What about the magnetosphere. I'd say that the Earth's surface was "covered" by a magnetic field.
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Most game players don't just play the game once (start game, yay, play, win a little, die, never play this game again).
I'd have to disagree, as both a Game Player and Game Developer. Gone are the days when Sonic or MegaMan sat in your console for weeks while you tried endlessly to beat it. Today's game players are EXACTLY like what you describe. That's why we have to baby them & lead them into playing the game -- They have many other options, a virtually endless supply of games to Try and fail at until one lets them win.
I sit "average" gamers of all age ranges in front of the games from yesteryears and the majority do exactly what you describe when given a choice to switch between any classic game on the shelf. They play the longest on familiar or easy to play titles.
PacMan is HARD. Rarely will you find a decent arcade with 5 lives instead of 3, and longer power-up periods (selectable via dip switches or.conf files). However, people don't play games to beat them, now they play to be entertained, and an unforgiving game that eats your quarters or $50 at once can't compete with the free casual games of today.
I think some balance can be found -- A short introduction to get you interested in the mechanics and/or story, followed by an increasingly engaging experience, but there's a fine line between too steep a learning curve and too boring of a game.
As for whether or not PacMan is NP Hard, I'd say that since it's 100% fully deterministic it's actually not. It's easy as hell to map out then play perfectly every single time afterwards, especially if you have the source code "running" through your brain and can can predict exactly what the Ghosts will do. Also, the same damn level over and over again is quite boring... That's why when I was required to learn JavaScript I created my own rendition that was non deterministic (pseudorandomly so) as well as had many differing levels.
As a concerned US citizen I can only urge others to block the use of your systems by US citizens. Though I try mightily on a daily basis by writing letters to and calling my governmental "representatives" and inducing others to do the same, myself and those like me have little effect over our corrupt political arena.
The problem is one of apathy. So long as most people don't care enough to raise a voice nothing will change. Please, help us feel the jackboots of oppression at our own throats before we awake to find ourselves crushed and voiceless.
This will only get worse before it gets better. I implore everyone to help raise awareness via inconveniencing us in the US. Get your finances out while you still can (this is unfortunate, as it may damage the US economy). Prohibit those with US (IP) addresses from using your systems. We will only suffer so long as the evils remain sufferable...
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government.
-Declaration of Independence, United States of America
I fear that if the security of Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness continues to be eroded, we will have no choice -- It is our duty to throw off such oppressive governments. We are fast approaching a turning point that I wish we could be averted from ever reaching; However, a few sensible ones digging in our heels does little to slow the mindless march of millions.
I have that option too, but I'm willing to allow Slashdot to make whatever meager income they can by my presence since they're kind enough to allow my positive (and negative) contributions.
Ah, I see... So, if it's not broke, take it apart and re-engineer it until it is. I'm filing this under my subtle methods for maintaining job security.
By default, a web browser opens an individual connection for each and every page request, which can lead to tremendous inefficiencies
... SPDYs optimizations largely revolve around "pipelining", but without some of the issues that it causes.
No no no... You're using the wrong definition of "pipelining". First you must realize the Internet is a Series of Tubes. The Series part is important because TCP is a Serial protocol. If any Tube in the Series cracks and data is lost, endpoints start spewing packets all over the place in alarm! SPDY's optimizations revolve around "pipelining" -- That is: Lining the Pipes to prevent such events from happening in the first place.
HTTP1.1 is OLD! The pipes built around that time are OLD too. The HTTP1.1 "pipelining" is starting to wear through after 17 years... Connecting the Tubes is expensive too; If a Header is compressed there's less chance of part being lost in a data leak when it flows through the tubes.
There is an underground movement to get rid of the whole ridiculous idea of Tubes. I mean, Why would you take something as permeable as a NET and build a Series of Tubes out of it?! OF COURSE YOU NEED PIPELINING if you want it to be efficient!
