Bureaucrat: We have to move into the 21st century! Think how much money this will save.
Sec team: You can't do that! We know its insecure!
Bureaucrat: No system is ever secure.
Sec team: But you cannot roll it out with such obvious vulnerabilities!
Bureaucrat: Well we can use it as a honeypot, since we know about it to catch fraudsters!
Sec team: We can't do that! Thats putting peoples financial information on the line!
Bureaucrat: HA! As if we care about that!
I don't understand the right/left lumping at all. These are issues that have nothing to do with each other, forign policy, taxes, social liberties, etc.
No, it was about federal vs state power. Lincoln himself even stated that if it would preserve the union, he would allow slavery. If you carefully read the emancipation proclamation it states this.
iriver and cowon play ogg/flac, and with rockbox you can also. Seems the majority of players can. Ogg is great for mobile players because of the quality/size ratio.
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Sure. How about pi digits http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32q/benchmark.php?test=pidigits&lang=all . Currently the fastest program is in the functional language Haskell. I challenge you to write a faster one in C (for a quad core processor).
Bureaucrat: We have to move into the 21st century! Think how much money this will save. Sec team: You can't do that! We know its insecure! Bureaucrat: No system is ever secure. Sec team: But you cannot roll it out with such obvious vulnerabilities! Bureaucrat: Well we can use it as a honeypot, since we know about it to catch fraudsters! Sec team: We can't do that! Thats putting peoples financial information on the line! Bureaucrat: HA! As if we care about that!
No it only costs MS money provided that they would buy it if it DID cost them something. Far more will buy a product for 1 dollar than 200.
Lulz != egos
I don't understand the right/left lumping at all. These are issues that have nothing to do with each other, forign policy, taxes, social liberties, etc.
No, it was about federal vs state power. Lincoln himself even stated that if it would preserve the union, he would allow slavery. If you carefully read the emancipation proclamation it states this.
Haskell has mutable variables. State monad.
iriver and cowon play ogg/flac, and with rockbox you can also. Seems the majority of players can. Ogg is great for mobile players because of the quality/size ratio.
You might find this article http://www.corrupt.org/news/indian_society_thrives_on_corrupt_politicians interesting. Debates your idea that corruption in India is a bad thing.
Five minute chess is blitz not lightning. I regularly play both 1 minute, and 10 seconds with one second added per move chess.
Black holes probably DO decay over time; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawking_radiation