherwise.
How many firearms related crimes do you think occure in the UK? We used to have tight firearms controls, and they've been made even tighter in the past couple of years. Firearms offences have droped since the new regulations were imposed.
Personally, i have never, and i mean never, understoond why Americans are so eager to own lethal firearms.
It's obviously imposible to moderate every post, without, well, moderating them.
The most obvious solution to your question would be to use a more "Slashdot" style system, where posts would appear on the thread like an unmoderated post, at a low threshold, and then the moderator can troll through them and "moderate up" the intersting posts. If you want to read the lower ones, use a lower threshold.
Note that this is only one possible way of doing it, but it works well on Slashdot.
I am quite aware of moderated newsgroups, and how they work. But the mechanism by which they work is, in my opinion, flawed.
Having all posts forwarded to the (single? Can you have more than one thread moderator?) moderator, and the moderator having to then re-post the article to the group, means that the poor moderator has to go through _every_ post to the thread, and this also means delays in postings reaching the thread. If the thread atracts a lot of traffic (For example, the alt.sex.stories.moderated group mentioned above), then the thread could quickly slow to a crawl, with a massive backlog of true posts & spam waiting to be moderated.
Of course, the moderator could use procmail, but that still introduces delays, and a clever spammer could adjust their "posts" to curcumvent any checking that the procmail filter uses (I.E having to add a "code word" into the subject line of each post). So then you're back to manual moderation, and the problems i've outlined above.
Usenet is dead. Unless you have a very specialist topic (and one not related to sex), the thread you're reading will now be so full of spam, it makes it unreadable.
What is needed is a better system for news sharing. Usenet has no decent moderation mechanism (Yes, you can Cancel messages, but it's inefective).
I've always thought that a more "IRC" type aproach to Usenet would work better, with Moderators (Or OPs) for each thread, who can easily kill posts that don't belong, and even ban users/domains from threads who continusly break the rules. It would be nice if you could create threads easier, and have threads automatically die if inactive after a certain period (I.E 30 days). It would certainly make Usenet a better, more lively place to be, IMHO.
Whoops, seems Slash 0.9 allows IMG tags in HTML. And other screwy stuff....now the lusers can really screw the threads up, as they have done here. Thanks for messing guys, now go play with a bus. In heavy traffic. Wearing dark clothes. Thanks.
Feel free to moderate this down as redundent, i don't have the Karma to worry about loosing it anyways...
You seem to be confused. Yes, both say a sealed box and an optical "black hole" stop you seing light in a basic sense, there are large diferences that you seemed to have missed.
A black hole (in the sense of a gravitational black hole) actually destroys the photons etc. as they enter it. A box simple stops the light getting to your eyes. The light is still in that box, and it would eventually be converted into other energy forms (I.E heat).
Step 2: Include no authentication, "ignore traffic broadcasts" buttons, or common sense auto-ignore if > N requests per time slot are made.
Who said there was no way to switch the Traffic Update's, that these pirates are using, off? Read the rest of the posts, which pretty much tell you about RDS, then perhaps read about RDS, before having a knee jerk reaction like this.
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I have to agree with you here, i have never used a debugger, for any language. If i need to debug a function i will do it manually, inserting output statements in the source, usually to output variable values as the code runs. With that, and knowing what the values should be, means i can debug my source fairly easily.
;)
I just don't get along well with debugers (especially interactive ones, all that stoping and starting code, eurgh). I'm sure there are good uses for debugers that i just havn't had the need for, but i'm damned if i know what they are
I think you mean Venus. Mars' atmosphere is mostly Carbon Dioxide, so there's not much Oxygen to actually oxidise anything with. Venus has a very nasty atmosphere (I.E huge clouds of sulphuric acid) that tend to corode things.
Modern open floor plan offices are noisy and distracting enough with telephones and what not.
Voice Recognition would be pretty useless in a "Call Centre" type situation, where you have the operator already talking to a customer and operating the computer at the same time. You can only talk to one or the other, and what if the computer thinks that you're talking to it, when you're talking to the customer?
Kind of makes voice recognition in many office enviroments useless, i would think.
You make a good point. Also, i've realised that it i can type "rm -rf *" quicker than i can yell "ARR-EMM SPACE ARR-EFF SPACE STAR". So, i guess the keyboard isn't about be replaced any time soon.
It's also wrong, someone shouting "ARRR-EMMM ARRR-EFFF STAR" would mean you'd get:
;)
rm rf *
Which doesn't really do much (Unless you have a file called "rf" in the working directory).
Me, i'd be shouting "ARRR-EMMM DASH ARRR-EFFF STAR", which would make much more sense
..or perhaps, a Clue Stick
presumably because they have committed some crime
Strangely, not so. In Britian at least, the Police may ask you to provide a DNA sample, generally to exclude people from a crime (This is generally used in cases such as a sex attack, killing etc.) You are not obliged to give a sample, but many people do.
There is nothing to stop the DNA sample being added to the National database even if you have not commited a crime. This was the situation in this case, the gentleman in question had no previous convictions, but had provided a DNA sample in the past.