However, what if you didn't need a "pipe" what if you could get your information from the Sea of Data by Casting about the Web and sorting out the results on your end? You could simply keep trying until you were satisfied with the data you had. Even better if relevant data could be naturally organized -- swarm together -- in a sort of BitTorrent so you could get the data in the Net with less Casting... One could even take the center out -- Decentralize it -- to help prevent conflicts about which data came from what side. I mean: Who cares if someone wants to DownLoad a car so much that it's undrivable from all the weight? It doesn't make your car any less usable! Besides, the naysayers are all Hypocrites: They have to participate in the things they say are wrong just to even see into what we're doing -- You have to Peer to Peer!
Don't even get me started on Cloud Computing! Seriously... It's VaproWare!
Second, isn't it time we stop reinventing the same language over and over again, each time in a slightly different form? I recommend one of the best lectures on the subject: Are We There Yet?.
First, an actual organism is making a reply.
Second, isn't it time we stop breeding the same species over and over again, each time in a slightly different form? I recommend one of the best lectures on the subject: Creationism Evolved.
( Good luck with your Stagnation & resulting Extinction, I choose to Adapt and Evolve -- Even if this means some small efforts are wasted in dead ends along the way. )
Oh great - just what we need - yet another programming language. Never mind that there ain't enough people to teach kids and adults the languages we already have. Instead of training people to hone their skills in C, C++, Obj-C, Obj-C++, Java, Python, et al...
Ah, well, clearly what we need is a more user friendly language that's easier to teach, mostly full featured, can be complied to machine code, byte code or interpreted, and comes with a FLOSS redistributable runtime that supports multi-media, images, sound / music, Hardware Accelerated 2D & 3D.
Hmm, it seems nothing short of a Scriptable Open Source Game Engine would be required to provide the feature set...
If only children actually liked GAMES I could simply leverage a Game Engine to provide a compelling environment for learning by way of modifying existing "example" games... I think I'll call this new teaching model "Community of Modifying", hrm, or perhaps "The Mod Community".
-- Oh, wait, the problem isn't that there's not enough teachers, it's that people don't want to program no matter how compelling you make it. I mean seriously, snag ANY Game mod platform (even Doom has Scripting now) and you get a full featured dev platfrom with instant gratifying rewards. Besides, EVERYONE has a fully capably JS dev platform installed already. The fact that MANY games invent their own scripting language hasn't stopped TEN YEAR OLDS I know from modding & scripting for multiple games at once.
Consider that we have an adequate number of skilled programmers already, those that wish to learn many languages do (I'm proficient in EVERY language you mentioned and More, and have never attended any formal education whatsoever). Consider the reality of the situation is that many people would like to have all the benefits of being a programmer with none of the investment that requires -- They like the Idea of learning to code, more than actually learning it.
I see this every day: "How do I get into programming? I want to create ____, its going to be Awesome! " [explain, provide help] "Uhg, this is hard, never mind". Few actually take to the task and stick with it, some take to it as a fish to water, most just aren't cut out for it.
Additionally, If you think introducing new languages is bad, I'd argue that there's a reason we're not all still developing using COBOL and FORTRAN or platform dependent Assembly.
I'd say you're going against nature itself. Look about at all the variety of life in the biosphere we're a part of, then tell me evolution and natural selection has no place in computer science.
C++ is horrifically complex and difficult to use safely. As a high level programmer, I'd be much more inclined to learn Rust, which is almost certainly simpler and easier to use safely.
... are thoughts concerning the possible destruction of the universe were I to pirate the Pirate Party's book on Pirate Politics.
...while through my mind runs a different tale of Universal destruction by Pirates, wherein I ask The Pirate Bay to print me a 3D printer with their 3D printer.
Well, as long as they don't misuse "turbo" as they did three decades ago. I mean, depressing the "turbo" button let the CPU run at full speed, but not running in "turbo" mode was actually artificially underclothing the machine. It should have been called a "Slow Switch", not a "Tubo Button."
Fuck People. Start the space mining, and simultaneously work on AI for the robots. By the time either pipe dream comes to fruition we'll all be extinct anyhow. At least some small spark of life can carry on where we failed to collaborate a way off this rock. With any luck the drive to create and explore the cosmos will live on in our more sturdy & logical cybernetic creations.
"huge failure" - You keep using that word, but I do not think it means what you think it means.
Every single installed copy of windows could break tomorrow, and never ever be repaired...
... and I could still get my Email, search Google, push Git changes to my website, get paid online, make fun of people using Facebook, browse damn near all of the Internet, including my bank's site, so I can pay my bills online.
Yeah, so all the important shit runs Linux... o_O "huge failure" Think about how much your world would change if all the Linux installs in the world stopped working tomorrow and never came back. My phone stops working, along with nearly the entire Internet, not to mention crap-loads of the embedded devices.
I'm not saying that things don't depend on Windows or OSX or BSD, but seriously, "huge failure"? I hope you never learn the meaning (and I fear the real issue is that it may be too late for you to learn anything at all).
Mr. Cortex, would you please bear self witness as to your ownership of said safe, via the act of unlocking it for us?
Now I have two options:
0. (correct legal response) I will not admit the safe is mine, or that I own the contents of said safe. I will remain silent. Use a blow torch & drill if you want into that safe, I'M NOT INCRIMINATING MYSELF. [Then Quote the aforementioned 5th.]
1. (plausible denyability) Sure! I have nothing to hide! [try to unlock the safe, and fail] Huh, It looks like my safe, but it's obviously not, or else it's been tampered with since I can't open it. The Glove Don't Fit! Ehu-hu-hu!
Is this your computer Mr. Cortex? I choose to assert my 5th amendment privileges. Very well. Would you please enter your password to prove this is your computer? I choose to assert my 5th amendment privileges. I will take no further action to incriminate myself.
Judge:YOU WILL INCRIMINATE YOURSELF OR YOU WILL BE HELD IN CONTEMPT OF COURT!
I think you're going about it the right way, but approaching the issue the wrong way. I have the right to remain silent. This means I don't have to verify that the computer is mine, or that I actually know how to unlock it. Entering a password is self incriminating testimony. It's like saying: "We don't want you to tell us that you murdered the victim, We just want you to show us where you murdered them. Now, Just enter the cross streets and/or Lat. & Long. into this GPS system while no one is looking over your shoulder." "We don't want the password, just the decrypted data" == "We don't want YOU to PROVE YOU DID IT, just the PROVE THAT YOU DID IT."
FUCK THAT.
Well, QA for the game industry, but close enough.
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Tales of IT Idiocy
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The Trenches comic is off to a slow start, I can't decide if I like it or not, but the QA tales below it are worth a read, IMO. I especially like this one, because it's so true; In many projects where "ship it" becomes as much a battle cry as a new form of profanity, and not just in Game development...
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Tales of IT Idiocy
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And little things can become very big (in your mind) if you obsess over them long enough.
There is more to it than that; we're more socialist, and less warlike.
I lived in Canada right after 911 for 5 months. You're all just as warlike as US folk. Protip: Just because our Military Industrial Complex is running loose without a leash doesn't mean the common folk like it or endorse it.
We have a smaller percentage of visible blowhards among our citizens travelling the world as tourists.
Wait, what? Do you mean to say the smaller population causes this naturally in relation to the global population, or that tourists make up a smaller percentage of your populous?
We don't have isolationism or protectionism as a political philosophy.
Yet you have less tourists abroad? So... the isolationism isn't political in nature? Don't get me wrong, I'm just a "Yank", what do I know of your anti-American sentiment. I'd say you've got just as much if not more resentment towards imigrants as any other damn country, moreso than the US, IMHO. Don't give me that BS. My cousin became a Canadian citizen and will attest to the same.
We don't (and honestly, couldn't if we wanted to) support puppet dictatorships to further our own ends.
Of course, the USA is a big place. So is Canada. Both countries have a wide variety of cultures within them, and I'm speaking only of the 'international persona' of the two nations.
You can shove that facade of "international persona" right up your arse. I suggest you become a tourist in far away lands and find out for yourself what everyone thinks of you before you spout off some worthless stereotypical bullshit.