Not just brought in for questioning, but the Crown Prosecution Service did start procedings, which where dully droped. Although it did not go to court, the CPS were prosecuting.
The most amazing thing about this, is that the police now seem to rely on Forensic evidence so much that the prosecuted the man in question.
The most astounding thing about this, is that the suspect in question was disabled, epileptic (IIRC), had never even been to the place where the crime in question was commited, and had a rock solid alliby for the time & date the crime was comitted. Scotland Yard ignored all of this, and prosecuted solely on the basis of the forensic "evidence".
How many more people who are protesting their innocence, have been convicted on the basis of forensic evidence alone? How many of these convictions could now be wrong?
No, he is a real person. My mate Hugh Jazz knows Dr CP Yu personally ;)
Other UK readers may remember that this system was demoed on Tommorows World way back when (I think late 80's, early 90's) I thought it was pretty cool then, but i guess it's taken a long time to get anyone interested in making the things.
Scratches head Why?
Probably because, like me, he doesn't want to listen to a PSU/CPU fan(s) whining away in his bedroom while he tries to sleep. (In fact, i even have to switch my Cable TV box off at night, becuase of the PSU "buzz" it generates)
Simply claim when you are quizzed about an 'encrypted' file, that the file is in its native data format and has no other format:
Good point. Stick a JPEG or ELF header at the top, and hey, that may look like a PGP header buried in the code, but it's just a coincedence. After all, encrypted data and unencrypted data all look the same in hex.
Increasing restrictions on the private possession and use of firearms in the complete absence of any evidence that such restrictions actually have any appreciable impact on crime: violent or otherwise.
How many firearms related crimes do you think occure in the UK? We used to have tight firearms controls, and they've been made even tighter in the past couple of years. Firearms offences have droped since the new regulations were imposed.
Personally, i have never, and i mean never, understoond why Americans are so eager to own lethal firearms.
It's obviously imposible to moderate every post, without, well, moderating them.
The most obvious solution to your question would be to use a more "Slashdot" style system, where posts would appear on the thread like an unmoderated post, at a low threshold, and then the moderator can troll through them and "moderate up" the intersting posts. If you want to read the lower ones, use a lower threshold.
Note that this is only one possible way of doing it, but it works well on Slashdot.
I am quite aware of moderated newsgroups, and how they work. But the mechanism by which they work is, in my opinion, flawed.
Having all posts forwarded to the (single? Can you have more than one thread moderator?) moderator, and the moderator having to then re-post the article to the group, means that the poor moderator has to go through _every_ post to the thread, and this also means delays in postings reaching the thread. If the thread atracts a lot of traffic (For example, the alt.sex.stories.moderated group mentioned above), then the thread could quickly slow to a crawl, with a massive backlog of true posts & spam waiting to be moderated.
Of course, the moderator could use procmail, but that still introduces delays, and a clever spammer could adjust their "posts" to curcumvent any checking that the procmail filter uses (I.E having to add a "code word" into the subject line of each post). So then you're back to manual moderation, and the problems i've outlined above.
_Real_ surfers don't even use a TCP stack, they use a terminal emulator and send raw hex to the modem, and then read it all back like The Matrix!
Usenet is dead. Unless you have a very specialist topic (and one not related to sex), the thread you're reading will now be so full of spam, it makes it unreadable.
What is needed is a better system for news sharing. Usenet has no decent moderation mechanism (Yes, you can Cancel messages, but it's inefective).
I've always thought that a more "IRC" type aproach to Usenet would work better, with Moderators (Or OPs) for each thread, who can easily kill posts that don't belong, and even ban users/domains from threads who continusly break the rules. It would be nice if you could create threads easier, and have threads automatically die if inactive after a certain period (I.E 30 days). It would certainly make Usenet a better, more lively place to be, IMHO.
Whoops, seems Slash 0.9 allows IMG tags in HTML. And other screwy stuff....now the lusers can really screw the threads up, as they have done here. Thanks for messing guys, now go play with a bus. In heavy traffic. Wearing dark clothes. Thanks.
Feel free to moderate this down as redundent, i don't have the Karma to worry about loosing it anyways...
What about Slartibartfast? Would have been a cooler name than Trillian "Intel Slartibartfast Inside"
What about Slartibartfast? Would have been a cooler name than Trillian ;)
Well, i suppose i was close. Must remember to get hold of a copy of Dr Hawkings book. :)
You seem to be confused. Yes, both say a sealed box and an optical "black hole" stop you seing light in a basic sense, there are large diferences that you seemed to have missed.
A black hole (in the sense of a gravitational black hole) actually destroys the photons etc. as they enter it. A box simple stops the light getting to your eyes. The light is still in that box, and it would eventually be converted into other energy forms (I.E heat).
I just wanted to say, well done Jon Katz. We Slashdoters may not always agree with you on some points, but congratulations. :)
Step 2: Include no authentication, "ignore traffic broadcasts" buttons, or common sense auto-ignore if > N requests per time slot are made.
Who said there was no way to switch the Traffic Update's, that these pirates are using, off? Read the rest of the posts, which pretty much tell you about RDS, then perhaps read about RDS, before having a knee jerk reaction like this.