Also, 'Eh' went out of style a long time ago. And we have milk in bags.
That's odd. Seems pretty damn popular in Ottawa, much more than in England, Maine, Texas, France or Germany, eh?
The ancient astronomers have seen a hunter, a scorpion, a bull, a big bear, a small bear, a girl, a lion etc etc for a long time in the skys with nothing more than a few pin pricks of light. When you have the imagination, you can see anything.
Your puny human vision requires to to have imagination, and when your sleep cycle scrubs your short term memory, committing important thoughts to longer term storage by way of randomized synapse firing & strengthening you DO "see anything". When conscious what you see as pins' prickings I see as enormous gravity furnaces that warp the very essence of the Universe and forge new stable configurations of energy (matter). Reality is stranger than fiction.
You don't even want to know what's going on inside your "atoms"!
When you start from the top and peer downwards you find a very deep rabbit hole: 4 Elements, No - Atoms, no - Quarks, no - Quantum Particles & Waves, no - there's more, deeper and deeper.... It's like the infantile mind trying but failing to understand fractions, or reveling at and finding names for each new vibration of sound.
Well, even if we take the interpretation of the images at face value, I still find it inconceivable! I have it on good authority that scorpions are terrible at black flap frisbee golf.
There is money to be made by early detection and early treatment. Medical industry loves testinf for chronic diseases that require a steady stream of patented technology to be continuously performed with a steady monetized revenue stream. Assuming tricorders would be patented, and require a professional license to interpret the readouts...
"Socialists OR Capitalists, you must decide" Nope. This isn't a false dichotomy zone. Socialist constructs such as unions and GOVERNMENTS BY AND FOR THE PEOPLE work hand in hand with Capitalist constructs like free markets. It's when either begins morphing into the other that we have problems, Corporations influencing Governments & Buying laws, Corrupted Unions that needlessly throw their weight around.
As in all things the absolute extremes are uninhabitable; Moderation is key.
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What about the magnetosphere. I'd say that the Earth's surface was "covered" by a magnetic field.
Most game players don't just play the game once (start game, yay, play, win a little, die, never play this game again).
I'd have to disagree, as both a Game Player and Game Developer. Gone are the days when Sonic or MegaMan sat in your console for weeks while you tried endlessly to beat it. Today's game players are EXACTLY like what you describe. That's why we have to baby them & lead them into playing the game -- They have many other options, a virtually endless supply of games to Try and fail at until one lets them win.
I sit "average" gamers of all age ranges in front of the games from yesteryears and the majority do exactly what you describe when given a choice to switch between any classic game on the shelf. They play the longest on familiar or easy to play titles.
PacMan is HARD. Rarely will you find a decent arcade with 5 lives instead of 3, and longer power-up periods (selectable via dip switches or .conf files). However, people don't play games to beat them, now they play to be entertained, and an unforgiving game that eats your quarters or $50 at once can't compete with the free casual games of today.
I think some balance can be found -- A short introduction to get you interested in the mechanics and/or story, followed by an increasingly engaging experience, but there's a fine line between too steep a learning curve and too boring of a game.
As for whether or not PacMan is NP Hard, I'd say that since it's 100% fully deterministic it's actually not. It's easy as hell to map out then play perfectly every single time afterwards, especially if you have the source code "running" through your brain and can can predict exactly what the Ghosts will do. Also, the same damn level over and over again is quite boring... That's why when I was required to learn JavaScript I created my own rendition that was non deterministic (pseudorandomly so) as well as had many differing levels.
It was probably Bastet (Bastard Tetris).
As a concerned US citizen I can only urge others to block the use of your systems by US citizens. Though I try mightily on a daily basis by writing letters to and calling my governmental "representatives" and inducing others to do the same, myself and those like me have little effect over our corrupt political arena.
The problem is one of apathy. So long as most people don't care enough to raise a voice nothing will change. Please, help us feel the jackboots of oppression at our own throats before we awake to find ourselves crushed and voiceless.
This will only get worse before it gets better. I implore everyone to help raise awareness via inconveniencing us in the US. Get your finances out while you still can (this is unfortunate, as it may damage the US economy). Prohibit those with US (IP) addresses from using your systems. We will only suffer so long as the evils remain sufferable...
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government.
-Declaration of Independence, United States of America
I fear that if the security of Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness continues to be eroded, we will have no choice -- It is our duty to throw off such oppressive governments. We are fast approaching a turning point that I wish we could be averted from ever reaching; However, a few sensible ones digging in our heels does little to slow the mindless march of millions.
I have that option too, but I'm willing to allow Slashdot to make whatever meager income they can by my presence since they're kind enough to allow my positive (and negative) contributions.
Ah, I see... So, if it's not broke, take it apart and re-engineer it until it is. I'm filing this under my subtle methods for maintaining job security.
By default, a web browser opens an individual connection for each and every page request, which can lead to tremendous inefficiencies
... SPDYs optimizations largely revolve around "pipelining", but without some of the issues that it causes.
No no no... You're using the wrong definition of "pipelining". First you must realize the Internet is a Series of Tubes. The Series part is important because TCP is a Serial protocol. If any Tube in the Series cracks and data is lost, endpoints start spewing packets all over the place in alarm! SPDY's optimizations revolve around "pipelining" -- That is: Lining the Pipes to prevent such events from happening in the first place.
HTTP1.1 is OLD! The pipes built around that time are OLD too. The HTTP1.1 "pipelining" is starting to wear through after 17 years... Connecting the Tubes is expensive too; If a Header is compressed there's less chance of part being lost in a data leak when it flows through the tubes.
There is an underground movement to get rid of the whole ridiculous idea of Tubes. I mean, Why would you take something as permeable as a NET and build a Series of Tubes out of it?! OF COURSE YOU NEED PIPELINING if you want it to be efficient!
However, what if you didn't need a "pipe" what if you could get your information from the Sea of Data by Casting about the Web and sorting out the results on your end? You could simply keep trying until you were satisfied with the data you had. Even better if relevant data could be naturally organized -- swarm together -- in a sort of BitTorrent so you could get the data in the Net with less Casting... One could even take the center out -- Decentralize it -- to help prevent conflicts about which data came from what side. I mean: Who cares if someone wants to DownLoad a car so much that it's undrivable from all the weight? It doesn't make your car any less usable! Besides, the naysayers are all Hypocrites: They have to participate in the things they say are wrong just to even see into what we're doing -- You have to Peer to Peer!
Don't even get me started on Cloud Computing! Seriously... It's VaproWare!
First, an actual link to the language's site.
Second, isn't it time we stop reinventing the same language over and over again, each time in a slightly different form? I recommend one of the best lectures on the subject: Are We There Yet?.
First, an actual organism is making a reply.
Second, isn't it time we stop breeding the same species over and over again, each time in a slightly different form? I recommend one of the best lectures on the subject: Creationism Evolved.
( Good luck with your Stagnation & resulting Extinction, I choose to Adapt and Evolve -- Even if this means some small efforts are wasted in dead ends along the way. )
Oh great - just what we need - yet another programming language. Never mind that there ain't enough people to teach kids and adults the languages we already have. Instead of training people to hone their skills in C, C++, Obj-C, Obj-C++, Java, Python, et al...
Ah, well, clearly what we need is a more user friendly language that's easier to teach, mostly full featured, can be complied to machine code, byte code or interpreted, and comes with a FLOSS redistributable runtime that supports multi-media, images, sound / music, Hardware Accelerated 2D & 3D.
Hmm, it seems nothing short of a Scriptable Open Source Game Engine would be required to provide the feature set...
If only children actually liked GAMES I could simply leverage a Game Engine to provide a compelling environment for learning by way of modifying existing "example" games... I think I'll call this new teaching model "Community of Modifying", hrm, or perhaps "The Mod Community".
-- Oh, wait, the problem isn't that there's not enough teachers, it's that people don't want to program no matter how compelling you make it. I mean seriously, snag ANY Game mod platform (even Doom has Scripting now) and you get a full featured dev platfrom with instant gratifying rewards. Besides, EVERYONE has a fully capably JS dev platform installed already. The fact that MANY games invent their own scripting language hasn't stopped TEN YEAR OLDS I know from modding & scripting for multiple games at once.
Consider that we have an adequate number of skilled programmers already, those that wish to learn many languages do (I'm proficient in EVERY language you mentioned and More, and have never attended any formal education whatsoever). Consider the reality of the situation is that many people would like to have all the benefits of being a programmer with none of the investment that requires -- They like the Idea of learning to code, more than actually learning it.
I see this every day: "How do I get into programming? I want to create ____, its going to be Awesome! " [explain, provide help] "Uhg, this is hard, never mind". Few actually take to the task and stick with it, some take to it as a fish to water, most just aren't cut out for it.
Additionally, If you think introducing new languages is bad, I'd argue that there's a reason we're not all still developing using COBOL and FORTRAN or platform dependent Assembly.
I'd say you're going against nature itself. Look about at all the variety of life in the biosphere we're a part of, then tell me evolution and natural selection has no place in computer science.
C++ is horrifically complex and difficult to use safely. As a high level programmer, I'd be much more inclined to learn Rust, which is almost certainly simpler and easier to use safely.
So is Visual Basic.
Best of luck,
Cheers!
... are thoughts concerning the possible destruction of the universe were I to pirate the Pirate Party's book on Pirate Politics.
...while through my mind runs a different tale of Universal destruction by Pirates, wherein I ask The Pirate Bay to print me a 3D printer with their 3D printer.
Well, as long as they don't misuse "turbo" as they did three decades ago. I mean, depressing the "turbo" button let the CPU run at full speed, but not running in "turbo" mode was actually artificially underclothing the machine. It should have been called a "Slow Switch", not a "Tubo Button."
Fuck People. Start the space mining, and simultaneously work on AI for the robots. By the time either pipe dream comes to fruition we'll all be extinct anyhow. At least some small spark of life can carry on where we failed to collaborate a way off this rock. With any luck the drive to create and explore the cosmos will live on in our more sturdy & logical cybernetic creations.
Every single installed copy of windows could break tomorrow, and never ever be repaired...
Yeah, so all the important shit runs Linux... o_O "huge failure" Think about how much your world would change if all the Linux installs in the world stopped working tomorrow and never came back. My phone stops working, along with nearly the entire Internet, not to mention crap-loads of the embedded devices.
I'm not saying that things don't depend on Windows or OSX or BSD, but seriously, "huge failure"? I hope you never learn the meaning (and I fear the real issue is that it may be too late for you to learn anything at all).
Mr. Cortex, would you please bear self witness as to your ownership of said safe, via the act of unlocking it for us?
Now I have two options:
0. (correct legal response) I will not admit the safe is mine, or that I own the contents of said safe. I will remain silent. Use a blow torch & drill if you want into that safe, I'M NOT INCRIMINATING MYSELF. [Then Quote the aforementioned 5th.]
1. (plausible denyability) Sure! I have nothing to hide! [try to unlock the safe, and fail] Huh, It looks like my safe, but it's obviously not, or else it's been tampered with since I can't open it.
The Glove Don't Fit! Ehu-hu-hu!
Is this your computer Mr. Cortex?
I choose to assert my 5th amendment privileges.
Very well. Would you please enter your password to prove this is your computer?
I choose to assert my 5th amendment privileges. I will take no further action to incriminate myself.
Judge: YOU WILL INCRIMINATE YOURSELF OR YOU WILL BE HELD IN CONTEMPT OF COURT!
. . .
^-- ( that's me, Asserting my 5th amendment privileges. )
Protip: If you know your Constitutional rights, you don't have to obey a Lawyer or Judge who tries to violate them.
I think you're going about it the right way, but approaching the issue the wrong way. I have the right to remain silent. This means I don't have to verify that the computer is mine, or that I actually know how to unlock it. Entering a password is self incriminating testimony. It's like saying: "We don't want you to tell us that you murdered the victim, We just want you to show us where you murdered them. Now, Just enter the cross streets and/or Lat. & Long. into this GPS system while no one is looking over your shoulder." "We don't want the password, just the decrypted data" == "We don't want YOU to PROVE YOU DID IT, just the PROVE THAT YOU DID IT."
FUCK THAT.
Tales from the trenches has some horror stories as well.
The Trenches comic is off to a slow start, I can't decide if I like it or not, but the QA tales below it are worth a read, IMO. I especially like this one, because it's so true; In many projects where "ship it" becomes as much a battle cry as a new form of profanity, and not just in Game development...
And little things can become very big (in your mind) if you obsess over them long enough.
Wait, what? I don't think it's gotten any longer.
There is more to it than that; we're more socialist, and less warlike.
I lived in Canada right after 911 for 5 months. You're all just as warlike as US folk. Protip: Just because our Military Industrial Complex is running loose without a leash doesn't mean the common folk like it or endorse it.
We have a smaller percentage of visible blowhards among our citizens travelling the world as tourists.
Wait, what? Do you mean to say the smaller population causes this naturally in relation to the global population, or that tourists make up a smaller percentage of your populous?
We don't have isolationism or protectionism as a political philosophy.
Yet you have less tourists abroad? So... the isolationism isn't political in nature? Don't get me wrong, I'm just a "Yank", what do I know of your anti-American sentiment. I'd say you've got just as much if not more resentment towards imigrants as any other damn country, moreso than the US, IMHO. Don't give me that BS. My cousin became a Canadian citizen and will attest to the same.
We don't (and honestly, couldn't if we wanted to) support puppet dictatorships to further our own ends.
Of course, the USA is a big place. So is Canada. Both countries have a wide variety of cultures within them, and I'm speaking only of the 'international persona' of the two nations.
You can shove that facade of "international persona" right up your arse. I suggest you become a tourist in far away lands and find out for yourself what everyone thinks of you before you spout off some worthless stereotypical bullshit.
Also, 'Eh' went out of style a long time ago. And we have milk in bags.
That's odd. Seems pretty damn popular in Ottawa, much more than in England, Maine, Texas, France or Germany, eh?
The ancient astronomers have seen a hunter, a scorpion, a bull, a big bear, a small bear, a girl, a lion etc etc for a long time in the skys with nothing more than a few pin pricks of light. When you have the imagination, you can see anything.
Your puny human vision requires to to have imagination, and when your sleep cycle scrubs your short term memory, committing important thoughts to longer term storage by way of randomized synapse firing & strengthening you DO "see anything". When conscious what you see as pins' prickings I see as enormous gravity furnaces that warp the very essence of the Universe and forge new stable configurations of energy (matter). Reality is stranger than fiction.
You don't even want to know what's going on inside your "atoms"!
When you start from the top and peer downwards you find a very deep rabbit hole: 4 Elements, No - Atoms, no - Quarks, no - Quantum Particles & Waves, no - there's more, deeper and deeper.... It's like the infantile mind trying but failing to understand fractions, or reveling at and finding names for each new vibration of sound.
... The guy is either suffering from pareidolia or drinking too much vodka.
Can you say: FALSE DICHOTOMY!
Well, even if we take the interpretation of the images at face value, I still find it inconceivable! I have it on good authority that scorpions are terrible at black flap frisbee golf.
If putting my disk in a scorpion flap is wrong, I don't want to be right!
There is money to be made by early detection and early treatment. Medical industry loves testinf for chronic diseases that require a steady stream of patented technology to be continuously performed with a steady monetized revenue stream. Assuming tricorders would be patented, and require a professional license to interpret the readouts...
"Socialists OR Capitalists, you must decide" Nope. This isn't a false dichotomy zone. Socialist constructs such as unions and GOVERNMENTS BY AND FOR THE PEOPLE work hand in hand with Capitalist constructs like free markets. It's when either begins morphing into the other that we have problems, Corporations influencing Governments & Buying laws, Corrupted Unions that needlessly throw their weight around.
As in all things the absolute extremes are uninhabitable; Moderation is key.